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"Salute!"

"Huh!" A total of eight people on the left and right sides raised their hands at the same time.

"Sit!" Li Guangdi returned the salute, and said to the generals as he sat down.

"First of all, I want to congratulate all of you, when I go back, I will have to change this shoulder to a general!" Li Guangdi looked around at everyone, and then said with a pleasant face.

"It's all because of your proper planning, Chief of the General Staff, that we are so smooth." Wang Zhenbang took the lead in saying for the others. "Without you exploring the situation here in advance, and after careful arrangement, we want to take the whole of Luzon and even the Philippine Islands, I don't know how much more effort it will take."

"Yes, you have the greatest credit for this, Chief of the General Staff, and we have achieved such a huge result with the smallest casualties this time." Ning Wu, the commander of the first fleet, said. He was right, in less than two months, he had taken hundreds of islands in the Philippines, large and small, and the total number of Spaniards on them was more than 25,000, except for the 2,000 who had not been annihilated, all the others became prisoners, and the family itself suffered less than 100 casualties in total.

"Okay, I'm not here to listen to your praise." Li Guangdi knocked lightly on the table and said. "It's been more than a month since we came out, and this battle is much easier than the battle of the Japanese conquest, after all, the resistance here is not strong. According to the prince's meaning, after we took Luzon, we began to immigrate on a large scale, in fact, we have already started to do so. Until now. More than 200,000 migrants have already been resettled. The rest is still on the way. This requires us to keep a part of the army. If you stay here, you won't be able to return to Mawei in a short time! Now, I just want to hear your opinion, which detachment is willing to stay and garrison this port? ”

"This" several people began to hesitate and looked at each other. To be honest, they are still a little uncomfortable with the climate here, and if they stay and garrison. At least in half a year, it is impossible to Fujian, in that case, far away from home and relatives, this has to be carefully considered.

Wang Zhenbang didn't care too much, he was the commander of the navy, and it was definitely impossible for him to stay here. "Why, the chief of the general staff asked, why didn't he keep silent!" Wang Zhenbang said unhappily.

The other generals couldn't help but roll their eyes at him, you are the boss. Of course, you don't have to stay, then you have to consider the feelings of others.

"Chief of the General Staff. Willing to stay! The one who spoke was Xu Yingyuan, the captain of the Fourth Fleet, who and Li Guangdi were both from Quanzhou, and their personal relationship was also good. The key is that Xu Yingyuan's head is also very flexible, he is a rising star, and he was personally promoted by Geng Jingzhong. If you want to continue to ascend along the way, you need to have more achievements than others to offset your seniority. There will be no more war on Luzon Island in the short term, so if you do what others are not willing to do, you will definitely be able to leave a good impression in front of Shangguan, that is, Li Guangdi and even Geng Jingzhong.

"Good! General Xu took the lead in asking for help, so the next step would be trouble for General Xu. There are other things that need your help today. You've all found out that I didn't call any of the generals on the Marine side, and only your navy can do this. We've been out for a long time, so I guess the prince has been in a hurry for a long time. This time, Shun Lì took Luzon and also captured a lot of loot. Now it's all stacked in the dock warehouse, just waiting to be shipped back. The ships of the Kunpeng caravan are now busy transporting immigrants here, and they have no time to separate, and even if they can come, I am not worried. Therefore, you have to ask your warship to act as a cargo ship again and transport these things back to Fuzhou! After Li Guangdi finished speaking, he looked at everyone again. Is there a problem? ”

"No problem!"

"No problem!"

"No problem!"

The generals have interfaced. In fact, their current warships have the booty captured from other islands, but Luzon is the center of Spanish rule and has the most wealth. Even if these things are not transported back by warship, they still need to escort them, and this will of course be a refreshing promise.

"Alright, I've laid things out, now it's time to talk about your harvest this month, right?" Li Guangdi's shoulders relaxed, indicating that the important task had been declared over, and now it was time for free talks. It was not the first time they had held such a meeting, and they were very familiar with Lee Kwang-di's movements.

"Hey, let me say it first, I don't know what happened to the other brothers, anyway, our first squadron is very smooth. The target of our fleet was the eastern part of Mindanao, where there were basically no decent towns, until we reached the southernmost city of Dajang, which was quite decent. There was a Spanish garrison in that place, and the men and women combined were only sixty men, and they didn't need us to fight at all, and they surrendered automatically. Ning Wu was the first to speak, showing a very distressed expression, this big circle turned down, and he didn't encounter a few enemies, and there were not many loot. The main reason is that the eastern part of Mindanao is basically mountainous, with very few plains, and there are no natural bays by the sea, which is too primitive.

"Hehe, then I'm much better than you, I've gained a lot in the west, the Spanish garrison has two hundred people, more than half of them have been wiped out by us, and the rest have all surrendered. Well, two whole ships, supposedly they were preparing to transport the Spanish mainland. And guess what? After Situ Gui finished speaking, he immediately spoke.

"What?" Everyone else looked at him, and Li Guangdi also looked at him curiously.

