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Chapter 212: 212

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At the end of October, the first snow in Feiyu mountain has come.

The majestic appearance of the mountains is shrouded in thick lead gray clouds. After the first snow, the traffic on the mountain road from Yuezhong to Feiyu is restored again.

The horse's hooves on the dirt road throw out gray and white mixed snow mud, leaving hoof prints of different depths.

The branches on the side of the mountain road occasionally make a click, and then the snow powder falls on the shoulders of pedestrians.

All the riders in this line were wearing coir raincoats and hats. It can be seen that under the thick coir raincoats, there were enough for warriors to wear. They immediately wore all kinds of weapons, such as Taidao, rib difference, spear, bow and arrow, which was clearly a line of riding warriors.

Rui Costa, with his thick coir raincoat and several layers of cotton padded clothes, cowered on the pack horse and trembled slightly.

The pack horse under him is struggling to pull out its hooves from the snow and mud and step on the ground again, which makes the horse's back more bumpy.

Everything made Rui Costa's mood worse. At the moment, he couldn't help cursing: "this damn weather."

After Rui Costa cursed, he raised the mask on his face to reduce the area affected by the wind.

At the same time, the mask also blocked the brown moustache on his lips, and only a pair of gray blue eyes showed on his face.

Rui Costa is a sailor in Portugal. According to him, his original ambition was to follow the glorious footprints of Portuguese navigation pioneers Prince Enrique, Diaz and dagama, and explore the unknown world.

Well, actually, all of this is bullshit.

Rui Costa lived in poverty since childhood. He first made a living for the bell caster of the church. Like most sailors in this era, he wanted to go abroad to find opportunities to fill his stomach and try his luck at the same time.

Finally, Rui Costa embarked on a Portuguese merchant ship called the Pharaoh heading for East India.

After more than six years of life as a seaman, he became the second mate of the Pharaoh.

But unfortunately, he was unlucky. After the captain of the Pharaoh died of illness, the first mate on the original ship became the captain of the Pharaoh.

He and the former chief mate were very wrong. They looked at each other and were unhappy with each other. Ruicosta was angry and immediately fell out with the captain of the Pharaoh.

At that time, the pharaoh was berthing in Macao. After he parted ways with the captain, he was going to take another ship back to Portugal, but here he met father Torres, a Portuguese Catholic monk who was going to preach in Japan.

Father Torres had just returned to Portugal from Japan. There were just a few experienced sailors on board, so he took Rui Costa with him.

Rui Costa also got on Torres' boat and came to Japan with him without saying a word.

Rui Costa doesn't know that Torres is a famous figure in the history of Catholic missionary.

He is famous because he once followed and was praised by the Catholic Church as the greatest missionary in history, St. Francis Shapiro, one of the early jesuit monks who went to Japan to preach.

St. Francis Xavier was praised by Catholicism as the greatest missionary in history because he first spread Catholicism to Malacca and Japan.

When Catholicism first landed in Japan, Saburo chose Shimadzu family in southern Kyushu as contact, but the relationship between the two was not so harmonious at that time. Later, Saburo moved to Pinghu in feiqian country, where he was welcomed by the local Lord Matsuura Longxin.

Matsuura Longxin allowed Sha not to preach here because he was greedy for huge profits from trade with the Portuguese and against his neighbor Longzao temple.

Saburo was a great success in Pinghu, and thousands of Catholics converted to Catholicism. After Saburo left Pinghu, he left Torres in Pinghu to preach, and soon died of illness.

After that, Torres was very successful in pinghubu, but it attracted discrimination from local Buddhists. The Portuguese fleet was attacked by local people and 14 people were killed.

Torres was dissatisfied with the final decision of the famous Matsuura Longxin, so he returned to Macao by boat. During this period, he has been teaching in Japan for ten years.

After returning to Macao, Torres was unwilling to let his missionary career fall short. He decided to return to Japan, so he took Rui Costa along the way.

Rui Costa followed father Torres to near Kyushu to see Japanese scenery, which he deeply missed.

Well, it's not so much nostalgia as infatuation. He deeply liked the gentle Japanese women of this era, but he always suffered from different words and couldn't talk up. Therefore, he decided to specialize in Japanese language, so he spoke fluent Japanese in less than two years.

Torres devoted himself to the Catholic missionary cause. After the breakdown of his harmonious relationship with the Matsuura family, he moved to yokosura in the big village and sought trade opportunities from the big village Lord, Chunzhong big village.

At that time, the Portuguese preached by taking advantage of the local name of Japan to covet trade profits as bait and allow the people in the territory to believe in religion. Only then can I do trade with you, otherwise there is no need to talk about it.

Therefore, for Portuguese, it is because of religion and trade, and for Daming, it is because of trade and religion.

However, Tomura Chunzhong is very pious. He not only allows Catholicism to spread in the territory, but also believes in religion, becoming the first famous Catholic in Japanese history.

But in fact, despite the example of Tomura's pure loyalty, the conflict between lingnei Buddhists and Catholics is inevitable.

Riots and bloodshed happened again. Torres was angry and ran away again.

However, history turned a corner here. At this time, the fame of Yukio Uesugi was widely spread in Japan because of the fourth joint war with Takeda shinxuan.

Torres naturally heard about it. He also heard that the famous man is very devout in Buddhism and claims to be the embodiment of a Dharma protector of Buddhism.

