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Chapter 307: Angan Highway and King Su


Under the fanatical religious beliefs, the assimilation ability of the Han people, which they have always been proud of, has no room to display.

Not only did they not assimilate to Hui Hui, but they were assimilated by Hui Hui.

This matter has attracted the attention of knowledgeable people in the court.

Xu Guangqi once communicated with Zhu Youxiao on this matter.

In Xu Guangqi's view, religion has its positive role, whether it is in building national ethics or in persuading people to do good, it has an irreplaceable role.

The religious policy of the Ming Dynasty was very relaxed.

Although Taoism was designated as the state religion, the court did not impose any restrictions on people's religious beliefs.

If you want to believe in Buddhism or Catholicism, there is no problem.

For example, Xu Guangqi is a Catholic.

No one thought that what would happen to Shouxing if he believed in Catholicism.

But both Zhu Youxiao and Xu Guangqi feel that religious freedom is very important.

Religious freedom means that you have the freedom to believe in a certain religion, and more importantly, you also have the freedom to not believe in a religion.

Monks and Taoists can all return to the secular world.

Although this behavior may be criticized by some people, at least neither Taoist temples, Buddhist temples nor the government will prevent you from returning to the secular world, and some behaviors of returning to the secular world will be appreciated by many people.

But it is different in Hui Hui.

They cannot convert to another religion or become a non-believer.

Their attitude is shown by calling those who were originally religious but have become non-believers apostasy.

This makes Zhu Youxiao very dissatisfied.

There are some things that you think are good.

For example, you like to eat beef.

If you tell the world that you hope everyone likes to eat beef, then there is no problem.

But because you think beef is delicious and others eat pork instead of beef, you think this is not okay and everyone should eat beef, and you even force everyone to eat beef together.

This is a bit unreasonable.

Therefore, the imperial court formulated the Management Measures for Religious Facilities.

This was the first step to place all religious facilities under the management of the Ming Dynasty government.

Later, there were also the Religious Management Measures, which stipulated that everyone has the freedom to believe in or not believe in religion.

The government and others shall not interfere with their religious beliefs or non-beliefs.

For Taoism and Buddhism, there is actually no need to emphasize this, because it has always been like this.

But for Catholics and Muslims, there are some problems.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao and Jinnige discussed the issue of missionary work in the Ming Dynasty last time, they specifically emphasized that they did not want to hear Catholics calling other non-believers as heretics.

In the Ming Dynasty, religion must not override the imperial power.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty, For example, there should be full freedom to believe in and abandon religion.

He didn't want things like the Crusades to happen in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Jinni Pavilion readily agreed to this condition.

In short, God's things belong to God, and the emperor's things belong to the emperor.

The two areas of responsibility are different.

But for the Huihui people, this was a bit difficult.

Zhu Youxiao thought of those countries in later generations and made up his mind that no matter what, the Ming Dynasty could not be like that.

Therefore, the imperial court revised the Ming Dynasty Law and removed the clause that people with lustful eyes were not allowed to marry each other.

Basically no one in the border areas obeyed this law anyway.

This can at least reduce the situation of Han people being raped and prevent the number of Huihui from increasing.

After Huang Ruliang arrived, Zhang Xinchen handed over the civil affairs and concentrated on military training and investigation.

There are Waci people, Mongols, Huihui and Tibetans around Ganzhou, and the regional disputes are mixed with complex religious disputes, so we must be careful.

Now the Ming Dynasty does not focus on military conquest of Ganzhou, so Zhang Xinchen only needs to understand the distribution of various local forces first, and then prevent other forces from capturing Ganzhou.

The imperial court put more energy into the construction of roads.

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After the efforts of the imperial court and many successive kings, the road from Xi'an to Lanzhou is now in very good condition.

The imperial court only needs to widen the road and add cement.

But the road from Lanzhou to Ganzhou was a big project.

Although more than 50,000 captives were busy building the road every day, the project was still too big after all, and the emperor required that the foundation of the railway should be laid at the same time as the road was built, which further complicated the situation.

It makes construction more difficult.

Zhang Xinchen estimated that the highway could be almost repaired within a year, but the railway would only take about five years.

In this process, Su Wang Zhu Shihong played a great role.

This prince, who was about the same age as the emperor, ascended the throne in the first year of Tianqi.

He always loved the people like a son and had high prestige in Lanzhou.

He never took the initiative to interfere in local military and political affairs, but the local government and guards officers respected him.

Zhu Youxiao asked Xu Guangqi to write him a letter, explaining the importance of road construction to Lanzhou and Shaanxi as a whole.

Zhu Shihong was very touched that the emperor did not issue an edict but asked the chief minister to write to him.

After receiving the letter, he used his prestige to mobilize a large number of migrant workers in Lanzhou to meet the court's demand for labor.

Moreover, he asked the palace steward to take the lead in contracting a mountain in Yongdeng County and building a cement factory and a lime factory.

A large sand and gravel plant was also built beside the river.

This dispelled the doubts of various businesses in Lanzhou about opening cement plants and lime plants, greatly reducing the supply pressure of cement, lime and sediment during highway construction.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with his performance and rewarded him with ten bicycles, two boxes of soap, and two boxes of glass mirrors, and named the higher education institution in Lanzhou as Suwang Academy in recognition of his contribution.

A special article was published in the newspaper to introduce King Su.

The first generation of King Su, Zhu Lai, led the Central Guard of Ganzhou to Lanzhou, Fanlan County, with three-thirds of the sergeants guarding the city and seven-tenths of the sergeants stationed in the fields, plus the southeastern provinces.

Immigrants continued to move to Lanzhou for reclamation, built water conservancy projects, promoted economic development, and population growth.

In the contemporary era, King Su personally summoned migrant workers to open cement plants and sediment plants for the transportation of the imperial court, which enabled Lanzhou's highway construction to proceed smoothly.

He highly praised the successive kings of Su for their loyalty to the court and loving their people like sons, and called them examples of vassal kings everywhere.

This report sounded a warning to other vassal kings.

What the emperor needed was an obedient vassal king, a vassal king who could help the court and serve the court like King Su, rather than clinging to his own fiefdom.

Being a blessing is what the emperor wants to see as a vassal king.

The impact this had on other vassal kings was quickly reflected.

With King Fu taking the lead, the other vassal kings gathered some unemployed vagrants in their own territories and sent them to Ganzhou to enrich the local infrastructure.

The team and the manpower for the construction of the Angan-Gansu Highway are fully guaranteed

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