【Ask for tickets and collect】

'There is such a place. ’

It just so happened that there was a rough map in this room, which depicted the various dioceses of the Jesuits in the East, although the basic outline could be seen in a rough way, and at this time Gu Ziming's finger fell on a large island in the south of Guangdong on the map - Qiongzhou.

"We are all overseas remnants of the Great Song Dynasty in the past, and now we have the heart to attach China to China, and we have found a fertile land in the south of Qiongzhou Island to prepare to collect the tuntian." His fingers continued to slide down and nodded heavily at the southernmost tip of Hainan Island, looking at everyone and laughing, "This place is only fifty-two leagues from Feifu Port, and it can be reached in two days downwind." ”

Gu Ziming spread out the information of the port in front of several priests step by step, hoping that they could understand their intentions.

"Sir, you mean you want us to go on a mission?" Lu Ruohan knew that it was a big island under the rule of the Guangdong Prefecture, and there didn't seem to be many goods worth looking forward to except betel nuts and local products, and even the merchant ships from the South Seas rarely docked on that island.

"I mean, the geography is excellent, and several gentlemen are inconvenient now, and when my generation first arrived there, it was when there was a shortage of manpower, besides, ......" Gu Ziming deliberately accentuated his tone, "Qiongzhou is also a Ming Dynasty." ”

Now Macau is part of a separate Chinese diocese and has long since separated from Malacca, but if the missionary cause in China comes to an abrupt end, these missionaries in Macao will inevitably appear to be in an awkward position, knowing that there is also competition within the Jesuits, and Gu Ziming's words just hit their hidden worries.

"It doesn't seem to have a lot of people there." Although Lu Ruohan did not know much about Qiongzhou, he could still know some about the local situation, he participated in the Portuguese trade activities in Guangzhou all the year round, and he knew a little about the economy and culture of various provinces in Guangdong.

Gu Ziming expected the other party to say this, "So we have collected a lot of displaced people from the mainland, many of them are victims of the disaster in Guangxi last year, and some of them are broken down in the coastal areas of Fujian." ”

At this time, the other two clergymen were also interested, "Sir, do you mean that these people may become the Lambs of the Lord?" ”

Gu Ziming was noncommittal, "I can only tell you that Yazhou, where this port in the south is located, the current Lord Zhizhou is quite kind to us, if I do something that will not hinder him by the way when I am here in Tuntian, I believe he will be able to see him." ”

Yazhou Prefecture is a hundred miles away from Sanya, and the north has to face the pressure of Li District, Gu Ziming has every reason to believe that this Pan Zhizhou does not care much about who is in this closed port or preaching, not to mention if this Tuntian can still bring some benefits to the county's financial plan.

Lu Ruohan said: "I don't know how many homeless people Mr. has recruited?" ”

"Two hundred." Seeing that Lu Ruohan's expression seemed to be slightly disappointed, Gu Ziming smiled and said, "There are fewer people, so we just found the priests, we heard that there are a lot of Japanese Chezhi Dan in Macau, and many lives are not satisfactory. ”

Lu Ruohan has been in the Japanese diocese for a long time, and he has some special feelings for the Japanese congregation, and some of the parishioners who were forced to flee from Nagasaki were simply developed by him back then, and even the sea ships that fled to Australia had him mediate behind him, Gu Ziming's words seemed to be in his heart.

Although trade in Macao is prosperous, but limited by the control of the Ming government, living materials are very scarce, Xiangshan County has never allowed Macao to have the grain of the year, seven or eight days without closing the gate to supply there is a risk of fasting, those Japanese refugees who came by sea have no money to spare, and Macao here are many philistines, the church is only two or three out of ten, those European ruffians and merchants and even their various slaves are not very devout to help foreign believers, naturally not to mention how much care these Che Chi Dan have.

Those craftsmen with some skills are fine, like the Japanese stonemasons on the construction site of St. Paul's Church, who still have a livelihood, while the old and weak women and children have to go hungry and fed, and are basically at the bottom of Macau, which can only be said to be slightly better than the situation in Japan.

"It seems that the two of you want to do something in Qiongzhou." Lu Ruohan was still a little confused about the true intentions of the two people in front of him, and tried again.

Gu Ziming didn't mind the other party's caution, "First of all, I want to explain that the person who went to Tuntian in Qiongzhou this time was only Mr. Fu, a friend of the villain, and the villain will continue to open a business in Guangzhou, and he will also recruit some homeless people to Sanya all year round." ”

A little bit showed the blueprint for the future to several priests, and introduced Fu Xiaofei to him.

"The two gentlemen seem to have been planning for a long time."

"I'm just looking for a place to live in this world, but there are still some inconveniences, and I need the priests to help me."

Lu Ruohan seemed to hear what Gu Ziming meant, "I don't know what's the inconvenience?" ”

"Although the location of the port here is good, there are three inconveniences."

Seeing that Lu Ruohan and the other two priests were already concentrating on 'listening', Gu Ziming spoke one by one.

"First, this place is remote, and there are no official troops stationed here, so there are often pirates here to supply food and water, and even rob homes. Second, there are many savages in the interior of this place, the Han people are called Li people, and there are often rebellions, and the Li Rebellion in Yazhou in the past few years has only subsided soon, and we will inevitably have conflicts in Bituntian. Third, there are many returns to Sanya here, all of which are immigrants from Champa in the past, and this time I went north to Guangzhou, and I also clashed with the Hui there once. ”

Lu Ruohan listened to Gu Ziming's words and gradually brightened up in his heart, this first one, it seems that there is indeed no Ming army stationed in the local area, that place is very desolate, and it is not a sea route and port that trade must pass, at least it will never be like Macau is now surrounded by dozens of land and sea outposts in the Yongqian General Camp, so it must be a relatively weak place for Ming rule.

