Xinshun 1730

Chapter 873 "Unfair" Competition ([-])
After Rodriguez berthed at the port, his understanding of "Macau is coming to an end" became more and more profound.

The soldiers of Dashun who were not there when he left the port had already taken control of the coast of the port. In the distance, the forts and forts left behind when the city walls were demolished last time were all covered with the flags of Dashun.

The members of the council stood humbly behind several Dashun officials, justifying something there.

But it seems that the content of the defense did not satisfy those Dashun officials.

On board, the sailors of Dashun directly took over the Sao Paulo, and Rodriguez had to leave the merchant ship and go to land.

The sailor's musket with the bayonet inserted was about a foot away from his back. If he paused for a while, he might hit the sailor's bayonet by himself.

On the pier, there were about 20 people kneeling.Both hands were tied, like tying animals, kneeling on the ground, head lowered, behind the neck was a black bayonet.

Rodriguez saw several Jesuits among them.

Among those kneeling there with their hands bound, Rodriguez saw an acquaintance.

If you use a Portuguese or Spanish name, the kneeling man is named Peter Sangshi, and he is in his 60s with gray hair.

However, in Dashun, the locals call him Bai Duolu.

Because his Christian name is Peter, and names such as Pedro, Peter, and Peter are more likely to be pronounced as Bai Duolu in Fujian and Guangdong due to pronunciation problems.

In later generations, this is also a well-known figure in the Catholic circle.

Historically, Bai Duolu was one of the "120 martyrs" of the Chinese Diocese, and then all boats rose. He was promoted to the Blessed in 1893, and was canonized by the then Pope John Paul II in 2000, becoming one of the Catholic saints .

Rodriguez's heart skipped a beat. At this moment, he recognized Petolo, who had not yet been canonized by the Pope.

Back then, Bai Duolu took a boat from Manila to China. Although Rodriguez was not the captain of the boat, he was also a cadre on the boat.

Pedro is a Dominican, not a Jesuit.Macau is the territory of the Jesuits, not the Dominicans.

Moreover, historically, there was a violent conflict between the Dominicans and the Jesuits because of Chinese etiquette issues.

Religion is only purer and more extreme.

In order to facilitate the spread of Catholicism in China, the Jesuits translated the Bible with words such as God. The reason why Jiang, the nun of the holy gun, was jokingly called the empty space is related to this incident: Later, the Pope forbade the use of the pagan word God. , but some printing Bibles, for the sake of convenience, use the "search and replace" method to replace "God" with "God".

As we all know, God is two words; God is one word.In order to align the typesetting, there is only one blank space.

It is also well known that Sister Jiang of the Holy Spear is a Christian of traditional Chinese culture. She is the No. 1 traditional culture that redefines the meaning of the word "Don't Forget Zaiju". Believing in God, he asked his subordinates to empty a space.

As for this time, this "empty space" incident also triggered some conflicts between the Dominicans and the Macau Jesuits.

The Jesuits think that when preaching, one should not be bookish and dogmatic, but to sinicize Catholicism, so one should borrow tradition as much as possible and use words like God, so as to facilitate missionary work.

Like that Catholic joke:
It is said that one day, the priests of various orders were saying vespers together in a church, when the candles went out.

As a result, the Benedictine monks did not seem to see it at all. They continued to sing the prayer from memory, and there was not a single word wrong.

The Franciscan monks expressed their calmness. They took out their guitars and composed a hymn to thank God for the dark sisters.

Dominican monks, they began to discuss the important medium of light for divine knowledge.

The monks of the Cloth Order sank into a slow, rhythmic breathing and meditation.

Only the Jesuit monks were special. They asked: Does the sudden extinction of the candle mean that the traditional evening prayer can be cancelled?

The real embodiment of this joke, apart from the issue of Chinese etiquette, is the "São Paulo" merchant ship in Macau.

This modification, from the perspective of Catholicism, is undoubtedly a success.

But, Dominic, I'd be like, Fuck, you ain't real Catholics, how can you allow the rules to be changed?
So he went to Rome to sue, and put forward the famous Seventeen Commentaries on the Jesuits, accusing the Jesuits of violating the orthodox Catholicism and embarking on the path of heresy.

The "flexibility" of the Jesuits and the "dogma" of the Dominicans led to the "Dispute over Chinese Catholic Rituals" that lasted from the Ming Dynasty to the Dashun Dynasty.

In the end, under the management of Bai Yunhang, Mu Baiyunhang of Wendeng Prefecture when Liu Yu was training in Weihai, it directly triggered a series of incidents in which Dashun expelled Catholics and banned Catholicism.

