The Lonely Family in the Red Chamber

When Tu Jingnian heard He Yu say that he had just recovered from a long illness and was not in good health, and that he would let Yulu serve the saint on his behalf today, his heart felt a little bored, and he didn't even look at the palace lady in pink. Pretending to be dressed in a peach-heart bun, the palace maid directly put down the teacup in her hand, and said flatly: "I still have political affairs to deal with today, so I will rest in the Daming Palace tonight! Since the empress is not well, Then let’s take good care of it recently, let’s put aside the palace affairs and so on, and the supervisors will take care of it!” After speaking, Tu Jingnian left directly, leaving He Yu at a loss, and Yulu even more so. Embarrassed, he stood with his head down, not knowing what to do.

Tu Jingnian actually dislikes this kind of behavior of using court ladies as a fixed pet, it feels like he is an NPC in an online game, and someone took a beautiful woman to gain favorability!If He Yu really regarded herself as her husband, how could she do such a thing!

Tu Jingnian broke up with He Yu, and Emperor Chengqing, who learned about this, strengthened his determination to choose a good confidante for Tu Jingnian. There are many, just to calm down and make a good plan.

In a flash, it was Emperor Chengqing's Longevity Day again. Although Emperor Chengqing is the Supreme Emperor at the moment, the Supreme Emperor can't just offend him casually. He can't let the Supreme Emperor really understand what it means to let a person walk away from the tea.Emperor Chengqing is not Li Yuan and Li Longji, he has a very good relationship with Tu Jingnian, the emperor is very filial to the Supreme Emperor, and directly announced that the Longevity Festival will be held, there is no reason for the people below to keep up, think about it next year. There is a saint's own Longevity Day, and a lot of people are troubled by it. How can they show their respect and love for the saint, and they don't lack respect and love for the emperor?

No matter how entangled the people below are, the Longevity Festival is coming soon anyway. When Tu Jingnian ascended the throne, he had not received any news, and the envoys of the feudal kingdom who had not had time to come to congratulate him also rushed over now, with generous The tribute of the emperor came to meet the emperor of the Kingdom of Heaven.

There were some Europeans among the envoys, and I don’t know where they came from. Europe these days is also in a critical era of change. The Age of Discovery has lasted for more than 200 years, and the emerging bourgeoisie has accumulated enough In the eyes of these people, the Far East is a rich place with gold everywhere.

There are actually a few missionaries who came here this time. These people have always been the leaders of the colonists. Most of them have no good intentions when they come here to preach. It was dismissed, and it was the first time that Li Fanyuan received these foreigners who were not from a feudal country, but they all had opinions on these missionaries.Although these missionaries don't speak Chinese well and can only stammer a few common words, but looking at their eyes, these officials who have been in the officialdom for so many years and are the most observant officials are upset.

These missionaries claimed to be the people of God, but ended up running to a country full of pagans. Apart from a sense of superiority, they had a desire to conquer. They hoped to be able to preach here and make everyone a lamb of God. When the Lifan Academy asked them to learn the etiquette of meeting the emperor, they actually directly expressed their opposition, saying that they are the spokespersons of God on earth and would not kneel to the secular emperor.

In order to understand what these people said, the Lifan Academy specially invited a businessman who is often engaged in Western trade, but the businessman trembled and translated, and several people were so angry that they wished to drive these priests away.A few monks from foreign countries, what's so great about it? Those eminent monks in this dynasty, when they face saints, they have to salute well. Look at your stuff, in which sect, you can't do it. It's just an ordinary character, probably similar to the Zhike monk in the temple. We entertained you well, but you still took Joe up.

When those priests came out with a copy of the so-called Pope's decree, the noses of the people in the Academy of Lifan were even more angry. What kind of thing is this Pope? He actually wants the emperor to bow down to the Pope, and he will have to crown the emperor in the future , let my family believe in that God!

The next day, someone from the Lifan Academy wrote a letter denouncing the wolfish ambitions of foreign countries in the West. Tu Jingnian couldn't help frowning, and asked, "So, how many churches does that sect have in our dynasty now?"

In fact, in the previous dynasty, this dynasty had some business contacts with the West. At that time, it was the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the Khanate reached all the way to the Danube River. Many people of color traveled between the Central Plains and Europe to do business through the Silk Road. , this dynasty attaches great importance to maritime trade, and has opened up Western trade routes. Europe is now in the age of great navigation, and naturally ships often come to the Central Plains. Except for some part-time pirate businessmen, usually some The down-and-out little nobles still have missionaries.

The Central Plains has a large population. Even at the time when the country was just founded, the population density was much higher than that of Europe, which often had various plagues. Therefore, it is not uncommon for missionaries to go to the Central Plains to preach. In the beginning, it was just Guangzhou Port cities such as Quanzhou and Quanzhou, and later, some small churches gradually appeared in the inland.

These missionaries fooled some local officials into being baptized and became their believers, which naturally brought convenience to them to open churches. In fact, all religions are similar. They often do things like free medical treatment and donating gruel. Some poor people will come to believe in it, and knowledge of Western mathematics is now valued by some more enlightened scholars. