The Xiamen Navy Division was captured by the Qing army, although it was quickly recovered.

However, two battleships were still sunk, seven or eight were damaged, and what was even more troublesome was that the people of Xiamen were greatly frightened by the Qing army's siege and had some distrust of Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong and the newly transferred Xiamen prefect Lu Ruteng took a long time to appease the people and let them continue to live in Xiamen with peace of mind.

visited the people for several days, which made Zheng Chenggong lose weight twice.

But soon, a series of good news made Zheng Chenggong forget his troubles.

Huang Wu returned with six boatloads full of gold, silver and jewelry.

Masgar Road departed from Macao with the remnants of the ships and headed for East Timor.

After four days of driving, the fleet of Masgar Road blocked the thirty-two fleets led by Huang Wu near the waters near Manila.

In order to load more gold, silver and jewelry, when Mascolu fled, he specially selected seven Clark sailboats.

How could the heavy and slow Clark be a match for the dexterous and light lock boats and sand boats.

After a burst of artillery bombardment, after destroying two Franc ships, Mascolu surrendered!

Gold, silver and jewels worth 1,700,000 taels, eight ships, 1,200 Franc soldiers, more than 30 maritime merchants, and a former governor of Macao were all taken prisoner by the Cheng family's sailors.

As soon as he returned to Xiamen, Huang Wu told Zheng Chenggong the news.

When Zheng Chenggong heard this, he ran to the port with the guards, stepped on the ship, looked at the gold and silver products piled up in the cabin, and listened to the results of Huang Wu's announcement, and laughed.

After laughing, Zheng Chenggong turned to look at Huang Wu and said, "Jun Xuan did a good job, and he really lived up to my expectations!" ”

Huang Wu hurriedly said: "Thanks to the great general's previous victory over the Francophone fleet, the last general can easily capture Mascolu!" ”

Zheng Chenggong waved his hand and said, "It should be your credit to you, Huang Wu listens to the order!" ”

Huang Wu heard that he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The last general will listen to the order!" ”

"Huang Wu broke the enemy and attacked, and was promoted to the pre-governor of the water division, and the reward was 10,000 taels of silver!"

Hearing that he was promoted to the prefect, Huang Wu said happily: "General Xie, the last general will do his best to repay the general's grace!" ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded, turned to look at the boatload of gold, silver and jewelry, and pondered how to use these wealth reasonably!

Under the protection of the guards, these gold, silver and jewelry were successfully put into storage.

Back at Zheng's house, Zheng Chenggong began to plan for the next round of plans.

The fleet must need to be expanded, and the small country of the Netherlands, including merchant ships, now has more than 16,000 large and small ships.

Lao Tzu is a man who wants to dominate the world! There must be more ships than the Netherlands.

New shipyards should be set up in Kinmen, Xiamen, Haicheng, Macao, and Quanzhou, and more than a dozen ships should be built at the same time, and the cost of ships should also be reduced in a way, and at the same time, more people should be sent to design and improve sailing ships.

However, so many shipyards need to be set up at the same time, but Haicheng and Xiamen cannot provide so many shipbuilders. It seems that we have to find a way to bring it from Fujian, Guangdong, even Japan, Southeast Asia and other places.

Now Li Chengdong in Guangdong Anyway, he has never paid attention to the sailor, and it should be easier to introduce it in Guangdong. As long as the shipwrights in Japan, Southeast Asia and other places pay high prices, it should not be difficult, that is, Fujian, Fuzhou and other places will occupy it as soon as possible.

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while and said to the guard: "Go, order Huang Wu and Xu Long to come!" ”

Hearing the order, Huang Wu and Xu Long soon came over.

Zheng Chenggong looked at Huang Wu and said, "Junxuan, you send someone to Japan to bring in shipwrights." If they refuse to come, pretend to be pirates and rob them. Remember not to hurt them and be kind to them. Our shipyards also need their help. ”

Huang Wu immediately drank when he heard it: "Yes, General!" ”

"Xu Long!"

Xu Long hurriedly stood up and drank: "The end will be!" ”

"Now that the situation is turbulent, there must be a lot of shipwrights who are having a hard time. You send people to the coastal areas of Guangdong to recruit boatmen, don't be stingy, remember to give more silver. ”

"Yes, General!"

"Go ahead!"

"The last will retire!"

After Huang Wu and Xu Long left, Zheng Chenggong began to think about firearms, and the casting of muskets was going to be expanded.

It's just that the affairs of ships are easy to arrange, but the affairs of firearms are troublesome.

At present, most of the talents who cast firearms in the south and east are in their own hands, and the remaining blacksmiths who can make them are in the areas ruled by the Qing Dynasty in the north.

