On April 1, 1647, the Strait of Magellan was stormy. A fleet of seven ships cleaving the waves and struggling to navigate the undulating waves, and if you look at the shape of the ships alone, there is no doubt that this fleet is a fleet from the Eastern Coast Republic. Because the unique distribution of masts and the black smoke chimneys are a reminder of their origins, yes, they are from the East Coast!

There was not a single combat ship in the fleet, but instead there were two ammunition supply ships, two fresh water supply ships, one troop carrier, one repair ship and one coal carrier, all seven of which were steam galleons with a total tonnage of more than eight thousand tons. These ships were all new ships that had just entered service last month, and fortunately they were not warships, and only 12o sailors were needed for seven ships, so the navy was finally able to cope with it. However, at least half of these 12o people are rookie sailors who have been trained in a hurry and have not been to sea a few times.

The consequences of the rookie sailor are obvious. No, under the guidance of the adjutant, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Captain Huang Yang, had already seen the "Grocery Store" water supply ship that was slowly sinking in the wind and waves. The boat seemed to be mishandled in the wind and waves, and it did not run aground. Even the hull made of hard red sandalwood transported from New Huaxia could not withstand such a violent impact, and a big hole was broken in the bottom of the ship in an instant, and then it quickly entered the water, and the sailors could not block it, and the ship as a whole was already tilting to the left side. The captain began to give orders to abandon ship, and the sailors rode in the transport boat in despair, rowing their way to the nearest big ship in the swells that rose and fell, left and right. Sometimes a wave can knock the sailors into the sea, and then there is no trace of anything but a cloud of foam on the water.

After more than three hours of work, about half of the crew (9 people) of the "grocery store" were rescued, and the remaining 8 disappeared forever in the rough waters. After dealing with this file, everyone who had palpitations continued to move forward. Finally, on April 9, they slowly drove into the East Coast Information Station in the Rio Baide area.

The intelligence station has changed a lot from last year when Ming led the team here. First of all, there are more people stationed here on the east coast, and the number of agents of the General Intelligence Directorate of National Intelligence plus the police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has reached more than 30 people, and then counting the 40 or so tall Patagonian servants recruited in the intelligence station, the population of this secret stronghold has now reached more than 70 people. Not to mention the fact that there are some Araukan people who have come here to recuperate and train, and it is certain that the population of the entire intelligence station will exceed 100.

The pier pier is still the original simple trestle made of logs. The East Coast flotilla, which had been reduced to six ships, approached in turn, unloading large quantities of weapons, ammunition and food supplies, in addition to some medical supplies and medicines. The gold, silver, coins, and ornaments stored in the information station were also to be taken away from the Araukans, and the cattle, sheep, horses, and other livestock were not to be taken with them, so they were left here to be grazed and raised by the Patagonian servants. to replenish some fresh meat for the ships on the east coast that may pass by.

The ship was accompanied by a handful of talents from the locals, including a doctor, a tailor, two veterinarians, two gunsmiths, two blacksmiths, four Taoist priests, and a hundred construction workers. They will use the massive amount of building materials they have brought in to build a large number of masonry buildings in the area, in order to build this secret intelligence station into a strong and permanent stronghold.

Zhao Yan also got off the boat with the team of construction workers, and the person in charge of the intelligence station, Bilas, was receiving people from the mainland with a smile on his face, but when he saw Zhao Yan's house, he was stunned at first. Then there was a wry smile on his face, who invited this master?

As one of the first settlers on the East Coast, more than 18o Calvinists from Switzerland are now active in all corners of the East Coast. Originally, they were quite excluded in the old big 6, they thought that the new big 6 would be a free world, but they didn't expect that this was a religious prison. Here, Catholicism is suppressed by nothing, not to mention the heretical Calvinists. Pilas, who had hidden his beliefs in his heart, thought that this was the end of his life, and served as a shady secret police with unsightly beliefs. Doing dirty things......

Unexpectedly, one day this "nobleman" named Zhao Yan would suddenly come to the door, and then talk about what seemed to him to be "crazy", Bilas still remembered what the deputy director of the Religious Affairs Office, Zhao, said to himself.

