On 11 October, John Tang returned to Xining, first going back to the Xining Catholic Church for a while, and then immediately asking to see Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng felt strange, "Didn't Mr. Tang build a bridge over the Yellow River?" How did you get back to Xining? Is there a problem? ”

"No, no, the Yellow River Bridge has already been completed and passed," Tang Ruowang said proudly: "Governor Dadu, we have been building bridges along the cement road from Lanzhou to Qingshui County, and now there is only one bridge left on the Weishui River in Qingshui County, but unfortunately it snows he......avily."

"The Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge has passed? Oh, there are cement bridges along the avenue? No longer have to spend time crossing the river when the army passes? "Li Zicheng During this time, his energy was to naturalize the Xining alien race and Lin Dan Khan, and the message of Longyou came, and he didn't pay much attention to it, but now when he heard Tang Ruowang's words, he knew that Tang Ruowang and the bridge building team had been working hard.

For the Chinese Empire in his heart......

John Tong was a member of the Holy Roman Kingdom, and if it weren't for the Catholic legacy, he would never have come to the far East!

Li Zichang sighed, "Mr. Tang, you have worked hard!" ”

"These are all technical jobs, and I can still do them," John Tang smiled, "Fortunately, the Metropolitan Governor has used a special bridge construction team, they are now proficient, and the speed of bridge building is also fast, I am not as bothered as much as before, but the Metropolitan Governor, it is said that now almost all of Xining are believers in God, and even the Mongols have begun to believe in God......

"Now in Xining, 100,000 people are almost all children of God," Li Zicheng used religion to assimilate the way of foreign races, in Xining is the most thorough, the Han people are naturally not far behind, not enough for them to be sincere, at least nominally believe in God, and the Mongols, "Lin Dan Khan and his great blessing Jin have been baptized as children of God, and after they return, they will be widely spread among the Mongols." ”

"These are the strategies of the Metropolitan Governor!" Tang Ruowang initially produced various products for the Xining Army, or in exchange, in exchange for Li Zicheng to help him promote Catholicism in Xining, to this achievement, he really did not expect that in just two or three years, there will be 100,000 believers, no, plus Longyou, at least tens of thousands of believers.

Even in Europe, in the Holy Roman State, this was unthinkable.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng was recognized as the pope!

When Li Zicheng became the pope, he was still a little worried in case Li Zicheng did not obey the pope of Rome......

Now it seems that this fear is completely superfluous, with Li Zicheng's means, Catholicism will surely flourish in the land of the Ming Dynasty, and with the population of the Ming Dynasty, the number of Catholics will definitely exceed the Holy Roman State, and even more than the sum of Europe!

Even if Li Zicheng set up his own door and fought against the Pope, as long as he recognized the position of the papal suzerain, it would always be good for the spread of Catholicism.

It has been fifteen years since he came to Daming, and he almost achieved nothing in the first twelve years, if it weren't for Li Zicheng...... The companions who came to Daming with him are still struggling in various places, repeating his old story......

"It's a pity that the population of Xining is too small, plus the neighboring Sanchuan Mansion, it is only more than 100,000 people," Li Zicheng said lightly: "And the population of Longyou is much more!" ”

"What does the Governor mean...... What's next? Tang Ruowang was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, although he didn't know the number of people in Longyou, but by feeling, it should be much more than Xining.

"Isn't Longyou already preaching?" Li Zicheng said lightly: "Longyou has accepted a lot of poor and homeless people, with a population of nearly one million, and the number of people in Lanzhou Prefecture alone is more than 100,000, but you, no, it is us, we do not have enough missionaries, and we do not have enough funds to build churches in various places." ”

John Tang is also helpless, such a good opportunity is simply hard to find in heaven, is it just because of the manpower problem, do you have to miss it in vain? "Governor, otherwise, we will send all the people from the Xining area over......"

"If you are in a hurry to eat hot tofu, if the development is too fast, the believer's mind will not keep up, but it will be easy to have an accident," Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "Don't worry, when the time comes, I will naturally make Longyou the next Xining!" ”

Tang Ruowang remembered that when Catholicism was implemented in Xining, Li Zicheng did not use the means of thunder, but boiled frogs in warm water, and it was not until this year that he struck hard, and the whole Xining was a child of God, as long as Li Zicheng gained a firm foothold in Longyou, as he said, Longyou would become the next Xining sooner or later.

The larger the territory of the Manifest Destiny, the wider the spread of Catholicism!

If you want to spread Catholicism, you can only be tied to Li Zicheng's Mandate Army.

John Tang almost forgot that now Li Zicheng is the pope of Catholicism! "Governor, what do we need to do now?"

