In the Haitang government, the second largest ministry is the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Not because of the power of this ministry, but because of its fame. In a sense, the ministry doesn't really have any powers. However, because of the business it manages and the particularity of its ministers, this Ministry of Civil Affairs has become the most familiar ministry of the Tang people.

Minister of Civil Affairs - Su Mao Liyun. That is, Su Maode's wife Su Maoshi, Su Zizi's mother. Li Guang's mother-in-law.

Isn't Su Mao the director of the Religious Affairs Bureau? How did you become the Minister of Civil Affairs?

Needless to say, there is no reason for Su Mao to become the minister of civil affairs. This ministerial candidate, Su Mao, can be said to be the only one who has been recognized by everyone.

Moreover, Su Mao's director of the Religious Affairs Bureau is still concurrently. There is still no objection, even to professors who are well-educated, such as Professor Gu Zhidui, despite his considerable study of history and traditional Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. But having research does not mean that he can do things, Su Mao's can't read a few big characters, but he has made achievements that are difficult for scholars to compare. Although Professor Gu Zhidui was not accustomed to Su Mao's understanding of Jingyi, he had to bow down in the face of his achievements and could only serve as the deputy director of the Religious Affairs Bureau.

Looking at Su Mao's specific actions, you can see that there are still some Qinggao who are difficult to compare with Professor Gu Zhidui, who pursues "truth".

In essence, the religious policy of the Haitang Kingdom is actually a national policy.

Li Guang saw a lot of it, but he only sighed with emotion---Some people are really bad." And this bad is not Su Mao's, but Yuan Ye.

For a while, Li Guang couldn't figure out why Professor Yuan Ye and Su Mao should have been a little opposed, but in fact they had a good relationship, and even laughed harmoniously.

To say, these two people want to make concessions to each other because of their daughter. Or persuade the other side to make concessions, it is absolutely impossible. Whether it is the Su family or the Yuan family, it is impossible for their daughter to make Li Guang small, even if it is an equal. Li Guang had a headache for this, even more than going to the battlefield.

It should be said that these two people came together because of their common "ideals".

Yuan Ye was experimenting with her own ethnic policy, while Su Mao was realizing her 'missionary ideal'. With regard to ethnic policy, this is a big issue. With Li Guang's vision beyond this era for decades, he can't give a one-size-fits-all answer.

Yuan Ye once told Li Guang a historical source that the Mongols should be regarded as part of the ruling nation in the Qing Dynasty. In the process of occupying the Central Plains, the Mongols made great contributions to the Manchus.

However, throughout the reign of the Manchus, the population and economy of the Mongols not only did not develop, but also declined severely.

One of the most important reasons --- the Manchu rulers adopted a sophisticated method that almost uprooted the blood and blood of the Mongols.

That was Buddhism, and the Manchus raised their cultural weapons, and Buddhism quickly gained recognition among the Mongols.

The rulers of the Qing Dynasty tried to tame the heroic Mongol nation. Not only have many political means been employed, but religion has also been used as a favorable instrument of rule. It achieved its goal of better dominating the Mongolian region.

Long before the Qing Dynasty ruled Mongolia. One of the branches of Buddhism, the Yellow Religion, has penetrated into the Mongolian region. Therefore, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty took advantage of the Mongolian people's belief in Huangjiao and vigorously promoted Huangjiao.

In the past two hundred years, the Manchu government has continued to guide and increase the weight, and as a result, there are temples and groups of lamas on the Mongolian steppe. It has even developed to the point of being quite extreme. If a Mongolian family has several sons, only one is left at home, and the others are all lamas.

The large-scale construction of monasteries naturally consumes the wealth of the people. Men are all lamas. Then it is naturally impossible for the population to increase. If you chant the Buddha every day, your combat effectiveness will also decline rapidly.

Professor Yuan deserves to be a student of history, and the Manchu rule tricks were easily used by him. So Su Mao, a Buddhist, became his political ally.

When Su Mao was in Ceylon, he had a lot of criticism about Buddhism in Ceylon.

Obviously, the birthplace of Buddhism is India, but Su Mao is stubborn and domineering that Buddhism there is not authentic, so he invited more than ten senior monks from China to establish a temple in Ceylon. She said that this is true Buddhism, and that it is necessary for the people of Ceylonese to see what true Buddhism is.

