Xinshun 1730

Chapter 889
The three shocks Jiang Youren suffered during his stay in Macau can be said to be caused by the particularity of Dashun.

And the fourth shock he received had little to do with Dashun.

It was up to their Jesuits themselves.

Ever since Matteo Ricci, he has been trying to borrow the concept of God from ancient Chinese texts.

Even though it was later banned by the Holy See, the Jesuits have been trying to do this, and have been trying to argue with Confucianism, explaining the concepts of God, Tai Chi, Qi, and Li from the perspective of Christianity.

Of course, this also had an impact on Jiang Youren. He is a member of the Jesuits, and he came to China specially, and he came to China after Dashun banned religion, so he is quite familiar with this set of things.

After the first three ideological shocks occurred, one day and night when I was reading "Shangshu", I read an article by Tang Shi, and when I read "I only heard what you said, the Xia family is guilty, I fear God and dare not be wrong", suddenly I realized.

Then turn to the Old Testament..."

After reading the "Book of History", he looked at the "Old Testament", and the interpretation of the Chinese word "God" in the Jesuits all the time, which made Jiang Youren's mind confused for a while.

What came to mind subconsciously was the word in "Yi": Heaven and earth change, and four seasons complete.The Tang-Wu revolution follows the sky and responds to people.

Since the time of Matteo Ricci, he has been fighting for the word God.And once it is understood according to Matteo Ricci and the subsequent Jesuits, then there is a problem here.

Do Exodus and Tangwu Revolution have the same meaning?
It's just that after the Tower of Babel made language barriers in various places, different versions were produced?
And the spiritual core is actually the same?

The stories can be different, but as long as the spiritual core is the same.

Is the Bible itself, some of the stories in the Old Testament, just a realpolitik metaphor?

Xia Jie did not worry about the people, abandoned the crops, and seized the achievements of agriculture in order to collect wealth and labor to curb the people's strength.So Shang Tang saw that the Xia family was guilty, obeyed God's will, and dared not be wrong.

This is compared to Exodus.

Is it the spiritual core, it can be considered that the Tang-Wu Revolution and Exodus are all a revolution carried out by the oppressed according to God's order?
To be able to understand the "Bible" in this way in front of "Shangshu" and "Book of Changes" is no longer a simple heresy, but a level of heresy that can be directly burned at the stake and then burned to ashes.

Crooked to the sky, flew out of the sky.

Jiang Youren frightened himself so much that he couldn't fall asleep for several days when he had this idea that popped up that night.

But he really didn't dare to tell others what was in his heart.

There is no way to say this kind of thing. This is no longer as simple as the Jesuit meeting God and offering sacrifices to ancestors and Confucius, but a terrible thought that makes one's spirit collapse and his faith collapse.

I couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and the more I thought about it, the more confused I became, so I read more books.

After reading a bunch of pre-Qin ancient books, Jiang Youren strengthened many seeds that had germinated in his heart from the "universal love" of Mohism.

The universal love in the pre-Qin ancient books is utilitarian, with a very clear purpose, mutual love and mutual benefit, through mutual love, to achieve the purpose of mutual benefit.

The Jesuits, on the one hand, read a lot of Confucian classics, and on the other hand, they themselves opposed the Mohist kind of love, so Jiang Youren looked for the similarities and differences between the love he understood and the heresy love in the pre-Qin period.

After watching it for a long time, I just feel that the biggest difference between the love they understand in Jesus and the heresy love in the pre-Qin period is that their love is gratuitous and non-utilitarian.

Why is there such a difference in his understanding?

Jiang Youren felt that looking through the Bible, one can often see God's preference for those who are weak and insulted.

The weak, the poor, the humiliated have nothing to gain from them.

Because God favors the weak, the poor, and the insulted in this way, this favor makes their love gratuitous and utilitarian.

Man should imitate the goodness of God.

This is what he understands, the difference between their love and the heresy love in the pre-Qin period is unreasonable—all behaviors and emotions in the world are constructed by God, and God favors the weak, the poor and the insulted, so the love in the world constructed is to win Unprofitable, gratuitous, and non-utilitarian.

Since the stereotype of love stems from God’s preference for the weak, the poor, and the insulted, wouldn’t it further confirm the terrifying heresy that sprouted in his heart?

The interpretation of Exodus in this era is that the oppressed, the weak, the poor, and the insulted, carry out a revolution according to God's will?Because God's will runs through the book, and everything confirms this, He favors these people...

Coupled with the influence of Leibniz on him, even the paradox of why He made these people suffer if He favored these people is solved——.

This terrible thought tormented him constantly.

Self-torture is nothing more than two possibilities.

or a nervous breakdown.

Or be enlightened.

Jiang Youren's ending suddenly became clear.

The opportunity to suddenly see the light is due to Dashun's military operations in Nanyang.

Before the military operation in Nanyang, when Liu Yu passed by Bangka Island, he took away many organizers from the tin miners who were about to riot there.

Several of these organizers were also Catholics.And a diehard.

At the beginning, Liu Yu took these organizers away not out of sympathy for them. In Liu Yu's view, the path they were going to take was pure nonsense.

