The whole world is full of the morning.

This sounds like a good word, but Gao Jin knew that the Ming Dynasty was not far from collapse.

Since the party struggles that began during the Wanli period, they have deviated from the original conceptual disputes and have completely become conflicts between factions.

To put it bluntly, the so-called Donglin Party was established by the scholars and officials in Jiangnan to resist taxes. Gu Xiancheng, Li Sancai, and Ye Xianggao were all dismissed from office by Emperor Wanli and returned home.

The initial proposal of the Donglin Party was also very simple. The mining tax was abolished. As for the benevolence, righteousness and morality that were shouted in other words, they were just slogans.

Now that Emperor Wanli is finally dead, the newly ascended Emperor Taichang has regained Ye Xianggao, and Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou and other group of Donglin generals have also been valued. So the Donglin party called out the Zhengying Dynasty, and the newly ascended Emperor Taichang has also become the Emperor of Holy Ming.

Gao Jin watched the actions of Emperor Taichang after ascending the throne. He could understand that he had appointed the Donglin Party. The court's cabinet ministry was seriously short of staff, which was also a good opportunity to show kindness. Of course, the most important thing is that the Qi, Chu and Zhejiang Party have been comfortable for too long. As the emperor, it was an instinct to balance. However, what Gao Jin could not understand was that Emperor Taichang actually dismissed the mining tax.

At present, Liaodong is a black hole that swallows up finances. Emperor Wanli has increased Liao pay three times, and the whole world is suffering. The court has lost the source of mining tax, so it is afraid that it will not make ends meet every year.

"Let's go!"

Gao Jin said to the generals around him that after Emperor Taichang ascended the throne and enthroned the ministers, the capital quickly settled down. As a border army, the Shuofang Army naturally had to withdraw from the capital. No one mentioned the matter of Liaodong's strategy, so Gao Jin didn't care. However, the heads of the generals below were all resentful.

The temporary garrison of the Shuofang Army outside the city, the Ministry of War did not dare to give Gao Jin any more attention this time. Gao Jin had already given enough face to Emperor Taichang. If the Ministry of War dared to fool him with moldy food and ragged tents, he would have lost his Qilin suit and Liaodong stewards as a rural martial artist, and it would be reasonable to kill several Ministry of War. Emperor Taichang was secretly happy, and at most he would just reprimand him.

The court still hoped that the Shuofang army would aid Liao, regain Liaoshen, and destroy the Eastern Captains. Emperor Taichang also thought he could control Gao Jin's tiger.

The Shuofang Army withdrew from the capital in an orderly manner, and there were no people who saw him off. For the people in the capital, the Shuofang Army was just an army from the countryside. Even though he looked at the distinctive armor and tall people, it was just a fun place. As for the officials, he was even more disdainful.

Gao Jin did not lead his troops north immediately. He remembered that Emperor Taichang was a famous short-lived emperor in history. He died suddenly after only being an emperor for less than a month. His death was the famous Red Pill case. However, now that Concubine Zheng is dead, he didn't know whether Emperor Taichang would die from the Immortal Pill.

So the more than 20,000 infantry of the Shuofang Army, which originally set out from Shaanxi, slowed down the marching speed under Gao Jin's instructions, and Gao Jin was also slowly arguing with the Ministry of War for the support of Liao, waiting for Emperor Taichang's order.

"I've seen the Protector."

Zeng Dezhao was wearing a black robe and bowed to Gao Jin, who was riding his horse. The young white horse guards behind Gao Jin were no longer surprised by this brown-haired and blue-eyed Folang Jiman.

"I have recorded it."

After getting off immediately and looking at the Portuguese in front of him who took the initiative to defect to him in Shaanxi, Gao Jin was quite polite.

"The courtesy cannot be abolished. The Protector is my nobleman. If there were no Protector, my efforts over the years would be in vain."

Zeng Dezhao, who lived in the Ming Dynasty for many years, was familiar with Confucianism. He studied Confucian classics for several years in Nanjing Taixue. Later, when he was in Nanjing's lesson plan, he was sent to Macau for detention. As a result, he changed his current name and after the lesson plan became popular, he quietly ran to Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and other places for activities.

Because Gao Jin conquered the Mongolian tribes and had a high prestige among the people in Shaanxi, Zeng Dezhao heard about it, so he hurried to Shenmu County to find Gao Jin. After all, Mongolia was a nightmare for European countries. Zeng Dezhao's experience in Shenmu County and Hekou Fort made him believe that Gao Jin, a large gubernator, was different from any official of the Ming Dynasty, and he might be able to truly accept their missionary equally.

"I have recorded it, I wonder how many people you contacted?"

Gao Jin led Zeng Dezhao into his commander's tent. The missionaries who could come to the Ming Dynasty to preach in this era were all real businesses in European countries. They were proficient in mathematics, geometry and various scientific knowledge. If they neglected their beliefs, they were indeed the talents he needed.

What's more, Christian missionary in the Ming Dynasty is now in an unprecedented low period, which is naturally an excellent opportunity for Gao Jin, so he allowed Zeng Dezhao to preach within his sphere of influence, but the doctrine needs to be reviewed by him.

Zeng Dezhao was not a radical among missionaries. Instead, he inherited Matteo Ricci's mantra. He paid attention to localization in missionary matters, so he was not resistant to Gao Jin's order to review the doctrine. You should know that when his predecessor Matteo Ricci first came to the Ming Dynasty, he directly called the church Buddhism.

