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Four years have passed, and the future of the missionary career in the Eastern Silk Kingdom has been bleak.

Whenever he was stumped, Titus reminded himself of the stories of the first Christian missionaries hundreds of years ago to encourage him to persevere.

Back in the day, the first missionaries sacrificed their lives to endure hundreds of years of persecution in the Roman Empire. After several generations of perseverance, eventually God's followers spread throughout the Roman Empire, forcing the emperor to repeal the Christian ban.

In the end, even the great Constantine the Great was baptized as a member of Christ, and Christianity eventually gained the status of the state religion of the Roman Empire.

One day, I, Titus, will be able to open a new chapter in Christianity in this eastern country.

Li Yu asked the man to bring Tibilius a bowl of freshly cooked rice balls, and Tiberius thanked him again and again, smelling the fragrance of the rice balls and couldn't wait to eat them.

Looking at Tibilius dressed in Chinese clothes, a smile tugged at the corner of Li Yu's mouth.

It seems that the Roman Empire, the pinnacle of ancient Western civilization, is not very good! A middle-class Roman merchant has only worked hard for a few years, except for his appearance, he is no different from the Chinese.

There are also 25 scholars who helped translate ancient Greece and Rome on astronomy, geography and other scientific works brought by Tibilius, Li Yu gave a courtyard, and all of them became devout disciples who worshiped Chinese culture, often dressed as Confucian scholars, and flaunted their identity as Confucian scholars.

Except for the stubborn preacher.

While eating the dumplings, Tiberius praised the deliciousness, and reported to Li Yu about his achievements in managing the trade routes in the Western Regions last year.

This is a rare opportunity to meet King Yan face-to-face, if you don't take the opportunity to show your ability to improve your status in the heart of His Royal Highness, maybe one day you will kick yourself out and transfer the business of the Western Regions of King Yan's Mansion to someone else.

If it weren't for the fact that he came to the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of that year, he happened to meet the King of Yan who secretly went out of the palace to have fun in Chang'an, and he got his jade pendant and promised Tiberius: If he could bring all kinds of scientific classics from ancient Greece and Rome, especially Ptolemy's "Guide to Geography", then he would be blessed by King Yan in the Tang Dynasty.

This was a great temptation for Tiberius, who came to the Tang Dynasty alone, when he went back to Rome to organize a caravan to the Tang Dynasty again. When Li Yu arrived in Chang'an four years ago, he not only brought the scientific classics that Li Yu needed, but also brought more than 20 scholars, and became Li Yu's right-hand man in translating ancient Greek and Roman scientific classics, supplementing, learning from, and enlightening the missing and deviated scientific system in China.

Without Ptolemy's Guide to Geography brought by Tibilius, it would have been difficult for Li Yu to justify the latitude and longitude of the earth, so as to draw an accurate map and convince Li Chunfeng and other Chinese scientific giants.

With this merit, Tiberius became the head of the Yan Palace, responsible for the operation of the Western Regions trade route, and could receive a commission of 20% of the profits, and his status was only below Cui Xuan, the manager of Li Yu's business system.

From then on, the customs clearance card on the trade road no longer had to be eaten by local officials and soldiers and lose property in vain.

You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, although Fanshang was rich, he had no status in the Tang Dynasty. Every state and county must be stamped on the customs clearance documents by the local chief officer. Hu merchants who brought a large number of orchids to the Tang Dynasty will also specially select a few beautiful orchids to send to the local assassins in order to make friends.

For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Lu Yanmeng's "Guizhou Banquet Gift to Hu Children" said: "Self-Taoism is unattainable, but it is even more decadent." The eyes are deep but the water of the Xiangjiang River, and the nostrils are higher than Huayue Mountain. The dance is difficult to live in the palm of the hand, and the singing should not be around the beam. After Meng Yang's death, he wanted to be for a thousand years, and he was still looking for a beautiful woman. ”

This famous poem ridicules Hu Nu's appearance, or Hu Shang invited Lu Yanmeng to his house as a guest, but the other party unceremoniously wrote a poem to ridicule his daughter's appearance.

While Li Yu and Tiberius were having a good conversation, he looked up and saw an acquaintance sneaking into the crowd.

Under the stage of the Xinxiang Hall Lamp Tower, a sloppy and obscene old man came out of the crowd, looked at the dancer on the stage with huge breasts and muscles like fat snow, and praised again and again: "It's really the Nine Heavens Xuannu!" ”

Seeing this, the literati beside him sneered and said, "The Taoist is a cultivator, how can he love beauty like an ordinary man?" Is this the starting teacher of the first one? ”

The sloppy old Taoist shook his head and said indifferently: "The wine color has passed through the intestines, and the Taoist ancestor has left it in his heart!" ”

The literati around him looked at the sloppy old man in amazement, and shouted in his heart: I have never seen such a brazen person!

Suddenly, two hands stretched out behind his back to grab Lao Dao's shoulders, and Lao Dao, who was staring at the courtesans on the stage, stiffened his face, and sighed: "The wine is wrong!" ”

"My family, please tell the Taoist!"

"The poor road can walk, the two strong men please let go first!"

The hand on Lao Dao's shoulder was released, but four strong men surrounded Lao Dao, escorting the crowd towards the food stall.

Lao Dao smiled bitterly, this is because he is afraid that he will run away!

Looking at Li Yu, who was sitting on a chair in front of him and waving to him, Lao Dao touched a few pimples in his robe.

