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"Let's go see His Majesty!"

Lu Jiuyuan said that this matter was very unusual and they must report it to the emperor.

After staring out the window for a long time, Sun Lei picked up his pen and prepared to continue reviewing the memorials.

"His Majesty!"

General Hua Rong brought Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuling and Lu Jiuyuan to ask for an audience.

"kindness?"

Sun Lei was very surprised. How come Hua Rong came back with Zhu Xi and others just after he left?

"Let them in!"

Sun Lei put down the pen in his hand and spoke.

Soon Hua Rong came in with Zhu Xi and others.

"Is there a problem?"

Sun Lei looked at Hua Rong and asked.

"Your Majesty, they think there is something wrong with this telegram!"

Hua Rong saluted to Sun Lei.

"Is there a problem? There won't be any problem with the telegram Ruan Li sent back!"

Sun Lei said that he still trusted Ruan Li very much. As for the delivery of telegrams, there would be no problem at all. The management of the telegraph office was quite strict.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with the message! The problem is these missionaries!"

Zhu Xi spoke.

"Missionaries? Aren't they a group of fanatical believers? You are doing a good job!"

Sun Lei looked at them and said that the Emperor's Church was doing a really good job.

"Your Majesty, there is something wrong with these missionaries! Our short missionary service will never lead to the emergence of people willing to preach there!"

"Your Majesty, the West is different from the Central Plains. Religion is more important than the country over there. Religion is their heaven. Although we have forcibly changed their beliefs, it is not so easy to change. How could there be people who are willing to preach so quickly?"

"Also, it's in the more distant West. We have never been to the West to preach. People there haven't had much contact with our Imperial Church, and it's even less likely that someone would take the initiative to preach there."

Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan, Lu Jiuling and others spoke one after another.

"Well, is that so?"

Sun Lei thought about it and it seemed that it was really too fast. It was difficult to change the beliefs of a group of people, and it was even more difficult to make them loyal to it.

"Who could that be? He's working so hard to preach!"

Sun Lei frowned and thought, it seemed that there shouldn't be such a person.

Zhu Xi and others also frowned in confusion. How could there be such a person? This was not reasonable.

"Could it be him? Impossible! Impossible! It's impossible for him to do this!"

Sun Lei thought of Baldwin IV, but he immediately denied this possibility. Baldwin IV was a staunch believer in Christianity and the former King of Jerusalem. Even if he did not believe in God, it was impossible for him to convert to Christianity, let alone take the initiative to help the Imperial Church spread its religion in the West.

"Someone, send a telegram to the Mediterranean and ask Ruan Li to investigate this situation!"

Sun Lei said to the official beside him that this matter must be made clear.

"Do you think this is a good thing?"

Sun Lei looked at Zhu Xi and others and asked, he wanted to hear their opinions.

Zhu Xi didn't expect the emperor to ask him directly. He didn't know what to say and could only glance at Lu Jiuyuan.

"Your Majesty, whether a matter is good or bad depends on how you look at it!" Lu Jiuyuan sorted out his thoughts before speaking.

"Well? Tell me in detail!"

Sun Lei became interested and asked while looking at Lu Jiuyuan.

"Your Majesty, from the perspective of preaching, this is definitely a good thing. After all, preaching in a foreign land is not an easy task. The people there are also very firm in their faith. If we want to achieve results, Your Majesty needs to send troops to defeat them first, and then we can slowly preach."

"But now someone is actively preaching. No matter what his purpose is, the Imperial Church's mission will become very smooth. This kind of mission will have a greater impact than ours, and it will be easier for them to convince themselves!"

Lu Jiuyuan spoke.

"Yes, that's right. No matter what, the Emperor's Cult has spread. When the army goes there again, they will be welcomed with food and drink."

Sun Lei nodded with satisfaction. No matter what, this has its good side. It is equivalent to helping them conquer the West.

"What about the bad side?"

Sun Lei asked again.

"Your Majesty, the bad side is naturally the conspiracy hidden behind those people. If my guess is correct, those people should be trying to divert the conflict."

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"The Black Death is now raging in the West, causing countless deaths and injuries, and Christianity has done nothing. Those people have lost their minds in panic and found that the teachings of the Imperial Church can save them, so they turned to our Imperial Church."

Zhu Xi said quickly that he had not thought it through just now, so he motioned Lu Jiuyuan to speak first. He did not expect Lu Jiuyuan to say so much in one breath. He suddenly became anxious. What should he do if Lu Jiuyuan finished speaking?
Sun Lei glanced at Zhu Xi and saw Zhu Xi's intention to speak in a hurry.

"Then how do you think the Imperial Church can save them? You wrote the Imperial Church doctrine, so you should know better than me whether this thing can deal with the Black Death?"

Sun Lei picked up the Imperial Cult doctrine on the table and asked the few people. To be honest, as the leader of the Imperial Cult, he himself had not read the doctrine carefully.

"This one……"

Zhu Xi was speechless. He certainly knew that the imperial doctrine could not fight the Black Death.

"So what's the purpose? Who would do something that has no benefit? And preaching in the West, in front of the Vatican, isn't that courting death?"

Sun Lei said that in the West, Christianity was not only supported by those in the Vatican, but also by emperors and kingdoms. Although the empires and kingdoms were dissatisfied with the Vatican's excessive interference in secular affairs, they needed the church to help them rule the civilians in the country.

Everyone was silent, as this was something they couldn't understand.

The only explanation is fanatics. Only fanatics would go to dangerous places to preach without regard for life and death.

But there are no such fanatics in the Imperial Church in the West. Even if there are fanatics, they cannot be unaware of it.

"Your Majesty, I have an idea. Could it be that they have something to ask of Your Majesty, so they pledged their allegiance first?"

Hua Rong said that this kind of thing is very common in the underworld. If you want to join, you have to give a pledge of allegiance. But if you are afraid that the other party will not accept it, you will give the pledge of allegiance first and then publicize it, so that it will be difficult to refuse.

Sun Lei stood up suddenly when he heard Hua Rong.

"Oh no, this is an open conspiracy!"

Sun Lei said with a somewhat grim expression.

"Conspiracy!"

Everyone looked at Sun Lei in confusion. Who else would dare to use open conspiracy against Qi?

"Baldwin IV asked me to help them deal with the Black Death, but I refused because I said I couldn't afford it. I thought he had accepted his fate, but he did this to me and went back to preach. I have no choice but to help!"

Sun Lei said with gritted teeth that the feeling of being plotted against was not good at all.

"I have always been the one who schemes against others. Who dares to scheme against me?"

Sun Lei slammed the table and yelled angrily.

"Your Majesty, the missionary work there is still relatively small, so there is no rush. But if the missionary work reaches a certain scale, I am afraid that it will damage the reputation of the Imperial Church if we do not help!"

Lu Jiuling said. (End of this chapter)