The Ming army in western Guangdong, because they were themselves driven into the islands and mountains by the Qing army, when they assisted Li Dingguo's army to sweep through Guangdong last year, most of them came from the vast area of Gaozhou Mansion, Leizhou Mansion, Lianzhou Mansion and Luoding Prefecture. In Guangzhou Mansion and Zhaoqing Mansion, the most important are the two men of Linghai General Chen Qice and Tiger Ben General Wang Xing, followed by Hailing Island General Li Changrong, who is also on the island. As for the others, because they are already in the core control area of the Qing court in Guangdong Province, there are some of them, but the scale is very small, so small that it will be troublesome for the Qing army to send troops to exterminate them.

Inside the big tent, a group of Ming army generals with big shoulders and round waists clamored to express their dissatisfaction with Chen Kai's subsidy amount. However, in this world, it has always been hard to say. Although Chen Kai is a civil official, he has an army under his command that is second only to Li Dingguo in Guangdong, and now he has food in his hands, and he is not panicked.

has been an official for many years, and has repeatedly led the battle formation, Chen Kai's momentum has become early, and this slap has given this group of Ming army generals the illusion that they have encountered a strongman who robbed their homes. Especially the sentence "I don't pay back the price", with the sudden momentum, in a trance, there is a sense of "this mountain is opened by me, this tree is planted by me, if you want to live from now on, leave to buy road wealth".

Just this moment, it calmed everyone present. Subsequently, Chen Kai looked down at them condescendingly, and let them express their correctness about the amount of the subsidy word by word, so he only said that there was a special place on Henan Island to handle this matter, and went directly.

It was one of the institutional principles pursued by the Ming court in the middle and late periods, and it was a reality that the civil and military were lowly. However, in this year, the military generals are self-blessed, and the civil officials have long been like farts, even those who have deep prestige in the feudal territory are often only encouraged and powerful to the generals, relying on friendship, food, officials and other aspects to coerce and lure, rather than driving arbitrarily as before.

At this moment, Chen Kai left the big tent, but the coercion was still there, which made them stunned. However, the tricks used to deal with other civil officials are useless against Chen Kai - for a feudal official from a feudal town, the authority of the imperial court is two words, and the army in Chen Kai's hands is even stronger, so they can only accept it.

Frustration is inevitable. After Chen Kai left, these generals also felt bored, so they simply said goodbye and left. Some close people walked on the road, but they couldn't help but sigh that the situation was stronger than people, and they counted how many people in Guangzhou City in their hands and how much subsidies they could get, but they were all unwilling.

"Twenty catties of food, enough for something!"

"People can't get along with Inspector Guo and the company's army, so in the end, let's eat melons and fish. Hmph, now it's the gods who fight, and the mortals suffer. ”

"So what else, it's a little bit of a change, I don't have much food in my hand now, if I don't take it out and change it, it's a loss if I smash it in my hand."

"Hmph." After a sound, the man gritted his teeth, but deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Who said that there is no way to get more food?" ”

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After leaving the big tent, Chen Kai went back directly. There was still something to do the next day, so he went to bed early. Sure enough, I went to bed early and got up early, and after breakfast, I came to the pier in the south of the city refreshed. At this time, Li Dingguo, Lian Chengbi, Chen Qice and others had already arrived, and only Guo Zhiqi had something to go out a few days ago.

The wharf is still the same as it was on weekdays, but there is a wharf that is still relatively busy on weekdays, but it has been cleared at the moment, and there is a special Ming army to fortify it. When the group came there, there was already a pavilion in front of them, but the pavilion was not a stone table, a stone bench or anything, but a stone tablet, covered with red silk, and there was a team of Ming troops around, like a guard.

