Zhu Youxiao had already asked Shen Shoujiao to wait for him before going to the West, and brought a group of scholars and doctors who were willing to go overseas to serve as officials on the initiative of the Ministry of Officials, as the officials appointed by the officials in the newly occupied areas after going to the West.These scholars and doctors are all scholars who have unsatisfactory careers in the Ming Dynasty, but are still aspiring.And now that they are sent to other places to serve as officials, it is naturally a good choice for them.However, there are too many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many scholars who want to be officials.Even this kind of opportunity to go to the sea and frontier to become an official is grabbed by many scholars and doctors, so that the alternate officials who can follow them to the West have to go through a screening.And when it comes to the new colonial districts where temporary officials are actually appointed, they have to go through another screening.Therefore, the quality of the Han doctors who can now be appointed as officials in various parts of the new colonial zone is not bad, at least the physical quality is not bad, because it is not possible for ordinary people to withstand the bumps of the sea for several years.But when it comes to these new colonies, it feels good to be a high-ranking official such as a governor or governor directly.For them, it was not in vain.However, for the Netherlands at the moment, the governors sent by Zhang Huangyan to the Dutch provinces did not have much real power, because they did not have their own soldiers and horses other than their own retinue and the money allocated to them.Even Zhang Huangyan, the governor himself, can only be regarded as an empty shell governor at the moment, and the sailors and marines he brought are only the size of a battalion, with 4,000 soldiers, and can only barely hold the city of The Hague.In order to collect taxes smoothly next year and take over the defense of the cities and towns in the Dutch provinces in the future, he also had to recruit locals as soldiers, and rely on the locals to maintain law and order and resist the invasion of foreign forces.This is also the reason why he can't do a lot of sinicization work in the Netherlands now, he can only be a prince for the time being, and let the Dutch provinces develop freely.But he can still do it now by inviting outstanding scientists and craftsmen from the Netherlands to Daming."
Mr.
Descartes, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty wants to summon you and ask you to go to Middle-earth for academic exchanges, and you will go with your teacher in Holland, Mr.
Mason, and a few of your friends, and your experimental equipment and all library materials will also be taken away, as well as your family."
When Zhang Huangyan arrived at Descartes and Mason's residence, he directly sent troops to surround their manor, and spoke to Descartes when he saw them.Descartes, like Pascal and Fermat, was as surprised as Pascal and Fermat, because the French Church was so powerful that he was not allowed to discuss the Reformation, so that when he learned that the Orientals were coming to rule the Netherlands, he was even worried that the Orientals would not be allowed to discuss the Reformation, but he did not expect that it was not, on the contrary, His Majesty the Emperor of these Orientals would summon him."
However, my teacher, Mr.
Mason, is seriously ill, and the treatment effect of bloodletting is not satisfactory, and it may be inconvenient for him to accept the summons of your Emperor Majesty, and I also want to accompany him for the last period of his life, please understand."
Descartes said."
Doctor Ye!
You go and treat his teacher. ”Seeing this, Zhang Huangyan gave an order to the accompanying doctor Ye Shi, and said to Descartes: "Phlebotomy is useless!"
Our Chinese doctor may be able to save the teacher, please take him over. ”Descartes nodded, anyway, a dead horse is a live horse doctor, and he didn't refuse.And after Ye Shi asked Mason about it, he said: "The external wind and cold have injured the lungs, and they need to be well recuperated, but they can also be treated." ”So, next, Ye Shi opened a prescription.And Zhang Huangyan asked people to take the medicinal materials they brought with him and take them according to the prescription.After about three doses of medicine, the famous mathematician Mason in history began to show signs of improvement, reducing fever and cough, and after re-treatment, he was cured directly.Descartes was quite shocked by this, and after seeing Zhang Huangyan again, he couldn't help asking: "Is this the medicine of the East, dare to ask, why did you cure my teacher in this way?"
”"If you want to know the answer, go back to Middle-earth with them!"
Zhang Huangyan said."
Good!"
Descartes therefore agreed.Next, Descartes and Mason went to Barcelona, where they met Pascal and Fermat.Descartes also came into contact with the "Theory of Probability" and "Detailed Explanation of the Nine Chapters of Algorithm" and "Theory of Calculus" published by the Ming Celebrant Superintendent, and excitedly discussed with Mason, Fermat, Pascal, etc., and became very interested in the Ming Dynasty.The fleet of the Great Ming Emperor is indeed ready to set sail for China, and has begun to procure the supplies and slaves needed for the voyage.However, before officially returning to China, according to the instructions of the Ming Emperor, Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian still had one last important thing to do, that is, to declare to the European countries the basic global order drawn up by His Majesty the Ming Emperor and to express the neutral attitude of the Ming Empire towards the religious struggle in Europe.Therefore, France, Spain, Portugal, and Britain were all invited by Shen Shoujiao and Zhu Yujian to send representatives to The Hague City to participate in the global conference convened by the Ming Empire.At the meeting, Shen Shouyao declared the content of the basic global order drawn up by the Ming Emperor, mainly not to kill and massacre people from other countries without authorization, and not to plunder merchant ships, and asked the delegates to accept such an order, otherwise they would be attacked by the Ming Empire.For Portugal and Spain, who were already in the midst of a period of decline in overseas colonization, they were happy to accept such an order, because their merchant ships were the most heavily plundered.Therefore, neither they nor the Confucian countries refused.But Britain and France refused.Because, nowadays, the most ruthless plundering of merchant ships overseas are Britain and the Netherlands, and France is mainly expanding by land.Therefore, neither Britain nor France agreed.As for the Netherlands, because he has become a part of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not declare it to him, but directly issued an order.The Netherlands now has 10,000 merchant ships around the world, and is known as a coachman at sea, with strong maritime power.If it weren't for the fact that the Dutch provinces were not subordinate to each other and their forces were scattered, they would not have been easily annexed by the Ming Dynasty.And to make these Dutch businessmen abide by the rules, for Daming, it will take a lot of energy.Of course, that's an afterthought.Shen Shoujiao and Zhu Yujian just expressed their attitude on behalf of the Ming Empire.The expression of the Ming Empire's neutral attitude towards the religious disputes in Europe was for the sake of buying arms in the future.Soon after this, the fleet of the Great Ming Holy Emperor officially set off for China.The scale of the Ming Emperor's fleet was larger than when it came, because the Emperor's fleet came to Portugal, France, Spain, Britain, and Austria to sign a series of trade agreements, and the Dutch merchants also obtained a better trade policy from the governor Zhang Huangyan, so many Western merchant ships also returned to China with the Ming Emperor's fleet, ready to purchase more goods.Among them, the main goods they want to purchase are arms
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