These days, Wu Shigong has been idle in the inner house, and he always feels anxious when waiting. But in this boring life, there is still some condiment.

One day, a guest came to visit Wu Shigong, but the guest turned out to be a foreigner, and a foreign missionary. When Wu Shigong met with this foreign missionary with some confusion, he learned that he was Carreli's own uncle, Father Carrera.

It took a lot of effort for Father Carrera to learn from the gentry in Dengzhou City who had been rescued by Wu Shigong that Wu Shigong had rescued some Portuguese. Of course, Father Carrera couldn't be sure if Carreli was also in Wu Shigong's hands.

Originally, he wanted to leave the capital and go to Runing to visit Wu Shigong in person. However, when he learned that Wu Shigong had come to the capital, Father Carrera hurriedly brought some Western items that the Ming people liked as gifts, such as gold pocket watches and clairmile mirrors, and went to the Yangwu Marquis Mansion to look for relatives.

Wu Shigong was sure that he would not do anything to force the separation of flesh and blood, and he immediately called Carreli outside to meet her uncle.

There is no need to describe the tragicomedy after the meeting. Anyway, Wu Shigong, who was on the side, couldn't understand the Portuguese spoken by the two of them.

However, after Carrell finished crying and laughing, Father Carrera broke Carreli aside and asked Wu Shigong a serious question alone.

That is the identity of Carreli, according to the monogamy of Catholics, the marriage of Wu Shigong and Carreli is not recognized by Catholicism.

Wu Shigong thought to himself: Catholic monogamy cares about my! This Carrera priest is probably rusty in his brain, Wu Shigong said that Carreli is his concubine, then Carreli is her concubine, why do you want Catholicism to admit it? If it weren't for Father Carrera being Carrera's own uncle, Wu Shigong might have kicked Father Carrera out.

And since Father Carrera was able to go to the ocean to preach in the Far East. He must have been very strong in his religious beliefs and very knowledgeable. And more importantly, he must also be very witty and flexible.

So Father Carrera immediately saw the impatience in Wu Shigong's heart. So Father Carrera found a way to do it. He asked him to convert to Catholicism, and Father Carrera asked him to have a Catholic marriage. As for Wu Shigong's other wives, Father Carrera also closed his eyes.

In a Western-style marriage with Carreli, Wu Shigong can also satisfy Carreli. However, Wu Shigong told Father Carrera that he did not want to deceive Carreli and Father Carrera. Although he does not have his current religious beliefs, Wu Shigong also believes that religious beliefs are a very serious matter. If you want to believe in any religion, you must believe in piety.

If he really believes in the future, Wu Shigong will definitely take refuge. But now Wu Shigong doesn't believe, so he doesn't want to be perfunctory. Deceive Carreli and Father Carrera.

Father Carrera's candid confession was difficult for Father Carrera to refute, so his first visit ended without a hitch.

But as an indomitable missionary, Father Carrera soon reappeared in front of Wu Shigong. When Father Carrera brought it up again, Wu Shigong was much more emboldened to refuse, because Carreli and Manling were both pregnant. This is not just Wu Shigong's family heritage. Will Wu Shigong tell others that he knows when the safe period is?

And Father Carrera returned again. Because he couldn't let the child in Carreli's womb become an illegitimate child.

However, Wu Shigong looked at Father Carrera, a little foreign old man, and he was quite pitiful. He also agreed to Father Carrera, and after his three-year filial piety period had passed, he and Carreli would have a Western-style wedding. And if Carreli agrees (and Carrell will not disagree), Carreli's children can also be baptized.

Unexpectedly, Wu Shigong's soft-heartedness this time made Father Carrera see hope, and soon. He came to the door for the third time. This time, Father Carrera did not mention Carreli, but brought up Gonzalez, who was still missing in the eyes of outsiders.

Don't say that the court of the Ming Dynasty has always been very generous to outsiders. Those Portuguese who were killed and captured in Dengzhou were rewarded by the Ming court.

Although Father Carrera's request to meet with Gonzalez was reasonable, it was impossible for Wu Shigong to grant him. It's not that I'm afraid that Gonzalez and them will betray their trust and leave, to be honest, now that they have tasted the generous treatment of the Runing Army, it will be a little difficult for Wu Shigong to drive Gonzalez and them away.

The main reason is that Gonzalez already knows the true strength of the Runing Army, and it is impossible for Wu Shigong to let these people who know the details go. Because if the secret is leaked, it may be that the Ming Dynasty court will immediately become the enemy of the Runing army.

Anyway, he came and went several times, and when he arrived in Zuihou, Father Carrera proposed that he did not necessarily have to meet Gonzalez and those people, as long as Wu Shigong treated them well and Wu Shigong also converted to Catholicism, then Father Carrera would not bring up this topic again.

