Two years ago, the Cathedral of Manila was built of bamboo and mud bricks, and was burned during the attack on Manila, and today the cathedral is called the Cathedral of St. Augustine of Manila, which is a tall and magnificent baroque stone building consisting of a chapel and a convent.

Shen Qi, accompanied by Felipe, Li Dan and others, walked into the chapel, and as the "personal representative" of the governor of Fujian, he was baptized here by Archbishop Perez, which can be said to be extremely "courteous".

The tall pillars of the chapel are carved with rose-shaped ornaments from the top to the base, the top of the choir attic is decorated with angels holding trumpets, and the high dome is painted with lifelike characters from the Bible, which has a strong sense of three-dimensionality and adds a bit of solemnity to the chapel.

For Shen Qi's baptismal ceremony, the cathedral had already made all preparations, and after Shen Qi, Felipe and others were seated, Grand Bishop Perez stood on the rostrum and began to recite a passage from the Bible.

Then, a Chinese priest came over and asked Shen Qi: "Brother Shen, with Father Perez on the podium to let us hear God's speech, you should clearly know the reason and meaning of baptism, now it is up to you to make a sincere application, raise your hand to express your conscious intention to join the church, today, please express it loudly in front of everyone and God." ”

For a day, Shen Qi went through a painful ordeal before he made up his mind to enter the church, and after hearing these words, with an inexplicable panic, he raised his hand, nodded lightly with a red face, but did not speak.

The cleric then said, "Brother Shen, you have been led to the shores of the Red Sea, and behind you is the Pharaoh of Egypt beckoning to you, inviting you to join the world that is about to be burned. Now, you can choose to cross the river and go forward to endure endless suffering for the Lord, and in the end you will receive the glory promised by God, and of course, you can also choose to turn to Pharaoh, and for all those who are not prepared for the future, who are not ready to make a final decision on the path of suffering for the Lord, you can go back, choose. ”

As a "untouchable" Shen Qi is well versed in the way of business, but extremely unassertive, in order to climb the "magnate", he actually met people like Huang Bingwen, and sat in prison for his crimes, thanks to the transportation to Hai Rui such a clean official, after being released from prison, he deeply repented, looking forward to the soul can be relied on, although the fifteenth day of the first month also went to the temple to worship the Buddha, after all, because he was busy with business, and did not seriously consider the issue of faith.

When faced with a choice, Shen Qi suddenly remembered Chen Yuanhua, it is said that Chen Yuanhua was born as a pirate, and after becoming a devout Christian, he took the initiative to break away from the pirate group and began to do business, as a believer in Jesus, he has not been discriminated against by Elder Moon Sky and Xuande Zhenren, Elder Moon Sky even told Chen Yuanhua that everyone's faith is free, whether you believe in Jesus or believe in Buddha, the key is the word "faith".

Hai Rui left the post of governor of Yingtian, under the manipulation of Liu Gonggong of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, the villains of the East Factory began to liquidate the Tang Ji Weaving Workshop and Xingji Money Village, before the seizure of the Xingji Money Village, Chen Yuanhua had every opportunity to take away the silver in the money village and continue to escape to be a pirate, but because he remembered the word "letter", he did not do so, and before the accident, he cashed out all the silver that could be cashed out to the depositors, and finally failed to escape, and was arrested by the eunuchs of the East Factory and escorted to the west market of the capital to ask for beheading.

If Chen Yuanhua swept away all the silver at that time, how much silver other people had, Shen Qi didn't know, his silver alone amounted to 500,000 taels, if that money was abducted by Chen Yuanhua, it can be said that his Shen family would be completely finished.

Thinking of this, Shen Qi replied loudly: "I am willing!" ”

"Are you willing to live by all the ethics of a Christian?" The grasping priest asked.

"I do!"

So, the cleric took Shen Qi's hand and walked up to the rostrum, and at this time, the nuns of the choir collectively sang "Happy Day......

