Grasp with both hands, and be hard with both hands.

In addition to cinchona, my father-in-law must have artemisinin. However, it is definitely impossible to refine it at the current level, so his old man asked his old man Zhao Baole to buy Artemisia annua everywhere, and bought two large ships, which are now in the shade. Although I don't know how much effect the unrefined Artemisia annua has, but swallowing it like an old cow drinking, I think it should have some effect.

No matter how useless it is, it's better than nothing.

Thinking about it, God was moved by the full sincerity of his father-in-law for the country and the people and caring for life, and within two days, Guo Jujing came with good news, saying that the people from Macao had arrived.

A total of 84 people came from Macau, including 35 technicians recruited by the Jesuits, mainly in the field of firearms and blacksmithing. There were also 26 mercenaries, including Spaniards, Dutch, Portuguese, and French. These guys are all mothers with milk, they can be called early oriental adventurers, with certain military qualities, and it was Gonggong Wei who specially asked Guo Jujing to help him recruit, and he was definitely paid a high salary for this.

The father-in-law hopes that the future composition of the Ming Imperial Army will be diversified, and talents from all over the world will be attracted to join, and everyone will roll up their sleeves together to fight the world and make a fortune.

Will diversification change the essence of the Ming Imperial Army, this question is a good answer given by Gonggong Wei. He believes that as long as we always adhere to the ideological policy of "one world, one army, one leader, one faith, and one nation", then the imperial army will always serve the people of the Ming Dynasty and the army will not waver at all.

In his latest speech, Gonggong Wei clearly pointed out that as long as the Ming Imperial Army always represents the development requirements of the advanced productive forces of the Ming Dynasty, the direction of the advanced culture of the Ming Dynasty, and the fundamental interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Imperial Army will never change its color, and will absorb thousands of flowing waters with the body of the sea, leading the people of the Ming Dynasty to prosperity.

"Our family recruited some Westerners, some comrades in our imperial army have opinions, thinking that we are the emperor's pro-army, how can we mix some foreign races? The idea is not good. What is Interracial? We first need to get to the bottom of this. In our family's view, aliens are people who are not of the same mind as us, and our imperial army must give a resolute blow to these people, and strike a merciless blow. But if people are of the same mind as us, follow us in everything, and do everything for us in front, how can we say that people are of a different race? For example, our imperial army now also has Jurchens, Mongols, Japanese, and Koreans. Everyone has seen the performance of these comrades, can anyone say that they are still aliens?

So, don't have any worries and concerns, pick up the bowl and drink, put down the bowl to pee, do it yesterday, no matter whether it is white or red skin, blue eyes or black eyes who join our imperial army, as long as they listen to us and do things for us, then they are all comrades! —Excerpt from "The Debate on the Future Diversity of the Imperial Army"

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In addition to the Western technicians and mercenaries, the rest were two Han generals and nine priests, all of whom had just arrived from Europe, and the team was led by Stallon, an old acquaintance of Father-in-law Wei and who had reported to the Vatican last year. The cinchona was bought by the Spanish church of Stellonto.

The father-in-law was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he was thirsty for talent, so he immediately ordered a sedan chair to go to the Oriental Church he built for Guo Jujing for free. This oriental church is a typical Chinese architectural style, and no one would have imagined that it would be a Westerner church if it were not for the cross at the top. In this way, the people passing by are only regarded as the gardens repaired by the landlord or the retired master.

Under the protection of the East Factory, the father-in-law carried a large sedan chair and landed on the small square in front of the church. Guo Jujing and the others greeted them early, and after Gonggong Wei got off the sedan chair, he first looked at the cross above his head, and a trace of impatience and contempt flashed in his eyes, and then his eyes fell on the stone tablet on the small square, and he was satisfied.

The stele is engraved with several large characters in Lishu - "Without Pang Maichen, there would be no Jesuits".

Pommerson is the father-in-law's Christian name, the full name is "St. John Pommerson", which is a classic work of Eastern and Western cultures, a name full of aristocratic atmosphere and romanticism.

