Xinshun 1730

Chapter 928 Pre-war Public Opinion Preparation

Liu Yu's "defamation" of Protestant countries was just about right to the point, and he just mentioned the fact that all the native Americans in the Protestant countries had died.

Of course, Catholicism is not a good bird, but one thing to say, the people in the old church colonies did not die.

Fifty steps laugh at a hundred steps, but sometimes you can really laugh.

The feeling of "human and beast" he mentioned can be regarded as solving many doubts that Qi Guogong has been harboring in Europe for the past few years.

Thinking back on the details of those intentional or unintentional clashes of civilizations in Europe over the past few years, an almost self-justified explanation gradually formed in Qi Guogong's mind.

At the same time, it seems to understand why Liu Yu set his target on those Protestant countries early on, whether it is the Netherlands or the United Kingdom, or even Prussia, which is planned to be pushed to the United Kingdom.

Qi Guogong thought, it seems that according to this statement, these Protestant countries are more extreme, and it is easier to mistreat others?
However, this Prussian didn't see anything that treated people as animals too much, and it seemed normal for the time being.

When I mentioned this doubt, Liu Yu couldn't help it, and burst out laughing, thinking that he was no longer regarded as a human or a beast, and ran directly to the soap, not even a beast.

After a wry smile for a while, he said, "Prussia? Let's see the future. If it can survive the anti-Protestant alliance that entangles Confucianism, the old Catholic sisters, and the Orthodox Rakshasa, it will be unknown in the future."

Afterwards, Duke Qi seemed to have thought of something, and said with a smile: "Shou Chang, when you said that, I suddenly thought that the combination you want to make is quite interesting."

"It's equivalent to pulling in the Orthodoxy, the old Catholicism, and the famous religion of this dynasty to fight against the Protestantism?"

"It can be seen that you are really wary of Protestantism. Do you think the threat of Catholicism is actually not that big?"

Liu Yu shook his head, nodded again and said, "Yes and no."

"I'm wary of God, but Catholicism can't do anything. There are so many dogmas, so it's hard to spread in this dynasty. Dongzheng doesn't even need to be mentioned."

"But in Protestantism, that's another way of saying it."

"Anyone who has the learning of sages and wants to change must call it ancient."

"The so-called new is often very old."

"It's not like that in Europe. In the current dynasty, Japan, and North Korea, there are several new schools of thought, or 'Confucianism in the Song Dynasty will not be destroyed, and Confucianism in the real world will not flourish'; Are they new learning? Or old and old learning? After the Song Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, they wanted to return to the pre-Qin learning, but they called themselves new learning; while the Song learning after the pre-Qin period became old learning.”

"Replacing it with Protestantism and old religion. Although they are different, the principles are the same. Reforming the new, reforming the new, the more reformed, the more old, and the more reformed, the more original."

"It's the old religion. In the future, there may be things about the Six Classics Annotating Me and I Annotating the Six Classics. I don't know what unexpected things will be interpreted from the scriptures. The older Dongzheng, most likely also became Confucianized, and he was named a Yansheng The public is placed under the imperial power; the more recent Protestantism, on the contrary, is the most likely to be converted from the original religion, and the most fanaticism is hard to change, and it cannot be changed at all."

"The Jesuits, as well as the Orthodox Church, follow the path of 'attaching Confucianism to Buddhism'. But Protestantism, which sounds new, seems to be more tolerant. It is absolutely impossible to follow the path of 'attaching Confucianism to Buddhism'. of."

"It's hard to say which one is more harmful. It may be more harmful than fanaticism and fanaticism, and it hides deeper."

"However, because each is governed by the Holy See and the Patriarch, it is actually wearing shackles. If it is not localized, it will be difficult to spread; if it is localized, it is not allowed inside."

"So it may spread in primitive civilizations such as the Americas. But in this dynasty, it is actually extremely difficult."

"This is one of them."

Qi Guogong was not worried about this, he waved his hands and smiled: "The way of following Confucianism and avoiding Buddhism is really the case. But it was just a good time. Since the end of the previous dynasty, many great Confucianists felt that Confucianism in Song Dynasty was polluted by Buddhism. , we have to rectify the source, otherwise the Confucianism contaminated by the Buddhists of Tianzhu will not change, and sooner or later we will repeat the disaster of the end of the Ming Dynasty."