Archbishop Perez, who was the officiant, stood in front of Shen Qi and said, "Lord, thank you for the Savior who laid down his life for the Church! Come and bless us today as we baptize in front of you and the Witnesses as friends of your children who have heard the gospel. Lord, it is you who have moved your servants to preach and to believe. Lord, thou s*** them, since thou hast moved him to have this desire to join the church, strengthen his faith forever. Keep the baptism ceremony of today, as you promised, so that both the baptist and the baptized may be blessed before you. We pray this in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen! ”

The cleric translated Archbishop Peres' prayer to Shen Qi, who bowed his head and replied, "Thank you, Lord! ”

At this time, Archbishop Perez sprinkled "holy water" on Shen Qi's forehead, and Shen Qi closed his eyes quietly......

After the ceremony, the church prepared a "sacrament" for them, and during the meal, Felipe asked Li Dan to be a teacher for Shen Qi in the future and teach Shen Qi Spanish, and Li Dan happily agreed; Felipe also told Shen Qi that after today's testimony, they are like brothers, and they will help each other in the future.

The day after the baptism, Felipe prepared a million taels of silver for Shen Qi and asked Shen Qi to go to his treasury to check and accept, and at this time, Shen Qi found that the silver in the treasury was not the silver ingot he wanted, but a silver coin called Real minted in Spain.

After counting, it is not a lot to convert into silver ingots, but Shen Qi is a little unsure about this kind of silver coin, and is going to wait for Zhu Hui to come back and take it outside for an appraisal.

Zhu Hui has been in Zhang Gou'er's camp for a day, first told Zhang Gou'er about the current situation of Xu Kun and Gillian girl, and then told Xu Kun's meaning to the dog, and is going to hold a happy event for him and Xu Ajiao on May Day this year.

The dog thanked Zhu Hui, and his heart was full of a lot of questions, although the Spring Festival had just ended, and there were still four months before the May Festival, but when he remembered that as the pioneer officer of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, he had been to Luzon for more than a month, and so far, he had not done anything, so in the remaining four months, could he make his uncle Lin Feng change his mind?

Fortunately, the righteous brother Zhu Hui came, so that Zhang Gou'er had some backbone, and the two had discussed for a night, now in this situation, how to save Lin Feng? And how to deal with Bee Suka Koroku? In the future, I may have to fight with bastards like Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi Hashiba, and Ryonzo Konishishi......

Zhang Gou'er arrived in Luzon with the expeditionary force, and after settling down, he immediately went to find Lin Feng, at that time, Lin Feng didn't know the dog's current identity, and asked him about the situation of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, and was prevaricated by the dog, and then, Lin Feng immediately forced him to go to Japan to contact Yushiba Hideyoshi, and the dog saw that Lin Feng didn't ask about Amin's mother and daughter, knowing that Lin Feng was indeed to the point of burning his eyebrows, pretending to agree to him, and took the opportunity to leave quickly.

The next day, Lin Feng suddenly attacked the camp of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, and at this time, Zhang Gou'er couldn't hide if he wanted to, so he had to put on a battle and take the call head-on.

When Lin Feng found out that Zhang Gou'er was Zhang Fan, the leader of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, he was angry and ready to teach Gou'er a lesson, but Zhang Gou'er had to flee with 200 soldiers.

In the process of pursuing Zhang Gou'er, Lin Feng's army was ambushed by the Spaniards, and when he saw Lin Feng and others falling into a heavy siege, the dog led people back and turned around, pretending to help the Spaniards fight Lin Feng, but in fact, a gap was released for Lin Feng and others, and Lin Feng was able to escape with the remnants of the defeated army.

This incident made General Fernando extremely angry with Zhang Gou'er, and drove them out of the camp at the Bashi River Estuary outside Manila, and Zhang Gou'er did not argue and moved with his soldiers to the current village of Pasig.