At that time, Matteo Ricci drafted a letter to the Emperor Ming Dynasty in the name of the pope. Among them, it was said that the Pope Xishidu Duo was the "Du Monk Emperor" who lived in the "Tianzhu Kingdom". In his hope of spreading the "Orthodox religion", "promoting compassion, and helping the world", he specially sent "Boyi Confucian monks" to promote religion and sent four people, including "Supreme Monks" who "had excellent virtues and extensive Confucianism" to China, hoping that the Ming court could "give these four monks a letter to us, welcome and see them along the way, and use them to make their way."

However, after Matteo Ricci discovered that they were not favored by the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty, he changed his strategy, dressed up as a Confucian scholar, and studied Confucianism. Later, he simply introduced Confucianism into doctrine, and used the decree of God in China since ancient times to call deus (eternal, almighty and only god in Catholic doctrine), which eventually triggered a division within the missionary.

After learning from Zeng Dezhao about the principles of the missionaries of Matteo Ricci's faction, Gao Jin naturally did not mind the introduction of these missionaries who were willing to accept the sinicization of Christian doctrines in order to preach. Anyway, he saw Taoist monks, imams and priests all praised the red flag together, and some were used to train these missionaries. Now he has all promoted Master Zhishen of Qinglong Temple, and he does not mind the promotion of the pope and fighting for orthodoxy with the Vatican. I can turn Hu into Buddha in the Western Regions, so how can I know that Deus is not the incarnation of God Haotian?

"Protector, I have contacted seventeen church members, all of whom are willing to go to your territory to serve you."

Zeng Dezhao said in a deep voice that he is now a record of the Shuofang Protectorate. Of course, he is familiar with the Ming system and knows that this is the establishment of the official position of the shogunate by the Great Protectorate and is not recognized by the court. However, based on what he saw and heard in Shaanxi and his observation of the Shuofang Army, in his opinion, the Great Protectorate is likely to establish his own principality.

"Seventeen people!"

Gao Jin pondered for a while. There were not many seventeen people, but he also knew that the base camp for Christian missionary in the Ming Dynasty was in Macau. The Jiangnan region was spent the most effort and energy. After the Nanjing lesson plan, Zeng Dezhao could still contact seventeen missionaries in the capital, which was already good.

"But some of my Ming Dynasty believers are willing to serve our Shuofang Army."

In addition to these missionaries, Gao Jin looked at Zeng Dezhao, which was also sad. The scholars of the Taizhou school recommended by Xu Xiake were indeed stronger than those who had been serious in the imperial examinations these days, but they could not be transformed into the talents needed by Gao Jin immediately. After all, Confucianism's knowledge is so-called benevolence, righteousness, morality, and nothingness. The actual knowledge that can be used in the world is to be implicated in heresy and become a hundred schools of thought for miscellaneous studies.

On the contrary, most religious scholars are good at math and scientific knowledge, and are the technocrats needed by Gao Jin. Whether they believe in religion or not actually plays a filter.

At this time, among the religious scholars, the most famous ones were Xu Guangqi and Li Zhizao. One was the Henan Censor and the other was the Shaoqing of Taipu Temple in Nanjing. Naturally, it was impossible for him to abandon his official position and run to the Shuofang Army. Gao Jin did not have that great face. What Gao Jin wanted to recruit was only those religious scholars who had no fame.

"There are a few, but there are not many."

Zeng Dezhao was quite rude and said that he received his salary in the Shuofang Army. This time he recruited church members in the capital, and the majority of the Protectors also gave him enough money. As a result, the job was not satisfactory, which made him very ashamed.

"Just have it."

Gao Jin did not blame Zeng Dezhao for his morbid values ​​of civil and noble military officials in the Ming Dynasty had already penetrated into the bones. To be honest, even if the Tartars did not enter the pass, the Ming Dynasty would sooner or later be over.

Zeng Dezhao was still very neat in doing things. He recruited a total of twenty-three missionaries and priests, all of whom were outside the Shuofang Army camp. After Gao Jin's consent, he immediately arranged for these people to stay in the camp where he was.

In the evening, Gao Jin met these people. After seeing the training of the Shuofang Army, the seventeen missionaries became more and more enthusiastic. They felt that Zeng Dezhao had indeed found a monarch who could help preach. At least in their opinion, the army owned by this great protector was much stronger than the army owned by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

However, the five religious scholars observed Gao Jin with a cautious and curious attitude. Sun Yuanhua, the leader of the five, was the only serious scholar with the reputation of Juren. He was from Jiading County. Juren may be strange in the north, but in Jiangnan, especially in Suzhou where scholars are as numerous as dogs, there is nothing strange in Juren. He was obsessed with Western learning. After taking the Jinshi twice but failed, he simply came to the capital to continue to follow his teacher Xu Guangqi to study Western learning.

Gao Jin was notorious, and was a domineering martial artist in the Qing Dynasty of the Shilin Province. When he was in Shaanxi, he stripped the juren and hung them on the city gate and beat them. It became a bad deed of criticism by scholars. Not to mention that a few days ago, his military soldiers beat the officials of the Ministry of War again.

The reason why Sun Yuanhua followed Zeng Dezhao was because he was not as obedient as most scholars, and he believed more about what he had seen with his own eyes. Last year, he recruited soldiers with his teacher to train the new army for the court, and was well aware of the bad habits of the Ministry of War. What's more, after the Shuofang Army took over the Beijing camp, inspecting the capital, and did not disturb the people.

Gao Jin did not have much contact with Sun Yuanhua and the other two. He had no intention of doing the trick of being a wise man. The system and rules under Shuofang's rule have been completed. Give him a few years to accumulate materials and supplies, so the Shuofang army can conquer the world with a crushing momentum.
Chapter completed!