This name also shows the ambition of Duke Wei to step out of the emperor and move towards the world.

Guo Jujing, who found that Gonggong Wei was very satisfied with the Chinese characters engraved on the stone tablet, felt uneasy and ashamed in his heart. The uneasiness is because Bishop Guo feels the ambition of the Ming Emperor's slave in front of him from this stone tablet, and he is ashamed because he acquiesces to the existence of this stone tablet. If in Chinese parlance, Bishop Guo is patting Pang Maichen's sycophants, which is obviously not something that a bishop can do.

However, Guo Jujing really had no choice, he had strongly protested and opposed, but in the insistence of the strong Pang Maichen, he, the bishop, could only keep his objections.

Because, if Bishop Guo does not change, the church may not be completed due to lack of funds, and even the land will have to be sold.

Bishop Guo has no money.

Due to disagreements with Long Huamin, the president of the Society of Jesus in China, Guo Jujing and other priests who originally belonged to Matteo Ricci's line not only lost their right to speak in the Jesuits, but also suffered great restrictions on the economy, so if Wei Gonggong did not support it, they would not be able to gain a foothold in Jiangnan at all, let alone have a church of their own in this newly established special zone of the Ming Dynasty.

After weighing the pros and cons, Bishop Guo could only acquiesce to the existence of this dazzling stone tablet, even if this stone tablet was nondescript. All he could do was put the stele outside, not in the church. In that case, he would be even more embarrassed.

To the surprise of Gonggong Wei, Jinnige was actually there, and this Belgian did not stay in the Special Zone with Guo Jujing, but went to Nandu to take the "upper route".

However, this upper route Bishop Jin walked very hard, according to Chen Fu Gonggong of the Inner Garrison Hall, Jinnige had little gain among the nobles in the southern capital, but the Inner Garrison Hall was developed by him with a few believers, but they were all low-grade eunuchs, and there were no important figures.

Father-in-law Wei casually asked who they were at that time, and Chen Fu said that he was not impressed by a few father-in-law Wei, but a Fengyu named Pang Tianshou made him hehe hey in his heart.

This Pang Tianshou is none other than the imperial horse eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the eunuch of the Liangguang Zhuchi in the Hongguang Dynasty, who heard that Nanjing had fallen, so he was appointed as the chief eunuch of Longwu and was reused.

Emperor Longwu hoped to obtain Western military assistance from Macao through the Jesuits, and Pang Tianshou shuttled between Emperor Longwu and Western priests as a member of the church. After the martyrdom of Emperor Longwu, Pang Tianshou took the 300 Portuguese soldiers he recruited to the Yongli Emperor, and then followed Yongli to fight in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou. Although this person colluded with Ma Jixiang in his later years and caused a lot of bad things, on the whole, he can be regarded as a virtuous temple. Therefore, Gonggong Wei did not intend to get rid of this person, just as he did to Gao Qiqian, no matter what these people had done before, they were actually hard-working little people now, and they couldn't embarrass them.

Xu is not developing well in the southern capital, and I heard Guo Jujing say that Father-in-law Wei attaches great importance to Catholicism, so Jinnige regrets his original decision a little, and this time he came to the Special Administrative Region through Stallon, and he also wanted to take the path of the Ming Emperor's favored slave and make some contributions to the spread of Catholicism in Jiangnan. Including Guo Jujing, the Jesuit priests of the former Matteo Ricci family are under great pressure, and Long Huamin's side is too strong.

"Your Excellency Pang Maichen!"

Stallone still maintained his respect for Grandpa Wei, bowed deeply to the other party, and when he raised his head again, there was obvious excitement on his face, as if he had some good news to bring to the other party.

Gonggong Wei didn't think anything else, but said that it was a matter of cinchona, but he found that Guo Jujing, Jinnige and other priests had a little strange faces, and couldn't help but be strange, and was about to ask, when he heard Stallone say very excitedly: "Your Excellency Pang Maichen, do you know?" When the Pope heard of your deeds, he made you the Purple Bishop of the East! ”

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