For safety reasons, Zhu Fugui did not stay in the mixed Huai army camp, but in the former American Concession along Yangshupu to the north and Hongkou, and later the Minglijian Concession.

The location of the Minglijian Concession, close to Suzhou Creek, can be said to be a very elite plot in Shanghai.

Zhu Fugui didn't know what the housing prices here would be in later generations, but it must be an astronomical amount.

And now, after several years of construction in the Ming Dynasty, the Minglijian Concession is also the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty.

Along the way, Zhu Fugui saw all kinds of buildings, and also saw merchants from the south to the north, who came here to wholesale all kinds of bright gray, Ming cloth, Ming socks, and Ming nails...... Then it was shipped to all parts of China for sale.

Objectively speaking, it was the Ming Dynasty who personally killed the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy in Shenzhou and destroyed the pastoral life of the men and women weaving here.

Although this pastoral life was not available for a day in later generations, the little bourgeoisie, who was full of idyllic mouths.

The old farmer who farmed the land in the mountainous area of Fujian, the woman who weaved in Nanxun, and the charcoal seller who cut down and burned charcoal in Zhongnan Mountain......

These industrious and simple working people were all victims in the beginning.

No matter how industrious you are, can you grow rice on the terraces of Wuyi Mountain compare to the farmer soldiers who drive combine harvesters on Xinjin Farm?

In any case, with hard work and hard work, is it comparable to the cheap anthracite and finished charcoal produced by Daming?

The answer is definitely no.

Under the impact of low-cost goods that were crushed by dimensionality reduction, they were all wiped out.

However, the Ming eliminated the ecological niche they relied on to survive, not their bodies and souls.

Without the pressure of the red line on cultivated land, Daming will soon be able to find a new means of livelihood for them.

Even if you can't find it for a while, it's easy.

Go and build roads, build reservoirs, build canals.

These are infrastructure projects that can absorb a large amount of labor and employment.

In a sense, taking advantage of the extremely low labor cost in the Shenzhou area today, relying on a steady stream of bright noodles, bright rice, and enough rich sausages, you can hire dozens of millions of laborers at low wages, Zhu Fugui believes that it is the right time to create a wonder.

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In fact, the name of the Ming Concession has never appeared at the official level, but it is just a common saying among the common people.

The buildings here can be divided into three types according to the time.

Old style buildings from the mid-nineteenth century and before.

Western-style architecture after the mid-nineteenth century.

and in recent years, the Ming style, Han and Tang Dynasty style reinforced concrete buildings have been built on a large scale.

The Ming Concession seems to be a microcosm.

The decaying Qing Dynasty, the hypocritical Western powers, and the emerging Ming Empire, three cultures, three values, and three beliefs played with each other in this small square inch, and finally divided the victory and defeat when the iron fist of wealth fell.

However, although it achieved a decisive victory, as the four self-confident Ming courts, they did not demolish all the houses here.

There are some things left to remind future generations that when the dragon naps, the worm will bite its buttocks.

Of course, Zhu Fugui has never been disgusted with bungalows.

He himself was not a Han Confucian fundamentalist.

Anything, once caught in the trap of fundamentalism, is prone to extremes.

The Han and Tang dynasties, the two most powerful dynasties in China, have always been tolerant of Western imports.

But it must be pointed out that this kind of tolerance must be based on the tolerance of looking down, not the tolerance of kneeling and licking.

Zhonghua looked at them, and his mentality must be, "Eh, yes, it's interesting to have some towns, and Allah can also try it." ”

Rather than seeing it as the light of human civilization and as a beacon of the world.

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Zhu Fugui, who has no taboos, stayed in the Anglican church built immediately after the oral agreement between the American Anglican Bishop Wen Huilian and the acting Shanghai Daoist Wu Jianzhang.

The church is quite new.

In 1864, when the Ming Dynasty was founded in North America, the church had just been demolished and renovated.

The renovated church was first designed by Scott, an expert in Gothic church architecture, but the original design required too much money and was modified by Shanghai-based designer Kedner.

However, in Zhu Fugui's opinion, this thing still can't change the smell of the foreign monk temple.

For this kind of gloomy place, Zhu Fugui originally didn't like it.

But from another point of view, as a haunted house, it is a different taste to explore with your wife.

After all, with a dignified son and a true dragon's aura, a little foreign monk's smell can still be easily dispelled.

However, there was a small person in the group that accompanied the holy car south, looking at the tall and pointed church, but he grabbed the hem of Yin Weasel's flying fish suit, and the whole person trembled.

Shirley, the Inuit girl that Weasel had rescued from the dissection table at Kamloops Indian Boarding School two years earlier, had been by his side.

Two years have passed, and the skinny little girl at the beginning has now become jade-carved.

