Zhu Hezhi finally left all five thousand taels of silver in Sweden, and used part of the silver to buy all the works of Descartes throughout his life, and invited Descartes' students, friends and colleagues to go to the Ming Dynasty to translate these works. ()

The remaining part is managed by Swedish King Christina. Anyone who is willing to come to the Ming Dynasty to study Descartes' philosophy and scientific thought can get travel expenses from this silver.

Such generous decisions are easily considered to be self-decision if they are placed in later generations. However, in the current world, it takes eight to nine months to one-way from the Ming Dynasty to Europe, or even longer. If someone is sent to ask for instructions and wait for a reply, the daylily will be cold.

What's worse is that doing this can easily make the emperor feel that this person is useless and has no talent for making decisions.

King Jing's approach was indeed deeply recognized by Zhu Cilang, and he privately lamented that he had not wasted a prince's title in vain. If King Jing really brought back five thousand taels of silver, then Zhu Cilang would be really amused and cry.

The 5,000 taels of silver from the Ming Dynasty came to Europe where the bank was tightening, but it was a huge sum of money! Even the Swedish king was very excited when custodying this amount - because the interest of silver was also a huge sum of money, and the king had the control of this silver.

King Jing brought back gifts from various royal families from Europe, ranging from glass balls to sailboats, and a large number of technical workers. These workers may not recognize a single letter, and the things they made may not be able to see the eyes of the Ming craftsmen, but other mountain stones can be used to polish jade. Their ancestral techniques have a role in broadening their horizons and ideas for the Ming craftsmen.

These are what a prince should do.

When Zhu Cilang met King Jing Zhu Hezhi, he looked exhausted when he returned to the Ming Dynasty, so the meeting was not long. Later, Zhu Hezhi asked for a few occasions to meet him - he was nominally the emperor's nephew - Zhu Cilang did not meet him because of time, but only gave him a banquet to express his acceptance of this wish.

If Zhu Hezhi said he wanted to go to America, Zhu Cixuan would have arranged time to meet him separately and asked about his specific ideas.

In the Zongren Mansion, Zuo Zongzheng Zhu Youjian was sent to Portugal as the King of Tang and stationed in Europe. Zhu Changjie, the You Zongzheng, was a teacher and was not concerned about the affairs of the Zongren Mansion. Zhu Yihai, the You Zongren, was responsible for the Royal Library and was immersed in ancient and rare books all day long. He was not happy about "Lu", so how could he care about other people's affairs?

The only way King Jing can take is Zhu Shenxuan.

Zhu Shenxuan took the gifts brought back by Zhu Hezhi, two Ottoman scimitars, as well as agarwood produced in India and sandalwood. He was given a great gift and had to come and walk for him.

Zhu Hezhi was only responsible for the mission and did not have the former property of Jingfan. Where did he get the confidence to give such expensive gifts?

Because he is following the most important world trade route nowadays.

When Zhu Hezhi set out, he did not realize that the future was full of business opportunities, so he did not make any special preparations. However, the huge fleet of ships attracted other small business travelers. These small business travelers were worried about the threat of pirates and proposed to go with the Jingwang fleet. This is common at sea, and it is never free if the strength deviation is too large.

The small merchant ships were loaded with goods but no money. Zhu Hezhi didn't care about it, so he took these merchants to Nanyang, exchanged silver from the Dutch and the Portuguese, and then continued to travel westward, buying a large number of Indian specialties and various spices at the Indian port.

When the fleet left the Indian Ocean and entered Africa, Zhu Hezhi sold spices appropriately in exchange for gold and gems. When he arrived in Lisbon, the prices of all goods rose by more than ten times. He became a generation of rich people in a blink of an eye, enjoying the huge profits of the maritime trade in the Age of Discovery.

After returning to China, Zhu Hezhi had already had the money to build his own Jingwang Mansion and thanked those who helped him. This feeling of getting rich made him very addicted to him. He was even more curious about the legendary new world full of gold and silver. However, it would be a dream to build an ocean fleet with his current financial resources.

So Zhu Hezhi thought of raising funds from his relatives, and then he had the idea of ​​daring Qiufeng. Not only did he borrow money, but he also borrowed face. He was a vassal king at least. What if the emperor didn't allow it? Now it has been relaxed. The vassal kings can move outside for a limited time. In the past, the vassal kings could not even leave the city casually.

Of course, the above are all Zhu Hezhi's remarks.

Because Zhu Cixuan wanted to meet Zhu Hezhi, he accidentally received some other news when he was preparing to discuss the voyage with him.

The spies sent by the East Factory to Europe pointed out in the report that King Jing Zhu Hezhi had an extraordinary relationship with Swedish King Christina. He even hinted that King Jing left a huge amount of silver in Sweden and entrusted Christina to make a decision based on this abnormal relationship.

This report was once stuck in a pile of reports, but Zhu Cixuan had no time to pay attention to it. For the Ming Emperor, the European issue was too far away and was not the core interests of the Ming Dynasty. But now that it has been dug out, we cannot ignore it.

So Zhu Hezhi was rumored to the palace and was personally received by the emperor.

