Zhu Youzhen's unexpected actions made these listless prisoners who were already standing suddenly rejuvenate a little bit of vitality. Although the number of prisoners in the country was less than 12 of the number of prisoners at the time of the victory, 4 or 500 people standing on both sides of the road were quite impressive.

And Zhu Youzhen was just a 17-year-old boy at this time, and his voice was slightly sharp, and the inmates standing in the front row of the road could hear it clearly, and the inmates in the back row only listened to it approximately. And hearing about writing articles or something, everyone suddenly became alert.

This imperial examination will be examined, and in the end, the emperor will still have to consult the test papers. If there is a chance to get Chongzhen's liking for articles, it will naturally be a great opportunity for these prisoners.

The tribute students who are interested in the imperial examination hope to lay the foundation for next year's Enke by understanding Chongzhen's preferences. And if you want to win Chongzhen's attention by doing what you like, so that you can be released as soon as possible to be a prisoner who is close to the people, there are many people.

Yes, as soon as Chongzhen's words fell, some prisoners who did not hear the content clearly asked their classmates on the left and right about what His Majesty the Emperor said just now. For a while, the square that was originally quiet and solemn has become a noisy vegetable market.

Supervisor Liu Yourong suddenly became anxious, and under his severe reprimand, it took a quarter of an hour to restore silence in the field. Zhu Youzhen watched from the side, but he couldn't help shaking his head. With so many prisoners working together, they didn't even appoint a few leaders to manage them.

If there was any movement in the crowd, it was up to Liu Yourong to run around with a few officials of the National Prison. Compared with the organization and discipline of college students in later generations, the Guozi prison students in this era are scum.

After the students of the Guozi Prison quieted down a little, under Chongzhen's instructions, several officials stood in the middle of the beings and repeated what Chongzhen had just said, before finally making these prisoners completely quiet.

Next, under the leadership of the officials of the sub-prisons of various countries, these prisoners walked into the six halls surrounding Biyong, preparing to complete the article that Chongzhen had just explained.

Looking at the empty square around him, the supervisor Liu Yourong couldn't help but step forward and cautiously asked Chongzhen for instructions: "Do you want Your Majesty to move to Piyong." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, and said to Xu Guangqi, Jinnige and others beside him: "It's okay, let's go in and talk." While they were writing their articles, I happened to talk to a few people. You've come from a distant continent, and your journey must have been wonderful, and I'm about to hear about it. ”

The pattern of Biyong is very different from what Zhu Youzhen imagined, but there is a tall circular platform in the boxy Biyong, and it is estimated that there are about eight or nine steps.

At the top of the platform is a chair similar in shape to the three halls of the palace, and it is empty all around. Feelings: This is a small court hall where the royal gate listens to politics.

Although Zhu Youzhen felt that this pattern was a little uncomfortable, he still followed the guidance of the etiquette officer and walked onto the chair on the high platform and sat down. Later, under his orders, Xu Guangqi, Jin Nige, and Deng Yuhan were called to him to speak.

This is also within the Guozijian, and the officials and ministers of the court are not there. That poor ceremonial officer, he also saw a lot of rules broken by Zhu Youzhen today, and at this moment he simply turned his gaze to the ground, as if he didn't see Chongzhen's overstepping of the courtesy.

This ceremonial officer was originally a eunuch set up by the palace department, and if the emperor was a person who abided by the rules of etiquette, he would naturally give priority to the ancestral system everywhere. But this Chongzhen Emperor is obviously not very interested in the so-called ancestral rules, and they, the eunuchs who depend on the imperial power to survive, naturally have to be interested.

Born in Kinney Court in Douai, Earldom of Flanders, the Netherlands, his original name was Nicolas Trigot. Although he was only 50 years old, two long trips back and forth between Europe and the Ming Dynasty seriously damaged his health, making him look older than his actual age.

The missionary theory of Kinny Pavilion followed that of Matteo Ricci, which was the so-called Confucianism and Confucianism. That is, to use the natural science system that emerged in Europe after the Renaissance to impress the enlightened people among the Ming scholars, so as to influence the Ming scholars to get close to the Jesuits and preach from the Ming intellectual elite to the bottom.

And Kinneko himself was a Western missionary with a strong interest in China and great goodwill. In order to draw European attention to the missionary cause in China, when he returned to Europe for the first time, he insisted on wearing Chinese clothes in social occasions, promoting the exploits of Matteo Ricci and other missionaries in China with touching speeches, and writing books with great enthusiasm.

Thanks to his active efforts, Europe has set off a "China fever". Many young missionaries were inspired by him to go to the East, and the Pope agreed to a form of missionary work in the Chinese language.

But no matter how deep his affection for China was, no matter how many European books he brought to China, not to mention how much he persuaded the Pope to approve of China's particular missionary methods, after all these appearances, his ultimate goal was to bring the land of China into the arms of God.

