In addition to the charter business, each branch departs several times a day. Passenger liners will depart at the right time, whether they are full or not. In order to be able to arrive on time. Cargo ships should travel in groups as much as possible, 6~1 per team

2 ships, each fleet is equipped with a steward, responsible for the purchase and negotiation along the way, and a waterway dart master with a number of full-time security personnel responsible for the safety of the ship. If the passenger liner has to pass through a place where the security is not good, it must also be equipped with a number of security personnel.

Because the passenger liner is sent on a regular basis, each outer cabinet can also be used to receive and send letters.

This is not Zhang Xin's first time, and the sī people ship in this time and space have long been acting as agents for this kind of business. There are frequent commercial activities in Jiangnan and a lot of people flowing, and in addition to sī letters, there is also a great demand for the circulation of various business letters, and Zhao Yinggong will certainly not give up this business opportunity. If conditions permit, he also wants to open up passenger and freight transportation and postal routes from Beijing to Jiangnan and from Jiangnan to Guangdong. Of course, this kind of business involving cross-headquarters has to be coordinated by the General Administration of Guangzhou.

Mao Sansheng was in full swing in various localities to organize the passenger and freight transportation companies of the Jiangnan General Number in accordance with this routine, especially to win joint venture ship owners. Zhao Yinggong knew that this matter was not easy, if he could not provide enough benefits to the shipholders, why should the shipholders come to participate in the joint venture and be cut by Qiwei?

He knows that what he is talking about at the moment is pure empty talk such as "participating in the joint venture can increase business volume", and in order to win over the shipholders, the first thing is to find a backer for the shipholders, so that the shipholders feel safe and secure.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Yansheng Mansion received a large number of "government households" from the common people. There are many fishermen in the area of Weishan Lake who voluntarily surrendered, preferring to serve the Kong family and send fish and shrimp, in order to get the backer of Yansheng Mansion.

Australians can't play their brand in Jiangnan, and Yang Gonggong can't talk about shili in Jiangnan. He had to find another place shili to act as an umbrella.

To this end, he and Jin Lige went to visit the Catholic church in Hangzhou.

The Catholic Church in Hangzhou is located near the Tianshui Bridge, which was purchased by Yang Tingyun in 1627 and a chapel was built on the site, along with a clergy residence and a monastery. At this time, the missionary Guo Jujing was in charge of the missionary activities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and was equivalent to the highest person in charge of the Catholic Church in the Jiangnan area.

Tianshuiqiao Catholic Church does not look like a church from the outside, because it was originally rebuilt from a mansion, and if it were not for the cross on the top of the chapel that can be seen from the outside of the courtyard wall, pedestrians will not notice that it was originally a "cross temple".

This is the headquarters of the Catholic Church in the entire Gangnam area. Jin Lige couldn't suppress the jī movement in his heart, and drew a cross on the street regardless of the people.

Zhao Yinggong took care of the personal servant Jiying to post at the door, and in less than a moment, the door had been opened.

Two men came out of it and welcomed them in.

The building in the courtyard is very similar to the outside, and a slightly Gothic style building has been built here. One of the doors with stone steps has many windows open on all sides, and is decorated with many strange huā patterns around it. From the open doors and windows, the roof is very high. There is another mansion next to the Catholic Church for the priests to live in, and after Zhao Yingong and his party reported, Guo Jujing soon appeared.

It was a tall, burly Italian with a long gray beard that was still beautiful, and a high, bulging nose. However, his curly hair was combed straight up according to the style of the Chinese country, like the Confucian scholars of the Chinese country, wearing a square scarf and a white cloth quilt.

Among the missionaries, Guo Jujing was known for her "long and beautiful beard and burly figure". He was born into an Italian Tuscan aristocratic family, and his demeanor and appearance were very sè. So much so that in 1606, in the "Guo Jujing Incident" that caused the sāo in Guangdong, it was rumored among the officials and people of Guangdong that the Portuguese wanted to support him as the emperor of the Chinese state. Although he is now in his seventies, he is very old in this time and space, and he still looks healthy. He had studied Chinese in Macao, and had been a missionary in Shaozhou, Nanchang, Nanjing, Shanghai, and other places, and had been in China for nearly 40 years since he first arrived in Macao in the first butterfly year. He speaks Nanjing official very fluently. He had a very high status among the missionaries, and when Matteo Ricci entered Beijing, he was the agent of the teaching affairs in Nanjing and other places.

Seeing Zhao Yinggong and Jin Lige coming, he smiled and descended to greet him.

When Father Trige met this priest, he couldn't help but be moved by the first batch of missionaries who first entered the "China" country to open up the situation, Matteo Ricci, Xiong Sanba, Jinnige and others had passed away one after another, and among the original "pioneers", only Guo Jujing was still alive and continued to preside over the affairs of the church.

“Padne！”

"Hello, my brother." Guo Jujing greeted him with a smile.

