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Chapter 396 The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi meets Galileo

Galileo did not expect that as soon as he stepped onto this strange land, he was caught by these people who looked luxuriously dressed but were just as savage and domineering as he appeared to be.

This made Galileo, who was very excited and curious at the beginning, suddenly became a little unhappy. He glared at Montjsey with anger, and was helplessly loaded into the carriage by the Jinyiwei.

Montjersey was also helpless. He didn't know what the purpose of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Shang and Zhou Zuo suddenly met him and thought that he wanted a man named Galileo and lived in Florence. He only wanted to realize the requirement of Shang and Zhou Zuo and seek some discounts on tariff collection for this.

He didn't want to ask whether Galileo was arrested by these people as a coolie or whether this Lord Shang had any grudges with Galileo and wanted to kill or behead Galileo, etc. He wanted to make more benefits for himself through such a simple transaction.

Therefore, after seeing the Jinyiwei arrested Galileo, he did not ask any more questions, but went directly to the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi, and submitted a post to ask to meet with the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi.

For these foreign merchants, Shang and Zhou dynasties, they were the ones who controlled their power of life and death, and were also their God of Wealth, so he had to face this governor of the Ming Empire carefully.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was strong at that time and had never experienced the fate of being colonized by the West. Therefore, the scholar-type officials like Shang and Zhou Zuo, who always valued China and ignored foreigners, were not very gentle to foreigners like Montjersey, and even had a bit of arrogant attitude. Moreover, once these foreigners violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, they would be unceremonious to deal with it.

However, since Shang and Zhou Zuo, as an official of the court, Zhu Youxiao gave him the instructions to make the maritime trade in Guangdong, Guangxi, especially in Guangzhou Prefecture, prosperous, and pay a lot of taxes to the court every year. Therefore, for these foreign merchants, as long as these people do business honestly and diligently, he can still contact them with noble people, and at least show his image of being more friendly to the people.

Therefore, when Montjersey's post was introduced to the Governor's Office in Guangdong and Guangxi, Shang and Zhou Zuo still chose to meet him and encourage more Western scientific masters to come to the Ming Dynasty through small concessions on commercial taxes. It was the wish of the current emperor Zhu Youxiao, so he naturally would not violate it, so he did not intend to eat Montjersey's words.

Montjsey walked into the Governor General's Office, patted his collar, tidyed the curly hair on his head, and hurriedly walked in, but as soon as he came in, he saw Galileo and Shang Zhouzuo, the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi, savoring tea in the hall.

This made Montjsey stunned. In his several dealings with Shang and Zhou Zuo, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he had never sat opposite the governor of the Ming Empire. Why did Galileo, who was just a idler around Toscon, get such treatment from this governor of the Ming Empire?

Montjsey didn't understand it very much. He thought Galileo would be taken to the volcano and fell into the oil pan, but he wouldn't have thought that this would be the result.

Although he was shocked, Montjsey still insisted on calming himself and bowed to Shang Zhou Zuo, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The short governor held the authority of whether he would make five million Yingyang or lose five million Yingyang this year, so he had to respect him.

When Shang and Zhou Zuo saw Montjs bowing, he just nodded, and then did not turn his head, but he still lowered his head and blew the hot tea and said to Galileo: "I am not interested in all miscellaneous studies, but the current emperor is a well-informed and knowledgeable person. He is particularly concerned about the Western arithmetics of things and other Western arithmetics. I will not hide it. I would like to invite you to the government today to discuss it. This is also the intention of Your Majesty today. If you can sit in this position according to the previous rules, at least a fourth-rank or an old friend of the same year, you can sit in this position."

With the help of the translation and his good understanding next to him, Galileo also roughly understood what this person meant. Only then did he realize that the person wearing a wide robe, big sleeves, a black gauze hat, and a pheasant embroidered on his chest was actually a symbol of the imperial official.

The reason why he was asked to come here was the emperor of this empire. Galileo began to wonder what the emperor of this empire was and why he was as curious as himself about these knowledge that was not loved by those who were in power in the secular world.

"Dear Governor, can you let me see the Emperor of your country?" Galileo also politely bowed to Shang and Zhou Zuo.

Somehow, Shang and Zhou Zuo, who had never looked down on such foreigners, felt that the old man in front of him seemed to have a different demeanor than ordinary people, at least not as merciless and sleek as the Italian named Montjersey next to him.

"Maybe this is their Europa scholar, which looks a bit scholarly." After the Shang and Zhou Zuo finished speaking, they called the Jinyiwei Qianhu Duanmu Chengfeng to the front, and after a few words of advice, he asked him to quickly send Galileo to the capital to meet His Majesty.

It was not until Galileo left that Shang and Zhou Zuo began to pay attention to Montjersey.

Montjersey finally got what he wanted. Shang and Zhou Zuo agreed to give him certain discounts on tariff collection for the transactions, and gave him a list of them, encouraging him to continue to search for people interested in the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to come to the Ming Dynasty.

Biological reflexes are the same, and humans will continue to sit down once they find that this is profitable.

The same is true for Montjersey. After he came to the Ming Dynasty, he found that betraying several Westerners to the Ming Dynasty to satisfy His Majesty's special habits (in his opinion, the emperor of the Ming Empire needs these people, must have special habits). It seemed to be a great thing that would be profitable. He decided to continue working in this regard. The list given to him by the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Shang and Zhou Zuo, Shang and Zhou Zuo, seemed to be the key to becoming the richest person in Italy in the future.

Unlike the merchant Montjsey, who cares about gains and losses, as a scientist who only understands the truth of all things, he does not care what treatment he will receive when he goes to the capital of this empire, whether he will become an official, or whether he will be killed as a pagan. He now just wants to know earlier who proposed the wave-particle duality of light, whether the Ming emperor, that is, the supreme power holder in this country, is really different from the Pope, and supports science.

The flat avenue, colorful painted boats and elegant young masters made Galileo come to heaven and earth in a trance. When he entered the capital, he was even more attracted by the prosperity here. He never thought that a country could have so many people, the palaces here could be so magnificent, and the palaces and pavilions could be so gorgeous.

When Galileo saw the pedestrians politely (only scholars have the energy to hang out on the street), he was even more shocked and sighed in his heart that perhaps this was the ideal country, with peace and equality between people. When he saw a young man walking forward with an old woman on his back, he even sighed that the people here pay great attention to respecting the elderly and loving the young and human relations.
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