"Matteo Ricci will see every opportunity and seize a good opportunity. But if he is so attached to Confucianism and Buddhism, some things will be in conflict after all."

"He attached Confucianism to Buddhism, and then re-annotated the Six Classics and re-interpreted the name of God. But those who opposed Song Confucianism and wanted to get rid of the contamination of Buddhism, how could they not be able to distinguish this?"

"Remove the old pollution, but add new pollution?"

"It's nothing more than the fact that this dynasty broke the Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties without establishing new ones, but there were few great Confucianists who broke through and established new enlightenment. But the more rigid they are, the harder it is for them to follow Confucianism and replace Buddhism."

"It is indeed reasonable for you to say that. As long as this dynasty bans it, the Holy See still has instructions, so it will be difficult to spread it."

"When I was in France, there was a man named Voltaire in France who heard that the heavenly court banned religion. He also said: Do the Catholics in the heavenly court listen to the emperor? Or do they listen to the Holy See? If they listen to the Holy See, which emperor would allow his subjects to serve him? Where is the other emperor?"

"Since there are such reasons, it can indeed be controlled. What about the second?"

Liu Yu thought for a while, but did not directly answer the second question, but asked, "Father-in-law thinks, Buddhism or Bailian Maitreya, which of the two is a serious problem?"

The Bailian Sect is a professional rebel, and everyone will rebel. Qi Guogong just smiled and didn't even answer this question.

Liu Yu said again: "The Protestantism's so-called justification by faith and the printing of scriptures are divorced from the old religion, without the control of the Holy See. In fact, it is easy to go on the path of becoming a white lotus Maitreya from a Buddha."

Speaking of this, Qi Guogong couldn't help but take a breath, and after thinking about it carefully, it seems that it is indeed possible.

Although Duke Qi has been to Europe quite a few times, from Rakshasa to France, all Orthodox and Protestant countries, but it is extremely difficult to really distinguish the differences between these sects.

However, since Dashun banned religion, there were quite a few versions of the Bible that were burned. Judging from the surface, many ministers in Dashun could easily "distinguish" the differences between these sects.

Of course, it's just a skin difference.

The Bible translated by the Nestorians is called the "True Scripture" and "Old Law".

There are also two different translation methods for the internal sects of the Old Church.

The Jesuit translated name is "God".

Dominique would consider God to be heresy, using "dous".

The eclectic school neither wants to oppose the Holy See, but also hopes to be localized. They use the word "Tianzhu", taking the word "Tianzhu" from "Historical Records Fengchan Shu", "One is called God, and the temple is heavenly".

But the word Tianzhu was actually rejected, because someone translated Sima Qian’s "Book of Fengchan" to Rome, and there was a sentence after Tianzhu: "One is called Tianzhu, and the temple is full of heaven. The sky is equal to the deep water, and those who live at the foot of the mountain in the southern suburbs of Linzi."

If the word "God" is used, it is equivalent to saying that the mountain south of Zibo is the holy mountain of God, so in fact, the term Catholicism does not exist in theory.

When translating the Orthodox Church, these problems were avoided as much as possible, and the concepts of "Tao" and "God" were used. The beginning of the Gospel of John is "In the beginning there was the Tao, and the Tao was God".But soon, it was also rejected by the above, because the concept of "Tao", according to the Western vocabulary, is a bit biased towards the Greek one.

As for the Protestant scriptures, they have not yet been translated.

Qi Guogong seemed to realize something when he thought of the translation issues of Dongzheng and God when religion was banned, as well as the many disputes caused by translation issues.

It seems that what Liu Yu meant was that these are a group of biting dogs.

But Eastern Orthodoxy and the old religion are locked by chains.

Even people like Matteo Ricci, who seized the opportunity in the late Ming Dynasty to reflect on Confucianism being contaminated by Buddhism, and wantonly pursued the "correct" line of localization and replacement, were urgently stopped by the Holy See.

