"Mr. The Medici family, who ruled the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, asked for a visit."

Chu Yun was staying on Malta Island to leave the Mediterranean, a noble from central Italy came to visit him, which surprised him quite.

The Medici family is a well-known European family, very rich. They operated the early banking industry, that is, borrowing, and many European kingdoms and principalities asked them to borrow money. This family also produced four popes, sponsoring Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and others, and promoting the Italian Renaissance.

Of course, until now, with the decline of the Mediterranean region, Venetian merchants and Genoese merchants were no longer able to do so, and the Medici family could not escape the declining fate.

If Chu Yun traveled to Europe and became an ordinary civilian, he should look up to the legendary Medici family. However, Chu Yun's fleet has won two consecutive Mediterranean wars and defeated the Ottoman Empire, which posed a huge threat to the Mediterranean world, with unprecedented influence and no need to give the Medici family face.

"Arranging to meet them, I want to see how the descendants of the Medici family live." Chu Yun said.

Ferdinand II from the Medici family and his younger brother Leopoldo met Chu Yun, who was commanding the Chinese fleet into the Mediterranean in a stone house on the island of Malta.

Ferdinand II was about the same age as Chu Yun, while his younger brother was much younger.

The two of them asked to see Chu Yun this time, and in addition to being curious about the ruler from the East, they also asked for something. Therefore, Ferdinand II made a special trip to bring a gift to Chu Yun.

"This is a hygrometer, barometer, thermometer, and telescope, all of which are from my age-lost friends." Ferdinand II asked the servant to send a box of gifts from his baby.

In this era, these are all rare things.

“…”

However, hygrometers, barometers, thermometers, and telescopes are not surprising at all to Chu Yun, a person from later generations!

The only thing that makes Chu Yun feel fresh is that the styles of these instruments appear ancient.

It is normal that the scientific instruments of this era are still in the prenatal stage and are developing in exploration. There is still a big difference between modern hygrometers and telescopes.

However, it is already quite amazing to be able to manufacture these instruments without using the help of systems in this era.

Italy……

Chu Yun thought about any scientists in Italy during this era? The 17th century was just the beginning of modern and modern science, and there were only a few scientists with names and surnames.

Suddenly Chu Yun thought of someone: "Your age-lost friend made these instruments? Could it be a man named Galileo?"

"How do you know it's Galileo?" Ferdinand II was surprised to tell Chu Yun about the maker of these instruments.

It's indeed Galileo!

Chu Yun did not expect that in addition to sponsoring artists such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, the Medici family also sponsored Galileo and others. Their family also has many collections made by Galileo.

The Industrial Revolution system could not summon talents who were already born in this era, so Galileo did not appear in the East.

"Is Galileo okay now?" Chu Yun still respects Galileo very much, and even attaches importance to the Medici family.

"He passed away two years ago and was buried in a church in his hometown of Pisa," replied Ferdinand II.

"So that's it..." Chu Yun still had no chance to meet Galileo.

There were many famous figures in the West in this era, and Chu Yun had no chance to see them. The Nordic lion Gustav II, the Cardinal Archbishop Richelieu, Galileo and Kepler had all passed away.

There are still some people living, Louis XIII, Cromwell, Fermat, and Descartes.

"How did you know Galileo, the consul of the East?" asked Ferdinand II.

"I heard the Queen of England mention this person. He was imprisoned by the Roman Catholic Church because he supported Copernicus' heliocentric theory and studied mechanics, and opposed the pope."

"I am really heartbroken by the pope's move. Our Medici family sponsored many artists and scientists. Florence culture flourished, but the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not enough to fight against Rome. We had to succumb to our dependence on Rome and could not provide protection for Galileo." Ferdinand II sighed.

"This telescope was not made by Galileo himself?" Chu Yun carefully looked at the copper telescope given to him by Ferdinand II, and suddenly said.

"Why do you say this?"

"I have always heard that the Medici family treasured artworks from various famous artists. If these were really instruments made by Galileo, how could you be willing to give them to me when you first meet? We don't have any intersection of interests yet, right?" Chu Yun said.

Ferdinand II was told by Chu Yun, and his face turned red, so he had to say, "You are so gaze-like. These are all imitations of the instruments made by the most wise craftsmen by me according to the instruments made by Galileo himself, and they are of great value."

"No matter how good the counterfeit is, it is just a counterfeit. If it is a genuine product, I am willing to bring it back to the East for treasure." Chu Yun said.

If the telescope made by Galileo himself, Chu Yun might be regarded as a family heirloom, after all, it is still very commemorative. But just forget about the imitation.

Of course, Ferdinand II would not hand over the telescope made by Galileo himself like this, but just smiled embarrassedly.

"What do you want me to ask?" Chu Yun said.

"Hannah, a knight from the Knights of the Hospital, joined your Admiralty, but my younger brother intends to marry her, so I want to ask you to allow her to leave the Admiralty without returning to the East with you." Ferdinand II expressed his intention.

"Our Admiralty is not here whenever we want to come or leave whenever we want. Spending several years to cultivate a person requires a lot of our valuable resources. Unless she comes to me personally and tells me that she wants to leave the Admiralty." Chu Yun asked.

Ferdinand II and Leopoldo looked at each other, and Hannah simply used this as an excuse to refuse marriage. How could she come to Chu Yun in person to ask for a divorce from the Admiralty?

"If you come to see me just for such a trivial matter, then you please come back." Chu Yun himself wanted to turn the Knights of the Hospital into a younger brother, how could he let the Medici family intervene at this time? "You can take these imitations back."

"Even if it is a counterfeit... they may be strange things you have never seen before, and they are very useful. For example, this telescope can magnify objects 30 times. Are you sure you refuse to accept them?" Ferdinand II couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when he saw Chu Yun rejecting his gift.

"I don't deny that they have some practicality, but I have something better to replace them." Chu Yun said.
Chapter completed!