In the past few days since he returned to Zhenjiang from Suzhou, Zhou Shixiang has not been idle, not only has a large number of official documents to deal with him, but also has to constantly summon his subordinate generals to teach them face-to-face. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info's plan to go north to Liaodong in April had to be put on hold due to the Jiangnan riots, and the current post-chaos reconstruction and disaster relief have become the top priorities of the military department.

This not only requires the army to stabilize the localities, exterminate the remaining bandits, restore local law and order, and re-establish local rule, but more importantly, the army needs to face the people as a "savior." Large quantities of military rations that had been mobilized from various places to Songjiang and Chongming had to be pulled out of warehouses to help the people whose homes had been destroyed due to the riots.

According to preliminary statistics, as many as 120,000 people were killed or injured in the riots, and nearly 500,000 people were displaced and homeless. If we can combine disaster relief and resettlement with the anti-rebellion movement, so that the displaced people can return to their hometowns and rebuild their homes as soon as possible, it will undoubtedly greatly change the image of the Taiping Army and shorten the distance between the Taiping Army and the people in Jiangnan.

Zhou Shi attached great importance to post-disaster reconstruction and successively invested the strength of four towns for disaster relief. Before the Taiping Army, the Ming Dynasty army had almost never had the experience of large-scale disaster relief, and had no experience in this area. As early as Guangdong, the Taiping Army was engaged in typhoon disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction. To a certain extent, the Taiping Army already had the prototype of the people's army of later generations, of course, it was only the prototype of the army mechanism, not the ideological and human aspects. In essence, the Taiping Army was still a feudal army, but because of its commander-in-chief, it had some functions of the army of later generations.

While busy making arrangements for post-disaster reconstruction and resettlement of the victims, Zhou Shixiang took time out to meet with Nan Huairen, a missionary from Beijing.

After Nan Huairen went south from Beijing, he first stayed in Yangzhou for half a month, and then was sent to the southern capital. Before going to Zhenjiang, Nan Huairen met Zhu Cixuan, who was admitted to the palace by Emperor Dingwu.

Zhu Cixuan was baptized as a Catholic at birth, and his Christian name was "Dangding", that is, "Constantine". At that time, the Western clergy who baptized Zhu Cixuan hoped that through Zhu Cixuan's baptism and enthronement, the Ming Dynasty could begin to convert to Catholicism as the state religion as the Roman Empire did. This strategy was successful, because not only was Zhu Cixuan baptized as a Catholic, but the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang himself became a Catholic.

However, it is a pity that Zhu Youlang failed to restore the Ming Dynasty, but died in the mountains of Sichuan. The current emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not interested in Catholicism, and because of Zhu Youlang, Zhu Cixuan had lost his identity as the successor of the Ming Empire. According to palace sources, it is likely that Zhu Cixuan will be canonized as a prince by the emperor and then return to live in Hengzhou, where his grandfather once lived. Whether this news is true or not, Nan Huairen has no way to tell for the time being. What he can be sure of is that Zhu Cixuan can no longer become a collaborator of the Catholic Church, and the only partner that the Catholic Church can cooperate with now is the King of Qi who is not in the southern capital, that is, the "thief Xiucai" in the Tatar population.

After more than two months of boring waiting, Nan Huairen was finally informed that he could meet His Royal Highness King Qi in person. With a little apprehension, Nan Huairen traveled from Nandu to Zhenjiang, and on the way heard the news that a riot was taking place in Jiangnan. This news made Nan Huairen very distressed, because he was worried that His Royal Highness the King of Qi might have to give up meeting with him because of this matter. In fact, just as Nan Huairen thought, after he arrived in Zhenjiang, he really did not see His Royal Highness King Qi, but was placed in a temple by local officials.

Half a month later, he saw His Royal Highness King Qi who had returned from other places. To his delight, the young King Qi seemed to be no stranger to him, and he was not hostile to Catholicism, which did not match the information coming from Macau about His Royal Highness the King of Qi.

Nan Huairen was a little excited, thinking that he was right to come to the South, and that it was very likely that the grand cause of Catholicism in the East would be opened in his hands. However, Nan Huairen did not expect that although the young King of Qi had a good impression of Catholicism and him, he did not want to listen to him talk more about the gospel of God, but told him that the Catholic missionaries in the East must assist his army in the improvement and production of firearms and cannons, and serve in the schools he opened to teach them arithmetic, astronomy, geography, shipbuilding, and other knowledge. Only if the work of the missionaries satisfies him, he may consider granting the Catholic Church the freedom to preach in the East.

In the end, His Royal Highness the King of Qi told Nan Huairen in an almost threatening tone that if he did not agree, or if his church did not agree to his demands, then the Catholic Church would be declared a cult and all their activities in China would be banned in the form of a law.

