[The monthly pass is going to be out for 100 people, panic, do the brothers have impeachment drug support? ] The bandit is very nostalgic for this rare ranking, and one more vote ......, one vote is good...]

The clear sky, the blue sea, the seagulls cut the sky, everything is so bright, it makes people feel relaxed, but Xiao Xie saw obvious tears on Lang Shining's face, and his pupils were also bloodshot, as if he had just experienced a life and death ordeal.

But this is just an afterimage, at this moment, Lang Shining looked indifferent, and there was a sense of relief that he had finally gotten used to the wooden toilet on the ship, so he was relieved.

"Heaven can learn from it, Lord Lang is enlightened......

Another plain-robed man appeared, with a string of Buddhist beads hanging on his chest, which contrasted with Lang Shining, which was Daoyin.

"Do you think you're going to say anything about becoming a Buddha on the ground, and you're all packed? Okay, let's go quickly, our fleet, the cost of a day is two or three hundred taels of silver, and the family business can't be defeated casually. ”

A young man who was also wearing a linen robe walked out of the cabin, chattering non-stop, and when he saw this person, Xiao Xie also greeted him politely. This is a close confidant of Concubine Hui of the Shentong Bureau, or a native of Lao Fengtian Village. It's just that Xiao Xie doesn't understand why this young man named Liu Dan, who is full of abacus beads in his head, also entered Catholicism, and is still a traveling sacrifice.

Hearing Liu Dan's urging, Xiao Xie also glanced at the stern helm platform, trying to find the figure of Lu Hanshan, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, but was blocked by another figure who rushed out of the cabin.

"Wow......, vomit ......".

This person was dressed in a Confucian shirt, lying on the side of the boat and vomiting, but it was Li Fangying. This former white-clothed mountain man was imprisoned for more than a year because of the earlier slander case. In the center of the prison, there has been a great change, and it is also like realizing something. After being released from prison, he parted ways with the Confucian Party and entered the Whampoa Academy, studying hungrily, and by chance, he also entered this fleet.

But this weak scholar could not withstand the wind and waves, and he set out from Hong Kong and arrived in Huaixiang, and in only four or five days, he had already vomited all his bile.

"I still have to wait for the fruits and vegetables to be loaded on the ship, some time, Brother Qiuchi, do you want to go ashore and rest?"

Li Fangying is a person from Whampoa Academy, and Xiao Xie is also quite concerned.

Li Fangying shook his hand and said: "If I go ashore, I will definitely not want to return to the ship, so I must not go down!" ”

Hey, this man's mind is soft and hard, it's really twisted .......

Xiao Xie shrugged, and then found Lu Hanshan, Zheng Wei, Bai Zhengli and other military figures on the helm.

In addition, Tang Sunhao and Song Ji, who should have slept in the cabin, Ou Liwang, who was talking to the Portuguese navigator at the bow of the ship, and Mi Anping, the master craftsman of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau and the son of Dong Mi Dezheng, who was preparing tools at the dock, the whole team was full of talents.

This team, consisting of three converted turtle-class warships and carrying nearly 700 people, was the Anglo-Chinese mission to Europa. Nominally a return visit to Portugal, but in fact it is a visit to Europa.

When Li Shi decided that the situation would be first in the south and then in the north, it was inevitable to send an embassy to visit Europa, not to mention the news that France and Spain were going to use force in the South Seas. Even if you can't solve the problem by lip service, it's good to delay the time.

But Li Shi has always been keen on a package of solutions, and once he wants to do something, he has to see the maximum benefit.

Therefore, the trip to Europa carries many tasks. The positive task is to establish normal relations with other countries, promote the national image of Britain and China, eliminate bait, delay the possible crisis in the South Seas, and even if it is unavoidable, pull other countries to muddy the waters.

The side tasks are even more important, including collecting information on the political, military, scientific, technological, economic, and cultural aspects of various countries, and tapping useful talents and resources.

Therefore, this mission included members of the general office, military figures, scholars from the Whampoa Academy, craftsmen from the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, officials from the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture, and people from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

When Li Shi organized this mission before, it took a lot of effort, after all, he had traveled thousands of miles, and it was difficult to know the good fortune and the bad luck. Fortunately, Xiao Xie heard that he was going to Europa to deal with various countries, so he took the initiative to ask for help, and thus took over the important task of head of the mission.

And when the selection of the entire mission was decided, Li Xi also found a trouble, among the key members, Mi Anping and Daoyin were thirty years old, and the others were all hairy guys in their early twenties! ,

Many people in the DPRK and China were willing to make a trip, but Li Xi felt that the Confucian and virtuous parties were too pedantic and unsuitable to lead the mission. After weighing it repeatedly, I felt that although these boys were young, they belonged to the civil warrior merchants, and they were led by Xiao Xie, who was good at dancing with long sleeves, and they were a balanced team, so they comforted themselves that only young men could withstand this toss.

In the entire mission, there were two people who were unexpectedly selected, one was Li Fangying. This person feels that his eyes and ears have been blocked in the past, so that he is narrow-minded and especially sensitive to novelty. It was not enough to read the writings of Europeans in Whampoa Academy, and I learned from Lei Xiangna of Yuexiu Academy that the imperial court was organizing a delegation to visit Portugal, and I begged to join the group.

A person who walked from one end of the paranoid end to the other was very terrifying, and his commotion finally reached Li Xi's ears, and finally Li Fangying joined the mission as a special observer of the "Yuexiu Times".

