Chapter 242: The Missionaries

"Your Majesty is worried."

It seems that his daughter's matter can't be bypassed today, and there is no way, Sun Yuanhua can only stand up again and reply.

"But Yousu has studied under Master Xu since he was a child, and he was also baptized and believed. It's not that the kid has a high vision, but from the point of view of religion, to choose a suitable family affair, the minister also asked the concubine to enter the palace to meet Concubine Minglan in person. ”

This is already a polite refusal.

Sun Yuanhua is very clear about the character of his own girl. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to run away from home and run to Naturalization City alone. If it weren't for the good ending of Naturalization City, the girl and herself would have ended well. But if there is a slight flaw in the Naturalization City, what the result will be, it is really a matter of two words.

A girl with this kind of character, if she directly encounters His Majesty the Emperor who insists on herself and is stubborn in the matter of marriage, Sun Yuanhua doesn't dare to think about what unpredictable fate will happen.

Besides, you are a person in your early twenties, why do you have such a big interest in media pulling? Difficult?

After all, it is not good to refuse the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor now, so he also has to add.

"The minister and the cheap also go back and urge it well, if there is really a good thing, then the minister will go to His Majesty the Emperor to ask for some grace."

Whether His Majesty the Emperor had such thoughts or not, he was unwilling to send his own girl to the palace. My current officialdom luck is not bad, what is it called to become an uncle of the country. What I don't know is that I only got to the top by selling my daughter.

What he didn't know was that Zhu Youzhen finally waited for what he wanted to hear.

"Oh, by the way, I look at it this way, the surname Sun is really a big surname in front of me. By the way, Chuanting, do you count and Yuanhua from the family tree? ”

Come on, Sun Yuanhua is still standing in the middle, and His Majesty the Emperor has begun to think whimsically again.

"From the minister's point of view, it should be two branches that split very early." The alarm bell in Sun Chuanting's heart was loud.

"Giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou, your old Sun family is still very powerful." Zhu Youzhen replied seemingly casually.

"By the way, Yousu is a few years younger than me, and what kind of courtesy did he receive in what year?"

This time it was Sun Yuanhua's turn to have a big alarm bell in his heart, and he hurriedly thought quickly in his mind.

"The youngest daughter Wanli Renzi year. When he was three years old, he happened to meet Bishop Paul, a good friend of Lord Xu Guangqi, and he just completed the baptism of initiation. ”

"Oh, Yuanhua, you sit." Zhu Youzhen seems to have just discovered the fact that Sun Yuanhua was still standing there.

Then he turned to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Old Lou doesn't seem to have much interest in this kind of childlike thing. By the way, I have allocated you 150,000 taels of silver from Beizhili's side, how is the progress of the Enlightenment Academy? ”

The work of land measurement and clearing in Beizhili has just ended. The royal clan is the big one, so with Zhu Youzhen's support, the strength of the recovery is very strong, and the speed is much faster than originally expected.

In addition, in the past few years, the budget of the household department has been more relaxed than in previous years, so the use of money, as well as the use of land in Beijing, Baoding, and the newly opened Dagu and Tianjin port cities, the affairs of exchanging money for land and land for land have gone much smoother. Now only three counties close to the north side and the mountains remain unfinished, and the rest are all completed.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Youzhen was happy, he allocated another sum of money to Lu Xiangsheng, which was specially used to set up schools at the Mongolian school and county school levels in the county that had completed the land reform.

His Majesty laughed. The progress of the county school is a little faster, mainly the repair and supplement affairs, and the minister expects that by the autumn of the opening of the enke, the county school can be completed. However, Mengxue is slower, and at present, there are 93 counties in the north of Zhili, of which 13 counties have been opened. For example, Changping County has not yet had a county that can enter if it can enter. ”

Zhu Youzhen was noncommittal.

Lu Xiangsheng finished answering, and seeing that the emperor had no words, he naturally knew that something was wrong, but he didn't want to add anything further.

Han Ying knew that it was time for him to speak, although he still hadn't grasped His Majesty's thoughts today. His Majesty has recently had some channels and information that he does not have, and this is obvious. Moreover, I seem to have been so preoccupied with details lately that I have neglected my own majesty's views and studies on a wider range of matters.

