John Tong is a devout Catholic, as long as the gospel of God can be widely disseminated, it is enough for him, and the Catholic Church can be widely spread in Xining and Longyou, which is inseparable from Li Zicheng's strong support, and it can be said that without Li Zicheng's various supports, Catholicism will definitely not blossom and bear fruit in Xining and Longyou.

There are more than 10,000 Catholic believers registered in Xining and Longyou alone, plus the relatives of these believers and potential believers who are waiting on the periphery, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of people, and the speed of transmission is far beyond his imagination, and if Li Zicheng becomes the pope, with his means and strategies, the scope and depth of the spread will definitely increase.

In time, Li Zicheng's Mandate of Heaven Army can sweep the entire Ming Dynasty...... Perhaps the gospel of God will also blossom throughout the land of the Ming Dynasty with the pace of the Mandate of Heaven......

For John Tong, his current status is actually under Li Zicheng, even if Li Zicheng becomes the pope, there is no difference, in Catholicism, he is a bishop, under one person, above ten thousand!

"With the Pope appointed by the Governor of Pontus, Mr. Tong can rest assured that the Catholic Church will spread faster!"

Li Zicheng was overjoyed in his heart, as long as John Tang approves, there should be no suspense about his identity as the pope, as for the Roman pope in Europe, the Ming Dynasty is too far away from Europe, and there is no interaction for the time being, let alone a conflict.

For him, if he can become the pope of Catholicism, then he is the head of the religion, at least in the land of the Ming Dynasty, he is the head of the religion, and he can control Catholicism in the hands of the middle, so that Catholicism will not go on the road of interfering in politics like the horror religion.

At least the Catholic force cannot become a negative energy for the development of the Mandate of Heaven.

As the pope, in the future, according to his own needs, he can revise the doctrine, wait for the world to be peaceful, and then find a suitable candidate, push out the pope, and establish the law that "Catholicism shall not interfere in politics", so that Catholicism can become a tool for himself to subdue the hearts of the people and expand his territory.

His initial decision to promote Catholicism in the Xining region was not to win over John Tong, but to naturalize the local aliens.

In the Xining area, the number of Han people does not occupy an absolute advantage, the Tibetans believe in Buddhism, the Mongolians worship the immortal heaven, as the Mongolians go south to Uszang, Duogandusi, Mongolia and Tibet gradually merge, there is a trend of unification.

What caused Li Zicheng the most headache was that the Hui and Salar people had exotic ethnic groups, and the whole people believed in terror religion.

In later generations, terrorists have created terror all over the world, which is one of the biggest disasters in the world, and even the superpowers are helpless.

Li Zicheng also understands that the reason why the Cult of Terror has embarked on the road of terror is that in the mainstream areas of the Cult of Terror, they have always been suppressed and bullied by the superpowers, especially countries that do not believe in the Cult of Terror, and are also full of ambitions for this region, from Russia to Britain and France, and then to the United States, which dominates the world.

Their plight is sympathetic, but the methods of resistance are so extreme that they can even affect civilians and must be eradicated as soon as possible, at least in and around the Central State, and must not be associated with the cult of terror.

After coming to Xining, Li Zicheng had a new understanding of the Cult of Terror, which was the fundamental reason why he eliminated the Salar people. After hundreds of years of development, not only were they not assimilated by the Han people, but they assimilated many Han and native people with marriage as an inducement, and the number reached thousands, and the cohesion of the Terror Cult can be seen from this.

In terms of short-term goals, Li Zicheng wants to eliminate the big and small Tusi, so that all the people on the earth can pay food and taxes to the Mandate of Heaven, and in terms of long-term goals, Li Zicheng will eventually establish a single-ethnic state to avoid the division of the country due to domestic ethnic # contradictions like Russia and Yugoslavia.

Even if the country is destroyed, the people will unite under the banner of religion, and to control such a nation, either their flesh or their religion will be eliminated.

Too much killing, not only violates the harmony of heaven, but also loses a large number of doorways, in this era of extremely backward science and technology, the number of population, is the most important indicator of comprehensive national strength, Li Zicheng needs to expand the army, need the people to grow food, so, he mainly chose the second day of the road - to eliminate the horror religion, and other religions, and replace them with a unified religion of the present!

It is basically impossible to directly destroy a religion without destroying the physical body of believers, and the fanatical blood of believers will not change in any way because of the destruction of the state and the dilemma of personal life.

Because of the existence of Judaism, the Jews were exterminated by the Arabs for hundreds of years, and finally the state of Israel was established on the original land.

Ma He, a believer of the Terror Sect, his whole family was killed, he became a prisoner of war, and after being castrated, he became the eunuch of the palace of the Yongle Emperor, he could forget his parents, but he did not forget his religion, and his life, the only wish was to go to the holy place of the Terror Sect to worship.

Ma He, who was trusted by Emperor Yongle, was given the surname "Zheng", and carried the world's largest fleet at that time, and went to the Western Ocean seven times.

