Wanli 1592

Chapter 425

"You mean, the Chinese have their own beliefs? And the beliefs are very strong, passed down for thousands of years, and have received strong support from the government?"

Bishop Alexander was shocked by China's native cultural traditions. As senior members of the church, these bishops certainly know how Catholicism has developed step by step into the behemoth it is today. Without the stupid emperor of the Roman Empire and future generations Children and grandchildren, how can Catholicism develop to the present?

And no matter what kind of government China has changed, no matter who is in power, they are insisting on supporting Confucianism as the country's official ideology. Anyone who violates this ideology is heresy and will be attacked.

Ideological heresies within one's own country will be hit in this way, let alone external ones, and the destruction of humanity is light.

For some reason, Bishop Alexander feels that this picture has a strong sense of déjà vu—as if we did this before, right?

Is what we have to face is Chinese Catholicism?
Bishop Alexandria began to question his assumptions.

That's right, how could such a large civilized country not have its own official ideology?If there is no official thinking, the country will definitely be in chaos. If you say yours and I say mine, you will argue with each other endlessly, so should you still do things?Does the royal family still have their own dominance?Does the government want to stabilize the situation?

Therefore, after a hundred schools of thought contend, the strongest, treacherous, and most catering to the ruling class’s theory will inevitably become the country’s official ideology. Along with the country’s political unification, it will carry out ideological unification. This is the case of the Roman Empire. , and the Han Empire as well.

So what the Catholic Church has to face is this powerful idea that has been passed down for thousands of years. Not only is its own inheritance long, but even the Chinese emperor supports it. After all, Xiao Ruxun is only in charge of a piece of land in Myanmar, and he has no control over the wider inland China.

But no matter how you say it, if you don’t accumulate steps, you can’t reach a thousand miles. If you can’t take the first step, how can you talk about development and growth?First of all, it is necessary to start missionary work from Myanmar, where the difficulty is the lowest, to find out a set of missionary strategies that are effective for the Chinese, and then focus on the grassroots people and grasp the right to speak at the grassroots level.

Because according to Bishop Alexander's experience, after obtaining official permission, if he wants to take root in a place and survive, he must become the second trusted institution besides the official among the common people.

No matter where, the people at the bottom cannot read and write well, the literacy rate is extremely low, and the illiteracy rate is extremely high. Such people are the easiest to fool and incite, and they often become diehard groups of the Holy See, helping the Holy See to overthrow the Many small governments.

The reason why the Holy See can become a behemoth with a detached status in Europe is that it has attracted a large number of stupid men and women. They do have no money and no strength, but they have public opinion and numbers. What the government does is not in line with the Holy See. Willingness, the Holy See immediately fanned the flames and led these foolish men and women to dedicate themselves to God.

They really have no status, but they are the source of tax revenue. The Holy See can easily accomplish many things by controlling the thoughts of these people. Therefore, the lower the level of education of the people, the weaker their resistance to religion, and the easier it is for them to be Brainwashing, the missionaries have gained a firm foothold because they have figured out such a truth.

However, China has a high level of civilization, and there are many literate and educated people among the common people. These people are quite resistant to Catholicism, and it is definitely not easy to preach.

But in Xiao Ruxun’s Burma, the number of these people is so small that it is almost negligible. Therefore, as a starting point and base camp, as long as the Holy See controls more than 100 million Chinese in Burma, it will be able to gain a firm foothold in the East.

Bishop Alexander swept away his previous worries and smiled triumphantly.

The fleet sent by Xiao Ruxun to pick up the people arrived in the Philippines thirteen days later. The representative who came was Chen Longzheng, who had rich experience in diplomatic missions. He brought a hundred large ships to take people. He could carry more than 7000 people at one time. question.

The Spanish government fully cooperated, and under the promotion of Bishop Alexander and Matteo Ricci, even the Philippine Governor's Palace sent Xiao Ruxun a shipment of precious spices as an apology.

Chen Longzheng originally thought that this was an easy job, and he could go back to work with the Genoese and the French after finishing it easily. Very annoying and irritating episode.

You know, not every immigrant is willing to return to the motherland.

The landless farmers from Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong are willing to go back. Even if they can’t return to their hometown, they can go to Myanmar to get a piece of land to farm and live a small life. It’s better than working hard on the Philippine island before. Many, so these people are very eager to follow Xiao Ruxun, these people are not a problem.

But there are still some people who have vested interests in the Spanish rule in the Philippines, those big merchants, who have power, money and power in the local area, have their own private armed forces, rely on their relationship with the Spaniards, and bully men in front of their compatriots. Domineering girl, I'm afraid that others don't know that she has power, how dare this kind of person return to the realm of Daming?
Here, no one cares about how to do business, how to bully people, as long as you give money, everything can be solved, but in Myanmar, where the laws and regulations are very strict, they dare not make mistakes, for fear of offending Xiao Ruxun. After a meal, the skin was torn apart.

And more importantly, they have bullied so many compatriots. If they go back and are sued and then retaliated against, this property and the lives of their families will not be guaranteed. At that time, they will be slaughtered and there will be no place to cry. How can you accept it?

With such bad intentions, they voluntarily asked to stay in the local area instead of going to Burma, and by the way did not allow their servants and hired workers to leave.

The slaves and servants are okay, they are all from the same family, but the people hired outside don’t pay attention to you, they leave as soon as they say, they can’t be pulled or stopped, and even the processing money can’t stop them from wanting to return country heart.

These big households also understand that the reason why they can sit and laugh with the Spaniards on an equal footing is because they have a lot of human resources, and a large number of Chinese immigrants are under their hands and they are their reliance.

The Spaniards need to befriend them in order to get the manpower and material resources of the Chinese, but if the Chinese are gone and only a few of them are left bare, how can they mess around?
It is necessary to keep some necessary people.

Even coaxing and tricking them into processing money, they enlisted a group of people to stay here without leaving, because the agreement between the Spaniards and Xiao Ruxun was to leave voluntarily, and those who voluntarily did not leave could not interfere. Naturally, Xiao Ruxun would not want to Take it all.

However, there are too few people left by normal means, and the big households decided to use unconventional means when they saw that it was not enough.

(End of this chapter)