Chapter 50 Chapter One God's Encounter in China

The cause of this conflict can be traced back to Xavier, the first missionary who came to China in the Ming Dynasty.At that time, he had great ambitions to spread Western Christian ideas to the Chinese Empire.He landed in Macau, and then came to Guangzhou, causing widespread commotion, because that was the first time the Chinese saw foreigners.The appearance of this Xavier is too much like the Yasha ghost in the Buddhist scriptures, with yellow hair, blond hair and blue eyes, and deep-set eyes. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a ghost. Thousands of people in Guangzhou watched Xavier to death. .

Xavier died, Ricci was born.This Matteo Ricci is an Italian.He was born in the year of Xavier's death, like a kind of summoning from somewhere, maybe he is the reincarnation of Xavier is unknown. At an early age, Matteo Ricci made a great wish: to come to the East to preach.He sneaked into China during the Ming Dynasty, disguised himself as a variety of people—businessmen, monks, he dared to disguise anyone, and spread Christianity secretly.At that time, the Chinese were not ignorant of Christianity. We must know that Christianity was first introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty, when it was called Nestorianism.Christianity is a monotheistic religion, and it forbids idol worship, while the Chinese still remain on the basis of primitive worship, kowtow to the statues of their ancestors, and kowtow to the temple of Confucius, and there are gods everywhere in the mountains, forests and lakes, and they kowtow when they see a temple. This kind of idol worship is Christianity strictly prohibited.

But when Matteo Ricci preached, the principles were very loose. You can kowtow to whomever you like. I don’t care about you. You just need to believe in God.Matteo Ricci's purpose is very clear: as long as you believe in the Lord, "the footlight of the Lord's words", and you accept my concept over time, you will no longer worship idols. After Matteo Ricci, the cause of Christianity flourished in China.When the Ming Dynasty fell and Li Zicheng's rogues rushed into Beijing, there was a missionary in Beijing, and he was Tang Ruowang.At that time, the rogues were about to rush into Tang Ruowang's house. Tang Ruowang stood in front of the door with a steel knife in his hand, terrified the rogues.Tang Ruowang was blond and blue-eyed. These rogues killed Chinese people with short noses and yellow skin. When they saw this man suddenly, they were very frightened. They couldn't determine whether he was a human or a demon.Tang Ruowang was so lucky to survive, and later returned to the Qing Empire.

When Christianity flourished in China, internal strife among the priests also arose.Because of Matteo Ricci's new rules, several schools of Christianity became very popular, and some Christians couldn't stand it any longer. They sued the Pope, saying that Chinese missionaries are too disgraceful and violate our principle. Willingness to allow China to continue to worship idols is a blasphemy against the Lord and it cannot go on like this. At that time, the pope asked: What do you mean by saying this?The priests said: It's very simple, you should now issue an order to the Chinese emperor to order Chinese Christians to give up idolatry.The pope asked: Will the Chinese emperor listen to me?Those missionaries deliberately told the Pope: He will listen. You must know that the current emperor of China was established by our missionaries. How could he not listen to us?As soon as the pope got hot, he gave Kangxi an order to stop the idolatry of Chinese Christians.At that time, Kangxi was very annoyed when he saw this order, thinking that I hadn't troubled these barbarians and little foreign devils, but they had come to me.So he immediately ordered to expel all the missionaries and drive them all to Macau.This is the first time that Kangxi banned the church in his later years.

After this order was issued, missionaries from various countries started to rescue themselves. Among them was a Portuguese missionary named Mu Jingyuan. The prince ascended the throne and set up a set of secret contact codes for the fourteenth prince.But it was not the fourteenth son who finally ascended the throne, but the fourth son Yongzheng.After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he first detained the fourteenth elder brother, his half-brother who was born to his own mother, and the missionary Mu Jingyuan was also imprisoned. After Mu Jingyuan was imprisoned, he sent a distress message to his home country Portugal, so Portugal sent a rescue team to Macau.The rescue team did not have much money. It happened that a bank had just been established in Hong Kong at that time, and it was guaranteed by the Macau government, and a sum of money was borrowed from this bank.

This team of missionaries came to Beijing. Just like Margarni came to China, this team of missionaries was also asked to kowtow, but the team of missionaries flatly refused.What is Yongzheng's attitude?Yongzheng actually allowed these missionaries not to kowtow, and when Yongzheng received these missionaries, all the ministers present were stunned, because Yongzheng was dressed in a wig, powdered face, a small fake beard, and a bow tie , wearing a suit and leather shoes-fake foreign devils! So don't say that the Chinese are ignorant, the emperor is at the top of the wise, they were the first to connect with the world, they just want you to continue to evolve like primitive people.In the end, the rescue team returned without success, and Mu Jingyuan was secretly executed by Yongzheng in prison.