……No. [Full text reading] This kind of matter can only be influential if a Taoist priest from the local famous palace comes forward.
As a wandering Taoist priest like me, I have no foundation there, and I am just a fool in the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats and wealthy people. What appeal can I have? If you come forward to help the famine, will you be frowned upon? "Zhang Yingchen is of course interested in such an opportunity to penetrate the mainland. But the prosperous Jiangnan is different from Li District, and it is also different from Hainan Island. Traditional Taoism has been rooted for many years, and there are countless famous palaces and grand temples. Some of them, I'm afraid he wants to If you place an order, you will be kicked out. The religious world has always been a very complicated place.
"So you can build a unique Taoist temple first..." Zhao Yingong remained silent. He had already seen the model of Yunji Temple approved by Zhang Yingchen at the construction company, and knew that the Taoist priest's "new Taoism" was different from the public. Different, and with the new medical and new technologies they have mastered, it is very possible to become a blockbuster in Hangzhou.
Zhang Yingchen said: "You are leading me into the ditch. Maybe I will make a fool of myself..." He pondered for a moment, "However, if we can open up the situation in Jiangnan, there is indeed a lot to do."
"You start preaching by practicing medicine. It is easy to gain reputation by curing diseases and saving people, and helping the world. Not to mention that your medical skills and medicines are genuine." Zhao Yiggong knew that Zhang Yingchen was willing in his heart, but he was just pretending to be from his side. The Foreign Intelligence Service obtained more exchange conditions, so it added, "Our intelligence system will fully support you."
"Easy to say, easy to say." Zhang Yingchen smiled and nodded, "It is also our unshirkable responsibility to save the people of Xiyi from hanging upside down."
The two parties reached a preliminary agreement on cooperation. Zhang Yingchen agreed to go to the Jiangnan area as a guest of the Foreign Intelligence Service, and the two sides maintained secret contact during the operation. Both parties maintain intelligence collection and sharing, and the Foreign Intelligence Bureau is responsible for providing support to Zhang Yingchen's activities in Jiangnan.
"When the Song Dynasty is restored, I will grant you the title of imperial envoy..." Zhao Yingong said jokingly.
"Actually, I prefer Longhu Mountain." Zhang Yingchen said seriously.
Zhang Yingchen sent Zhao Yingong away and pondered for a while. There is a lot of potential in Jiangnan, where there are many rich people. If you can spread the followers, it will be of great help to the economic strength of New Taoism. However, the influence of Confucianism in Jiangnan is very strong, and several famous cults in history have not been able to develop there. If you want to take root there, it will not be any less difficult than Catholicism entering Pingguo.
While he was meditating, he saw the notice from He Ying on the table to collect the religious poll tax. The religious office had already urged him several times. His missionary activities in Li District were very successful, but according to the religious office, It is required that every believer of a religion registered with the Religious Affairs Office must collect a poll tax. This amount of money is not enough for the New Taoism whose believers are mainly people from Li District.
Zhang Yingchen is still not used to the management system of the Religious Affairs Office. After the mission, he had to write a mission report and fill out many forms from the religious office, detailing the number of believers in each village.
"Isn't this playing the piano randomly? Taoism is not a monotheistic religion and has a clear identity as a believer." Zhang Yingchen thought to himself, "The religious poll tax obviously has a suppressive effect on monotheistic religions, and has little significance on Chinese Buddhism and Taoism. As for the number of believers, in In his opinion, this can only be estimated, and no clear statistics can be made.
Thinking of this, he felt that it was necessary to talk to He Ying, especially to Dean Wu.
Regarding the future development direction of religious offices. In Zhang Yingchen's view, it was wrong for Wu Shimang's Lingao Order to occupy all the Jesuit funding. At least half of it should be handed over to the Religious Affairs Office, which would then distribute it uniformly.
The Senate approved the use of Jesuit funds to carry out religious activities, but Dean Wu's advantage was too obvious. Zhang Yingchen has been preaching for more than a year and has realized that no matter what he does, money is the most important thing.
The Dutch East India Company mission successfully completed their mission. After the two parties signed the trade agreement, Delantron successfully sold all the goods, and the "Magdeburg" was loaded with sugar, glass products and groceries in Lingao and set off. The draft agreement will be submitted The East India Company Council and the Senate in Batavia reviewed it, and after approval, the document was finally exchanged.
The agreement was signed in three texts: Dutch, Chinese and classical Latin. Based on the classical Latin text.
Prior to this, the two sides also signed a consular agreement. Although many senators think that this consular agreement is like fart, and that once they fall out, they will have to rely on cannons to solve the problem, but Skade believes that the rules must be established from this moment on.
