"Save the people first!"

Xu Dayou didn't recognize the bird Shaoqing, and Eunuch Wei said whatever he said. He shouted and plunged into the river.

Amid the sound of "puzzling", more than 20 former Wusong River Camp officers and soldiers jumped into the river to save people.

It is October now, and although the river water has not frozen, it is also cool.

Tian Gang also wanted to go into the water to save people, but Li Wei knew that his water nature was not very good, so he grabbed him so that he would not be saved. Instead, he asked the drowning person to drag him down and take a mat.

Eunuch Wei also knew this truth, and he was not good at water, so he did not go into the water to save people. Instead, he was in charge of the command to search for long ropes and bamboo poles on the shore, and helped save people in the water as much as possible and prepare for the reception.

This is also a wise move. In a large number of rescue operations, the importance of the commander is more important than directly participating in the rescue.

The people on the boat of the person who caused the accident were also saving people. There were vague screams of women and children, who were shocked.

Wang Tigan stood aside, without interfering randomly, and only looked at Li Shaoqing, the Taipu Temple who was shouting to save foreigners first.

Because of the night, Li Zhizao did not recognize Eunuch Wei, but only thought that the other party was the young master of a wealthy family in Yangzhou, otherwise how could there be so many followers?

His words were refuted on the spot by someone. Li Zhizao could not hold back his face, but he did not have an attack because he was afraid of delaying the rescue.

Now, what's more important than saving people!

Whether it is saving the people or saving foreigners, it is all about saving them.

If you insist on saving foreigners first, it will be unfavorable to your reputation if you spread it. If Kedao finds out, someone will probably impeach him.

Li Zhizao was still in shock when he was not satisfied with his official power. He sat on the mud on the shore and looked anxiously at the river.

He was very worried that the two priests, Guo Jujing and Jinnige, who were traveling with him, would be a huge loss for the Catholic Church and the greatest regret for him, Li Zhizao.

Guo Jujing and Kinnige are both assistants of Father Matteo Ricci, one is Italian and the other is Belgian.

After Father Mayli passed away, Guo and Jin and several other Western priests in Beijing wanted to return to Jiangnan to preach.

Guo Jujing hopes to run a church in Shanghai County, while Jinnige has a good relationship with Sun Long, a eunuch in Suzhou and Hangzhou, so he wants to carry out missionary matters in Hangzhou.

The reason why they delayed until now was that according to Catholic practice, Western missionaries should be moved to Macau after their death in China.

But Father Li hoped that he could be buried in Beijing during his lifetime, so through the Ming Dynasty officials and gentry who made friends with Guo Jujing and Jin Nige, they hoped to convince His Majesty the Emperor to be kind and allow Father Li to be buried in Beijing.

Li Zhizao has been helping with this matter, and it was the chief assistant he found, Ye Xianggao. Finally, with Ye Xianggao's mediation, Emperor Wanli made an exception and allowed Matteo Ricci to be buried in the Tenggong Fence in the western suburbs of Beijing, making him the first Western missionary to be buried in Beijing.

After completing Matteo Ricci's burial, Li Zhizao received a letter from his hometown in Hangzhou, and his father died of illness.

According to the etiquette system, if the parents die, the officials will go home to attend the funeral and observe the system for twenty-seven months, which is called Dingyou. Unless the situation is very special, the court cannot do without this person, and the emperor will specially order "take away the love", otherwise even the greatest official will be dismissed and returned home immediately.

This makes many officials most afraid of their parents in their lives, especially the important officials of the court.

It is extremely difficult for an important official to become an important official.

After finally getting up, I suddenly went down again, and no one could accept it.

This dynasty has had a precedent for "taking love", that is, the former chief assistant Zhang Juzheng.

But how many Zhang Juzheng in this world are there, and who dares to be Zhang Juzheng now?

With Guo Jujing's identity, it was impossible for the emperor to take away his affection, so after receiving the letter, he made an appointment with Guo, Jin, and other priests who had been wanting to go south to set off together.

