In the Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou, there were no braids and kowtows, and only Taiping soldiers came and went to take care of the highest-ranking spoils in Guangzhou.

This represents control over Guangzhou, and will soon be control over the entire province of Guangdong.

Zhao Kuo was sitting on the chair Ye Mingchen had sat, and in his heart, if he was the savage and cruel governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, looking at the braids kowtowed to him all over the ground, how could it be a kind of pleasure for the best.

At this moment, Zhu Qingzheng hurriedly reported: "Marty, Lord Bullon arrives."

"Please please! Forget it, I'll pick it up in person." Zhao Kuo got off the chair happily and wanted to run away first, but immediately considering his majesty under his command, he coughed and walked towards the door in a square step.

"Mr. Boulbron, Mr. Deputras, Mr. Gebida, you are here. I have been waiting for you." Seeing these foreigners looking around, Zhao Kuo grinned at the back of his ears.

"If you want to be a grandfather, you have to be a grandson first." Under this humble smile, this speculator Zhao Kuo was helpless.

After the group sat down in Ye Mingchen's main hall, "How big is this Governor's Mansion?!" Deputras was amazed first. It took them a long time to come along the outer wall.

"It's big, but why is there no wallpaper in the house? Looking at the settings in the house, I was a little disappointed. This Lord Ye should be equivalent to a French minister." Translator Ge Bida was already very familiar with Zhao Kuo, so he spoke straightforwardly. In the eyes of Westerners, they actually wouldn't say "Wow Niu Bi". On the contrary, they have always been unable to stand the Qing Dynasty house without interior decoration and glass.

"Very big." Zhao Kuo, who was sitting opposite Bulbron, smiled flatteringly and continued: "In addition, I can tell you that Ye Mingchen did not have tablecloths when he was having dinner. But I will prepare dinner today."

This aroused a lot of laughter. Chinese upper class people do not use tablecloths to eat is also a key point that the West does not adapt to.

"The Marquis is so anxious to invite us, I'm afraid it's not just treating us to dinner." Bulbron said with a smile.

Zhao Kuo nodded and said, "Everyone has also seen that the Governor's Office not only occupies an amazing area, but is also located in the center of Guangzhou. It is a good location. The French Consulate in Guangzhou is actually still in Hong Kong. I want to ask the Consulate to enter my Guangzhou immediately. Because time is rushed, I plan to deliver a place in the outer courtyard building in the Governor's Office to your country and serve as your country and our consulate."

"That's great." The French delegation was overjoyed when they heard this. After ten years, the French finally became the first among the great powers to enter Guangzhou. They also moved into the former power center of Guangzhou, the Governor's Office.

Of course, Boulbron did not intend to abolish the Hong Kong Consulate, because Guangzhou was occupied by rebels, so the consulate here naturally could not be responsible for the diplomatic affairs of Zhao Kuo and Xianfeng at the same time, and France did not want to offend the Qing Dynasty.

Looking at the Frenchman's surprise, Zhao Kuo shook his finger and said, "It's only temporary in the Governor's Office, before the establishment of your country's consulate."

"What do you mean?" Boulbron narrowed his eyes.

"I want to place the main entrance of the Governor's Office to my dear French construction consulate. Here I have a small request," said Zhao Kuo: "I want to ask your country to build French-style buildings. Of course, you can provide architects, design drawings, all craftsmen and materials, I Zhao Kuo, and add a magnificent church. This is my gift to His Majesty Napoleon III, the great French emperor."

After the translation of Ge Bida, whose face was flushed, the group was silent for a long time, burst into surprise discussions and cheers, followed by applause.

Boulbron stood up enthusiastically and shook hands with Zhao Kuo to thank him.

Looking at the French minister who was full of success, Zhao Kuo smiled bitterly in his stomach: "I can't do that either."

Although Zhao Kuo does not believe in Christianity at all, he does not like Catholicism even more.

Catholicism is very troublesome than Christianity!

Because Zhao Kuo knew that in the history of the parallel world he came to, most of the church cases that occurred in the Qing Dynasty were caused by the Catholic Church.

There are many differences between Catholicism and Christianity.

The target of Christian missionary in the late Qing Dynasty was that of adults with ability, which avoided a lot of trouble, because Christians were all those who were mature in their minds who asked to join themselves; while Catholics wanted to accept everyone, one block after another, and they liked to accept children and babies very much, and even preferred dying infants and toddlers.

Because the Catholic Church believes that as long as the baby is baptized, the child will go to heaven if he dies.

This often causes big trouble in this extremely backward world.

The number of people who go to heaven determines the merits of the priests. Think about it, which is easier to baptize a child who is ignorant or persuade a foreign adult who knows nothing?

