The important role he received aroused the jealousy of another group of priests in the Ottoman court. This group of priests belonged to the Orthodox Church. Since Greece and the Baryu Peninsula were conquered by the Ottoman army, the Orthodox Church has been the Ottoman Empire.

An important faction in the court, enjoying a special status.

These Orthodox priests very much rejected the Catholic Church people in Western Europe. Louis, who had been favored by the Ottoman Empire, naturally became the object of their disgust and rejection. Although Louis stated several times that he was not here to preach and did not care about the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church at all.

knows the difference, and also swore that he could always

He tried to convert to the Orthodox Church or even Islam, but it was still to no avail. He soon lost his already unstable favor, and was finally sent to a port on the coast of Greece to supervise the construction of warships. From the time he left Constantinople

From that moment on, he knew that everything he wanted had been in vain.

Life on the coast is boring, so boring that Louis almost forgets his original dream.

In the hope that the minister would change his mind, he wandered on the beach of the Aegean Sea countless times. The lazy sea breeze, mixed with sand and a hint of sea smell, blew on his face, making him only think about being in the blue sky and white clouds.

Go to sleep quickly. If you stay here, you won’t feel the happy atmosphere.

, nor can you not appreciate the quiet and indifferent joy of life after eliminating ambition and worries. The air and the gentle sound of waves are full of dreams. The beach is whispering, sometimes melancholy, sometimes cheerful, sometimes golden, sometimes dim.

, but it failed to resonate with Louis at all.

After entering his third year, Louis finally understood that the minister would never change his mind and that his dream would never be realized in the Ottoman Empire. One afternoon, he looked at the sun sinking over the sea and the sky full of stars.

Xiayun, in the end, he had no choice but to find that he would never get ahead in the Ottoman Empire.

He called his servant and asked him to pack his luggage. In this way, one night, with his few money, Louis and his servant quietly left this coast and faced the new journey in their lives.

Chapter.

After carefully assessing his situation, Louis felt that he probably didn't have many opportunities to get ahead on the European continent, so he set his sights outside Europe - he planned to go to America.

After making this decision, he immediately plundered all the money he could use, and then set off directly with his servants. The spirit of an adventurer was disguised as the passion of a missionary, and he dressed up as a missionary. That's it.

Ran to America.

At this time, the Americas were being conquered step by step by the Spanish. In Mexico and Peru, the original glorious civilizations were wiped out one after another. The indigenous people were either massacred or forced to convert to Catholicism, and the Spanish Empire was very strict with missionaries.

The demand is also growing. They need missionaries to transform the thinking of the local indigenous people and explore their own paths.

Louis, who had experience cooperating with the Spanish army in the Netherlands, certainly had no psychological barriers to this. As soon as he arrived in America, he actively explored various areas where the Spanish army had not yet set foot, such as deep mountains, plateaus, and primitive jungles.

It did not become an obstacle for him. He was not only looking for the Lamb who had not yet been inspired by God, but also for the undiscovered wealth.

For some unbelievable rumors, he did not hesitate to set foot in the most dangerous jungle, hoping to find the last treasure buried by the Incas there. He took his servants and traveled to every remote corner of the Americas. The local priests

Everyone marveled at the tenacity of his missionary spirit.

However, after a long period of hard work, Louis did not get results that satisfied him. He frantically walked around the various ruins left by the Incas, trying to find gold or any valuable objects inside. Finally, he

Disappointed, just as the Inca people have been slaughtered, the wealth here has long disappeared, leaving only some remaining relics that prove the existence of a civilization.

After more than a hundred years of aggression and expansion, the Spanish have basically controlled the Americas. Ship after ship of gold and silver are constantly being transported from the Americas to all parts of the world, but there are fewer and fewer things left for him to discover.

.Even the land has long been turned into estates owned by wealthy locals.

After several years of adventure, Louis had not yet made a fortune, and his desire for money finally eroded Louis' sanity. By chance, he tried to embezzle the gold looted by a Spanish officer, but was discovered by the officer.

In the panic of being killed, Louis was forced to board a ship leaving America and embarked on a journey to Asia.

Carrying many passengers and a large amount of silver, the ship sailed to the Philippines, a Spanish colony in Asia.

At this time, the Philippines was becoming prosperous due to trade with Asia. A large amount of silver was shipped from the Americas and then exchanged for Eastern porcelain. Silk and spices were transported to Europe, forming a huge commercial network.