The other person is Lang Shining, for Xiao Xie, it is necessary to have a European who is proficient in Latin and French and is familiar with Europa. The Chinese-Portuguese mixed-race Ou Liwang, whose name is very taboo of Xiao Xie, and his reliability is not enough, so he set his sights on Lang Shining.

But Lang Shining is also difficult to trust, after all, he is a Jesuit priest, and most of the mission's work in Europa this time is of a spy nature

Lang Shining himself also wanted to go back to Europa, as a special envoy of the Emperor of the Eastern Empire.

But this threshold of trust, he must face. Li Shi asked him personally: "Which one do you choose before your Lord Jesus and my Yinghua interests?" ”

In the face of the emperor's questioning, Lang Shining was in pain, he was a pious person, and he was perfunctory in his decision.

After a fierce ideological struggle, Lang Shining found that he could only move forward now, because the Jesuits had expressed great doubts about his faith. Had it not been for the desire to maintain the necessary contact with the Emperor through him, his position as a Jesuit priest would have been outlawed long ago.

Therefore, his secular loyalty can only be dedicated to Yinghua and Li Xian.

But until he went to sea, Lang Shining still had a bad conscience, he was oppressed by a huge sense of guilt, and he always felt that he had embarked on the path of heresy.

Just last night, he was praying with tears in his eyes to confess his sins to his Lord. Then, he vaguely heard the prayer of a person next door, it was Liu Dan, the young man from the Divine Power Bureau, his eyes turned faster than Xiao Xie, and he was chattering about various numbers in his mouth all day long.

"God, may I go further in the way of mathematics and science, and repay the great kindness of the fourth brother and Guan Guan to me. For God has given me wisdom, I will bless ...... people."

Listening to this prayer, Lang Shining felt surprised, this Liu Dan is not only grateful for the grace of others, but also grateful for the grace of God, the two things can be blended together in such a harmonious way, and the belief in God contained in it seems to be something that he has not been able to perceive before.

Lang Shining went next door and asked Liu Dan for advice, but he didn't want Liu Dan to tell him a secret. His father's name was Liu Rui, and six years ago, when the emperor was still a country boy, he set up a business, and his father denounced it to the Manchu government, almost killing a village.

Liu Dan's father, Liu Rui, was executed by the emperor's own order, and he followed his mother, was taken care of by the villagers, concentrated on learning arithmetic, and now works in the supernatural power bureau run by Concubine Hui's mother.

For Liu Dan, the death of his father was only emotional fluctuations when he was young, and when he grew up, he had deeper entanglements. He didn't hate the emperor at all, and even what his father did back then hurt him and his mother, what he really hated was his father. But the traditional filial piety of the Chinese people is forcing him to ask him, how can he wear the sky for killing his father?

That's why he joined Catholicism, he wanted to get an answer from God, so that deep down, he could get rid of the pressure that forced him to hate the emperor.

He found it, this is the theory of vocation mentioned by Duan Hongshi, God sets ten thousand positions, and people must keep their duties. The emperor killed his father because the emperor had a life and death covenant with everyone earlier, and fulfilling the covenant was to fulfill his duty. His father endangered everyone, and he performed public office because of this, which was punished by heaven, not that the emperor had a personal enmity with his father, so the emperor had no personal enmity with him. ,

Thinking about this, Liu Dan also realized the meaning of his life, as well as the personal grace of the Emperor and Concubine Hui that he received, and his arithmetic ability, which is both a human virtue and a godsend, so he can integrate into one and face the vast heavens openly.

This Heaven...... How can it be so broad that the blood feud that the Chinese people regard as their lifeblood and hatred can be resolved? Although Lang Shining had an understanding of the Heaven of the Chinese people, he felt that he still knew too little at the moment, so he muttered, "Venerable Master,... How vast is it? ”

Liu Dan said: "Just as I study arithmetic, I know more about the heavens, and only then do I feel that the heavens are more ......."

Seeing that Lang Shining was still confused, he picked up the pencil and drew a circle on the paper, with the tip of the pen dotted in the circle: "This is our heart." Then point outside the circle: "This is the heavens." He looked at Lang Shining: "The bigger the heart, the wider the heavens......

At that moment, Lang Shining was stunned, and he suddenly felt that the circle, no, the line that formed the circle was actually the Jesus in his heart. The unbelieving fool has a circle in his heart, and he who believes in the gods like this, his heart stops on that line, and the people who understand why God is in the middle of the country, and the heart is outside that line.

"The people of the Chinese country originally believed in the underworld beyond that line, not the line itself."

Lang Shining realized that then, the vastness outside the circle and the line drawn into the circle actually do not conflict. Of course, with this realization, he also felt that when the mind was placed outside the circle, and when he looked back at this line, the meaning was different.

Therefore, he put on the plain linen robe of the Catholic sacrifice, but he also wore the cross He is a European after all, he still believes in his Jesus, but when he waives the face of Jesus, the divinity on it is what this God can tolerate, and it is also tolerated.

As for his parishioners, whether the Holy See, which is above his priesthood, will be half of him a heretic, he no longer cares. He is looking at God through Jesus, but why is he not rediscovering his Jesus through God.

The hull of the ship shook, waking up Lang Shining, who was still in deep thought, as the sails fell, and the fleet was about to leave this place and embark on a long journey.

"Lord, may your people greet the coming of this vast presence with peace of heart and awe...",

Lang Shining prayed.

[End of Volume IX]. ）