The first wind and rain drifted away

Before you know it, the sky is dark, and the lights of the Gyeonggi Imperial City are lit up, which looks different and exquisite on this cold winter night.

Emperor Chongzhen sat in the steady dragon chariot, lifted the corner of the curtain, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery that was rare for him.

In a big city with a population of one million, the flow of people is really not just a casual talk, to describe it in one word, that is, one after another, dense and pressing.

As far as the eye can see, most of the pedestrians on the road are well-dressed, and there is not a single beggar who looks prosperous.

It's a pity that Emperor Chongzhen knows that all this is an illusion.

If this is really the case with my Daming, what else is there to do with me?

All this is nothing more than the men of the Five Cities Terracotta Division patrolling day and night, driving people from beggars or refugees outside the city gates, and maintaining the false stability and prosperity of the capital.

After thinking about it, there was a sudden noise at the foot of the imperial city, and the surrounding guards immediately surrounded Long Ran and divided a small team to find out the news.

After a while, Captain Jinyi came to reply with Li Ruolian, the director of the Public Security Department.

"Emperor Qi, Xuanfumen Yangyi Church is worshipping, and other people who believe in Buddhism are besieging the church, and they want to let Yiren Father Long Huamin get out of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, the church personnel have fled in all directions, and Father Long Huamin is hiding in the house of the celebrant eunuch Pang Tianshou.

The men of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division are maintaining order, so that the people will disperse and not gather to make trouble. ”

The Public Security Division, which is combined with the Jinyi Guard and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, walks the streets and alleys every day to collect protection fees, and it seems that he has become the biggest snake in the capital, and it is difficult to hide Li Ruolian's every move in the market.

In a short period of time, even Long Huamin could know that he was hiding in Pang Tianshou's house.

After listening to Li Ruolian's message, Emperor Chongzhen's face instantly fell, and his originally good mood suddenly became bad.

MMP, this is not a small matter, it is a big thing, it is a national matter.

This is the invasion of Chinese civilization by Western ghosts.

The weapon is these fanatical religious elements—missionaries.

Now, we're just getting started.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, they came with guns.

The end result is that they succeeded, and the people of the country forgot their ancestors and went to celebrate the birthdays of other people's ancestors one by one.

There is also a good reputation for bricks, which is said to be inclusive.

In fact, they don't know this sentence, a friend comes with good wine, and if the jackal comes, it will be greeted with a shotgun.

At the cultural level, many people simply lack the ability to distinguish between friends and jackals, and think that as long as the culture is good, they must be entertained with good wine.

In fact, most cultures are wolves that confuse people's minds. The loss of discernment leads to the stupid tolerance of the farmer and the snake, Mr. Dongguo and the wolf.

The consequence, of course, is to be poisoned by the dregs of culture.

These people preach tolerance, but in fact they are just stupid, they don't have enough minds to distinguish between right and wrong, and they are so stupid that they can't even tell their friends and jackals apart.

They do not know that the so-called equality of nationalities and freedom of religion are nothing more than the preaching of color revolutions.

If a country wants long-term peace and stability and a stable life for the people, it must resolutely abandon these Western dross!

No, they have to be nipped in the bud.

"Go to Pang Tianshou's dog minion's house."

Emperor Chongzhen's face was gloomy as water, and he lifted his dragon robe and got into the dragon chariot.

These dog minions have forgotten their ancestors now, and this is worth it?

To tell the truth, without the help of these dogs and traitors, the religion of the Yi people would not have been introduced to China.

These stupid dicks, I don't want to think about those fanatical religious elements, who did not hesitate to risk their lives and traveled 80,000 miles across the sea to come to Daming, for what?

Is it really the ideal that they say, "Come here to save the unfortunate souls from eternal damnation"?

Immature! Amusing!

People want you to lose your country!

Emperor Chongzhen, who has the soul of later generations, actually admires the words of his ancestors in his bones, called non-my race, and his heart will be different!

Think about the genetically modified food of the US imperialists, their own people do not eat it, but all of it is sold to Africa and rabbit countries.

It's like going back to the Ming Dynasty as a tyrant, in order to poison Jiannu, even the salt has been specially treated, mixed with a lot of private goods, the purpose is naturally hehe.

It's a pity that some people don't believe in the words of their ancestors, or that they have lost everything and their conscience for the sake of money.

Just like now.

At the beginning, these fanatical religious elements, in order to achieve the goal of proselytizing, also used money to open the way.

The first Catholic missionary of the Ming Dynasty to try to enter China was the Jesuit Francis? Xavier.

It's a pity that it didn't work out and it was cool.

During the Jiajing period, Xavier landed on Shangchuan Island, which was only 30 nautical miles off the coast of Guangdong, hoping to realize his dream of entering the Ming mainland as a missionary.

However, the ban of the Ming government made the local Portuguese merchants and Ming merchants dare not risk taking him into land.