This second Lu Ruohan actually heard a little in the officialdom of Guangdong, the Li rebellion in Qiongzhou was very strong, and Guangdong mobilized two large armies to encircle and suppress it, but preaching to the barbarians is nothing new, and if the Li people can be allowed to practice religion to avoid chaos, maybe they can also get the tacit approval of the local government. Fr. Lu, who had experience in missionary work in Japan, knew that during the Warring States period before Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, it was much easier to spread the gospel than later.

Although he knew that there were many Moors and their descendants along the coast of China and even in the city of Guangzhou, it was undoubtedly more attractive to convert the pagans into believers of God than to develop new people.

Gu Ziming's three points seem to be aimed at several priests, and on the surface they seem to be asking for help, but they are all favorable conditions for mission.

"So what can we do?" Lu Ruohan also wanted to confirm Gu Ziming's thoughts again.

Gu Ziming didn't hide it, "It's not a secret, this time we have already purchased four red-clothed cannons in Wannuxing, although there are also gunners, but this alone is not enough, I heard that Father Lu is proficient in the art of casting cannons and building cities, which can help us, and we must first be able to protect ourselves before we can gain a foothold in the local area." ”

It's just a deserted harbor, so do you still need to build a fortress and a gun fort? Gu Ziming's thoughts made several priests look at each other a little uncertainly, and only after a while did he say, "We will also discuss this matter before we can reply." ”

Gu Ziming also said, "It's not in a hurry, but in a few days, I will have to go back to Guangzhou first, and I have handed over the affairs of Macao to a general named He Yi to do, and he will come to the priests at that time." ”

Yang Mano immediately said that this person knew him, it was an old illegitimate son of his, and Lu Ruohan and Fu Fanji also remembered that this was a local mixed-race young man, who grew up in a church and seemed to have been baptized.

After that, the two asked about the Korean slaves, and Lu Ruohan agreed to help, and he didn't have a good impression of slaves.

In the following days, Gu Ziming went to visit the members of the council in Macau, which was a late routine, because there were no personnel from the Ming government and the atmosphere seemed casual, he privately expressed his support for the council and promised that if there was any dispute between the council and the Portuguese-appointed governor Carlo in the future, he and his business representatives would stand on the side of the council.

Several members of the council had met Gu Ziming and his entourage once when they met with the new Xiangshan County Governor at the Senate, and they knew that this was an envoy with some connection with the Cantonese government, and that their action of ordering cannons in Wannu Xing and their knowledge of the current political situation in Macao won the trust of the councillors, and they promised to facilitate commercial cooperation in the Portuguese residential areas of Macao in the future.

Lu Ruohan helped find the owner of the Korean slave and facilitated the ransom in the past few days, of course, he did not forget to baptize several Koreans.

Then he began to run in the Japanese community to operate the Japanese overseas Chinese to go south to Sanya, Gu Ziming asked him to do things well before December 21 in the Western calendar, whether it is successful or not, or there are many people will not wait anymore, that day is the winter solstice of this year, although there is still some time from now on, it is relatively tight. On the contrary, the two tribute ships and other chartered cargo ships would depart from Guangzhou and stop in Macao, where they would load the goods and people from there and then go to Qiongzhou together. After that, according to the plan, dozens of cadets will stay behind to help defend Sanya, and the chartered merchant ships will return to Guangzhou, and most of the goods will be exchanged for Liaoning and Changning ships and transported back to Borneo. Jin Yanze and Huang Yuluo stayed in Guangzhou for the time being, and Gu Ziming returned to Brunei with the ship to report the situation in person before returning to the mainland.

Fu Xiaofei, as the chief official of the southern trip to Sanya, has been going back and forth with He Yi to various shops and warehouses in Macao in the past few days, and has made a lot of orders for all kinds of raw materials and goods that are urgently needed, and even got a lot of red copper, but he has to go to Guangdong to think of a way to put in the grain that needs to be invested in the tuntian.

A few days later, everyone returned to Guangzhou, during which Ye Yiwei and his entourage took the Francophone gun to Guangzhou two days ago, rented a carriage and horses, and went back to Guizhou.

The setting sun shone on half of the cheeks, and the team was walking on the way back to Guangzhou, Gu Ziming and Fu Xiaofei walked side by side. All the goods were left in Macau to take care of them, and they were also lightly loaded all the way.

Fu Xiaofei has already put his mind on Sanya, compared to dealing with high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen in Guangzhou, he is more comfortable with farming and teaching, not to mention that the visible scale of Sanya now is probably going towards four or five hundred people if you count the priests and Chezhidan.

"Teacher Fu, don't report to the Senate about recruiting missionaries, we're just experimenting."

"Don't worry, I know it."

Fu Xiaofei rode on his horse and replied lightly, now the patriarchs do not have the same views on religion, Fu Xiaofei was also a hardliner when he was in Borneo, but after coming to Macau, he saw that the Catholics here were so pious and erudite, he couldn't bear to give up such a group of talents, and gradually he was influenced by Gu Ziming's views and agreed to this approach.

Before sunset, the people in Macao finally returned to Guangzhou, but they didn't want to see the anxious Jin Yanze as soon as they entered the courtyard of Huifu Street.

'Huang Yuluo is missing? ’