Xinshun 1730

Chapter 876 Still a matter of interests
"Know the evil and let it go. This Zheng Boke is based on Yan Zhi's old wisdom. I told you to read more history books, it seems that it is still useful."

The emperor's tone has gradually become a little more relaxed, at least it is much better than the previous expression that collapsed when he heard the "long-term plan".

Liu Yu didn't think that this was the old wisdom of Zheng Boke and Duan Yuyan, and he didn't take Macau itself seriously at all.

He said that people dislike the poor and love the rich, but this has always been the case.As long as Dashun rushed out of Malacca, the matter in Macau would not matter at all.

From the beginning of learning from the east to the west in the late Ming Dynasty, Liu Yu said that the ruling class of the Central Plains Dynasty was like a paramecium.

They are all passive and responsive; it is difficult to say that there is any subjective initiative in the state of being stimulated and passively reacting.

The same goes for banning religion.Get hit, and react in some way yourself.

But whether the reaction is violent depends on the ability of the stimulator, or the strength of another civilization.For example, throughout the dynasties, they have never been provoked by the chieftains in the Southwest, nor are they likely to be stimulated by the Tubang in Southeast Asia, and then respond accordingly.

This is cultural confidence.And cultural self-confidence means that we must first believe in ourselves.If I believe that I am civilized and represents civilization, then those of Yi Di are naturally scabies, and sooner or later they will be melted by civilization.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the distance was too far and the news was not smooth.

And at the end of Ming Dynasty, it should be regarded as the first time that the Celestial Dynasty discovered that there was a competitor worthy of civilization in the distance.Just because of the distance and cultural self-confidence, we did not take the initiative to participate in this civilized competition, but only adopted this passive and stressful mode.

Since Liu Yu thought about going to Nanyang, Dashun has taken the first step to actively participate in the competition of civilizations.When this step is taken, in fact, the Macau issue or the Catholic issue is just a projection of the competition between Eastern and Western civilizations.

Liu Yu was not worried about the matter itself, but worried about the possible consequences of this matter, which even caused Dashun to cut off communication.

Now the emperor's tone is a little more relaxed, and the stone hanging in Liu Yu's heart can be regarded as falling to the ground.

However, even greater hidden worries arose.

This incident was just an accident.

But it is not accidental, but a situation that Dashun will inevitably encounter when going out.

There will be more and more cases like this in the future.

If this matter is suppressed today, another matter will rise up tomorrow, and the emperor's inner balance will continue to swing from side to side until one day it completely tilts to the other side.

Liu Yu knew that the time left for Dashun was running out.

The Enlightenment was already in full swing in France, and these things would make the emperor more nervous than Catholicism.

Dashun's unique history of unification and the transformed Confucian ideology, these characteristics made the emperor really nervous.

Like the previous Dutch problem, the distorted Western-centric theological history seems to be the Dutch model and the parasitic system that requires a national entity to provide military sailors, moving from Amsterdam to London, and from London to New York; And Colbert's national industrialism controlled the economy from Paris to Moscow and then to Beijing...

At this time, the Enlightenment Movement in France, which was in the ascendant, can also be distortedly understood as Montesquieu’s separation of powers theory, which was born out of the feudal power checks and balances in Western Europe in a sense, and Rousseau’s theory of separation of powers, who had vaguely seen the worries of the new era. The theory of popular sovereignty and the origin of human inequality are two lines.

With Dashun's special historical and economic foundation, if it deepens exchanges with Europe in an equal and proactive manner, from the perspective of the emperor, the emperor will probably not care about the theory of separation of powers and checks and balances. He thinks this is not a threat at all. The old man of rotten Confucianism.Even the prime minister, the founding of the government, the real power, the enfeoffment of the state, and the private soldiers are all gone. What checks and balances and transitions are we talking about?If you worry about Han Changli falling into the realm of evil ghosts, it is nonsense and unfounded to worry about.

But if one day sees Rousseau's set, as a relatively professional emperor, he will definitely be very sensitive to find that this is the thing that threatens the Li family dynasty and imperial power in Dashun the most, and it is also the thing that is most likely to incite people in Dashun. A rebellious set of things.

Therefore, when the time comes, the inner balance may no longer be swinging, but directly tend to close the door.

Therefore, the time left for Dashun, or the time left for the emperor and Liu Yu to walk together without going astray, is really running out.

Before this "threat" that will inevitably cause the emperor to be panic-stricken is spread here, many foundations that should be laid have been laid.

This is difficult.

Coupled with various accidents similar to this lesson plan incident, and dangers that cannot be controlled by manpower similar to Zhihuai's worry, Liu Yu was under great pressure.

When a stone falls to the ground, who knows when the next stone will hit the heart?

Press the gourd up to scoop.

The future is hard to know, and Liu Yu can only deal with it one by one.

Seeing that the emperor felt a little relaxed at this moment, Liu Yu said something to make the emperor feel more at ease.

The emperor gradually felt relieved, and asked, "Your Majesty said, think long-term. He also said, hold it up high and put it down gently."

