Xinshun 1730

Chapter 877
The Jesuit Society in Macau is naturally not a god who can afford five loaves and two fish, and naturally requires money to operate.

Before Japan locked down the country, the Jesuits could directly invest in the raw silk trade, and [-]% of the raw silk trade belonged to the Jesuits; after Japan locked down, the Jesuits also relied on their own St. Paul to run the Nanyang trade and earn enough funds.

Of course, Domingo will handle the matter in Fujian.

But from Dashun's point of view, aren't the Jesuits and the Dominicans all Catholic?
Even in the eyes of most people, at most it is the relationship between the various schools of Confucianism, and the difference is not too big. Once the reputation is tainted, how can ordinary people tell whether it is the Dominican or the Jesuit?
Especially when he was cornered, Liu Yu wanted to write an open letter to the Pope, asking the Jesuits to pay and immigrate the "brothers and sisters" from Macau to South America. Can they go to Paraguay, the Jesuit Kingdom of God, and build the earth together with those Indian brothers? heaven.

But the Jesuits are not even willing to pay the money from the French Caribbean side, so how could they give this money?
If they come up with similar remarks after the Lisbon earthquake to prevaricate, it will definitely ruin their reputation.

A group of sympathizers and even secret believers in the gentry class in Dashun were completely disappointed - this theory does not make sense in Dashun.

Although Dashun also has a statement similar to the warning from heaven, it is absolutely unacceptable to not provide disaster relief afterwards.So the two seem to be similar, but they are actually very different.

Therefore, in the early stage, a large number of gentry will join the religion and think that they are similar, but when the core is completely different, they will be stripped off.

The trend led by Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi made Dashun a large number of scholar-bureaucrats have a great impression of Catholicism before the ban on religion.

"All the laws can be obeyed, except that one cannot take concubines."

In other words, apart from not being able to take concubines, many scholar-officials felt that this was pure and could complement Confucianism.

Distance produces beauty.

And the few strong men who came to the Jesuits in the early days were indeed of a high enough level of education, chatting and laughing with the scholar-officials, and did not expose the absolutely reactionary set of things that the Jesuits had after the Lisbon earthquake.

In Dashun, if something like the Lisbon earthquake happened, it could be said that the heaven gave an early warning, and the heaven and man responded; the emperor could also issue an imperial edict to punish himself.

But no one will stand up and say something like "We should not save ourselves, we should reflect on ourselves, self-help is to resist God's will".

It is precisely because of the beauty created by the long distance before that the Jesuits did not expose his evil.

It also made a large number of scholar-bureaucrats feel good.

The emperor's reasoning that "rebellion requires the participation of gentry to succeed" is also true.

If you want to pull out the influence of Catholicism, you must ban religion forever.Treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

Only, or in other words, it is necessary to make the literati class of the Celestial Dynasty collectively disgusted, and it is possible to use the priests of the scriptures of the Celestial Dynasty to fight against the priests of the scriptures of God.

Moreover, without the participation of scholar-bureaucrats, it would be impossible for Catholicism to spread in Dashun.Not to mention anything else, let’s just talk about a translation problem. There are not enough literati to translate, and with a low-level cultural background, can a high-level Bible like Chinese be written?

If you come up with a bunch of things that are not integrated with Sinicization at all, and come up with a bunch of names like Dous, if you can spread it, you will see the devil.

Therefore, the emperor's intention was to expose the evil of the Catholic Church and arouse the resentment of those close to the scholar-bureaucrats, so that it can be completely eradicated.

Persuading women to keep chastity... In the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats, this matter is "illegal but reasonable", not evil, but illegal.It's a bit similar to "revenge killing" and the like, illegal but reasonable.

This kind of thing cannot arouse the collective criticism and resentment of scholar-bureaucrats.

It is necessary to come up with something that makes the scholar-bureaucrats feel "evil", not necessarily illegal, but something that does not conform to their morality, so that the scholar-bureaucrats can collectively turn around.

At this time, many literati and bureaucrats in Dashun actually tended to say, "Catholicism is good, but it should not be under the control of the Holy See, but each country should manage its own. If you can worship Confucius and ancestors, it will be very good. Confucianism."