"Four years ago, Xia Guan took Guangzhou Yiyong from here. If it weren't for General Ling Hai leading his troops to converge, perhaps Xia Guan would have been martyred by that time. ”

"Chen Fujun praised falsely, it was Chen Fujun who sent someone to contact the last general, and the last general would have been invited. Besides, at that time, Marquis Lin, Marquis Zhou, and Uncle Hong were all famous sailors, and the last general was just the right time. Deserved, deserved. ”

Chen Qice said very humbly, but in the ears of everyone, he could immediately think of the city of Guangzhou when it was broken, tens of thousands of Qing troops collapsed the city wall, attacked the city and wantonly killed the people of the Han family, the governors and marshals abandoned the city and fled, Chen Kai connected the grassroots officials to organize the evacuation of the people, and dispatched the local guards to fight to the death. And when Wu Wenwen and Yin Zhirong fled with the water division, the Qing army sailor dispatched, Lin Cha, Zhou Rui, Hong Xu, etc. were all contained by the Qing army in the Nansha area, unable to quickly return to help, he was even more personally fought, and finally relied on the blood and courage of Guangzhou and the reinforcements arranged in advance to achieve the final turnaround, almost swept away the Qing army's water division, so that there was a foundation for the Qing army's water division to be suppressed by the Ming army in the following years.

What a critical moment it was, even if you only heard these words, you can quickly realize the frightening step by step with a little association.

At that time, Xia Guan gathered a total of fifty-two small boats, and placed a powder keg and a tung oil drum on each small boat, as well as a fire fold. There were many people in Guangzhou who signed up to participate in the war, but there were only so many boats, and the others had to continue to transport the people, so two volunteers were assigned to each boat, one was responsible for blocking arrows and one was responsible for supporting the boat...... When the captive fleet's fleet appeared at the end of the river, they rushed out resolutely. The vast majority of them never returned......"

Only one-fifth of the volunteers in Guangzhou survived, and the rest either died with the boat, or were killed and drowned by the Qing army in the struggle in the river. Of course, there may have been some who were unable to go to Chaozhou with the army due to the chaos at the time, but before boarding the ship, the names and addresses of these Guangzhou volunteers were recorded, and perhaps other survivors could be found from the people who returned to Guangzhou in the future.

And those Guangzhou volunteers who survived and went to Chaozhou and Zhongzuo have now become Chen Kai's cronies and officers, among whom the best are naturally Feng San, Liu Rong and Nie Yiniang, all of whom are already sent by the deputy general, in charge of more than 1,000 soldiers. The loyalty of these officers to Chen Kai is unquestionable, and they are also Chen Kai's most trusted officers, including their boss Lin Dezhong. Chen Kai has already considered military reform, but it is not the time to make such a big change at this stage.

The survivors of the Guangzhou volunteers, only Nie Yiniang, who is responsible for the defense of Hong Kong Island, did not arrive, and the others are here. Chen Kai read out the memorial in public, and then took off the red silk, the stone tablet that caught his eye, the back of the book was the name of the one hundred and four Guangzhou volunteers and Fang Lane, and the front was directly engraved with the words "Yongli four years of winter, Guangzhou volunteers set sail from here", as fresh as blood.

History needs to be remembered, especially those heroes, and it needs to be firmly remembered by future generations. China has always been a country rich in heroes, but the names and deeds of many heroes are not well known to the broad masses of the people. And Chen Kai's move today is not only to fulfill the promise of the year, but also to make more people remember a truth, that is, in the face of oppression and slaughter, only by rising up to resist can we have a better future.

The ceremony here is soon over, and a feast is indispensable. Just as the deeds of Guangzhou's volunteers were once again widely circulated in the city of Guangzhou, Guo Zhiqi, a scholar from Xiangshan County in the south, also waited for news from the south.

"Boss Inspector, those Franc people specially sent someone to invite them, and they are waiting outside the county office."

"The person who comes is a guest, and besides, people are still here for the old man's business, so don't wait slowly."

Guo Zhiqi contacted the Portuguese in Macau through Xiangshan County, and the latter was very happy that a Ming court superintendent had the intention of believing in God, especially now that the Ming court seemed to have the possibility of a resurgence, which was beneficial to their consistent path to the upper echelons, so as to convert more Chinese to God.