"In Qing's opinion, how should the missionary Bai Duolu be dealt with?"

Liu Yu only said: "Your Majesty, the state owns the laws of the country, and the emperor has the sacred edict. When the religion was banned, how to determine the punishment has already been determined. How to deal with this person, it is enough to ask the criminal officials, why ask the ministers?"

The emperor nodded, he thought Liu Yu was going to release Bai Duolu temporarily, or expel him from the country.But in this way, it is enough to only ask a criminal official, and the meaning is very clear.

kill.

Since Liu Yu was asked to go out of the town to deal with the matter, and Liu Yu was punished according to the law, the emperor didn't ask what was going on.

Liu Yu below didn't know what to think, and suddenly laughed.

"Why are you laughing?"

"Your Majesty, forgive me for your misconduct. Your Majesty just asked about Bai Duolu, and I suddenly thought of something interesting."

The emperor was also a little curious, and Liu Yu said again: "I am a teacher of Western learning, and I once talked to me about some things about Catholicism."

"It is said that if you are a martyr, if you have a miracle, you will be blessed and canonized in the future."

"Whoever bestows blessings and canonization must draw a portrait. In the portrait, there must be an object hanging on the top of the head, which is the victim. It may be a knife, or a noose, etc., perhaps because of Longinus' gun as a sacred object. So?"

"According to the rules of the Catholic Church, a tyrant has a certain utensil as his symbol, and a martyr must use instruments of torture in his paintings."

There were many Catholic missionaries around the emperor before, and he knew about this.

Liu Yu couldn't help laughing and said, "I've seen people with axes, knives, and daggers painted on their heads... I suddenly thought just now, how should I draw this portrait if I shot it with a cannon?"

The emperor was stunned, and then made up the funny appearance of the portrait. He couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "It's hard to draw! It's hard to draw! You might as well try it, I'm also a little curious."

It was a very bloody matter, and the monarch and his ministers did not think it different, and they all laughed.

After laughing, the emperor said again: "He violated the laws of the celestial dynasty and died because of his crime. If the Holy See can consecrate him in the future, he will be punished. Doesn't this mean that the laws of this dynasty are all wrong? Let’s wait and see the aftermath, if this is really done, I will leave a decree to my descendants and send envoys to the Vatican to question the crime!"

This kind of thing, rising from the perspective of the country, the emperor's thinking is indeed right: someone who committed a crime in Dashun and was killed, and was canonized by another country as a result, must be opposed from the perspective of the country.

Liu Yu thought to himself, this matter is also simple.The group of people in the Holy See, take hard but not soft.Worshiping Confucianism is because of the needs of the puppet Manchukuo; worshiping pagan monarchs is because of the needs of Japanese imperialism, isn't it both allowed?

At that time, the fleet will go there, and keeping it will be more effective than debating [-] scriptures.

"Your Majesty's words are very true. This matter involves national laws and regulations, so we must consider it. This time I will go to Macau, and I will definitely live up to your majesty's trust, and I will solve this matter in a way that will not disgrace the heaven. It will humiliate the country for a long time."

The emperor nodded and said: "Ai Qing is doing things, I am at ease. I said, the strategy is like this, let it last for another 15 years. You just remember, it is to make them make a fool of themselves and judge the pity of those who are wise in the world."

"The things in Fujian and Suzhou are nothing more than ignorant people and poor villagers. But before that, many students and gentry joined the religion, and more ignorant scholars and bureaucrats were deceived. Some people even proposed to replace Confucianism with Christianity. Even the important officials of the court, Zeng Yi Believers."

"Your words are extremely true. It is easy to kill people, but difficult to punish them. This matter really focuses on punishing one's heart. As long as the world's scholars, bureaucrats, and people of insight are not deceived by them, and they see their hypocrisy, they will have no worries."

"You know a lot about the Taizu and Emperor Taizong of this dynasty. If the gentry and officials don't follow, it will be difficult to accomplish things. If you are only a villager, you may not be as good as Bailian Maitreya."

Liu Yu thought that this was the same reasoning. It seemed that the main reason to move the emperor was that the emperor wanted to break the good image of Catholicism in the hearts of some Confucian scholar-bureaucrats.

Moreover, Liu Yu felt that there was a reason why the emperor believed in his method of punishing one's heart.

Mingli seemed to agree with the embarrassing remarks made by the emperor.

Secretly, in fact, the emperor subtly accepted a truth: talking about benevolence and righteousness, the way of the king, talking about conscience, and talking about the people, in the end, the word "interest" cannot be avoided.

And the Jesuits and the Dominicans are not exempt.

The time when Aduwu smelled like copper, it was a time when the aristocratic clans were born with high-ranking officials, and their families had a lot of money.

Nowadays, even the emperor, everyone only hates that money is not enough every day. How can there be any feelings?

The emperor probably thought, I am rich all over the world, from Heilongjiang to Nanyang, from the Western Regions to Dongying, I still lack money to spend, and I can’t move immigrants. How can you, the Society of Jesus, have so much money to subsidize these people?
In fact, Liu Yu doesn't know much about Catholicism and various churches.

