Chapter 36 Catholicism

So many conditions are placed in front of the Holy See, which makes them feel big, but considering that they can open this gap and get such an opportunity to preach publicly, it is really not easy for them, and after repeated negotiations, the Holy See has to pinch its nose and admit it, and the two sides also signed a written agreement, which completely established the biggest statement of the sea wolf on the territory of the sea wolf.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the Holy See began to send missionaries to Tamsui, Keelung, and Kaohsiung to start building churches, all building materials were purchased locally, and craftsmen had to be hired from the sea wolf, which was called a labor agency! This made the sea wolf earn another lot of money from the Holy See.

In fact, what Yu Xiaotian really needs is the Western cultural system, especially the education and cultural system that has gradually taken shape, which is beyond his reach for the time being.

Although he understands a lot of things about modern education and remembers some of the courses from primary school to university, the problem is that he can't establish a complete education system by himself.

And as the boss of an interest group, he can be said to be riddled with mundane affairs, and simply does not have enough time to do these things.

For a long time, the school established by the sea wolf has been lacking enough qualified teachers, although he tried his best to get a lot of readers, fill in the school, to serve as teachers, but these scholars are all cultivated by the old imperial examination system, the level of Bagu Wen is some, but it is limited to this, at most it can only give those students literacy and some useful principles of life, but it can't teach them enough other things.

Therefore, for a long time, Seawolf's schools could only teach some literacy and literacy, at best, some of the simplest basic mathematics, but could not carry out more teaching of other subjects.

The students he has educated can only take the road of taking the imperial examination in the future, and if this continues, the purpose of his preparation for the school will be completely useless.

But this time, the Catholic side provided him with a rare way to solve the problem, to be honest, these priests are all devout believers, but in order to better proselytize, the Holy See has let the missionaries choose several disciplines, and these missionaries can be said to have their own specializations.

Some are proficient in physics, some in natural science, some in painting, some in music, and some in medicine.

The most likely thing for missionaries to impress people is to preach their teachings by curing the sick and saving people, which eventually makes some people feel the greatness of the so-called God and eventually choose to believe in religion and become believers.

And the various sciences that these missionaries are carrying are undoubtedly the things that Yu Xiaotian covets the most, although there are still many unscientific things in these emerging disciplines, and it can even be said that they are just in the bud, but after all, they are much more systematic than the current Ming Dynasty.

These are exactly what Yu Xiaotian needs, he doesn't necessarily have to learn these things in his students, but he hopes that through the scientific knowledge taught to them by these missionaries, they will open a path to science, and they will take root in the land under his control, and eventually thrive.

Maybe the vast majority of his students can't become talents, but as long as a very small number of them 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.

As long as he establishes this education system and improves it in the future, sooner or later, he believes that on the basis of the education system he has established, all kinds of brilliant scientific and technological flowers can bloom.

At present, it seems that the easiest way is to bring in these missionaries to serve as free teachers for him, to extract as much as possible what they have learned, and even to make an exception to arrange some bright children to be assigned to those missionaries, so that they can act as missionary students, and concentrate on learning what each missionary has learned.

This made the missionaries very satisfied, although before they arrived on the island of Taiwan, they were very dissatisfied with the various rules set by the sea wolf for them, especially in their opinion, it was most unacceptable not to preach any theology and doctrine in the school, but in order to grasp this rare opportunity, the Holy See still explicitly ordered them to abide by the rules set by the sea wolf here.

But when they arrived at the Seawolf, they were allowed to choose five or ten students who were excellent in character and learning, and who liked what they taught, as their own students, and studied with them, which gave them a glimmer of hope.

Since they cannot openly disseminate doctrine and theology in schools, these intelligent students with the best qualifications selected by them can follow them and receive their education for a long time, so that they can subtly spread some teachings to these students in ordinary times and develop them into believers, which is equivalent to giving them an extra opportunity out of thin air.

Therefore, the enthusiasm of these missionaries is quite high, and the results they have obtained are also quite "rich"; in just two years, they have developed nearly 1,000 believers in various parts of the island of Taiwan, which is undoubtedly a tremendous progress compared with those missionaries who are struggling on the mainland.