To put it simply, Kinney Court, also known as Nikolai Triocht, was a true Catholic believer. When Zhu Youzhen, His Majesty the Emperor of China, sent an invitation to the Jesuit missionaries in China through Xu Guangqi, the first reaction of Jinnige was to summon missionaries from all over the country to Beijing.

Having lived on Chinese soil for so many years, Jinnige can be said to be half Chinese. In the process of mission, although the Confucian and super-Confucian missionary methods did make some progress, they were far from sufficient compared to the Jesuit investment in China.

At the same time, the Jesuit cause in Japan was booming. By 1605, there were 750,000 Catholics in Japan and more than 200 Catholic churches, and Nagasaki was called the Rome of the East by missionaries.

The prosperity of the Catholic cause in Japan naturally aroused the envy of some missionaries in the Jesuit Society in China who opposed the Confucian missionary method, such as Long Huamin and others. They advocated abandoning the present way of missionary work and proselytizing in China in the same way as the Japanese mission.

These anti-Confucian factions once had the upper hand within the Jesuits in China, but their change in missionary methods caused dissatisfaction among the Chinese scholars and doctors, and eventually provoked the Nanjing Case, which destroyed the foundation of the mission established by Matteo Ricci and others in China, and the Jesuits were expelled from the Ming Dynasty for a time.

When the Jesuits suffered a setback in China, the Tokugawa shogunate, which had unified all of Japan, finally began to purge the Japanese Catholics. It was only then that the missionaries of the Jesuit branch in Asia realized that Japan, which seemed to be more accepting of the Catholic faith, persecuted Catholics far more than China.

The Chinese emperor's ban on the spread of Catholicism was nothing more than driving Western missionaries out of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Chinese emperor did not force the conversion of the people who already profess Catholicism, but not in Japan, where the Tokugawa shogunate banned Catholicism and forced those Japanese Catholics to renounce their faith.

In this way, Matteo Ricci's missionary concept of Confucianism and Confucianism once again gained the upper hand in the Jesuits in China. And Kinney Pavilion is the leader of this faction.

After living in the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, Jinnige came to the conclusion that if Catholicism wanted to spread in the Ming Dynasty, it was not enough to rely on propaganda among scholars. The propagation of Catholicism in such a society with an independent ideological and moral system requires the support of the most noble people in the country.

The worship of the Ming Emperor by the Ming people is like the worship of the Pope by the European people. If the Ming Emperor was willing to support Catholicism, then the Jesuits would have a righteous reputation for resisting the native religion of the Ming Dynasty and Confucianism. And if there was a Ming emperor who was willing to be baptized into the Catholic Church, then the Chinese Jesuits would become the Holy See of the East.

As the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty in Asian countries, the Chinese Jesuits were more able to penetrate into all parts of Asia through the authority of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Jinnige attached great importance to this opportunity to be summoned by Zhu Youzhen, and he hoped that this meeting would leave a good impression on the young emperor and make the young emperor close to Catholicism.

He Jinnige introduced the customs of Europe to Zhu Youzhen in fluent Chinese, and the scenery of sea travel. Another missionary, Deng Yuhan, was more dull, with a Chinese accent close to Cantonese, which made it difficult for Zhu to understand, and sometimes required translation from Jinnige.

This made Zhu Youzhen not pay much attention to this missionary from Konstanz, Germany, at the beginning. It wasn't until when they began to discuss the almanac and talked about the method of calculating the eclipse of the sun and the moon that the names of Galileo, J Kepler, and others popped out of the mouth of this German missionary with a thick accent.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the bearded missionary in surprise, and said in a ghostly manner: "Isn't Mr. Galileo dead?" ”

Deng Yuhan heard Chongzhen's question coldly, he didn't even think about how the Chinese emperor knew the name of his friend, but retorted with wide eyes and some anger: "Of course not, I only recently received a letter from him." In the letter he also boasted to me that he had discovered a new way of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and how could my friend have died? ”

Deng Yuhan's voice retorted a little loudly, and Wang Chengen, who was standing at the bottom of the stairs, suddenly turned to him and shouted: "Bold, you dare..."

Before Wang Chengen finished speaking, he saw Zhu Youzhen's gesture of waving his hand at him, and immediately blocked the second half of the words in his mouth. The guards on the side, who were originally gearing up and preparing to listen to the orders of the prince and the princess, also immediately lowered their sleeves and retreated to their original positions.

After Deng Yuhan unconsciously raised his voice, he knew that it was going to be bad. The aristocracy of the East and the West in this era is almost the same, the same arrogance and shamelessness. If he angered the Ming Emperor, he would not only ruin the future hope of the Jesuits, but also drag down the Jesuit colleagues who came to Beijing this time. Therefore, Deng Yuhan immediately learned the actions of the great masters and doctors, and knelt down to Chongzhen to plead guilty.