"We don't have to do anything for the time being in consolidating what we have already achieved and then spreading the gospel of God," Li Zicheng had a headache with silver, and if he had enough silver, he could build churches in various places, of course, he had to feed the soldiers first, "Mr. Tang, you are from Holy Rome, what is the way to make money?" ”

"Making money?" This is not John Tong's strength, he pondered for a moment, and said: "The most profitable industry now is shipping, and Europeans make money along the sea!" ”

"I also know that shipping makes money, but the territory of the Mandate of Heaven is not close to the sea." Li Zicheng sighed secretly, the current shipping is half trade, half robbery, as long as the strength is enough, it is a million profits, but it is a pity...... If I didn't come to Xining, but went to the south......

It's a pity that there is no "if" in the world, time will not go back, and there is no chance to make a new choice in life!

"Then ......" John Tang shook his head, he really didn't have much interest in making money.

Li Zicheng also said casually that John Tang is from Europe, the first place in the world to sprout, and if there is any good idea, it will be an unexpected gain, "It doesn't matter, I'll think of a way, if I have enough silver, I can spread the gospel of God in Longyou faster and on a larger scale." ”

John Tong was puzzled, "Governor, does spreading the gospel of God have anything to do with silver?" ”

"With silver, you can build more churches," Li Zicheng sighed: "The people are the same, if they have extra money in their hands, and they have enough food and clothing, they will have time to go to the church to disperse, if they are only in the stage of food and clothing, they will put all their energy on the land, to be able to eat, to live, is the first need of the people." ”

"I see, that's ......" Tang Ruowang thought that when Li Zicheng first spread Catholicism, he used candy, white flour, and goats to attract people to join the Church, and his mind was meticulous, no wonder Catholicism could be carried forward in Xining, "Metropolitan Governor, does silver really have a great effect on the people to join the Church?" ”

"Catholicism has just been introduced to the East, and at the beginning stage, the people did not realize the boundless power of God, and only when they saw tangible benefits did they be willing to join Catholicism," Li Zicheng has always combined the spread of Catholicism with the stabilization of the territory and the improvement of the status of the Mandate of Heaven in the minds of the people, "The little candy distributed in the church can only attract the elderly and children, the key is to be young and strong, only when they become rich under the guidance of God, will they take the initiative to become children of God, and the gospel of God will be widely disseminated!" ”

"So how can we make the people rich as soon as possible?" In this regard, John Tang is basically "blind", he can only stare at his blue and green eyes, waiting for Li Zicheng to come up with an idea.

"Overseas trade is not feasible for the time being, only to develop industry, if you can let people work in factories and get more pay, they will become rich." Li Zicheng is once again promoting his plan of "rejuvenating the country through industry and commerce."

Tang Ruowang stared at Li Zicheng blankly, his eyes glowed with a blue faint light, "Metropolitan Governor, in Europe, there is a kingdom called England, which seems to encourage the development of industrial and commercial factories......"

"The Kingdom of England? How is it now...... How did it develop business and industry? Li Zicheng's heart "poof" jumped, is this super giant about to appear so soon?

"This ...... I don't know, but when I was in seminary, I heard about England, but I never went there, and they seem to be at odds with the Pope......"

"Ao," Li Zicheng was a little disappointed, this person who was closest to England could not bring the real situation in England, "I also plan to develop various factories in Xining and Lanzhou, but unfortunately I lack money and do not have enough technical ......"

"I really can't do anything about it, but," Tang Ruowang stared at Li Zicheng and said, "If the Metropolitan Governor needs technology, I have some." ”

"Do you have the technology? What technology? ”

"Leather shoes, wine, cotton and linen carpets, and self-striking bells...... In order to spread Catholicism, John Tang had many points in common with Li Zicheng's ideas.

"Huh?" Li Zicheng was very surprised, "How can you master these techniques?" Is the technology complete? Can a product be produced? ”

"Dadu Governor forgot, I have studied in the seminary since I was a child, and in addition to theology, the content of what I study is all kinds of the most advanced technology," Tang Ruowang looked at Li Zicheng with strange eyes, "Dadudu, I have learned the most advanced technology, and I can naturally produce qualified products." ”

"That's great, with these technologies, the people will soon become rich, and the spread of the Gospel of God will be able to increase the speed." Li Zicheng couldn't wait to immediately open Tang Ruowang's mind to see how many practical techniques there were in it.

Although he carries a lot of edible technology from later generations, but the use of later generations of technology, with the current level of casting, must be redesigned, in order to produce qualified products, most of the technology, at least a hundred years later, before the possibility of implementation, belongs to the kind of poor death with gold.

"If I had known, I would have taken it out a long time ago......" John Tang was a little annoyed.

"It's not too late to know now," the territory of the Heavenly Mandate Army has always faced a huge military threat, so Li Zicheng is very careful, that is, the alien race in the Xining region is naturalized, and he has just made a move, and now the east and west fronts are in a stable stage, and they are ushering in the first golden period of development, "Mr. Tang, you go back immediately, sort out all kinds of technologies, and I will see if I can produce products." ”

"Governor, if you want to start a factory, you can't just have technology, you need a lot of silver...... "John Tang said in his heart, if there is technology to open a factory, then wouldn't the Holy Roman Kingdom be full of factories?