"What kind of person is the King of Sweden?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

Zhu Hezhi did not doubt that he had. He knew that His Majesty the Emperor was a great soldier, and the most famous military strategist in Taisie was King Gustav II of Sweden.

"Go back to your Majesty, Swedish King Christina is the daughter of Gustav II. Her father died in the formation and ordered her to be king. Therefore, she ascended the throne at the age of six. I went to Sweden to hold a coronation ceremony in October of that year." Zhu Hezhi was wearing a court robes and could not see his figure, but his face was angular and dark in skin. It can be seen that the long voyage brought indelible changes to his body.

"Shouldn't a woman be called queen?" Zhu Cixuan asked in a chat.

Zhu Hezhi smiled: "It should have been like this. It was just that she was mistaken for a man when she was born. Later, she was educated like a prince. Her father valued it very much, so she ascended the throne in the name of "king" and did not call her "queen."

"Well, I ascended the throne at the age of six and was crowned two years ago. So I shouldn't be old, right?" Zhu Cixuan seemed to be very gossipy.

"It's time to be twenty-seven this year." Zhu He Zhi said.

"Hey, I just happen to be the same age as King Jing." Zhu Cixuan said.

Zhu Hezhi's face was a little embarrassed and said, "Your Majesty, I am twenty-five years old this year..."

"Oh, is that?" Zhu Ciyang leaned back and said in a deep voice: "Then why did you tell King Christina that you are the same age as her?"

Zhu Hezhi's face turned red.

He originally had a plan to learn the Thai language on the boat, but he didn't have much motivation and only learned a little Latin and French - because Descartes was French.

After arriving in Sweden, Zhu Hezhi had to communicate with others, relying on the Ming Dynasty to communicate with others.

This general was graduated from Jingshi University and was educated by Jesuit priests such as Joshua Cham and others. He had no obstacles in communicating with European nobles. Not only did he proficient in language, but he even had no omissions in etiquette, which surprised the nobles who received Zhu Hezhi in European countries.

Zhu Hezhi naturally valued him very much.

I just don’t know that this person is a secret spy from Dongchang. King Jing’s every move, every word and action in Europe is under the control of Dongchang.

Including picnics with King Christina, the two of them jokingly said.

"Is it a lie?" Zhu Cixuan added.

"No..." Zhu Hezhi felt a little dry and dry: "It was me who was frivolous at that time."

Zhu Cixuan pulled the topic back and said, "You did a good job in the mission to Taisie. You are not asking you to come today to make up old accounts. I just want to make sure that you want to sail to Ameriga, and whether it has anything to do with this female king."

Fortunately, Zhu Hezhi had tanned his skin on the sea, otherwise he would be as red as cooked shrimps. His yearning for the New World was precisely because he knew that there was a Swedish enclave in Ameriga called New Sweden, which was the place that King Christina longed for very much.

"It's not a personal relationship." Zhu Hezhi denied it and said, "But I want to go to the Amerika and my vocation, but I was inspired by the Kerchman. I think a small country in Sweden is just the same size as my province, and there are overseas enclaves with a lot of income. Then, my vocation has hundreds of thousands of sea and land soldiers, so why don't I occupy those unparalleled lands and make plans for my descendants for generations!"

Zhu He's words are half true and half false. He did learn that there was a Swedish colony in America after listening to Christina's introduction, but at that time he was not thinking about the great cause of his family and country, but more of it was riding a horse with the beauties and galloping on the picturesque plains.

"After all, you are a descendant of Renzong and a family of the Tian family. If you exiled yourself just because you were rejected by a woman, I think it is not worth it." Zhu Cixuan said.

Zhu Hezhi felt a sensation, and he thought he had forgotten it.

As an envoy of the mysterious kingdom of the East, the emperor's relatives enjoyed the title of prince. Zhu Hezhi was treated with the highest standards along the way. The Governor of Goa, Portugal, even personally sent him to Lisbon and then returned to Goa. The King of Portugal and the King of France also met him personally and expressed his willingness to engage in business with the Ming Dynasty.

Charlie Stuart, a member of the British royal family who was exiled overseas due to the British civil war, also hoped to meet with Zhu Hezhi for help, but he obviously did not have the qualifications. Zhu Hezhi declined his invitation on the grounds that the emperor was in charge and could not be delayed, and then headed to Stockholm from the sea.

Such courtesy made the young King Jing a little fluttered and looked down on the royal families of the countries in Taixi. At one time, they thought that their etiquette was too rough and had strong traces of barbarism.

Until he met King Christina in Stockholm.

This woman with different shoulders made Zhu Hezhi feel her vitality at first sight, and she doesn't look like a flower in a greenhouse at all.

"When I was a baby, the babysitter accidentally dropped me on the ground and broke my shoulder bones, so I didn't mean to despise others with high and low shoulders." Christina chuckled and whispered: "Although I did use this disability to despise some people."

Zhu Hezhi couldn't help but remember the jokes made by King Christina during the first dinner, which made him embarrassed and didn't know how to answer. (To be continued...)
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