"Gold and copper!" Situ Gui didn't sell it, and directly said the answer.

"Gold?" Lee Kwang-di was also attracted by these three words, "How many?" ”

"There was not much gold, only a small part, but it was thirty thousand taels, and the rest, all copper, filled the cabins, and the total was about three thousand stones. Now the gold and copper mines over there have been guarded by us for the time being! Situ Gui smiled and reported the number.

"Your brother is really lucky, we didn't meet like this?" Almost as soon as his words fell, everyone else sighed. Seemingly. Philippine Islands. Spaniards except for Luzon. The other islands are not well developed. I guess it's just this place on Mindanao.

"But then we will all belong to the British from now on, and we can't get anything?" Xu Yingyuan's eyes widened, and he suddenly said, his words made everyone's originally high interest directly pull down.

Seeing that everyone was slightly silent, Li Guangdi said with a smile. "The people here are all their own people, and they are not afraid to sue everyone. The British are just taking care of the islands for us for the time being, the prince said. In ten years at most, the whole of Nanyang will be ours. At that point, will you still care about a small gold mine? ”

Everyone opened their eyes wide and stared at Li Guangdi, and when they saw Li Guangdi smiling as always, they knew that the matter was true, and their interest suddenly rose again. "Good! It's only been ten years! ”

Situ Gui shouted loudly: "Don't worry, I took a general look, compared to Luzon Island, it is a deserted area. The population is extremely small. It is said that the two ships of cargo this time are their output in a year and a half. It can be seen that they did not mine on a large scale, presumably because of a lack of manpower, or because the scale of the gold mine was originally small. In short, it is still necessary to give the island to them according to the agreement between the prince and the British. When the British first arrived, it would take a year or two to gain a foothold here, so we could continue to mine this place for a while, wouldn't this be how much we earned! ”

"Hahaha! Not bad! ”

Unlike Lee Kwang-tei's chatter and laughter on the Luzon side, Geng Ching-chung was now distressed by the many missionaries he had brought back. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Western Holy See has made great efforts to obtain an opportunity to preach openly in China, and even they themselves cannot remember how much effort they have made. A few years ago, Geng Jingzhong vigorously brought in missionaries to China, which was really hard for them. They have been very honest in the past two years, and while helping Geng Jingzhong cultivate talents, they themselves have not been idle, and for them, missionary work is their own job.

In 1289, when Pope Nicholas IV sent the Franciscan monk John Francis to the Orient, the 26th year of the Yuan dynasty, that is, in 1289. Monte. He came to China by sea as a missionary and arrived five years later in the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Khan Bali, the capital of present-day Beijing. Five years later, he founded the first Catholic church in Beijing (then known as Yelikovan Church). Later, Pope Clémont V learned of John's outstanding missionary achievements in China, and in 1307 decided to appoint John as the archbishop of Beijing. Then they also built a number of churches in the suburbs of Beijing, and the "cross church" that still exists in the western suburbs of Beijing was built at that time.

Geng Jingzhong founded the Future School and hired so many Western missionaries to learn the Western cultural system, especially the educational and cultural system that has gradually taken shape, which is beyond his reach for the time being. A few years ago, Geng Jingzhong had a headache about education every day, although he knew a lot about modern education as a product of modern education. He was still a teacher, and he remembered a lot of courses from elementary school to university, but the problem was that he couldn't build a whole education system on his own. After all, the Chinese of this era do not recognize these things, and prefer to read the Four Books and Five Classics.

The creation of the future school, there has always been a lack of enough qualified teachers, although he tried his best to get a lot of readers, fill in the school, to act as teachers, but these scholars are all the old imperial examination system edification, the level of Bagu Wen is some, but it is limited to this, at most can only give those students literacy and some useful principles of life, but can not teach them enough other things. By the way, now it is familiar with teaching children to enlighten and recognize words, and it is Hanyu Pinyin that plays a big role.

With these readers, plus the Chinese Pinyin given to them by Geng Jingzhong, there is no problem at all in helping children to read and write, but others, such as basic mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on, they are blind! They alone would not be able to teach more other subjects. If only they are used to teach, the students will be educated. In the future, we can only take the road of taking the imperial examination. And so on. The Future School is not what he wants.

Therefore, when Geng Jingzhong thought of founding a school, he first thought of Western missionaries, and the survival of Western missionaries did provide him with a rare way to solve problems. To be honest, all of these missionaries were devout believers, but in order to better proselytize, the Holy See let the missionaries take several subjects, and it can be said that these missionaries each specialized in art. Some people are proficient in physics. Some people are proficient in natural sciences, some are proficient in painting, some are proficient in music, and some are specialized in medicine.