Su Mao has always had a lofty interest in the development of Buddhists, and he is very pure and absolutely not involved in selfish interests. Not only does it not make a profit from it, but it also takes the initiative to pay for it.

Li Guang saw with his own eyes that Su Mao was absolutely unintentional about chanting scriptures, but he was elated in the development of Buddhism.

Gradually, Li Guang saw that the Buddhism that Su Mao understood was really strange, and often directly diverged from the six reincarnations of Buddhism, the immortality of Taoism, and sometimes the loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness of Confucianism.

However, Su Mao insisted that this is authentic Buddhism. On a few occasions, Li Guangdu was really a little overwhelmed, and the good Buddhism was simply preached by Su Mao's four dislikes. However, Yuan Ye stopped Li Guang's interference from the side.

The reason is that the ancient professors who are deeply versed in Buddhism have all been defeated by Su Mao's achievements, which is the best proof.

There are very few aborigines in Datang Island who believe in Christianity, but most of them are still primitive and chaotic worship, and there is no existence of the Green Religion. As soon as the Buddhism led by Su Mao came out, it immediately slaughtered the Quartet.

Although Premier Yuan Ye only allowed her to develop among the black natives, this Su Mao is not picky, and he really has a taste of being educated and equal. The missionary undertaking was carried out with great joy and joy.

Since the people of Ceylonese had their own interpretation of Buddhism, Su Mao did not like Ceylon very much.

But in Datang Island, Su Mao's found a place to use.

There are too many fools, not enough liars.

As a result, in the midst of the war, Su Mao's clan actually occupied valuable aircraft capacity and recruited more than 200 monks from China. Su Mao's is out of his own pocket, and others can't say anything.

Su Mao's "career" is very attentive, and the rapid development of the missionary cause makes Su Mao's every day happy.

The language barrier is not a problem at all for Su Mao, who can't read a few words. Black natives now see the Tang people, and they greet them with "Amitabha." ”

The Su Mao missionary has a strong Su Mao characteristic.

The first step was called "a well-intentioned domineering" by Li Guang. "Regardless of whether the indigenous people originally had any beliefs or not, they directly built a tulou as a temple among the indigenous tribes.

Natives want to use force to expel them? Around Vladivostok. The natives have absolutely no such guts.

In the second step, no matter what the original customs of the indigenous people are, birth, old age, sickness and death are all brought to the temple for rituals. To put it simply, what Su Mao thinks Buddhism is, then what Buddhism looks like here. As for what means to use to pull people, this is the characteristic of Su Mao's family.

What the? I do "good deeds", let you believe in Buddhism, recite scriptures to you, let you be reincarnated with a good family, these black guys don't appreciate it? Is there any reason for this?

Su Mao's encounter with this kind of thing. Immediately erupted, jumped on his little feet, and began to assign people. The Su family is different from others, rich and people. There are guns.

In the Haitang Kingdom, disabled soldiers are qualified to carry guns. And many of Su Qing's subordinates are also disabled. Su Mao's family can recruit a 180th disabled soldier with just one casual pull. Under compulsion. The natives had to start performing certain Buddhist ceremonies in the monasteries.

Don't look at it as a veteran, if it were another government official, it would never be used. You must know that this kind of behavior is very taboo in any country.

However, Su Mao's reason for using veterans was pure, and of course she couldn't think of anything else. Li Guang was worried that something big would happen to this prospective mother-in-law who couldn't read a few big characters. And the heart to stop. Professor Yuan Ye not only did not stop it, but on the contrary, he instigated it, and even included those disabled veterans who had been discharged from the army into the government's establishment.

Disabled veterans became regular, and some of Su Mao's inappropriate reputation disappeared as a result.

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Afterward. One incident accelerated Su Mao's missionary career.

In Datang Island, vendettas between indigenous tribes are staged almost every day.

In a tribal vendetta, a tribe failed, so men, women, and children took refuge in the tulou monastery. The natives are a little stupid, but they don't have any intelligence, everyone knows that the defense of the wall is strong, and it is safer to hide in the walled building.

It just so happened that there was a class of disabled veterans stationed in this tulou. These veterans who have survived a hundred battles are not comparable to those natives with cold weapons. With guns in hand, a squad of disabled veterans is not afraid of hundreds of natives at all. In a small battle, two or three hundred tribes were slaughtered.