After all his efforts were in vain, Xavier died of illness on Shangchuan Island, where he stopped eating for good.

In the tenth year of Wanli, they changed their strategy.

Luo Mingjian and Matteo Ricci were allowed to stay in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, on the pretext of learning Ming culture, and became the first Catholic missionaries to successfully enter the Ming Dynasty.

In order to make it easier for the Ming people to accept themselves, Luo Mingjian and Matteo Ricci followed the Jesuit experience in Japan, wearing robes and appearing in public as Buddhist monks.

This earned them the title of "Western Monks" and were warmly welcomed by local Buddhist monks.

With the permission of local officials, Luo Mingjian and Matteo Ricci established the first European-style church established by the Jesuits in Zhaoqing, the Xianhua Temple.

The church displays dioramas, chiming bells, sundials, prisms brought from Europe, lace fabrics from Italy, and oil paintings of the Virgin.

These Western artifacts representing European civilization at that time attracted a large number of dignitaries and nobles to visit Xianhua Temple.

In particular, the whole map of mountains and seas has aroused widespread interest.

Visitors began to offer spices to the temple as incense, oil for the altar to light and food and money to the missionaries.

But people soon discovered that these "Western monks" were different in that they did not accept alms.

It turned out that the extremist religious elements who entered China decided not to accept handouts from people in order to avoid being perceived as greedy for money.

On the contrary, he often presented some Western artifacts to officials and scholars, which brought them a lot of praise.

Even, in order to get believers, the church gave each believer three taels of silver.

At that time, missionaries also rewarded believers based on their achievements in order to encourage believers to preach.

Those who can persuade hundreds of followers will be rewarded with a self-ringing bell and a self-sounding piano. If you get ten people, you can get one gentleman and one hundred.

Matteo Ricci, in particular, was the most famous and powerful of the missionaries in China.

He used the method of expelling Buddhism and Confucianism to preach, which was also used by Buddhism.

Matteo Ricci's Confucianism is a relatively primitive "Confucian" thought in Chinese culture during and before Confucius and Mencius, the so-called "pre-Confucianism".

In fact, it planned to try to surpass Confucianism through the roadmap of "degrading Buddhism and destroying Taoism, aiding Confucianism and attacking Confucianism", and finally replace it to achieve the goal of changing Xia with raze.

It's a pity that Daming has capable people, and his methods have been seen through.

In the forty-fourth year of Wanli, Shen Yu, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, attacked Christianity three times to the Wanli Emperor, in which he believed that Christian priests had at least three major sins:

1. The missionaries gave gifts to the Ming people in order to buy people's hearts so that they could overthrow the Ming at the right time.

2. Missionaries helped China to revise the calendar and calculate the dates of solar and lunar eclipses. Shen Yu believed that the missionaries' use of Western methods to govern the calendar violated the practice that had been practiced since Yao Shun and was intended to disrupt Chinese traditions.

3. Shen Yu accused the missionaries of destroying Confucian culture and teaching people not to worship their ancestors, which the Ming Dynasty could not tolerate.

At the same time, he also pointed out that the missionary activities in the Ming Dynasty had sinister intentions.

Specifically, it is to cooperate with foreign merchants in Macao and threaten the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. The activities of the Portuguese in Luzon, Taiwan, etc., were also cited to prove the certainty of this threat.

Of course, there is some truth to this.

As a result, Wanli issued a ban on religion and ordered the expulsion of missionaries.

Some of the missionaries were killed, some were imprisoned, and later deported to Macau, and churches were destroyed.

They developed into followers Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao, Yang Tingyun, Sun Yuanhua and other court officials who once defended the priesthood, but without success.

It wasn't until after the death of Emperor Wanli that the Apocalypse ascended the throne, and they resurrected from the ashes.

Emperor Tianqi accepted the request of the religious officials of the court and recalled the expelled missionaries and priests, with the aim of using the Yi people to train their troops with the new method to resist the invasion of Jiannu.

So Long Huamin and Yang Mano, two extremist religious elements, entered Beijing together and reported to the military headquarters.

But when they stabilized a little, the two fanatical religious elements, claiming that they were not interested in military training, returned to the diocese to engage in missionary work, and took the upper echelons and began to recruit officials.

It should be said that his strategy has achieved certain results and developed many Ming officials.

And this also made him start to swell.

Chinese have a tradition of worshipping ancestors, and Christianity opposes ancestor worship, which of course causes most people to resent it.

In the past, Matteo Ricci had no objection to the Chinese people worshipping Confucius and ancestors.

And after Matteo Ricci's death, Long Huamin, who succeeded him, miscalculated the situation.

He felt that the situation was now very good, and that there should no longer be a danger of deportation for missionary missions.

In the past, it was wrong to tolerate the behavior of Chinese worshipping Confucius and ancestors, and vigorously preached that Chinese parishioners should not be allowed to worship their ancestors, which led to the resentment of the Ming people.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chariot, reviewed these and couldn't help but scold: "These dogs! ”

"Emperor, it's here."