Although the Dutch in the 19th century did not necessarily have the mentality to seriously implement the consular agreement, as long as they signed it, they would have enough righteous excuses to enforce it. Just as the Qing Dynasty did not understand European-style diplomacy, Britain and France used cannons to force It understands the same as following the rules. The Senate will also use cannons to instill future diplomatic rules into others.
When the Dutchman Yang Fan set off, teams from all over Lingao also set off one after another.
First way. The people who started the journey were the Guangzhou Station people returning to Guangzhou. They will reopen the Guangzhou Station and restore their public identities, and then take advantage of being on the mainland to help arrange travel to Jiangnan,
The itinerary of expatriate intelligence personnel in Liaodong and Shandong. After all, Guangdong is home to 6 major water piers, and transportation is relatively convenient. There is also an organization called Qiwei in the local area. Under the current situation, the Foreign Intelligence Service believes that it is not advisable to take the sea route. It is better to cross Wuling from Guangzhou and enter the hinterland of the mainland through Jiangxi.
The matter of returning to Guangzhou began after reaching a formal peace treaty with Li Luoyou. Although the agreement was signed in black and white, Guo Yi and others were fed up with the slow efficiency of the Ming government during execution, and it took until the end of February to implement many of the terms of the agreement. Although some compensation and refund work has not been completely completed, it is almost done.
While waiting for the implementation of the treaty, the people of Guangzhou Station and the main planners of the Ministry of Colonial Trade discussed the next business expansion of Guangzhou Station. Now that Guangzhou Station has returned to Guangzhou with the remaining power of victory, just continuing the past business cannot satisfy the ambitions of the elders. Some people suggest setting up a window for "Australian-style life" in Guangzhou. It not only sells various commodities, but also conveys the various enjoyments and concepts of modern life to wealthy people in Guangzhou and even Guangdong. Let them be "corroded" by the Australian lifestyle.
The concept is similar to Ziming Tower in the past. But the new version of the "Australian-style living window." will be more popular, and its target audience will mainly be relatively wealthy ordinary people. Only people who are neither rich nor noble like Ziminglou can go to high-end clubs.
The planned large-scale sample of Australian-style life was called "Guangzhou World" by some elders.
Similar to the big world of old time and space or newer commercial centers, it is a comprehensive large-scale commercial complex integrating food, accommodation, and entertainment. Or according to what some people put it, just build a place where you can eat, drink, play, and shop, and you can't finish it in a day.
This plan has been planned since a few years ago. It was initially just an internal suggestion made by a certain veteran out of boredom. Later, it received widespread support, and finally transformed from the earliest large department store into a magnificent bastion-like business. Architecture Center.
Elders who were interested in this matter made detailed plans for this "Guangzhou World", from site selection, construction mode, business methods to the types of products to be sold.
Someone even drew a rendering of the building.
According to the formulation of a small proposal for the Senate's military and political plan, this plan was proposed by Feiyun Society and entered the formal discussion process of the Senate.
The proposal not only lists the use of the "big world" to promote Australian products and Australian lifestyle, but also has considerable economic benefits.
The exchanges in the big world are two-way. The silver exchanged for the goods sold here can be used to open new industries locally and purchase a large amount of local raw materials in the Pearl River Delta, especially the agricultural products that are abundant in this time and space. In addition to being transported back to Lingao for processing and manufacturing, the raw materials can also be set up in a local factory in Guangzhou for processing and then sold on the mainland. The exchange of large amounts of goods is bound to have a huge impact on this time and space in all aspects of economy and life. Setting up factories locally can use the local population of Guangdong as cheap labor, instead of the current time-consuming and laborious population transfer model.
Wen Desi is also very supportive of this. In his opinion, Guangzhou World is his ideal model of "Delong Trading Company". And this model can be used anywhere in the future.
This grand plan was unexpected by Guo Yi and the people in the Planning Institute. According to the plan Guo Yi reported to the Planning Institute, after returning to Guangzhou, he first restored Sanzi Industry. According to the report from the Guangzhou intelligence system, although Sanzi Industry was "officially sealed", the government officials responsible for closing the stores and guarding them Extensive plundering was carried out among them: all kinds of wooden utensils and money-making tools that the officials liked, and the little people were not afraid of meat and vegetables. Although valuables such as goods have been sold off, there are still people who want furniture, furnishings and the like. After more than half a year, Sanzi Industry has been in dilapidated state, and even the residence on Huifu Street in Guangzhou has been completely ruined.
After finishing the plan, the second step is to expand the business scale. The project is the second branch of Ziminglou, or the "flagship store", which is larger than the No. 1 store and has newer facilities. The construction of the No. 2 store was originally planned. If it hadn't been for the sudden Ming Dynasty's conquest, it would have been under construction.
Of course, for the people in Guangzhou Station, they welcomed the "Guangzhou Big World" plan, but for the planning courtyard, the sudden large-scale project affected their planning. It involves a large amount of small unplanned investment and material allocation. a.
