Chapter XXXVIII
Schönbrunn Palace, children's room.
"Mother, I'm five years old and can sleep by myself." Franz looked at Mrs. Sophie with some helplessness.
"No, I feel like you need me. And you can't refuse a mother to do her duty. Mrs. Sophie insisted.
"Let's say that the snow was falling tightly that day, and Captain Lin walked less than half a mile before he saw a dilapidated church..."Franz sighed a little, feeling that women like to follow dramas in any era.
Phnom Penh, Chenla Palace.
At this time, in the palace, King Anzan was long gone, but his four daughters were still in the palace.
They are the princesses of Zhenla, and the palace is their home, but they can only live in the cold palace now.
Because the other palaces have been occupied by the Vietnamese general Zhang Mingjiao, who has absolute power as the overseer of Vietnam in Chenla.
Zhang Ming said that the first thing he did when he entered the Phnom Penh Palace was to occupy the palace concubines of King Anzan, and then increase taxes in the name of King Anzan, and at the same time recruit young and beautiful women into the palace.
The Guanjin family was not spared, and more than a dozen women of the clan were summoned to the palace, and many of them were forced to commit suicide due to humiliation, so that Guanjin Pan hated Zhang Ming to the core.
For the four princesses of Zhenla, Zhang Ming said that he didn't dare to mess around, but he was not afraid of Zhenla people.
Instead, he was afraid of the prison army sent by Emperor Mingming, a eunuch surnamed Li.
This eunuch surnamed Li is nominally here to supervise military affairs, but in fact, on the one hand, he is here to limit Zhang Ming's power, and on the other hand, he is afraid that Zhang Mingjiao will come into contact with Anzan's descendants, and he is afraid that he also wants to learn from Cao Mengde and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.
Sinology and Confucianism have an unshakable position in Southeast Asian countries. It is not uncommon for Emperor Ming Ming to know this allusion.
It's just that Emperor Ming's approach gave Guan Jin Pan room to operate.
Eunuchs, as a group that has lost the power to be normal people, are either greedy, bad, or have some special habits.
This eunuch surnamed Li likes to compose poems, and the official Jin Pan naturally likes it, and often brings the famous places in the Zhenla literary world into the palace to fight against the eunuch surnamed Li.
How could there be no wine in the poetry, so the official Jin Pan sent people to collect fine wine everywhere and present it to the eunuch surnamed Li.
After coming and going, Guan Jin Pan became a "confidant" in the eyes of the eunuch surnamed Li.
On this day, Guan Jinpan brought a set of Tang people's solitary books and a delicate jade jue to find a eunuch surnamed Li.
The eunuch surnamed Li was happy in his heart, but said quietly.
"Brother Guanjin, you give such a heavy gift to our family, just say anything directly."
"Brother Li, the princesses have also reached the age of enlightenment, I want to invite a gentleman for them."
The eunuch surnamed Li breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he thought it would be something important, but it turned out that he was just inviting a master.
The eunuch surnamed Li replied.
"This is naturally possible, but I don't know which one can be the master of the princesses, and whether we can see it."
Guan Jin Pan naturally understands that it is impossible not to let the eunuch surnamed Li see him, not to mention that sooner or later this matter will be known by the eunuch surnamed Li, and he can't hide it.
"Master An, Master Pa, come and let Brother Li meet."
An and Pa are both common surnames in Zhenla, and the eunuch surnamed Li didn't care too much.
It's just that when I saw Ambrosius and Pacini, I was really taken aback.
"Yellow-haired ghost!?"
Guan Jinpan spoke: "It's Xiyi." ”
"Oh, yes, it's Yiren. It's just that they have real talent and real learning? "The eunuch surnamed Li is conceited that he is rich and rich, and he plans to meet the two Xiyi people for a while.
Guan Jin Pan naturally wouldn't let the eunuch surnamed Li and Ambrosius play freely, so he simply said directly.
"A woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and these two Xiyi people mainly teach dance and music."
These words instantly made the eunuch surnamed Li lose interest.
"I'll just say, Yiren doesn't know how to write and ink, but only knows singing and dancing." Then he said to the little eunuch next to him, "Give them a waist card, and you can lead them there." ”
The little eunuch bowed his head and said yes, but as soon as he turned to leave, he was stopped by the eunuch surnamed Li.
"Wait!"
The voice of the eunuch surnamed Li immediately made the atmosphere tense, and Ambrosius had already touched the gun on his waist.
"It stinks, let them bathe and change their clothes, don't bring the stench into the palace."
Both Ambrosius and Guan Jinpan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yes."
...
Ambrosius finally met the "princesses" he had been dreaming of, but these princesses were completely different from what he had imagined.
The dress is very rustic, and even the fabric is similar to that of the palace maids.
Especially at this age, he looks like he is only in his teens, and the youngest is only seven or eight years old.
Ambrosius complained infinitely in his heart: "You shouldn't listen to the little kid." ”
While Ambrosius was looking up and down several princesses, several loli were also looking at him curiously.
After all, the princesses have lived in the palace since they were born, and they have never seen a man, let alone a Westerner.
The two sides were right there, looking at each other awkwardly.
In the end, it was Father Pacini who was able to break the siege, after all, as a professional missionary trained by the Church, his communication skills must be very good.
The princesses' first impression of Ambrosius was very good, after all, Ambrosius was very different from the eunuchs they usually saw, and this Grand Duke Ambrosius was not bad-looking, so he was naturally easy to get close to.
Chenla, Kampong Son Bay.
The establishment of the port went smoothly, and the people here were surprisingly numb, with no intention of rebelling against the uninvited guests, and the officials became very cooperative after accepting the bribe.
The Catholic clergy also began their campaign, infiltrating the nearby countryside to give medicine and give rice, a routine practice that only attracted the attention of the locals.
Missionary in the colonies, they needed a special approach.
When a village is often attacked by bandits, the battle priests are divided into two teams, one team is ambushed by the bandits at gunpoint, while the other team goes to the village to help the villagers defend the village, and also to prevent the bandits from reporting from inside.
When the bandits were repelled by the battle priests guarding the village, another group of battle priests who had already been in ambush rushed out and wiped out the bandits.
The priests tied the bandits to the village square and asked everyone to tell them about their crimes.
At this time, the villagers naturally had grievances and revenge, and when the bandits were beaten to the death of the villagers, the priests stopped the atrocities of the villagers.
The priests demanded that the bandits repent of their sins be all too familiar to Buddhists in Southeast Asia.
"Eighty percent is that these foreign monks are going to release this group of damn bandits." The villagers thought to themselves.
The bandits also thought that they should be able to escape, and sooner or later they would kill all these damn Diao people, after all, it was impossible for these foreign monks to guard these villagers every day.
However, to the surprise of the villagers and bandits, after the bandits repented, the priests sent them to the cross and let them be baptized in the blazing fire.
"May the Lord forgive you your sins, Amen!"
After seeing the power and methods of the priests, the villagers changed their beliefs.
The priests looked at the villagers who had become more and more pious, and exclaimed, "Archbishop Rauscher's method is truly spiritual." ”
What they didn't know was that these missionary strategies were the work of a single child.