Chapter 81: Camillo Cavour
In fact, as early as the first day of coming to Italy, Carlo had Kadir, who was accompanying him, search for various usable talents in Italy.
Carlo had no industry restrictions on talents, whether in physics, chemistry, mechanics, or medicine, as long as they could help Spain, they were all within Carlo’s scope of solicitation.
It was still the same standard for soliciting talents: a house in Madrid plus a high-income job and a check for 5000 pesetas share. If they had family, the family would be settled, and educational resources would be provided for their children.
With this whole set, unless it was a scientist who was already very wealthy, few people could resist the temptation.
This was just like a president of a country in posterity inviting you to work abroad, with an annual income of over a million, and providing a check of 500,000 face value before departure—ordinary people would probably be tempted.
Under the attraction of such generous conditions, Carlo soon received Kadir’s report that the first batch of talents willing to go to Spain were ready.
When Carlo saw the length of this list, he realized how high the attractiveness of the conditions he offered was to the people of this era.
The entire list had over a hundred people, including professors from famous Italian universities and quite famous scientists.
Although poaching people like this was somewhat immoral, for Spain’s development, immoral it was.
Among the list of over a hundred people, Carlo soon saw a somewhat familiar name: Camillo Golgi.
Not only was the surname behind quite famous, Carlo also had some impression of this person’s name.
If Carlo remembered correctly, this guy surnamed Golgi seemed to have won the Nobel Medicine Prize?
But the specifics Carlo couldn’t remember clearly, only that this guy was quite famous in Italy.
“Camillo Golgi?” Carlo looked at Kadir and asked, “This is someone doing medical research?”
“Yes, Your Majesty. Camillo graduated from Pavia University Medical School and is now a doctor at San Mateo Hospital,” Kadir quickly answered.
Carlo nodded. At this time, the Nobel Prize had not yet been born. As a Nobel Prize winner, Camillo probably had not yet shown his ability and was likely just an ordinary doctor.
“Have all these people been arranged?” Carlo asked, “The delegation will leave Italy in a few days, and I hope they can leave with us.”
“All arranged, Your Majesty,” Kadir nodded and said, “These people can leave with us at any time. The rest who are not ready yet have been listed in the second batch and should be able to go to Spain within a month.”
Carlo was a bit embarrassed. He didn’t expect to poach hundreds of talents from Italy all at once. But considering these talents were very important for Spain’s development, Carlo wasn’t so embarrassed anymore.
Anyway, Italy was big and strong, and wouldn’t lack these few hundred talents. Unlike Spain, which currently lacked people in all industries except the most numerous farmers.
“When soliciting talents, try not to attract the attention of the Italian Government,” Carlo instructed, “Although this doesn’t violate Italian law, it would damage the good relationship between Spain and Italy.
Spain’s future development still needs Italy’s help, and I hope this matter can be done more secretly.”
The good news was that these people on the list weren’t too famous. As long as it was done secretly, it basically wouldn’t attract the Italian Government’s attention.
After all, Italy had plenty of outward immigrants, and these talents mixed in with the immigrants basically wouldn’t be noticed.
The Italian Government wouldn’t specifically investigate the reason for a certain talent’s departure. After all, Italy had plenty of such talents; what it truly lacked were those famous ones who already had relevant research results, scientists.
If Camillo had already won the Nobel Prize, the Italian Government would certainly notice him and try to prevent him from immigrating abroad as much as possible.
But at this time, Camillo was just an ordinary doctor who graduated from an ordinary university, so whether he immigrated or not wasn’t that important to the Italian Government.
As long as Kadir’s actions weren’t too overt and didn’t take too many talents at once, even if the Italian Government discovered it, they would turn a blind eye.
“I understand, Your Majesty. These people are going to Spain through legal immigration channels. Subsequent talents won’t go directly to Spain either, but will transit through France or other places. Italians won’t notice,” Kadir nodded and answered.
Kadir still understood the need for caution. The Italian Government wouldn’t notice one or a few people immigrating to Spain, but would definitely notice over a hundred immigrating to Spain at the same time.
The best way was to transit through France or other places. Anyway, the Italian Government wouldn’t know whether these people ultimately went to France or Spain.
“Prepare detailed information on Camillo Golgi for me, and bring this person to see me tomorrow,” Carlo instructed.
Being able to win the Nobel Prize proved that Camillo himself had quite good ability.
Spain also lacked such talents in medicine. If they could be brought in and cultivated, Spain could make considerable progress in medicine in the future.
Carlo would never underestimate the importance of medicine.
Carlo deeply understood how backward medicine was in this era. Whether for his own personal safety or for all Spaniards, vigorously developing medicine and medical technology was very necessary.
Researching medicine could also bring sufficient income. Antibiotics like penicillin that could save lives had no shortage of market.
Once important drugs similar to penicillin were developed, just the income from exporting drugs would be enough to make the royal family never worry about money again, and it could also incidentally rip off other countries—what was there not to do?
“Yes, Your Majesty.” For Carlo’s instructions, Kadir naturally wouldn’t ask any more questions. He knew his task was to loyally execute orders; that was his duty.
Waving his hand to let Kadir leave, Carlo’s gaze also turned to the window outside.
Carlo already had an idea in mind: by establishing an institution similar to the Nobel Prize, to award honors and rewards to famous scientists of this era.
While these scientists came to receive honors and rewards, Carlo could easily contact them and solicit them to work in Spain.
Of course, this was just a conception, and realizing it would still be fraught with difficulties. After all, if other countries discovered Carlo’s purpose of soliciting talents, and every country set up similar awards to increase attention to talents, it would be like lifting a stone to drop on his own feet for Carlo. After all, current Spain could only expand its talent reserves by attracting foreign talents.
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