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Chapter 287 Year-end Meeting (3)

Although with the restoration of Tianjin order, time travelers also allowed churches to reopen and organize religious activities in the Tianjin New District, strict restrictions were imposed on churches. All missionaries' activity areas were limited to the Tianjin New District, and activities were prohibited from going to rural areas and old cities. Even in the Tianjin New District, missionaries were prohibited from preaching in factories, schools and other institutions under the time travelers. For example, the Zizhulin Church was changed to the Hope School. Although the missionaries of Zizhulin Church were not driven away, the religious activities of Zizhulin Church were completely stopped, including the missionaries in this church who had to go to other churches to have Mass.

Of course, at the beginning, there were actually a few missionaries who did not believe in evil and sneaked out of the Tianjin New District to go to the countryside to preach, but seven or eight out of them did not come back. Later, according to foreigners who came back from the Kaiping Coal Mine to work in technical work, they saw a few familiar people in the mining area, but they were covered in rags and had a dusty face, and they couldn't recognize them very clearly. Therefore, from then on, the missionaries stayed honestly in the Tianjin New District and did not dare to take another step into the new district.

However, missionary activities in public places in Tianjin New District must also be applied in advance, with strict restrictions on time, region and behavior, so the entire Tianjin church is almost stagnant.

However, among the time travelers, there are some Christian believers. From those who live on passenger boats, when they go to Tianjin New District, most of them like to go to the church to see it. Although they are all in the mood to visit scenic spots and historical sites, they follow them and worship together, sing hymns and so on. Anyway, they are idle.

In fact, most time travelers who attend the service do not have any awe of the church, which is the same as burning incense when entering the temple. Anyway, the gods will not blame them. Of course, some people also have bad intentions - to see if they can seduce a few nuns, and the matter between the priest and the nun is often more attractive.

The missionaries did not know the true thoughts of the time travelers, but when they saw that there were also believers of the Lord among the time travelers, the missionaries were naturally overjoyed. It seemed that the Lord's glory was indeed shining all over the world, so they tried their best to spread the Lord's love and kindness to the Christian believers among the time travelers, hoping to expand the influence of Christianity among the time travelers. Of course, some missionaries also intended to inquire about the time travelers' intelligence.

It has to be said that the foreign monks are quite wise to fool, not inferior to Uncle Benshan. In addition, these time travelers are really idle and have no interest in listening. Therefore, they are fooled by the foreign monks on the left and right. Some time travelers are really fooled so much that they can't find the north. A few of them have even received the baptism of the church, become formal believers, and regularly attend services and mass activities. Fortunately, the time travelers are still somewhat self-aware and have not revealed that they are from the future world.

Some missionaries hope to influence the Executive Committee through these time travelers, lift or relax restrictions on the church. However, two missionaries dared to pull several time travelers away from the Tianjin New District and go to the countryside to preach. However, these time travelers were not sure whether they were really fooled by foreign monks or were not clear about their minds, but they agreed immediately, and one of them patted his chest and promised that it would be absolutely fine to follow them out of the Tianjin New District.

Nazhi missionaries wanted to treat the time travelers as their shield, but after they left the Tianjin New District, they were still found by the police and all were caught back. After the Ministry of Public Security learned about it, they were furious. As a result, two missionaries were thrown into the Kaiping Coal Mine to dig coal, and the church they were in was also sealed off. The time travelers were severely criticized and educated by the Ministry of Public Security, and sent passengers to the boat to ban them from coming to the Tianjin New District again.

However, this situation also attracted the high attention of the Ministry of Public Security. It seems that imperialism, when it cannot defeat time travelers by force, actually planned to use religion to confuse and corrupt time travelers. Therefore, measures must be taken, either simply ban all churches or strictly manage the churches.

After discussion by the Executive Committee, it is believed that it is not suitable to ban all churches at present. Although the cause of the Boxer movement was the conflict between the people, not all Chinese people opposed the church. After all, the church has been preaching in China for more than 60 years and has also developed a group of believers, because it has a considerable foundation in the city and has a strong influence among the gentry class. Although the reasons for religious beliefs are complicated, some tend to be westernized, some seek blessings, and some to facilitate communication with foreigners, it has indeed formed a very powerful believer group. The conflict between the gentry and the people in the city is actually not deep. Most of the conflicts between the gentry and the people are born in the countryside. In the battle between the Boxer siege to churches, many Chinese believers stood on the side of the church and became enemies with the Boxer. Therefore, it is easy to abolish the Christian church again to cause large-scale conflicts and divisions.

