Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1177 : Chapter 462 Future

If Zhang Shouren does not recommend him at this time, You Shiwei can return to Yulin to retire after a while.

The journey went very smoothly. After Zhang Shouren saw a building with a pointed handle obliquely inserted into the cloud, he led his horse and said to the crowd: "Coincidentally, let's pay a visit to Master Tang."

Zhang Shifu said with a smile, "Looking at the foreign monk again? He said he's tired of casting cannons."

Zhang Shouren said with a smile: "I don't see people purely for utilitarianism. Tang Ruowang is... very interesting."

Being praised by Zhang Shouren as "very interesting", I'm afraid there were not many people there. When Zhang Shifu heard this, he didn't dare to neglect. After arranging for someone to pull up the horse, he adjusted his clothes and came in with Zhang Shouren. [

At this time, Tang Ruowang was living in a small scripture hall built by Matteo Ricci, where he practiced the calendar and helped the Ming court to cast cannons. During the two years from the 11th year of Chongzhen to the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Tang Ruowang helped Daming cast [-] doors. Cannons, but these artillery did not help much, most of them were placed on the head of Beijing. Later, after the Qing army took Beijing without fighting, they took down the artillery and fought south and north, which made a lot of contributions.

This church was the famous South Church later on. The main building still remains hundreds of years later. Zhang Shouren also visited it when he traveled to Beijing. It is very strange to visit the "old place" after hundreds of years.

Here, of course, is different from the oppression in the imperial confinement. The religious atmosphere is very strong, and the humanistic atmosphere is also very strong. In China at that time, it is difficult to have such a place that makes people feel deeply.

However, Zhang Shouren is not a Catholic, and what he feels here is more of the strong humanistic atmosphere.

"Oh, General Zhang is here again, welcome, welcome."

The Nantang of later generations was just a gloomy small sutra hall at this time. Tang Ruowang and a group of assistants were practicing the calendar in the sutra hall. Seeing Zhang Shouren and the others come in, Tang Ruowang put down the quill pen in his hand, frowned first, and then smiled. Come forward.

He has been in China for more than 20 years. From Macau to Xi'an, and then to Beijing, he has already spoken very authentic Mandarin, his voice is very pleasant, and his demeanor is beyond reproach.

The Jesus Society in China originally followed the line of the upper-class literati and even the royal family. Now many officials and gentry in Beijing believe in God, and many eunuchs in the palace have joined the religion. Of course, it is hard to say how devout this kind of religion is. Indeed, even Emperor Tianqi was quite interested in Catholicism back then, but it was too difficult for the emperor and these officials to truly believe in it.

Worshiping ancestors and polygamy were two major obstacles that restricted Chinese nobles from joining Catholicism at the time.What helped these foreign monks open up the situation is that the West is far ahead of China in terms of astronomy and calendar, followed by the technology of casting cannons, followed by Western specialties such as the big self-ringing clock. As for the teachings, Tang Ruowang has been in China for 20 years. The results must have made him very discouraged.

Fortunately, these missionaries are all believers with strong faith and strong dedication. If not, with their wealth, they would not need to travel thousands of miles to China to preach. The missionaries of later generations have already had adventurers exploring for profit. I feel that in the [-]th century, under the premise of extremely high death rate at sea, going to sea to preach meant devotion without desire.

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