Since then, the tulou monastery has become a symbol of safety and has become an indispensable presence among the indigenous tribes.

However, it is impossible for the natives to build tulou. Building a tulou may seem simple, but it actually requires considerable skill and experience.

So the natives begged Su Mao's head, and Su Mao's was kind and found a technician to guide the aborigines to build the tulou. The conditions are simple, no additional property has to be paid by the natives. It is only necessary to build a Buddhist hall on the site of the main hall of the tulou.

From form to connotation.

Su Mao may not have understood this missionary strategy, but she really did not know how to teach without a teacher, and she practiced preaching.

The natives lived in tulou, and under the influence of the monks, they were gradually able to communicate, so they naturally became Buddhists. And the speed at which these uncivilized natives became devout Buddhists was unusually fast. Li Guang was surprised by the speed, and after a few months, the natives even met and greeted Amitabha.

In the face of such rapid progress, Professor Gu Zhihui Gu was no longer accustomed to Su Mao's indiscriminate interpretation of Buddhism, and he had to bow down.

Su Mao had great ambitions and let out the words: ten years, as long as ten years, all the natives of Datang Island will become Buddhists.

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If it is said that religion has made Su Mao famous among the aborigines. So Su Mao's other hobby - being a matchmaker and a matchmaker has made Su Mao's reputation even louder among immigrants and in the army.

Su Mao is pulling red lines for girls or young people among his relatives. is also very enthusiastic to talk about marriage for all the people in Datang Island.

Although the casualties of the Maritime Resistance Army over the years were not large, there were nearly 1,000 veterans who could no longer go to the battlefield because of their disabilities. Although these veterans have fields and pensions, there is a serious shortage of women in Datang Island, and it is extremely difficult to find a wife, especially a Chinese wife.

The reason why Su Qing recruited Burmese women in Myanmar was actually still Su Mao's kindness. As a result, the marriage problems of all disabled soldiers were quickly resolved.

As for love and freedom of marriage, there was no such concept in Su Mao's mind at all. Like the general behavior of human trafficking, Su Mao's noble and great behavior, complacent.

Well, well. The women who the merchants exchanged for grain in Bangladesh also became the target of Su Mao's red thread. Su Mao's great cause of being a matchmaker has developed to this stage, and there are already a large number of matchmaker lovers around him. The bosses of Haitang Kingdom, big and small, all followed Su Maode to make a fortune. Their wives are all following Su Mao's matchmaking, which is really a spectacle.

As for the means of compensating the merchants, there are all kinds of means, some of them pay for labor, and some of them pay for it. In short, the merchants did not lose money, and the immigrants also found wives. Everyone was happy.

Later, it was the Ceylonese women who were exchanged for weapons and ammunition by the Naval Resistance Army in Ceylon.

Su Mao's latest achievement was for immigrants to start finding indigenous women to marry.

Don't look at Haitang, from the civilian to the military, they have brought a lot of women to Datang Island, but it is far from enough for the marriage needs of immigrants here. Some Chinese farmers are not young, but they do not have wives yet.

Under the persuasion of Su Mao and other matchmakers, many people overcame the differences in aesthetic views. He married an indigenous girl.

Indigenous women are rough and hard-working. and will give birth and breed. For these peasants, who are barely surviving in the country. Everything else is nonsense, filial piety comes first, and passing on the family is what they value most.

Li Guang is actually curious about why the aesthetics of these people are so easy to overcome. Later, Li Guang learned that he didn't learn anymore. The blacks he saw weren't actually blacks. It's the Indonesian race.

Some ethnic groups in Datang Island are not purebred blacks, but brown people to be precise. In fact, if you are serious, you can see it. Their skin color is not as dark as that of black people, and there is a big difference.

Tang immigrants naturally want to marry a Chinese woman, but it seems very unrealistic at present, and even for a long time to come. The long-term war and famine in the country have hurt women the most. The proportion of women among the victims of the disaster is extremely low, and the proportion of women in the normal population is also quite low.

This era is not the 21st century, and it is not unusual for men from poor families to beat singles, and it is even a common phenomenon. Under the propaganda of the matchmakers, there have been new developments in biology, and these women have darkened a little, mainly because their ancestors have been exposed to the sun for generations. With the tulou, there is no need to be exposed to the wind and sun, after living a good life, it will turn white in a few years, and if you have a child in the future, two adults will get together, and the child will not be so dark, don't worry.

