Chapter 453 12. The Three-Self Method Wins My Heart

Xiao Pingtai was not afraid of Christianity, but in fact, he was extremely afraid of Christianity. How many days would William have left after he arrived in Hamamatsu, minus the time for casting Portuguese cannons and building churches?

In less than a year, he developed more than a thousand believers. The difficulty of growing from one believer to a thousand believers is very different from that of growing from a thousand believers to ten thousand believers!

One is from nothing to something, and the other is from something to many.

Maybe next year, Hamamatsu will become a standard Christian town. There will be large and small Christian churches in the city, and the loud bells of the church towers will ring in the morning, and there will be neat evening prayers in the evening.

After thinking about it, since it cannot be contained, it is better to guide it on the spot!

Thank you for pointing out a bright road for Xiao Pingtai, and it has been effective until now.

The first step is to translate the full text of the Bible and gradually make the Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin versions of the scriptures disappear.

In the short term, this will greatly increase the convenience of missionary work, and not everyone can learn foreign languages. However, the native Japanese language sounds friendly, and the speed of its spread will definitely be accelerated.

However, history has proved that the British used the English version and the Germans used the German version, which actually broke the Roman monopoly on the interpretation of the scriptures. The monarchs of various countries actually became the highest interpreters and supreme rulers of the scriptures.

Nowadays, many product packaging bags will also carry a disgusting sentence that the final right of interpretation belongs to the company, and you can see how bloodless this move is.

Matching with this is that all prayers, sermons, lectures, and various hymns and hymns are all Japanese. I believe that enthusiastic believers will be very happy to spread the voice of the Father to everyone's ears and let all fellow brothers hear it.

It is not so easy to fall from the altar of obscure Latin and return to the altar.

The more secularized and popularized Christianity is, the less likely it is to cause threats and problems.

As long as you look at which religion is unwilling to secularize, you will know what sinister intentions it has. In secularized temples, monks chant scriptures during the day and don’t know what they do at night. Isn’t this good? What kind of threat is this?

The second step is to establish a seminary in Hamamatsu, gradually replace the clergy sent by foreign countries, and use the clergy of the country.

There have been Japanese clergy in Kyushu for a long time. Later, the Tensho Youth Mission to Europe was received by the Holy See, and the King of Spain and the Governor of Portugal also warmly welcomed it.

Kodaira and the Yamauchi family did not have the financial resources and strength to send an envoy to Europe, but it was still very simple to go to Kyushu. Invite two Japanese clergy to come and open a seminary. I don’t believe they won’t come.

As long as the Yamauchi family’s own clergy are trained, then I’m sorry, the church affairs of the country will be managed by the clergy of the country in the future. You foreigners can come to visit, communicate, or even stay in Hamamatsu temporarily, but you are not allowed to hold a teaching position in Yamauchi.

The third step is that the local church in Hamamatsu has received strong support from churches in Macau, Manila, Kyushu and other places, and has obtained a lot of missionary funds.

William used the aid funds to buy food and medicine to help the poor people, and continued to develop believers and expand the foundation of the church.

Xiao Pingtai always believed that it was easy to take advantage of others. The church in Hamamatsu took the foreign aid money, and it was difficult to sort out the entanglement with the foreign aid.

He simply gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and allocated funds to the church every year. He got used to allocating funds to him, and finally it was like strangling the neck of the local church.

Tighten it a little, loosen it a little, and then it will be all up to the Yamauchi family, right?

In these three steps, a large church with more than 30 million believers was managed and established for a certain big country, and it always kept in tune with the government of the big country.

In summary, it is familiar.

The Japanese spread Japanese Christianity, the Japanese believe in Japanese Christianity, and the Japanese support their own Japanese Christian church.

It is abbreviated as self-propagation, self-confidence, and self-support, all of which belong to the Three-Self Church.

Xiao Pingtai thanked all the martyrs in his heart for coming up with an effective and good method. Xiao Pingtai didn't even need to make any changes, just copy the whole thing.

In the end, all he had to do was make some revisions, fix some aspects, and adapt to the local customs of the East Country, and that would be all.

Xiao Pingtai drafted a proposal overnight, stayed up all night, revised, added, deleted, and revised until he was basically satisfied.

The next day, Yamauchi Shuke and Xiao Pingtai rode back to Yamauchi's palace on horseback. He read Xiao Pingtai's proposal of thousands of words while riding on the horse.

After reading it, he applauded loudly. If a certain religion that was widely accepted by the people could be placed under administrative power, the benefits would be so great that there was no need to elaborate.

(I dare not elaborate, because if I elaborate, it would be blocked, blocked, blocked, blocked again! Endless blocking!)

"Xiao Pingren, the three steps you mentioned are very feasible. Let's discuss them when we go back and implement them."

Yamauchi Shuke also considered the issue of handling the affairs of the Nanman last night. Obviously, he didn't have any specific ideas that were systematic and large-scale. This was not his fault. It was just the inherent limitations of his time.

Xiao Pingtai's method of boiling a frog in warm water was created by countless martyrs who established a certain great country. Xiao Pingtai feels that there are very few people who can surpass such a group of people throughout history. There may be many individual excellences. But it is really rare for so many excellent people to come together.

If you want to say who can come up with a method better than this group of big guys, Xiao Pingtai will definitely not believe it. If you have this ability, you can still read bragging novels here.

"Thank you for your praise, I really don't want to take credit for it, but I just made a brief reference."

"I'm afraid you will have to be the first Nanman Bugyo, so you must not refuse it when the time comes."

Yes, with just this proposal, there will be no one in the whole Yamanouchi who knows Nanman affairs better than Koyata. Even if Tatsuzo is a mixed-blood, he may not have the profound knowledge of Nanman affairs as Koyata, who is Koyata's advanced consciousness.

"Nanman Bugyo? Can I still be Kanjo Bugyo?"

"Isn't it enough to be concurrent!"

The Yamanouchi Sho-kei knew that Kanjo Bugyo was in charge of the family's finances. Such an important position, Koyata would definitely not agree to exchange it for a Nanman Affairs Bugyo who is not very important now.

So just be a good person and let Koyata take the concurrent position. The Yamanouchi family's finances cannot do without Koyata, and there will be no one who knows Nanman affairs in Hamamatsu better than Koyata.

What's the point of changing it? The more capable you are, the more work you should do. Just treat it as training the future family elder for Yamauchi Taro.

Seeing that the chief accountant of Yamauchi agreed readily, Koyata was very confident that he would make the decision with the three votes of the Yamauchi family members, plus the two votes of Koyata and his uncle, the matter was settled.