At present, Torres doesn't know which tendon is wrong. He is very disgusted with Kyushu daimyo's greedy trade and anti religious behavior. I think these people are good for profit and have no faith. On the contrary, they are moved by Shangshan Qianxin's action of fighting for righteousness and not seeking profit.

It doesn't matter if he is a Buddhist. I'll let him convert to Catholicism. Such a devout and non missing believer is what our Jesuit needs.

So Torres and Rui Costa landed in zhijiangjin town in Vietnam and went to chunri mountain city to change Shangshan Qianxin's name to Catholicism.

The result is self-evident. This line of Catholic missionaries were blown out of the mountain city in spring without even seeing Shangshan Qianxin's face.

However, Torres was immortal. He heard that Wei Zhang had a name called Wei Zhang's fool and was keen to accept new affairs, so he decided to go to Wei Zhang and look for opportunities.

At that time, Torres decided not to go by sea, but by land. With the intention of taking a look at the local scenery on the way, he decided to take the route from yuehou, through Yuezhong, and then through Feiyu highland, from Nongwei plain to Weizhang, the final destination.

When Torres and Rui Costa passed Chengsheng Town, they happened to hear that the local name was actually a man from the Ming Dynasty who became a warrior in Japan.

Hearing the news, the two people felt suddenly... Suddenly they were scorched outside and tender inside by thunder. They immediately had an intention to see Li Xiao.

Rui Costa, who was riding on the horse, raised his head and looked ahead. The man who was sitting on the high horse safely was the legendary warrior li Xiao from the Ming Dynasty.

Rui Costa still thinks of the meeting with Li Xiao and feels incredible.

At the moment, Li Xiao sat in front of Malaysia and walked side by side with Honda Zhengxin. He pointed to the mountain path with a whip and said, "I heard that shangshanhui tiger had ordered Zhijiang Shigang to go over the back mountains in winter and reach the mouth of Ueno marsh one year before the war on the Island in Central Sichuan. I wonder if there is such a thing?"

Ben duozhengxin controlled his horse, kept a distance from Li Xiao's horse head, and then said: "Yes, I just heard about it. At that time, Shangshan Huihu set up many refuge huts in the deep snow area of Shangyue border in advance, stored sufficient fuel and food, and sent someone to guard. When Zhijiang Shigang set out, he asked the local hunters to lead the way in front. Only then did he climb the snow path that cannot be crossed in winter and reach Shangye."

Li Xiao nodded and said, "since Shangshan Huihu has a way to climb over the back mountains in winter, we can do the same. I want to follow Shangshan Huihu's example and set up a shelter on Feiyue Zhongshan Road to store fuel and food. In the future, there will be contact between Chengsheng city and Shengang city to prevent any enemy from attacking our home in winter."

After listening to Li Xiao's words, Ben duozhengxin said, "Lord, this move can be in case."

Li Xiao thought about it and thought it could be done. Afterwards, he asked Dao shengmeng to deal with it.

Just as Li xiaosisuo was, he heard several violent coughs from Rui Costa behind him. It was obviously frozen by the severe cold.

Seeing this, Li Xiao stopped his horse. When Rui Costa rode behind him, he took out a bamboo tube from his waist and said to him, "take it and taste it, your body will become warm, and then apply it on your hands and feet to prevent frostbite."

Rui Costa is very proficient in Japanese in order to pick up girls. He doubts Li Xiao's words, but he still does what he says.

"What is this? It's so magical."

Rui Costa tasted a little and said, "well, it's very delicious."

Then he rubbed the things in the bamboo tube on his hand according to Li Xiao's words. The place he touched was hot. Indeed, the cold on his body was alleviated a lot.

Seeing Rui Costa's surprised appearance, Li xiaoha said with a smile: "this is the seasoning made by Han zaoli. Shangshan's modest Shangshan army must take it after walking through it in winter. The method is also very simple. Put the bright red pepper on the snow in severe winter to dry, add distiller's yeast, salt, grapefruit and other things, and ferment."

Rui Costa was surprised when he saw it and said, "thank you, Lord Li Xiao. Oriental things are so wonderful that you can't learn them all your life."

After a pause, Rui Costa looked at Li Xiao and said as if he had made up his mind: "Lord Li Xiao, I have an unkind request. I wonder if you can agree."

Li Xiaoyan said, "please speak frankly."

Rui Costa said: "I admire Lord Li Xiao very much. Your erudition and bravery. I wonder if I can become your courtier, that is, the Portuguese warrior of Takeda family."

PS: it is said that Matsuura Longxin, the name of Pinghu who was the first to accept Saburo's missionary mission, is not famous in Japan, but it is famous for China.

Hirako's name is Matsuura Longxin. His Kyushu water army Matsuura party attacked Japan in Kublai Khan. Matsuura party fought with the yuan army. Later, it became a Japanese pirate attacking the Ming state and North Korea. Wang Zhi, the most famous Japanese pirate leader in the history of the Ming Dynasty, was based in Hirako in Japan.

The friendship between Wang Zhi and Matsuura Longxin should be regarded as the sworn brothers of changing posts.

Even the Tianchuan family, Zheng Chenggong's biological mother, has the theory of Matsuura Longxin's adopted daughter or the daughter of a family minister, but it is certain that Zheng Chenggong was born in Pinghu. (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)





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