"The only true god in the world is Tianzun, and the image of Tianzun in the world is incomparable. Tianzun summoned the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan as a pious and wealthy king in China, and with his firm belief in the gods, he finally fulfilled the summoning and became the co-lord of the rich, vast land of the gods, and multiplied for many generations. ”

"After completing this indoctrination, Tianzun rode a green ox out of Tongguan in the west, and then summoned the pious Abraham. Of course, due to the fact that Tianzun left China earlier. Later successors of the Yellow Emperor, like King Solomon, placed more emphasis on worldly pleasures, thus leading China to lose the orthodox inheritance of Tianzun. And the ignorant people in the confusion of the mistaken Tianzun is a pagan god, which is really pitiful and lamentable. ”

Later, why did the Orthodox Church of Assyria send people from far and wide to China? This is to clean up the source! However, their own teachings were inherently deviant, and their hearts were not firm and pious enough, so when they arrived in China, they were confused by the strange and strange outside world. Failed to complete the mission. Now, it will be up to us in the East Coast Taoism to fulfill this historical mission. ”

And so on. These remarks once made Pilas furious and unacceptable, but after Zhao Yan, a former core member of the MLM organization, who had sold incense and candles in Shaolin Temple, seen feng shui at the foot of Wudang Mountain, and had a three-inch tongue of senior liars for a long time, this Swiss may really believe this, or maybe he has other purposes, in short, he reluctantly joined Taoism.

Although he joined Taoism in a vague way, it did not mean that Bilas himself could accept this religion, which seemed to him to be very awkward. Therefore, although he had been at Magellan's intelligence station for several years, he was not very active in his missionary mission among the Patagoni, and every time he reported to the Taoist Eastern County Elders, he was hesitant to say that these tall barbarians did not know how to civilize. Zhao Yan, who knew that there was a difference in the middle, simply applied to the Religious Affairs Office to come here to take a look this time, and it happened that a group of senior priests in the Religious Affairs Office were also arguing about the new doctrine written by him, and they did not dare to make a conclusion about the consequences of this kind of almost copying Calvinist teachings, so he followed Zhao Yan's mind and asked him to go to the Patagonian and Araukan people at Magellan's intelligence station to preach and evaluate the effect.

So Zhao Yan picked four assistants from the Presbyterian Church, and then took them to the navy ship in a hurry, and followed them to the Magellan intelligence station. What he saw in front of him really made him a little disappointed, there were only a dozen or so people in this intelligence station who believed in Taoism. Except for a few people who were Taoist believers when they came from the mainland, there were only five believers in the exhibition in recent years, and only one of them was a Patagoni!

How can this be! Zhao Yan glared at Bilas fiercely, and at the same time sighed in his heart, and said secretly: The foundation is weak, and it is not easy to preach, so I can't say that I have to start from scratch here.

Thanks to the letter of introduction from the government, some of the building materials brought in from the country will be used to build a small Taoist temple as a core missionary institution in the region. Zhao Yan calculated that with the four god-level Taoist priests he had brought, as well as a large number of holy medicines (aspirin, ferrous sulfide, whale liver oil, etc.) supported by the locals, he would be able to open the market among those ignorant Patagoni and Araukan people and gain a large number of believers.

With these believers, he can rely on them to vigorously practice the teachings in the local area, that is, "the world is our place of practice, and earthly work is the main way of our cultivation, a task assigned by the Heavenly Venerable, and a sacred vocation." Everyone has to enter the world to practice, and to manage their work and life in the world well is to practice and worship, and to do their duty as a believer. ”

Zhao Yan is convinced that such a doctrine is very suitable for the current system on the east coast, and has a positive role in promoting the country and society that cannot be underestimated, and it is also of great benefit to the naturalization of new European immigrants. However, the Religious Affairs Office is also right to practice it in a small and remote place, and any benefits or disadvantages can be verified and evaluated over time. Moreover, in fact, the doctrine written by Zhao Yan is also full of loopholes, and there must be a process to improve it, so it is very suitable to preach among these sparse barbarians. If a qiēshun lì is naturally good, and even if something goes wrong, then it will not have too bad an impact, isn't it just a few barbarians, what bad impact can it have?

Therefore, before he had time to rest after getting off the boat, Zhao Yan discussed the construction plan of the Taoist temple with the person in charge of the construction team, and then hurried to the Patagoni living places in the camp, and used his rich experience in pit and abduction in later generations to talk to these people. Naturally, Pilas had to be brought with him for this process, because this guy knew some Patagonian language, and how could he communicate without him having an interpreter?

In desperation, Bilas had no choice but to arrange for his subordinates to consult with the Araucans first, asking them to launch an offensive in the near future to prepare for the actions of the East Bank army in La Plata. And he followed Zhao Yan to the wooden house where those servants lived, and began the journey of being abducted and deceitful.

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