Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 225
These missionaries have already figured out the characteristics of the Chinese people, so they also began to change the previous way of preaching, and began to benefit the common people.

What are the benefits?Of course, the easiest way to achieve results is to treat the common people.

They know that most of the common people in China have no money for medical treatment. If they can cure the common people's diseases, then it will be much easier to impress the common people by telling them that God is healing them.

Facts have proved that this method is indeed effective, and the first batch of believers were drawn in this way.

The second way is to adopt orphans. Education should start with babies!
After the missionaries adopted the orphans, they instilled the idea of ​​God in these orphans.

What do children know?After hearing it, I naturally believed it.So he was baptized into the church, and after a few years, he grew up and became a loyal supporter of the church.

From the original intention, the missionaries did these things only to attract people to the religion, but in the process, after all, many people benefited from it. According to later generations, these people are doing public welfare undertakings.

However, these missionaries did not bring much money to China. Although they were doing their best, the number of people who could be treated and sheltered due to economic constraints was limited.

Now that Li Jing wanted to expand the size of the hospital and the size of the orphanage, he would have to spend a sum of money. Therefore, for the future missionary work, these missionaries naturally had no choice but to agree.

In fact, in the past, Li Jing also adopted orphans and treated some poor people for free, but as he had more and more things to do, he could no longer take care of many things, and there were not so many people below who had the time to do them. this matter.

Now the missionaries are going to do this, which is in line with Li Jing's wishes.

Churches cannot be built in a day or two, and missionaries do not need to stay at the construction site all day. In his spare time, Xu Guangqi took them to his Academy of Sciences, asked them to write down what they knew, and Taught to students of the Faculty of Science.

Of course, in order for these people to work hard, Xu Guangqi was paid.

At the same time, Xu Guangqi did another thing, which was to translate the last few volumes of "Elements of Geometry".

In the past, Xu Guangqi only translated six volumes, but it was shelved for some reason.Now that I am focused on being an academy of sciences, I naturally have to translate the rest.

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Time passed quickly, and it was mid-May in a blink of an eye.

At this time, the weather suddenly changed. Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places that had been drought for many years or had insufficient rainfall suddenly began to rain.

Seeing the rain, the common people cheered.

But in the end they stopped laughing.

Because the rain is getting heavier and more continuous, the dry land has become waterlogged.

Fortunately, in Pingyang Prefecture, Li Jing vigorously built water conservancy facilities, and the drainage is relatively smooth. In addition, Li Jing vigorously promoted the planting of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn in Pingyang Prefecture. Due to the short growth cycle of potatoes, they can already be harvested at this time.

Sweet potatoes are relatively late, at least a month away, and corn will be even later.

Li Jing attached great importance to the food problem. Seeing the continuous heavy rain, Li Jing ordered all the officials to go down to the fields to inspect the waterlogging situation, and organized water conservancy experts to study countermeasures.

Under Li Jing's strict order, officials at all levels in the Pingyang Mansion were tense, as if they were facing an enemy, and at the same time, under the leadership of Li Jing, they were like a machine running at high speed.

To paraphrase a modern saying, wherever there is danger, officials will appear there.

At the same time, Li Jing sent a large number of soldiers to help the common people rescue and provide disaster relief.

From the magistrate to the common people in Pingyang Mansion, they fought against floods together. It can be said that Pingyang Mansion has never been so united in history.

Seeing the heavy rain gradually subside, Li Jing's tense nerves finally relaxed.

On this day, Li Jing took a rare afternoon nap.

"Report to Commander-in-Chief, there is an urgent report from Henan. Mr. Yuan, Mr. Shen and others are waiting for Commander-in-Chief in the study." A soldier suddenly entered the room and pushed Li Jing to wake him up.

Hearing that Henan Express reported that Yuan Keli and Shen Zheng came to look for him, Li Jing was startled, hurriedly got up from the bed, and hurried to the study, only to see Yuan Keli and Shen Zheng pacing back and forth in the room.

Li Jing was shocked to see Yuan Keli, who was used to being calm and unruffled when he was in danger, started pacing with a nervous expression on his face.

Hurriedly helping Yuan Keli and Shen Zheng to sit down, Li Jing said, "What happened, why are you so nervous?"

Yuan Keli shook his head, sighed and said, "Just now I received an urgent report from Henan that the Yellow River has breached in Mengjin, Zhongmu, and Cao counties, and the floods have spread for hundreds of miles, especially in Chenliu and Xuchang, where the water is more than ten feet deep. Countless people were killed in the floods, and now Henan is starving, and corpses are everywhere. Jimin, let's allocate a batch of food to Henan for disaster relief!"

Li Jingwen nodded silently.

At that time, the course of the Yellow River and its estuary were completely different from those of later generations. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the lower reaches of the Yellow River entered the Yellow Sea through Kaifeng, Shangqiu, Xuzhou, and Suqian.

The Zhongmu and Cao counties that Yuan Keli mentioned just now are both within the jurisdiction of Kaifeng, and the area around Chenliu includes Yuan Keli's hometown Suizhou.