The home outside Pang Tianshou Palace is at the foot of the imperial city, which is also specially prepared by these great eunuchs in order to take care of the work of the palace.

So, in a short time, it has arrived.

The dragon stopped steadily, and Gao Shiming reminded in a low voice.

The emperor was in a bad mood, and he was afraid.

Emperor Chongzhen Huo Ran got up, and didn't want Gao Shiming to move a small stool anymore, so he directly opened the door curtain and jumped off the dragon chariot.

"Surround the mansion and don't let anyone get away!"

In a bad mood, Emperor Chongzhen's tone can be described as murderous.

After speaking, he directly kicked open the door of the eunuch Pang Tianshou and led a group of brocade guards to break into the inner courtyard.

"It's too late for the slave to take over, please forgive the emperor!"

Pang Tianshou, who was sitting in the lobby with Long Huamin, looked at Emperor Chongzhen and the others, and hurriedly knelt down to ask for guilt.

He didn't know what was going on, the emperor actually led the guards to break into the mansion, I'm afraid it would be difficult to be good.

The head slammed against the green bricks, and after a while, blood seeped out.

Emperor Chongzhen snorted coldly, flicked his dragon sleeves, and sat down on the Taishi chair in the lobby without saying a word.

"Your Majesty, please issue an order to reprimand the officials of the Shuntian Mansion and the Five Cities Terracotta Division for failing to protect the safety of the church in time.

Thank you to the servant of the Great Majesty, who protected my life in time, and please reward him.

Amen! ”

Seeing that the situation was not good, the fanatical religious element Long Huamin hurriedly knelt beside Pang Tianshou and spoke.

If he hadn't bowed down, he wouldn't have known how many times he would have died?

It's just that, in the end, this sentence Amen is really bad, which makes Emperor Chongzhen's already unhappy mood even more atmospheric.

"Pang Tianshou, you dog slave, are you a eunuch, you have no descendants, and you don't even want your ancestors?"

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to Long Huamin, slapped the coffee table beside him heavily, and shouted angrily.

After speaking, he still couldn't understand his hatred, stepped forward, and kicked Pang Tianshou in the shoulder.

"The emperor forgives the sin, the emperor please spare his life!"

Pang Tianshou was kicked to the ground and turned to the sky on all fours, but he quickly got up, knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to ask for mercy.

In fact, until now, he still doesn't understand what Emperor Chongzhen means and why is he blamed?

As for saying that religious belief is sinful, he didn't even think about it, and he wasn't the only religious official in Daming?

"We have ancestors! You, a dog slave, have to believe in the ancestors of the Yi people, don't you know how to insult the ancestors and destroy the ancestors? ”

Emperor Chongzhen looked at this eunuch who was not famous now, but left a mark in history in the future, and scolded fiercely.

This Pang Tianshou can be said to be very magical.

During the Chongzhen period, he was only a eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, and shortly before the rebels captured Beijing, he was sent to Nanjing.

After the Hongguang Emperor, he was in charge of the two Guangzhu Ponds.

He was ordered to go to Fujian and Liangguang to collect taxes, and then heard that Nanjing had fallen, so he served as Emperor Longwu and was reappointed as the celebrant and was reused.

Emperor Longwu hoped to obtain Western military aid from Macao through the Jesuits, and Pang Tianshou shuttled between the emperor and the Xishi as a member of the sect.

In the second year of Longwu, Pang Tianshou went to Macao with Fang Ji for help, but on the way, he had heard that Fujing had fallen, so he went to Zhaoqing and brought 300 Portuguese soldiers to Emperor Yongli.

Pang Tianshou followed Emperor Yongli to fight in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, was loyal, deeply trusted by the emperor, and was promoted to the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the seal of the seal, and the commander of the Yongwei battalion, and was given a first-class uniform.

However, in his later years, he colluded with Ma Jixiang, the commander of Jinyiwei, and participated in a series of disloyal acts such as Wu Chu's party dispute, impeachment and death of Lin Shiwang, flattery of Sun Kewang, coercion of Yongli Zen position, Mr. Eighteen case, and framing Gao Tao.

However, he is most famous because he joined the Church in the second year of Chongzhen, was baptized by John Tang, whose Christian name is Yajilou, and was one of the earliest eunuchs to join the Church, known as the pillar of the church.

Anyway, in a word, fate is too good to be strange, and any calamity has been avoided.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen would never believe in the protection of the Lord.

"Emperor, the slave is guilty, and the slave immediately leaves Catholicism and converts to Taoism."

Pang Tianshou trembled in shock, hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy, and said in front of Long Huamin that he had broken away from Catholicism.

What faith does not exist.

In the face of life, few people can insist on their beliefs, at least, Pang Tianshou is not.