Chapter 411: Seeing the Subtle Knowledge

Sanjiang Commercial Bank has its own guy who is familiar with Jingshi Nanchengmen Road, and Jiang Feng and his party followed behind this guy, and soon arrived at the place they were looking for.

When I arrived here, I was startled, there was a church with a cross on the spire, and the guy who led the way thought that the owner of the general number who came over in Liaoyang was very surprised by this, and hurriedly explained:

"These foreign monks came from the south, got the certificate of missionary in the government, and built a foreign temple here, but no one believed it, but it became a distribution place for foreign goods, and our trading houses often came here to pick up goods and buy goods."

After Jiang Feng heard this, he smiled slightly, he originally thought that such a church must have no possibility of survival in Daming, the Chinese people have worshiped God for thousands of years and did not believe in God, and those who have temples and statues are to go in and worship, but there is no real piety and sincerity.

These churches were built by missionaries from far away Europe, they were not wealthy characters, and they could not be like those companions in Japan and Nanyang, relying on the strength of their own country to be a local man, the Ming Empire was a giant in the world at that time, and it was also a forbidden sea. Even if the Europeans had such and such strength at sea, they still could not influence the interior of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Westerners have always been active-minded, and the attitude of the people and officials towards religion is to stay away, so for temples and churches and other buildings, it has always been very loose, but after the prosperity of maritime trade, there is still a certain demand for some Western mechanical gadgets and some special novelties, and the priests simply use the church as a warehouse for maritime merchants for their own survival.

Now the carriage and horse shop and the transport are also developed, there are goods delivered to the carriage and horse shop or the ship shop at the port, and they are brought to the capital to sell, but there is also a lot of money in hand, for this, the evaluation of the guy who led the way is quite interesting:

"Don't you know, the owner is too fake, this foreign monk is too fake, the little one has been in Beijing for five years, and I have seen no less than ten foreign monks who have made a fortune and returned to the vulgar because of selling foreign goods."

When the guards around Jiang Feng heard this, they couldn't help but burst into laughter, Jiang Feng said with a smile:

"Westerners are mercenary, which is also ordinary, but our Dutch people in Huazhou are burdened with blood and hatred, which is the need to find a spiritual sustenance, but in the past year or so, haven't they also opened shops and bought boats to launch the water? Do you see these people going to church? ”

The man from the business firm who led the way obviously also got the instructions of his own shopkeeper, saying that it was the first time that the owner from Liao Town came to the capital, and he had to explain more along the way, leading the way was secondary, and the joy of playing with the owner was the main thing, of course, the guy who was selected to lead the way was also a smart and clever character, all the way as a tour guide, seeing Jiang Feng and these people talking and laughing at the church, he also followed with a smile and did not urge.

They made a lot of movement here, but the priest in the church was alarmed, and hurriedly came out to watch, but saw a group of people waiting on the horse to point out to the church, this priest has been in China for some years, naturally he knows how to read words and feelings, and he is also a little accurate in looking at people.

As soon as I looked at Jiang Feng and his party, I knew that these people were either rich or expensive, although they were doing some small business, but there were often three or five believers in the church, which was too deserted, and they were always thinking about whether they could pull more people into the church.

Hurriedly walked up to him, bowed down and saluted, and said:

"Outside of you, are you interested in a place to spread the glory of God, which means that we are destined people, please come in and have a cup of fragrant tea?"

This is an authentic Jingshi official dialect, strictly speaking, it is much more authentic than Jiang Feng and other official dialects with a slight Shandong accent, Jiang Feng nodded immediately and said:

"Thank you for your kindness, we just wanted to inquire about someone, is there a craftsman named Wu Guang who lives around here?"

The priest was a little disappointed, but replied respectfully:

"Wu Guang? He lives in the third house to the west......"

As soon as he finished saying this, he suddenly felt that something was thrown on the opposite side, he subconsciously reached out to catch it, and took a closer look at it was a small silver ingot, at this time, a large number of precious metals from the Americas and Japan flowed in, and silver was not as valuable as it was back then, but this was also a generous gift.

The priest looked up and was about to say something, but when he saw that a group of men had turned their horses and gone away, the man who led the way said with a smile on the donkey:

"What's the matter, this is our host's reward."

