Good things happened one after another, and when the most irritable and sultry season of June came, Li Tianyang and his people had not yet fully digested the aftermath of the gold vein, and the news of the delivery of the artillery and muskets ordered by Li Tianyang and them came to Hong Kong in the city of Macao.

As a messenger who sends a messenger every month to report the progress to the Jesuit Macau St. Paul's Church, Father Felix and his party are the most suitable as a bridge of communication between Macao and Li Tianyang.

Although the high-level personnel of Macao's Governor Carlo are unwilling to admit it, they also have to accept the fact that the bandits who attacked Macao in the first place and made the Portuguese lose face in front of the public may never be found again.

Together with the three Portuguese sea ships led by the "Maria", this group of daring bandits never appeared in the waters where the Ming Dynasty was located, as if they had never appeared in the world.

As for the Hongtang team that stepped forward at a critical moment, although the Portuguese businessmen were naturally profit-seeing, but there was no conflict of interest between them, it was also a reward for Hongtang to properly express their friendly attitude. Not to mention today's Hongtang, whose strength is in the Daming Sea, I dare not say that it is one of the best, but it is also a giant-like existence, which is no worse than their Portuguese strength in the Far East!

Therefore, after accepting Li Tianyang's arms order, the Portuguese did not think about repenting on it, but after coordinating the goods with their own merchants, it took more than half a year to complete Li Tianyang's order!

"Thank you for the news, dear Father Felix!" Since abducting Felix and his group of nine Westerners to Bengang, Li Tianyang has rarely dealt with Father Felix and them. As for what he once said, his heart longed for Jesus, and the clouds were as ethereal and empty as the clouds in the sky.

"My Son Jesus protects you, Brother Li Tian!" Father Felix is still very enthusiastic about Li Tianyang, although he has already perceived Li Tianyang's utilitarian purpose, but he takes the dissemination of Jesuit doctrine as his own responsibility, but he will not have other opinions about Li Tianyang because of this: "These days, thanks to the care of Brother Li, we have been able to complete the construction of this church as scheduled, so it is also appropriate to pass on this news to you, and it is not worthy of Brother Li's thanks." ”

Father Felix said it beautifully, but in fact, they could still detect Li Tianyang's team's actions of pulling their hind legs behind their backs, but compared to the preaching in other places, Bengang's side was already good.

In order to allow the team to come into contact with the advanced cultural knowledge and insight of the West, Li Tianyang took advantage of the weakness of the Jesuits' desire to preach in the East, and deceived Father Felix and his party into Dayuan. Subsequently, he was afraid that the Jesuits would be the dominant family among the natives of Dayuan Island, and privately he used the excuse of his subordinates to recruit two monks and Taoist monks and Taoists from the interior of the Ming Dynasty who were not very satisfactory in the interior, and came to settle in Bengang and spread their beliefs.

The shortcomings of the Society of Jesus lie in the fact that their missionaries have a different face from the yellow race in the East, and that the Jesuits teach an unfamiliar religion, which has no basis of faith in the East.

However, the strict religious organization of the Society of Jesus is more competitive, centripetal and enterprising than the local religious organization of the Ming Dynasty.

In later generations, although Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity were the three major religious beliefs, it is fair to say that Buddhism and Islam could only be regarded as a local religion with a narrow audience, and it was completely incomparable with Christianity all over the world.

Sure enough, as Li Tianyang expected, in front of the professional evangelism organization, the Taoist priests and monks who were pulled by Li Tianyang from the interior of the Ming Dynasty were not the opponents of the Philix priests at all. In these days, in the struggle for the primitive state of the faith, the Jesuits rode the dust, leaving Shakti, Taoism, and Mazu far behind.

In less than a year, Father Felix and his family have grown to more than 3,000 indigenous believers, as well as hundreds of villagers who moved to Bengang from outside the Ming Dynasty.

And the three beliefs of Buddhism, Taoism and Mazu, even if there are people sent by Li Tianyang behind the covert support, the three religions together have only developed less than 4,000 indigenous believers, if it were not for their three beliefs, the audience of ordinary villagers in Bengang is wider, and the bottom foundation is deeper, it is impossible to say that they have been driven out of Bengang by the Jesuits now.

For this reason, Li Tianyang even secretly signaled the members of Bengang to give advice to several of their religions, organize people in the name of temples and Taoist temples, follow the example of Father Felix, and go deep into the indigenous tribes, bringing the medical materials, agricultural tools, grain and other materials they urgently need for the aborigines.

Even so, these monks and Taoist priests still failed to compete with other Jesuit priests, so Li Tianyang scolded these Taoist priests and monks behind their backs for being useless.

But even so, Li Tianyang could only do his best to help these unsuccessful Buddhists and Taoists, lest there really be a Jesuit with such a unique status as in Europe.

Thinking about the sacred status of the Jesuits in Europe, even the kings of those kingdoms in Europe need to be crowned by the pope in order to be recognized by the nobles and the people, which is absolutely impossible for Li Tianyang to let it happen on his territory!

Religion is always demagogy, and no one can guarantee that when a religion occupies a kingdom or the vast majority of the upper and lower strata of the group, their religious leadership will exert its influence on the group or kingdom and declare its existence to the people, just as the countries of Europe are still shrouded in the shadow of the Holy See.

It was another greeting, and Father Felix, who rarely saw Li Tianyang's face on weekdays, naturally strongly invited Li Tianyang to go to the newly built Bengang Church to pray and study the Bible; And Li Tianyang is also playing haha, using Tai Chi to go around in circles with Father Felix.

(End of chapter)