Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 201 Missionary Issues

"Yes, my lord." Lando was still respectful.But the president is very clear that this guy is only "a believer", and only the devil knows how much loyalty he has to the church.The news of the Jesuits was extremely well-informed, and Jalanzani knew that this person had been attracting the attention of the foundry in Macau, and secretly sold the cannons, matchlock guns and gunpowder inside to the Ladeslong pirates (Europeans' reference to Chinese pirates call).There are many people doing this business in Macau, and he is the only one who can directly sell the things in the foundry. I don't know how he persuaded the supervisor of the foundry.

"Listen, Mr. Lando," said the president in a formal tone, "I want you back aboard the Countess of Scarborough—Aragones lacks military deputies now, and will value you as much as they have in the past. .”

"Then what is my mission?"

"Aragones probably intends to continue to join Liu Xiang and challenge Zheng Yiguan. The Jesuits don't want to see Nicholas (Zheng Zhilong's Christian name.) lose in this dispute." The president said, "We can't directly help he--"

The relationship between the Portuguese and Zheng Zhilong is very deep, not only for business interests, but also for missionary needs.Zheng Zhilong was baptized in Macau in his early years.After Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued the first order to expel the Jesuits, the Jesuits often smuggled various religious books to Japan by using Zheng Zhilong's ships on the Japanese route.This made the Jesuits in Macau extremely hopeless that the Spaniards would win the battle.

"I see." Lando smiled slyly.

The president was silent, he knew that this man's seemingly respectful intelligence was a kind of arrogance he couldn't understand, as if he was omniscient and omnipotent as God himself, although he tried hard to hide it.

The wretch, he thought, if God allows me to live to that time, I'll turn him over to the Filipino Inquisitors, and let those fanatical Dominicans deal with him.

At this time, he acted as if nothing had happened: "Well, you have to remember, you can't let him win against Nicholas, and let Aragones do whatever else he wants. Except——" He thought for a while , "Australians in Qiongzhou-"

"You mean those strange Chinese on Hainan Island."

"Yes, call it what you want, you know what I mean." He thought for a while, "If Aragones is smart enough, he won't provoke them again. Otherwise, you can help them—I think They'd love to have your help."

"Yes, Mr. President."

"Go to Father Comange, he will give you another fifty silver pesos, and you can go to action."

"My lord, if I want to board the ship of Aragones, I have to pay off the hotel fee here, and the money owed to the tavern. I am an old soldier, poor and penniless, and it takes a lot of money to carry out adventure missions. money."

"Father Comange gave you a hundred silver pesos last time."

"I've spent the money. You know I have no savings here. I'm in debt just to live."

Gelanzani pondered for a moment, then walked towards a mother-of-pearl Chinese lacquer cabinet with a triple lock, and took out a money bag from it, weighing it in his hand.

"Take it, here are two hundred silver pesos."

He saluted the president and stuffed the purse into his pocket.

"Well, you go." The president solemnly made a sign of the cross for him, "You don't have to worry about anything when you serve God, you know: Jesus will have the right to forgive the most serious sins."

Lando bowed deeply, kissed his ring, and backed out.

Hearing the sound of the door closing behind the curtain, the president let out a soft breath.

Without looking in any direction, he ordered, "Amblair, please come in, Shopkeeper Wen."

Lando went down a staircase that only insiders could go up and down, and came to the courtyard.Some proudly patted the money bag on his waist—it seems that serving the Jesuits is indeed a wise choice, are they all very generous people?

While thinking about it, I saw a priest leading several people over.Lando's heart moved, he walked a few steps quickly, and flashed to the dark place of the corridor eaves.

When he saw the short hair and the blue training uniforms of a group of people, he smiled slightly.He didn't flash out until these people walked into the house.

"Okay." Lando said thoughtfully, "You Australians!"

"Hello, shopkeeper Wen." Gelanzani stood up and welcomed these strangely dressed people--he had heard of these people in strange costumes a long time ago, but when he took a closer look in person, they were dressed in simple clothes. , The fabric is not very particular, and the style is slightly similar to that of the Europeans.As for the extremely short hair, it actually gave him some favor.

Wen Desi bowed slightly. The priest in front of him was wearing an exquisite black cassock, with black slightly curly hair, and a kind and charming smile.

Jalanzani's Chinese was very good by the standards of the time, although inevitably with an accent.The difference in time and space and nationality makes the communication between the two parties quite laborious.Wen Desi proposed to communicate in an accurate language that both parties can understand.

"Speak Latin." As he spoke, he called Diana Mendoza over—this master of English Language and Literature also understands Latin.

Miss Mendoza saw a real priest for the first time in this time and space, and she was so excited that she immediately knelt down and kissed his ring.This made Jalanzani both surprised and happy—there are still many believers in the Lord among Australians.And this beautiful believer is obviously not Chinese—her appearance reminds him of the women in his hometown, and she is also so charming and lively.

With a good start, the following talks will naturally become "friendly and constructive".Jalanzani is extremely interested in the history of the time-travelers, especially the Australia they mentioned.This is an era of great geographical discovery, and Europeans are very interested in such news, and every geographical discovery means new opportunities to obtain wealth, land and power.Of course, Wen Desi refused to reveal where this so-called Australia is: with the greedy nature of Europeans, if they knew that there was such a good place in the world, they would not rush to it immediately.In fact, Australia had already been discovered at this time. In 1606, the ships of the Spanish navigator Torres sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea; Australia, since then got a name called "New Holland".But the findings didn't have any major impact.The discoverers considered New Holland barren and unworthy.Until 1770, the British navigator Captain Cook discovered the fertile east coast.The colonization of Australia has just begun.Naturally, in this time and space, the time-traversing people included Australia as their direct territory in the future.

