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Chapter 116 Archbishop Pang Maichen

You must grasp both hands, and both hands must be hard.

In addition to Jinjina Frost, my father-in-law must have artemisinin. However, at the current level, he definitely cannot be refined, so he asked the godson Zhao Baole to buy Artemisia everywhere, and bought two big ships, which are now in the dark. Although he didn't know how effective the Artemisia annua has, it was like an old cow drinking, and I thought it would be that it was effective.

No matter how useless it is, it is better than nothing.

I think God was moved by his father-in-law's sincerity in serving the country and the people and caring for life. Within two days, good news came from Guo Jujing, saying that the people who came from Macau had arrived.

There were 84 people coming from Macau, of which 35 were recruited by the Jesuits. These technicians were mainly firearms and forging. There were 26 mercenaries, including Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and French. These guys were all the masters of mothers with milk. They were called early Eastern adventurers and had certain military qualities. They were specially asked by Eunuch Wei to help him recruit, and for this, they were definitely high salaries.

My father-in-law hopes that the future formation of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Army will be diversified and attract talents from all over the world to join. Everyone rolls up their sleeves to conquer the world and make a fortune.

Will diversification change the essence of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Army? Eunuch Wei gave a good answer to this question. He believed that as long as he always adheres to the ideological policy of "one world, one army, one leader, one belief, one nation", the establishment of the army that always serves the people of the Ming Dynasty and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will not be shaken at all.

In his latest speech, Eunuch Wei clearly stated that as long as the Ming Dynasty Emperor Army always represents the development requirements of the advanced productivity of the Emperor Ming Dynasty, represents the direction of the advanced culture of the Emperor Ming, and represents the fundamental interests of the Emperor Ming people, the Ming Dynasty Emperor Army will never change color, and will absorb thousands of flowing water with the body of the sea and lead the people of the Emperor Ming towards prosperity.

"Our family recruits some Westerners. Some comrades in our imperial army have objections and think that we are the emperor's personal army, how can we get some foreign races? This idea is not good. What is a foreign race? We must first figure out this problem. In our family's eyes, foreign races are people who are not the same as us. Our imperial army must give a firm and ruthless blow to these people. But if people are the same as us, follow us in everything, and do everything for us in the front, how can we say that they are foreign races? For example, our imperial army now has Jurchens, Mongolians, Japanese, and Koreans. Everyone sees the performance of these comrades. Can anyone say that they are still foreign races?

So, don't have any worries or concerns. Hold up the bowl and drink, put down the bowl and pee, do it yesterday. No matter whether the ones who join our Imperial Army are white or red, blue or black, as long as they listen to us and do things for us, they are all comrades!"

In addition to the Western technicians and mercenaries, the rest are two Han people and nine priests. These priests have just come from Europe and lead the team with the old acquaintance of Eunuch Wei. The Stalon Jinchonasher, who reported to the Vatican last year, was bought by the Spanish Church of Steronto.

My father-in-law was overjoyed when he heard the news. He was eager to be talented, so he ordered to prepare a sedan chair to go to the Oriental Church that he built for Guo Jujing for free. This Oriental Church is a typical Chinese architectural style. If it were not for the cross erected at the top, no one would have thought it would be a Western church. In this way, the people passing by would only think that it was a landlord or a retired official’s garden.

With the support of the Dongchang family, my father-in-law carried a large sedan chair and landed on the small square in front of the church. Guo Jujing and others came up early. After Eunuch Wei got off the sedan chair, he first looked at the cross above his head. A trace of impatientness and contempt flashed in his eyes. Then his eyes fell on the stone tablet on the small square, and he felt satisfied.

There are several large characters engraved in official script on the stone tablet: "Without Pang Maichen, there would be no Jesus."

Pang Maichen is the name of the father-in-law, and his full name is "St. John Pang Maichen". This is a classic work that combines Eastern and Western cultures, a name full of aristocratic atmosphere and romantic colors.

This name also demonstrates the ambition of Eunuch Wei's decision to step out of the imperial and move towards the international community.

Guo Jujing, who found that Eunuch Wei was very satisfied with the Chinese characters engraved on the stone tablet, felt uneasy and ashamed. The uneasy was because Bishop Guo felt the ambition of the slave of the Ming emperor in front of him from the stone tablet, and the ashamed was because he agreed that the stone tablet existed. If we use the Chinese saying, Bishop Guo was flattering Pang Maichen, this was obviously not something a bishop could do.

However, Guo Jujing really had no choice. He had strongly protested and opposed it, but in the strong Pang Maichen insisted on it, his bishop's objection could only be retained.

Because, if Bishop Guo is not flexible, the church may not be able to be built due to lack of funds, and even the land will be sold.

Bishop Guo has no money.

Because they disagree with Long Huamin, the president of the Jesuits in China, Guo Jujing and other priests who were originally from Matteo Ricci not only lost their say in the Jesuits, but also suffered great economic restrictions. Therefore, if Eunuch Wei did not support them, they would not be able to gain a foothold in Jiangnan at all. Let’s not talk about owning a church belonging to them in this newly established special zone of the Ming Dynasty.

After weighing the pros and cons, Bishop Guo could only acknowledge that this eye-catching stone tablet exists, even if it is inappropriate. All he could do was to put the stone tablet outside, rather than in the church. In that case, he would be even more embarrassed.

What surprised Eunuch Wei was that Jinnige was there, and the Belgian did not stay in the Special Administrative Region with Guo Jujing, but went to Nandu to take the "upper route".

However, Bishop Jin took this upper level route very hard. According to Eunuch Chen Fu of the Inner Garrison Hall, Jinni Pavilion had almost no gains among the nobles in the Nandu City. However, he developed several believers in the Inner Garrison Hall, but they were all eunuchs with low qualities and no important figures.

Eunuch Wei asked casually who they were. Chen Fu said a few of them that Eunuch Wei had no impression. Only Feng Yu, named Pang Tianshou, made him feel roar.

This Pang Tianshou is no other person, but the eunuch of the Imperial Horse of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the eunuch of Zhuchi of Guangdong and Guangxi during the Hongguang Dynasty. He heard that Nanjing had been trapped, so he served as Emperor Longwu and was renamed the Silijian and was highly valued.

Emperor Longwu hoped to obtain Western military aid from Macau through the Jesuits, so Pang Tianshou traveled between Emperor Longwu and Western priests with the convenience of his congregation. After Emperor Longwu died in his country, Pang Tianshou brought the 300 Portuguese soldiers he recruited to Emperor Yongli, and then followed Yongli to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou. He was loyal and trusted by Yongli. He was promoted to the eunuch in the head of the Sili Supervisor and the admiral of the Yongwei camp. Although this man colluded with Ma Jixiang in his later years and ruined a lot of things, he was generally considered a fair temple. Therefore, Eunuch Wei was unwilling to remove this person. Just as he was against Gao Qiqian, no matter what these people did, they were actually miserable little people at present, and there was no need to make things difficult for them.

Perhaps the development in Nandu was not smooth, and Guo Jujing said that Eunuch Wei attached great importance to Catholicism, so Jinnige regretted his original decision. This time, he came back to the Special Administrative Region with Stallone, and wanted to follow the path of the Ming emperor's favored slaves and make some contribution to the spread of Catholicism in Jiangnan. Including Guo Jujing, the former Jesuit priests of Matteo Ricci and others were under great pressure, and Long Huamin was too strong.

"Dear Mr. Pang Maichen!"

Stellone still maintained his respect for Eunuch Wei, bowed deeply to the other party, and when he raised his head, there was obvious excitement on his face, as if there was some good news to bring to the other party.
Chapter completed!
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