Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 325 Making a deal with the magic stick
After wandering around, Yang Menglong came to the conclusion that there were a lot more monsters in Nanyang Technical School, astronomy fans, math fans, chemistry fans, medical fans... There are all kinds of strange things, it looks good. During the few months he left, Many people came here one after another, wanting to find a job in this school—there are not many good places that can satisfy their hobbies and earn a lot of money, can they not come?Here is a future astronomy master who vowed not to marry for life, and the stars are his brides. Here is a chemical madman who can destroy a city if you give me a bottle of strong acid. The belly studies the internal organs of monkeys, and then sutures them. Medical experts who use this method to explore the doorway of surgery, and math experts who are so excited when they mention mathematics, and don’t even know their wives... In contrast, those who are It is normal for a sour scholar who is suppressing the urge to vomit blood with a straight face to teach military households to read, even though they are already going crazy with anger.

Yang Menglong rubbed his nose and smiled bitterly. He didn't know whether it was right or wrong to gather so many strange things together. I hope they don't scare the children!

At this time, Father Robben came up with the group of down-and-out parishioners.The hyenas were now clean, their hair was neatly combed, and even their beards were trimmed, and they looked much more energetic.Seeing Yang Menglong, Father Robben came over with a warm smile and called: "Dear General, I am very sorry to keep you waiting for so long!"

Yang Menglong said: "It's okay, I just arrived."

Father Robben extended an invitation: "Do you mind coming to my dormitory to talk? I haven't eaten yet."

Yang Menglong said: "I don't mind, of course I don't mind!"

Father Robben took everyone to his dormitory, opened the door, and invited everyone in.It is said to be a dormitory, but it is actually a house with four bedrooms and one living room, covering hundreds of square meters. The area is quite large. It is even paved with glazed tiles, and the walls are also covered with tiles below the baseboards. Cleaned spotlessly.The priests couldn't help but exclaimed as soon as they entered the house. They all said it was too luxurious. Even the cardinal's residence was not so beautiful!Yang Menglong curled his lips and despised them very much. Please, in the 21st century, this is the most ordinary building, okay!

Father Robben went into the kitchen and brought out a large basket of baguettes and a large bowl of noodles for their lunch.Those bumpkins had green eyes, they really did it by hand. They grabbed the bread, smeared it with ketchup and stuffed it into their mouths. The noodles were also the object of their looting. These poor kids probably didn’t get along all the way. After eating a full meal, he looked like a group of sailors who were trapped on an isolated island and starved for two weeks. Looking at it makes people feel sympathetic. In contrast, Yang Menglong, who has always eaten like a hungry ghost reincarnated, has become the most gentle one of.

Everyone ate and chatted. After chatting with Yang Menglong, he found out that there were more than 20 people in their group, nine of them were serious missionaries, and the other fourteen were technicians employed by Sun Yuanhua. Sun Yuanhua made guns and they all had a good relationship with Sun Yuanhua.But the damned rebels sacked cities and plundered land everywhere, and many cities became dead cities under their butcher knives, and the imperial court planned to surrender for a while, and suppressed them for a while. It's getting scary.Seeing that the situation was not good, they escaped before the rebels surrounded Dengzhou and traveled all the way to Henan.

"It's too scary there, there are rebellions everywhere, massacres everywhere, and blood everywhere!" Father Bowen crossed his chest with both hands, "May God forgive those lost lambs!"

Yang Menglong chuckled: "God never forgives the rebels, that's God's business, what we have to do is send them to see God!"

The fierce murderous aura made the hairs of the foreigners stand on end, only then did they realize that this cheerful baby face no matter where they go is not simple!
Originally, according to Chongzhen's plan, the Wuyang Guards and Tianxiong Army were to be mobilized to Shandong to put down the Denglai Rebellion, but due to the heavy casualties of these two troops, and the fact that they had fought thousands of miles away, the exhausted and impatient Boss Zhu was extremely rare. I sympathized with the army and gave the Wuyang Guards and Tianxiong Army a holiday to celebrate the New Year first.According to the trend of history, since the imperial court and the Shandong Wenchen Group have no lower limit to death, the Denglai rebels will break through Dengzhou and surround Laizhou. Sun Yuanhua will also be convicted and his head will fall. They settled it, a year later.Of course, Yang Menglong would not allow them to be complacent for so long, he really wanted to try what kind of goods those rebels were, and they were able to resist Ming Ting for so long.

By the way, the men in Shandong are really good. They are tall and strong, and have a simple and honest temperament. It would be a pity not to recruit some soldiers there...

Father Robben coughed, raised his glass, and said, "Let's not talk about these unlucky things! Don't you know? This young general just went on an expedition to the Tatars and fought hard with the barbaric Tatars. He fought and won! Let us drink to his victory!"

A group of real priests and fake priests cheered and toasted, congratulating Yang Menglong on his victory.Yang Menglong was so happy that his eyes were narrowed, he raised his glass to drink with them.Father Robben was secretly happy. After drinking the glass, he refilled it and called, "This young general is about to marry the most beautiful and gentle lady in Wuyang. Let us congratulate him on his successful love!"

