Chapter 146 Jade and Stone

"You have sown the glory of the Lord in the Ming Kingdom for thirty years, and have you not reaped it?"

Alexander VII was not interested in the war between the Ming and the British, and the British Protestantism was repeatedly exterminated, and the emperor was beheaded by the pagans, so when he heard that the British soldiers suffered a big loss in front of the Ming soldiers, he not only did not have the feeling of sadness for the death of the rabbit and the fox, but felt that this was not necessarily a bad thing.

"Your Majesty, I have been spreading the glory of the Lord in the Ming Kingdom for thirty years, and I have not achieved much merit, but I have built a grand church on the Jade Mountain, the mountain of the soul of the Ming Kingdom.

The sanctity of this church is the crown of all churches in the East, and it also bears the royal name. ”

Tang Ruowang naturally would not say that he lived a prisoner-like life in the Ming Kingdom, but the Hall of Light really existed, but it existed, and the Jingjiao monument in front of the Hall of Light also existed.

He even thought that the magnificent Hall of Light on the top of the Jade Mountain was not far from the Apostle Palace, which had been built continuously for thousands of years.

Alexander VII looked at John Tong suspiciously, he was not familiar with the East, in his opinion, only the West is the center of civilization in the world, and the rest is not enough!

However, John Tang also came prepared this time.

Opening a box he had brought, he took out a scroll, invited two young priests, and unfolded it little by little, and soon, a magnificent picture twenty meters long unfolded in front of Alexander VII.

On the picture, it depicts the grand scene of the people of Yushan ascending the Temple of Light on the Christmas Day of Jesus and participating in the celebration.

Back then, for this scene, John Tang spent a total of 19,000 silver dollars, purchased countless wines, delicacies, and various small gifts, and publicized them widely, which attracted the people in Yushan City to come to the Temple of Light to eat, drink, and play.

However, there were a lot of people, and everyone's purpose was food, and gifts, and everyone listened carefully to John Tong's sermon, after all, there were too many things that people give.

At the beginning, even Yun Zhao laughed when he heard about this, but he didn't expect that Tang Ruowang, a bastard, would actually find dozens of clever painters, draw down the scene at that time, and finally glue it into such a huge picture scroll that is twenty meters long.

On this scroll, the painter borrowed the realistic painting technique of Zhang Zeduan's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", and every grass and tree, every person, every livestock, every shop, and every mountain and rock on the picture are painted vividly.

Not only that, but in the front part of this scroll, the Yushan Railway Station, as well as the Yushan Academy, especially the oppressive gate of the Yushan Academy, and the train that is steaming white air to transport passengers in the valley are the most eye-catching.

Alexander VII and a group of cardinals passed by the front of the picture one by one, discussing in a low voice while listening to John Tong's explanation.

Yushan's daily life, Tang Ruowang has long been accustomed to seeing it, but after falling on the picture and sending the painting to Rome, even Tang Ruowang became excited at this time.

"Is this the most prosperous city in the Ming Kingdom?"

After reading the picture scroll, Alexander VII, who listened to John Tang's explanation, forcibly suppressed his beating heart and pretended to ask John Tang plainly.

John Tong's memories were shattered by the Pope's questioning.

He recalled the dirty and gloomy cities he had seen in Europe when he came to Europe, and sighed slightly: "Your Majesty, on this mountain, there is only one university, one weapon research institute, and four equally magnificent temples, and nothing else.

At the foot of this mountain, there is a city called Yushan City, where the current emperor of the Ming Kingdom and his family were born, and less than a hundred miles away from this city is a huge city far beyond Rome - Chang'an.

In this huge city, there are more than 1.5 million people living in this huge city, and such a huge city, in the Ming Kingdom, there are three other in this country, they are - Yanjing, Nanjing, and Guangzhou!

In addition to this, they have sixteen cities with populations of more than 800,000. ”

"Where is their capital?"

Alexander VII sat back in his seat, rubbed his scepter, and asked.

"The territory of the Ming Kingdom is tens of thousands of miles long, therefore, in the south, south, west, and northwest, there is a capital city, that is, the four giant cities with a population of more than one hundred and fifty mentioned earlier, and every few years, the emperor will leave the capital where he lives now and go to the rest of the capitals to work.

In each capital, a magnificent palace was built, but the current emperor did not like it very much, and generally lived in smaller palaces.

Your Majesty, you don't have to have any doubt about this, the whole Ming Kingdom is richer than Europe combined.

People who own 10,000 silver coins in Europe can already be called rich, and in the Ming Kingdom, even in the homes of ordinary merchants, it is not surprising that they have 10,000 silver coins.

The most important thing is that in the Ming Kingdom, the law is strict, everyone obeys the law, and the lawless events that occur in cities such as Paris and London are inconceivable in the Ming Kingdom.

