New Shun 1730

After Rodriguez docked at the port, he had a deeper understanding of "Macau is finished".

The Dashun soldiers who were not there when he left the port had already controlled the port coast. In the distance, the forts and artillery platforms left when the city wall was demolished last time were all Dashun flags.

The members of the council stood humbly behind several Dashun officials, making excuses there.

But it seemed that the content of the excuses did not satisfy those Dashun officials.

On the ship, the Dashun sailors took over the St. Paul directly, and Rodriguez had to leave the merchant ship and go to land.

The sailor's musket with a bayonet was about a foot away from his back. If he paused for a moment, he might bump into the sailor's bayonet.

On the dock, there were about twenty people kneeling. Their hands were tied, like tied animals, kneeling on the ground, with their heads down, and behind their necks were black bayonets.

Rodriguez saw several Jesuits among them.

Among the people kneeling there with their hands tied, Rodriguez saw an acquaintance.

If he used a Portuguese or Spanish name, the kneeling man was Peter Sanshi, who was in his sixties and had gray hair.

However, in Dashun, the locals called him Bai Duolu.

Because his Christian name was Peter, and names like Pedro, Peter, and Peter were more likely to be pronounced as Bai Duolu in Fujian and Guangdong due to pronunciation problems.

In later generations, he was also a well-known figure in the Catholic circle.

Historically, Bai Duolu was one of the "120 martyrs" of the Chinese Diocese, and then he rose to prominence and was promoted to a blessed in 1893. In 2000, he was canonized by the then Pope John Paul II and became one of the Catholic saints.

Rodriguez's heart skipped a beat. He recognized Bai Duolu, who had not yet been canonized by the Pope.

When Dorothy Bray sailed from Manila to China, Rodriguez was not the captain of the ship, but he was also a cadre on the ship.

Dorothy Bray was a Dominican, not a Jesuit. Macau is the territory of the Jesuits, not the Dominicans.

Moreover, historically, the Dominicans and the Jesuits had a violent conflict because of Chinese etiquette issues.

Religion is only purer and more extreme.

In order to facilitate the spread of Catholicism in China, the Jesuits translated the Bible into words such as God. The reason why Sister Jiang of the Holy Lance was jokingly called "one space" is related to this incident: Later, the Pope did not allow the use of the pagan word God, but some Bible printers, for convenience, used the "find and replace" method to replace "God" with "God".

As we all know, God is two words; and God is one word. In order to align the typesetting, one space has to be left.

As is well known, Sister Jiang of the Holy Lance is a Christian of traditional Chinese culture. She is the first person in traditional culture to redefine the meaning of the word "Wuwang Zaiju". She thought that the blank space before "God" was a transfer of traditional culture. Because she believed in God, she asked her subordinates to leave a blank space.

As for this time, this "blank space" incident also triggered some conflicts between the Dominicans and the Macau Jesuits.

The Jesuits felt that missionary work should not be bookish or dogmatic. Catholicism should be sinicized, so they should borrow tradition as much as possible and use words like God, so that it would be convenient for missionary work.

Just like the Catholic joke:

One day, priests from various orders were praying together in a church, and the candles went out.

As a result, the Benedictine monks seemed to have not seen it at all. They continued to sing and pray according to their memory, without making any mistakes in a word.

The Franciscan monks were very calm. They took out their guitars and composed a hymn to thank God for the dark sisters.

The Dominican monks began to discuss the important role of light as a medium for sacred knowledge.

The monks of the Order of the Holy Cross sank into a slow, rhythmic breathing and meditation.

Only the monks of the Society of Jesus were special. They asked: If the candles suddenly went out, does it mean that the traditional evening prayer can be cancelled from now on?

In addition to the Chinese etiquette issue, the real embodiment of this joke is the "Saint Paul" merchant ship in Macau.

From the perspective of Catholicism, this flexibility is undoubtedly successful.

However, the Dominicans at that time thought, damn, you are not real Catholics, how can you allow the rules to be changed at will?

So they went to Rome to complain and put forward the famous Seventeen Comments on the Society of Jesus, accusing the Society of Jesus of violating orthodox Catholicism and embarking on the road of heresy.

The "flexibility" of the Society of Jesus and the "dogma" of the Dominicans led to the "Chinese Catholic etiquette dispute" from the previous Ming Dynasty to the Dashun Dynasty.

