Wu Chaoyue was still stunned. Father Martin brought more than twenty priests wearing black robes and holding the Bible in their hands, including missionaries from Britain, the United States, France, Prussia, Austria, Italy and Belgium. He surrounded him as soon as he met, speaking various Western languages ​​and half-baked Chinese. He spoke various blessings to Wu Chaoyue while asking for friendship with Wu Chaoyue, which made Wu Chaoyue, who only spoke English, dizzy and dark, and could not understand why he was loved and trusted by so many foreign priests for a long time.

Fortunately, quite a lot of priests could speak English. Because they had been in China for a long time, they could speak a little Chinese, so after communicating with the representative of Father Martin and the British missionary Luo Weilin, who had been in China for 14 years, Wu Chaoyue finally understood their purpose and regretted it on the spot. These Western missionaries who had been in China for a different period of time were unanimously optimistic about the bad ideas Wu Chaoyue gave to Father Martin, and they all wanted to take the opportunity to develop the Catholic dock on the Shanghai pier to promote the gospel and develop believers!

That's not all. Father Martin, who was skeptical of Wu Chaoyue's suggestion yesterday, apologized frankly and said to Wu Chaoyue: "Dear Wu, I still don't know the ancient China, and I don't know how difficult it is for us foreign missionaries to develop believers in China. It was only after we went back last night that my fellow disciples told me that your method would definitely be very effective. They also regretted why they had not come up with such a good idea before. Not only did they support me, but they were also willing to help me do this, and they all wanted to see you, a Chinese who rarely understands the West. So I'm sorry, I brought them all without telling you in advance."

"It's okay, it's my honor to know so many priests who hold priests." Wu Chaoyue cursed Martin as he was slapped and pretended to be modest, and asked with some fear: "Mr. Martin, since your fellow disciples think that my method is feasible, why don't you go directly to the dock to preach the gospel? What are you doing here?"

"Dear Wu, we need your help." Luo Weilin, the British missionary next to him, took the conversation and said frankly: "Wu, please help us. I have been in China for fourteen years. I know the difficulties and hardships of preaching in China, and I know more about the misunderstanding and hostility of the Chinese people towards us missionaries. Your idea is very good. You can leave it to us for negotiations with Western merchant ships, but we need your help to organize dock workers to recite the Bible, help us communicate with those Chinese workers, so that they can understand that it is completely good for us to do this."

Speaking of this, Luo Weilin couldn't wait to add: "Also, you can also tell those dock workers who are willing to recite the Bible and let them go to the hospital I open outside Shanghai to treat various diseases at any time. I will reduce medical expenses according to their specific circumstances, and even all of them are free. Dear Wu, I am also an academician of the Royal College of Surgery in the UK, and I am especially good at ophthalmology surgery. As long as those dock workers who are willing to recite the Bible need or their relatives need, I can do cataract surgery for them for free."

"Thank you, respected Father Luo Weilin." Wu Chaoyue thanked him sincerely, knowing that many of the foreign missionaries of this era were pioneers of Western powers' invasion of China, but a considerable number of them were foreign friends who sincerely wanted to help the Chinese, so Wu Chaoyue believed in Luo Weilin's promise very much.

——The book shows that Luo Weilin is such a great international friend. During his missionary period in China, he not only treated many poor Chinese people in the late Qing Dynasty for free, but was the first foreigner to bring the introduction of cowpox into China, but also the founder of the famous Union Hospital and Renji Hospital! During the Xiaodaohui Uprising in history, his hospital admitted wounded soldiers from the Qing army and the Xiaodaohui Uprising Army at the same time, and allowed the two to live in peace and help each other!

Thank you, but in order not to bear the ugly insults of the Ermao, Wu Chaoyue said with a frown again: "But the respected Father Luo Weilin and all the respected priests, it's not that I shirk it, but that I have neither official power nor any prestige and appeal. If you want me to help you organize dock workers to recite the Bible, I'm afraid I can't do it?"

"NO!NO!" Luo Weilin quickly shook his head and said quickly: "Dear Wu, you can do it! I know Chinese people so well. They have almost never met foreigners. They have a natural hostility and fear towards us, white-skinned and yellow-haired foreigners. They often call us devils behind their backs. We cannot communicate with them normally. But Wu, you can do it. You are Chinese with yellow-skinned and dark-haired, and you can communicate with them normally. What's better is that you are also the descendant of Chinese officials. Chinese people are generally afraid of officials, so you come forward to explain and promote us. Those poor Chinese workers will definitely understand our kindness!"

Wu Chaoyue shook his head and was humble, saying that he would not dare to do this unlucky call for the job. However, the missionaries from various countries led by Luo Weilin and Martin were talking nonsense and kept asking Wu Chaoyue to help them. Several foreign missionaries with relatively anxious personalities simply took Wu Chaoyue to the dock to help. Wu Dasai and the servants of the Wu Mansion were watching from the side, but they dared not stop him. They could only send someone to the customs to report to Wu Jianzhang.

