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"Shopkeeper, do you know that there is a priest Lu Ruohan here?"

Fu Xiaofei and Gu Ziming separated from Ye Yiwei after they came out of Wannuxing, and the other elders took their guards back to their residences to wait for He Yi to arrange the handover of goods. They found a Chinese-owned restaurant by the dock, ordered some random meals, found a place in the middle of the shop, sat down while eating, and asked the boss.

"I know, I know, isn't the one wearing a Dongpo scarf outside the door?" The shopkeeper was a Han man, and when he heard the customer's question, he replied politely.

Gu Ziming almost squirted out a sip of tea when he heard this, "It's too easy", the two looked back and saw an old man with a high nose and deep eyes, about sixty years old, dressed in the clothes of a Confucian scholar.

The old man smiled in a non-standard Chinese dialect and asked, "I wonder what the two distinguished guests have to say?" ”

"Is the gentleman really Father Rodriguez?" Fu Xiaofei felt that this coincidence was a little excessive, and why didn't this priest take him to this dock in the church? But he asked politely in Portuguese.

Fr. Lu Ruohan was very understanding, and was not surprised at all by the visitor's question in Portuguese, but insisted on explaining with a smile in broken Chinese: "There are many people here, and I just happen to learn Chinese, I wonder what the two gentlemen have to teach me?" ”

It turned out that this priest Lu Ruohan left Europe with the Jesuit priesthood at the age of fifteen, and had been a missionary in Japan since 1577 until he was expelled by the shogunate in 1610, although he was proficient in Japanese but did not understand Chinese, and to this day he has only studied Chinese for more than two years at the St. Paul's Seminary in Macau. Today is just his routine homework here, but he doesn't want to bump into someone who cares.

Now, because of the relationship between the Nanjing teaching case, most of the missionaries in the Ming Dynasty were repatriated to Macao within the year, except for a few who took refuge in the homes of the two capitalists, and most of these people were talented people from European countries, and the Jesuits had previously adhered to Matteo Ricci's missionary strategy and focused on using technology to open the door of the Ming scholars, because of this reason, most of the missionaries who came to China in the past 20 years were scholars recruited by the Church in European countries, although these people were all seminary students and were committed to mission, However, he is indeed quite accomplished in the humanities and other matters, and his personal ability alone may not be under the senators, and a little inspiration may be able to play a double role in the cause of the senate, and the powerful ecclesiastical power behind it is different from that of the secular state, and it is also worth exploiting.

Although the Senate is now preaching an atheistic materialist view of history in Brunei, it is a good thing to have more help after all, and Qiongzhou, where Fu Xiaofei is preparing to Tuntian, is not only close to Macao, but also under the jurisdiction of the Chinese imperial court.

When Gu Ziming was in Guangzhou, he deliberately collected information about the missionaries who were sent back to Macao, and it can be confirmed that those who have returned to Macao this time are Long Huamin, Pang Di I, Xiong Sanba, Yang Mano, Xie Wulu, Fu Fanji and Wang Fengsu, these people have studied military affairs, geography, philosophy, mathematics, and physics, and they are all the first choice of East Asian undergraduate talents at this time. Taixi Confucianism is still eager to protect him, and even risked his life to protect him, at least Gu Ziming can be sure that Xu Guangqi's attitude towards Catholicism and Taixi's miracle skills should be five or five, and he is not a fanatical person.

At this time, among the missionaries in Macao, this Lu Ruohan is the most experienced one, he came to the East when he was more than ten years old, and has spent a lot of time in India, Nanyang, Japan and China, which can be described as well-informed, as he is sure that he is still in Macao at this time, Gu Ziming can really think of him first, and those priests who have already learned and become famous in Europe and then went to the East to promote the gospel seem to be different, this Father Lu Ruohan is a young wanderer, going to the country thousands of miles, He is even more familiar with the Oriental world than other clergy, and because of his actions in Japan and China, he is also more well-known, and more importantly, this Father Lu Ruohan has only traveled between Macao and Guangzhou since returning to Macao, and has not been stationed in the mainland to preach, so he is not among the forced deportations. Another point is that this Lu Ruohan heard that he is proficient in artillery and the method of building cities, and if he is self-reliant in Sanya, he really needs such talents.

In addition, Gu Ziming also has his own thoughts, now the number of Guangdong refugees collected is close to two hundred, and there will only be more and more transported to Sanya Tuntian every year in the future, if the population of this scale is not balanced internally, I am afraid that Fu Xiaofei will not be able to cope with it, and what he is looking at now is a special group managed by Lu Ruohan - Chezhidan. [Note: Transliteration of Japanese Christians]

Gu Ziming had already learned some information, and in the seventeenth year of Keicho (1612 in the Western calendar), Tokugawa Ieyasu officially announced the ban on religion, and expelled dozens of priests and hundreds of Japanese parishioners in the following year, including religious daimyo such as Takayama Youjin. Since the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu last year, Tokugawa Hidetada's monopoly on power in Japan has adopted more stringent measures to prohibit the Cheshitan, especially in the dioceses of Keisaka and Kyushu, a large number of parishioners have been forced to martyrdom, and the ban has gradually begun to develop towards persecution, and most of those who escaped fled to Luzon and Macao, especially in Macao, where there are the most Japanese expatriates, most of them are Chechi Dan parishioners who have taken refuge here, and now there are Chechi Dan craftsmen from Japan on the reconstruction site of St. Paul's Cathedral, and the stone carvings at the main entrance of Samba Temple are also the credit of these Japanese craftsmen.