Although Yuan Keli came to Pingyang Mansion with his family, there are still many relatives in his hometown. The so-called love for his homeland is hard to let go. Now that his hometown has been flooded, how can Yuan Keli not be in a hurry?
Patting Yuan Keli's back lightly, Li Jing said softly: "Don't worry, sir, the disaster must be relieved."

Yuan Keli breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that, looked at Li Jing and said, "Jimin, I saw you right."

Li Jing smiled and said: "Sir, how can students just sit back and watch the people suffer from the disaster? What's more, your hometown is also affected by the disaster? This time I will personally go to the disaster relief, which can be regarded as my filial piety to the people in my hometown."

Yuan Keli hurriedly waved his hand: "Jimin, you can't go there in person, after all you are an official of the imperial court, crossing the border for disaster relief is a big taboo."

Li Jing shook his head and said solemnly: "This disaster relief is no small matter. Only by going there in person can I suppress those people below. If someone wants to impeach me, then impeach me. It's meaningless to be a general."

Yuan Keli nodded lightly when he heard that, Yuan Keli was very clear about the virtues of those local officials in Henan, and it was impossible to expect them to provide disaster relief.Even when the food is adjusted here to go to the disaster relief, they will still deduct it, but the disaster relief will not be possible without the help of these local officials. After all, the local officials know the local situation better.

But dealing with this group of people is not just sending someone randomly, there will be many problems.For example, what if local officials withhold food?With the character of the generals of the Jishi Army, if they dared to withhold their food, they would have pulled out their knives.What if we fight with the local garrison again?
Do you want to fight?how to spell?Big fight or small fight?

Also, if the people can't eat, it's hard to guarantee that they won't make trouble and rebel. What should we do at this time?
There are many things involved in this, so there must be someone who can make decisions.

In fact, the main reason for these problems is that Li Jing is not an official in Henan. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, officials are not allowed to leave the country without permission from the court, especially military officials.

If Li Jing was an official in Henan, it would be relatively simple.

After pondering for a while, Yuan Keli said: "Jimin, if you want to go to the disaster relief in person, you must bring enough troops to prepare for any eventuality. The family will be handed over to Gao Qi. If something happens to you, Gao Qi will be here. Sitting down, you can deal with it calmly."

Li Jingjing nodded, turned to Shen Zheng and said, "My lord father-in-law, immediately organize people to mobilize food, medicine, and cloth, and at the same time recruit civilian husbands."

Shen Zheng nodded and took the order to leave.

Li Jing then ordered his own soldiers to find Gao Qi and other senior officers of the Jishi Army.

In a short while, Gao Qi rushed over with Zhang Chu, Li Dingguo, Sun Hutou and others.

Li Jing waved his hand, motioning everyone to sit down, and then said: "Gao Qi, Henan was hit by a flood, I want to take people to rescue the disaster, and the family will be handed over to you, you have to guard the gate carefully."

Gao Qi was surprised: "Why did the commander go to relieve the disaster? Henan is not under our rule, and it may be very inconvenient to go there."

Li Jing nodded slightly. Gao Qi didn't ask why he helped the Henan people to relieve the disaster, which showed that Gao Qi's awareness was still very high.

Immediately, Li Jing explained his worries, Gao Qi nodded, clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, Commander, there is no need to worry about Mr. Yuan at home, and if there is someone who is not open-eyed, brother will definitely tell him to come and never come back. "

Gently patted Gao Qi on the shoulder, Li Jing said: "I have a brother at home, so I can rest assured. If there is anything, I should discuss it with my husband."

Gao Qi nodded slightly.

Immediately, Li Jing turned to the crowd and said, "I am going to Henan for disaster relief this time, and I am going to bring some soldiers and horses. Which of you would like to go with me?"

Sun Hutou laughed and said, "Hey, Uncle Da Hu and Uncle Er Leng are not here, so naturally I will be the first one."

Li Jing smiled. In the past, Chen Dahu and Liu Erleng were the first to sign up for such a thing, but now Liu Erleng guards Lingchuan, and Chen Dahu is assigned by Li Jing to guard the salt factory in Anyi County. This opportunity falls to Sun Hu Head on the head.

Shaking his head, Li Jing smiled and said, "Then it's just you."

Seeing everyone looking at him eagerly, Li Jing shook his head and smiled and said, "Going out this time is hard work, not to fight a war, why are you so anxious?"

After thinking for a while, Li Jing continued: "Zhang Chu, Da Zhuang and Dingguo, the three of you should go with me too. Da Qing and Er Mao are at home helping Brother Gao to take care of the home."

"Oh!" Zhou Daqing, Wang Ermao and others sighed when they saw that Li Jing didn't bring him.

But they also know that the last time Li Jing took them to war, Zhang Chu and others were stationed at home, and a bowl of water had to be leveled. Naturally, it was their turn to station at home this time.

In particular, Chen Guozhu and Zhou Huhu have been stationed in Hongshanling all year round, and they have not won a single battle.

Chen Guozhu was fine, he was transferred back by Li Jing years ago, and that Tiger Zhou was still waiting anxiously for Li Jing's transfer order in Hongshanling.

(End of this chapter)