Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 529

"Lingao will have a huge demand for land in the future," Wu Shimang earnestly advised the priest, "The land will be very tight."

"Lack of land?" Lu Ruohua shook his head, "Dean Wu, there is a lot of wasteland here in Lingao."

"There will be a shortage in the future. Don't you want to leave some teaching property for the church?"

Under Wu Shimang's hard work, Lu Ruohua bought another piece of land next to Bairen Monastery.

"This foreigner just doesn't understand the strength of the commodity economy." Wu Shimang thought of the effort of persuading him at the beginning.In the future, the price of land in Laigao will definitely rise very high. Whether it is sold or built for its own use, it will bring great benefits to the church.Wu Shimang is not at all enthusiastic about religious issues.But he is very dedicated—since he has chosen religion as his profession in this time and space, the church property must be well managed to reflect his value.

When Wu Shimang returned to the monastery, the nun who was cleaning at the door rushed over to kiss his hand. Seeing the dark-skinned and wrinkled grandma kissing his ring, Dean Wu couldn't help thinking that it would be nice if this was a beautiful nun. up.Unfortunately, the status quo is that the dozen or so nuns in the convent are all grandma-level.

"Priest Bai is back. He is waiting for you in the office." The nun reported to him respectfully.

"Oh, he's back too." Wu Shimang nodded.For the past few months, Bai Duolu has been following Lu Ruohua to preach to the people who came to trade in Nanbao, and it is said that the results are not bad.

Wu Shimang walked through the gate. The Bairen Monastery is not large in scale and has no towering buildings.It's just a courtyard with a combination of Chinese and Western style, with three front and back entrances.The first entry is the office of the seminary.Due to the poor conditions, the monastery does not have its own prayer room, which is shared with the Bairen Church.The next two entrances are dormitories, classrooms, and handicraft workshops, where nuns and "bandit relatives" who have been forcibly taken in are placed-most of these bandit relatives are ordinary family members of small bandits, and they are not very harmful.After a period of religious brainwashing, those who pass the assessment of the General Administration of Political Security can be arranged for a normal way out, and those who fail are sent to labor camps.

He went into his office.Bai Duolu was already waiting for him inside.Bai Duolu's originally fair face turned dark, apparently he was running around in Nanbao, and his expression was very depressed - he had heard about the Maid Revolution in Nanbao, but it was a pity that he had the status of a priest, It is inconvenient to openly cause trouble for women.But my heart is also secretly fascinated.

I don't know if you have your own share when you divide the maids?Xiao Zishan wouldn't treat him as a monk and just ignore him, right?Bai Duolu thought about how to quietly remind the chief of staff not to forget that benefit.

Fortunately, I resolutely resisted President Wen's request back then, and only served in the church as a secular person, otherwise my happiness for the rest of my life/body would be ruined.Although his belief is not firm, he still can't take the attitude of using religion as a tool as thoroughly as Wu Shimang.

Seeing this fake abbot walk into the office with a red face, his complexion was surprisingly good, Bai Duolu knew that he must be doing well in Bairen City.Every time he came back to report on his duties, the size of the church and monastery was either expanded or the facilities were upgraded to another level.It seems that the activities of the past training manager are still very strong - the church has gradually grown in size under his hands.

"Xiaobai, how is your health? You look good, and the preaching effect is very good." Wu Shimang sat down.

"Call me Bai Duolu," Bai Duolu said in a bit of pain, "Also, you have to say 'spread the gospel'. You can't use neutral words like 'missionary'."

At Bai Duolu's insistence, Wu Shimang accepted the baptism in secret - Bai Duolu is psychologically unable to accept a person who has not been baptized at all to manage the church.After the baptism, Bai Duolu also gave him some religious knowledge lessons, and set aside a few simple introductory books for him to read, so as not to make jokes when he presided over the work of the church.Now it seems that this man has not made much progress in this area.

"Well, believers, um, no, the lamb has increased a lot."

"The effect is very obvious." Bai Duolu said simply, "Don't talk about this, this time you are in a hurry to ask me to come back before the meeting, what is the matter?"

"It's only on my own that I thought of letting you take a good rest. The conditions in Nanbao are not as good as here. Besides, it must be boring to accompany the priest." Wu Shimang said, picked up the thermos and poured him a cup of tea, "And It is to discuss the future direction of our church."

Bai Duolu thought that this person was really addicted to being the dean.It is time to seriously consider the future of the church.Bai Duolu knew that President Wen and the executive committee members had no religious concepts at all, and were naked pragmatists.The church must be just a tool in their hands. Wu Shimang's so-called "the future direction of the church" is nothing more than talking about how to make the church a better tool for crossing the group.You can also reap greater benefits from it.