So Jesuits and Dominicans are not too dealt with.

However, more than 30 years ago, the Pope announced that Fujian was the diocese of the Dominicans, and the Jesuits had to withdraw from Fujian. Although there were conflicts between the two parties, the St. Paul still carried the Dominican priests, such as Peter Pedro, to Macau. , and look for a ship in Macau to go to Fujian.

Ever since Bai Yunhang handled the teaching case and was promoted, Dashun has strictly prohibited religion. Macau is one of the few places where Catholicism is allowed to spread.

As a person who has grown up in Macau for so long, Rodriguez certainly understands the danger.

He never expected that he could see the old and bound priest Bai Duoluo who came to Macau on his boat back then.

Because after Bai Yunhang handled the teaching plan, Dashun was banned from teaching.Moreover, the place where Bai Yunhang made his fortune was Fujian, which was governed by the Dominican Society.

At that time, Bai Duoluo and others were expelled from Fujian, and they were asked to either leave the country or go to Macau.

A few years ago, Rodriguez met Bai Duolu in Macau, and later heard that he left Macau. How could he expect to see him here today?
Of course, it is impossible for Dashun to go to places like Manila to enforce the law, and now Bai Duolu is being held here with his hands tied...

Obviously, after leaving Macau a few years ago, I am afraid that this person did not leave Dashun at all, but went back to Fujian to preach again!
Thinking of this, Rodriguez couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

He had heard of some torture methods in Dashun, and he trusted the firmness of the gray-haired priest Bai Duoluo's belief.

If you are afraid, you will be afraid, the people who are implicated will lead the bastard to hang the turtle, and if you implicate people like yourself, things will be troublesome.

My life in Macau is pretty good.Professional managers who can join the Jesuits, even in such a depressed situation in Macau, can still have trade routes to run.

If he was deported because of this incident, where would he find such a good job?If you go back to your country, your life will not be easy, and the domestic trade is also miserable. If you really go back to your country, you can only go to the Brazilian colony.

At the beginning, his phrase "Macau will end" was just a bystander's attitude. After all, he believed that he was not trafficking in people or smuggling opium. Of course, Macau was going to end, but he would not be implicated.

I never thought that I could still have a "bystander" mentality at sea before, but now it has brought disaster to myself.

If so, which one of the majority of people in Macau will not be implicated?
While dripping with cold sweat, Rodriguez was even more startled when he quietly looked at the several Dashun officials next to Bai Duolu and the patterns on their clothes.

That clothes, but the Jiedushi-level imperial court feudal officials.

This... Even if there was anything in Macau before, it was handled by the county magistrate.Now that such high-ranking officials have come directly, and soldiers with guns and bayonets are all over the place, something big is about to happen!

Beside Bai Duolu.

The Guangdong Jiedu envoy looked at the criminals handed over from Fujian by the imperial court, and felt a little confused about the imperial court's attitude.

He also has a deep understanding of the threat of Catholicism.

From the perspective of a Confucian scholar-bureaucrat, I was even a little scared.

The few people who were tied up in front of him were escorted by the Boyer Army from Fujian on his way to Macau to handle the "population and opium" case.

After Bai Yunhang's work on teaching cases in Fujian took off, Fujian served as the trigger for the "prohibition of teaching" and the investigation and handling of teaching teaching was very strict.

However, even under such strict conditions, something big happened.

From the perspective of the number of participants, it is actually not that big.

Just seven or eight people.

But some problems behind this incident made Guangdong Jiedu envoy terrified after hearing Haierjun's report.

Seven or eight people, how can something big happen?

Things are simple and simple.

It was because the missionary work went underground, and during the investigation, some virgins were found.

Similar to Japan, Dashun's method of handling teaching plans is also quite simple and crude: throw the sacred image on the ground and let the believers step on it.

Those who trample on them should be educated, and the family and clan will take them back and discipline them well.

If you resolutely don't step on it, hit it.

As a result, there was a jaw-dropping scene.

These women, under the surveillance and coercion of a group of yamen servants and a child army sent by the imperial court, joined hands and formed a human wall to block in front of the holy elephant.

And it turned its back to the crowd and faced the sacred image.

Originally, this kind of thing must be handled publicly, in order to deter those who want to join the religion and let them know the consequences.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the behavior of these women is really shocking.

Then, under the watchful eyes of hundreds of people, these women, arm in arm, knelt down towards the holy elephant.

The killing of chickens and monkeys that trampled on sacred elephants has become a public propaganda.

Is this okay?

