Xinshun 1730

Chapter 578 I Believe In Loneliness

"You recognize me?"

I have been traveling to Songjiang in recent years, and people in Nanyang either speak Min accent or Cantonese accent. I really didn't expect to hear such an accent here.

"Before Ying Sobo used to go to Songjiang to lure people with money, show off gold and silver to attract people to buy shares. I have also met a few times. Besides, Ying Sobo has contributed a lot to banning me from Catholicism. How can I not recognize it?"

This person showed no sign of fear, and greeted Liu Yu calmly, knowing Liu Yu's identity, but he did not kneel down.

Liu Yu was also curious, looked him up and asked, "What's your name?"

"Paul."

"I didn't ask you for your Christian name."

"Xu Gui."

"When did you start teaching?"

"Baptized since childhood."

"Both parents?"

"Correct."

"Have you read the classics of the famous religion? You also know the saying of Datong under heaven, so you should have read it."

"Before the teaching was banned, I was selected as a scholar, but because I refused to quit the teaching, I was dismissed."

Hearing that he is also a stubborn guy, he really has a bit of backbone, Liu Yu couldn't help laughing and said: "Okay, you are a character. You pretended to convert and regretted it every day. If you write secretly, just say you have converted, who can take advantage of it?" Are you looking in your heart?"

The man held his head up, glanced at Liu Yu with disdain, sneered, and said slowly: "My grandmother was an abandoned baby back then. She was discarded because she was born as a girl. Thanks to Xu Guangqi, a former academician, The granddaughter, whose Christian name is Gan Dadi, donated to the charitable hall and rescued abandoned babies, so that my grandmother survived. If there is no grandmother, where would I be?"

"Loyal ministers don't serve second masters, and virgins don't change second husbands. When it's time to choose, I'd rather be dismissed than apostate."

"In Songjiang and other places, there are more than a few thousand baby girls who have been rescued by Gan Dadi's charitable deeds and rescued by the church? Thousands of widows and widows who have been sheltered by the church? This is really great kindness."

"Sisters who have entered the religion, embroider for love, help the poor, save baby girls, and donate medicine."

"But I don't know that Ying Suo Bo's family has millions of dollars, so what did he do? How many people were saved?"

"There are many people in the world who say benevolence and righteousness, and all officials call it benevolence and righteousness. However, how many people are there who are benevolent and righteous?"

"When I read the classics of famous religion, I only feel that there are thousands of words. After all, there is a difference between the upper and lower, and the superior and the inferior. If you can't be brothers and sisters from the heavenly father, there is no love and kindness. The injustice in the world comes from this. Worry There are so many sufferings in my world. I teach by example, burn the fire without regret."

Liu Yu studied with Dai Jinxian when he was a child, and he had heard of some things about Catholicism.When Xu Guangqi’s granddaughter passed away, the president of the Society of Jesus asked Jesuit churches all over the world to hold mass for him and recited three rosaries. Basically, missionaries in China at that time called her “our mother.” ".

It can be said that the Catholic Church was able to reach Henan and Chongqing because of its strength.Because the Xu family is a prominent family in Songjiang, the prominent families are married to each other.

As long as the imperial examinations do not change, the big family will always have someone to become an official, and their sons and relatives have all been high officials in the court, and they have traveled far and wide and developed everywhere.

It is understandable to say that this person's grandmother was thrown away as an abandoned baby and raised by the Catholic Church.

This is also true. When Catholicism was in Rome, Gaul and other places, it took the low-level route, rescue, mutual aid, helping to build houses, dig wells, and take care of the sick... In this regard, Confucianism, which does not follow the low-level route, is indeed No comparison.

This person mocked Liu Yu and asked Liu Yu how many people he had saved. Liu Yu was not embarrassed, let alone blushed, but just smiled without saying a word.

"So you have also been to Macau. Is Macau a paradise? Do you think that believing in this stuff can really make the world unified?"

A trace of confusion appeared on Xu Gui's face. During the past few years in Macau, he has seen a lot of dark sides.

But immediately, he became firm again.

"The people there forget the righteousness of the Lord, are greedy and shameless, and evil breeds."