The guy who led the way was naturally happy in his heart, the owner was so generous, could he have less benefits, and he chased the donkey in his heart, Jiang Feng walked slowly in front, as if he was thinking about something, and suddenly said:

"In the past, people were proud to be able to speak foreign languages, and even if they couldn't, they had to pop up a few words to make themselves different! But you can see that now, whether it is the priests of Huazhou or Daming, they are busy studying the official language, which is really ......"

The guards on the side were stunned when they heard it, and thought to themselves, my lord, you have grown up in Beijing since you were a child, when did the Ming Dynasty become popular in foreign languages, and the Dutch people in Huazhou, although some people speak Spanish and some people say Flemish language, but now they themselves are desperately learning Chinese, and the Dutch people do not speak European languages with each other but use the official dialect of the Han people instead, and the Han people will not have any consciousness of learning foreign languages at all.

Jiang Feng also felt the surprise of the guards on the side, he was also dumbfounded, when he reached his thirties, he gradually began to recall those things that he had not crossed, he still remembered that when he was studying cooking in a vocational school, a student who was very poor at cooking had a much higher income than them because he knew some English, thinking of this, Jiang Feng shook his head and said:

"It's okay, I also remembered some interesting anecdotes I heard from the maritime merchants back then, and you boys have less knowledge, and you don't know that there are people who deliberately roll up their tongues to say official words!"

The guards around him all thought that Jiang Feng was in a good mood so he made a joke, there would be people there to take it seriously, they were all there giggling and laughing, and when he spoke, he had already arrived at the door of the craftsman Wu Guang's house, and as soon as he turned over and dismounted, Jiang Feng remembered something and whispered to the secretary beside him:

"When the messenger from Huazhou comes and brings my message back, the church of the Dutch people must also be watched, and it cannot be placed under the nose where it cannot be seen, and let Liu Sima and Chen Chong go together to prepare for that Taoist mission."

The secretary hurriedly wrote it down, the guy sent by the Sanjiang Commercial Bank to lead the way had already gone to knock on the door, and after a while, a white and somewhat thin young man came out of the door, looking at the people outside suspiciously, the guy had obviously dealt with him, and said with a smile:

"Wu Guang, our owner wants to meet you."

Seeing that Wu Guang was still a little ignorant, the guy came over and whispered:

"Our owner is also a great character, you kid don't hurry up and let it in!"

This Wu Guangcai reacted a little, and hurriedly invited everyone to the courtyard, Huang Liping of Sanjiang Commercial Bank He had seen it, it was already extraordinary, this is still the owner of the top, and it is worth it.

However, the guards behind him whispered in Jiang Feng's ear:

"Master, what kind of craftsman does this person look like, he is clearly a weak scholar."

These guards are Jiang Feng's most descendant or the children of those people, most of them are from the artisan families of Tianjin Weisuo, and the craftsmen they see are all middle-aged and elderly men with dark faces, full of wrinkles, and thick fingers, which is also normal, the artisan battalions of the official family all treat the craftsmen as slaves, where will there be any good treatment, of course, this is already a fixed impression for them, so when they see such white and weak craftsmen, they feel that they are not craftsmen at all, but scholars.

Hearing these words, Jiang Feng shook his hand to stop the whispered discussion of his subordinates, he had his own judgment in his heart, he had seen a lot of this type of craftsman in the era he had not crossed, but at that time there was a special title, which was generally called technician or technician.

This craftsman named Wu Guang was obviously a little at a loss for receiving so many guests, or the guy who led the way from the Sanjiang Commercial Bank took the initiative to help serve tea and settle down, the room was quite spacious, and the food and clothing were also very good, and I think the income from repairing these clever things was good.

Although the room is spacious, it is disorganized, and there are all kinds of strange things and tools everywhere, Jiang Feng and the two guards came inside, and the rest of the people were left outside, Jiang Feng looked around at the furnishings, and in this era, it is rare to see so many mechanical things.

Wu Guang rubbed his hands and didn't know what to say, Jiang Feng sent the guy who led the way outside, took the flint short gun with ox tendon on the hammer from the guard's hand, and said straight to the point:

"Did you do that? Can it still be made? ”

Seeing the firearm in Jiang Feng's hand, Wu Guang opened his mouth and smiled and said:

"Of course I made it, I don't make this style of firecrackle now."

"Oh?"

"I've made some improvements......."