Chapter 159 Missionary Issues

"Yes, sir." Lando was still respectful. But the president knew very well that this guy was just a "congregation". Only the devil knew how loyal he was to the church. The news of the Jesuits was extremely well-informed. Jelanzani knew that this man had been shooting the foundry in Macau and secretly sold the cannons, clamps and gunpowder inside to the pirates of the Rades Dragon (the Europeans' name for Chinese pirates). There were many people doing this business in Macau, and he was the only one who could directly sell the things in the foundry in the market. I don't know how he used to persuade the supervisor of the foundry.

"Listen, Mr. Langdo." said the president in a formal tone, "I want you to return to the Countess of Scarborough - Aragones now lacks military deputy and will value you as much as he used to."

"What is my mission?"

"Aragones probably intends to continue to meet with Liu Xiang and challenge Zheng Yiguan. The Jesus will not want to see Nicholas (Zheng Zhilong's name) retreat in this dispute." The president said, "We cannot help him directly-"

The relationship between the Portuguese and Zheng Zhilong was very deep, not only with commercial interests, but also with missionary needs. Zheng Zhilong was baptized in Macau in his early years. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued the first order to expel Jesuits, the Jesus often used Zheng Zhilong's ships running Japanese routes to smuggle various religious books to Japan. This made the Jesus in Macau very reluctant to hope that the Spaniards would win in this battle.

"I understand." Lando smiled sly.

The president was silent, and he knew that the man's seemingly respectful intelligence was a kind of arrogance that he could not understand, as if he was God himself, even though he tried hard to hide it.

This bad guy, he thought, if God allowed me to live until then, I would hand him over to the heretic magistrates in the Philippines, and let those fanatical Domingo I, the monks, go to deal with him.

At this moment, he looked as if nothing had happened: "Okay, you have to remember that you can't win against Nicholas. Aragonese wants to do whatever he wants. Except-" He thought for a moment, "The Australians in Qiongzhou Prefecture-"

"You mean those strange Chinese people on Hainan Island."

"Yes, whatever you call it, you know what I mean." He thought for a moment, "If Aragones was smart enough, he would not provoke them again. Otherwise, you could help them-I think they would be happy to get your help."

"Yes, Lord."

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

"Sir, if I want to get on the Aragonese boat, I have to pay off the hotel costs here and the money owed to the tavern. I am an old soldier, so poor that I have to spend a lot of money on adventure missions."

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

"I've spent this money, you know I have no savings here, I have been in debt just for my life."

Jelanzani pondered for a moment, as if he was reluctant to walk towards a mother-of-pearl Chinese lacquer cabinet with a triple lock, took out a purse from it, and weighed it in his hand.

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

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

"Okay, go." The president solemnly drew a cross for him. "When you serve God, you don't have to worry about anything. You know: Jesus has the right to forgive those worst sins."

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

Hearing the sound of the door behind the curtain closing, the president let out a sigh of relief.

He did not look in any direction and ordered: "Anbraire, please come in by the shopkeeper Wen and the others."

Lando walked down the stairs that only internal personnel would go up and down and came to the yard. He took a smug look on his wallet at his waist - it seemed that serving the Jesuits was indeed a wise choice, were they all generous people?

Just as he was thinking, he saw a priest leading a few people over. Landu felt a move in his heart, and he walked a few steps and flashed to the darkness of the eaves of the corridor.

When he saw the short hair of the group and the blue training uniforms on his body, he smiled slightly. He flashed out until these people walked into the room.

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

"Hello, Shopkeeper Wen." Jelanzani stood up and welcomed these strangely dressed people - he had heard that these people were in strange costumes, but when he looked closely in front of him, their outfits were simple, the fabric was not very particular, and the style was slightly similar to those of Europeans. As for the extremely short-cut hair, it actually gave him some good impressions.

Wen Desi bowed slightly, and the priest in front of him was wearing a delicate black robe, slightly curly black hair, and a kind and charming smile.

Jelanzani's Chinese was very good by the standards at that time, although it was inevitable that it would have an accent. The difference in time and space and nationality made it difficult for both parties to communicate. Wen Desi suggested that a language that both parties could understand and communicate was used instead.

"Speak Latin." As he said that, he called Diana Mendoza over - this master's degree in English Language and Literature still understands Latin.

It was the first time that Miss Mendoza saw a true priest in this time and space. She was so excited that she knelt down and kissed his ring. This surprised and happy Jelanzani - are there still many believers among the Lord of the Australians? And this beautiful believer was obviously not a Chinese - her appearance reminded him of the woman in his hometown, which was so charming and lively.

With a good start, the following talks naturally became "friendly and constructive". Jelanzani was extremely interested in the origin of the time travelers, especially the Australia they mentioned. This was an era of great geographical discoveries, and Europeans were extremely interested in such news. Every geographical discovery means a new opportunity 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, you must know that there is such a good place in the world.

, but it was not immediately swarmed. In fact, Australia was discovered at this time. In 1606, the ship of the Spanish navigator Tolles sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea. In the same year, the Dutch William Janes's Duyvegan entered Australia and then got the name "New Holland". However, these discoveries did not have any significant impact. The discoverers believed that New Holland was desolate and barren and had no value. Until 1770, the British navigator Captain Cook discovered the abundant East Coast.