The number of these people in Macao is about 300 or 400, and every year new refugees from Nagasaki, Hirado and other places continue to pour into Macao on dilapidated sailing ships, and some refugees who have nothing to live on continue to go south to Annam and Cambodia to make a living. However, due to this reciprocating cycle, the number of Japanese religious refugees in Macao has always remained within an order of magnitude, and an independent Japanese community has gradually formed.

In other words, if these people can be given sufficient security and a relaxed religious environment, such manpower can obviously be used by the Senate, and a population of this size can balance the displaced people on the mainland, after all, people are divided into groups. Gu Ziming once focused on Korean slaves, but the number was too small after all, maybe black slaves could do well, but Gu Ziming had natural doubts about this.

In addition, there is also the return of Sanya's Zhancheng, although the last time I passed through Yazhou, although I taught a few people, but the Dashi Sect members have been in each other's villages for many years, and I heard that these Jesuits are acting quite flamboyantly, and they are just doing a restrained move.

When his thoughts returned to his eyes, Gu Ziming Shi Ran bowed and said, "The kid has something to ask." ”

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The sun rose in the sky, and the winter sun sprinkled through the large-leaved crape myrtle planted in the courtyard by the ancestors in the hall of the dormitory, and Fu Xiaofei and Gu Ziming had been invited by Lu Ruohan to St. Paul's College after lunch.

St. Paul's College, located next to St. Paul's Cathedral, survived the first two fires, and the building, which was originally purchased by missionaries with money, has been expanded several times since the 22nd year of Wanli when it was upgraded to a university, and is now a paradise next to the construction site of the church.

The monastery is a small convent with dozens of dormitories, and is home to 70 or 80 people, including monks from Europe and local baptized Chinese and their children, who are educated by priests and monks in religious schools on a daily basis, with courses in Latin, Chinese, theology, philosophy, and literature. In addition, there is a permanent observatory and a medicine clinic in the seminary, and there is also the San Gazasi Hospital, built more than 50 years ago, and I heard that doctors from Portugal have promoted the 'cowpox' method to prevent smallpox, although these results are still a little rudimentary, even this 'cowpox' method cannot be compared with the Senate's practice in Borneo, but if you talk about the academic atmosphere alone, I am afraid that there is no place in the whole of Chinese mainland today that can surpass Macao.

Gu Ziming is well-read, has his own unique views on all studies, and just caught up with a foreign priest who needs to practice speaking, and there is Fu Xiaofei next to him, and the three of them are pulled from artillery to defending the city, and from defending the city to Catholicism, Gu Ziming deliberately guided the more he talked, the more speculative he became, and when it came to happiness, Gu Ziming's words changed, and he cared about a few priests who had just been sent back to Australia.

"I am glad to hear that several priests were able to arrive safely in Macao after this Nanjing teaching case, which is really a blessing, and I have heard about the deeds of all Taixi Confucians for a long time when I was in Nanyang, but I have never visited them."

"President (Long Huamin) and Álvaro (Xie Wulu) are fine, but the three brothers Alphonsas (Wang Fengsu), Sabatino (Xiong Sanba) and Pantoha (Pandi) have all been physically tortured and are still recovering, and Pantoha's situation is probably not good."

"Can you ask the doctor to see it?"

"Dr. Gomes at the San Gazasi Hospital has seen that the trauma from the torture has not fully healed, and it may have triggered other inflammations."

Gu Ziming was naturally unwilling to give up such an opportunity to perform, so he decisively asked Lu Ruohan to take the two of them to the bedroom where Pang Di was recuperating.

Pang Di's bedroom is in a secluded courtyard, and Xiong Sanba and Wang Fengsu, who are still injured, have also recuperated here, and the bedroom is clean and tidy, and some manuscripts and maps should have been sorted out by someone. Gu Ziming saw a middle-aged man sleeping on the bed with his eyes closed, looking skinny, and two priests guarding next to him were taking care of him, and he looked back when he heard footsteps.

"This is Brother Yang Mano." Lu Ruohan turned to introduce one of them with a Chinese name.

Another person saw the appearance of Gu Ziming and Fu Xiaofei, and heard Lu Ruohan speaking Chinese, and also took the initiative to introduce himself, "In Xia Fu Fanji." ”

Gu Ziming smiled at Fu Xiaofei when he heard this, "It's still your family." ”

The two sides greeted each other again, and then sighed with concern to Pang Di, who was still asleep, and asked about the various teaching plans of the past year and the hardships of being expelled all the way.

After sitting for a while, Gu Ziming thought about the wording for a while, and suddenly asked how many people were present.

"I wonder if you gentlemen have ever thought about going back to China to preach?"