Every time Zhu Fugui sees this little tail behind Yin Weasel, he can't help but think of Ivana.

Back then, Ivana was also such a cute little girl, and she liked to follow her all day long.

It's a pity that time flies, and Ivana is now an eighteen-year-old young girl.

And Zhu Fugui himself has become a 26-year-old man.

Zhu Fugui felt that every time Ivana returned to Fengdu, her eyes were weird.

It's kind of scary.

In contrast, Shirley is much more harmless to humans and animals.

Sometimes, when he saw Shirley's sticky appearance, Zhu Fugui couldn't help but tease her.

But this little girl doesn't even give the face of the Son of Heaven, only Yin Weasel can make her show that sweet smile, and her eyes turn into crescent moons.

Zhu Fugui didn't expect that Yin Weasel, who played Zhou Jie's version of the young man Bao Qingtian without makeup, was so affinity.

It can only be a wonderful arrangement of fate.

At this time, standing in front of the original Shanghai Anglican Church, Yin Weasel bent down, gently rubbed Shirley's soft hair, and said, "I'm here." ”

"Hmm."

The little girl nodded, then jumped up to save Yin Weasel's waist and hung on it like a drag oil bottle.

Let Yin Weasel drag into the door of the church.

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Zhu Fugui's office was the original bishop's chanting hall.

Sitting on the soft leather chair, Zhu Fugui had to sigh that the clergy was really a rich profession.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had a special institution for the management of religion.

And it is not original to Zhu Fugui.

There are such institutions in all dynasties, the Tang Dynasty is the ancestral hall of Shangshu Province, and in the Ming Dynasty is the Taichang Temple, and the monks and the two divisions of the Tao.

Monks and Taoists must have a degree issued by the second division, otherwise they are wild monks and Taoist priests, and the government has to ask for it.

In the Fourth Ming Empire, the presence of Taichang Temple is actually not too strong.

Because Zhu Fugui does not worship Buddha at all, nor does he cultivate the Tao.

Except for going to the Martyrs' Shrine to offer flowers and offerings during the Spring Festival every year, it basically does not appear on any religious occasions.

However, with the re-entry of the hometown of China, the importance of Taichang Temple has increased.

At present, Taichang Siqing is a Japanese Hiroshi Ikai.

This is an expedient candidate when Daming was created and talents were insufficient.

Later, he was in charge of the wedding of Zhu Fugui and Yin Susu, and he was in charge of the Martyrs' Shrine, and his ability was very good, and it continued.

But Hiroto Ii is now 65 years old, and it's time to retire.

What Zhu Fugui means is that the old man Bai Zhixin is almost fifty years old after all.

The boss is not small, and he still goes to the battlefield to fight, kill, and kill is dangerous after all.

If there are three long and two short on one day, Xia Er will not cry into tears?

Therefore, Zhu Fugui discussed with Bai Xia'er in private, and when this war was over, he would take his father-in-law back to Fengdu for retirement, and he would be the secretary of the Taichang Temple.

It's not just a name for the royal family.

Master Zhixin was also a first-class and famous monk in Jingci Temple, and his fame was greater than that of the abbot, and the pilgrims who came to him to buy roast pork did not know how few.

It is naturally reasonable to let such a high-ranking monk come to be the Taichang Siqing of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the specific work, there are naturally two Shaoqing, two temple officials, two chief bookkeepers, four doctors, six Taizhu, and a large number of Fenglilang, Xielulang, records, revisions, reviewers, government histories, confessors, praisers, praisers, Zhu Shi, Liyuan Lisheng, pavilion chiefs, and Zhanggu to operate.

Recently, however, there has been a strong contender for the position of Taichang Siqing.

It's not Hong Xiuquan.

Although this old brother really wants to come to Fengdu for pilgrimage.

However, Zhu Fugui didn't want this neuropathy to come over at all.

What should he do if he pulls the people of the Ming Dynasty to preach?

Treat him as a fool, people shout at the Great Tomorrow Father, and they can't chill the heart of a child.

But if he messes around, it will destroy the basis of the Ming court's governance.

Although the Ming is an old state, its life is renewed.

There is nothing new under the sun, this statement is true.

But that doesn't mean that we have to use old ways to solve new problems.

Zhu Fugui never had the idea of looking for future answers in the classical world, let alone going back to the old path of the **** of the seventh century in West Asia and the West.

Even, worshipping God is simply forbidden in the Ming Dynasty.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty forbade Ming Religion, it is also very reasonable for Zhu Fugui's Ming Dynasty to prohibit God worship.

Of course, Zhu Fugui still supports Hong Xiuquan's idea of entering the Vatican and taking the pope's bird seat.

