New Shun 1730

Everyone has different identities, and only when they are combined together can they become a complete person.

Just like Jiang Youren is a Jesuit, and also a disciple of a group of astronomers and mathematicians.

In their view, Liu Yu is not only a noble and behind-the-scenes foreign minister of Dashun, but also a figure in the scientific circle.

So when Jiang Youren and a group of people who tried a new route came to Macau and came into contact with more situations on the Dashun side, they were a little desperate.

After reading some scientific books published by Dashun in recent years, Jiang Youren felt that his level was definitely much higher than that of missionaries before the ban on religion.

But to say that he could impress the Duke of Xingguo of Dashun and allow the Jesuits to enter Beijing again out of support for science... I'm afraid it's wishful thinking.

The special training he received specifically for China was astronomy. The reason he found was also to participate in the observation of Venus transit 15 years later and determine the distance between the sun and the earth.

However, after he came to Macau, he flipped through some journals of the Dashun Academy of Sciences in recent years and found that Dashun was openly engaged in moon phase diagrams, trying to break the monopoly of the British marine clock on the definition of longitude.

A group of people engaged in moon phase diagrams, even if there is a transit of Venus this year, Dashun can catch at least thirty or fifty people to participate in observation and calculation. Moreover, how many people will be able to do this 15 years later?

When Matteo Ricci came, he took out the Elements of Geometry and was the best in the world.

Jiang Youren felt that his astronomy and mathematics level was much higher than that of Matteo Ricci.

However, in order to reach the level of Matteo Ricci, who was the best in the world and was regarded as a great talent by the literati, he had to be able to solve Fermat's Last Theorem and solve the problem that any integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of three prime numbers by himself.

It's not that he can't compare with his predecessors, but that the level of the target audience is much higher than before. Before, eating cabbage all day, occasionally eating a piece of fat pig lymph node was also delicious; after getting used to eating delicacies from mountains and seas, who can still regard pig lymph node as a delicacy?

Mathematics and astronomy, which are specially trained for the special national conditions of Dashun, cannot be used as opportunities.

Let alone the rest.

It is not as simple as saying that the level is not enough, but the rest is completely "heresy", "fallacy", "nonsense", "attempting to usurp the power of God", which is something that the Jesuits cannot set foot on and cannot accept at all.

For example, some new textbooks that Jiang Youren saw in Weihai, Songjiang Prefecture, etc., mainly "General Knowledge" and "Nature", are completely destroying the foundation of religion and blaspheming the power of God.

For example, the pea story, the Central Plains formed by the siltation of the sea, and the atomic molecules... The former is clearly trying to touch the power that only God can control. Whether it is true or not, it is wrong in itself.

Jiang Youren understands one truth.

A person who can recite the Bible fluently cannot write out "Other Scriptures" by himself without any reason. Those who can write are all outstanding people of the time and people who stir up the world.

Similarly, if you ask these children who receive new education how they discovered and proved peas, they may just tell a story. But they believe in these things.

Jiang Youren felt that Dashun was hopeless and had been abandoned by God. They have begun to poison their children and instill those devilish words from an early age.

The terrible thing is the word "common sense".

The common sense of believers is the creation of the world in seven days.

The common sense of these children who have been indoctrinated with devilish words has nothing to do with the creation of the world in seven days when they grow up.

With Confucian scholars, you can still discuss the mysterious Tao, Tai Chi, Qi, and Li.

What to discuss with this group of people? Discuss why double eyelids and single eyelids? This is a power that only God should control, is it something that mortals should discuss?

The original goal of the Jesuits was to distort concepts, occupy the magpie's nest, and borrow words like God to replace it.

Now the Jesuits are trying to walk the path of "the foreign minister behind the scenes of Dashun", but they don't give them the opportunity to occupy the magpie's nest. They are promoting devil's words and don't talk about things like Tai Chi, Qi, and Li. They even distort the concepts of "Tao" and "nature".

The key is that they don't argue at all.

Instead, they use the power of the rich and powerful to directly indoctrinate the next generation.

The Duke of Guo, who is absolutely skilled in martial arts, has money in his hands and is favored by the emperor. Even if there are objections, it is useless.

Astronomy and mathematics are not good enough to stand out from the crowd; the rest of common sense is basically devil's words. It is impossible for me to be better than the devil, right?

Then how to infiltrate?

Before the Fujian incident, Jiang Youren just felt that the road ahead was difficult.

After the Fujian incident, coupled with the opium incident, and Liu Yu's direct words to be wary of the Jesuits playing the science card, Jiang Youren was directly desperate.

He believed that the Jesuits had been trying to take the upper-class route, but it had failed.

Before the Dominicans attacked the Chinese ritual issue, the Jesuits were following the "Ship of Theseus" plan.

A ship, with all the wood replaced, is it still the same ship?

Names like God are still the same name, but the original meaning has been quietly replaced. Is the Chinese God still the original God?

Originally, they wanted to use the opportunity of using Christianity to supplement Confucianism to replace many things in Confucianism, just like Buddhism infected Song Confucianism, which was originally a foreign religion and quietly took root in the local area.

