The Ferry of the Heavens: Hong Kong Comprehensive Start

Someone came from the Chenghuang Temple in Xiangshan County.

I heard Zhu from the temple say in a deep voice, "This church cannot be opened."

Immediately.

The atmosphere on the field changed.

The Catholic monk Wu noticed that all the townspeople who were originally in high spirits lowered their heads.

Even the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his mayor's son looked very ugly, but they did not dare to speak out.

Brother Wu, who had gray hair and beard, looked thoughtful.

At this time, the old man in blue robe, who was quite famous in the town, looked at Annie and said, "Annie."

"Daddy." Annie came to the old man's side and said sweetly.

Annie is a spiritual official in the City God's Temple system. She can use Ling Yaodong's magic. Her status is not low, and she is on the same level as Miao Zhu.

So she walked out, and the leader of the male temple Zhu didn't say anything.

I just heard the old man in blue robe ask his daughter, "Annie, how did you come from the provincial capital?"

“We received feedback from believers that some Catholic believers wanted to reopen the church in Jiuquan Town, so we came here,” Anne explained.

"That's it." The old man in blue robe seemed to understand.

The mayor's son saw Anne, and glanced at her a few more times. His eyes flashed with hot light, and a smile appeared on his face. He shouted, "Annie, do you remember me? David?"

After Annie became a spiritual officer, her perception became much sharper, and she suddenly felt a sense of lust in the mayor's son, who was barely considered a childhood sweetheart. A trace of disgust flashed in her eyes, and she just nodded politely, which was considered a response. .

But David, the son of the mayor, was unwilling to let Anne say only a few words. He still had a lot to say, so he opened his mouth, but before the words came out, he was cut off by Brother Wu, "Excuse me, who are you?"

Brother Wu spoke, and the mayor's son David had to explain to him.

After he secretly glanced at the male temple ministers, he whispered, "They are the temple ministers of the City God's Temple."

"Temple blessing?" Brother Wu, who grew up eating foreign ink, didn't understand very well.

David, the son of the mayor, could only continue, "You are the servant of the city god, just like you are the servant of God, that's what I mean."

"Oh, I see, I see!" Brother Wu looked like he understood.

Uncle Jiu Lin Fengjiao on the side heard this and said disdainfully, "Every time I talk, I am like this. I will die at every turn. Even if you threaten us with death, we will not let you reopen the church!"

Brother Wu looked confused, how could he curse me to death so easily? Also, I didn’t threaten him with death!

David, the son of the mayor, was very embarrassed. He didn't expect that in the designed script, he suddenly broke into a City God's Temple and disrupted all his plans.

He wanted to pull away.

Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao was fine here, but the local City God's Temple was not something he could deal with.

I really think that the Chenghuang Temple in Lingyaodong is a charity hall!

In this troubled world, if you were really so [charitable], you would have been eaten up and wiped clean by others long ago.

The City God's Temple has been doing good deeds and accumulating virtue for so many years, and this all costs money.

And it costs a lot of money.

Relying on Ma Linxiang's hundreds of thousands taels of silver is far from enough.

Those hundreds of thousands taels of silver were just the starting capital.

Today's City God's Temple not only has temple priests, spiritual officials and other clergy, but also public welfare institutions such as [schools] and [charity halls], as well as businesses, factories and other industries.

The industries of the City God's Temple have continuously brought funds to the City God's Temple, and these funds can support the expansion of the City God's Temple.

Don’t you really think that you can do whatever you want with extraordinary power?
  You can expand as much as you want, you can open the City God's Temple to Xiangjiang as far as you want.

These all require money.

And it requires a lot of money.

Money is needed in every aspect.

For example, the simplest ones, such as temple blessing and spiritual officials, need money.

Even if they have righteousness in their hearts and have a firm belief in Ling Yaodong, they still need to eat and wear clothes after they have escaped from vulgar taste.

Eating costs money.

As a mere clergy member of the City God's Temple, it is easy to pay for food and clothing.

But what about ten temples or hundreds of temples?
  Like those famous sects in ancient times, they all had their own industries, otherwise how could they survive!
  and so.

In the process of expansion, the City God's Temple inevitably embarked on this path of industrial development.

Ling Yaodong came from a later generation, with forward vision, and with just a few pointers, the Chenghuang Temple's property could make a lot of money.