Therefore, the Catholic Church actively organized a baby tutoring church to take in orphans and abandoned children.

But with the living standards and medical standards of the poor in that era, it was not easy for adults to live, let alone children.

At that time, Chinese people were most particular: There were three things that were unfilial, and there was no descendant, and boys had a very high status in society and family.

Without the Dink family, the Dink family would probably be killed by their own relatives. It would be very unfilial. Without a son, you would have no shame to meet people.

So apart from having too many children to raise, who can’t afford to give birth to healthy boys?

Most of the ones sent to the nanny are abandoned babies. If they are baby boys and boys, they must be either born with disabilities or are almost dying of illness.

Therefore, the mortality rate of children in nanny halls is definitely much higher than that of children in ordinary families!

Catholic priests or nuns who take in children often give some money to parents who come to send children in as a reward - because they feel that this is a chance to give themselves a person to heaven, so they pay.

But there are Chinese beasts who steal and kidnap other people's children because of this little money, claiming to be the parents of the children, and they sell them to foreign nursery halls.

Chinese people like to follow the crowd, and because foreigners slapped slave owners, many people hate foreigners. Foreigners acted completely differently and seemed out of place because of the two civilizations, which led to rumors everywhere - such as foreigners stealing children's medicine introductions; foreigners stuffing radishes into their assholes for themselves, etc.

This triggered another case of Tianjin lesson plans in the history of the world, including besieging churches and massacres of foreign missionaries and compatriots.

The second big difference is that Christian missionary basically does not involve property, but Catholicism cannot do it. They buy a large amount of real estate at every turn!

This is very similar to Chinese Buddhism.

To be honest, Zhao Kuojue's beliefs may not be bad, but at any time, if you link the faith organization with interests, it is impossible for this organization to be bad.

Faith is divine, and interests are human, and there are two different things.

And wasn’t Christianity (Protestantism) unable to stand the corruption and darkness of the dominant Catholic Church at that time, so that it set up its own business?

The Catholic Church has also done many disgusting and dirty things in the West. Take this point in time. Because Comrade Napoleon III held the pope's thigh and promoted Catholics, people in France called priests "black robbers."

Besides, Chinese and Westerners are essentially human. If you, a Chinese, grew up in the West, you may also win the Nobel Prize; while Westerners will also be competent representatives when you grew up in China.

There is no substantial difference in human nature.

There were no devout priests who came to China to preach missionary in the late Qing Dynasty, and there were all shameless and despicable guys. This group of people came in to merge real estate, bully good people, and interfere with the judiciary. And the same is true for Chinese people. Joining the church as a priest may not be because of their faith. Perhaps like Zhao Kuo, he saw that foreigners were thick legs and the government did not dare to take care of them, so he joined the church to help bad foreign missionaries gathered and rob wealth and bullied people with their power.

In another history, there were so many lesson plans in the late Qing Dynasty, and there were also elements that taught the people to oppress good people and inaction by the government, which led to public anger.

And as for him, Zhao Kuo, if there is really a bad foreign missionary who does something wrong in Guangdong, will he dare to take care of it? He has to think about it seriously.

He had to think about it, and his subordinates dared not care. If the church gathers the industry and causes trouble, will his people's hearts be overwhelmed?

Isn’t this killing yourself a powerful stick?

But Zhao Kuo had no choice.

Britain and the United States do not even miss him, even if he soaked himself and mixed into the Christian Baptist Church.

Only the French minister Baba himself came to find him!

Will he dare to let this opportunity go?

In France, Napoleon III, the president had just become the French emperor through politics, and regarded the Catholic Church as a spiritual pillar of his rule. Therefore, Minister Boulbron believed that what a glory would it be for the French emperor to be able to gather a group of Catholic believers in the far east far away from Europe?

The light of God shines on the Far East.

Moreover, Napoleon III came to power because of his prestige of the war genius Napoleon, who was a war genius who was intimidating Europe. The French people hoped to get this kind of glory again, so France showed strong aggressiveness during his reign. In the history of Zhao Kuolai, he invaded Vietnam and wiped out the Qing fleet (in fact, it was another less famous "Beiyang Demolition"), and completely destroyed the shipyard in Fujian (he helped the Qing Dynasty build it).

The Qing Dynasty was obviously a meat, not a carnivore. France naturally wanted to support its own power on this distant continent in order to gain greater benefits. Zhao Kuo was obviously a more suitable guy.