When Wu Shigong heard this old topic, he was also a little impatient in his heart. Wu Shigong has always been a believer in the "Brother Gong" religion, and he only believes in himself. Although he also has a lot of respect for all religions, he always feels a little unhappy when he is forced to follow any religion. Otherwise, Intelligence would have brainwashed Wu Shigong a long time ago.

Seeing that Wu Shigong really refused, Father Carrera finally showed his hole card, he wanted to go to Wu Shigong's Runing to build a church, and to preach freely. The cost of the construction of the church will also be raised by Father Carrera himself.

Wu Shigong found it difficult to understand. Father Carrera spent his own money to build the church, so let's build it, and if we want to develop the faithful, let's develop it. As long as he doesn't make any crusades, he won't interfere at all? So what do you have to agree to?

Wu Shigong did not know that it was quite difficult for Catholicism to spread in China at that time, and without the protection of local officials, the construction of churches and missionaries were all a matter of water.

So Fr. Carrera happily bid farewell to Wu Shigong, and he was going to return to Runing Mansion to preach with him. However, Wu Shigong also reminded Father Carrera that since he was going to Runing to preach, it was possible for him to meet with Gonzalez, and Wu Shigong would also restrict Father Carrera's freedom and would not let him leave for the time being. Father Carrera agreed.

This is the end of the matter. Of course, there is one more person who is also very happy, and that is Carreli!

In a blink of an eye, it was November of the sixth year of Chongzhen. Gao Yingxiang sent Zhang Miaoshou, Breaking into the Sky, Flying All Over the Sky, Xing Hongwolf, Chuang General (Li Zicheng), etc., to Wang Pu, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, falsely claimed that he was willing to accept Zhao'an.

At this time, the besieging Ming generals and supervisors also received the explicit and secret decrees of Emperor Chongzhen. Therefore, they all believed that Emperor Chongzhen was in a hurry and wanted the Ming army to completely exterminate the surrounded peasant rebel army as soon as possible.

In fact, this view cannot be said to be wrong. But this time, the negotiation partners selected by Gao Yingxiang and others were too poisonous. The chief soldier Wang Pu became a military attache in the position of Meng father. And although Wang Pu was brave in battle, his promotion was won by Jin Shang.

Therefore, Wang Pu had no experience in negotiating with the enemy army at all, and he was not wary of the peasant rebel army's fraudulent surrender scheme. To be honest, this is the reason why Gao Yingxiang and the others chose Wang Pu. They don't choose Cao Wenzhao's old fritters? And those eunuchs who are the eunuchs of the prison army are even worse, that is, they have no experience at all.

The right thing to do is to surrender, but be prepared to prevent a fraudulent surrender. But Wang Pu and the others did nothing.

As a result, Wang Pu and the eunuchs Yang Jinchao and Lu Jiude did not know what to do, thinking that they could immediately put an end to the catastrophe without much effort, so they agreed to accept the surrender.

In the face of the Ming Army, there is never a shortage of Hollywood actors who perform deception. On the 19th, 12 people, including He Shuangquan and Zhang Miaoshou, the leaders of the rebellion, went to Wu'an County, Zhangde Prefecture, Henan Province (now Hebei Province) to meet Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, Lu Jiude, and Bingbei Dao Chang Daoli, expressing their "sincerity" in accepting Zhao'an. Yang Jinchao and others believed it and immediately reported to the imperial court, and at the same time stopped the attack on the rebel army.

And the peasant rebel army did a full set of plays. At that time, in the list of leaders of the deception reported by Wu'an:

The main leaders of the rebel army, such as King Chuang (Gao Yingxiang), General Chuang (Li Zicheng), Eight Kings (Zhang Xianzhong), Cao Cao (Luo Rucai), and the five battalions of Ge Zuo (that is, composed of the five battalions of Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, Ge Li Yan He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, Liu Xiyao, the reincarnated king, and Lin Yangyang, the king of the troubled times) were readily available.

Including the above people, a total of sixty-one chiefs were defrauded. Anyway, the names of these leaders will not be described one by one. But some of them are more weird: there is one Liu Bei, two Zhang Fei, but there is no Guan Yu. There is also a Zhang Qing. It's really "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" flying together, it's really "The First Chaos in History"! (Zhang Xiaohua's writing is very funny)

And after getting the demotion table, Wang Pu and the others thought that everything was done, and they completely relaxed their vigilance. The peasant rebel army used the false surrender as a cover to paralyze the civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty, bought clothes such as furs and boots from the officers and soldiers and local people, and actively prepared to cross the river to the south.

On November 24, the weather was suddenly cold, and a section of the Yellow River between Yuanqu in Shanxi Province and Jiyuan in Henan Province was frozen into a bridge. The peasant rebel army took advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and soldiers, spread the door board on the ice and added another layer of soil, galloped through the Yellow River in three ways, and reached the horseshoe nest and wild boar nose in Mianchi County, Henan.

As soon as the news came out, the world shook. The Ming Empire began to erode. (To be continued......)