Zhu Jinglun was very uneasy about Zeng Guofan, he didn't know what Zeng Guofan learned in the foreigner's church, and he didn't know what Zeng Guofan planned to do, but he was very sure that Zeng Guofan wanted to establish a path in Daming, or Daming was just his starting point. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But he had already agreed with Zeng Guofan that one person would pay and one person would work, Zhu Jinglun suddenly repented, it was nothing to be ashamed, he knew that Zeng Guofan would definitely go on, and no one could stop him, unless Zhu Jinglun killed him.

Killing Zeng Guofan Zhu Jinglun can't do it, all he can do is make people stare at Zeng Guofan closely.

Zeng Guofan came to Daming this time, nominally to eunuch tour, he is still a minister of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, everyone knows, he is a prisoner, but Daming did not treat him as a prisoner, but the whole Ming Dynasty is his prison, for a real scholar, if he can't make a contribution, even if the whole world lets him walk, it is just a bigger prison.

Zeng Guofan came to the eunuch, and he brought only one servant, as well as a donkey.

The next day Zeng Guofan left Guangzhou, rode his donkey, and his servants disappeared into the suburbs.

That night he spent the night in a small temple, and the next day he met with a local Confucian and took away his three sons, who were his disciples.

He arrived at Foshan, took a boat south, and finally arrived at Kowloon Harbour.

His disciples took his codex and invited many famous Confucians, and they lectured together on scriptures and learning. In the end, Zeng Guofan invited these famous Confucians to visit the churches of foreigners with him, and they watched many ceremonies of foreigners, and saw Chinese believers with pious faces.

Zeng Guofan didn't say much, he said that if there is one more Confucian temple, there will be one less church.

On that day, these local celebrities gathered together to make a covenant, and then went to the Confucian Temple to burn the table, Zeng Guofan did not go, and his name was not written on the sacrificial text.

Soon he left Xin'an County, and then Xin'an County began to build Confucian temples, one by one Confucianism went to run one village after another, discussed with the local squires, the squires donated land, mobilized the people to work, and then the famous Confucian took money to buy materials, and one by one Confucian temples were built.

Zeng Guofan did not stop, he still took a donkey and a servant, or rode a donkey, or took a boat, to the neighboring Dongguan County.

The same method, the same words, the same recognition of the Confucian scholars in Dongguan, they made a covenant, burned the watch, and then built the Confucian Temple.

After that, he went across the river to Xiangshan.

"He didn't sign his name?"

Zhu Jinglun always sent someone to follow Zeng Guofan, and that guy went on the road with a servant and a donkey, and no one followed, in case he was robbed and killed, he would be in trouble.

"No, he doesn't enter the Temple of Confucius."

The subordinate reported.

Zhu Jinglun was relieved a lot, he thought of the church, thought of Westerners using strict religious rules to restrain people's thoughts, and he was really worried that Zeng Guofan would take this opportunity to make Confucianism a strict religion, and also make a set of strict religious rules, Confucianism has this potential, such as three times a day, I can make it into a procedure like the confession of Westerners, and find an old master to listen to the confession of believers, what a big monitoring network for the people must be formed.

"He doesn't accept disciples either?"

"I accepted a few errand disciples, and there were many people who wanted to worship him, but he didn't accept them."

Zeng Guofan is famous, not only in the Qing Dynasty in the north, but also in the Ming Dynasty, more than ten years ago he criticized the Cantonese bandits, loudly said that he wanted to protect Confucianism, since then, he has become the defender of Confucianism, so in this world, as long as people who respect Confucius, will recognize Zeng Guofan, and all scholars, no one dares to say that they do not recognize Confucius.

But Zeng Guofan doesn't accept disciples, so don't worry about him taking advantage of this to recruit disciples, and finally become a figure like a sect leader.

At this time, Zhu Jinglun knew that he couldn't stop Zeng Guofan, since he made an appointment with Zeng Guofan, it was too late for him to regret it, Zeng Guofan would definitely do it, he didn't break the law, Zhu Jinglun gave him money, he used it, Zhu Jinglun didn't give money, he could also raise donations, and now when Zeng Guofan went to encourage the construction of the temple, the money spent was getting less and less.

When Zeng Guofan traveled all over the fourteen counties of Guangzhou Prefecture, in the end, he wanted to spend money, but he couldn't spend it.

But Zeng Guofan never did anything that worried Zhu Jinglun, he seemed to really plan to work and do something.

Although Zeng Guofan's behavior inevitably formed a heated discussion of public opinion, with many followers and many responders, he was always alone, did not accept disciples, did not set up canons, but only made an oath with the local Confucian scholars, and the content was nothing more than to let Confucianism and Taoism be magnified.

But this person's own behavior, the religious flavor is too strong, when he traveled all over the fourteen counties of Guangzhou, there was no need for him to send people to send famous posters to invite famous Confucians, and the local Confucian students were all looking forward to it, gathering together to wait for Zeng Guofa.

Everyone regarded the meeting with Zeng Guofan as a supreme honor. In fact, they can do it on their own, but they just have to wait for Zeng Guofan to come, meet with them, listen to the great truth that Zeng Guofan's old masters have said countless times, and then happily go to various villages to supervise the construction of Confucian temples.

In 1868, in this year, Zeng Guofan's hidden power of Confucianism, which was usually silent in the countryside of the Ming Dynasty, was completely stimulated.