In the days that followed, Zhang Gou'er was afraid of Lin Feng's revenge, and afraid that the Spaniards would force them to fight, so he let these 200 Ryukyu soldiers practice wrestling outside the village every day on the grounds of military training.

Since Lin Feng's pursuit of Zhang Gou'er was ambushed by the Spanish army and Zhang Gou'er risked to let him go, Lin Feng's gang has never engaged in military operations again, as if it suddenly disappeared, and the Manila authorities slowly relaxed their vigilance.

On the day of Felipe's return of the merchant ship, the Manila authorities held a vigorous welcoming ceremony at the port for the "personal representative" of the governor of Fujian, and the news reached the village of Pasig, and Zhang Gou'er judged that this time it should be his brother Zhu Hui who came, and immediately entered the royal city of Manila to find Zhu Hui.

Zhang Gou'er ran around the royal city of Manila for a day, and did not find Zhu Hui's whereabouts, but discovered a news that he did not expect, that is, the fleet of the Japanese samurai bee Suga Koroku had arrived in Manila Port for three days.

Zhu Hui told Zhang Gou'er all the information he had without reservation, and the two always judged that the armed forces of the Lin Feng gang were still hiding in the area around Manila, and learned from Mark and Louise that it was the Sakai Town Federation merchant Konishi Lonzo who passed on false information to Archbishop Perez, causing the Manila authorities to accept the Japanese "Christian" fleet that came to support them.

In view of the fact that the Manila authorities preferred to trust the information of the Cooperative businessman Ronzo Jr., they also blocked the information from the ordinary people in the Philippine Islands to prevent the tribal leaders from taking advantage of the fire, and focused their precautions on the city of Manila.

How Bee Suga Xiaoliu got in touch with Lin Feng, what kind of way they would join forces, and what kind of tactics they would adopt to attack Manila City, are now questions for Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er, therefore, there must be a targeted strategic deployment, and it is best to let Lin Feng turn back without blood.

The two soon reached a consensus: it may not be long before there will inevitably be a riot in the Philippine archipelago under the guise of Muslim tribes, and the authorities will inevitably withdraw some of the garrisons from Manila to quell the rebellion.

Since Cai De went to the mainland to move the rescue troops, Zhang Gou'er knew that there were not many generals under Lin Feng, and all the soldiers might not add up to more than three hundred, even if they occupied Manila, it must be Bee Suga Koroku to preside over the political situation, and it won't be too long, Yushiba Hideyoshi in order to commend Konishi Takuza for his merits, he must ask for credit to Konishi Yukiro in front of Oda Nobunaga, and appoint Konishi Yukiro to be the governor of Manila.

According to Oda Nobunaga's so-called strategy of "the world is clothed", once Luzon is occupied by the Japanese, Taiwan and Ryukyu will definitely not be protected, and at that time, a large number of Japanese ronins and wild samurai will be all over the island chain surrounding the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, and Lin Feng and others will become the lackeys of the Japanese, and can only continue to attack the Ming Dynasty for them, becoming infamous traitors through the ages.

Even if Lin Feng and the others continue to stay in Manila City, where they were born and died, and are willing to be vassals of the Japanese and get by, then it is difficult to say whether these Japanese can tolerate him, and when the time comes, it may be difficult to save even their lives.

From Zhang Gou'er's point of view, everything is considered for Lin Feng, therefore, Gou'er feels that it is necessary to meet Lin Feng again before Lin Feng and Bee Suga Xiaoliu make a move, and it is of course best to persuade him to turn back, if Lin Feng makes a lonely bet, he would rather die to admonish him.

Of course, Zhu Hui understood the dog's mood, and immediately denied the dog's idea, saying that it might be better to persuade Lin Feng to come forward by himself, and the effect might be better. The two are that Zhu Hui helped take care of Luo Amin sisters and Lin Feng's daughters in Nanjing for five years, and did not let them suffer the slightest grievance, from Lin Feng's point of view, they should be grateful; The third is that Zhu Hui's father, Zhu Junwang, once fought in Qiumupu Village, although Zhu Hui was still young at that time, he could be regarded as having received Lin Feng's "favor", and he came to persuade him to surrender all for thanks, Lin Feng listened to it if he wanted to, and if he didn't listen, he wouldn't anger him.