In order to protect their own property, a [Security Group] was established under the City God's Temple.

Yeah, with a gun!
  They are all devout believers of Ling Yaodong, the city god.

That is to say, the Chenghuang Temple did not rebel.

Otherwise, it would be another enhanced version of [White Lotus Sect].

How many warlords and bureaucrats are eyeing the wealth of the City God Temple.

But after seeing the strength of the Chenghuang Temple, everyone shut their mouths again.

Although this Chenghuang Temple looks delicious, it can easily break your teeth.

It’s better to pick soft persimmons and pinch them.

However, when warlords and bureaucrats want to prey on the people, these people will spontaneously move closer to the forces that can protect them.

Just like the ancient imperial court collecting heavy taxes from the people.

When ordinary people cannot live their lives, they will sell themselves to local tyrants.

The imperial court could not collect taxes from local powerful people.

These ordinary people can survive.

The Chenghuang Temple in Lingyaodong now plays the role of a local power.

When people suffer, they go to the City God Temple instead of seeking official solutions.

The City God's Temple came forward to solve the problem.

The common people became even more personally attached to the Chenghuang Temple.

The power of the City God's Temple further increased.

As the strength of the City God's Temple increased, warlords and bureaucrats became more scrupulous.

In the end, the butcher's knife can only be put on the small landowners and petty bourgeoisie.

Ok,
  The big landowners and the big bourgeoisie can't cut it off, so only the small landowners and the petty bourgeoisie can barely use it to fill their stomachs.

have to say.

In the past few years since the rise of the Chenghuang Temple, the lives of the people in the two prefectures—mainly Guangzhou Prefecture, while Huizhou Prefecture’s influence is not that great—have become much better.

The people are not stupid and know who brought this.

Therefore, their belief in the City God Temple has become more firm and pious.

Ling Yaodong's Yin soldiers eliminated the demons and ghosts in the territory, so that the people in the two provinces were no longer persecuted by the evil spirits. It was not as much as letting them pay a dou of rice less in the Yang world, which increased Ling Yaodong's faith more.

Because this is something that can be seen.

The real thing.

The prestige of the City God's Temple among the people is higher than that of the previous officials.

You don’t have to listen to what the official said.

However, the opinions of the spiritual officials regarding the temple blessings of the City God's Temple cannot be ignored. This is why, as soon as the blessings of the City God's Temple were opened, the townspeople who originally supported the reopening of the church suddenly became silent.

This is also the reason why the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his greasy-faced son both lowered their voices after seeing the temple blessings at the Chenghuang Temple.

The Chenghuang Temple is like a tiger sitting on the ground, a cloud here, and half of the sky here.

What does a small mayor like him mean in front of such a force!
  and.

The mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son have something secret in their minds.

Worried that his affairs will come to light.

So the talented people from Chenghuang Temple came here.

You must know that the City God's Temple hates what they are going to do. Once discovered, what awaits them is the wrath of thunder and death.

The mayor of Jiuquan Town could not say a word, his legs were trembling and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

That is to say, everyone's attention was not on the mayor, so no one noticed anything strange about him.

The mayor's son David can still be calmer. On the one hand, he is beautiful, and on the other hand, he is confident that what he is doing will not be easily discovered, so his performance is not bad.

He smiled awkwardly and explained to his ninth uncle, Lin Fengjiao, and to the male temple Zhu of the Chenghuang Temple, "Father means, I understand. It's not me who died."

"I understand." Nan Miao Zhu smiled solemnly. There was an English teacher in the Chenghuang Temple. Ling Yaodong was preparing to go to sea, and Miao Zhu also learned it.

He just said coldly, "Also, don't use English carelessly. He is not qualified to be our father."

The mayor's son was really embarrassed when he heard this. It turned out that the other person knew English.

But the most embarrassing thing is not him.

But our ninth uncle Lin Fengjiao.

He suddenly realized that he was the one with the least knowledge present!
  It turns out they all knew.

I'm the only one who's a clown!
  Are you still saying those words?

Uncle Jiu Lin Fengjiao felt a burning pain on her face and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.

But he also knew that he should not be cowardly at this time. As long as he was not embarrassed, others would be embarrassed.

other people
  No one else actually noticed Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao.