But the emperor's inclination was that Catholicism was not good, and it wanted to be banned and criticized.

Regarding the dispute between Catholicism and Confucianism, even if Liu Yu is a latecomer, he actually doesn't know as much as the emperor about some things, or he thinks in a completely different direction from the emperor.

But if we look at the rapid development of Catholicism in the late Ming Dynasty from another perspective, it is really "the right time, place and people".

Economic development led to Confucianism being imprisoned in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Renaissance movement with Chinese characteristics emerged, trying to break the confinement of Confucianism.

The great significance of the existence of Neo Confucianism is that the invasion of Buddhism back then caused Confucianism to fail, and finally came up with Neo Confucianism.

The mission has been completed, and Buddhism has come to an end.By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the practice of defending civilization and resisting Buddhism should be withdrawn.

The economic development and the change of the material basis, but the software can not keep up, and no great Confucianism can completely solve the software problem, and the Christian religion just appeared at this time.

At the same time, it caught up with the trend of anti-Confucianism in the late Ming Dynasty.

The cultural level of Matteo Ricci and others is indeed sufficient. Taking this opportunity, they stepped in and said [Confucianism was polluted by Song Confucianism.The Confucianism of the Song Dynasty mixed too many things of Taoism and Buddhism. 】

[Only by abandoning the influence of Song Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, can Confucianism return to its true original meaning.Do not abandon Cheng Zhu, do not know Confucius and Mencius. 】

[The ancient Confucians have worshiped the supreme god, Haotian God since ancient times.The emperor of heaven in ancient Confucianism is God. 】

It is almost a consensus in the late Ming Dynasty to exclude those contents that contain private goods, and only say that Song Confucianism was influenced by Buddhism and Taoism.Including Wang Yangming, a group of people said that he was polluted by Buddhism.

In addition to the social turmoil, moral corruption, and old people's hearts in the late Ming Dynasty, the scholar-bureaucrats were also pursuing "the original meaning of Confucianism" and "the way of Confucius and Mencius".

Is it really polluted by Song Confucianism, so that what I learn now is Confucianism distorted by Song Confucianism, so that society has become like this?

The Catholic Church also advises people to be kind, is it true that they are fellow Christians?Is it possible to supplement Confucianism with Jesus?
The Son of Heaven was impolite and asked for help from others, maybe this is also a way.

The main reason is that many people feel that the road is blocked, but they also feel that the problem of Confucianism is not the problem of Confucianism. It is Song Confucianism that misinterpreted Confucianism.

Under this kind of thinking, I want to try everything.

This attempt, is a problem...

The Jesuits are proficient in scholastic philosophy and can "debate the scriptures", and they belong to the type that is very good at debating the scriptures.

In addition, the level of the first batch of Jesuits who came to China was indeed not bad.

Matteo Ricci used his very good "debate" technique to break Neo Confucianism with logic.

First of all, since the Song Dynasty, the concept of Emperor of Heaven has been mixed with too many connotations of Taoism and Buddhism.Yuanyuan is neither Emperor Zhenwu nor Emperor Xuandi Jade Emperor.

The origin is the original Emperor of Heaven, God of Heaven, and Haotian God.

Then I used some simple logic to engage in some debates.

["Yi" said: The emperor came out of the earthquake. 】

[Heavenly Husband embraces the eight directions and embraces the four poles, how can it come from one? 】

[That's why, the emperor is not the sky. 】

The sky embraces all directions and embraces four poles, so how can it be said that it comes from the direction of earthquake?If it is said that the material heaven is the emperor, and the emperor is the material heaven, then the logic of this sentence is incorrect.So it can be proved that God is not the material sky, and it is not the sky that you understand as the emperor.

Moreover, [Shangshu·Jin Tengzai: It is ordered by the emperor's court and blessed in all directions. 】

It can be seen that God has his court. Since he has his court, how can he be a material heaven?Therefore, the material heaven and the emperor are not the same thing.