The immigrants of the Haitang Kingdom did not fully believe these strange theories, but under the realistic conditions, many of the immigrants still accepted such interracial marriages.

Such a marriage, although not ideal, has an important reason, and this reason is enough to convince these immigrants to continue the incense.

Li Guang is still a little obsessed with blood, but Premier Yuan Ye does not think it is at all, the Chinese have always been patriarchal heredity, mixed-race children are still descendants, still Tang people. What's more, as long as the number of Tang immigrants occupies the majority, or two or three generations, there will be all yellow-haired and black-eyed descendants of Yan and Huang.

Wasn't Premier Yuan's wife a Goryeo woman? Who dares to say that Major General Yuan Zi, who sweated for the Naval Resistance Army and died in the Battle of Midway, is not a descendant of Yan and Huang?

Therefore, Premier Yuan is fully supportive of interracial marriage.

In addition, Yuan Ye believes that other means or propaganda in the ethnic policy cannot be used once and for all. Li Guang is resolutely opposed to naked killing. Therefore, Yuan Ye thinks that only ancient intermarriage is the royal way, and after the blood is mixed, you and I can no longer be distinguished. This kind of method is too primitive in Li Guang's opinion, but what works is a good method, and it can only be so before Li Guang can't find a better solution.

In short, Su Mao's actions were approved by all immigrants from the Haitang Kingdom, whether it was military, political, civilian, or business.

Su Mao had just taken office, and one of the biggest moves, which was extremely surprising--- the introduction of the "Marriage Law" of the Haitang Kingdom.

You must know that Haitang now has a propaganda outline, but it doesn't even have a real constitution. The "Marriage Law" was unexpectedly born.

The reason is not that Su Mao has such a high level of awareness, but that Yuan Ran found a group of legal experts in the United Kingdom and formulated a "Marriage Law" with reference to British law.

Originally, it was normal to book a law. If it is a normal country, it is very complicated to pass a law, and it is definitely not possible to pass it in three or five days.

When this law reached the Haitang Kingdom, it immediately attracted the attention of Su Mao. Su Mao's understanding of this is more special: naked-naked, naked, and naked.

The core of the marriage law formulated by Yuan Ran is very clear: equality between men and women, free love, and monogamy.

Others may think from other angles, but Su Mao is no one else. Su Mao immediately understood this as Yuan Ran's challenge to Su Zizi.

Could it be that the old Yuan family is still not dead? Are you still going to compete with her Su Mao for a son-in-law? My family, Su Zizi, now has an absolute advantage.

The status of the daughter was threatened, and the Su Mao clan immediately burst out with powerful combat effectiveness. The passage of this law was the clarion call for the Su Mao clan to fight.

She not only co-opted a group of old ladies, but also vigorously supported this marriage law through various means, mainly pillow wind.

Whether it is the National Development and Reform Commission or the Federation of Industry, Agriculture and Commerce, Su Mao's old ladies are too lethal.

Some businessmen who had other thoughts and wanted to take a concubine, or government officials, did not dare to debate with Su Mao's group of old ladies at all. If you are slightly dissatisfied, you will immediately be restless.

Moreover, most of the young officials of the NDRC are new graduates of new schools or studying abroad, and they are also supportive of the concepts of gender equality, monogamy, and freedom of marriage. So this marriage law was miraculously promulgated and enforced within five days.

It's child's play, but in a country with less than a million people, it's actually quite democratic to be able to consult officials and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Li Guang wanted to cry without tears, Su Mao didn't know, but Li Guang knew. He's a father again. Yuan Ran gave birth to Li Guang's third child, a boy, in the UK in October. Li Guang's marriage fell into twists and turns again.

Su Mao's reputation became even more resounding by virtue of the marriage law. If women of all ethnic groups in Haitang Kingdom have been subjected to domestic violence or other blows, they also habitually seek the help of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Over time, the Ministry of Civil Affairs became an institution for women's rights protection.

With the increasing influence of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Su Mao, the Minister of Civil Affairs, also ranked second among the various government departments of the Haitang Kingdom. (To be continued......)