"Yes, I am willing. Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me such a good job." Claviyo said quickly. He was also in the capital when the Five Cities Academy was established, because although the officials had no choice but to find a sufficient reason for this matter,

The remonstrance stopped, but the commotion was so loud that even the official in charge of the school talked about it with others, so of course he knew about this school.

In his opinion, Wucheng Academy is a school very close to Italian universities. Although it is not divided into subjects like Italian universities, so each student has to learn a lot more, the organizational form is very similar. He initially

He suspected that an Italian came to the Ming Dynasty and served the Ming Dynasty, but the result of repeated inquiries was that he was the first European to come to the Ming Dynasty in these years, and no Italian had ever come.

The students taught in this school are all aristocratic children of the Ming Dynasty, and there are even a few royal children who were separately distinguished in the Ming Dynasty. Even if he does not want to stay in the Ming Dynasty now, he can teach the nobles of the Ming Dynasty and become one of their teachers.

Not only was it something to be proud of, but it would also be a source of capital when he returned to Castile in the future, so he hurriedly agreed.

Hearing Claviyo's urgent answer, Yunxi smiled and said, "In that case, I will appoint you as one of the teachers in the Western Studies class of Wucheng Academy."

"One of the gentlemen? Your Majesty, could it be that you also appointed someone else as the gentleman of this course?" Hearing this, Claviyo asked.

"Of course."

"Dear Your Majesty, please forgive my presumption. Could it be that another European mission came to Ming Dynasty recently?"

"No."

"Then who is the other teacher of Western Studies you appointed?"

"Tianfang believers." Yunxi said with a smile: "In the Ming Dynasty, not only Europe is considered the West, but what you call Central Asia and West Asia is also the West to the people of the Ming Dynasty."

Yunxi decided to open a 'Western Learning Course' after the new school year starts next year, a course dedicated to introducing the history, culture, and religion of Western countries. Of course, it was not just because Claviyo and his attendants came. Although Claviyo's entourage also came

He has the status of a knight or a knight's squire, but the European nobles of this era were all ignorant. It is not uncommon for people in the knight class not to know how to read. Even the great nobles of some countries do not know how to read. These of Clavillo

Attendant, it would be good if you could remember the sermons often spoken by the local priest. The gentleman who comes to teach Western learning will probably turn this class into an exchange meeting on Eastern and Western fighting skills. Of course, in line with the concept of not wasting human resources, I allow

He would ask them to compete with masters in the army and bodyguards respectively, and learn the fighting skills from Western battlefields and private competitions.

Therefore, although there are many people in Klavyo's group, there is only Klavyo who can contribute to teach the history and culture of Western countries. Most of the teachers in this course will come from the Tenbang Theological Seminary in Samarkand.

mullah.

As early as the end of the Battle of Yiwu last year, Shang Bing pursued the remnants of the Timur Khanate's troops and captured the vicinity of Lake Balkhash, but in fact he sent troops with the purpose of occupying Samarkand and ruling Central Asia.

He was instructed: "After the city of Samarkand is captured, as long as the mullahs of the seminary in the city do not hinder the soldiers and disobey your orders, they will not suffer any harm."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Shang Bing did not understand this order at the time, but he still agreed. Therefore, after he captured the city of Samarkand, he immediately sent soldiers to surround the seminary in the city and killed all the mullahs who dared to leave.

, gathered the remaining people and sent them back to the capital of Ming Dynasty, and will arrive in early August.

Yunxi was extremely happy when he learned the news. Both the Christian Theological Seminary and the Tianfang Theological Seminary were similar in organizational form, and derived from the law school, the medical school, the liberal arts college, etc., and later these four oldest categories were

The academy evolved into the modern education system, including middle schools and universities. The aristocratic schools in later Western countries started from middle schools instead of elementary schools, which is also related to the education system at this time.

Yunxi plans to establish a modern education system, and has already established a five-city school based on the modern middle schools in Western countries. But after all, he was not a person from the education system in his previous life. He only relied on the memory of his more than ten years of schooling, and because he had to adapt to

The actual situation at this time made the school that was finally established completely different. Yunxi had always been afraid that the system he designed would go wrong, and he was in urgent need of professionals to guide him. Therefore, although these professionals were Tianfang believers, it was possible to preach to the students.

He couldn't care less about the Tianfang teaching mullah.