Although Zhu Hui's reasons were very sufficient, Zhang Gou'er still felt that it was a little too risky, and the two argued about it.

After arguing for a long time, in fact, they were all facing a problem, and now they didn't know where to find Lin Feng, and it was only then that Zhu Hui told General Fernando's suggestion to Zhang Gou'er.

In the name of the Ming Dynasty's Jinyi Guard Yamen Supervisor, Zhu Hui ordered Zhang Fan, the vanguard officer under the command of the general of the Ryukyu Kingdom, to lead all his horses to obey Zhu Hui's command, and to integrate Zhang Fan's armed forces into the fleet led by Wasuka Koroku, so as to uniformly obey the command of General Fernando, the supreme military commander of Manila.

Zhang Gou'er understood what Zhu Hui meant, once he led his team to join the Japanese fleet, he could obtain a lot of important information, and even secretly cooperate with the Spanish army when Wasuka Xiaoliu and Lin Feng jointly attacked Manila, eliminate Wasuka Xiaoliu's armed forces, and take the opportunity to hold Lin Feng hostage.

Of course, this is the worst plan, if Lin Feng can be allowed to turn back as soon as possible, then the armed forces that plot against Manila will only be more than 1,000 people of Wasuka Koroku, then, the Manila authorities' own armed forces are enough to deal with them, and there is no need to let these 200 brothers of the Ryukyu Kingdom send them to death.

Zhang Gou'er completely agreed with Zhu Hui and General Fernando's opinions, and immediately wrote a letter to General Fernando, asking Zhu Hui to bring him back to Manila, withdraw from this camp tomorrow, join the Japanese "Christian" team, and obey the dual command of the Japanese commander Beesuka Koroku and the "Ming Imperial Court Supervisor" Zhu Hui.

Zhu Hui had been staying in Pasig Village for a day and a night, in order not to worry Shen Qi and Ma Zhishan and others, after getting Zhang Gou'er's letter, he went to see Mr. Mark and Miss Louise, and advised them to wait patiently.

Mark and Louise had long known about Elder Moon's ocean expedition plan, and after hearing Zhu Hui's promise, they were very excited.

Louise knew that Lin Feng was near Manila, and she also knew that Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er had tried to persuade Lin Feng to surrender when they went to Hawksbill Harbor, and she knew that the current situation was completely unfavorable to Lin Feng, so she took the opportunity to beg Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er not to kill Lin Feng after they caught him in the future, and it was best to let Lin Feng be the commander of the ocean-going fleet.

Zhang Gou'er understood her thoughts, after Louise and Lin Feng had a leg, she was still thinking about it, so she subconsciously looked at Mark.

Mark looked quite embarrassed, and immediately asked Xu Linger if he would participate in the ocean expedition in the future, and repeatedly said: He is Yanagishita Hui, he is Yanagishita Hui!

Zhu Hui was not very clear about these allusions, he originally thought that Mark and Louise were husband and wife, and after listening to the words of the two of them, he quietly asked Zhang Gou'er, what was going on.

Zhang Gou'er smiled mysteriously, pointed to Louise and said to Zhu Hui, "We have a great responsibility!" If we don't have a good way to get the commander of the future expedition back, Aunt Amin won't say anything, and this tigress will have to eat you.

Zhu Hui seemed to understand what Zhang Gou'er meant, rolled his eyes, was speechless, and waved goodbye to everyone.

Mr. Mark looked at Zhu Hui's background and continued to shout loudly: I have learned hundreds of Tang poems, and I remember the aphorism of Sage Kong, I am Yanagishita Hui......

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