Nan Huairen could not make decisions for the church, so he wrote a letter to John Tong in Beijing. However, he himself agreed to the request of His Royal Highness the King of Qi and was willing to assist the Ordnance Department of the Ming Dynasty in the development of the flowering cannonballs claimed by the King of Qi.

Zhou Shixiang's attitude towards religion is the same as always, that is, all religions are cults, and as long as they claim the existence of gods, they are all anti-civilization existences. It's just that he himself doesn't believe in God or religion, but the people of this era are superstitious about the existence of these fictional things. Even in his previous life, there were many foolish people who believed in the existence of so-called gods.

Since there is no way to stop the spread of religion, the only way is to create one.

At the same time as suppressing Maitreya, Zhou Shixiang secretly ordered the military department to increase support for Luojiao, and began to compile a new doctrine, adding the ideas he recognized, and combining the missionary advantages of Maitreya's monotheistic religion, with the intention of building Luojiao into the only religion or major religion of the Han people.

Among them, aggressiveness and grouping are what Zhou Shixiang hopes Luo Jiao can have. Because he didn't want that after his death, or one day in the future, there would be a spread of foreign religion into China, leading to serious religious problems. Then, when the government did not act or did not realize the threat of religion, Luojiao, as a monotheistic religion of the Han people, was able to fight at the forefront of the anti-invasion religious battle, and also expanded outward, so that the other could return the favor.

As for Catholicism, all Zhou Shixiang needed now was their help. After all, Catholic missionaries are not all gods, many are excellent scientific talents. And now, what Zhou Shixiang lacks most is talent. After decades of war, the large-scale decline of the Han population also led to a lack of excellent scientific talents.

Nan Huairen is an excellent artillery expert, and Zhou Shixiang believes that with his help, and the efforts of Cheng Hanbin and his Ordnance Bureau, the flowering cannon that he has given a rough plan and idea will soon be available. That is undoubtedly a sharp weapon for slaughtering tartars.

The day after receiving Nan Huairen, another person from the north was brought to Zhou Shixiang.

This person's origin is even greater than Nan Huairen's, because he is Kong Xingzhen, the younger brother of Kong Xingxie, the current Yansheng Gong.

Kong Xingzhen brought a handwritten letter from his brother Kong Xingxie, in which Kong Xingxie, like a wagging tail begging for joy, expressed to Zhou Shixiang the support of the Confucian Mansion in Qufu for the Ming Dynasty and His Royal Highness King Qi. In other words, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Kong Xingxie once again made a very wise decision, that is, to reverse the Ming in advance.

If there is no accident, Zhou Shixiang will laugh at the surrender of the Nakong family like any dynasty in history, and then hold them high as a symbol and example of scholars.

It's just that this time, the Kong family miscalculated, because Zhou Shi hated them deeply. In his opinion, Qufu Confucius Mansion is not the successor of Dacheng at all, nor is it an example of a scholar in the world, it is completely a bunch of traitor mongrels with no bones and no integrity.

"Kong Laoer's descendants are not as good as a dog."

Zhou Shi said this to Xu Yingyuan, which made Xu Yingyuan very stunned, because no one had ever dared to say that Confucius, the most holy master of Dacheng, was the second son of Confucius. If this title spreads, Zhou Shixiang will definitely become the public enemy of the world's scholars.

Zhou Shixiang didn't pay attention to Xu Yingyuan's shock at all, he smiled: "Saying that the Kong family is a dog, or lifting them." A really good dog, when the owner is in trouble, he will always bark a few times, and even be martyred, but the Kong family's dog, the owner will immediately switch to the new owner when he is in trouble. Whoever gives him bones to eat, he recognizes him as the owner, so to say that they are dogs is really a bit demeaning to dogs. ”

"Ahem..."

Xu Yingyuan almost choked, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word.

Zhou Shixiang shook his head, and while throwing the information from the Southern Capital that Gu Yanwu's "Staying in the Capital and Discussing the State Public Revelation" was opposed by the official gentry of the Southern Capital headed by Huang Zongxi, he said: "Why do there always be people in this world who think that without the scholars and those gentry, the sky will fall?" I think that without these gentry who are full of poetry and books, our Ming Dynasty is still in good condition. As I said earlier, the expulsion of the Tatars and the restoration of China will require bloodshed and death, not a dinner party, and whoever comes will recognize him. Since these officials and gentlemen always think that the world is inseparable from them, and they are unwilling to admit their mistakes and backwardness, then let's make a radical reform.