"Hehehehe... If everyone is a gentleman, then the world will be in harmony." Not without irony, Xu Gui said: "The righteousness of Mingjiao is so flawed. Yejiao can make up for it. Go to If not, what is a gentleman? Does taking a concubine hinder being a gentleman? Forcing one’s own woman’s feet to be bound is a hindrance to being a gentleman? Is seizing land and property and taking profits to make a living hindering being a gentleman?”

Liu Yu laughed and said, "Have you ever seen Confucius and Mencius say you want to bind your feet?"

"That Ying Suobo has also read the books of the sages. Where can one teach people to be greedy? What Ying Suobo did in Songjiang, seeking the development of industry and commerce, is to cause chaos in the world! It is said that a gentleman wants a world of great harmony. Yingsuo Uncle develops business, encourages profit-seeking, and seduces people with profit in Songjiang, isn't it the opposite of the way of a gentleman?"

Hearing that it was a gentleman and a villain, Liu Yu couldn't help digging his ears, and said with a smile: "When I was in the capital, I was so refuted like this. I am really tired of hearing it. You have been kicked out of your career, and you don't believe in it." Teach me, what kind of gentleman and villain are you talking about with me? Then in the eyes of you true Catholics, what I have done is also causing chaos in the world?"

He didn't take it seriously, he just wanted to hear how this imaginary guy was imagining, so that he could deal with it in a targeted manner.

Xu Gui lowered his head, recalling what he saw from Shanghai, Songjiang, Guangzhou, and Macau.

In these places, in Liu Yu's words, they are called the places where capitalism sprouts.

But in Xu Gui's eyes, what he sees is: human beings have lost their souls, moral degradation, selfishness, extortionate prices, repaying money on the spot, buying cheap and selling expensive, cheating and abducting, all for money, all for profit .Money is like a devil, there is no more love between people, but everyone is an enemy to everyone, and gold and silver become the standard by which everything is measured.

When I worked as a coolie in Bangka, I witnessed a darker side.

In Xu Gui's view, the root of all evils is "production for the purpose of accumulating gold and silver."

For example, mining, in his opinion, tin is of course a good thing.It can be used to make jugs and utensils, which can make life better.But tin in the eyes of mine owners is not tin, but money waiting to be bought. The more you dig, the more money you have, and accumulating gold and silver becomes the purpose of mining.

Liu Yu's workshops, industries and businesses in Songjiang are all the same way, for money, for making money.

It is to dig out all the most selfish things in people's hearts, and let people obey the desire of the devil. If this continues, one day, this world will become a hell.

In the court of Dashun, Liu Yu is a villain, a villain who seeks profit without righteousness.

In the eyes of a somewhat utopian Catholic like Xu Gui, Liu Yu is the incarnation of the devil.

Not much difference.

But since Liu Yu satirized him and said that he is no longer a scholar, he is not qualified to talk about a gentleman, Xu Gui took a deep breath and said: "Since Ying Suobo has studied with Chairman Dai, has he ever read "Summa Theologica"? "

"Summa Theology?"

Hearing the title of the book, Liu Yu burst out laughing, nodded again and again: "I haven't read it, but I've always heard it before. You know, this thing you believe in is spread in the noble circles of the capital. There are two difficulties."

"First, as Xu Guangqi said, among the Ten Commandments, the hardest one to abide by is not to take concubines. This, before the missionaries in the noble circles of the capital, they all found women to pass them on, but they are not very useful. .In my family’s Buddhist hall, the Sanqing Taoist, the Tathagata Maitreya, and the Holy Mother of Christ, the Trinity, coexist harmoniously. When I go out to fight, my mother always looks at the map first to see who is in charge of the land, and worships whoever.”

"Another difficulty is that we can't lend usury. In Xungui's family, who doesn't lend money? This doesn't allow usury. Who among us Xungui believes in this religion? I remember that Mr. Dai used this "Summa Theologica" to talk about usury scriptural interpretation."

"How did you say it? Oh, yes, it's 【The loan shark didn't give the lender a chance to lend money, but to get a loan】. Not guilty."

"Similarly, the person who lends money is [it can be regarded as not to make a profit from lending, but to fulfill the desire of the borrower in order to get a loan. The lender takes a certain risk and collects the return that is due to this risk. 】. Not guilty.”

