Westerners who came to the ancient countries of the East generally had a sense of superiority and a strong sense of adversity, so they had always kept the advanced technology of the West extremely secretive.

Therefore, it is quite difficult to steal some teachers from them and learn some advanced technology.

But there are no absolutes, and there are always some alternative Westerners who are willing to teach the Easterners the advanced technology that belongs to their West, such as Father Julius and the deceased Father Matteo Ricci. The old people are actually very wise and deeply aware of the consequences of doing so, but for the sake of their lifelong faith and in order to open the door to this ancient country of the East, they still have no hesitation in spreading the advanced knowledge of the West to the East.

For the arrogant and pedantic Confucian children, the advanced Western cultural knowledge brought by the priests, in addition to some Western philosophical knowledge that can bring them a refreshing feeling, other scientific knowledge such as physics and chemistry is afraid that in the eyes of these literati, it is just some strange and ingenious skills, and it is not worthy of their attention.

And the most unfortunate thing is that these Confucian children who look down on Western natural science are precisely the ultimate foundation of the entire Ming Dynasty, without their attention, the priests betrayed the culture brought about by the interests of Westerners, but in the end failed to bring them much convenience to spread the glory of God, it is really extremely ironic!

Fortunately, Li Tianyang is not such a stupid person, and he regrets even more that there are too few talents like this! This time, the three priests and the five congregants who came with Father Felix all had a skill, except for a few priests who grew up in the church and had only one knowledge and theology.

Among them, the most professional of course, belong to the architectural designer and the accountant, after all, people rely on this to eat and work, so Li Tianyang specially selected a few young members from the account room of Qixintang to the accountant's door, and summoned Wan Liang from Jilonggang, together with a few smart and clever schoolchildren selected from the Bengang School, to the architect's hand, to give him a hand.

There are three remaining sect members, one of whom said that he had worked as a blacksmith, but in fact, it was just according to the classification method of the East, and what people really came into contact with was what Li Tianyang had been looking forward to, making firearms. The only thing that made Li Tianyang regret was that this sect member had only wandered around the Western firearms factory for a while, but he had not really worked in it.

But even so, Li Tianyang was still overjoyed, and specially sent this sect member named Bobbi to the hands of the institute to become a talent, so that they could take care of them, and at the same time asked the craftsmen and masters of the craftsman workshop to obey the command of this sect.

As for the other two congregants, one had studied Western medicine for a while, and the other was good at drawing maps, but both of them only knew a little bit about the surface, and they were not very profound.

However, it is better than nothing, and it can also be verified with the talents in this area of Bengang, and maybe it can bring new changes to Bengang in these two aspects. Therefore, foreigners who had studied Western medicine were stuffed into the hands of Huang Youran of the Salesian Bureau by Li Tianyang, and those who had been exposed to map drawing were arranged into the exclusive drawing group of Bengang Hongtang.

Moreover, Li Tianyang did not intend to let these few secters only contribute a little bit, he wanted to squeeze out every cent of their value, and in addition to the inherent work of these sectists, they also had to teach the children to learn Western characters and languages in the Bengang School together with the four priests. As the originator of Western writing, Latin is no less widely used than English in later generations.

At the same time, a group of nine of them could not be idle at night, but also found time to translate the Western works they brought into Chinese.

Of course, treating other priests and sectarians like this, Li Tianyang also has to pay a lot of price.

The priest said that in order to be able to spread the Jesuit doctrine in Bengang without restraint, before leaving, Father Julius had told the four priests of Felix to try their best to meet Li Tianyang's request in addition to preaching.

However, the few people who were sent were not so easy to deal with, and the reason why they were willing to travel thousands of miles to the far east was not only to make their devout Jesus glorious, but also to get a good salary from the Jesuits.

And when he came to Bengang, since Li Tianyang wanted people to pass on all the knowledge and skills on his body without reservation, he was not a fledgling offspring, so he didn't know the truth of equivalent exchange.

Therefore, two days after several sect members were assigned by Li Tianyang, they were invited by Li Tianyang to drink at home one night, but what they didn't expect was that the first step in the door was not greeted by Li Tianyang, who was originally enthusiastic, but a box full of wooden boxes full of snowflakes and shining silver dollars!

Subsequently, Li Tianyang slowly stood up, invited the dejected members of the sect to take a seat, and gave them their salary conditions in front of them: a monthly salary of fifty taels of silver, and a hardship fee of one hundred taels of silver for each person who helped Li Tianyang translate a book.

With such a salary, Li Tianyang believes that even if it is really far away from the Western Continent, I am afraid it is an absolutely high salary!

When a group of sect members who had lost their souls and had not completely recovered from the shining silver brilliance in the house, when they heard Li Tianyang give such a heroic and generous salary, they were even more shocked that they couldn't find the north, and they were like stone spoons pounding garlic, nodding their heads unwantedly.

If this group of people had not had a good time in Europe, they would not have left their homeland and traveled all the way to the East to preach in the footsteps of the Society of Jesus, for the sake of the rich reward that the Society would give!

Now, they can not only get a reward from the Jesuits, but also get a more generous reward from the hands of the stupid Hong Kong people, without delay, as long as they are not stupid, who will refuse Li Tianyang waving his big hand of real money. As for Li Tianyang's request for no hiding of personal interests, for their group of people, it doesn't matter!

Can they hide their secrets?

Except for architects and accountants, who are professionals, several other sectarians, don't look at each of them as if they have a skill, but when it comes to practice, their shallow skill reserves can't be hidden if they want to! Every time they take someone to teach them the skills they know, they have to rack their brains and recall the skills they have learned and know at the beginning.

Fortunately, Li Tianyang only borrowed from the Western technology exchanges, and the greater use of these foreigners was the knowledge system they learned and the Western works they brought to the team.

(End of chapter)