Bai Duolu himself has no interest in religious professions at all.His business is printing, and he knows point surveying and field surveying. He is still working part-time in the remote surveying team. When he goes out to preach, he does surveying and mapping.No matter what he did, he thought it was more interesting than following the priest as a follower to preach.

"How to develop depends on the executive committee." Bai Duolu said indifferently, "Isn't this church itself established in accordance with the executive committee's wishes?"

"Little Bai," Wu Shimang just said, seeing Bai Duolu's unhappy eyes, he quickly changed his words, "Old Bai, your way of thinking is too outdated. There are so many things for the leader, how can it be possible to cover everything and think of everything for us? Okay? This kind of thing is to show subjective initiative. After all, they don’t have contact with practice, and we don’t understand the situation at the grassroots level.” He simply stood up and walked around the office. “This is the second general meeting, we The church should come up with a comprehensive and proper development plan for the leaders of the new community to consider."

"Yes, it is possible, but what new tricks can religious activities create?" Bai Duolu thought, it is nothing more than education and charity, which are the most commonly used methods.When Lu Ruohua went to Nanbao to preach, although he could not engage in education, he also started from doing simple good deeds.

"It's not playing tricks." Wu Shimang shook his head, "Our church should strive for the important task of doing people's ideological work. The brainwashing work for the aborigines is not enough, and there is no special organization to do it. It is a blank spot," he said. The conclusion is of course well-founded. If you think that Dean Wu has only been engaged in basic construction this year, and by the way, YY nun and sister, you are very wrong.He is not interested in doctrinal learning, but he has read many books and papers on church history in his spare time, and gained a lot of experience.He also often exchanged ideas with believers and made a lot of thought dynamic notes.

Wu Shimang believes that the spiritual life of the aborigines in Lingao is extremely empty, and there is not even much religious life, which is the most common in traditional society.Limited by economic capacity, although there are a few temples in this county, most of them are in a half-dead state, and few temples can have resident monks and Taoists.All kinds of folk superstitions are very marketable, and witches and gods who are not out of production are common.

"The current propaganda on aborigines is not enough. Except for a few general slogans, there is a lot of attention paid to aboriginals inside the system, and a serious lack of attention to aboriginals outside the system. There is no systematic brainwashing work. If you can't see the problem, there will be big problems in the future!" Wu Shimang said very seriously and in a serious manner.

"The church should seize this opportunity to take advantage of the vacancy in the beliefs of the local people, and the flood of superstitions to promote it to all aspects of their social life in a timely manner—rather than just doing some small charity activities."

Bai Duolu was taken aback.Unexpectedly, Wu Shimang, the director of personnel recruitment and training, was really ambitious.From this point of view, he positioned the church at the level of a "national church."When Wu Shimang said this, Bai Duolu also felt that the Time Travel Group was too lacking in the field of superstructure, and was too focused on climbing the technological tree to develop productivity.

"What do you want to do?" Bai Duolu couldn't help being attracted by his grand plan.

"It's only because you are the one who tells you." Wu Shimang said, "I want to start with weddings and funerals."

Bai Duolu was puzzled for a few minutes, and then suddenly realized.

"This is unlikely, the power of customs is very strong!" Bai Duolu knew that customs and habits are very stubborn, and they will hardly change if there is no major change in the social environment.

"Customs and habits will change. The premise is that there is a powerful force to impact this society." Wu Shimang has a plan in his mind. "Now the Time Traveling Group is impacting this traditional society. It is an excellent opportunity to change social life and customs!"

Starting with the customs and habits of daily life, the people gradually got used to the existence of the church.The so-called belief is mostly manifested as superstition among the people.According to the main theory of Malinowski's "Social Functional School", superstition and religion are a way for society to release its own pressure and stabilize the social structure. If the pressure does not disappear, superstition cannot be eliminated, and new superstitions will only emerge one after another. , unless society itself is abolished.

Of course, the future empire will not be a paradise on earth. Since social pressure exists, it will be an effective way to provide the people with the so-called "spiritual opium" and guarantee them the world after death.

"Instead of allowing superstition, including those highly dangerous cults, to occupy them, we should provide them with a belief," Wu Shimang obviously thought carefully, "to penetrate the church's influence into every level of society and ensure the future. The empire maintains a high degree of unity in the ideological field of the people!"

(End of this chapter)