In addition, the Christian Church is now a world-wide religion. Although it is not the Middle Ages and the church has no power to interfere in politics, it still has a considerable influence in countries around the world, because it is in Europe and the church still has a great influence in various countries. Time travelers need to establish an open and inclusive modern state, and they do not intend to be enemies of the whole world. There are also many people among the time travelers. Although they are female veterans, they still have a good impression of the church, so the veteran group cannot adopt extreme religious policies anymore.

However, it is still necessary to set up a department in the administrative department to specialize in religious affairs. It is best to find a few Christians from the elders, whether it is true or false. It is necessary to serve as bishops in Tianjin and bring all the church under the control of the veteran group. In the old time and space, the Celestial Empire had few countries that could appoint bishops in the region by themselves, and the church could still do a good job.

Of course, it is still unknown whether there are any veterans who are willing to be charlatans now. Let’s start the religious management office.

These are the adjustments to the departments, but the Ministry of Administration also announced that all veterans have the power to recommend administrative management of the veteran group, including adding new departments, establishing new institutions, or even opening factories and enterprises. This is mainly because before the formulation of the [Provisional Constitution], the power of ordinary veterans to participate in politics and make decisions is increased, indicating that the temporary executive committee attaches importance to public opinion.

However, the requirements for the application report are very detailed, including: the basic role, necessity, feasibility, basic organizational structure and operating model of the new organization, the required fees, and the benefits brought to the veteran group, etc. The applicant can have up to three people, and can also collect other people for an approval. The Ministry of Enterprise and Chemical Corporation will evaluate the content of the report. If it is considered feasible, it will recruit applicants to defend. After passing the defense, the Planning Department will formally apply for the application. If the number of approving the proposal exceeds 100, you can directly pass the assessment and enter the defense stage.

These restrictions are mainly to avoid the elders' proposals being too casual and boundless. At least when applying for proposals, you must seriously consider how feasible your proposal is, and also conduct sufficient investigations and do less proposing things. Of course, it is also to reduce the work of the planning department. If these restrictions are not set, it will take a lot of manpower to cope with various brain-opening proposals.

The next step is to discuss the issue of the whole world. The first topic is to establish the local government of Tianjin New District and propose that Li Songchen be appointed as the administrative officer of Tianjin New District.

This proposal was unanimously approved by the participants. First, Li Songchen's work has been very successful over the past period of time, and Li Songchen himself has also been very serious in his work attitude. He spends most of his time in the countryside, which really makes some people feel inferior. Second, Li Songchen is now one of the ministers. As long as other ministers have no objections, others basically have no ability to compete with him.

Of course, Li Songchen had known about this appointment and was very calm. He first thanked the Interim Executive Committee and everyone for their trust in him, and said that he would do his best to complete the work. The Executive Committee also ordered him to come up with a plan for the administrative agency of the local government in Tianjin New District as soon as possible.

The second issue was proposed by the Ministry of Health, which was to set up a pharmaceutical factory immediately and train medical personnel, requiring a medical department in Hope School to specialize in cultivating professional medical personnel.

When setting up a pharmaceutical factory, everyone had no objection. After all, this is an important matter that concerns everyone's vital interests. Whoever dares to guarantee that they will never get sick will pass unanimously.

But the establishment of the medical department of Hope School has caused a lot of controversy. After all, the Ministry of Health needs to cultivate professional talents. Other departments, such as the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance, etc., also need to cultivate professional talents. Even the Military Commission, which has not made any comments, said that the army also needs to cultivate their own professional talents. As a result, the venue suddenly became chaotic.

This result was much beyond the expectations of Minister of Health Ren Wendian. He looked at Qin Zheng with help, but he got a helpless look. Ren Wendian was originally the head of the medical team for the evacuation mission and an active-duty soldier. However, he was a technical soldier. Moreover, everyone in the Ministry of Health is basically a military doctor, so his relationship with the army is of course closer. He also asked Qin Zheng for help through Zhou Ping's relationship. He thought that both proposals from this department could be passed smoothly, but he did not expect that a problem would come out. Even the Military Commission came in to get involved, without giving him any face, which made Ren Wendian depressed himself. It seemed that his butt determined his head, and this sentence was really correct.

Finally, Xia Bohai had to announce that he suggested that everyone put this issue aside first and listen to the opinions of the Ministry of Education.

It turned out that at this year-end meeting, the Ministry of Education had no requirements, but hoped to build a new campus. Now the school still requisitioned Zizhulin Church as a school building. But at this time, I hope that the school had already accommodated 518 orphans and 24 staff members, and the full accommodation system was still adopted. After all, Zizhulin Church has limited capacity, which made it seem that there were insufficient rooms.
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