At present, nearly 200 schools have been opened in Fujian, with a total of nearly 50,000 children enrolled, and Geng Jingzhong has to inject a lot of money into the school every month, with an average of no less than 150,000 taels per month. Only half of them were actually spent on the students, and the rest were basically paid as teachers, with Western missionary teachers receiving the most. Although they take more money. But the various sciences that these missionaries carried were undoubtedly Geng Jingzhong's greatest joy. Although there are still many unscientific things in these emerging disciplines, and it can even be said that they are just in the embryonic state, they are much more systematic than the current Daming. Geng Jingzhong had taken the time to write a book on physics and chemistry, both of which he had learned in junior high school, but corrected some of the mistakes of the missionaries. They were all unimpressed, but after reading Geng Jingzhong's basic physics and basic chemistry, and confirming what they had learned, they found that all of them were correct, and they were even more shocked.

After getting Geng Jingzhong's teaching materials, they taught more seriously, and these were exactly what Geng Jingzhong needed. In the end, he didn't necessarily have to learn all of these things, but he hoped that the scientific knowledge taught to them by the missionaries would open a path to science, and that it would take root and eventually thrive in the land he controlled. Maybe the vast majority of his students can't become talents, but as long as a small number of people can finally choose a subject to learn, and study it, and finally succeed in learning and specialize in technology, then he will earn it completely.

But now, although these missionaries are still very attentive in teaching, their missionary actions are getting bigger and bigger. Geng Jingzhong stressed that he should not preach among his students, and now they seem to be slowly taking it seriously. At first, they were a little dissatisfied with the rules set by Geng Jingzhong, especially in their opinion, not to preach any theology and doctrine in the school, which was the most unacceptable, but in order to grasp the rare opportunity of living outside and preaching publicly, they still obeyed the rules here.

Since they could not openly disseminate doctrine and theology in the school, they began to take advantage of the fact that the children could receive their education for a long time, and began to subtly spread some doctrine to these students in ordinary times, hoping to develop them into believers. This is the main reason why the enthusiasm of these missionaries has been very high, and the results they have achieved so far are quite rich. Many of the students in the school have become Catholics.

It's still in school, and more so outside. In just four years, nearly 100,000 believers have grown in all provinces and counties of Fujian, which is a huge improvement compared to the missionaries who struggled in the past. The missionaries are often most likely to impress people by preaching their teachings by curing the sick and saving people, which eventually makes some people feel the so-called greatness of God and eventually choose to become believers. Although the vast majority of these believers are some old and weak women and children, and there are no followers under Geng Jingzhong's command, Geng Jingzhong has begun to be vigilant.

Mawei Barracks, Geng Jingzhong's special office.

"What does Mr. Yao think of this information?" Geng Jingzhong took the new secret report from the Ministry of Intelligence and asked Yao Qisheng. The report was well-founded and detailed, and Geng Jingzhong ordered them to do so a few years ago, just to supervise these Western missionaries, and not to think much else. In Geng Jingzhong's view, China has always paid attention to the divine authority of the monarchy, and this concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the common people thousands of years ago. But he forgot about it, the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by Mingjiao, and it was also a strange organization.

Yao Qisheng looked at it carefully, and then said, "Lord Wang, this matter must not be careless. When Yao was in Guangzhou, he had come into contact with these Western missionaries, and these people were very good at demagoguery, and in my opinion, they were no worse than the Sanlang Incense Society. If we let it develop, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that it will shake our foundation! ”

Geng Jingzhong is also hesitating, he hasn't thought about this issue in the past few years, and now he feels very tricky. Now Geng Jingzhong must use them, but he can't let them preach in a big way. This is inconsistent with what I promised Nan Huairen and them, if it is forbidden to preach, wouldn't it be to break my promise. However, these Western missionaries are too powerful to stop them, and the influence of the church will become greater and greater in the future. Especially when I think of those fanatical believers recorded in history, it is really chilling! We still have to think of a way to solve this problem!

"So, does Mr. Yao have a way? We can't do without these missionaries right now! Geng Jingzhong said with a frustrated frown.

"Lord Wang, I ordered these missionaries not to preach, and just be honest as a teacher. If they do not agree, they will be deported. All dynasties and dynasties have taken strict precautions against these religious organizations, my lord, don't be careless! "Yao Qisheng actually doesn't care about these missionaries, he thinks that Nan Huairen and others have good cannon casting skills, and others, hehe, Xiaodao'er!

Geng Jingzhong looked at Yao Qisheng and knew what he was thinking. This Yao Qisheng has not been in Fujian for a long time, and he is still an old antique reader, although he also agrees with the opening of the sea to trade, but he does not approve of children learning things other than the sage's articles. This is much worse than Lee Kwang-di.

"No! These missionaries must not be driven out, at least for ten years! Geng Jingzhong immediately vetoed Yao Qisheng's proposal. If you want to get rid of these missionaries, you have to wait until these students have drained their knowledge. In a few years, I can also send people to study in Europe on a large scale, or poach more university teachers to come back, they are not specialized missionaries, and I can replace them at that time.

The key is that in the next ten years, it is necessary to organize the Catholic Church to continue to expand, but the means must not be too drastic. Hey, what a nuisance!

"Okay, I'll think for myself first. Sir, get busy first! (To be continued......)