After arriving in the Philippines, Louis was incompatible with the local Catholic priests because he kept his origins secret, and it took a lot of effort to get the local church to confirm his missionary status.

After gaining a firm foothold, Louis began to pursue his dream. Because it had been ruled by the Spanish for many years, the Philippines, like the Americas, did not provide much room for development for outsiders like him, so Louis had to find other places in Asia.

Find a place.

After several trips, he followed a merchant ship to the port of Nagasaki, Japan, and then disguised himself as a missionary and began activities in Japan, constantly looking for opportunities to make a fortune.

Although he initially wanted to learn Japanese by himself, he soon discovered that Japanese was the most difficult language he had ever learned. In addition to kana, there were also a large number of Chinese characters from the mainland, which made it impossible to start.

, so I had to give up this idea and instead mingled with the local Catholics.

Fortunately, after many years of missionary work by Spanish and Portuguese missionaries, Japan already has a large number of Catholics in areas such as Kitakyushu and Nagasaki, and many people have learned Spanish and Latin, so Louis did not encounter any obstacles.

, he quickly became involved with the local Catholic circle, and initially established his personal reputation in the local area.

For his own dream of getting rich, like most missionaries at that time, Louis also used his medical knowledge to see several local diseases and accidentally cured several people, including local businessmen.

He also received the gratitude of the merchant. Using the influence he had established, Louis encouraged the merchant to participate in maritime trade, allowing the merchant to earn a lot of money, and then he also received a lot of benefits from it.

This missionary, this adventurer, is almost forty years old this year, but because of the many years of exposure, he looks older. Some of his long blond hair has begun to turn gray, and there are a few wrinkles on his forehead.

, he doesn’t look much different from a fifty-year-old man, but his sharp, sharp eyes full of ambition will not make people suspect that he is old and comatose.

He has a broad forehead, pale face, and always wears a black coat, coupled with a serious expression, pious and solemn, and because he is respected by the locals and has earned a lot of money, his expression has become

He became more and more solemn, and his whole person seemed to be a model of a missionary.

However, just when Louis thought that his dream could finally come true this time, as if God was deliberately trying to hinder him, a new disaster came unexpectedly.

At this time, Japan was transitioning from the chaotic and fighting Warring States Period to the relatively stable Tokugawa Shogunate Period. The domestic warlord melee was slowly coming to an end. Especially in 1615, the Japanese general Tokugawa Ieyasu captured Osaka Castle.

After killing all the previous rulers, the Toyotomi family, the Tokugawa shogunate's rule in Japan has gradually stabilized.

After establishing direct rule over Japan with swords, the Tokugawa family began to seek to stabilize their rule in other aspects. As an important link, ideological rule certainly did not escape the control of the Tokugawa shogunate. In order to consolidate ideological rule, Tokugawa Ieyasu

Deliberately supporting Buddhism and rejecting the spread of Catholicism in Japan.

At the same time, although Japan has entered a relatively peaceful era, the oppression and exploitation of peasants by local lords is still the same as in the past. Japanese peasants who could not bear the oppression rose up to resist one after another, and at the same time took foreign Catholicism as their spiritual sustenance. At that time

In Japan, uprisings (Ichiku) launched by Catholics occurred from time to time.

Of course, the shogunate would not sit idly by and ignore it. At the same time, they did not believe that it was their oppression that caused the peasants to resist. Instead, they believed that Catholicism had corrupted people's hearts, so they decided to ban the spread of Catholicism in Japan.

In 1612, the Japanese shogunate first promulgated a ban on Christianity in the areas directly under the shogunate's jurisdiction, prohibiting Western missionaries from proselytizing. The next year, this decree was implemented nationwide. In 1616, the Japanese shogunate further expanded this prohibition.

When it comes to foreign trade, it is stipulated that European ships can only berth and trade at the two ports of Hirado and Nagasaki.

As a member of the Catholic priests, Louis was of course regarded as a dangerous person by the shogunate. Local officials summoned him directly and ordered him not to preach in Japan. If he dared to violate it, his life would be in danger.

Louis, who had not cared much about missionary work, of course easily agreed to this order, but the Japanese shogunate's policy of restricting overseas trade made him miserable. Forced by the shogunate's sword, he had to stop his work in Japan.

Activities in various places returned to Nagasaki Port, where he planned to continue his career.
Chapter completed!