Baptism, of course, must be held in a church in Macau. The Portuguese sent someone to pick him up, and Guo Zhiqi headed south with a group of attachés, and soon arrived at a place he had never set foot in.

Macau here is still nominally under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, and the judicial, administrative, defense, and land taxes all exist, but when you arrive here, you can see the cannon fort densely covered with cannons, and the existence of its independent kingdom is already obvious.

Guo Zhiqi did not plan to do anything about this, this was a window of communication with the West for the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court obtained a large number of artillery and Western science and technology and machinery from here. Of course, it costs money. Although in the Ming and Qing wars of those years, those science and technology, machinery, and artillery did not show much effect, but this side of the force does have a value that can be leveraged, especially the matter of assisting in Guilin back then, which made Guo Zhiqi determined to go on such a journey.

Before being baptized, the local priest also explained to Guo Zhiqi some beliefs and regulations about Catholicism. He was not interested in the teachings of Confucius, not religions that seemed to be similar to Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam. However, as a well-educated man, his memory has always been very good, and after the priest explained it, he took it to heart, and it was completely regarded as a practical technique.

In this year, the conflict between Chinese and Western interests within the Catholic Church over the missionary work in China had begun. As early as the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1643 AD, a faction of Catholicism called the Dominicans, the Jesuit priests who had arrived before them had complained to the Pope about the content of the sinification of Catholicism, such as the compromise attitude of Confucius and ancestor worship.

For this reason, the Pope of Rome announced two years later that it would prohibit Chinese believers from worshiping Confucius and ancestors. However, in 1651, the Jesuit priest Wei Kuangguo went to Rome to plead his case with the pope, and in 1656 Pope Alexander VII decided to allow the Jesuits to participate in the sacrifice of Confucius as they understood, as long as it did not interfere with the fundamental faith of the faith.

In terms of popularization, there is a repeated situation of the sinicization of the doctrine of Catholicism. There is a contradiction between the two factions of ism, which adhere to fundamentalism and give priority to promotion. However, in Macau, this was the territory of the Jesuits, and in the Portuguese War, the Jesuits were firmly on the side of João IV, not on the side of the Spaniards like the Inquisition. Here, even without the approval of the Pope, they still do things according to the rules of the Jesuits.

The process of baptism is not complicated, it is nothing more than the etiquette of the earlier Jesuits who were the great eunuch Pang Tianshou and entered the court of the Yongli Emperor through Pang Tianshou's relationship. For this reason, they have not yet chosen a Christian name for Guo Zhiqi, just like Pang Tianshou's Christian name Yajilou and the Queen Mother's Mary, the Empress's Yana and the Crown Prince's decision.

This is all due righteousness, Guo Zhiqi just gave another alias, and just remembered it. Subsequently, he purchased some more Catholic scriptures, read them carefully for a few days, consulted with the clergy several times, and made all the tricks, and then went to the Council of Macau to ask for assistance.

Aid, this is what they guessed early on, the late Ming Dynasty Catholicism was able to spread to the intellectual class and had other purposes, but by the time of the Southern Ming Dynasty, although it was the Catholic Church that successfully developed the faith to the court, but in the final analysis, it was because the Ming court at that time needed the assistance of Macao. In this regard, while the Jesuits were providing reinforcements to the Ming army, they were also developing on the side of the Qing court, and did not put all their eggs in one basket.

In doing so, there is nothing to do with morality, but only because the purpose of their original visit to China was to preach. Whether it is the Ming or the Qing Dynasty, whether it is the Han or the Manchurians, in their eyes they are just the object of mission, and there is no difference. What they have to do is to open the channel of the upper class, and there are many ways, mainly using the achievements of Western science and technology as a stepping stone, just like they can not only cast Hongyi cannons for the Ming army, but also provide talents like John Tang for the Qin Tianjian of the Qing court after the Qing army enters the customs.

"This official intends to build a Catholic church in the city of Canton to better spread the glory of the Lord."

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