Zeng Guofan's religious smell also became stronger, and when he sent out the proclamation, he began to have the flavor of a defender, and when he began to make covenants in Guangdong, he became a preacher.

Such a person has a religious charisma, he does not accept disciples, but more and more people follow him, follow behind his skinny donkey, wherever he goes, those people follow, when he lectures, those people listen, when he does not speak, those people wait.

There are young people, middle-aged people, even old people, some people walk with him, and some die on the road.

When Zeng Guofan already had the flavor of Confucius's travels around the world, Zhu Jinglun couldn't stop it, and to stop him at this time was to be the enemy of the entire reading class.

Of course, at this time, he still didn't see the disadvantages of Zeng Guofan's path, but was just amazed by Zeng Guofan's charisma.

In fact, if it were not for the destruction of Confucianism by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the impact of the spread of foreign religion on Confucianism, Zeng Guofan would not have such a strong charisma.

Confucianism and Taoism are not a religion of active expansion, not even a religion, just an idea with a religious flavor, it has never had strict canons, it does not follow the teachings of Confucius, no one will tie believers to the stake, he has never had a strict organization, there has never been a leader, and it has never been a god in a temple that condenses it, but a moral article that has been passed down for thousands of years.

Confucianism and Taoism are not organized, so under the foreign invasion, he has no way to organize substantial forces to resist, but there is inevitably a strong sense of crisis in the hearts of the world's scholars, at this time a person stands up, he has defended Confucianism and Taoism once, and now he says that he will defend Confucianism and Taoism again, this time under the impact of foreign religion, surround Confucianism and Taoism.

At this time, those who were worried about the spread of foreign religion found spiritual sustenance. But there are far more people who follow Zeng Guofan. There were also a large number of scholars who were dissatisfied with the change of dynasty, scholars who could not obtain status in a new country, and even scholars who were just dissatisfied with society, and they all began to follow Zeng Guofan.

In fact, a lot of times, they just want to follow a hero.

Zhu Jinglun knew that he could not stop Zeng Guofan, but he believed that Confucianism and Taoism were not a religion that was good at rebellion, if it was a religion.

Zeng Guofan is establishing the Tao, but he is not establishing the Tao of Zeng Guofan, he is reshaping the Tao of Confucius, reaffirming Confucianism, not creating Protestantism.

He was not worried about this religion, which had cooperated with politics and imperial power for 2,000 years, and Zeng Guofan did not try to build a disciplined and strict organization, but he was only worried about Zeng Guofan's increasing prestige, and he couldn't stop Zeng Guofan, so Zhu Jinglun let him go.

This year is an important one.

If it succeeds, not only will the arsenal become a market-oriented giant enterprise, but the key is that if this model is successful, in the future, if the non-governmental promotion is unfavorable, Zhu Jinglun will have one more means of adopting the state-run mode of industrialization.

Nylon Hall opened a machine silk weaving factory, which is a sign of the transformation of the old era of business giants to the new era, if successful, it means that at least the old merchant forces have opened a way to the industrial era, and commercial capital will begin to transform into industrial capital in a big way.

And then there is Zeng Guofan's Taoism, judging from his current progress, what he said can be achieved in three years, not a bragging.

There are also disappointing things, but the Japanese still began the Meiji Restoration, the reformists succeeded in wrestling power from the shogunate, and the three heroes of the Restoration seized the power of the country as in history.

Zhu Jinglun used the Canton Bank to guarantee their credit, and HSBC and the Bank of Bahrain underwrote bonds of 5 million taels each in Kowloon and London, respectively.

With 10 million taels of silver in hand, they bought a large number of munitions, the British provided a large number of rifled rifles, and the Ming provided tens of thousands of smoothbore cannons of various types, but they still failed.

In the first battle of Fushimi Toba, more than 10,000 people participated in the shogunate army, and the strength of the shogunate faction was only 5,000, but both sides were equipped with a large number of artillery and rifles, and the key was that the samurai of the southwest strong domain of the shogunate faction by the sea were composed, and they had already received Western-style military training, and foreigners were invited as advisers, and although the shogunate also had foreigner advisers, the training time was too short, and the most important thing was that the Meiji Emperor issued the edict of the shogunate, and the emperor stood on the side of the shogunate.

Therefore, in the end, the more disciplined, more morale, and more unified command of the Shogunate faction defeated the Shogunate army composed of dozens of daimyo soldiers with different commands, and most of the weapons and equipment purchased by the shogunate at a high price fell into the hands of the Shogunate faction, and many cannons did not even have time to fire a cannon, and even the boxes of shells became the trophies of the Shogunate faction.

In the end, the huge amount of arms purchased by the shogunate not only failed to organize the shogunate to march into Tokyo, but instead became a powerful guarantee for the suppression of the Tohoku daimyo after the Meiji government.

With the defeat of the shogunate, the bonds issued by Japan in Kowloon and London suddenly plummeted, and the banks that guaranteed them had to eat the bonds one at a time, and most of these bonds would eventually become debts owed by Japan to the banks.

The collapse of Japanese bonds also caused a collapse of the Ming bond market, and the Ming government bonds were sold by a large number of people, and the Bank of Guangzhou tried to save the market, but soon it ran into trouble of its own, and in front of many banks, there were people lining up to run on the banknotes issued by the Bank of Guangzhou.

At this time, Zhu Jinglun reacted that this was not an ordinary debt crisis, but a financial blow specifically aimed at the sovereign credit of the Ming Dynasty.