This time, not only the imperial examination will be reformed, but the court will be reformed, and even Kong Lao Er will be abolished together! ”

"At the beginning of Confucianism, there was more knowledge in the world, Tao, ink, law, name, soldier, yin and yang, vertical and horizontal, miscellaneous, agriculture, etc., everyone sat on an equal footing, a hundred flowers contended, whoever is beneficial to the country, the monarch will listen to whom, this is very good. But why did you end up respecting Confucianism? What's so good about this Confucianism? ”

Xu Yingyuan opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer Zhou Shixiang's words. He is also a Confucian student, and the handsome man is also a Confucian student. But listening to the words of the big handsome, he is going to be anti-Confucian, and even wants to uproot the Qufu Confucian Mansion and convert to a new school, which is really sensational, so that his brain can't turn at all.

"It's not Confucianism that is the most obedient!"

Zhou Shixiang slapped the table, "Confucianism is prosperous, the Confucian family is developed, and the Confucian family in Qufu is terrible, which emperor doesn't give a three-point thin face?" The Liu family, the Sima family, the Yang family, and the Li family were all rewarded, and when the Zhao family sat on the throne in the Song Dynasty, they not only sealed the Kong family as the Holy Duke of Yan, but also repaired the Confucian Mansion in Qufu. It is said that this Confucian family belongs to the authentic Chinese sect, Confucianism is also Chinese, and Confucius himself has also talked about "Huayi's distinction", and the emperors and officials of this China are really good to the Confucian family, this Confucian government should always be unswervingly committed to China, right? But what about the facts? ”

Zhou Shixiang smiled coldly: "The descendants of the Kong family are all handsome men who know the current affairs, Zhao Song is devoted to the Confucian Mansion, but the Confucian Mansion does not want to hang himself on the tree of Zhao Song." After Zhao Song was beaten to the south by the Wanyan family, the Confucian Mansion immediately sent Kong Duancao to the center of the Great Gold Watch and was enshrined as the Holy Prince. Although this Jinyi's milk has a smell, it is also a mother! ....”

"The dwelling is respectful, the deacon is respectful, and the people are faithful. Although it is everywhere, it cannot be abandoned. ”

Xu Yingyuan was stunned, what the marshal said was exactly what Kong Sheng said. But soon Zhou Shixiang said again: "I am different, there is nothing to do." It's really ridiculous, Kong Qiu asked others to do it, he didn't do it himself, what does this mean, it's not who gives the bones is the master, whether he is a human or a beast. ”

Xu Yingyuan was a little speechless, but after thinking about it, what the big marshal said was not unreasonable. When the Mongols rose and destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the Confucian Mansion of Qufu immediately fell to Kublai Khan under the leadership of Kong Yuanyong, the holy prince of Yan, and in order to show Geng Geng's pure heart, Kong Yuan led his people to join the Yuan army to eliminate the Han "anti-thieves", and the result was "unfortunate" to die in the army.

After Kong Yuanyong's death, Kong Yuancuo and his family seized the opportunity to seize power, and the Kong family fought for the title of Yan Shenggong, which lasted for several generations. In the end, Yuan Renzong sentenced Kong Yuancuo's first line to be a positive trace, and Kong Yuan's first line was completely defeated. Woo woe! Poor Kong Yuan shed the last drop of dog blood for the great cause of Kublai Khan's unification, but his descendants were squeezed out and suppressed by Meng Yuan, which is really unreasonable.

"I read history back then, but I could see it. In order to please Kublai Khan, the Confucian government also sent the great Confucian Zhang Dehui and Yuan Haowen to meet Kublai Khan and kneel down to ask him to be the "great master of Confucianism". The dignified Chinese "holy learning" actually invited a chief whose hands were stained with the blood of tens of millions of Han people to be the great grandmaster, what is this? ”

"When Emperor Taizu restored China, the Confucian Mansion defected again, but this can be regarded as orthodox. If there is no Kong Yinzhi, I don't intend to say how much he has in the Confucian Mansion. But this Kong Yinzhi is also shameless, this prince is not a descendant of Confucius, but he was named the Holy Father, and he was successively added to the prince Taibao and the prince Taifu, and the Ming Dynasty can be described as a gentleman's grace to him. But as soon as Li Zicheng entered Shandong, he was still far away from Qufu, and the Confucian Mansion issued Zhu Shi, allowing people to worship the dragon throne of Emperor Yongchang of Dashun State, and offer horses and silver, and kneel to accept the letter. How do you know that this time the change of master is a little anxious, a few days later, the Dashun army ran away, and the army of Tartars came, and this Yansheng Gong knew his mistake and changed it, that is, he went to the "First Entry Table" to show his loyalty to the Qing court. Then, in response to the shaving order issued by the Manchu Tartars, Kong Yinzhi held a grand shaving ceremony, set up incense cases, read holy oracles, and ordered the clansmen to shave their hair. But at the same time, the Manchu soldiers are slaughtering the people in Jiangyin, Jiading and other places who don't want to shave their hair! ”