When the ship arrived in Yangzhou, it was already late. According to the rules, the ship should be stopped to rest and leave tomorrow. After all, the dark and lit boat was not safe, but Li Zhizao was eager to return to his hometown to attend the funeral and did not want to delay in Yangzhou, so he asked the boatman to drive the boat at night. As a result, he collided with a cargo ship opposite that was also in a hurry.

In addition to Li Zhizao's three entourages and Western priests, there were also several foreign merchants and more than a dozen Ming Dynasty people.

Several foreign merchants went north from Fujian to Beijing and Tianjin to purchase goods. Several of them in the dozen or so people of the Ming Dynasty followed them to do business. The rest were guides and communications invited by these foreign merchants.

At present, there was no customs statement in the Ming Dynasty, and there were no strict procedures for foreigners entering the country. In Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Quanzhou, Fujian, there were many Western merchants and were very popular among local gentry. The reason was that these Western merchants were rich.

These Western merchants have put a lot of effort into the huge profits of sea trade that Eunuch Wei longed for.

There are also many foreign merchants from Europe in the Jiangnan area, as well as many vassal merchants in Southeast Asia, and many barbarians.

The vassal merchants and the barbarian merchants were influenced by the Ming Dynasty's tribute system, so they were more valued by the Ming Dynasty than Western merchants. They received certain preferential treatment in some aspects, and were also very convenient.

On the contrary, the status and influence of Westerners in the Ming Dynasty were very low, which can be seen from the spread of Catholicism in the Ming Dynasty and has not been widely preached.

Eunuch Wei was just making a big fuss, or rather, his tense nerve was a little too sensitive.

The Ming Dynasty is the most powerful empire in the world. Since history, the Chinese have always been high above Westerners, looking down at these white-skinned, blue-eyed foreign people.

During a certain period, I didn’t even regard these Westerners as human beings.

For example, in the late Tang Dynasty, the Huang Chao Uprising Army threw more than 100,000 Hu merchants into stone mills in Guangzhou and ground them into military rations.

In the face of this strong national self-confidence, how could Eunuch Wei "kneeling" phenomenon happen?

Li Zhizao shouted to save the Westerners first, not because he was slave to the foreigners, but because he had always been in contact with the Westerners and baptized and joined the Catholic Church.

In the eyes of this Catholic, Taipusi Shaoqing, although the Westerners are not Chinese, since they have come to China from thousands of miles away, the court should show great kindness to them, so that they can perceive China's benevolence and righteousness, the vastness and beauty of China.

This means that it is a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar.

Then a friend from afar will definitely not have any trouble in the Ming Dynasty.

So after the accident, he would shout out words to save the Westerners first.

It was very natural that although I realized that it was inappropriate after being refuted, I did not think it was wrong.

Perhaps, in this Shaoqing's opinion, people from foreign countries are so pitiful that their lives are more precious than ordinary people in their own country.

After the hard rescue of the officers and soldiers, all the more than 20 people who fell into the water were rescued, except for one of them who was unable to be saved.

During the rescue process, there was actually no distinction between the country first and the foreigners, because of sight and the people who fell into the water were all in the water, so it was impossible to tell one by one, and then decide whether to save first or later.

Eunuch Wei ordered people to find them to dry clothes, and then set up several fires on the spot to help them drive away the cold and care for their well-being.

At this time, Wang Tigan stepped forward and softly signaled that there was a young minister of Taipu Temple on Xiao Wei.

"The leader of the case must say hello, I was afraid he had offended someone before."

"You can be beaten with hello, but there is no sin. To be honest, we are the most shameful person in our lives than our own."

For Lao Wang, Eunuch Wei was about to go over to meet Li Zhizao. This person was unhappy with him, but there was something worthy of it.

In today's China, Li Zhizao is also a few people who are good at maths and mastering Chinese and Western cultures.
Chapter completed!