Chapter 384: Religious checks and balances

In the past, gunpowder powder looked like soil dug up randomly on the ground, with uneven particle sizes. It was often the case that the gunpowder was stored. Charcoal and saltpeter sulfur were separated naturally due to the different severity of the light and weight. When used, it still needed to be stirred again, which was particularly delayed.

Compared with that of these so-called "particle gunpowder", these so-called "particle gunpowder" are like fine sand, because the dust is removed during the screening process of sieve. First, look at the uniform size of the particles and slightly shiny.

Adding water to the black gunpowder into pieces, then crushing and sifting into the current state, the power can be increased so much. This is really something that Jiang Feng unexpected. For him, his memory is the difference between the so-called black gunpowder and yellow explosives. He didn't know that there was such a stage in the development of gunpowder. For the craftsman workshops outside Huazhou and the pass, such a processing process does not take much time at all, but it has such an effect. It is really a surprise.

Seeing Jiang Feng so happy, the leaders of several craftsmen were tactfully not introducing any other inventions. The character of the governor of Huazhou was also heard of by those who were relatively close to the top leaders. They knew that Jiang Feng was not very able to control his emotions and was relatively free.

At this time, Jiang Feng's face was full of smiles. After calming down for a while, he turned to Chen Chong behind him and said:

"Master Taoist, this method is worth more than ten thousand gold to my Huazhou. What reward do you want?"

As soon as Jiang Feng said this, the several craftsmen leaders next to him, and even the guards around Jiang Feng, all showed envious expressions on their faces. Whether it was Huazhou or Yizhou, the control of maritime trade, the transaction of sugar and slaves, brought a lot of money here.

Whether it is the Governor's Office or the Prefect's Office, they will never be stingy when they should pay. If they were in the Ming Dynasty, sometimes the "ten thousand gold" said by the superiors, it might be a joke. But Jiang Feng said it was more than ten thousand gold, so the silver money in Chen Chong's hands must be at least ten thousand taels of silver.

Although East Asia's trade is extremely prosperous, it has absorbed a large amount of silver into China in South America and Japan, and the silver price has gradually dropped, but 10,000 taels of silver is still a shocking number.

Although Chen Chong had a half-foot beard, a bun on his head, and a craftsman's complexion, he looked like a fairy-like appearance. He heard Jiang Feng's words, his expression was quite calm. He just slapped his hands and said:

"Thank you for your great reward, I want to..."

Even Taoist priests still have some worldly concerns. Moreover, Taoist priest Chong Fang is from Louguantai, which is a famous Taoist mountain near Xi'an Prefecture. Now that he has arrived in Huazhou, he is more than a thousand miles away from home. When he suddenly becomes rich, he must have had the idea of ​​returning home.

Chen Chong was about to say what he wanted to go home, but suddenly saw Jiang Feng smiling, but the people around him looked not very natural. People who could figure out this kind of gunpowder would not go to somewhere. They understood it very quickly. After inventing this thing, the other party would let him leave so easily. If this thing was allowed to spread, the damage to China would be extraordinary.

I'm afraid that as long as I say something, I'll die on the spot. I'm so crazy, Chen Chong quickly turned his words and said with a smile:

"But I asked the Governor to agree to something. I am here to return to secular life, but I am thinking about the ancestors of the Three Pure Ones. I don't know if I can agree to build a Taoist temple and spread the essence of our Taoist sect!"

This request made the people around him stunned. Everyone thought, if they had a thousand dollars and asked for an official position or a craftsman, from now on, they would have a high house and a beautiful wife and concubine, wouldn't it be the life of a god? No one expected that this would be said to preach.

Jiang Feng obviously did not expect such an answer. After pondering a little, he simply agreed. He smiled and said:

"This is a good thing, and I will arrange someone to help you."

After Chen Chong received this promise, he thanked him respectfully and left. At this time, he had almost seen everything he should have seen. The craftsmen were smiling and asked Jiang Feng to go to the front hall for tea. Jiang Feng nodded with a smile and waved his hand and said:

"You go first. The scenery here in the middle of the mountain is beautiful. I want to see it here."

Of course, those people would not have any objections. They all went to the front hall to prepare first. Jiang Feng slowly walked to an outward protrusion and stood, looking at the civil and military houses in the shape of a chessboard at the foot of the mountain and the crisscrossing roads. At this time, May is the time when everything is thriving. The greenness everywhere looks refreshing.

