"You and I have the same roots, we are a family, the bloodline is passed down from generation to generation, and Yanhuang has children and grandchildren."

"There is a sky overhead, the stars in the moon, cloudy and rainy, and there will be dusty people."

"The dirt is washed away by fire, the sins are turned into dust, and the flesh and blood return to their true nature."

"God is in control of all things, rewards and punishments are divided in the way, merit and sin stop in life, and the coffin is no longer asked."

In the north of Yizhang County, under the bamboo mountain, a wide pavilion rises from the ground, and the round hall has not yet erected the roof beams, only a circle of stone pillars is erected. In the stone pillars, hundreds of young men and women dressed in white are chanting melodiously with clear and flawless singing voices.

"Sacrifice! Sacrifice! You and I have no hate......"

"Sacrifice! Sacrifice! You and I are dear ......"

The singing voice suddenly rose, as if converging into a gentle wind descending from the sky, stirring a tall and beautiful shadow in the field. Dressed in rags, with black hair flying, he was dressed in a white shirt, without decoration, like a fairy-like beauty in a painting, holding a bouquet of incense aloft and bowing down solemnly. Looking through the green smoke on the incense, the sky is almost obscured by the pillars of smoke at the foot of Zhushan Mountain.

"Sacrifice! Sacrifice! The heart returns to God's flesh and blood, and merit and sin are no longer asked......"

Panjin Bell also sang in a low voice, and it was not until the completion of this ritual that his mind returned from the sky.

"I entered your Catholic Church, which is equivalent to believing in this religion in the Ying Tzu Monastery, I don't know what he will think of this, whether he will be angry with me for making my own opinion. After all, the Eiji Temple is his, and I am ...... after all."

Out of the hall, Pan Jinling frowned at the willow eyebrows, and said this to the old and young people who greeted her, so worried that they almost said the deepest thoughts.

"The King of Heaven has already said that all mundane things carry the way of heaven, and the things of gods and ghosts also have their own way of heaven. Some people have found the Buddha, some people have found the Three Qings, some people have found some lifeless old mothers, and some foreigners have found Allah and Jehovah. The king of heaven is not a Confucian person, and gods and ghosts are also to be discussed, but he is blind to everything and is flawless and distracted. We believe in God and follow the way of heaven, so we should share his worries and find the way of heaven in this divine and ghostly matter. Catholicism should also be Catholic. ”

Yiming Lao Dao shook his head and said, he didn't wear a Taoist robe, he didn't wear any Taoist crown, he didn't whisk dust in his hands, and he didn't have any fairy gourd hanging on his waist, but he was dressed in a plain linen long robe, plus snow-white beard, and he had the momentum of a fairy wind and dao bones than ordinary Taoist priests.

"Confucianism ignores the existence of gods and ghosts, but it must be believed, otherwise how can there be a saying that the gods confer the crown and the five virtues are reincarnated? The king of heaven does not believe in gods and ghosts, but he wants to discuss, and we have to discuss. Even if it's not for the sake of exploring the Heavenly Dao, look at those people...... Winning the hearts and minds of the people for our new dynasty is also a great achievement. ”

Xu Lingti is also dressed in general clothes, all the Confucian qi is gone, and there is a deep penetration of the world between his eyes and eyebrows. Listening to the old saying, he turned the topic to the practical level.

Pan Jinling blink of an eye outside the hall, the densely kneeling tens of thousands of people were shocked by this solemn sacrifice, all sobbing in a low voice, seeing her look over, pounding her head like garlic, shouting: "Aunt Pan is benevolent!" "Li Tianwang Houen!"

Sighing lowly, Panjin Lingxin said, the way of heaven is for me, only in healing injuries and diseases, and in other things, I am also a layman. He has always said that we must follow our own heart when we act, so I should follow my heart when I lead Ying Tzu Monastery into this Catholic Church. But I believe in a God who has a greater layer than you, and this God is the God who sent him to save the world...... While thinking, Pan Jinling returned the salute with Yingying, and these tens of thousands of people didn't dare to accept it, and all of them threw themselves to the ground.