The Australian colonization began. Naturally, in this time and space, the time travelers included Australia into their territory directly under the future.

Wen Desi not only made a vague statement, but also moved Australia to the vast center of the Pacific. If you are interested, go around in circles and look for it.

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

Unexpectedly, this nonsense aroused the president's great interest. He kept asking questions, making trouble for Diana Mendoza to stop and think about it and then translate it in English - Wen Desi could understand English. It turned out that this guy regarded Australia as the lost continent of Atlantis.

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

Fortunately, Bai Duolou was not losing his position and said nonsense. Wen Desi thought, otherwise I would not be able to talk nonsense after he was angry. He still knew the importance of it: when talking to the priest, he said that his status was humble and knew very little about the affairs of the country, so he simply asked for a question and didn't know anything.

Wen Desi was not much prepared for the religious system of the time travelers, but he did not want to leave the impression that they were passionate about the Catholic Church - although many people, including himself, hope to use Catholicism to develop a new religious system to replace the religious beliefs of the future ruling areas. Since we want to cooperate, we have to increase the price - want to preach? Yes, we can afford to pay enough.

After thinking about the tone, Wen Desi said that the church has always existed in Australia. As for when it came, the scriptures, and so on, even the local church itself could not explain it clearly. As for more details of the church, he himself did not understand it very well, because he was not a believer.

His understatement obviously disappointed the president. Jelanzani thought that this country that emerged out of thin air might be a lost Christian country like the Kingdom of Elder John, but he did not expect that the people in power were not Christians. It seems that the appearance of the seven or eight people who visited were probably not many believers except for Bai Duolou and the Latino woman in front of him.

The subsequent conversation mainly involved the existence of time travelers in Hainan. Wen Desi did not obscure the attempts of time travelers in this regard, but only reduced the strategic goal. The purpose of occupying Linggao was to use the geographical environment of the place to trade with the Ming Dynasty. He also pointed out that the time travel group had commodities that were very popular among the Ming people, enough to exchange for a large amount of silver and other goods. Some commodities may also be loved by Southeast Asian and Europeans, but they lacked enough ships and sailors, so they hoped to find foreign businessmen who could be represented in Macau.

Wen Desi was very careful to cover up the attempts of crossers to get involved in foreign trade routes. He knew that this was extremely sensitive to middlemen like the Portuguese, but providing profitable goods was willing to the Portuguese, just as Chinese merchants provided them with high-priced raw silk, silk and porcelain that could be sold in Japan and Manila - he was not sure what extent would Jesus be related to Portugal's commercial interests. But there was undoubtedly a common interest collusion between the two.

Jelanzani thought that the appearance of Australians gave him a new opportunity in his missionary career. Although Australia is not the Christian country he imagined, from the attitude of these people, he not only has a considerable understanding of the church, but also tolerate and praise it. If these Australians could control the power of Hainan Island, the flock of God on this large eastern island would have increased greatly; and if Jesus could convince their leaders to be baptized, maybe someone here would become St. Stephen of Hainan Island.

Hainan Island is not a strange place to Geranzani, who is in Macau: As early as 1560, Father Gogo ventured into Hainan Island. In 1563, three Jesuit members not only entered Hainan Island, but also went deep into the forbidden area of ​​the government, Li District. In 1584, the Fonzi Association of Spain and the Philippines landed on Hainan Island while traveling to the missionary site in Vietnam, and were arrested by the local government there. Later, they were released back to Manila.

The biggest advantage of missionary in Hainan was Wang Honghui. It was the planning and guidance of Wang Honghui, a native of Ding'an, Qiongzhou, who was then the Minister of Rites in Nanjing that Matteo Limma was able to enter Beijing in 1598. Although on the surface, Wang Honghui introduced missionaries to Beijing to revise the calendar, the deep reason was that the circumstantial Catholic hoped to help Matteo Limma through this opportunity. Soon afterwards, his son believed in the Catholicism, the name of Paul. This made the church possible for the first time to gain strong missionary support from local people in Hainan. He knew that Paul had come to Macau several times in recent times and proposed to send a priest to Ding'an County to preach. If such strong missionary support could be obtained in Lingao County, northwest of Hainan Island, it would be a huge breakthrough in missionary activities in the East. Jelanzani was happy about this prospect.

His idea was completely expected by Wen Desi: Jelanzani indeed put forward the expectation of missionary work. Wen Desi according to his plan, he said that it was inconvenient for him to make decisions alone.

"According to our system, such a major matter must be decided by the vote of the Five Hundred People's Congress."

"Is it the gentlemen's council?"

"That's right." Wen Desi thought that among these 500 people, it was not without communist ideals, but most people still wanted to be superior.

"You actually have five hundred gentlemen in Lingao!" Jelanzani exclaimed, "There are no such many gentlemen in Portugal in the whole of Macau!"

Wen Desi smiled humbly and was considered an answer.

"Since this is restricted by your political system, I am willing to wait for the outcome. But can you allow me to send a servant of God to follow you back before you reach the right conclusion? I promise you that he will not conduct missionary activities without formal permission."

Wen Desi hesitated for a moment, thinking that a missionary who was not able to speak can't make any big waves, just send someone to watch him. Anyway, I will also offer you a price, let's exchange it for an equivalent price.
Chapter completed!