Also said:

[Shang's oath said again: The Xia family is guilty. I fear God and dare not be wrong. 】

【Tang Haoyan: Only the emperor, the God of God, will be down to the people below. 】

This means that during the three generations, it was God who endowed the people with benevolence, reason, and wisdom, but to make people follow his way regularly, a king must be governed and taught.Xia Jie, on the other hand, violated God and committed a crime, so Shang Tang feared God and had to correct Xia Jie's sins...

He can debate the scriptures himself, or this kind of missionary has been doing this since elementary school.The level of indexing is not low at all, and even in universities it is dedicated to this.

Neo-Confucianism was created from the beginning to perfect the world view and cosmology, and to fight against Buddhism during the crisis.This worldview and cosmology do indeed have some logic that can easily be broken.

He made such a start and came up with a new outlook on the universe and the world.The follow-up missionaries also followed up, each with the attitude of holding the Bible in the left hand and the Thirteen Books in the right, saying wave after wave that "the emperor came out of the earthquake", which means that God created the world, This leads to the concept of "Tai Chi".

And try to integrate the cosmology and world outlook of Neo Confucianism with the world outlook and cosmology of Catholicism.

Of course, Dashun has a lot of opponents.

However, when it comes to issues of worldview and cosmology, Confucianism is indeed not congenital enough, otherwise it would not be embarrassed by Buddhism, which has a cosmology and worldview.

This has led to a large number of opponents, and some people think "well, what you said is very reasonable, it makes sense to say it this way."

Although, the child blames the god for not speaking indiscriminately.

But there are always people who want to know, what is the universe?who I am?Where do I come from?Where am I going?What is the truth of the universe?What the hell is the world?What is matter and spirit?

The emperor had no less contact with missionaries than Liu Yu before, and all the missionaries who were able to be by the emperor's side were talking about the book of changes and keeping their mouths shut.

This caused the emperor to feel that debating scriptures was pure nonsense.What's more nonsense is that a group of scholar-bureaucrats in this dynasty helped to defend the Catholic Church. There is another loser on the other side?

Therefore, after listening to Liu Yu's idea of ​​"punishing the heart", the emperor felt that this was indeed a good method.

Debating classics is originally a matter for scholar-bureaucrats.

The key to the "difficulty" of debating classics and classics is that a group of scholar-bureaucrats think that Catholicism is good and help Catholics to argue together.Starting from Xu Guangqi in the previous dynasty, he influenced many people. If it weren't for the issue of taking concubines, there might be more scholar-bureaucrats who joined the religion.

And Liu Yu doesn't know how to debate scriptures.

But his heart-killing method can obliterate the goodness of Catholicism on the moral level, and make the scholar-bureaucrats see its evil and hypocrisy.

As a result, those scholar-bureaucrats who are close to Catholicism and help Catholicism to debate scriptures are disgusted.

After setting up a "Catholicism is hypocritical and evil" persona, it is tantamount to cutting off the arm of Catholic missionaries, and the remaining scholar-bureaucrats who oppose Catholicism will naturally win the argument.

This is similar to "a certain person is eloquent, and everyone has an indissoluble bond with him. Some people support it, and some people oppose it. At this time, someone jumps out, does not argue the scriptures, and directly shakes black material and engages in personal attacks. Who supports it?" Whoever he is is a traitor."

The emperor's focus was not how to argue against Catholicism and eliminate its influence.

It's how to stink up Catholicism.

As long as you stink, you can win without arguing.

Only in this way, the emperor felt, could the symptoms be cured and the influence of Catholicism completely eradicated—as long as the scholar-bureaucrats did not support it, missionary work would be difficult.

If the imperial power does not come down to the county, the emperor will not believe it. If there is no sympathy from the local gentry and scholar-bureaucrats for the teaching plan in Fujian and Suzhou, would it develop secretly like this?

If they regard the missionaries as the emperor Taizu back then, can they still spread the word?

As long as the scholar-bureaucrats' closeness and sympathy are not changed, in the eyes of the emperor, it must be a wild fire that burns endlessly, and spring wind blows and regenerates.

This is quite different from Liu Yu's idea, he thinks it's not the case.

But even though he thought differently and had a different starting point, the emperor supported Liu Yu's idea on how to do it.Although Liu Yu's goal is trade and the future war, tossing about Catholicism is not the goal.

(End of this chapter)