Jiang Feng took a deep breath and said the order there:

"Leave two people to watch here. Before we craftsmen finish learning this method, if the Taoist priest has any intention to leave, he will kill him immediately."

Generally speaking, Jiang Feng was surrounded by three close-fitting guards and a guard in charge of the secretary. They were all those confidants who would not disclose information. When he heard Jiang Feng's words, the guard's face did not change any changes, but he was holding a hard pen and quickly recording the content.

"After going back, we will arrange for Mr. Liu and Luo Yi's people to come and take charge of the guards here. Also, if this Taoist priest really wants to preach the Taoist temple, the Sima in the Governor's Office will find some to help."

When he heard this, the guard who recorded was also stunned. Whether in the Ming Dynasty or Huazhou, he hated missionary things like that. Although Jiang Feng had indirectly received a lot of cover from the White Lotus Sect when he was in Shandong that day.

This kind of religion with antisocial tendency will cause trouble whenever there is any abnormal movement in the world or the people are unstable. Therefore, Jiang Feng arranged several changes that diverted the court's attention. As soon as it was launched, the White Lotus Sect and Maitreya Sect in Shandong would cause trouble and magnify this effect infinitely. It is precisely because of this that the court was overwhelmed repeatedly and could not take into account the illegal Jiang Feng at that time.

However, the White Lotus Sect was originally a cult. When they were uprising, they also used civilians to make trouble, burn, kill, loot and do not produce, just like locusts, chaotic and destroying the land. Therefore, after Jiang Feng took root in North Korea, he strictly ordered that religion should not be spread. Refugees came to Huazhou one after another, with nearly two million people outside the pass, and there must be some remnants of the White Lotus Sect. For these people, Sima from the Governor's Office and the yamen runners of the prefect's office, they were never lenient. Moreover, there were no unnecessary punishment methods after being arrested. They beheaded, relatives were slaves, and neighbors did not sue for success, and civil guards and civil officials were dismissed.

These disposals are rare harsh laws in Huazhou, so naturally everyone is vigilant to obey orders. However, it makes people sigh that the invention of the word "fool" is not without basis. Despite such a harsh order, traces of the activities of the White Lotus Sect were found among several civil guards.

Moreover, according to the news sent back by Sima from the Governor's Office, the White Lotus Sect has developed even more powerfully outside the pass and Yizhou. Each has a thousand sects. He has always felt that his strength is weak and should cherish the people's strength, but Jiang Feng was not soft this time and let go of the killing, and finally curbed this sign.

Therefore, except for those scholars who can teach Confucianism, the rest of Huazhou is strictly prohibited. The Kingdom of Korea is mostly Buddhist. After Jiang Feng came here, he showed no mercy and demolished the temples and ordered Korean monks to return to secular life, either as slaves, or to drive them to the north.

But I didn't expect that today I actually said that it was allowed to preach and establish Taoist temples. No wonder the secretary and guard were surprised there.

Jiang Feng's considerations are different. China's ban on religion has a blind spot. Christianity from the West, or more accurately, Calvinism from the Lowlands of the Spanish Kingdom of the Netherlands. Although China's religious tradition has a long history, atheism is even more deeply rooted in people's hearts.

People worship God when they meet, and take advantage of it. Anyway, they don’t believe it. However, this is not the case in European tradition. Religion cannot be replaced in their lives. When people who come to the east thousands of miles away, people who are far away from foreign lands need religious comfort. Jiang Feng also knows this situation, so he does not prohibit it.

Especially after the Governor's Office and the Prefecture issued a law banning religion, Jason Hogan and Wisconsin came to Jiang Feng to plead with the Netherlands for relaxing this restriction. Jiang Feng naturally allowed this, but the loneliness and loneliness leaving his hometown was not inherent to the white people. Many residents of the Civil Guards in Huazhou, even soldiers and craftsmen, believed in this Calvinist sect from a foreign land. In just three years, nearly 50,000 believers were included.

Wiscons, who was originally a high-level farmer, now has a religious identity, which is the bishop of Jiang Fengfeng. Although it is not in line with the rules, Jiang Feng is the largest here, so it is naturally useful to speak.

For a ruler, it is not a comfortable thing to have such a religion in his hinterland, although he now puts the church under official management by means of an official bishop, and he had long officially confirmed the identity of the bishop's sister Andrea's concubine last year.
Chapter completed!