Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 925 Zhu Zongyuan

At the last moment, the government finally sent a yamen servant to stop the commotion.However, after this destruction, people in the church were already panicked, and Huang Zhen, Zhang Tian and others also lost their energy-the originally upright debate turned into a smashing incident, which made them lost in the public opinion in Hangzhou City. Quite a few points.In addition, the local government was afraid of the influence of officials and gentry such as Sun Yuanhua in the church, so they couldn't just say nothing when such a thing happened, so they gave Huang Zhen a reprimand and deported him back to Ningbo.

After the anti-religious people came out, their vitality was hurt a lot.Public opinion was also against them: Not only did many people have opinions about attacking the church, but also many postings of counter-explanations appeared on the market, making the anti-religious people feel ashamed.Although Zhang Tian went to the church to submit the "Three Theories of Biantian", it was also at the end of the battle, and the church still did not reply to it.A storm gradually passed.

Although the turmoil has passed, the teaching plan that broke out in this time and space in advance has brought rich materials and sources of imagination to the local mass literature and art.For a while, there were various joke versions of various folk arts, raps, and even small operas, until both parties used their connections to report to the government that Qiantang Renhe and the two counties dispatched government officials to arrest more than a dozen unlucky artists. Hit the board to suppress the wind

Zhang Daochang was a little dissatisfied with the Hangzhou station, which was making trouble secretly and stirring up troubles: Although the religious plan successfully hit the Catholic Church and Buddhist forces, the weakening of these two groups was very limited.Although the church has lost its image of "not daring to debate", its internal unity seems to have been strengthened; as for Buddhists, this blow is nothing more than a punch to the elephant in terms of its original impact. Can't damage a few.If New Taoism wants to benefit from it, there is still a long way to go.Zhang Yingchen found that if he wanted to preach, he still worked hard to "cure the sick and save the sick" to achieve remarkable results.At least, he has already accumulated a lot of fame and contacts in Hangzhou by practicing medicine—I think Zhang Jiao started his career by relying on this?

On the contrary, Zhao Yingong has become the "backbone" of the church in Hangzhou because of his "firm performance" in this lesson plan.The church's attitude towards him has been further upgraded: originally it was just for the sake of the Jesuits' letter of introduction, but now it is simply "one of our own".Not only Guo Jujing entrusted Jin Lige to come to Wanbi Bookstore to express his gratitude, but also the religious gentry in the church in Hangzhou also sent people to pay their respects, sending full stickers and presenting various gifts.Zhao Yingong also returned the gift one by one: his return gift was a standard gift for a scholar: the hardcover editions of "Catechism", "Summary of Essential Classics" and "Selected Hymns" printed in Lingao.All the Chinese versions of the Three-Self are selected, and the Latin version is matched.The printing is very beautiful.

Under such favorable conditions, Zhao Yingong took the opportunity to propose that he wanted to set up a charity organization in Hangzhou.I hope that the gentry in the church can take care of it.

Charity undertakings were also one of the social functions undertaken by local gentry in ancient Chinese society. Still in the process of mobilization.Sometimes the imperial court didn't even give relief at all or just allocated a little money and food in a symbolic way.Therefore, most of the local relief was organized and managed by the gentry.

After this incident, the church also wanted to gain favor among the lower classes, so it hit it off with Zhao Yingong's proposal.The two parties agreed that the religious gentry in the church would come forward to give the name and help raise some charitable funds. Zhao Yingong would be responsible for the charitable fundraising and specific handling, and set up a "Charity Hall".

Although organizing charity is a normal activity of the local gentry, it is very risky for an "outsider" like Zhao Yingong who has been here for less than half a year to do it. Now that the local gentry come forward, it will be easy for the government too much.

On this day, Zhao Yingong was dealing with affairs in his private house-the layout of the Shanhai Road of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau has been put in place one after another. As the person in charge of the Hangzhou station, he has to make some openings for the "Wanyou" and "Runshitang" deployed in Hangzhou. Work on the local situation - after all, the work in the future needs the strong support of Shanhai Road to operate normally.Especially for a pharmacy like Runshitang, it will take a lot of effort to gain a firm foothold in Hangzhou, where competition in the pharmaceutical industry is fierce, and this kind of support must come from the gentry, which all depends on Zhao Yingong.

While I was busy, Jiying came to report: a Hangzhou church member surnamed Zhu came to worship.

"Oh?" Zhao Yingong recently received a lot of people from the Hangzhou church, and he couldn't figure out who they were for a while, but he took a look at the post and found out that it was Zhu Zongyuan.

"It turned out to be him!" Zhao Yingong thought it was expected that he would come to visit. When it comes to Confucian scholars in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zongyuan was the most fanatical among them.His name is Weicheng, his name is Guyue, he is from Yin County (Ningbo), Zhejiang, but he is often active in Hangzhou.He is also an active member of the church in Hangzhou.