At the same time, Yunxi also wanted to set up a course named simply "Western Learning Course" and let these Tianfang Sect mullahs teach it. Although the Timurid Khanate had been eliminated, part of its territory was occupied by Shang Bing, and another part was occupied by the White Horde Khan.

Kingdom, Blue Horde Khanate and other countries were occupied, and the rest were controlled by the remnants of the Timur Khanate. However, in the future, the enemies faced by the Ming Dynasty soldiers must be mainly Tianfang believers, supplemented by Cross believers. Even if there are other enemies, it does not matter

It’s important. It’s said that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles. If you want to deal with them more smoothly, you must understand their historical and cultural characteristics.

In addition, even if monotheistic religions have many shortcomings, they can become the largest and second largest religion in the world, and they will still have great influence in the world six hundred years later. They must also have advantages.

Naturally, I also hope to learn from their advantages. Therefore, Yunxi decided to open this course.

However, he originally hesitated about when to offer this course. He felt that it was a bit early to offer this course in the second grade, which is equivalent to the second grade of junior high school in later generations. However, after repeated consideration, he felt that it was better to test it first, and if it was really not suitable

Besides, although this is a bit sorry for the first batch of students, they are meant to be guinea pigs, and they should have a similar awareness.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Claviyo agreed. Of course he didn't know what Yunxi was thinking just now, and he couldn't even predict what would happen after he went to teach at Wucheng Academy. Although he was not happy to have to attend classes with Tianfang believers,

But he would not refuse this job that was both honorable and capital-generating.

After saying this, Yunxi had nothing more to say to him, and made him retreat after a few casual chats.

After Claviyo withdrew, Yunxi was about to stretch his body when he heard Wang Xi say: "Guan family, I remember, don't you remember that the government family is not willing to spread advanced technologies such as papermaking and movable type printing? Even His Majesty canonized

There are no craftsmen who know the art of movable type printing in all the vassal states, so why are they willing to hand it over to him?"

"You're right." Because Wang Xi was too close to Wang Xi, Yunxi didn't take him seriously and replied, "I really don't want these two skills to be spread to other people."

"But if I don't allow his followers to learn, won't his followers be able to learn? Compared with engraving printing, movable type printing is not much improved. The principle is very simple. He only needs to go to the bookstore to see movable type printing and return to Castile.

We can study it later. So I’m just following the trend.”

"As for advanced papermaking technology," after saying this, he glanced sideways at the other eunuchs in the room, and Lu Yi immediately led them out of the palace obediently.

"The reason why I want to hand over the advanced papermaking technology to Clavijo is because the West already has papermaking technology at this time. Although papermaking is less efficient, it is still papermaking. Europeans are not stupid. They will improve themselves. Sooner or later

The improvement will be the same as the Ming Dynasty’s papermaking technology.”

"Furthermore, the only paper made in European countries is hemp paper. I will ask the craftsmen to give them only the advanced papermaking technology of making hemp paper, so that they will not randomly learn papermaking technology in the Ming Dynasty and use straw paper and other papermaking techniques.

Learn how to make paper."

Yunxi's move is very insidious. Historically, European countries could only make hemp paper. Although the technical level of this papermaking technology has been raised to a very high level, they have never used other materials to make paper, making hemp paper

The raw materials were exhausted in Europe, and for a period of time there was almost no paper available in Europe. It took a lot of effort to steal other papermaking techniques from the Qing Dynasty so that people would not regard waste paper as a treasure.

After Claviyo and others left the Ming Dynasty, he would immediately take measures to make most of the folk craftsmen only make hemp paper, and slowly concentrate other papermaking skills on craftsmen under the royal family or nobles. 'You just wait for high prices.

Buy paper from Daming.'

In fact, he had a similar purpose when he promised to teach movable type printing to Clavijo's followers. The technical level of movable type printing in the Ming Dynasty was not high at this time, and Gutenberg and others independently discovered movable type as early as 140 to 1440 AD.

Printing, so there is nothing wrong with letting Europeans learn this craft. On the contrary, it may mislead them and make them go astray in the study of movable type printing. How could he not do such a thing that has no harm but may be beneficial?

Do?

After saying this, Yunxi turned his head and glanced at the engraving. He saw that although it was past noon, it was not yet midnight, and there was still time for a nap. He said to Wang Xi: "You have been with me for a while, here.