Yiming Lao Dao and Xu Lingti looked at each other and smiled, and said in their hearts that it was really a wise decision to pull Pan Jinling into their career.

The first battle of Yizhang was in the middle of summer, and there were tens of thousands of corpses and wounded on the battlefield of Yizhang, and if the relevant matters were not properly handled, there would be a major epidemic. The Catholicism that Yiming Lao Dao and Xu Lingti made up was first seen to be on a scale, and they pulled Cai Meng, the general office of the British and Korean Medical and Health Administration, and Pan Jinling, the head of the Yingci Hospital, to take care of the aftermath together, and Li Shi casually agreed. Yi Ming Lao Dao and Xu Lingti had some little abacus, Li Xian knew it in his heart, thinking that even if it was a magic stick, it would be his own magic stick after all, so he didn't interfere much.

In the previous wars, the Medical and Health Department was involved in dealing with the aftermath, and the Ying Tzu Hospital in Panjinling treated the injured and sick, and the cooperation in epidemic prevention was also experienced, and the two parties were used to cooperating. Yiming Lao Dao and Xu Lingti stepped on the shoulders of these two people, promoting Catholicism, and this grand ceremony in front of them was set up to attract people's hearts.

The victims of the British and Chinese officers and soldiers will be brought back to the local area to pay a solemn memorial, and this memorial is to commemorate the 20,000 dead of the Qing soldiers' green battalion, which can be said to be the first time in ancient times.

In previous wars, the victor properly buried the dead of the defeated side, and it was already benevolent without cutting off the head and piling up the Jingguan. The fighting in Shaozhou, Guangxi and Fujian, where Yinghua cremated the dead and dug deep pits to bury them, was only for epidemic prevention. Nowadays, such a grand ceremony is naturally an act of "ulterior motives" by Catholicism.

The 10,000 people who knelt outside the hall were all prisoners of the Green Camp in this battle, and all of them had relatives and friends who died in the battle, and after receiving the labor contract of Nanyang Company, they were all worried about their fate, and they had no time to care about the future of their relatives and friends. Now seeing that this new Yinghua dynasty not only sacrificed the dead relatives and friends, but also returned the ashes of their relatives and friends, they all feel that such benevolence and virtue are beyond the past, and they are no longer so afraid of the future. The dead are so kind, and they shouldn't be too guilty of sin as the living.

The appearance of Aunt Pan Jin Ling Pan as a Catholic priest made this ceremony solemn and solemn, they had already seen Pan Jin Ling in the wounded hospital set up after the war, and the Catholic Church was endorsed by her and Ying Tzu Yuan, and it was no longer an ethereal and inexplicable religion.

This time together with the Ying Tzu Yuan, the funeral workers in Guangdong Province were gathered, the relics were sorted out, the surname and origin of the deceased were identified, and the assembly line of the corpse furnace urgently ordered by Foshan Iron Mill was used to operate more than 20,000 deceased, and most of them have been disposed of in four or five days. The ashes and the relics of the deceased were placed in the newly established cemetery at the foot of Zhushan, waiting for the relatives and friends of the deceased to pick them up.

Before the relatives of the dead soldiers from other provinces arrived, the Hunan locals, especially the thousands of Hunan people in Hengyonggui Chendao, died in this battle, and the relatives were close to each other, and tens of thousands of people came. was far away from the temple, and personally participated in this ceremony, and they were all teary-eyed, kneeling and thanking.

Of course, this treatment is not the same, and the thousands of Jingzhou banner soldiers who died in this battle are not so good. Yiming Lao Dao and Xu Lingti ignored the corpses of these flag soldiers, and the Medical and Health Department prepared to dig a big pit according to the old system in the past, and dispose of it together with burning and burying. But he didn't want the flag captives to see the treatment of the victims of the green camp, and they were very unwilling, so they elected representatives to cry blood and complain, and Pan Jinling's heart of pity attacked, and he agreed to identify the dead of the flag soldiers and burn the ashes.