"Ask him to serve tea in the outer study." Zhao Yingong said, put down the documents and pen in his hand, stood up and drank a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and Feng Hua came to help him straighten his clothes.

Although Zhu Zongyuan was very young and had no fame at that time, he was a young man who believed in religion, had great insight, and was proficient in astronomy. molecular.He wrote two theological works "Answers to Guest Questions" and "Salvation of the World", which have an important position in the history of Catholicism in China.

Such a person, of course, has a strong right to speak in the church, and is a role that cannot be neglected for Zhao Yingong who is about to rely on the power of the church.

At first glance, Zhao Yingong was quite surprised at his youth. It turned out that he was born in 1609, but he was only 1631 years old in 23, which was the age of a graduate of the Old Space-Time University.

After a few words of courtesy from both parties, Zhu Zongyuan first thanked Zhao Yingong for his "defensive teaching" in the teaching case, and then persuaded him to be baptized into the religion. After several sets of Tai Chi, Zhu Zongyuan saw that this "Guangdong Juren" was still not salty, and he was too embarrassed to continue admonishing him, so he raised his official intention to come.

He took out a stack of manuscripts from the bookcase he carried with him.

"Brother Zhao, please take a look."

Zhao Yingong took the manuscript, read it roughly, and was surprised: it turned out that this was the famous "Answer to Guest Questions" in the history of the church.The whole book adopts the question-and-answer style of "Ask a guest Yu Zongyuan said", and the thinking is very clear.The book can be roughly divided into ten parts.In addition to preaching the doctrine, it also explains the various contradictions between the spread of Catholicism in China and the society, religion and thinking concepts at that time.Its purpose is: "You should serve God wholeheartedly" is a Catholic defense work written to ward off Buddhism, denounce Taoism, break myths, and complement Confucianism.

Zhao Yingong only knew that this book was written by Zhu Zongyuan, but he did not expect that this person wrote this work at the age of 23, which is also a miracle.

"Brother Zhu is a great talent!" Zhao Yingong exclaimed.He had already guessed Zhu Delai's intentions—nine out of ten he hoped that he would print and publish this book as a sponsor.

"Don't dare," Zhu Zongyuan was quite proud of this.His intention was indeed to hope that Wanbi Shufang would engrave and publish this book, "to rectify people's hearts and defend the holy religion".

"It's easy to say, easy to say." Zhao Yingong made a decision after only a while: to help him print.Even if the Complete Bishufang does not print it, other wealthy gentry in the church will sponsor the publication of this book.

There is no concept of copyright in the printing industry of this time and space. My own investment is nothing but the cost of printing, and there is no need to pay royalties or manuscript fees to Zhu Zongyuan.

The disadvantage is that this book is too niche, and I am afraid that many people will not buy it.However, after this turmoil, the Church in Hangzhou will definitely increase its publicity efforts, and Zhu Zongyuan's book just meets their needs.He can suggest to the church to let them distribute it for free after purchasing in large quantities. This part of the sales volume cannot be lost...

At that moment, Zhao Yingong fully agreed to sponsor the regular release of this book, and sent away the overjoyed Zhu Zongyuan.He made a few circles in the study, and called Gu Dengbao, the shopkeeper of Guihuamin, who was currently handling the printing affairs of Wanbi Bookstore for him.From his name, it is known that it was taken by the elders.This person's surname is Gu. It is absolutely true. He was also a woodblock craftsman.

"Have you transcribed and sorted out the three chapters of "Bian Tian" and "Zheng Xu Shuo" that I handed over to you a few days ago?"

"Back to the master, everything is clear, and it is proofreading. The plate will be ready soon." Gu Dengbao said, "Master, should we still use stone slabs this time?"

"Yes, we still use slate." Zhao Yingong nodded and handed Zhu Zongyuan's manuscript to him.

"You should make a complete copy of this book as soon as possible and prepare it for printing." Zhao Yingong said, "There is also the "Ben Xue Sui Dou" that I handed over to you, and it must be proofread and completed as soon as possible."

"Ben Xue Yi Du" is a missionary document issued by the church, and Zhang Tian's "Zheng Hua Shuo" is aimed at this book.Zhao Yingong actually prepared a "publishing topic" and prepared a "series".Specifically, it is to compile and organize the various works involved in the Hangzhou teaching plan into a series of books for publication.He reckoned that after this big turmoil, scholars in Hangzhou and even in the whole of Jiangnan would be very interested in this incident.There will be a market for this set of books as soon as they are published.Of course, some appropriate marketing methods have to be carried out.Zhao Yingong suddenly thought that although all the works related to the teaching plan were included in the publication plan, there was no booklet that fully introduced the whole process of the teaching plan, which would make people confused about the ins and outs of the teaching plan.

"We should hire some unprincipled local pens to do this kind of custom work." Zhao Yingong said secretly.

(End of this chapter)