It was really entangled that these too fanatical missionaries were not willing to offend so many foreigners. At the same time, considering that the Boxer Rebellion, which was dedicated to killing the ergonomists, was still not very dangerous for foreigners to be the second Japanese. Wu Chaoyue, who was entangled, gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and finally agreed to the request of these missionaries with a sad face. More than 20 missionaries immediately cheered and couldn't wait to pull Wu Chaoyue out. While asking Wu Dasai to take more dog legs to help him, he comforted himself in his heart: "I am not helping the evil, I am doing good deeds, helping those dock workers increase their income, doing good deeds, not selling the country and seeking honor. Even if I get scolded now, history books will definitely return me to justice in the future."

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The Huangpu River Wharf, which is dedicated to foreign merchant ships, is much more lively than in Shanghai. There are more than 3,000 workers who make a living by loading and unloading goods on the wharf alone. In addition to other small business vendors, coachmen, boatmen, sailors and other idle people, the flow of people on the wharf must be at least tens of thousands. But it is precisely because there are too many people on the wharf that after leading a large group of foreign priests to the wharf, Wu Chaoyue immediately understood what the word "有有有有" means - he was stared at by tens of thousands of pairs of eyes with surprise and confusion at the same time. He really couldn't understand this word.

Coincidentally, there was a large British cargo ship from Hong Kong on the dock just docked and had not had time to unload and load the goods, but the side of the ship was already surrounded by dock workers. Luo Weilin and Maidusi and other British priests were overjoyed when they saw it. Without saying a word, they ran onto the ship to negotiate with the owner and asked the owner to cooperate with their missionary work. Wu Chaoyue was worried when he saw it and kept praying in his heart: "Lord, don't let the owner of that boat agree, otherwise my fun today would be great."

"Chaoyue, Chaoyue." A familiar shout suddenly came from his ears. When Wu Chaoyue looked up in surprise, he saw that Liu Lichuan, the boss of the Shanghai Double Sword Association, supported by the comprador grandfather, led a group of thugs to come over. When he met, he asked Wu Chaoyue with a headshot: "Chaoyue, what happened? Your grandfather told me to bring more people to the dock immediately to help you, what are you doing? Why are you with so many foreigners?"

"Damn it, grandpa is better at home."

Wu Chaoyue sighed, guessing that it must be Wu Jianzhang had received the news, so he quickly asked his most capable thug Liu Lichuan to come to the dock with a vibrant social organization to help. Then Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate and quickly pulled Liu Lichuan aside and roughly told Liu Lichuan about the incident. When Liu Lichuan heard this, he was shocked first, and then paused and screamed: "Chaoyue, are you crazy? Why are you involved in such a thing? Do you know what the consequences will be? If these workers at the dock are unwilling, once they start to make trouble, they can drown you alive!"

"I have no choice, they were forced to come." Wu Chaoyue replied with a sad face, and comforted Liu Lichuan: "It's okay. Whether the foreign owners of those foreign ships agreed or not is still a matter of time. In order to hurry up, they may not be willing to help these priests."

The cruel facts quickly completely shattered Wu Chaoyue's beautiful expectations. Before five minutes passed, Luo Weilin and Maidusi and a few British missionaries rushed back happily and shouted from afar: "Dear Wu, it has come true. Mr. Charlie, the owner of the ship of St. John, is also a devout believer! He promised to help us. No matter how much precious time he delayed, he is willing to help us spread the Lord's gospel to Chinese workers!"

Hearing this, Wu Chaoyue was of course a slimming face and crying as much as he was. Liu Lichuan next to him couldn't understand English, but just seeing Wu Chaoyue's white face, Liu Lichuan guessed that things must be wrong, so he quickly asked for details. Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to translate the words of a few foreign priests to Liu Lichuan. After hearing this, Liu Lichuan also complained, saying, "You did a good thing! Now, what do you think you should do?"

"There is no choice but to drive the ducks on the shelves." Wu Chaoyue was helpless and could only say with a plan: "Uncle Liu, it seems that he can only do this. Anyway, you control some workers on the dock. You summon them to recite the Bible, and then tell them that as long as those who are obedient and recite the Bible, today's commission will be exempted, and each person will still have a reward of ten cents. I believe they will not be unhappy."

It was Liu Lichuan's turn to pull his face longer than a donkey. Wu Chaoyue guessed his thoughts and had to stamp his feet and said, "How much commission you lost today, I will give you it! Also, the people you brought, I will treat them to dinner and drink tonight, and I will pay the money! But you must remember that you must let your people protect these priests. They are not bad people, but also have good intentions!"

After hearing Wu Chaoyue's words, Liu Lichuan's expression slowed down a little. He ate the food from the old Wu family and did not dare to offend Wu Chaoyue, the young master of the Wu family. He could only nod helplessly and said, "Okay, I'll give it a try. For you, I think you will offend countless people today! Little guy, do you know how messy the Shanghai Wharf is? How many people will hate you if you do this?!"
Chapter completed!