Wen Desi was not only vague, but even changed the specific location, moving Australia to the center of the vast Pacific Ocean-if you are interested, go to the circle to find it.

As for the history of the country, it is naturally the set of things in the captive manual.

Unexpectedly, this nonsense actually aroused the great interest of the president.He kept asking, so much noise that Diana Mendoza had to stop and think about it before translating in English—Wen Desi could still understand English.It turned out that this guy regarded Australia as the lost continent of Atlantis.

Then he asked another question: Where did the church in Australia come from?Who are the leaders of the church?Where did the classics come from?Does the Australian Church know of the existence of the Holy See?Since the Bible of the Australian church was translated into Chinese, who translated it?This series of questions almost made Wen Desi roll his eyes - the president's thirst for knowledge is really strong.

Fortunately, this guy Bai Duolu didn't lose his position and talked nonsense, Wen Desi thought to himself, otherwise I wouldn't be able to talk nonsense after he got angry.He still knew the importance: when talking with the priest, he said that he had a low status and knew little about the affairs of the country, so he simply asked a few questions.

Wen Desi didn't have much preparation for fabricating the religious system of the traversers, but he didn't want to give the Jesuits the impression that they were passionate about the Catholic Church-although many people, including himself, expected to use Catholicism to develop a A new religious system to replace the religious beliefs of the future ruling area.Since we want to cooperate, we have to set the price higher—want to preach?Yes, come up with enough price.

After thinking about the keynote, Wen Desi said that the church has always existed in Australia. As for when it came, the classics, etc., even the local church could not tell clearly. As for more details of the church, he himself is not very clear. Because he is not a believer.

His understated description obviously disappointed the chairman.Jalanzani originally thought that this country that popped up out of nowhere might be a lost Christian country like John the Presbyterian country, but he didn't expect that the people in power were not Christians.From the looks of the seven or eight people who visited, apart from Bai Duolu and the Latina woman in front of him, there probably were not many believers.

The subsequent conversation mainly involved the existence of the traversers in Hainan. Wen Desi did not conceal the attempt of the traversers in this regard, but narrowed down the strategic goal—the purpose of occupying Lingao was to take advantage of the local The geographical environment traded with the Ming Dynasty, and he also specifically pointed out that the Travel Group had products that were very popular among the Ming people, enough to exchange for a large amount of silver and other goods.Southeast Asian and Europeans may also like some products, but they lack enough ships and sailors, so they hope to find foreign businessmen who can act as agents in Macau.

Wen Desi was very careful to cover up the traversal's attempt to meddle in foreign trade routes. He knew that this was extremely sensitive to middlemen like the Portuguese, but the Portuguese were happy to provide profitable goods, just as Chinese businessmen offered them Offering raw silk, silk and porcelain that sold at high prices both in Japan and Manila—he was unclear to what extent the Jesuits had anything to do with Portuguese commercial interests.But there is no doubt that there is a common interest collusion between the two.

Jalanzani thought that the presence of the Australians had given him a whole new opportunity for missionary work.Although Australia is not the Christian country he imagined, judging from the attitudes of these people, they not only have a good understanding of the church, but also tolerate and approve of it.If these Australians can control the power of Hainan Island, God’s flock on this large oriental island will greatly increase; and if the Jesuits can persuade their leaders to be baptized, maybe someone here will become the saint of Hainan Island. Stephen (Note: King of Hungary, Hungary became a Christian country after baptism).

Hainan Island is not an unfamiliar place to Gelanzani in Macau: as early as 1560, Father Gogo ventured into Hainan Island. In 1563, three Jesuits not only entered Hainan Island, but even went deep into the forbidden area of ​​the government-Li District. In 1584, the Franciscans of Spain and the Philippines landed on the reefs of Hainan Island when they were going to Vietnam to preach, and were arrested by the local government there.He was later released and returned to Manila.

The biggest advantage of Hainan's missionary work is Wang Hongjiao.It was the planning and guidance of Wang Honghui, a native of Ding'an, Qiongzhou, who was then Minister of Rites in Nanjing, that Matteo Ricci was able to enter Beijing in 1598.Although on the surface, Wang Honghui introduced missionaries to Beijing to revise the calendar, but the underlying reason was that the quasi-Catholic hoped to use this opportunity to help Matteo Ricci carry out missionary activities.Shortly thereafter, his son converted to Catholicism and took the given name Paul.This made it possible for the first time that the Church has received the missionary support of powerful people in Hainan.He knew that Paul had come to Macau several times recently and proposed to send priests to Ding'an County to preach.If such strong missionary support can be obtained in Lingao County in the northwest of Hainan Island, it will be nothing less than a huge breakthrough for Eastern missionary activities.Jaranzani rejoices at the prospect.

His thoughts were completely expected by Wen Desi: Gelanzani really raised the expectation of missionary work.According to the plan in his mind, Wen Desi reasoned that it was inconvenient for him to make the decision alone.

"According to our system, such a major matter must be decided by a vote of 500 people."

"A council of gentlemen?"

"Exactly." Wen Desi thought that among the 500 people, it was not because they did not have communist ideals, but most of them still wanted to be masters.

"You actually have five hundred gentlemen in Lingao!" Jalanzani exclaimed, "Portugal doesn't have this many gentlemen in Macau!"

Wen Desi smiled humbly as an answer.

"Since this is limited by your regime, I am willing to wait for the result. However, until you come to the correct conclusion, will I be allowed to send a servant of God to follow you back? I assure you that without formal permission Before, he would not carry out missionary activities."

Wen Desi felt hesitant for a moment, thinking that a missionary who did not understand the language would not make any big waves, and it would be fine to send someone to keep an eye on him.Anyway, if you make a price, I will make a price too, let's have an equivalent exchange.

(End of this chapter)