Xinshun 1730

Chapter 887 The missionary who understands the history books

Everyone has different identities, and together they are a complete person.

Just like Jiang Youren is a Jesuit, but also a disciple of a group of astronomers and mathematicians.

In their view, Liu Yu is not only Dashun's nobleman and behind-the-scenes foreign minister, but also a figure in the scientific circle.

So when Jiang Youren and other people who tried the new route came to Macau and learned more about Dashun's situation, they felt a little desperate.

After Jiang Youren read some science books published by Dashun in recent years, he felt that his level must be much higher than that of the missionaries before the ban on religion.

But to say that he can impress Dashun's Duke Xingguo and let him allow the Jesuits to enter Beijing again out of his support for science... I'm afraid it's wishful thinking.

The special training he received for China was astronomy.The reason for finding it is also the big event of participating in the observation of the transit of Venus 15 years later and determining the distance between the sun and the earth.

However, after he came to Macau, he read some periodicals of Dashun Academy of Sciences in recent years, and found that Dashun was making moon phase maps undisguisedly, trying to break the monopoly of British navigation clocks on the right to define longitude.

A group of people who make moon phase maps, even if Venus transits the sun this year, Dashun can capture at least 50 people to participate in the observation and calculation.What's more, 15 years later, how many people will have the ability to do this?

When Matteo Ricci came, he took out the original geometry and was unique in the world.

Jiang Youren realized that his level of astronomy and mathematics was much higher than that of Matteo Ricci.

However, if you want to achieve the level of Ricci who is unique in the world and considered a great talent by scholar-bureaucrats, you must be able to solve Fermat's last theorem alone, and solve any integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of three prime numbers Such a problem is possible.

It's not that I can't compare with my predecessors, but that the level of the target audience is much higher than before.Before eating cabbage all day long, it was also delicious to eat a piece of fatty pig lymph node once in a while; after waiting to eat delicacies from mountains and seas, who can still regard pig lymph node as a delicious meal?

Mathematics and astronomy, which are specially trained for Dashun's special national conditions, cannot be used as opportunities.

Let alone the rest.

It’s not that the level is not as simple as it is, but the rest is completely “heresy”, “fallacy”, “nonsense”, and “trying to usurp the mighty power of God”.

For example, Jiang Youren saw some new textbooks in Weihai, Songjiang Prefecture and other places, mainly "General Education" and "Nature", which completely destroy the foundation of religion and blaspheme the mighty power of God.

Such as the pea story, such as the Central Plains silted up by the vicissitudes of life, such as atoms and molecules... The former is clearly trying to touch the power that God can control. Regardless of whether it is true or not, it is wrong in itself.

Jiang Youren understood a truth.

A person who can recite the "Bible" fluently cannot write "Other Scriptures" by himself with a blank blank, and all the people who can write are outstanding people who stir up the world for a while.

Similarly, if you ask these children receiving new learning education, how did they discover the proof of peas, they may just tell a story.But they are convinced of these things.

Jiang Youren felt that Dashun was hopeless and had been abandoned by God.They have already begun to poison their children and instill those devilish words from an early age.

The scary thing lies in the word "common sense".

The common sense of believers is seven days of creation.

These children who have been indoctrinated with the devil's words, their common sense when they grow up, has nothing to do with the creation of the seven days.

With Confucian scholar-bureaucrats, you can also discuss the mysterious Tao, Tai Chi, Qi, and Li.

What are you discussing with this group of people?Discuss why double eyelids and single eyelids?Is this the power that God should control, and is it something that mortals should discuss?
Originally, the goal of the Jesuits was to distort concepts, occupy the magpie's nest, and borrow and use words such as God to replace them.

Now the Jesuits are trying to walk the road of "Dashun's behind-the-scenes external media". Distorted the concepts of "Tao" and "Natural".

The point is, people don't argue at all.

Instead, use the power of the powerful to directly indoctrinate the next generation.

The prince of the state with excellent martial arts has money in his hand and the emperor favors him, even if there is opposition, it is useless.

Astronomy and mathematics are not good enough to stand out from the crowd; the rest of common sense is simply the devil's speech, and it is impossible for him to be better than the devil, right?
Then how to infiltrate?
Before the Fujian incident, Jiang Youren just felt that the road ahead was difficult.

After the Fujian incident was coupled with the opium incident, and Liu Yu directly said that he should be wary of the Jesuits playing the scientific card, Jiang Youren was in despair.

He believes that the upper-level route that the Jesuits have been trying to take has failed.

Before the Dominicans made an attack on Chinese etiquette, the Jesuits followed the "Ship of Theseus" plan.

A ship, all the wood has been replaced, is the ship still the original ship?
Names such as God are still the same name, but the original meaning is quietly replaced. Is the God of China still the original God?
I originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to replace many things in Confucianism. Just like Buddhism dyed Song Confucianism, it was also a foreign religion that quietly took root in the local area.

Waiting for the future to be like Buddhism, so that the common people will not feel that this is something foreign, and then spread the true meaning.