The protagonist at this time is not him.

It is a male temple blessing.

Brother Wu is also a Catholic.

Brother Wu didn't want to dwell on this topic any longer. He went straight to the topic. He looked at the male temple minister and asked firmly and with bright eyes, "I want to ask, this..."

"A blessing from the City God's Temple." David, the mayor's son, reminded him from the side, "A servant of the City God."

"This servant of the City God, I would like to ask, why don't we promote the glory of God? God is fraternal and glorious." Brother Wu wanted to preach to Miao Zhu.

There was a look of disgust in the eyes of Male Temple Zhu, and he said with a straight face, "It's not that we don't let you preach, we respect the people's freedom of belief - as long as you are a righteous god and don't promote some bad ideas, but this A church cannot be opened."

"Since you allow us to preach, why don't you let us restart this church?" Brother Wu was happy at first, and then asked in confusion.

"This is the Three Evils in Jiuquan Town. The church is suppressing this place. Once the church is opened, the Three Evils will be forgotten. What should I tell you, a fake foreign devil!" Nan Miaozhu said impatiently, "In short , this church cannot be opened!”

"If you want to preach in the town, no problem, you can just rebuild a church somewhere else." Nan Miaozhu said lightly.

A look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on Brother Wu's face.

In all fairness.

This time they traveled across the ocean and came here from the Vatican to preach.

The Vatican approved a sum of funds for them to use for missionary expenses.

But a lot has been spent along the way.

I also bought a lot of small gifts such as candies to attract people.

I originally thought that by reopening the church, the faith of God could take root here.

But unexpectedly, the church was gone.

Without the church, the cohesion and centripetal force of the people will be greatly reduced, which is not conducive to their missionary work.

The church still needs to be built.

As soon as Brother Wu saw this posture, he knew that this old church could not be restarted.

If he insists on having his own way, he might even be deprived of the qualification to preach.

But he alone could not build a new church.

He turned his head and looked at the good child of God.

That's right.

It's David, the mayor's son who is oily and noodle-y.

When David, the son of the mayor, took a look at it, he saw that it was rough inside and scolded Brother Wu a thousand times.

I tricked you here to suppress the old guy Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao and use your skin to make money.

I haven’t earned a penny now, and I still want to get money from me.

I will endure.

A small leak will sink a great ship. David, the mayor's son, comforted himself in this way.

He had a "Don't worry, I'm here" expression on his face, and then said to Brother Wu, "Father, don't worry, we've paid for the money to build the church."

"Thank you so much, David. God will bless you." Brother Wu looked grateful.

"It's all for the glory of the Lord." David was crying in his heart and smiling on his face.

"Otherwise, I will collect donations from the people of Jiuquan Town. I believe there will always be some believers inspired by the Lord who will be willing to spend a small part of their money to support us in building the church!" Brother Wu pondered for a moment and said.

As Brother Wu spoke, he looked at the townspeople.

These townspeople who can stay here are either prestigious people in the town or big families in the town. When they heard Brother Wu said that he wanted to raise donations, they all gave Brother Wu a disgusting look.

What, you actually want to take money from my pocket?

Sure enough, they are all the same as those dog officials!
  If Brother Wu had a system, he would now be able to see that the residents' faith in Jiuquan Town has dropped 10-10.

Although Brother Wu did not have a system, he also knew that these townspeople were far away from the embrace of God.

Brother Wu sighed inwardly and had no choice but to cheer himself up. Herding strange lambs for the Lord was not an easy task and required perseverance.

He looked back at the mayor's son David and said, "David, God bless you."

No, I don’t want God’s blessing.

David, the mayor's son, almost rolled his eyes inwardly, but he could only keep a decent smile on his face.

The mayor of Jiuquan Town almost fainted when he heard that he was going to spend real money to build a new church.

At this moment.

The male Miao Zhu who kept a straight face said, "It's okay to build a church."

"But in this process, whether it is buying land or building construction, we must not squeeze the people."

"Otherwise, the government won't care, but we, the City God, will still take care of it."

"do you know?"

"Don't worry, we will never do such a thing." David, the mayor's son, nodded and said seriously, even though he was already gritting his teeth in his heart.

As for the mayor of Jiuquan Town, his vision was already dark. (End of chapter)