In the end, under the "guessing the intentions" of Bai Yunhang, the governor of Wendeng Prefecture when Liu Yu was training troops in Weihai, a series of events directly triggered the expulsion of Catholics and the prohibition of Catholicism in Dashun.

So the Society of Jesus and the Dominicans were not very compatible.

However, more than 30 years ago, the Pope announced that Fujian was the diocese of the Dominicans, and the Jesuits had to evacuate Fujian. Although there were conflicts between the two sides, the St. Paul still carried Dominican priests such as Bai Duolu to Macau at that time, and found a ship in Macau to go to Fujian.

Since Bai Yunhang was promoted for handling the religious case, Dashun has begun to strictly prohibit religion. Macau is one of the few places where Catholicism is allowed to spread.

As a person who has grown up in Macau for so long, Rodriguez certainly understands the dangers.

He never expected to see the old and tied-up priest Bai Duolu, who had come to Macau on his ship.

Because after Bai Yunhang handled the religious case, Dashun banned religion. And the place where Bai Yunhang made his fortune was Fujian, which was governed by the Dominicans.

At that time, Bai Duolu and others were expelled from Fujian, and they were asked to either leave the country or go to Macau.

A few years ago, Rodriguez saw Bai Duolu in Macau, and later heard that he had left Macau. Who would have thought that he would see him here today?

Dashun certainly could not go to Manila and other places to enforce the law. Now Bai Duolu was tied up and detained here...

Obviously, after leaving Macau a few years ago, this person probably did not leave Dashun at all, but hid back in Fujian to preach!

Thinking of this, Rodriguez couldn't help but sweat.

He had heard about some of the torture methods in Dashun, and he trusted the firmness of the faith of the white-haired priest Bai Duolu.

I am afraid that the implicated people will drag me into this, and things will be troublesome.

My life in Macau is pretty good. I can be a professional manager of the Jesuits, and even in the depression of Macau, I can still run trade lines.

If I am deported because of this incident, where can I find such a good job? If I return to China, life will not be easy, and the domestic trade is also miserable. If I really return to China, I can only go to the Brazilian colony.

At the beginning, his words "Macau, it's over" were just a bystander's attitude. After all, he believed that he did not traffic in people or smuggle opium. Macau was going to be over, but he would not be implicated.

Who would have thought that I could have a "bystander" mentality at sea before, but now it has affected me.

If this is the case, most people in Macau, who will not be implicated?

While sweating profusely, Rodriguez secretly looked at the Dashun officials next to Bai Duolu. Seeing the patterns on their clothes, he was even more shocked.

That clothes were from the imperial court officials at the level of Jiedushi.

This... Even if there was anything wrong in Macau before, the county magistrate would handle it. Now such a high-level official has come directly, and soldiers with guns and bayonets are everywhere. This is going to be a big deal!

Next to Bai Duolu.

The Guangdong Jiedushi looked at the criminals in front of him who were transferred from Fujian by the court, and he was a little confused about the court's attitude.

He also had a deep understanding of the threat of Catholicism.

From the perspective of a Confucian scholar, he was even a little scared.

The people tied up in front of him were escorted from Fujian by the children's army on his way to Macau to handle the "population and opium" case.

After Bai Yunhang rose to prominence in Fujian, Fujian, as the fuse of the "ban on religion", was very strict in investigating and handling missionary work.

However, even with such strict conditions, something big still happened.

If we look at the number of people involved, it’s not a big deal.

Only seven or eight people.

But some of the problems behind this incident made the governor of Guangdong tremble with fear after listening to the retelling of the Children’s Army.

How could seven or eight people cause such a big incident?

The matter is simple.

The missionary work went underground, and when they investigated, they found some virgins.

Similar to Japan, the means of handling religious cases here in Dashun were also quite simple and rough: throw the holy elephant to the ground and let the believers trample on it.

Those who stepped on it were educated, taken back to their families and clans, and disciplined.

Those who refused to step on it were beaten.

As a result, a jaw-dropping scene appeared.

Under the surveillance and coercion of a group of yamen runners and the Children’s Army sent by the court, these women held hands and formed a human wall to block the holy elephant.

And they turned their backs to the crowd and faced the holy elephant.

Originally, such a thing must be handled publicly, in order to deter those who want to join the religion and let them know the consequences.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, the actions of these women were really shocking.

Then, with hundreds of people watching, these women, holding hands, knelt down in front of the holy elephant.

A killing of chickens to scare monkeys by trampling on the holy elephant was turned into a public propaganda.

Is this too much?