Moreover, as a traditional European land power, France is the second most powerful country in the world at this point. It is a bit like the Chinese in vanity. It always dislikes the UK and always feels that it is awesome. However, it does not have the UK's global hegemony and political considerations, nor is it as profit-oriented as the United States. Therefore, in terms of external actions, whether it is called vanity or romance, the French always play some weird cards, adventure cards, or romantic cards.

So Boulboron, the ambition disseminator of Napoleon III, and Zhao Kuo, the Far East speculator, hit it off.

Zhao Kuo not only promised to keep the Treaty of Qing and France intact, but also made concessions that later made British Minister Sir Wenhan dumbfounded.

To expand French religious interests, not only trade ports, but also areas controlled by Zhao Kuo allow French priests to preach freely.

However, Zhao Kuo didn't realize he had lost a piece of meat because this was completely the content of the later "Tianjin Treaty". Faced with power, this backward land always had to be signed.

In history, in the Treaty of Tianjin, France put forward this condition, and the Qing Dynasty, who was beaten up, agreed to it. The British were stunned. They were satisfied with their missionary missions at the trade port, but they did not expect that the French were so cruel and the Qing Dynasty was so easy to pin down. They immediately went back and signed again, and they also gained the power to freely preach in the mainland of the Qing Dynasty.

But Zhao Kuo agreed to this, which was undoubtedly the great diplomatic achievements made by Bourbron for France in this era.

In addition, Zhao Kuo sold himself again - he promised to convert to Catholicism immediately as long as he took Guangzhou!

This kid has only been soaking in the Protestant Church for a few months, and he feels a little shameless.

Originally, Bulbron wanted Zhao Kuo and his tens of thousands of troops to join the church, but how could Zhao Kuojue do this? Not to mention that the Catholic Church is so troublesome, if the Taiping Army believes in it, it is equivalent to the state religion! This is absolutely not possible!

And he changed his faith repeatedly, from worshiping God to Christian Baptism, and then believed in Catholicism a few months later. Where is his personal prestige? If the army is not properly dealt with, he will be rebelled.

Besides, the world's bosses will not agree.

At this point in diplomacy, Zhao Kuo had a great advantage. This is not the time when India was discovered by Britain and France. At that time, navigation technology was not good, and it was extremely difficult to go from Europe to India. So, a colonial continent was discovered first come first served, and I don’t worry that someone would compete with you.

However, now it has entered the global era. As soon as the Qing Dynasty was discovered, Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, the Netherlands, and Portugal immediately rushed over.

It’s like there’s a weak beauty in a dark room. If only one big man comes into this room, he will definitely rob money and lust;

But now it's a sex, and all seven or eight big men come in and surround this beauty. At this time, I'm afraid it's hard to do whatever I want.

因为谁太不要脸,别人弄不好就联合起来一起把你揍出去,这不就少了一个竞争者吗?这群人都很阴,一个个流口水,却看着那么多人在场,只好装模作样又是吻手又是献花,讲什么自由恋爱,浪漫网恋聚会,只能做程度有限的劫财.

As the saying goes, too much debt does not suppress your body, but too many tigers and wolves will not be afraid. If you are angry with me, I will look for Laolang. Anyway, who will give you food? At that time, Laolang still had an international axiom, right?

Therefore, Zhao Kuo smiled and rejected the request of the entire army to convert to Catholicism for the above reasons. He smiled and said, "Free trade, free faith."

1. Tianjin lesson plan:

In April and May 1870, there were many incidents of missing and kidnapping in Tianjin. In early June, the weather was hot and the epidemic was prevalent. Thirty or forty orphans in the nanny died of illness. So the people began to rumor that foreign nuns used the nanny as a rock, but in fact they kidnapped and killed the children as medicinal materials.

The Chinese besieged the church. The French Consul in Tianjin, Henryfontanier (1830-1870), asked the Governor Chonghou to send troops to suppress the church, but failed to get a satisfactory result. On the way to the church, he argued with the magistrate Liu Jie, and shot in anger, and unfortunately killed the magistrate's servant. In anger, the people first killed Feng Daye and his secretary Ximen, and then killed 10 nuns, 2 priests, and 2 French consulate staff, 2 French expatriates, 3 Russian expatriates and more than 30 Chinese believers. The French consulate, Wanghailou Catholic Church, Mercy Hall and 4 Christian churches opened by local British and American missionaries. The destruction lasted for 3 hours.

Zeng Guofan was in charge of this matter, but it turned out that the child sent by the church was not abducted! As for the drug introduction, it was even more nonsense. Then this guy killed a few leading Chinese people. The Chinese people hated him - they both ended up being angry. Foreigners killed the government, and we killed foreigners, and the government killed us again! We are Xiami!

2 France was the first Western country to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. In 1964.
Chapter completed!