Chapter 125: For God's Sake (Part II)

Thanks to the five hundred taels of sponsorship given by "xuetutu", the palace and the palace were full of praise, and the emperor was also deeply moved, and sighed left and right: "The sky does not deceive me, if it is fifty years, there will be a big man."

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A temporary compromise does not represent capitulationism, but for the sake of victory!

With the personality of Archbishop Pommerson, he will definitely rectify the Catholic Church by iron-blooded means, take its essence and eliminate its dross, so that every priest can learn from the past, let them be new day by day, let them always be bathed in the only holy light of the true God, let them always serve the people!

But now, he needs to unite the clergy of every Eastern Diocese, tie them firmly to the carriage of the Eastern Diocese, and promote the great development of the Eastern Diocese through the rotation of the wheel, so that the name of His Excellency Pommerson will resound in the East, in the West, and in the Vatican!

This must be addressed with wisdom, not force.

The construction of the Oriental Diocese and the promotion of the Sinicization of Catholicism are the embodiment of the wisdom of His Excellency Pommaison.

As a project personally led by His Excellency Pang Maichen, he attached great importance to it, and he would never allow the subordinate churches and rudders to go against the yang and yin, make their own opinions, and engage in mountaineering against the "central government" of the diocese, thus affecting the progress of the project.

However, the Catholic Church in the East has always adopted the "Jesuit" system, each country has its own Jesuit Society, and each Jesuit Society has a different faction.

However, without a strong leadership and supervision body, this five-level responsibility system is only a change of soup, not a change of medicine, and the previous set of personnel and operations still exists, which makes it difficult for the leading group for the sinification of Catholicism to effectively guide and verify whether the lower halls are in place.

This is the case with the Beijing branch, and after half a year, their work progress is probably less than 10%.

The reason why the efficiency is so slow and so poor is not because there is no one to supervise them.

If there is a system of governors and envoys, and there is strong supervision and supervision, would the Beijing branch dare to delay the task personally deployed by His Excellency the Archbishop in such a way?

The answer is clearly no.

Whether it is the government or religion, there is never spontaneity, everything is supervised by external forces.

In a secret conversation with Guo Jujing, Gonggong Wei drew a beautiful and incomparably grand map of the new world to this equally devout believer in God as a devout believer in God.

In this new map, the Diocese of the East will become the new core of the Catholic world, the new Holy Land!

In this new map, every clergyman in the Catholic world takes pride in going to the East and makes it their life's wish to go there!

In this new map, every clergyman of the Eastern Diocese will also become the new core of the ruling power of the Catholic Church, who will have the right to speak in the Holy See, and they will no longer be orphans in Asia, but leaders of the Holy World!

Missionaries are not immortals, they have their own desires.

Guo Jujing traveled thousands of miles to the East, hoping to contribute to Catholicism, so as to realize his faith and prove his devotion to God.

The strength of the Eastern Diocese is the best proof of the strength of missionaries like Guo Jujing!

As long as the clergy of Matteo Ricci, such as Guo Jujing and Jinnige, can firmly rally around the Patriarch of Pangmaison, the dominance of the Eastern Diocese will always be in the hands of the Patriarch Pangmaichen.

Whether it is faith or interests, Guo Jujing has no reason to oppose the Sect Leader Pang Maichen.

After deciding on the system of governors' envoys, Guo Jujing will remain in Beijing as the representative of the archbishop and make every effort to carry out the project of sinifying Catholicism.

In other words, Guo Jujing will become the de facto vice-patriarch of the Eastern Diocese, an existence above 10,000 people under one person.

This must be a great temptation and encouragement for Guo Jujing, who is over half a hundred years old but has never had much say in the Jesuit Society.

To have his support is to have the support of Matteo Ricci's clergy.

Guo Jujing's job at the Beijing branch is simple.

In the words of Wei Gonggong, it is necessary to build the Beijing branch into a model parish of the Oriental Diocese, and in the future, the branches of all countries under the jurisdiction of the Oriental Diocese will come to the Beijing branch for training. In addition, the Diocese of the East will also establish a seminary for the entire diocese in Nantang, Beijing, which will be fully guaranteed in terms of size, faculty and funds...

With the help of the warriors led by Cui Yingyuan, Wei Gonggong believed that the Beijing branch would be able to fully learn the lesson and complete the important task entrusted by God and Wei Gonggong.

