Chapter 152: Preaching

"Question: What are the factors that trigger the war?"

"Answer: Interests!"

This is a simple truth that almost everyone knows, and if the word "interests" is broken down and summarized into several major types, then it can be roughly divided into: political disputes, territorial disputes, resource disputes, religious contradictions, and ethnic contradictions.

Religious contradictions, this inducement is enough to write a strong stroke in the history of world wars.

Historically, Taoism has launched many extermination campaigns with the help of political forces, and Catholicism has also launched more than one crusade, and has also created a "Inquisition" that can represent a historical period.

It doesn't take much to know that neither of these two sects is getting along.

Western missionaries braved hardships and dangers and traveled across the ocean to knock on China's ancient and heavy gates, and their mission was to engage in a 'spiritual hunt' to 'annex China'. That is, the Catholic plan for the Chinese, who claim that this mission is to "take apologetics as the center and worship religion as the mind" for Jesus to conquer "idolatrous China" and fight a "spiritual war".

The reason why Uncle Nine opposes the reopening of the church is that Uncle Jiu, as a staunch supporter of Taoism, has an instinctive sense of crisis in the face of the invasion of heretical beliefs. Second, and most crucially, Uncle Nine has already used the art of feng shui to calculate that the church is located in Jiuquan Town, where the 'three evils are located', and once the church door is opened, it will lead to endless disasters.

Therefore, Uncle Nine went to pee at the door of the church every morning, not to vent his anger, but to confirm in time whether someone had stolen the church or sneaked into the church without permission, so as to eliminate the disaster for Jiuquan Town in time.

Well, teacher, I can only help you wash up to this point, student.

Now, the entry of Father Wu and his entourage in Jiuquan Town will naturally cause strong rejection from the local religious forces headed by Uncle Jiu.

It is said that if Catholicism wants to enter Jiuquan Town, it will not be an easy task. Especially on the night of Halloween twenty years ago, the church was tragically destroyed, and all the missionaries in the original church died mysteriously overnight, which really caused a panic in Jiuquan Town. This matter, even today, I still hear some old people citing it as a talking point.

It's just that day and night are guarded, and it is difficult to prevent thieves. The reopening of the church was organized by the scheming mayor father and son. And their ultimate goal is to borrow the church as a transit station for driving corpses and transporting drugs.

But because everyone knows that Uncle Nine has real skills, and this kind of thing will definitely be detected by Uncle Nine by using fake zombies to transport poison, so the mayor and his son came up with a plan, borrowed a knife to kill people, and introduced Catholicism to suppress Uncle Jiu's prestige.

As soon as the church is opened, with a little guidance, as long as all the people in the town run to believe in Catholicism, then Uncle Nine will become a heretic, and no matter what he says in the future, the townspeople will no longer believe it.

I believe that the truth of this matter is now only known to the father and son of the mayor who is responsible for planning, the dragon slaying Taoist who is responsible for transporting drugs, and Wang Hao, who is familiar with the plot.

And Uncle Nine and Father Wu, who were arguing in front of them, should be completely unaware.

But Wang Hao couldn't help at all at this time, not to mention that he couldn't find a vampire, he couldn't relieve the crisis in Jiuquan Town, and there was no way to end this world. As a foreigner with no roots in the local area, even if he has a thousand words, he is not as convincing as the mayor's words.

In the end, the mayor convened a general meeting of the townspeople, and after the consultation of the townspeople, the incident was "satisfactorily" resolved.

Go to a meeting and get a gift!

"With this article, you can go to church and get a can of American milk powder"

I don't know why Father Wu, as a priest from the Vatican, wants to buy American milk powder. But the townspeople probably knew that if the church could not be reopened, the slip would be wasted paper.

So after a democratic vote by the townspeople, the mayor decided: the church is reopened!

Wang Hao has never learned how to show people feng shui, and at present, the reopening of the church has not brought any inconvenience to the people in the whole town.

If there is one, it is that the old spittoon that Uncle Jiu's family has not used for many years has finally been invited out again.

Jiuquan Town has always been like a pool of calm water, and it has always maintained a calm state for many years.

The arrival of Father Wu and his entourage can no longer be said to have caused a ripple on the water, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is making waves on the pond.

This group of foreign missionaries was obviously organized, premeditated, and very thoughtful.

In addition to handing out gifts to the townspeople, one of the monks was a Western doctor, while the other monks were doing chores such as cleaning the church. The monk, John, had already set up various instruments in the open space in front of the church and began to give some simple treatments to the townspeople for free.

In later generations, Western medicine was able to crush Chinese medicine for a time, and it did have its advantages, especially its characteristics of headache and headache, and the healing speed was exceptionally fast.

Although the treatment process was very scary to the townspeople. After all, people who are accustomed to eating decoction and medicine are indeed a little unacceptable when they see all kinds of scalpels, scissors, and all kinds of needles of different lengths.

But after all, there will still be patients who are in a hurry to come to the door. And after the first successful example, the rest of the story will obviously go much smoother.

The church has been abandoned for 20 years, and it is not something that can be repaired in a day or two. As the leader, and the eldest Father Wu, he naturally won't do anything to carry and lift. During the renovation of the church, Fr. Wu insisted on two things every day:

First, we should adhere to the people-friendly line.

Lectures are held at the door of the church every day, and the general content of the speech is, of course, centered on this one core: 'God loves the world'. Specifically, in addition to the "God-given gifts and advanced and free medical care" that the current townspeople have enjoyed, the church will also organize the establishment of a church school in the future and provide hard-won educational opportunities for children who are not educated.

Second, Father Wu did not give up taking the high-end route.

It can be seen that he still has some research on Huaxia, and he understands very well the word "upward and downward effect". Knowing that his missionary work would be smoother when he had dealt with these squires, Fr. Wu would go door to door visiting the prestigious homes of the town, offering gifts and preaching his religion to them.

And Wang Hao, as one of the few people in the legend of Jiuquan Town who has seen the world, and even has the experience of studying abroad, is the priority of Father Wu.

Of course, Wang Hao can't follow his heart, whether it is out of his own heart or as a student of the ninth uncle, Wang Hao can't see him casually.

Therefore, Father Wu has eaten several closed-door soup at Wang Hao's place in the past few days.

Although Father Wu knew that Wang Hao was deliberately avoiding it, he paid a more active visit.

At this time, Father Wu's thoughts were that Wang Hao had studied abroad, and even if he was not religious, he had heard of Catholicism, which was easier to accept than others; And Wang Hao is still a rich man, and after believing in religion, he will give more than ordinary people; The third point, and the most important thing, is that Wang Hao is a student of Uncle Jiu, if even Wang Hao can be brought in to believe in religion, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to Uncle Jiu's prestige.