Yang Menglong waved his hands again and again, and said, "Father, you don't have to be so polite, it's just a matter of course... I will introduce you to a young and beautiful girl some other day, so you don't need to be single anymore!"

Father Robben made the sign of the cross on his chest: "It is a sin, clergy cannot take wives!"

Yang Menglong said regretfully: "Then I can't help it. Come on, cheers!"

Father Robben kept urging him to drink. Yang Menglong was in a good mood and drank every drink. Soon, his face was red and his eyes were blurred after drinking.Father Robben said to himself: "This is a good state, we have to strike while the iron is hot!" After two more drinks, he looked serious and began to talk about the doctrines of Christianity with the believers, from God's creation of the world to Eve, Adam Being kicked out of the Garden of Eden, and then talking about the death of Jesus from Abraham, when talking about the exciting part, everyone was so excited that tears came to their eyes and they sang hymns.Yang Menglong squinted his drunken eyes and laughed, just thinking it was funny.But the bad thing came right away. Father Robben looked solemn and said to him in a solemn tone: "General Yang, we have sinned since the day we were born. Increasing, always increasing, it will accompany us from generation to generation, so that we can only stay in hell forever until the end of judgment comes! Atonement, general, accept baptism and return to the embrace of God, so that you can get rid of Original sin has returned to heaven!"

Yang Menglong squinted his eyes and said: "Go back to heaven? Why should I go back to heaven? I... I have land, money, an army, and a beautiful and gentle wife. I am already living in heaven !"

Father Robben said loudly: "Sins, these are sins! Repent and let the merciful Lord save you!"

Yang Menglong snorted: "Stop doing this!" Yang Menglong picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, and said, "I heard that you have been preaching and want to preach in my territory? Yes, let's exchange something and give us some benefits." Bar!"

Such a naked request for benefits made this group of clergy a little embarrassed, but fortunately, this person showed everything he had to say, unlike those bureaucrats who were in the clouds, half-talking and half-hiding, and anxious to death without paying for their lives.As long as he can get benefits that satisfy him, there is no problem in preaching in his territory...

Father Robben asked cautiously: "I don't know what kind of benefits you want, General?"

Yang Menglong said: "I'm more interested in your European machine tools, such as drilling machines, planing machines, boring machines and so on. You can find a way to help me get some sets for me to play with. Money is easy to talk about."

Father Bowen said: "Mr. Sun ordered some of these machine tools, but I don't know if they were destroyed by the rebels. Even if they were destroyed by the rebels, it doesn't matter. As long as the general can afford the money, our church has a way to send them to you." A brand new set comes over!"

Yang Menglong said boldly: "Money is not a problem, just get it for me! By the way, I am also more interested in your European books, astronomy, geography, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, get them all for me!" thought After thinking for a while, he added: "Well, get me some seeds of wheat, potatoes and other crops. The more complete the better."

A priest was a little annoyed: "You are not preaching here, it is clearly...it is clearly..."

Yang Menglong stared at him, and called: "What is it? I don't want it for nothing. I will pay for each of these things. You are a bird! As long as you can do these things well, I will not only allow you to preach in my territory, You will also be allocated funds to build a church!"

Father Robben jumped up eagerly: "Really?"

Yang Menglong said angrily: "I lied to you to have food? But you have to help me translate those books, we can't understand your tadpole language!"

The priests looked at each other, hesitant.They came to the east to preach, not to spread civilization. Only they know the truth here. If they really agreed to this young man's request, it would be tantamount to bringing all the advanced European culture here. Ah, how can this work!But... help build churches for free, help build churches for free, how many missionaries have spent their entire lives without money to build churches, and can only live in dilapidated houses to preach?This is a great temptation!

Seeing that they hadn't said anything for a long time, Yang Menglong became impatient: "Are you going to do it or not? Come on!"

Father Robben pondered and asked: "If we bring enough books, crop seeds, and machine tools from Europe, the general will give us a church and allow us to preach freely in Nanyang, right?"

Yang Menglong said: "Yes!"

Father Robben asked: "Then we are preaching here, can we be protected?"

Yang Menglong said: "As long as you don't break the law, no one will trouble you. If someone deliberately troubles you, you can come to me and I will help you out. Come, let's drink!"

The priests raised their glasses at the same time: "Cheers!"

A deal was completed in this way: these gods tried to transport European scientific works, machine tools, and crop seeds to China, and Yang Menglong gave them money, built churches for them, and opened the door for their missionary work. Even in Shanghai and Denglai, it is difficult to have such favorable conditions.Father Bowen wrote in his memoirs in his later years: "Yang is a very special person... He has almost endless energy and ambition, loves war but is not bloodthirsty, full of imagination and adventurous spirit, He is knowledgeable, respects science, respects both Chinese and foreign scientific and technological achievements and religions equally, and never excludes any discipline. He has a special interest in popularizing education, promoting Eastern and Western technology, and setting up factories, etc. This special hobby has been throughout his life. His chivalry is comparable to the most outstanding knights in the west, and his military and political achievements are enough to make any famous European king pale in comparison. No matter in The East is still in the West. It is very difficult to find a person like him who is enlightened, wise, ambitious, honest, and respects talents and science! We have reason to believe that in the process of spreading Western learning to the East, he Played a vital role..."

(End of this chapter)