The last time he went to the West, Zheng He died of illness on the way home, and the ownership of his will was not his hometown Yunnan, nor Beijing, where he once lived, but was buried in the southernmost part of the South Asian subcontinent, the Guli Kingdom, a place that he only met when he went to the West, and one of the holy places of the Terror Cult at that time.

In order for believers to divide religion, it is necessary to first slander and slander the old religion, destroy its image in the minds of believers, and then replace it with a new religion.

Therefore, Li Zicheng chose Catholicism.

Catholicism was relatively moderate, and even in Europe, it had little influence on the political life of later generations, which was the most important reason why he favored Catholicism and hit it off with John Tong.

Replacing all religions with a unified Catholicism, naturalizing all marginal nationalities with the broad-mindedness of the Han nation, and letting the marginal nationalities disappear into the torrent of the Han people -- this is the fundamental reason why Li Zicheng did not hesitate to use economic, administrative, and military means to promote Catholicism.

Although they have different starting points from John Tong, the two have the same goal, they both hope to promote Catholicism, so there is no fundamental contradiction for the time being, it is nothing more than who controls Catholicism in Xining.

Li Zicheng took precautions, the number of believers in God has exceeded 10,000, and it is still rising rapidly, because of religious reasons, believers contain huge energy, once out of control, the consequences are unimaginable, he may become a historical sinner in the central country.

The direction of the development of Catholicism must be completely controlled by itself, and this is extremely beneficial to the central state, to the development of the Mandate of Heaven, and to Catholicism itself.

As the "Pope", he was moderately deified by believers and formed an absolute core figure, which was more conducive to the development of the Mandate of Heaven.

Moreover, he has hundreds of years of experience and overall direction in later generations, and he is fully worthy of the deification of believers and people.

Sending off John Tang, Li Zicheng was thinking about the direction of the development of Catholicism and what doctrines needed to be changed, He Xiaomi hurriedly came, "Metropolitan Governor, urgent message from Guguan!" ”

"Guguan?" Li Zicheng was taken aback, what he was most worried about was Guguan, what you are most afraid of, what will come, "Take it quickly!" ”

He Xiaomi only knew that it was an urgent message, but he didn't know the content, seeing Li Zicheng's face pale, he suddenly felt that the air was also tense, and carefully handed over the message.

Li Zicheng took the message, opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted.

What surprised him was that Hong Chengchou's soldiers had already gone south, obviously coming to Guguan, and his comfortable life in Xining was about to come to an end.

The good thing is that Hong Chengchou is about to go south, what should come will always come, it is better to come early than late, waiting, more torturous than the battle itself, he and the Heavenly Mandate Army are ready.

Cao Wenzhao can only be regarded as Hong Chengchou's vanguard, for Hong Chengchou's army to explore the reality of the Mandate of Heaven Army, Cao Wenzhao lost troops and generals, Hong Chengchou will be surprised, so as to pay more attention to the Mandate of Heaven Army, but the two or three thousand soldiers and horses lost by Cao Wenzhao's army obviously did not shake the foundation of the Shaanxi Army, and Hong Chengchou will never let the Mandate of Heaven Army grow step by step, and eventually become a strong opponent.

Hong Chengchou's southward movement was expected, and he only fought for early and late.

After this battle, once Hong Chengchou is defeated, Longyou should be stable, as for the defeat, Li Zicheng did not think that the main force of the Heavenly Mandate Army is in Guguan, in case of defeat, I am afraid that he can only become a rogue.

Li Zicheng was in Xining, but his heart had already flown to Guguan, and he was guarding Guguan City with Ma Youshui, and he had been looking forward to it for a long time.

"Xiaomi, immediately fly the pigeon to pass the book and fix the pass, let the water make all the preparations, and the governor of Pontus will arrive later!"

"Yes, Grand Duke!" After He Xiaomi's salute and left, he immediately went to look for the carrier pigeon soldiers and conveyed Li Zicheng's latest instructions to Guguan.

Li Zicheng calculated alone that without the assistance of civilian personnel such as military staff officers, he had to rely on himself for everything, and he had to think deeply, farther, and more comprehensively than Hong Chengchou in order to be invincible.

Guguan and its large rear Qingshui County have stored a large amount of grain, and Lanzhou still has 200,000 stone of grain, which is stored in Gaolan Mountain, and there is no shortage of grain and grass at all.

The Firearms Bureau has just delivered more than 400 rifles and a large number of bullets to Guguan, and if the army is formed in time, the two thousand households of the Ma Youshui Department are already armed to the teeth, which is already more than half of the rifles of the Heavenly Mandate Army, plus Zhou Bin's department, the existing rifles of the Heavenly Mandate Army, Guguan accounts for more than seventy percent.

There are also howitzers, a total of four guns cast by the Firearms Bureau, plus more than 20 flowering shells, this is a new type of weapon.

In addition to these materials, the forces put by the Mandate of Heaven in Guguan, including Li Guo in Anrong Pass in the rear, have reached 4,000 households, more than half of the total strength, and unless the military situation is urgent, no more reinforcements will be sent to Guguan for the time being.