Seeing Zhao Yinggong, he hurriedly greeted him and saluted: "Ah, Mr. Zhao, fortunately, fortunately, the little brother has been waiting for a long time!" He is very sophisticated in understanding this set of Chinese styles.

“Padne。 This is Mr. Zhao, and this is the letter I brought from Macau. Father Trico said.

"Ah, that's easy to say, that's easy to say. I have received a letter from Mr. President. He said with a smile and asked earnestly: "Please Zhao Guangshengguang to serve tea at the house." ”

The news that Jin Lige was coming to Hangzhou was informed by a letter written by the Jesuits in Guangzhou more than a few months ago. In the letter, the Jesuits again instructed Guo Jujing to "try his best to help the Chinese people from whom Father Kaitrig came" Guo Jujing is a foreigner, and of course he cannot talk about help, and the so-called help is to use the Liliang of the Hangzhou Church.

Zhao Yinggong smiled: "I want to visit the church first. ”

"Of course, then please move here first!"

Guo Jujing led the way, and the group walked through the courtyard together, walked up the steps, and entered the Catholic Church.

Zhao Yingong had never been to the church in the old time and space, but he had seen it in books and film and television dramas. He found that the church, which was built according to the Western design, was similar to his basic impression. The whole hall is narrow and long, with high heavenly huā boards and simple religious paintings. There are carved windows on both sides, one by one, very Chinese pasted window paper, so the church is a little dim.

In the middle is a sacred gold decorated with incense lamps and curtains, and an oil portrait of Jesus is offered. Although Zhao Yinggong didn't go to church, he had seen a lot of such images on weekdays, and he didn't care about it. This made Guo Jujing a little surprised, because whenever the Chinese people come here, they will be very interested in the portrait of Jesus: not only because the painting is a Westerner, but also because of the accuracy and realism of the Western painting.

The nonchalant attitude of the "Australians" is not a kind of hypocritical disinterest. Guo Jujing can see that oil painting is not a strange and new thing for this Australian.

In addition to the altar in the center, there is also an altar on the left and right, each with a statue of a saint.

"This is St. Peter" Guo Jujing saw that Zhao Yingong showed interest in the altars on both sides, so he opened his mouth and introduced: "He is holding two keys and pointing to the gate of heaven. The other is St. Paul, who holds the Holy Cross in one hand and points to a Latin phrase in the other as a preacher: "The priest reads it in Latin, and then he says: "We preach the crucified Christ........."

Zhao Yingong followed him to visit a church of Our Lady on the right. The layout of the Church of Our Lady is similar to that of the main church, but it is smaller. By modern standards, that is, the standard of a large conference room. There is also a portrait of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus in her arms.

He estimated that the hall could accommodate about two hundred believers, and the Church of Our Lady could accommodate twenty or thirty people. The size of the Catholic Church in Hangzhou will probably not exceed 1,000 people.

It's pitifully small in terms of size. However, there are a large number of gentry and scholars in this church, and it has a lot of social influence.

After visiting the church, Guo Jujing invited Zhao Yingong and others to his residence for tea.

The house is very simple, the furniture decoration is completely Chinese, and the bookshelves and bookcases are stacked with wire-bound books. It would be hard to imagine that this was the residence of a European missionary without a crucifixion hanging from the wall.

He then asked Zhao Yinggong and Father Trige to sit down. Then a young servant brought tea. Huang Zongxi looked at him as being in his twenties, with a small hat in a green coat and a beautiful eyebrow, and he was clearly a native of China, but there was a small cross hanging in front of him, and it seemed that he had already been taught.

The tea is green tea, and it seems that this priest has already followed the local customs. Although the missionaries came to China with the ambition of being martyrs who gave up everything, and were determined to spread the gospel in a foreign land for the rest of their lives, this does not mean that they do not miss their past living environment.

The gift that Zhao Yingong prepared was a case of red wine. This is Xue Ziliang's small in the farm

Brewed in a liquor workshop. Of course, the grapes used are not wine-making grapes such as Cabernet and Pinot Noir, but ordinary fruit grapes. However, for Guo Jujing, who has lived in the mainland of China for decades and is difficult for Europeans to meet, it is still a rare gift, so that he can comfort his homesickness a little in the year of the curtain.

"Xiexie, Mr. Zhao." Guo Jujing was very moved, and Zhao Yinggong took the opportunity to inquire about the church affairs in Hangzhou. In addition to his own curiosity, Thief Quanzi also wanted to know how big the Catholic Church in Hangzhou really was.

Guo Jujing is not obscure about this. Although the Hangzhou Church is not as important as the Beijing Church in terms of status, it is better than other places in terms of stability. Although Yang Tingjun and Li Zhizao have passed away one after another, their children and protégés are still very enthusiastic about the church. In particular, the Yang family not only purchased land to build the Tianshuiqiao Church, but also donated a piece of land in Dafangjing for the burial of missionaries. His daughter's name is Elose, and she has contributed a lot to the church. Therefore, the Yang family also had the greatest influence on the Catholic Church in Hangzhou. @。