"Cleanse your souls thoroughly, and completely abandon the outdated and backward thinking in your minds!"

"The sinicization of the Church must not be empty words, nor can it be just talk on paper, you must put down your status and truly integrate with China and the people of Chinese, only in this way can you be a valuable existence in the East, and the most glorious existence in the entire Church!"

"All for God, all for Catholicism!"

After the conclusion of the meeting with the saint fighters of the Beijing branch, under Guo Jujing's arrangement, Father-in-law Wei cordially met with "Jesuit" priests Ryuichi Shomoto and Taro Tanma, who had come from Japan across the sea.

Shomoto and Tanama traveled tirelessly across the sea to meet His Excellency the Archbishop, bringing with them the great news that Tokugawa Ieyasu had died.

This news made Archbishop Pommerson very depressed for a while, because he was preparing to go on a conquest next month to compete with the legendary old tortoise.

In addition to the news of Tokugawa's death, Shomoto and Tanma asked the Diocese of the East to immediately organize a powerful crusade against the Japanese shogunate.

Because, the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu did not stop the shogunate's oppression and repression of Catholics, but intensified.

Tokugawa's heir, Tokugawa Hidetada, was even more cruel than his father.

According to Shomoto and Tanma, nearly 300,000 Catholics have been sentenced to death by the shogunate in the past few years.

In February, two missionaries and 55 Christians of various detenties who had been smuggled into Japan on a Spanish merchant ship were burned or beheaded.

“… Your Excellency, in the Arima region of Kyushu, the lord Matsukura Shigemasa is particularly cruel. He first branded the word Catholicism on the foreheads and cheeks of the believers, then hung them, sank them into the sea, tied them to pillars and placed them in the sea, poured themselves on boiling hot spring water, or threw them directly into the hot springs. Ryuichi Shomoto almost cried.

"In the Hizen-Shimabara area, the lord of the castle, Matsukura Shigemasa, would put a robe on a Catholic and burn him to death. People are rolling on the ground in their robes, but the devils laugh and say what kind of dance is this! God, they are the devil! Excited and angry, Taro Tanama shuddered at the mention of the torture of his followers.

"Your Excellency, Honorable Archbishop, please organize your forces at once to save the Catholics of Japan! You can't afford to delay for a moment! ”

"Only the power of God can bring the devils back to hell!" Shomoto and Tian Ma looked expectantly at the young archbishop in front of them.

"I am deeply saddened by what happened in Japan, but it was very costly to organize a large army to cross the sea to conquer the shogunate, and the Holy See's support for the Eastern Diocese was not in place,"

It is not that His Excellency Pang Maison does not want to save the lost lamb of Japan immediately, but there is a difficult and complicated side to the matter.

At this time, Father Guo Jujing said: "Your Excellency, after receiving your instructions last year, we have mobilized believers from all over the world to donate hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and the archbishop does not have to worry about military expenses at all. In addition, the branches of various countries have also responded to your call and recruited many combatants..."

"Really?"

His Excellency Pang Maichen's hand stopped in mid-air, and said to Zhuangmoto and Tian Ma categorically: "For God's sake, I myself will personally lead a large army to the sea next month to conquer the evil shogunate!" “

"Your Excellency the Archbishop is truly an angel from heaven, the savior of Japan!"

Shomoto and Tian Ma, two fanatical believers in God, were grateful to kneel before His Excellency the Archbishop.

His Excellency Pang Maichen was a man of his word, and immediately asked Guo Jujing to repair the book on his behalf to the local branches, so that they could immediately transport the silver and personnel raised to Taiwan.

When they were discussing, the guards came to report that Li Yongzhen's father-in-law was coming, and Wei's father-in-law hurriedly asked him to come in.

Li Yongzhen knew that Gonggong Wei was an Oriental archbishop of Catholicism, so he was not surprised by a group of foreign monks who came out of Gonggong Wei.

"Father-in-law, the palace handed out a message, saying that the concubine is not feeling well, and she will go to Xishan to recuperate tomorrow." After Li Yongzhen came in, he said that this matter was told to him by Zheng Shanggong, the female official next to the concubine.

Oh?

Feeling unwell?

Father-in-law Wei crooked his mouth: This is the real day.

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Let's talk about the WeChat public account, because it has just been opened, it can only be uploaded once a day, and the upload does not exceed 50,000 words at a time. Therefore, Bones cannot upload all the works of the past year in a short period of time, and can only upload them once a day.