CHAPTER XVII
The little minion cried and said with a sad face: "Master Gao, something happened, Huang Yuanchang and the government arrested them." ”
As soon as he heard this, Gao Hongsheng immediately exploded, could it be because the government knew that his gang was bandits, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" Say it. ”
The little minion told me what had happened.
After listening to the little minion's story, Gao Hongsheng put his heart in his stomach, as long as it was not a matter of whether he was a bandit.
In fact, this matter is very simple, that is, Huang Yuanchang was a little cheaper and beat a sectarian.
If you really want to blame it, you still have to blame Gao Hongsheng, who told him to give silver to the bandits, isn't this nothing to do?
Huang Yuanchang led the two little minions to run the goods, in fact, they sent the orders to the two stores, and finalized that it would be fine to send the goods over early tomorrow morning.
After finishing the business, it is still early, and there is a little bad money in this hand, plus after entering Jinan Mansion, he has been busy, and he has not even walked around Jinan Mansion.
But this detour was far away, and when I passed by a church, I patronized and met a parishioner.
Although Huang Yuanchang and the others were born as bandits, they also knew that they had to be careful when they entered Jinan Mansion, so they didn't miss anything, so they hurriedly compensated others, but who knew that the people of the church would stop doing it, so they had to ask them to compensate.
Huang Yuanchang and the others were worried that they would show their feet, so they didn't dare to argue too much, thinking about the loss points, so they took out an eagle and gave it to others.
But what I didn't expect was that the parishioner was not a good thing in the first place, and the intention was to touch porcelain.
Seeing that they were an eagle as soon as they made a move, they thought they were a big fish, so they didn't do it.
Huang Yuanchang They were originally bandits, when did they receive this, Ma De kindly gave you an eagle and didn't do it, but you have to rip off the bamboo bar, you can still endure it there.
Huang Yuanchang and another little minion went up and beat up the parishioner.
And the little minion who ran back to report the news directly hid to the side to take the wind.
These bandits are used to robbing and committing murders, and they must leave one of them out at any time, otherwise what will happen if the officers and soldiers come.
It's thanks to this kid who hiding, or he didn't even have a reporter.
You said you can beat it, but Huang Yuanchang and the others beat people in the wrong place, just at the door of the church.
Within a few blows, the parishioner howled a few times. Before the two of them could react, a group of people rushed out of the church with a hula and surrounded Huang Yuanchang and another beating minion.
This little minion didn't look good, so he secretly hid in the crowd.
Then I saw Huang Yuanchang and the two of them, who were taken to the yamen by the officials who rushed over, and a foreign priest in the church also followed.
The little minion saw that something had happened, so he hurriedly ran back to report it.
Gao Hongsheng really didn't take it seriously, didn't he just beat someone? What can I do, it's a big deal to lose some money and it's over.
Now he has money left, and he can't solve anything with money.
Therefore, he didn't take it seriously, and ordered the minions who stayed in the yard to continue to pick up the goods, so he took this little minion to find the help of Shopkeeper Liu, so that he could spend some money to get people out.
But when he entered the living room of the back house and finished talking to Shopkeeper Liu, Shopkeeper Liu made a difficulty, and said in a deep voice: "Shopkeeper Gao, this matter is not easy to do, it may not be a simple loss of money, it may have to save face." ”
When Gao Hongsheng heard what Shopkeeper Liu said, he didn't understand it directly, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on with this face-sweeping?" ”
Through the babbling words of the shopkeeper Liu, Gao Hongsheng understood why the Chinese have been afraid of foreigners until now, and it turned out that the root was left by the Great Qing Kingdom.
First of all, let's talk about who these church members who came to China to preach.
Everyone says that foreigners come to China to preach, but what kind of religion is this?
What is preached is Christianity, that is, foreign religion.
In fact, there are differences in Christianity, one is Catholicism, one is Protestantism, and the other is Orthodox Christianity.
Among these branches, Catholicism is the most powerful, the people are the earliest churches, and the other denominations are its branches, which is really a long history, and the congregation has gone to the sea, and the head is the Pope in Rome.
The Orthodox Church was mainly made by Lao Maozi in order to get rid of the control of the Roman Church, and the supreme bishop was in Moscow, cow bar.
The rest is Protestantism, which is also called Jesus. Who created this Protestantism?