Therefore, I think that the establishment of cardinals in the Ming Kingdom is an urgent matter, and at the same time, I believe that the center of the world is already in the East, and this is a fact that cannot be changed. ”

Alexander VII looked at John Tong and said, "Do they know that they are the center of the world?" ”

John Tang smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, thousands of years ago, they have called themselves China. And according to my historical research of the Ming people, when our history reached its peak, their empire was also at its peak.

When the Roman Empire was rampant in the world, there were also the Persian Empire, as well as the Qin and Han empires of the Ming people.

When the Byzantine Empire, Charlemagne's Empire, existed in the world, in the East, it was the mighty Don Empire.

When we think. When the Holy Roman Empire was already the most powerful empire in the world, in the east, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, Yun Zhao, had unified the huge empire in the east, and was now marching ambitiously into the sea.

The inheritance of the Ming people has never been broken, every time our empire prospers, every time it falls, there is really nothing left, they are different, each of their powerful empires will leave enough wealth to the Ming people.

Your Majesty, in the eyes of the people of the Ming Kingdom, the center of the world has never left the land where they live, and they even stubbornly believe that it was like this before, it is like this now, and it will definitely be like this in the future.

They have their own moral concepts, their own political systems, and their own codes of conduct, and the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, Yun Zhao, once laughed at me, when their race has learned to farm, build houses, have cities, and have a moral system, the people of these countries in Europe are still in the barbaric era of drinking blood.

Even if we have developed to the present, Yun Zhao still thinks that we are a group of savages, and does not understand that human compassion and empathy are important indicators of whether a race has entered the era of civilization. ”

After listening to John Tong's explanation, Alexander VII pondered for a long time before he said to the cardinals who were talking endlessly: "What do you think of this Ming Kingdom? ”

The Archbishop of Blois of the French diocese said to Alexander VII: "Your Majesty, everything comes from hearsay, everything comes from the mouth of John Tong alone, and the omnipotent Lord has long warned us that if we want to know the truth, we must see it for ourselves." ”

"Who can be my eyes?"

An old cardinal came out of the crowd and whispered, "Your Majesty, I can be the eyes and ears of Your Majesty." ”

"You want to go to Mingguo?"

Alexander VII did not immediately grant it, but looked at the tattered cardinal with interest.

"As an ascetic, my pair of scripts should have trotted the earth to glorify the glory of the Lord."

When Tang Ruowang saw that the leader of the penance group had come forward, he smiled and kept silent.

He understood that his words could not convince the Pope, and at this time he needed a person with a noble status and flawless character to stand up, return to Daming with him, and after seeing Daming, he would re-inform the Pope of the current situation of Daming.

For some reason, although John Tang is not a Ming man, at this moment, he is faintly proud, as if he is not a Roman, but a person from the Ming Kingdom.

"Harveys, it's best if you go, we are about to face a powerful enemy, but we know nothing of our enemy, I need you to go to the East, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and think with your heart.

Only then will the message you bring back be useful, and we will be able to adjust our response based on what you see.

This time, you are allowed to bring twenty ascetics with you......"

After saying these words, Alexander VII seemed to have exhausted his energy and closed his eyes slightly.

John Tang followed the cardinals out of the empty house, but the two priests holding the twenty-meter-long scroll did not leave, still holding the scroll and standing on the main hall.

When the eyesore was gone, Alexander VII opened his eyes, and this time he came to the front of the scroll to see not the Temple of Light standing on the snow-capped mountains, but the train shuttling through the canyon.

"The Ming people actually used the steam device like this......"

Whether it is Qiao Yong or Zhang Liang, they can't find any chance to enter the Apostle Palace, but it is useless to be able to enter it, after all, the Apostle Palace is very large, even if they enter, it is difficult to find the Pope in those palaces.

For some reason, Qiao Yong really wanted to kill the Pope, not because the Pope released Descartes and others from the beginning of his accession to the throne, nor because the Pope announced on the day of his accession that he would deprive the Inquisition of some of its rights.

It's all a gut feeling!

He felt that if he did not kill the Pope, he would have made a very big mistake.

However, no matter how much the group discussed, they could not reach a result, and it seemed that they could only wait until the day when the Pope left the Apostolic Palace.

Little Descartes, who was already qualified to sit at the table and participate in the discussion, suddenly said: "It's better to let me do this, I'm still a child, and they won't pay too much attention to me." ”

Zhang Liang glanced at Little Descartes and said: "You are not a soldier, nor an assassin, for the Ming Dynasty, your importance even surpasses that of the Pope, using jade to touch the stone, even if the stone is smashed, we are the ones who suffer!" ”