The other person was Descartes, a Frenchman. Although he was not as famous as Galileo, he was definitely a great figure in the history of science. At that time, France was in a period of turmoil. Descartes originally planned to go to the Netherlands, but because he was already famous at that time, the Portuguese found him and praised Tang Tong's research institute as extremely advanced in front of Descartes. He also showed Descartes two physics and chemistry textbooks for the middle school run by Tang Tong. After Descartes found someone who could speak Chinese to translate the two textbooks, he immediately realized the great significance of the two books. Descartes, who was fascinated by science, followed the Portuguese to Ming Dynasty without hesitation.
After obtaining these two people, Tang Tong generously rewarded the Portuguese man so that he would continue to work hard to find more such talents for him. Later, Tang Tong appointed both of them as deputy directors of the institute, and selected a dozen people from the school to be their students. The other Westerners were also assigned jobs according to their talents. Three of them were good at making artillery. Tang Tong gave the blueprints of breech-loading artillery to these three people and arranged a secret place for them to conduct research. Of course, Tang Tong did not forget to give these three people more than a thousand craftsmen and dozens of students as their subordinates and sent troops to garrison this place.
In order to make these people feel at ease working for him, Tang Tong asked the Portuguese to take several ships and a team of 30,000 people consisting of ninjas, soldiers, and sailors to bring these people's families to the Ming Dynasty. With these people's families in his hands, Tang Tong estimated that it would be unlikely for these people to escape.
Because Galileo was 60 years old and had suffered ten years of persecution, his health was not very good. Descartes had been in poor health since childhood and died young in history. Tang Tong specially invited several famous doctors to treat them. He also gave Galileo and Descartes each a garden villa and dozens of Japanese and Koreans as servants and maids. Such treatment was not enjoyed by Galileo, who was not from a wealthy family, even Descartes, who was from an aristocratic family. In addition, many things in the Ming Dynasty were luxury goods in the West, such as tea, silk, porcelain, and soap and perfumed soap produced by Tang Tong's factories. In the West, these things were definitely not something that ordinary rich people could enjoy.
In terms of treatment, these Westerners were all very satisfied, but what made Galileo and Descartes even more satisfied was Tang Tong and his research institute. Tang Tong once had a conversation with the two of them. With Tang Tong's knowledge as a later generation, his vision was naturally much broader than that of Galileo and Descartes. After the conversation, Galileo once again regained his scientific youth, and Descartes felt more at ease to do a good job here.
Galileo once made thermometers and astronomical telescopes, and discovered Jupiter's satellites such as Saturn and Saturn. In terms of telescope manufacturing technology, Galileo was at the highest level of that period, so Tang Tong entrusted the manufacturing and research of thermometers, astronomical telescopes, and microscopes to Galileo.
Descartes' main job was teaching, because his body was too weak. Although he had a doctor from the Ming Dynasty to take care of his body, he still lacked the physical strength to carry out research. Therefore, Tang Tong basically arranged for him to have students and a few translators.
After Tang Tong arranged these Westerners, a month passed. During this period, Tang Tong also inspected his factories. Now Tang Tong has added several more factories. The most profitable of them is glass mirrors. Although only a dozen mirrors are produced a month, Tang Tong can make nearly 400,000 taels of silver every month. Of course, in order to keep it confidential, the sales staff all said that these were Western mirrors from the West, and the retail price on the market was as high as 50,000 taels of silver per mirror. But even at such a high price, there are still many people who want to buy them. This shows that there were still many rich people in the Ming Dynasty.
Glass mirrors were not cheap in many parts of Europe during this period. European countries that could not manufacture them were very eager to get such profitable products and later even started a war over them.
The production of glass mirrors gave Tang Tong a lot of silver. For this reason, Tang Tong ordered the recruitment of 10,000 young and strong men. Just when the conscription work began, news came from Xiaocang City.
After Zheng Zhilong signed a peace treaty with the Dutch, he set his sights on the forces in Tang Tong's hands. As the saying goes, there can't be two tigers in one mountain, and two dragons in one sea. On this sea, as long as Zheng Zhilong is there, there can't be Tang Tong. Moreover, Tang Tong's power rose too quickly, which made Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch deeply worried. It was precisely because of this that Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch quickly negotiated a peace treaty, and after the peace treaty was signed, both sides immediately organized people to attack Tang Tong.
Zheng Zhilong also made a thorough investigation of Xiaocang City and knew that there were not many Tang Tong troops in the city at present, so Zheng Zhilong decided to seize Xiaocang City first, and then work with the Dutch to destroy Tang Tong's scattered troops one by one.
This time, Zheng Zhilong dispatched 20 of his main warships and 30 other warships. The Dutchman Putmans also pulled out all four warships in Taiwan. But Putmans didn't know that his immediate superior, Reyoz, was in trouble at this moment.
Because, unwilling to lose their interests in Southeast Asia, the Spanish and Portuguese reached an agreement with Hei Pi, a subordinate of Tang Tongbo. In this agreement, Hei Pi generously sold most of their interests in Southeast Asia to the Spanish and Portuguese.
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