When Matteo Ricci heard Li Fan's words, his face turned red and he shouted with his neck: "Although you are a master of Ming, you cannot insult my faith!

We have come to the East from thousands of miles to spread the glory of the Lord. I ask you to apologize!”

"Swish! Go to the East to spread faith?" Li Fan chuckled disdainfully: "Don't tell me that the Crusades are also for bullshit faith!"

"..." Matteo Ricci was silent. Although the Crusade shouted the slogan of retaking the holy city, everyone knew that it was just a plunder!

Without huge wealth temptations, will the monarchs of various countries send their own knights?

It is undeniable that some crazy believers do it for their faith, but those people are a minority after all, and most of them are driven eastward by interests.

Seeing Matteo Ricci stop talking, Li Fan continued: "In your West, you are not the only sect.

As far as I know, there are Christianity and Catholicism. There are new and old differences in these aspects. What I am right?”

Matteo Ricci's face finally changed. He looked at Li Fan blankly and said in surprise: "You..., how did you know?"

"Tsk! What's this! I also know that you are not the so-called Indian monk at all, but Italy from the West!" Li Fan said with a smile on his face and stared at Matteo Ricci's eyes.

"You...!" Matteo Ricci was shocked and could not speak at all.

After a long time, Matteo Ricci lowered his head and bowed slightly and said, "My wise Lord Mingguo, I admire your knowledge. Please forgive me for hiding it. I am indeed from Italy!"

Li Fan nodded and said, "I understand your urgent mood very much. There is nothing wrong with freedom of belief.

But you must not preach in the school!”

Seeing Matteo Ricci want to refute, Li Fan raised his hand to stop him and continued: "The children are still young and not mature enough, so you will definitely not be allowed to preach here!

However, while completing your course, I allow you to preach outside the Xishan Workshop area.

If you can contribute to the Xishan Workshop District, there is no problem introducing you to His Majesty the Emperor.

Maybe you will also receive the reward from His Majesty the Emperor and be the first to become a legal person to preach in the Ming Dynasty!”

Li Fan's words were like a bad uncle who tricked a child into candy. Matteo Ricci's mouth grew up and his saliva was about to flow to the ground.

Like Matteo Ricci, there are many people coming to the East to preach, but none of them have made much progress. The main reason is that they cannot be recognized by the most powerful empire in the East.

Even the strongest Ming Dynasty did not believe in the Lord, and the surrounding small countries would not believe in it even more!

Therefore, when Matteo Ricci was excited to tremble when he heard that Li Fan could introduce himself to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

He has seen himself succeed in the Ming Dynasty, and churches have built every city of the Ming Dynasty, and countless believers have been there.

After suppressing the excitement in his heart, Matteo Ricci fell into deep thought. If he wanted to see the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, he had to gain Li Fan's trust.

To gain Li Fan’s trust, you must come up with something that makes Li Fan excited. What exactly is Li Fan most interested in?

Matteo Ricci's glasses floated out the window, and when he saw thick smoke emitting from a distance, his eyes lit up.

"Dear sir! I wonder how much do you know about the mesh gun?"

"Mirou Gun?" Li Fan couldn't help but jump in his heart when he heard this name. Unlike the Ming Dynasty's musket, the musket can be held and aimed with both hands, which is much more accurate than the Ming Dynasty's musket, and its range is much higher than that of the bow and arrow.

"You can build a costro gun?" Li Fan asked.

Matteo Ricci nodded and said confidently: "Dear Lord Mingguo! You only need to send me two blacksmiths. In half a month, you will have a grenade gun!"

"Okay! As long as you create a coercion, I will recommend His Majesty the Emperor to you!" Li Fan agreed with great care.

Match gun! This weapon was used when the Westerners invaded the Qing Dynasty hundreds of years later. The workshop had already made spring steel, and a flintlock gun could be obtained with a slight change.

If you can carve the rifle on the inner wall of the gun bore, it is not impossible to obtain the rifled rifle.

Thinking of the scene where the Ming army all had rifled guns sweeping across all the enemies in the future, Li Fan couldn't help but smile.

...

A few days later, outside the capital city, Tian Yongyi pointed to the manor in front of him and said, "Mr. Li! It's here. The official followed your instructions and focused on Hou Gongchen's industry. He really gained a lot!"

When the post station was attacked, Li Fan recognized several of the faces, just the people who had to jump into the river by themselves.

Their target should be the brocade box in the hands of the Zhang brothers and sisters, and it should be easy to kill themselves.

Even so, Li Fan did not intend to let these people go. After being attacked one after another, the clay figures would have to be angry.

The one who instructed Tang Feng to assassinate him was Liu, so he would definitely have nothing to do with Hou Gongchen. The dead third brother was one of the group, so Li Fan focused on Hou Gongchen.

When he heard the news from Tian Yongyi, he immediately asked, "Brother Tian! Are you sure?"

"Mr. Li! There are often doctors in this village recently. The official asked a doctor and learned that someone was injured by a knife!"

Tian Yongyi's words strengthened Li Fan's idea. The man who fought with Qi Jin was injured and fled, and might have hid in Hou Gongchen's village.

A cold light flashed in Li Fan's eyes, and he nodded and said, "That's good, bring people with him! You must not let them escape!"

As he said that, Li Fan took out a coercion gun from his body and began to load gunpowder.

Matteo Ricci received Li Fan's guarantee and took the people to work hard that day and made two mesh guns in just five days.

Unlike the firearms made by the Ming Dynasty, the firearms are composite barrels made of double-layer iron sheets. This kind of barrel is much stronger than the welded firearms and can withstand higher chamber pressure, which makes the firearms longer and more dangerous!

Originally, Li Fan planned to get some granular gunpowder, but he didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty in this era had already used granular gunpowder.

In Qi Jiguang's new book, there is a complete method of making gunpowder, and Li Fan has to admire the wisdom of the ancients.

At the same time, it was also lamenting that after only hundreds of years, the Chinese people didn't even know the artillery and thought that the Yinmen formation could be broken. It was really sad. No wonder they were invaded into the capital by thousands of Eight-Nation Alliance.

"Brother Li! The bird gun is good, but only one is not very useful. If you want to kill the enemy, you have to rely on this!" Qi Jin said, waving the Qi family knife in his hand.

Li Fan smiled and did not refute. It was already the general trend that hot weapons replaced cold weapons, and only Mi Qing, the group of Tungus savages, would hold on to the big sword and spear and not let go.

While they were talking, the village not far away became chaotic. Tian Yongyi led more than a hundred Jinyiwei and had already smashed the door open.
Chapter completed!