The local county magistrate turned pale with fright, and the county government servants rushed up and beat those women violently.

Hitting is not the purpose, the purpose is to put on such a pious posture under the watchful eyes of everyone, it really has too much influence.

At the very least, they should be beaten to the ground, showing their ugliness.

However, these women were beaten and beaten by the yamen servants, and the sticks were smashed towards the knees and palms, and the sticks were smashed into the palms. These women still maintained their original postures.

It wasn't until the bones were broken that it was impossible to violate the laws of physics that he was beaten to the ground.

At that time, Haierjun was also ordered to investigate this matter in Fujian, and watched the whole process. It is said that the county magistrate was so frightened that his face turned green.

It's not that I wanted to show my face but ended up showing my butt.

Rather scary.

This is what was caught, how many were not caught?
Since ancient times, most of the "uprising" and "rebellion" were mobs.

However, if there are 2 people who can do this, they would rather die than surrender, and have a firm belief that they will not change their posture until they are beaten to a bone. What kind of concept is this?
If Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao had 2 such core personnel, things would have been accomplished long ago, and there is no story about the Three Kingdoms; if Emperor Taizu had such [-] people back then, the first year of Yongchang would have turned into ten years of Yongchang .

Under the watchful eyes of the public, killing chickens as an example to monkeys was turned into Catholic propaganda, and in addition, it showed dangerous destructive power-this was after Dashun ordered the ban on religion.

The county magistrate was paralyzed from fright at that time, and the boy army was present again, so the matter must be reported immediately.

Then began a large-scale search, report, and investigation, until Bai Duolu, the Vicar of the Fujian Diocese, was found. At this time, he was already the head of the Diocese of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

When he was arrested, Bai Duolu hid in the cellar of the congregation, tortured more than 20 people, and killed seven or eight. In the end, only one person couldn't bear it anymore and confessed.

During the interrogation, this Bai Duolu had already mastered many dialects in eastern Fujian, southern Jiangxi, and southern Zhejiang, and he was even more proficient in dialects than the county magistrate who spoke official Chinese.

The reason why he was in charge of the Diocese of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi and did not continue to expand northward... the reason is quite speechless.

According to the interrogation statement, due to the fact that there are many mountainous areas in southern Fujian, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, the people are poor, the clan is strong, and land reclamation is not easy to lead to the inevitable labor preference for males... and so on, it is necessary to pay more attention to female believers when preaching here. The suffering is too much, very unbearable, and it is easier to become a teacher.

And the reason why they didn’t continue to go north is because 【We noticed that in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, the virgins here are all self-reliant.Because of their proximity to trade centers, they can support themselves from the textile industry.On the outside, they can't see any difference from outsiders, but they are only asked not to wear gorgeous clothes, and to be as simple as possible. 】

【Most of them live among the masses and rely on hard work to make ends meet.Spinning and weaving cloth all day long. 】

【They often get up early and work late at night to make up for the time they spend chanting scriptures and doing charity work...】

[Therefore, the idea of ​​preaching in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang must be different from that of the dioceses of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi. 】

[We have noticed that the barrenness and underdeveloped trade in the mountainous areas of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi make the local people pay more attention to the clan and male arable land labor force. To develop female believers there, we should let them feel love, hope...and must Be careful not to develop married female believers as much as possible, so as not to arouse the resentment of the clan...]

[Women in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, because of the developed trade and the trade of Songjiang Prefecture, they are more likely to support themselves, we should let them feel respect and equality.These are two different missionary ideas...]

After the trial of these things, the local county magistrate directly tied himself up and asked the boy army to put him in a prison car and take him to the capital.

Because he knows what those words mean.

And the county where he was the county magistrate turned out to be the center of the spread of secrets, and several big figures who preached were all hidden in the county under his rule.

This was an unexpected incident, just in time for the imperial court to deal with the problem in Macau.

The emperor directly issued an order, and after the interrogation was clear, it was sent to Macau.

In Macau, kill.

And before the execution, the deeds of his mission must be clearly explained.

Don't hold back, and don't deliberately humiliate, but tell the truth.

It must be spoken in front of the large number of Catholics who immigrated from Macau.

At the same time, a secret decree was given to Jiaolaobutu and Guangdong Jiedu Envoy: If there is a change, slaughter.

The army of the Songjiang Prefecture Camp has urgently dispatched 5000 people to prepare to board the ship.

The fleets of Tianjinwei, Weihaiwei, and Lushunwei, and the prince Li Yan also received secret orders almost at the same time: the fleet is ready to go south at any time.

(End of this chapter)