Protestantism is actually something that Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Northern Europe, and so on, created in order to get rid of the control of the papacy.
As soon as the schism began, Catholicism thought that other sects could not listen to them, and began to compete for the congregation, even going so far as to start wars, such as the famous "Thirty Years' War".
Another thing about Catholicism is that it has done a lot of bad things in order to win over the people, not in China, but all over the world.
As soon as the door to China was opened, the Catholic Church immediately came running over and began to compete for the people, so how did it compete for the people?
In China, the easiest way to do this is to give the people the leadership of the church.
At this point, I want to talk about the social status of these church leaders in the Qing Zhengfu period. Otherwise, you may not understand what these church members rely on.
The archbishop and bishop are equivalent to the provincial minister, which means that they can go to the governor or minister at will, because they are at the same level.
The chief priest of the church is equivalent to a department-level cadre, who can meet various Taoists and so on at any time, as well as the prefect of Jinan Mansion.
The other priests (duos) are also known as minor priests, equivalent to department-level cadres, who can meet with district heads, county magistrates, and so on.
Even a small lowest-ranking priest can also sit in a large green tweed sedan chair of an official.
Look at the people of the church in China, basically everyone can sit in the green tweed official sedan chair, which is equivalent to being an official.
Now I understand why the Chinese were afraid of foreigners in the past, you Ma De is a foreigner or a petty official.
What the people are most afraid of is the official, the county order of breaking the family, the order of destroying the door Yin (yin), under the three woods, why not ask for it, these are not fake, the officials at that time were all ruled by man, there was no rule of law, and if you want to kill you, it's the same as playing.
These officials of the Qing Dynasty couldn't tell who these foreign monks were doing.
Basically, as long as a foreign monk comes, he will have to meet with a famous thorn.
Otherwise, there will be trouble, you are not afraid, you are afraid of a higher level than you!
Moreover, the people of this sub-church are also very fond of the bad things of the parishioners below, and they never ask about the specific situation, as long as the parishioners complain, they immediately run to the officials to fight a lawsuit.
In fact, they don't care, as long as the priest doesn't help him with the lawsuit, these people will immediately apostatize.
Later, these parishioners learned to go directly to the whole post, and if the officials didn't help, then he would find a priest to come over.
At the same time, these Catholics never look at it when they accept people, it really doesn't care, stinky fish and rotten shrimp are collected, and they are not taboo, and even ruffians, hooligans, bandits, and robbers are all collected as parishioners.
And the main thing is that as long as you are a parishioner, you are killing someone, and if the priest comes forward for you, you will be fine. There is no, and the officials of Qing Zhengfu don't even dare to catch it.
If you think about it, this gang of ruffians, hooligans, bandits, and even robbers have all become religious people, and there are even more powerful people than the government to support them in the back, isn't that lawlessness and all kinds of evil.
How rampant are these people? How to say it, when the modern underworld encounters them, they can only shout at the second brother.
What is the journey of the cow?
Let's talk about the simplest, a seller of foreign oil, that is, a seller of kerosene, is called Zhang Xianlie, from Nangong County. This thing must be shouted and shouted, and people shouted a few words, "selling foreign oil".
When the parishioners heard this, they said out of nothing that he shouted, "Resist the Westerners!" Then he went to the magistrate.
The county officials didn't dare to offend these sectarians, so they had no choice but to convict Zhang Xianlie and apologize. There was no way, Zhang Xianlie had to set up three or four tables of banquets, invite the people to eat wine, and kowtow to apologize.
It is so rampant that it can be said that these parishioners have become lawless figures who are above the entire society.
Every day is to create all kinds of incidents, and then start blackmailing, either blackmail money, or occupy real estate and fields, if you have no money, you will be punished for setting up a banquet, kowtowing to make amends, etc., and also watch people put off dishes, see how much financial resources you have, and then the lion opens his mouth widely, and he bites hard when he gets wet.
The extent of their danger can be explained by the report of an official, and there are no less than hundreds of people who have been punished in the northwest of Jining Prefecture alone, and I don't know how many have not been reported to the government.
Now Hong Jincai and they are in such a big trouble, and they also stabbed a hornet's nest and beat people at the door of the church.
Do you think that these sub-sectarians can let Gao Hongsheng go of them?