Of course, Mai Ke remembered Wen Fu, he was a descendant of Wen Tianxiang, but he had been in the pirate group for many years, and it was really insulting to the name of his ancestors.

As a result, he rarely meets people by his real name. However, after being captured by Mai Ke, he was also a blessing in disguise, gained a new life, and became a part of Mai Ke's water division.

Of course, on the surface, he is still a pirate, and he still does some of the things that pirates usually do in the South China Sea, so that he can use them in the future. This is what Mai Ke told him. He didn't know how to use it.

In this expedition, Mai Ke's original intention was only to teach the thugs on land a lesson, and he did not think of making a fuss on the Ocean Islands.

Of course, if these thugs spread to the archipelago, Mai Ke wouldn't mind dealing with them.

It can be done once and for all, and it is best to do it by the way.

Since the French army is using the navy to invade, it is better to let Wen Fu come out to practice and see what the results will be if they fight with France, one of the great powers in the world, on the premise that their equipment is at the advanced level of the world. You have to pass this hurdle.

So Mai Ke gave Wen Fu an order, asking them to dispatch the main elite, come all the way with great fanfare, and remove any obstacles on the way by the way.

Mai Ke also implemented this guiding ideology in his two ways of sending troops. Now that the capital of Annam has been occupied, there is no point in trying to hide it. Moreover, the main armed forces have been surrendered, and all that remains are the local garrison and the local thugs.

Mai Ke once again emphasized the discipline of the expeditionary force: to pursue and strike at the enemy fiercely, and to do nothing to the people. On the basis of the experience of this period, he added two additional notes drawn from experience: that the enemy who was captured and surrendered was not the enemy, and that the people who opposed the expeditionary force were not the people.

Meantime. He went further and further and demanded that the expeditionary force should not commit any offence against the people, and that it was far from enough, that they must treat them as if they were relatives, that they should accept that we are also relatives, and that they should benefit in all their actions.

And this benefit is a carefully considered benefit, a combination of short-term and long-term benefits, a benefit that has been formally recognized by the expeditionary force; Temporary measures to curry favor with the parties.

Before departure. Luther held an evangelistic convention that was attended by almost all of the city. In particular, the newly reorganized Imperial Guards and Janissaries, in addition to the necessary personnel on duty, went to listen to the gospel in an organized manner.

Before this evangelical conference. There have been pioneering evangelistic ministries of missionaries here. Mainly Catholic clergy. In addition to the question of doctrine and how to engage with the local culture. These missionary efforts were scattered and sporadic, and there was no systematic mass missionary and church affiliation.

But. There is no doubt that the seeds of the gospel have been sown and will bear the fruit of the gospel when the time is ripe and God's appointed time comes. Luther's evangelistic sermon ripened the fruits of these gospels, and thus reaped a very rich harvest.

More than half of the royal family repented and confessed their sins and believed in the Lord Jesus as the Savior and Master of life, including the young Emperor Nguyen Phuc Thi. In fact, after the last meeting with Mai Ke, his mind had been updated.

Nguyen Phuc Shih's belief in the Lord led all the people of the palace to yearn for the truth and study the Bible. The most positive is Ruan Fushi, the Bible given to him by Mai Ke has become a book that he loves and must read every day, and the importance is far higher than that of any Song Zhangdi newspaper.

More than half of the courtiers believed in the Lord, led by the new governor Chen Duqing. The present court proceedings, any important matter, without the support of Bible teaching, are considered reliable and lack the necessary consideration.

Especially when the emperor attended several court meetings, when the young emperor also evaluated and decided all major matters according to the scriptures of the Bible, this pattern became a common practice and became the basis of everyone's thinking.

The most rewarding was in the Imperial Guards, who had personal experience with the expeditionary force, rather than just listening to Luther's sermon. As a result, three-quarters of the officers and soldiers believed in the Lord, including the brothers Nguyen Thi Anh and Nguyen Thi Hung brothers.

It was only then that Mai Ke understood that for the treacherous and cunning Ruan Shixiong, he had to abandon all worldly benefits and follow the expeditionary force to do hard pioneering work.

The Janissaries are also peacefully reorganized, although the infrastructure has not changed much. They also participated in the whole process of the battle between the expeditionary force and the royal forest army, and the Zhilu Dao Expeditionary Force was extraordinary, and now they knew that the expeditionary force came here for the purpose of heaven, and the fundamental reason was not to occupy, but to save.

Attracted by the power of the gospel and seeing the example of the expeditionary force, sixty percent of the officers and men of the Guards believed in the Lord and entered the family of God.

It was the expeditionary force itself that radically changed in nature. After the test of blood and fire, and experiencing the presence and power of God, every member of the expeditionary force who had not yet believed in the Lord, after listening to Luther's sermon, came to know God and strengthened their faith to follow the Lord Jesus on the way of heaven all their lives. With the Lord, no matter how far away the expedition is, it is like being at home.

So when we set out, only half of the expeditionary force was Christians, and now it is 100% Christian!

The deepest changes that people feel are happening to those who were once upon a time dubbed "thugs". When Luther preached, all of them were imprisoned as captives in the miniature system of transformation. Naturally, Luther's sermons did not exclude them. In fact, Mai Ke also took special care to ensure that these people could hear the gospel.

Before the sermon was over, the true repentants of these people were released from their confinement one after another, even though the person himself did not know the sermon. The renewal of the mind is the work of the Holy Spirit, like a spring breeze that turns rain into a silent moisturizer.

By the end of the sermon meeting, half of the people had been freed from their captivity. The night that followed, 15 percent of the people went on to change their minds, presumably those who needed more time to think deeply before making a decision. It doesn't matter if it's morning or night, it's all according to God's predetermined time.

Mai Ke had been paying close attention to these people, and when he saw that they had been released from their imprisonment, they had been renewed by God, and after a few words of simple advice, he let them move freely.

People were a little panicked when they saw that these wicked people who had done evil a few days ago had returned. Where do you know that these people apologize to them one by one, and their attitude is extremely sincere.

That's not all, they all became models of good deeds. Carrying the grandmother across the street and helping the child find his parents are all done willingly, and his face is full of laughter that is happy to help others. People were stunned for a while.

After doing these things, in the early morning of the next day, when everyone was asleep, the expeditionary troops divided into two routes and came to the founding capital and embarked on a new journey. (To be continued......)