As many literati believers have said before, Buddhism cannot kill and eat meat, and Catholicism cannot accept concubines. Other than that, the rest are easier to keep the precepts, and they have more virtues of gentlemen.

However, this ship of Theseus plan was messed up by the group of Dominicans who started the heresy trial.

The Holy See held a meeting to discuss, supporting the Dominicans, denying the flexibility of the Jesuits, affirming God, sacrificing ancestors, etc., are all heresies and cannot be used.

After the failure of the Ship of Theseus project, the Jesuits studied China and found that the key to China's problems lies in the emperor.

The key to the emperor's problem lies in the heir.

The key to the issue of the heir is to get into the palace.

The key to the problem of being mixed into the palace is that Dashun needs knowledge of calendar, astronomy and mathematics.

So the upper-level subtle influence plan was launched.

This plan was relatively successful before. Dashun needs people to draw maps, improve the calendar, and communicate with the outside world.The Jesuits monopolized the channels of foreign exchanges, and also took advantage of the foolish actions of Britain and the Netherlands to rob Zhoushan and cargo ships, and isolated Protestantism.

He even used the opportunity of teaching mathematics in the palace to try to influence the heirs.

In fact, their luck is already good. The Jesuits once tried to take sides on the issue of the prince’s succession, but some missionaries who have been in China for a long time felt that this was a dangerous game. Stand in line.

This is luck.

Otherwise, it will be even worse.

They don't understand the Chinese emperor at all.

They also don't understand the desire for power in the Forbidden City.

Even if the prince you support ascends to the throne, after ascending to the throne, what you think about is not how to thank these missionaries, but thinking about how the fuck they can support me today, and they will stand in line when my son succeeds tomorrow.

How can the imperial power tolerate the intervention of external forces?

Not to mention foreign missionaries, the ministers who helped the prince ascend the throne turned their faces and refused to admit it afterwards, and many of them were killed?

Conversely, the prince you supported failed, and after the new emperor came to power, the first thing he did was to uphold righteousness: my brothers colluded with Yidi, and I wanted to expel the Yidi missionaries.

I'm worried that I can't find an excuse to "brother and brother respect", isn't this the righteousness that was sent in front of me for nothing?
Even though they were lucky and did not take sides, support, or win over the issue of successors, the new emperor still chose to ban religion a few years after he took the throne.

It was okay at first, although religion was banned, but there was still room for change.Because there are still many missionaries who work in the palace with their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics.

However, a few years later, a strange thing came out of Dashun, and almost by itself, the missionaries in the palace were basically wiped out.

Of course, the emperor can trust his own people. He used it before, but his own people did not have such abilities. Now that his own people have such abilities, why use outsiders?

This strange work directly grasped the reason why the missionaries were able to be in the court when they were pulling their salaries from the bottom of the pot, and solved this problem from the root.

Now, the Ship of Theseus plan and the upper-level influence plan have all failed.

They also want to engage in an infiltration plan in the name of science.

But the important executor of this plan, Jiang Youren himself, felt that it was bound to fail.Those people in the Holy See are simply old, and they don't even know how much the outside world has changed now.

A Dashun who has already tried to map the phases of the moon, is there any shortage of astronomers from the Jesuit order?

It's really hard work to find the sword, use the past success to make the current plan, if it succeeds, you will see the devil.

In the past few years in Macau, he has read a lot of books, referred to the history of the Shimabara Incident in Japan, and also read some history of the founding of Dashun.

Jiang Youren was also inspired after the Dominican Society proposed that missions in eastern Fujian and southern Jiangxi should be done in a different way than in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, and should be adapted to local conditions.

He felt that, under such circumstances, in order to spread orthodox faith in China, a bold and unprecedented approach was needed—a Chinese version of the Shimabara Martyrdom Uprising.

Since the founding of Dashun was the result of armed resistance; since China is not only rich in coastal areas, but also has a large number of impoverished areas, why not preach there, take advantage of the Chinese poor's desire for fairness and the idea of ​​the world to return to the public, and rely on religion to organize, Try to overthrow the current court and replace it?

Using the experience of preaching in those Gaul tribes a long time ago, helping to build houses, dig wells and see a doctor, show the resilience of activities at the bottom, abandon the upper-level route, and walk the lower-level route.

At least, he felt, this seemed to be the only feasible way at present.The new attempt of the Jesuits has actually been declared a failure.

However, even if this only feasible method can really get support, it needs a Macau as a base to provide funds and train Tang Ren believers to go deep into the mainland.

These people, even if they can open their mouths and keep their mouths closed, even if they can speak the southern Fujian and Jiangxi dialects like the locals like Bai Duoluo, but after all, their skin color makes people feel repulsed. .

Looking at Chinese history books, he found that there were many people who became emperors as ordinary people or caused chaos in the world.Princes and generals, would you rather be kind?This is very different from Europe, so why not adapt to local conditions?

(End of this chapter)