After Kangxi, the Qing government forbade Catholic public missionaries, but their churches in Beijing still existed, and the priests did not drive them away, because the emperor needed the expertise of these missionaries, and the Western-style buildings in the Old Summer Palace were not made out of thin air by local craftsmen.

Open proselytizing is forbidden, but secret proselytizing is indispensable, from the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong to the hinterland of Sichuan and Shaanxi, there are missionaries secretly preaching, Chinese priests in Gansu can even go to Italy to study, and the secret religious channels woven by the Catholic Church cover a wide range of machines.

In the 11th year of Qianlong, there was a case similar to that in North Korea, in Fujian, Father Francis, who was arrested and strangled to death in prison; Father Ruo Yajing was in the Min County Prison, and he choked his facial features with lime, causing him to suffocate to death; Fr. Fayman (John) and Fr. Shi (Francis) were both hanged in prison. In Zhaowen, Jiangsu Province and other places, Tan Francis, an Italian who secretly preached Catholicism, and Anthony, a Portuguese, were also seized. The emperor ordered him to die.

Many more were killed by local Chinese priests after they were discovered.

These religious forces, which were not supported in the Manchu Dynasty, have now changed dynasties, and they are also the first forces to seek Zhou Lang's support.

The Catholic Church in Beijing and the Russian Orthodox Church all sent people to visit Zhou Lang and ask for permission to preach freely.

Ideologically speaking, Zhou Lang doesn't care about this, I'm not your father, what do I care you believe! But from a political point of view, he must impose certain restrictions. But politics can never kill religion, the Manchus were so ruthless, the missionaries were still all over China, and the Catholics in Shanghai operated secretly from the end of the Ming Dynasty until after the Opium War.

Striking them can only allow their activities to be transferred from the ground to the underground, and the fact is still there.

Therefore, Zhou Lang told the missionaries that he did not oppose religious beliefs in principle, and also agreed to the missionaries' request to allow them to buy land and build their own churches, but he drew a line for them, and they could only be confined to the cities that had been opened, and they were forbidden to enter the interior, especially the countryside, to preach.

As for the fact that Western religions will spread in the city, Zhou Lang is not worried, these are not rebel organizations, formal religion will not oppose politics, and the White Lotus Sect will. And compared to those witches and gods, formal religion is more progressive.

It's just that Zhou Lang has some hatred for the local religion, and the Western religion can cross half the world and run from Europe to China to preach, why can't China's Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism go out, and can't impact the thinking of Westerners and create chaos for them?

Needless to say, Confucianism is not a religion that is keen to spread, or even just an academic school with a religious nature, Confucius should be regarded as the ancestor of teachers, but the status of the teaching profession in China is too high, monopolizing political power.

Buddhism has degenerated to the point that a monk only knows incense money, and the secular temple has become a place to hide filth and dirt, if every monk is an ascetic, maintaining the spirit of the Tang monk era, maybe be able to go out.

Taoism admires the idea of idle clouds and wild cranes, whether you believe it or not, Lao Tzu is high.

Western religions, on the other hand, have expanded with higher management and organizational capabilities, running schools, hospitals, and missionaries through a more rigorous organizational form, which is naturally more efficient than Chinese religions.

Of course, the decline of traditional Chinese religion is related to their excessive pursuit of political support, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have been co-opted by the government, Confucianism needless to say, there is no dynasty that did not treat the Confucian family favorably, Taoism also won over to the side of the government through the method of canonizing the Heavenly Master, only one Buddhism is closer to the common people, but it has been secularized. Relying on the resources of the majority of believers, the monks also played the roles of merchants and landlords, and they refused to preach like ascetics.

Since ancient times, China has been a country with more power than theocracy, having suppressed religion thousands of years ago, and Zhou Lang had no fear that the spread of Catholicism would overthrow his regime and change the strong position of the Chinese regime.

The fear is only that in the process of propagation, there will be a conflict with the traditional forces, and then it will bring great chaos, such as the priest going deep into the countryside and the possibility of being killed by the people who believe in the local religion, and when the Catholic believers go into hiding, it will become a weapon between two groups of believers, all of which have happened in the late Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhou Lang refused to allow the priests to go to the countryside to preach. But this is already a huge step forward for the Catholic Church, and they have expressed their gratitude to Zhou Lang. Of course, Zhou Lang decisively refused their attempt to persuade Zhou Lang to accept baptism. And there is no need for the identity of two devils to obtain political protection from Western countries. He wants to stand up and compete head-on with Westerners, and China before the Industrial Revolution still has this power.

Therefore, Zhou Lang did not question the North Korean teaching plan, but still raised it, and questioned the DPRK government's unauthorized killing of Chinese in the court; the envoy was sweating profusely, the little emperor of North Korea had just taken the throne, and the government of the DPRK was chaotic; if China really wanted to question the DPRK, it would probably be a huge disaster for the DPRK.

The envoy first explained the incident in detail, and finally tried to solve the matter by saying that when the incident happened, the Great Zhou had just been established, and they did not know about it, otherwise they would have come back to report it as an explanation.

Zhou Lang nodded in agreement with the envoy's statement, which made the envoy breathe a sigh of relief, but Zhou Lang immediately proposed that this kind of thing must not happen in the future, and the envoy said that the Korean state will definitely not dispose of the citizens of the country without authorization in the future, and if there are citizens of the country who violate the law in Korea, they will definitely make up for it and send it to the court of the country for disposal.