"Your Majesty, if you look at Beizhili, this year is still good, although there is also a drought, but under the governance of Lu Xiangsheng, coupled with the power of the newly acquired land and people, the water conservancy is managed, and it is expected to be a bumper year. However, whether it is Henan, Shaanxi, Fuzhou, or Liangguang, there are hidden risks this year. Therefore, the old minister thought that it should be safe. Lao Chen has also consulted with the household department in the past few days, and he also hopes to withhold a part of the annual income, reduce the taxes of several provinces at the same time, and replenish a few large warehouses on the spot. ”

"Well, Shoufu is the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country."

Zhu Youzhen stood barefoot on the slate, the slate had just been dried by the sun, and it was quite comfortable to stand.

"Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a time; Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain. Regarding the replenishment of grain and grass, Shoufu has an opinion here to give me a special excerpt before autumn, and I want to take a good look at it. The problems of the remaining provinces should be borne on the shoulders of the political envoys and governors, and those who can afford it naturally do not need to be said. If you can't afford it, or if you neglect your duties, the cabinet should also show it. ”

"These cabinets have been prepared early, and I am very relieved. This is the direction of the future, and the cabinet will have to take on this kind of routine government affairs in the future. The Prime Minister's government affairs are not empty words. ”

After saying this, Zhu Youzhen changed his words.

"It's just that this Mengxue is not enough silver? Or is the gentleman not enough? Or do you have a different opinion? I remember this matter, and we have already made it very clear to the Imperial Council. Since the Imperial Council did not stop everyone's mouths, I let you speak freely, and finally formed a common understanding and decision-making. And now why? ”

"Why? Couldn't I have just said clearly? Han Ying thought in her heart, but she could only talk to the mud.

"Not really, but even if there is enough money, this school and the gentleman will need to start preparing for some time. What's more, this is not the most urgent thing at the moment. ”

"Oh, then in the next fifteen years, there will be a year of dolls in Chongzhen's second year who can't take the exam because they don't have a school house and Mr.? Or should these dolls also be baptized by something? ”

As soon as the words came out, Zhu Youzhen directly pointed out the topic.

"It seems that there are also baptized in the army and in the official schools?" Zhu Youzhen asked Sun Chengzong directly.

"The old minister doesn't know, since Your Majesty asked, the old minister will also go back to investigate. See if that's the case? It's just that there are also believers like Taoists and Buddhists in the team, I don't know what Your Majesty's specific thinking is? Sun Chengzong's expression was the same as Han Ying's, and he still didn't understand the reason why His Majesty was more serious about this matter.

"Is there a monk who was ordained at the age of three?" Zhu Youzhen squinted at Sun Chengzong.

"What Your Majesty said, the old minister has really never heard of it." Sun Chengzong's answer was very omitted, but there was a storm in his heart.

"Okay, no wonder I talked about Sun Yousu for a long time, it turned out that he was waiting for us here."

"Either the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind presses the east wind. The Ming Dynasty does not allow children to believe in any kind of doctrine when they are ignorant, this must be regarded as the iron law of the empire, but Shoufu is clear? Mr. Xu's there, Yuanhua personally went over and said. The missionary affairs of Westerners must be under the jurisdiction of the government, and if they exceed the proportion, they will be directly driven away. ”

"Obey." Sun Yuanhua was a little heavy-hearted, he didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor had great prejudices about Western doctrines.

"Lu Xiangsheng, if the court doesn't fight, there will naturally be people fighting. I can't make a lot of effort to learn, I don't want to say something good, you want to see how many people will be baptized in the imperial palace in 20 years. ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said, Sun Yuanhua was a little incomprehensible. I thought in a panic, isn't Your Majesty going to be dissatisfied with Lord Xu Guangqi?

As if he was specially here to explain Sun Yuanhua's doubts, Zhu Youzhen said again:

"Xu Guangqi first learned from me that he only came into contact with Western religion when he was about 30 years old, and after three years of observation and thought, he took it as his destiny. For this, I also support it, and the Ming Empire can still tolerate these. However, the rest of the religious believers in the army and in the research institutes must be vetted. ”

"For those who preach in the fields and villages, they are arrested. For those who baptize those who are less than eighteen, they will be arrested directly. Those who believe in religion but do not make it public, and deliberately conceal it, will be arrested directly. ”

"What's the matter, in Europe, the kings are also missionaries, and it is possible that the Ming Dynasty should do the same? If the cabinet can't manage it, I will hand it over to Wei Zhongxian's East Factory to take care of it, how about it? ”

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