That's all Pan Jinling can do, even she doesn't want to include these flag soldiers in the Green Camp Han people to pay tribute together, after all, Catholicism talks about treating everyone equally under the Yanhuang bloodline. Jingzhou Qiying, these Han army banner people from the outside of the Han Dynasty, after Li Shi established the country, has always treated the Qi Han differently, she is not willing to touch the taboo line drawn by Li Xi in this matter.

So at the same time as this grand ceremony, there are many monks and Taoists practicing the Dharma, the monks "I will coax you" chanting non-stop, the Taoist priest vigorously waved the dusty mahogany sword, but was frequently interrupted by the melodious singing of the young men and women of the Catholic Church. Rounded his throat, knocked on the wooden fish, and said that the rhyme of the scriptures that could steadily gather people's hearts was firmly suppressed by the melodious melody of the song.

Finally, the singing stopped, the monks and Taoists wiped the sweat on their foreheads, let out a long breath, the wooden fish raised, whisked the dust high, and wanted to finish this ritual as soon as possible.

This is a military salute, even if it is an opponent, a weak opponent, the British and Chinese soldiers still have to express their respect to them as soldiers, so that they can respect their own duty as soldiers.

Looking at the prisoners kneeling on the ground crying extremely sadly, Meng Kui, who led the Tiger Ben Army to supervise him, said in his heart, what a pity, after this rubbing, even if he is given the lowest "quasi-pawn" treatment, he can pull out a lot of loyal and useful soldiers among these captives, but Li Tianwang wants to send all these people overseas, which is a waste...... Next to the hall, Yi Ming Lao Dao threw an inquiring color to Xu Lingti, and Xu Lingti nodded slightly, indicating that he had done it. How could such a beautiful thing as the 40,000 or 50,000 captives of the Battle of Yizhang being taken overseas to work, and the placement of Catholic priests in the internal guard of the Nanyang Company that supervised them, and gradually recruiting all these captives into Christians!?

"As soon as Tartar Yizhang is defeated, the new sky is high and cloudy, and I, Catholic, should take this opportunity to rise up with my head held high and move forward boldly!"

Yi Ming Lao Dao and Xu Lingti smiled slightly, and they both felt that they had stepped into a new world.

"Uncle, we have indeed stepped into a new and vast world, but the more times like this, the more we must pay attention to the ...... behind us."

To the east of Huangpu in Guangzhou, a grand palace rises from the ground, and the palaces in front are still under construction, but a series of courtyards along the low mountain in the back have been completed.

This is the most important project in the Huangpu New City plan promoted by Li Shi very early, his new Tianwang Mansion. Although the Guangdong governor's yamen under Yuexiu Mountain is well-equipped, and it still leans on the Yuexiu Mountain, which is beautiful in grass and green trees, it is difficult to show the atmosphere of the new dynasty after all, and it is located in the city, and it is difficult to secure, and Li Xi himself is not satisfied with those ancient installations, so he added his new Tianwang Mansion to the Huangpu New City plan.

This new Tianwang Mansion was named "Wuya Palace" by Li Xian, but everyone called it "Liuli Palace", the reason is naturally that too much glass is used for lighting, and there is even a whole wall of wood grille inlaid with glass, the sun shines, crystal clear, and this title spreads.

The Boundless Palace is not too big, and it is only the size of three or four governors' yamen. The first half is the future place of governance and ceremonies, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The residential area in the back was repaired early, although the scale and shape are very different, but the interior decoration and layout are still compared to the White City Manor, and there are also Wo Cao Tong, Xiu Yuen, Ping Yuan and Wing Chun Garden.

In the main hall of the grass hall, Li Xianzheng gently taught Li Zhushou, who was wearing a purple robe and a black gauze hat with slender ears and wings.

"You, you were used as a gun by those people......"

Li Shi shook his head and patted a submission on the bookcase, which was a persuasion form.

"Emperor? For whom will the emperor be the ruler? I'm afraid it's just for them. ”

(To be continued)