Zhou Lang said that this is not necessary, if this is tantamount to encouraging the traitors of the Great Zhou to go to North Korea as traitors, out of favor to the Korean state, Zhou Lang agreed that the Korean state should deal with the people of the Great Zhou who entered North Korea in accordance with its own laws, but asked the North Korean government to inform the Great Zhou in advance.

In order to facilitate communication, Zhou Lang said that he would send an envoy to North Korea.

The North Korean envoy immediately knelt on the ground and did not dare to speak.

He can't be the master of this matter, and he sent an envoy to Qin, isn't this equivalent to sending a Taishang Emperor, who had been stationed in North Korea for a long time before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and made North Korea angry and resentful at that time. If he also brought back a Taishang Emperor from Da Zhou, he would be dead. Whether it is the current minister or the emperor who will grow up in the future, he will not let him go.

But if you don't accept it, this is a disobedience to the kingdom, if the Great Zhou sends troops, North Korea will be burned, and he will still die.

So the messenger could only not speak, but only kowtowed.

Zhou Lang knows what the North Koreans are afraid of, he has no interest in North Korea, and if North Korea is now included in the territory, it is nothing more than millions of different cultural aliens, whether it is good or bad, it is really not good, it is better to let them fend for themselves, strengthen commercial, economic and cultural exchanges, if they can assimilate North Korea in a few decades, then it is not too late to consider taking it over.

So he told the Korean envoy that the envoy he planned to send would not interfere in the affairs of the DPRK, but would only be responsible for handling disputes between the two countries. North Koreans will not be bullied, and Chinese will not be allowed to be bullied by North Korea. The official position of the representative is set as the second rank, which is lower than that of the king of Joseon, but represents the Great Zhou, so there is no need to greet the king of Joseon, and the king of Joseon is allowed not to treat the envoy as a messenger, and the two sides are equal.

Saying this, the North Korean envoy breathed a sigh of relief, if this is the case, then he can still live.

He still didn't speak, kowtowing and thanking him, because de jure this was the emperor's holy ruling, and the king of Korea could not object to it.

After the Korean envoy, soon the Vietnamese envoy arrived, and the Vietnamese envoy made it a little difficult for Zhou Lang, because they came with two, representing two political forces.

One is a representative of the Nguyen Dynasty that is about to be reunified, and the other is a representative of the Tay Son Dynasty that is on the verge of extinction.

How to meet, who to meet, and who not to see, all of this is particular.

Even the ministers under Zhou Lang disagreed.

Before that, the Tay Son Dynasty almost unified Vietnam. Before them, Vietnam had gone through a long era of confrontation between the North and the South, and was known as the North and South Dynasty of Vietnam.

In this era, the nominally legitimate dynasty of Vietnam was called the Le Dynasty, but the Quanchen Zheng clan monopolized the power, the Quanchen Nguyen ran to the south to divide the territory, the Zheng clan coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, the Nguyen clan was not satisfied, and a long war broke out, and the Tay Son peasant uprising wiped out the two warlords successively.

When going north to destroy the Zheng family, the Empress Dowager of the Li Dynasty ran to China to ask Qianlong for help, because the Li Dynasty was an orthodox dynasty recognized by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so Qianlong sent Sun Shiyi, the governor of Liangguang, to lead an army of 20,000 into Vietnam, claiming that "the rise and fall will be extinct". Occupy Thang Long City (Hanoi) and re-establish Le Vy Qi as emperor after Xuan Tianzi's edict. Soon, Nguyen Van Huy, the leader of the Tay Son rebel army, attacked Thang Long, and Sun Shiyi responded in a hurry and fled back to China in defeat.

Then Nguyen Van Hue pleaded guilty to Qianlong, "Hui is in Annam, he knows that Jia is in great trouble, and he is afraid that he will take advantage of it, so he will knock on the pass to apologize and beg to surrender", Qianlong has stepped down, and immediately canonized Ruan's family as "the king of Annam".

In other words, the Xishan Dynasty was an orthodox dynasty canonized by the Qing Dynasty, so some ministers believed that the Xishan Dynasty was orthodox and the Nguyen Dynasty was rebellious, and they should receive the envoys of the Xishan Dynasty and expel the envoys of the Ruan clan. Some ministers also said that the Manchus were originally Hulu, and their canonization was invalid, and the Great Zhou should receive the envoys of the Ruan family.

Zhou Lang knew that the Ruan family and the envoys of the Xishan Dynasty had done a lot of public relations work in Nanjing, and most of the former Qing Dynasty ministers in the Ministry of Rites in charge of foreign affairs established by Wang Fuqian had eaten the benefits of these two families and spoke for them.

Sooner or later, Zhou Lang will kill a wave of people.

But not now.

The official reception represents the official attitude, so the meeting is private.

The leader of the rebel army of the Tay Son Dynasty was the third brother, Nguyen Van Ngo, Nguyen Van Nguyen, and Nguyen Van Huy, Nguyen Van Ngo was the eldest and therefore the leader of the uprising. However, in the uprising, the three brothers had their own forces and eliminated the Nguyen clan in the south. The eldest brother Nguyen Van Ngo was called the Central Emperor in Quy Nhon, and he was named the King of Dong Dinh and governed Gia Dinh; Nguyen Van Hue was the king of Peiping and was stationed in Phu Xuan.

The three brothers entered a new era of secession.