Rather, they were worried that they would not succeed in their uprising, and that those excellent bases, military sources, and population after Dashun went to Nanyang were slaughtered in advance by their pure nonsense.

Therefore, all the leaders were captured at that time, which directly disintegrated the miners' uprising in Banga.Now that Dashun went to Nanyang, Liu Yu imitated the colonial methods of the British in the past, and used the method of forced buyout to let those miners cooperate to dry the tin mines.

This immediately won the hearts of the Bangka miners for Dashun, and made Dashun have a very stable source of troops and a basic base near Malacca.

And if those people were the ones who rioted in the first place, I am afraid that these people would have been slaughtered long ago.

Those die-hard bosses who were arrested at the beginning, named Xu Gui and Christian name Paul, were die-hard Catholics.In order not to leave the religion, he even gave up his status as a scholar. He was arrested by Liu Yu and sent to a ship to do hard labor. He led him to Europe to see him, but he didn't change his mind much.

After returning from Europe, Liu Yu threw him to Macau.

As a result, with this throw, a wonderful reaction was thrown.

The leader named Xu Gui who was arrested in Bangka at the beginning was originally a scholar with a certain level.He was also a stubborn one who never quit teaching, and was even taken by Liu Yu to go around Europe.

After returning, those non-religious miners' leaders were all sent back to Banga by Liu Yu.Because of religious issues, it is impossible for Xu Gui to be sent to Bangka by Liu Yu, so he can only be thrown in Macau.

There are not many scholars in Macau, and there are even fewer scholars who have been to Europe, and there is only one.Although it is getting rid of fame, it cannot clear the knowledge in the mind.

After going back and forth like this, I naturally got to know Jiang Youren who studied the classics hard.

At that time, Jiang Youren felt that he had gone astray and entered heresy, and the two talked a lot after meeting.

A ex-Catholic ex-scholar who has been expelled from his career, although he still speaks rigidly as a Christian, in fact, he is still traditional in his bones.

He also worked in a mine, and the world is very unfair. What he says about Christ in his mouth is still thinking about the three generations of ruling the world, Datong, wells and fields.

The other is a Jesuit missionary who was influenced by this strange thing and became obsessed.

The collision of these two ideas, coupled with the special national conditions of Dashun's land annexation and the private sale of land allowed thousands of years ago, it is very easy to guess what weird and weird things will be produced.

However, Xu Gui and Jiang Youren's encounter and collision of ideas also solved another very critical problem of their strange heresy.

The Catholic Church is concerned with saving souls.

This is an unresolved problem in Jiang Youren's heretical ideas. He wants to create a heaven on earth, but the saving of people in this kind of behavior is not the same as saving people in the spiritual sense in their teachings.

However, Xu Gui solved this problem after discussing with Jiang Youren by virtue of his special life experience and the traditional set of distorted thoughts without knowing it in his bones.

Xu Gui said: I am not only a scholar, but also a miner, and I have been to Europa, and I have seen a lot of things.

Is it God's will that people be poor, such as the tenants in Dashun, the slave laborers in the mines, and the handicraft workers in Europe?Or is there another reason, someone twisted God's will?
Jiang Youren actually didn't understand it himself, but he had also quietly discussed with Xu Gui the heretical ideas in his mind that were influenced by the strange learning from east to west.

Xu Gui said: tenants do not want to be tenants, nor is it God's will for them to live like this.It was because someone had distorted God's will that they had to accept the tenant life.How is it distorted?Putting the land under private ownership and satisfying one's own greed distorts the whole world.

Under this distortion, it is not that the tenants voluntarily want to be tenants, nor does God insist that they be tenants, but that they cannot live without being tenants and have to choose such a way of life.

So, let them have their own choices, and have the right to choose their lives according to God's will. Is it the salvation of people in the Catholic sense?

Jiang Youren was influenced by Leibniz's set of theology, the only one selected by the universe to be the best, and the set of rules that have long established natural evolution.

So after hearing Xu Gui's explanation, he felt that it made a lot of sense.

That’s right, tenants, miners, those hired workers in European handicraft factories, slave labor in Batavia’s sugar factories, and those sinners created by British sheep cannibals, it’s not that they choose to be like this, but that the world is ruled by the greed of some people. Distortion, idolatry of money and interests, leading them to have no choice but to choose.

If they are allowed to choose, they will have the opportunity to truly choose to listen to God's will.

Thinking this way is, of course, saving people in a religious sense.

So, the relationship between saving the world and saving people is resolved in this way—saving the world means saving people.

Both Catholicism and Confucianism are against the emerging classes in the new era.The fundamentalist Confucianism also opposes land annexation.

But their way of opposing is to go backwards.

Now there is no social basis or material conditions to go forward and oppose it.

It is conceivable that what the two of them came up with after talking freely.

Most of them are abstinence, priests add well fields, the church replaces the three elders, the official management of the Zhou Dynasty, labor exchange, and return to the public on the [-]th.

Very nonsense, very reactionary.But... it's provocative.

In particular, Dashun only took the initiative to set up a trade center to move northward to the Yangtze River Estuary, and has not yet implemented the factory system to impact the small peasant economy. It is at the dawn of a new era when Lingnan has affected the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people.

(End of this chapter)