Just which word should be used for the translation of "God", "God", and "God", the group of people in the old religion have been struggling for almost 100 years.

Protestantism, on the other hand, is like a pack of mad dogs without a leash.Not necessarily what can be done.

This is what Liu Yu said about "Buddhism" and "White Lotus Maitreya".

Dashun does not regard Catholicism as a cult, but as a clash of civilizations. Prohibition of religion is a dispute between the imperial power and the Holy See. Cultural confrontation is now the Confucian literati and missionaries competing for "Tao", "Heaven", "God", The interpretation of "Tai Chi" and "Qi" is on the right.

This is different from Bailian Maitreya.

However, Liu Yu is not just scaremongering. In fact, the Protestantism, which is reforming and reforming, is actually very easy to spawn many strange sects.

At this time there were no translations of the Bible by Protestant missionaries.

However, the Protestant version in history has made a famous localization magic reform rule.

For example, Protestantism emphasizes that each country translates the Bible by itself, and there will be no disputes about whether it is God, God, or God like Catholicism in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the first Protestant edition translated the Holy Spirit as Holy Spirit.

As a result, the localization of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was rejected by the Holy Trinity, played a lot.

Since there is the Holy Wind, why can't there be the Five Great Dharma Kings of the Holy Spirit?
Then there are Yang Xiuqing, the Holy God Wind Dharma King, Xue Chaogui, the Holy God Rain Dharma King, and Wei Changhui, the Holy God Lightning Dharma King...these are the five Dharma Kings of Wind, Rain, Thunder, Lightning and Dew.

If the "Holy Spirit" stipulated by the Catholic Church is used rigidly instead of the five Dharma kings of wind, rain, thunder, lightning and dew, it will not spread so fast at all.

This is an example similar to Buddhism turning Maitreya.

China is very special, it is a civilization masquerading as a country.

Therefore, it is so special that any direct intervention by an "international" headquarters in history is bound to fail.Only if the "international" headquarters doesn't care, the localization here can have a great impact.

Even including Buddhism back then, the local people solved the problem of "a monk needs ten monks to be considered official, but there is not a single monk in the local area, so the native method can solve the problem from 0 to 1".

Dongzheng and Catholicism both have international headquarters, and the dogma of formalism is very serious.

In this regard, Liu Yu can be regarded as a major trump card for dealing with the Protestant countries in view of Dashun's national conditions.

If we say that the difference between "humans and beasts" mentioned above just made the emperor feel uncomfortable, but he felt that there were differences between humans and beasts, and humans and tigers. hell.

But this "Buddhism turned into Maitreya danger" is the special effect pain point for Emperor Dashun.

Moreover, the truth here is indeed straightforward.

A dog on a leash is not the same as a mad dog without a leash.

Of course, there is another problem that can be exploited here, which is the set of rhetoric Liu Yu said in France that "China and France will be the strongest fortress of the monarchy".

In fact, China and France, no matter how you look at it, are like the strongest fortresses of a radical republic that no one dares to take back.

At this time, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, which seem to be less monarchical, may instead be the strongest bastion of the monarchy.

It is not because of Protestantism or Oldism that Britain and the Netherlands have established their current systems.

However, if one person’s palms are flushed, then the liver is sick; if two people’s palms are flushed, the liver is still sick... Does this lead to some kind of conjecture that there is a connection between the two?
This is a thinking before the emperor.

Liu Yu doesn't think about these things, and Qi Guogong doesn't think about these things either.

But once the Protestantism and the Dutch British system were forcibly linked, the emperor would definitely think about it.

It should be said that under the background of Dashun banning religion and Britain can also use the liberalization of tea tax as a bargaining chip.

Liu Yu's "human and animal", "Buddha turned to Maitreya", and "British-Dutch system" three qualities will greatly affect the emperor's judgment.

Those Westerners who didn't know it said that Liu Yu was Dashun's "behind-the-scenes minister", but Liu Yu knew very well in his heart that he was not at all.

At most, he is just a member of the foreign affairs and state affairs of the small circle similar to the "King's Secret" under the French King Louis.

It is the emperor who really decides the direction of the Dashun policy.

He can only seduce the emperor, but cannot decide for himself.