"It's both right and wrong, so usury can be allowed. After all, the borrower is not guilty, and the lender is not guilty."

Before the great etiquette debate, in order to gain a firm foothold in China, the Jesuits were preparing to learn from Nestorianism and try to localize it as much as possible, making many compromises and improvements.

In order to fool Dashun's nobles into teaching, even the usury is a bit relaxed.

To choose between the money in this world and the heaven after death, the nobles of course choose the money in this world.If lending is not allowed, who will join the church?How many nobles are masters of usury, relying on the interest of usury, or the blood and sweat of the common people, Liu Yu's family is not short of money anyway.

The Jesuits also understand that if they want to gain a firm foothold in China, they must take the upper-level route.

If it weren't for the pope's rigidity, it is estimated that after a few years of hard work, Christianity with Chinese characteristics will have no problem taking concubines.Before Li Leisi went to join Zhang Xianzhong in Chengdu, he was beaten several times. It was because of encouraging his concubine to divorce, he was seized by monks and Taoist priests, and he was almost beaten to death.

Xu Gui didn't mean this when he mentioned "Encyclopedia of Theology". Listening to Liu Yu's words, there was a strange ambiguity, and it was obvious that Liu Yu was satirizing the Jesuits and missionaries.

Lending can be done without guilt, but it is nothing more than profit.

His face was a bit ugly, knowing that Liu Yu was saying these shameless things on purpose, he said sullenly: "That Eagle Sobo missed the most exciting content in it."

"Eagle knows, what is a fair price? Why is this thing sold at this price? Have you ever thought about it?"

"After reading it, I was quite inspired."

"A fair price is determined neither by the will of the buyer nor by the will of the seller, but by the will of God."

"God created everything and manifested his will through everything in the world. And in price, the true fair price is reflected in the labor required for each item."

"The more labor expended, the higher the fair price of the item, and how much labor is expended on the item is a manifestation of God's will."

Liu Yu wanted to laugh at the standard natural law logic of Confucian classics in the academy, but he was unmoved. He spread his hands and asked, "So?"

Xu Gui's face suddenly showed a kind of fanaticism, his face was flushed, and he said excitedly: "So, just follow the example of Western banks and money houses, set up a special bank, evaluate the price of each item, and how much labor it is equivalent to."

"After I produce something, I deposit it in the bank and exchange it for an absolutely fair price. I use my fair price to buy whatever I want in the bank, absolutely fair exchange."

"In this way, the wheat grown by the farmer can be converted into a fair price, and the pot made by the tinsmith can also be converted into a fair price. In this way, there will be no price difference, and there will be no buying cheap and selling expensive."

"Farmers' land will not be annexed, because there will be no more cheap grains that hurt farmers, or natural disasters that will increase prices; those who spin yarn alone will not be squeezed out by those machine owners who invest in machinery."

"Money can no longer make money, because money is no longer gold and silver, it is just a reflection of how much you have done; small farmers and small households will not be exploited by big households and big merchants; a family who makes small goods does not have to worry about being exploited by those who open workshops A price cut for a big deal..."

"This world, isn't there Datong? Isn't this the rule of three generations?"

Liu Yu thought to himself, what is the essential difference between this f*ck and going back to the past, returning to well fields, craftsmen, and local officials to set prices, and keeping the illusion of small farmers and small producers alive?Fortunately, you are still a scholar, so why do you still need to study the Encyclopedia of Theology?Still have to learn from the West?
Xu Gui looked at Liu Yu with anticipation, and only hoped that he would say something, so Liu Yu surrendered, convinced of his reason.

But Liu Yu laughed and shouted at the officer beside him: "Come here, gag him, tie him up, throw him into the cabin, and keep him under strict supervision! After passing Ceylon, let him out again."

The officer moved swiftly and sealed Xu Gui's mouth in an instant, and could only make a whining sound.

Liu Yu patted his face and said with a smile: "I'll send you to France, so that you can see what the real church is like. There are also a lot of fellows who are similar to your fantasy over there. You just want to communicate and improve your knowledge. Level. Damn, maybe you can catch up with the gun and go to jail in the street.”

"Take it away! Close it!"

(End of this chapter)