Unless you fight it, it will be difficult to grab people from the Jingshi Firearms Workshop.

If firearms are to be expanded and improved, it seems that they have to be cultivated on their own.

Just as Zheng Chenggong was thinking about how to train foundry technicians, Zhang Dashan walked in and said, "General, that Spirola outside the mansion came to visit with a few foreign monks. ”

When Zheng Chenggong heard it, he hurriedly said: "Send them in and wait in the middle hall of filial piety!" ”

"Yes!"

Zheng Chenggong tidied up his appearance and walked into the filial piety hall.

Seeing Zheng Chenggong walk in, Spirola hurriedly took off his hat with the three missionaries and held the center of the front brim with his right hand. Standing upright, his eyes fixed on Zheng Chenggong. The upper part of his body leaned forward about fifteen degrees, and he said respectfully: "Hello, dear Mr. Earl! ”

Zheng Chenggong wanted to wave his hand so that they would not be polite, but after thinking about it, he drew a cross on his chest before saying, "Hello, priest!" May God protect you, Amen! ”

The other missionaries were overjoyed when they saw that Zheng Chenggong was indeed as Spirola said, not against Catholicism, and had some understanding of him.

As soon as the early missionaries set foot on Chinese soil, they began to study the Chinese Chinese language and culture meticulously, even aiming to master the Beijing official dialect.

These Western monks followed the customs, took off their Catholic robes, changed into Confucian clothes, lived in Chinese-style houses, and devoted themselves to the study of Chinese scripture and ethics, looking for the fusion point of Eastern and Western cultures.

In the process of interacting with celebrities in the government and the opposition, these Western missionaries, who were familiar with astronomy and geography, and were familiar with Chinese classics, won the favor and trust of Chinese literati and doctors, and thus achieved their goal of spreading faith.

However, some fanatical missionaries believed that Matteo Ricci was too accommodating to the Chinese, affecting the "purity" of Catholicism and developing Catholics too slowly.

After Matteo Ricci's death, he began to change Ritchie's missionary line, adopted radical missionary methods, resolutely rejected Confucianism, strictly forbade Chinese parishioners to worship heaven, ancestors, and Confucius, arousing the disgust and suspicion of the public, and finally in 1616 the "Nanjing Case" was caused, and the missionaries were expelled, and there was almost no place in Chinese mainland.

In addition, Huaxia is in **** at this time, and the people are not even guaranteed to survive, how can they believe in foreign monks.

For a time, Western missionaries in China suffered a major setback, and their missionary activities fell into a low ebb.

Now seeing that a count with his own domain was not opposed to Catholicism, they immediately gained confidence in the missionary work in Xiamen.

Julius looked at Zheng Chenggong and said sincerely, "Lord Earl, I heard that as long as we help you open an academy, you will allow us to spread Catholicism here?" ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said, "Yes, as long as you wholeheartedly help me open Xiamen College and teach knowledge, I will allow you to preach!" ”

Julius hurriedly said, "Lord Count, we swear in the name of God that we will do our best!" ”

"Okay, tell me what subjects you guys are good at?"

"Earl, I have studied theology, astronomy, and almanacs, and I am well versed in Sinology, and I have an understanding of Western literature, philosophy, medicine, and civil law.

Zheng Chenggong said: "Listen, Father, you speak Chinese very well, with a Beijing accent!" ”

"Yes, I have always hoped to enter Beijing to meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I have practiced Chinese hard for this, but unfortunately I have never had the opportunity!"

Zheng Chenggong heard it and said, "You will have the opportunity to enter Beijing in the future." What about these two? ”

Spirola looked at the one on the right and said, "Monsieur Count, this is Father Wei Kuangguo, he has studied geography and mathematics, and his mathematics teacher is the famous German mathematician Kircher. ”

After introducing Wei Kuangguo, Spirola turned to the left and said: "This is Father Bumig, who studied flora and fauna, medicine, and cartography at the Jesus College in Rome. At the same time, he served as the royal physician in his hometown and studied medicine. After coming to China, he used profound Western theories to discuss traditional Chinese medicine, and made great achievements. It also has an in-depth understanding of ancient Chinese flora and fauna, minerals, medicine, history, geography, ethnography, philosophy, linguistics and people's living customs."

After listening to the introduction, Zheng Chenggong said: "Father Spirola, because I don't know when you will come, the venue of Xiamen College has not yet been chosen. I'll arrange your accommodation later, and I hope you can stay in peace. After the academy is opened, you can move freely after the lectures are finished. But remember what you said, don't force people to change their religion and customs. ”

Spirola hurriedly said, "Lord Count, please believe that we will definitely abide by the customs of Huaxia!" ”

"That's good!"