He thought about this very clearly from the beginning to the end. This is what Tian Zhenyi meant when he said that if he wanted to do something, he had to put his mind on it and be an "eunuch".

With the blessing of this quality triad, uniting the French against the British is not just a fiscal and trade dispute in India, but a special aura of a "holy alliance".

Russia, France, and China, the three countries with the most "solid" monarchies, the least likely revolutions, and the least likely crowns to land, will unite to launch a "sacred encirclement and suppression" of the Anglo-Dutch model.

Moreover, it seems that Dashun banned Catholicism, but in fact this ban deepened its connection with France.To some extent, it can be regarded as paving the way for the subsequent expulsion of the Jesuits from France.

Because Qi Guogong talked about the fact that Dashun banned Catholicism but allyed with France, and talked about the attitude of the French king.

"From my point of view, although the King of France does not say anything about the expulsion of the Society of Jesus and the Dominican Church in this dynasty, he may not not support it in his heart."

"This court made it clear that as long as the Holy See allows Christians to worship their ancestors, gods, and Zhou Gong Confucian temples. Follow the system of monks, Taoists and priests, and the government of rites will supervise the Catholics in the country, and the government of rites will appoint the archbishop of the Chinese diocese instead of Rome. So it’s not that preaching is not allowed.”

"French King Louis also asked me many times, how did this dynasty solve the problem of 'great Confucianism deceives the emperor with righteousness'."

Liu Yu smiled and asked, "How did your father-in-law answer?"

The Duke of Qi also laughed, shook his head and said, "What can I say? The French imprisoned the Pope. In this dynasty, the Duke of Yanyan was the Marquis of the Sacrifice, the Duke of the Priestess Zhou, and Zhongni for Yan Hui. They descended in turn. The plaque on the left lapel is humiliating, and the founding prince himself formed the Wude palace system to fight against the ceremony."

"At that time, I said that even if the Buddha came back to life and came to this dynasty, he must be an earl honestly and must be under the priest."

"And, it's either hereditary, or the ritual government seals and selects disciples to inherit."

"You also know that the bishop detained him for confession and forced him to admit his mistakes because of his love for his beautiful concubine and doting on his concubine. During the days when I was in France, His Holiness mentioned this matter more than once, which shows how much hatred he has in his heart."

"The law of banning religion in this dynasty is also supported by famous French Confucians such as Voltaire; and the attitude of the King of France in his court is also the same. Although it is not clear, but in my opinion, France will definitely do the same in the future. Something like that."

"I am going this time, and His Majesty is also asking me to see France's true attitude towards the banning of churches and expulsion of the Jesuits in this dynasty. I originally wanted to make more good friends for the purpose of long-term alliances. Now it seems that there is no problem."

Liu Yu laughed loudly and said, "There shouldn't be any problems at all. France and the Narumi Kingdom also formed an alliance, so what's the problem?"

"Father-in-law is back in Beijing this time, before His Majesty, I still want to talk about the Protestant countries."

"There are many people in the court who say that I like to take credit for being able to cure diseases the most."

"This Englishman is not a good bird. The opium matter is really not serious now. If it is serious, you must hate him deeply, and you will know his wolf ambition."

"However, I'd rather take credit for not being cured than to wait until I'm really sick before doing Xinglin's work."

"It's the same with cutting down on Japan, and it's the same with enlistment, and it's also the same with the alliance with France, the seizure of India, and the anti-British campaign."

"I'd rather be ridiculed for not being able to cure the disease and take credit for it, and I never want the students to have to hang their heads to prove that they are right."

"It is better to be labeled in the history books as belligerent, aggressive, and profit-seeking than to be a frequent guest of ancient poems who are lamented as tragic and pity."

"Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty to know that the Western countries are growing stronger and stronger, and the construction of warships cannot be stopped. Since the ancient capital Chang'an, there has never been one who did not go through the Western Regions. Now that Nanyang is established, and the rice is moved to the south. Malacca is the Yumen. The spring breeze is coming. Don't hesitate again and again. Bing Ying decided to die and inappropriately revise the national strategy, and let those people oppose it like snow."

(End of this chapter)