"Ge Xianchang is really rare to see!" Li Yu smiled: "Please sit down and taste the taste of the new rice balls in this mansion." ”

The guy brought a bowl of steaming round rice balls, which tumbled temptingly, so that Lao Dao swallowed his saliva.

Lao Dao hurriedly stopped his throat longing for food, and replied: "Poor Dao thanked Li Siyang for his food!" ”

"Ge Xianchang, let's eat it, let's calculate what you have been missing for two years, and what about the things that Ben Yan wanted?"

Li Yu said with a sneer, you Ge Jing, Lao Tzu eats and drinks with you, so he has worked for more than a year, leaving his apprentice and defrauding Lao Tzu of tens of thousands of dollars, saying what to find the best prescription. This run has been running for two years, if you can't get a good thing, let's settle accounts with you.

"Xin'er, who is this sloppy old man? Seeing that Si Hao seems to be quite resentful of him. Yang Yuanniang asked Xin'er beside her.

Xin'er said with a smile: "The old Tao is after Wang Haichong's master Ge Jing in the palace and Ge Hong, the Taoist immortal master of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is said that he is proficient in the various works handed down by the ancestor Ge Hong, and boasts that he wants to reproduce the ancestor's thunder method and obtain the Nine Heavens God Thunder Demon Slaying Demon ......"

"Giggle...... Hahaha...... "After Yang Yuanniang, Xiao Jinxuan, Li Cailing and other little ladies heard Xin'er's words, they couldn't stop covering their mouths and giggling, and Yang Shiyan laughed extremely loud, attracting the attention of others.

Ge Jing naturally heard what Xin'er said, and as soon as the black line in his head was in his head, he almost shouted at the girl: The thunder law of the poor road is not blown, and I will have to let you see the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder later.

After a feast, Ge Jing sat down.

Li Yu said with a smile: "Dao Chang has been here for two years, I don't know what Lei Fa has achieved?" ”

"Knock knock......" Ge Jing took out several black rumbling bumps from his sloppy robe and put them on the table.

Li Yu looked at it and was startled, there were torches and oil lamps everywhere on the street, if the damn thing accidentally lit it, wouldn't my life be gone if it was so close?

Although Li Yu's panicked expression flashed, he was still seen by Ge Jing, and said with a smile: "Li Siyun doesn't have to worry, there is a poor road that will never ignite!" ”

Don't worry about ghosts! Li Yu complained.

"Could it be that this is the result of two years of hard work by the Taoist Chief?"

It looks like an earthen grenade, but I don't know how powerful it is.

"Huh! This is the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder that was refined after two years of hard training in the deep mountains, and any demons and monsters will be scattered ...... the soul of those who encounter it."

"It's so powerful, how do you know if you don't try?" Yang Shiyan pouted.

"That's right, Dao Chief, hurry up and let us see." Li Cailing chirped excitedly like a little sparrow.

Listening to this black and autumn is still what the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, Tang Jianzhen, Zhang Zhuo and others, who appreciate the beauty, are also interested, and continue to encourage them to try.

Li Yu looked at Ge Jing wistfully, meaning that you hurry up and let me see one, the effect is not good to make you look good.

Ge Jing sorted out his rather sloppy Dao robe, "If you want to see it, then the poor Dao will try to give you a look at the power of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder." ”

"Vacate a blank area, the poor road is about to test the thunder!"

Li Yu hurriedly asked the guards to clear a field in front of the big food stall, and the people around heard that there was an old Taoist who wanted to try the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and they were curious to gather around the empty field to watch the excitement.

"Look at the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder of the Poor Dao!" Ge Jing took a candle and lit one and threw it into the clearing.

The black bump bounced up when it hit the ground, and unfortunately the drunken Cheng Wuzhong came back after peeing and pushed away the crowd and walked into the empty field, wondering why there were so many people around him Why did they vacate such a large area here?

The Nine Heavens Divine Thunder thrown by Ge Jing rolled in front of Cheng Wuzhong's feet, and Li Yu was shocked.

"Bang!"

There was a loud bang, and the fire flashed in front of Cheng Wuzhong, and a large cloud of black smoke rose to cover Cheng Wuzhong's tall and strong body, and then fell to the ground.

The crowd of spectators around was fiercely suppressed, and their minds kept thinking that this was really like a thunderstorm on a rainy day, and the Taoist gods and people were also.

Li Yu and the others were frightened, not by thunder, but by Cheng Wuzhong, who might have hung up.

Ge Jing is also stunned, he won't kill anyone, right? No, this thing is loud, and it can't kill people with a lot of black smoke.

"Ahh Cheng Wuzhong got up, looked up to the sky and roared, his nostrils and mouth emitted unpleasant black smoke, and the originally white and pure young talent became a black charcoal at this time, and his hair was scattered and extremely embarrassed.

Cheng Wuzhong, who woke up from alcohol, stared at the stunned Ge Jing with his fire-like eyes.

When the onlookers saw this scene, they couldn't hide it anymore, and they couldn't stop laughing.

Yang Shiyan and Li Cailing are even more smiling and leaning back together, without any image at all.

Li Yu was startled, and then his forehead was full of black lines, and he looked at Ge Jing's back gloomily.

"Poor Dao pinched his fingers, there are Taoist friends invited, you will meet again!"

Ge Jing saw it, screamed in his heart, smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and quickly squeezed into the crowd and fled.

"The surname is Ge." Li Yu was extremely angry and shouted.

"Li Siyang, in March, the poor Daoding will go to Pyongyang to give you a satisfactory answer!"

"Demon Dao Cultivation Go!" Cheng Wuzhong hated it and chased after him.