I don’t need you to serve me anymore, go and have a rest.”

"It is the duty of a slave to serve the officials," Wang Xi said immediately.

"Yes, I know you are willing to be by my side. But now you are the great eunuch in charge of the entire palace, no longer the little eunuch who follows me. There are many things in the palace that are arranged by you, so you have to ensure that you rest.

There was enough time. I also had times when I slept less and worked more. In the end, I was not energetic, and I almost answered the memorial while half asleep and half awake. When I saw it later, I couldn’t believe that I answered it myself.”

"So you must go to rest immediately. I am also going to rest for a while. You don't have to wait here." Yunxi said.

"Then, my servant, please step aside now. I won't disturb the official family's rest." Wang Xi said with a smile and was about to step down.

"By the way," Yunxi suddenly remembered something again and said to him: "By the way, you can tell the eunuchs and guards to ask Princess Ningguo and Chen Ji to come to the Qing Palace at the beginning of the afternoon. I have something to tell them."

"Yes, official." Wang Xi agreed, turned around and left. Yunxi also went to take a rest.

…

…

"Let us learn craftsmanship from the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty? No, I won't do it!" Such a cry rang out in the restaurant. Although others could not understand it because he was shouting in Castilian, it still caused dissatisfaction.

Shaofanguan officials and servants scolded: "What the hell are you calling at noon! It's disturbing people's dreams!"

"This is an order!" Claviyo looked at the people in front of him and said it again seriously.

"My master, if you order us to fight against the enemy, whether they are heretics or heretics, we will attack the enemy without hesitation; but learning crafts from humble craftsmen is an insult to us. I cannot accept it.

This order." A somewhat short man said.

"My master, my thoughts are the same as Rhett's." Someone else said. Then others followed suit.

"You don't know that in the Ming Dynasty, officials were selected from civilians, and the status of craftsmen was also very high. It is not as low as in our country. People with craftsman backgrounds can also be officials and manage many civilians.

.So asking them to learn craftsmanship from craftsmen is not an insult to you." Claviyo added.

"My master, when we were chatting with the officials of Fan Guan before, the officials of Fan Guan told us that although the possibility of civilians in the Ming Dynasty becoming officials was much higher than that of civilians in Castile, it was almost the same.

It has increased from one ten thousandth to one percent, but it is still very difficult; although there were craftsmen serving as officials in the Ming Dynasty, this was just a special case. Officials and rich people in the Ming Dynasty still discriminated against craftsmen." He was called Red.

The man said again. While speaking, he glanced at Claviyo as if he were looking at a deceiver, but his expression returned to his normal expression immediately.

Seeing that his attempt to fool them into voluntarily learning crafts from craftsmen failed, Claviyo thought for a while and decided not to play tricks. He said directly: "If anyone is willing to learn advanced papermaking and movable type printing from the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty,

After I return to Castile, half of all the money I get from selling Ming goods will be given to you."

Yes, Kraviyo’s decision was to seduce them with benefits. Now that he has no fiefdom, he can only use money to seduce them. But it turns out that this trick is very effective. After hearing Kraviyo’s words, several people breathed visibly

A bit thicker.

This is not a small reward, this is a big reward! They all know how valuable the goods of the Ming Dynasty are in Europe. Even a small bag of peppercorns can be exchanged for the same weight of gold! If you bring back a cart of peppercorns,

Maybe you can buy a viscount's fiefdom from a certain big noble! There's still some leftover! No one can stay calm when faced with such a large amount of money.

"My master, you must sign a contract with us before we can trust you." After a while, Rhett said. In Europe, upper-level nobles made promises to lower-level nobles, but there were many cases of them not acknowledging their promises after the passage of time. Although they

The situation is special, but it cannot be ignored.

"Okay." Claviyo agreed without hesitation, and immediately took out a pen and paper to write down what he promised, and signed his name.

Seeing that Kraviyo had signed the contract, Rhett and others no longer had any doubts and agreed: "We will learn the Seris language from you immediately, and when we can communicate smoothly with the people of the Ming Dynasty, we will learn the craftsmanship from the craftsmen."

"I guarantee you that in addition to the wealth I promised, what you will get when you return to Castile will be much more than this!" Clavijo said at last.
To be continued...