In short, Da Ming has nothing to do with God worship in essence, but the latter unilaterally licks the dog.

Therefore, the Taichang Siqing of the Ming Dynasty could never be Hong Xiuquan, nor could it be Hong Tianguifu, nor even could it be the emancipated worshippers of the God Worship Sect that had just appeared.

What really poses a threat to Bai Guozhang's status, or rather, what makes Zhu Fugui indecisive is a highly respected Nanyang French monk.

This fellow, Zen Master McCann, expressed in a secret letter that he was willing to exchange the land of Saigon for this position.

In exchange for a mere false position, in exchange for a bloodless soldier to take Saigon, Zhu Fugui felt that it was very cost-effective.

It's hard to send away a Japanese Taichang Siqing, and Daming is about to usher in a French Taichang Siqing, why does this matter feel so outrageous?

After Zhu Fugui went to Jiangnan this time, he was about to make the next trip to Nanyang.

Inspecting this Zen Master McCann is also one of the important tasks of this trip.

No way, as the head of the Ming Pacific Rim Empire, Zhu Fugui's life is so busy and fulfilling.

Just when Zhu Fugui was fishing and resting in the office in order to behave well with Bai Xia'er at the nun's rocker at night, Yin Weasel knocked on the door of the office.

"Please come in."

Zhu Fugui hurriedly put all the pens and paperweights on the desk into the drawer.

Because just by listening to the rhythm of footsteps and knocking at the door, you can know who is coming.

Yin Weasel respectfully pushed the door in.

Glancing at the empty desk, he had a slight look of disappointment on his face.

"Yo, is Little Tail settled??" Zhu Fugui quipped.

Yin Weasel nodded, "I'm already asleep." ”

Zhu Fugui smiled, knowing that his Jinyi Wei leader was actually a gentle guy.

And he has always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so Zhu Fugui asked straight to the point: "What's wrong?" ”

Yin Weasel replied, "Back to Your Majesty, we found a gang of thugs and twelve kilograms of explosives in an inn in Yangshupu. ”

"Dynamite?"

Zhu Fugui frowned.

In his impression, Westerners like to use neuropathy to grab hands, Lao Maozi and Eastern Europeans prefer to use explosives.

And the Chinese, both, that is easy to use and that is easy to use.

"Who is it? Are they the 'enlightened gentry'? Zhu Fugui asked.

Zhu Fugui was not very relieved about those "enlightened gentry", which can be seen from the ride he was sitting on, a bulletproof car towed by the Zhenyuan ship.

However, Yin Weasel shook his head: "It's not them, it's the Buryat dead soldiers trained by the Rakshasa Country." ”

"Buryats? A minion of the House of Sautna? ”

Zhu Fugui remembered that the so-called Buryats were a group of Mongols in Russia.

Basically, the farther south the Mongolian plateau, the better, so the farther south the Mongol status, the higher the status of the Mongols.

Although the Tongliao Khan is not the orthodox golden family like Lin Dan Khan, he is also the Kshatriya of Mongolia.

And Buryatia is at best a Shudra.

Unexpectedly, because they had been out of the control of the Manchu Qing for too long, some Buryat tribes had strangely become Orthodox and had been trained by the Rakshasa Kingdom to become agents who infiltrated the Ming Dynasty.

"Dare to plot against me, it seems that our comrade Tsar can't wait to see Peter."

Zhu Fugui took out a pen and a small notebook from the drawer, and wrote the words "I want to kill the Tsar's whole family" on them.

Yin Weasel hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, actually...... These assassins are not going to blow up you...... It was the king of Chu...... According to the interrogation, Mikhail Dmitrievich, the governor of Rakshasa Central Asia and the conqueror, hoped to take advantage of the Chu king's absence and blow him up in Shanghai.

In doing so, he can not only go to a major enemy for the Rakshasa country, but also take the opportunity to spread rumors and divide the relationship between the Western Chu army and the Ming Dynasty.

In a word...... They seem to know that your majesty is very tightly guarded, and they have not considered assassinating you at all.

And this order itself was not issued by the tsar.

Our spy department believes that the Rakshasa Tsar is probably unaware of it, and belongs to the solitary governor of Central Asia. ”

"I see."

Zhu Fugui nodded, "Count them as acquaintances." ”

As he spoke, he added a few words "the princess can stay" after the words "to kill the tsar's family" in the small book.

Seeing Yin Weasel leave, Zhu Fugui suddenly remembered something and hurriedly bowed his head.

I saw that there was still a trace of the fountain pen that I had written before, and the table was empty, and only the notebook remained.

"The thief doesn't go empty, the thief doesn't go empty!"

Zhu Fugui sighed and placed another order for a hero children's fountain pen on Taobao.