Waiting for the future, like Buddhism, so that the people will not think it is a foreign thing, and then spread the true meaning.

As many scholar-officials have said before, Buddhism does not allow killing and eating meat, and Catholicism does not allow concubines. Apart from this, the rest are easier to keep the precepts and have many gentlemanly virtues.

However, the Ship of Theseus plan was ruined by the Dominicans, who started the Inquisition.

The Vatican held a meeting to discuss and support the Dominicans, deny the Jesuits' flexibility, and determine that God, ancestor worship, etc. are all heretical behaviors and cannot be used.

After the failure of the Ship of Theseus plan, the Jesuits studied China and found that the key to China's problems lies in the emperor.

The key to the emperor's problem lies in the heir.

And the key to the heir problem lies in sneaking into the palace.

The key to sneaking into the palace is that Dashun needs knowledge of calendar, astronomy and mathematics.

So the upper-level subtle influence plan was launched.

This plan was relatively successful before. Dashun needed people to draw maps, improve the calendar, and communicate with the outside world. The Jesuits monopolized the channels of foreign communication, and also took advantage of the stupid acts of the British and Dutch to rob Zhoushan and rob cargo ships to isolate Protestantism.

They even used the opportunity of teaching mathematics in the palace to try to influence the heirs.

In fact, their luck was already good. The Jesuits once tried to take sides on the issue of the prince's succession, but some missionaries who had been in China for a long time felt that this was a risky move, and once they made a mistake, they would be doomed, so they did not take sides on the issue of the successor.

This is luck.

Otherwise, it would be even worse.

They don't understand the Chinese emperor at all.

They don't understand the power desire of the Forbidden City at all.

Even if the prince you support ascends the throne, after ascending to the throne, you don't think about how to thank these missionaries, but think that if they can support me today, won't they also take sides when my son ascends the throne tomorrow.

How can the imperial power tolerate external forces interfering?

Not to mention foreign missionaries, the ministers who helped the prince ascend the throne turned their faces and refused to recognize them afterwards, and were killed, right?

On the other hand, if the prince you support fails, the first thing the new emperor does after he takes office is to uphold justice: my brother is colluding with the barbarians, and I will expel the barbarian missionaries.

I was worried that I could not find an excuse for "brotherly love and respect for younger brothers", isn't this justice delivered to me for nothing?

Even if they were lucky and did not take sides, support, or win over the issue of succession, the new emperor still chose to ban religion a few years after he ascended the throne.

It would have been okay, although religion was banned, there was still room for maneuver. Because there were still many missionaries who served in the palace with their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics.

However, a few years later, a strange person came out from within Dashun, and he almost single-handedly cleared out the missionaries in the palace.

Of course, the emperor trusted his own people. He used them before because his own people did not have such ability. Now his own people also have such ability, so why use outsiders?

This strange man used the opportunity to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot, directly grasped the root of why the missionaries were in the court, and solved the problem from the root.

Now, the Ship of Theseus plan and the upper-level influence plan have all failed.

He also wanted to carry out the infiltration plan in the name of science.

But Jiang Youren, the important executor of this plan, felt that it would inevitably fail. The group of people in the Vatican were simply old and had no idea how much the external world had changed.

A Dashun that had already tried to draw a lunar phase map needed a few Jesuit astronomy bachelors who changed their careers halfway?

It was really a case of looking for a sword on a boat. If the current plan was formulated based on the past Dashun, it would be a devil if it succeeded.

In the past few years in Macau, he read a lot of books, consulted the history of the Shimabara Incident in Japan, and also read some history of the founding of the Dashun.

After the Dominicans proposed to preach in eastern Fujian and southern Jiangxi, and to adopt a different approach from preaching in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, and to adapt to local conditions, Jiang Youren was also inspired.

He felt that in this situation, if he wanted to spread the true faith in China, he needed to take a bold and unprecedented approach - a Chinese version of the Shimahara Martyrdom Uprising.

Since the founding of the Dashun Dynasty was a successful armed resistance; since China is not only rich coastal areas, but also has a large number of poor areas, why not preach there, take advantage of the Chinese poor's desire for fairness and the idea of ​​the world returning to the public, rely on religious organizations, and try to overthrow the current court and replace it?

Use the experience of preaching in those Gaul tribes a long time ago, help build houses, dig wells and treat illnesses, show the resilience of activities at the bottom, give up the upper route, and take the lower route.

At least, he felt that this seemed to be the only feasible way now. The new attempt of the Jesuits has actually failed.

However, even if this only feasible method can really get support, it also needs a Macau as a base to provide funds and train Tang people to go deep into the interior.

Even if they can open their mouths and close their mouths to recite ancient teachings, and even if they can speak the same Fujian and Gannan dialects as the locals, like Bai Duolu, their skin color still makes people feel repelled, and they must go deep into the interior as Tang people.

He read Chinese history books and found that there were many people who became emperors or caused chaos in the world as commoners. Are kings, princes, generals and ministers of different species? This is completely different from Europe. In this case, why not adapt to local conditions?