He just upheld the three most basic common sense and made a logical inference.

First of all, although the history of this world has undergone many changes, it is a real world after all, not a magical world.Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Jesuits or Dominicans to have five loaves and two fish.

Second, in this day and age, all the sanctity of a profession that has always been respected and awe-inspiring has been removed.Physicians, lawyers, priests, poets and scholars, sooner or later become paid wage laborers.

In the end, Macau is a city that prospered and declined purely by relying on the Dashun trade policy. If its trade is cut off, there will be internal chaos.

Based on these three most basic common senses, it is enough to launch various follow-ups.

Because Dai Jinxian was the teacher of Western learning, even though he didn't know anything about Catholicism in his previous life, he still knows some internal things now.And Dai Jinxian also talked about some problems of the Jesuits, and complained about some problems of the Jesuits and Dominicans.

Liu Yu felt that his inference was almost the same.

However, in fact, or in other words, in history, the things about the Jesuits are much more outrageous than what he infers now.

Historically, the Jesuits were banned precisely because of the word "money".

At least, it must be regarded as a fuse.

In ten or twenty years, it seems that the Jesuit presidents of the dioceses in the Caribbean and Central America, like Macau, do business by the way while preaching.

He is French, and as we all know, the French navy is really crotchless at this time. The navy is not good, and it is difficult to do business in the Caribbean without losing money.

Then, of course, it went bankrupt.

Ordinarily, Jesuit International is quite rich.

Such a large organization, of course, can afford to pay this little money.

But the Society of Jesus feels that this is a personal act, so why use the collective property of the Society of Jesus to pay off this bankruptcy debt?
So he refused to help pay off the debt.

This fuse started the wave of disbanding the Jesuits in France.

It is also because the various forces in France are fighting fiercely. The king may want to use the new forces to squeeze out the old forces. In addition, the issue of Louis XV's mistress, as well as domestic Gaulism, totalitarianism, and the Enlightenment Movement, are all incompatible with the Jesuits. Do not deal with.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Jesuit missionaries did not pay back the money they owed, the Jesuits were abandoned.

There are only three who can give great support to the Jesuits.

Spain, France, Portugal.

The Jesuits, who joked that "candles go out mean that vespers can be canceled", 200 years later also came up with the wonderful "South American Liberation Theology".

In this year, the Jesuits also created the Paraguayan Jesuits' heaven on earth in Paraguay, which seriously affected the Portuguese rule in South America.

Therefore, for Portugal, the Jesuits are also quite intimidating.

Want God?
Or want a king?
This was originally a question of the war between the old and new religions, but after more than a hundred years, it has also extended to the countries of the old religion.

Coupled with the ensuing Lisbon earthquake, the Jesuits spoke amazingly.

Words: Earthquakes are an early warning from the heavens, and the heavens and humans respond to them, which shows the corruption of Portugal's morality.

When thinking about morality.

Addition: Pretending that earthquakes are natural events is pure nonsense.Even the devil has difficulty inventing such unbelievable excuses.

And devout Portuguese Catholics have thus fallen into a theological paradox:
【If we save ourselves by ourselves, is this impious and distrustful of God?Is this against God? 】

[If God sanctioned it fairly, the pious should accept such a sanction. 】

【If God is loving, then we should not save ourselves, but wait for God to save us.When we save ourselves after an earthquake, we do not trust God; and when we rescue after an earthquake, we are resisting God's just punishment. 】

Fortunately, the Prime Minister of Portugal at that time was a ruthless person, and he arrested all members of the Portuguese Jesuits.

Then a huge cauldron was buckled to the Jesuits-Portugal crossed the seven seas, and the Pope's meridian divided the world, how mighty?Now it is mixed up like this, all caused by the ignorance of the Jesuits.

Down with the Jesuits and save the true God.

The Jesuits will not die, Portugal will not prosper.

In fact, this is the continuation of the Protestant war of "theocracy and monarchy" a hundred years ago in the old church countries.

Both France and Portugal opposed the Jesuits.

There is Spain left, which seems to have nothing to do with economic interests, it seems to be just because the Jesuits spread rumors, slandering that the king is actually a bastard, hooked up with the prime minister's wife, and so on.

But in fact, despite the clouds and mists on the surface, there are still centralization, royal power and economic interests inside.

The Spanish king needs a group of secular, Spanish missionaries to go to the colonies, control the colonial estates, land, and increase taxes.

Not a group of international, Holy See Jesuit missionaries.

In short, Spain, France, Portugal and other old church countries finally exerted unanimous pressure to ban the Jesuits, thus making the church forces in their countries completely submit to the kingship.

The Holy See also had to dissolve the Jesuits.But the result... the result is that in the end, the dignitaries of various countries found that compared with this group of blood-sucking Jesuits, the Parisian way of hanging them up as street lights was more terrifying, and finally recovered after taking the emperor.

Compared with Liu Yu's idea of ​​using economic means to force the church to show its greed, the performances of European countries are actually better.

But in essence, they are all about the same. It is a matter of economic interests and power.

(End of this chapter)