The local county magistrate was so scared that his face turned pale. The county yamen runners rushed up and beat the women violently.

Beating was not the purpose. The purpose was to pose such a pious posture in public, which was really influential.

At the very least, they should be beaten to the ground, revealing their ugly appearance.

However, these women were beaten and beaten by the yamen runners, and the sticks were hit on their knees and palms, and the sticks were hit on their palms, and these women still maintained their original postures.

It was not until the bones were broken that it was impossible to violate the laws of physics, and then he was beaten to the ground.

At that time, the Children's Army was also ordered to investigate this matter in Fujian, and watched the whole process. It is said that the county magistrate was so scared that his face turned green.

This is not because he wanted to show his face, but ended up showing his butt.

It's just too scary.

This is what was caught, how many people were not caught?

Since ancient times, most of the "rebellions" and "rebellions" were mobs.

But if there are 20,000 people who can do this, and would rather die than surrender, and have a firm belief that they don't change their posture before being beaten to the point of breaking bones, what concept is this?

If Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao had 20,000 core members, they would have accomplished the mission long ago, and there would be no Three Kingdoms story. If Emperor Taizu had 20,000 such people, the first year of Yongchang would have turned into the tenth year of Yongchang.

In public, killing a chicken to scare the monkeys became a Catholic propaganda, and the dangerous destructive power was reflected in it - this was after the Dashun order to ban religion.

The county magistrate was paralyzed at the time, and the children's army was present, so the matter must be reported immediately.

Then a large-scale search, report, and investigation began, and the investigation led to Bai Duolu, the vicar of the Fujian Diocese. At this time, he was already the head of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Diocese.

When he was arrested, Bai Duolu hid in the cellar of the church members. He tortured more than 20 people and killed seven or eight of them. In the end, only one person could not bear it and confessed.

During the interrogation, Bai Duolu was already proficient in many dialects in eastern Fujian, southern Jiangxi, and southern Zhejiang, and spoke dialects more fluently than the county magistrate who spoke Mandarin.

The reason why he was in charge of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi dioceses, and did not continue to expand northward, is... the reason is quite speechless.

According to the interrogation, because there are many mountainous areas in Fujian, Jiangxi and southern Zhejiang, the people are poor, the clans are strong, and it is difficult to reclaim land, which inevitably leads to the emphasis on male labor... and so on. For these reasons, when preaching here, more attention should be paid to female believers, because they suffer too much, which is unbearable for ordinary people, and it is easier to convert to Christianity.

The reason why he did not continue to go north is because [We noticed that the virgins in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang are self-reliant. Because they are close to the trade center, they can support themselves with the textile industry. In appearance, they can't see any difference from non-believers, but they are required not to wear gorgeous clothes and be as simple as possible. ]

[Most of them live among the masses and rely on hard work to make a living. They spin and weave all day long. 】

【They often get up early and stay up late to make up for the time they spend chanting and doing charity work...】

【Therefore, the idea of ​​missionary work in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang must be different from that in the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi dioceses. 】

【We noticed that the poverty and underdeveloped trade in the mountainous areas of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi made the locals pay more attention to the clan and the labor force of male arable land. When developing female believers there, we should make them feel cared for and hopeful... and we must pay attention to not developing married female believers as much as possible, so as not to cause resentment from the clan...】

【Women in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang are more likely to be self-reliant because of the developed trade and trade in Songjiang Prefecture. We should make them feel respected and equal. These are two different missionary ideas...】

After these things were examined, the local county magistrate tied himself up directly and asked the children's army to put him in a prison car and take him to the capital.

Because he knew what these words meant.

And the county where he served as the county magistrate turned out to be the center of secret dissemination, and several missionary bigwigs were all hiding in the county under his jurisdiction.

This was an emergency, and it happened just when the court was about to deal with the problem in Macau.

The emperor directly ordered that after the interrogation, he would be sent to Macau.

In Macau, he would be killed.

And before the execution, his missionary deeds should be explained clearly.

Do not hide or deliberately humiliate him, but speak truthfully.

It should be said in front of the large number of Catholics who moved to Macau.

At the same time, a secret order was given to Jiao Lao Butu and the Guangdong Jiedushi: If there is any change, they will be slaughtered.

The army of Songjiang Prefecture camp urgently mobilized 5,000 people to prepare to board the ship.

The fleets of Tianjin, Weihai, and Lushun, and the prince Li Li also received a secret order almost at the same time: the fleets were ready for battle and ready to go south at any time.