Although the vast majority of these believers are some old and weak women and children, and even some are reformed natives, they do not have the ability to influence the high-level of the Seawolf Group at all because they have not developed a few believers in the Seawolf Group, but even so, it also makes the high-level of the church feel happy, and they have invested manpower, material and financial resources in the island of Taiwan, and tried every means to make friends with the Seawolf Group.

The Holy See still has considerable influence in Europe, they influence the politics of many European countries, and it can even be said that they influence the decision-making of some countries, at least for the Portuguese, the Holy See has a strong influence.

Under the influence of the Church in Macao, the Portuguese of the Macao authorities also established a deeper cooperation with the sea wolf, on the one hand, they could obtain more valuable Chinese goods from the sea wolf, and on the other hand, they could also sell more things to the sea wolf, which was a great joy for both sides.

And to the relief of the Portuguese, in the contact with the high-level of the sea wolves, they did not find that the sea wolves coveted them, especially what they thought about deceiving the place of Macau, which made the Portuguese feel very relieved, because now the sea wolves have become a force that can threaten their survival here, if the sea wolves are hostile to them, then they have to be vigilant against the sea wolves.

After all, the sea wolf has now beaten the Spaniards and the Dutch, and even the Dutch have cleaned up the Dutch, and now even Dayuan Port has to pay money to the sea wolf in the name of lend, and the sea wolf can expel it at any time, and even their construction of castles and forts in Dayuan Port must be carried out with the consent of the sea wolf.

So the Portuguese worry is also a certain reason, but after many years of interaction with the sea wolf, they found that this worry is a bit redundant, this Yu sea wolf seems to be very happy to see it, watching them settle in Macau, and always maintain a certain trade quota with them, which makes the Portuguese people more at ease with the sea wolf, often when the sea wolf puts forward some procurement requirements for them, the Portuguese will try their best to meet the sea wolf's requirements.

In the past few years, the Portuguese have brought oil for the sea wolf many times, although they don't know what the sea wolf does with this oil, but as long as the sea wolf needs it, they will find a way to get it for the sea wolf, in addition to a large number of Indian cotton cloth and Indian cotton raised from Goa, India, also for the sea wolf to transport a lot, even the black-skinned monkey slaves on the Annam side, the Portuguese have not been less than ships to the sea wolf, of course, there is also a large amount of rice from the Annam side, but also a large number of dumped by them to the sea wolf.

The sea wolf is now greatly exploiting the island of Taiwan, and the work of clearing land and transforming the living environment requires a large amount of cheap labor, which makes the Portuguese, the Spaniards, and even the Dutch, and even the British, who have not yet controlled many colonies in Asia, find huge business opportunities.

Over the years, the sea wolf has been buying black-skinned monkeys from pirates for aboriginal labor, and now it has become a huge commercial market, and every year there are many pirates who go around trying to capture the black-skinned monkey natives and transport them to the island of Taiwan to deliver to the sea wolf.

Now these Europeans have found this business opportunity, and naturally they will not miss this opportunity, in the colonies they occupy, there are many disobedient natives, usually these natives are not paid attention to, and now someone wants these natives slaves, of course they are happy to exchange these natives for some money or goods.

So in the past two years, even the Spaniards and the Dutch have begun to trade in transporting slaves to the island of Taiwan, during which the Dutch, Spaniards and Portuguese even proposed that if the sea wolves need it, they can also transport some black slaves from Africa to the sea wolves, because in their opinion, these black slaves are more hard-working, physically better, and more adaptable than these black-skinned monkeys in Southeast Asia.

However, Yu Xiaotian was not too interested in this, and only symbolically asked each of them to transport a small group of black slaves, the total number of which was probably less than a thousand.

These black slaves were all very strong, much taller than ordinary men in the Ming Dynasty, and they had all been trained by slave traders and were very obedient.

Although Yu Xiaotian didn't like to do this kind of thing, when he saw these black slaves, he decided to keep them, but he didn't treat them like those black-skinned monkey natives in Southeast Asia, and treated these black slaves well.

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