The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Poor Descartes, who didn't know he was sold, was greeted by the pure eyes of Yan Song and the missionaries, with a black question mark on his face: "??? Do you need me to count the money for you?"

Immediately nodded: "Help us count."

Descartes took the money and counted it quickly: "Twenty thousand! No problem!"

Immediately and politely bowed to Descartes: "Thank you for your service! From now on, you will be sold to Prime Minister Yan Song. May God bless you!"

Descartes had a black question mark on his face: "???"

Yan Song looked at poor Descartes and couldn't help laughing.

Hai Rui was speechless: "This nerd, who was sold and counted the money, is it really okay?"

Descartes finally figured out in 640 that his unavoidable tragic fate was kidnapped by the Holy See from Europe and sold to the Ming court for 2 taels of silver?

Unexpectedly, Descartes was not much frustrated, but instead asked: "In Daming, how much can 2 taels buy?"

Immediately replied: "You can buy a thousand pieces of the finest silk! In Europe, it is equivalent to 20 French louis d'or!"

(The louis d'or is the currency of France, a very valuable gold coin.)

When Descartes heard that he was worth so much money, his eyes widened in surprise: "I'm in Daming, so worth so much? I won't go back!"

However, Descartes was also a little worried when he thought that he had been reduced from a proud mathematician to a slave.

What if I was really treated as a slave and sent to the construction site to move bricks?

He expressed his worries to Lima and translated them to Yan Song.

Yan Song smiled: "Ask him, is he planning to leave?"

Descartes yelled at Yan Song: "I am in Marseilles, relying on people to count, and my annual income is only a hundred gold (bffg) louis! If you can give me more, why should I go back?"

Yan Song rolled his eyes: "It's worthless! How did you get away with it? A great mathematician earns so little in a year? I'll give you [-] silver a year!"

Descartes was overjoyed and shocked!

1 taels of silver is equivalent to tens of thousands of gold louis!

Being sold as a slave to Daming, his income has increased hundreds of times!

This made Descartes salivate constantly: "I'm rich! Daming, it really is full of gold and silver!"

"What is this money? The real estate is a garden in Suzhou." Yan Song looked down on the poor country bumpkin in France: "Three enter the courtyard. I will serve you with 10 more maids."

Descartes couldn't understand, so he asked Lima: "What is the Suzhou garden he mentioned? How is it better than the attic where I lived in Marseille?"

Immediately, his eyes turned red with jealousy, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "I knew it earlier, I should study mathematics well. What theology?"

He grabbed Descartes and shouted: "For God's sake! You must not mention any attics in front of the people of Daming! Shame on Daming! Suzhou Garden, that is a beautiful place like A place in heaven! For example, compared with that place, the Fontainebleau forest palace of your French king is simply a country house of a country bumpkin! It is worth hundreds of thousands of gold louis! Yan Song actually gave you 10 Suzhou beauties? Oh, I My God! You won't ever want to go back to that damn place in Marseilles, France!"

When Descartes heard that the Suzhou garden Yan Song gave him was actually such a tall palace, more beautiful than the palace of the French king, and there were 10 beauties serving him, he suddenly felt elated.

He bowed deeply to Yan Song: "My respectable Mr. Prime Minister, I am very grateful for the generous treatment you have provided."

"Don't get too excited." Yan Song said with a smile: "You have to accept my appointment and become the mathematics consultant of Minister Kaihai together with Cheng Dawei, helping me calculate various mathematical problems and optimize the construction process."

Descartes proudly said: "With me and the respectable person serving you together, I don't believe that anyone in the world can have a more luxurious team of mathematics consultants than you."

Yan Song saw that Descartes, who was once rebellious, also admired Cheng Dawei very much at this time, and his attitude towards himself was much more respected. He smiled with satisfaction: "Then you all go down and start working. I will send some students to you later. .”

After finishing Descartes, Yan Song has another world-class mathematician.

The first mathematical problem he assigned to Descartes and Cheng Dawei was how to use the existing manpower, technology and materials to complete the construction of the port and market within three months.

Descartes was shocked and shook his head again and again: "This is impossible! This is impossible!"

He looked at the blueprint and exclaimed, "The design of this port is grand, the project is huge, and it is ambitious. It is five times bigger than the port of Marseille where I live! Marseille has been built for thousands of years since the Roman era, and it has become like this Scale. Right now, you actually only want to complete the construction of this port in three months? Impossible!"

Hai Rui and many tycoons were just aroused by Yan Song, and then flatly rejected by this great mathematician, pouring a basin of cold water on their heads.

This Frenchman has great calculation skills. If he wants to say that it is absolutely impossible for the port to be completed, it is indeed impossible.

Yan Song smiled: "Your argument is based on European construction technology and standards. Now you go and look at our construction technology, including cement, steel and reinforced concrete, and then come back to calculate."

Descartes was dubious, and went out to visit with Cheng Dawei.

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Yan Song and the merchants had breakfast first, and at the same time discussed the construction of Kaihai.

After a busy night, I didn't even bother to eat.

At this time, the Tianjin county magistrate hurriedly came to visit and said that he had something important to report.

Yan Song summoned the magistrate of Tianjin.

Guo Yijing, the county magistrate of Tianjin, came in respectfully.

After all, Yan Song was the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and what he was implementing was the court's decision to open the sea. As the magistrate of Tianjin, he was under great pressure.

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Chapter 478 Unable to recruit civil servants? 【5】

Yan Song stared at Guo Yijing.

Guo Yijing is a capable official. When he served as the county magistrate in Jiangyin, Nanzhili, he had a good official reputation and was diligent and capable.It's a pity that his family background is not very good. He was born in the top three in the imperial examination, and he can be used immediately after being ranked. After ten years of struggling in the officialdom, he is still a county magistrate of the seventh rank.

However, when Yan Song passed Jiangyin on his southern tour, he was very optimistic about this person's serious and responsible spirit. He was transferred from Jiangyin county magistrate to Tianjin half a year ago, just to prepare for the construction of Kaihai.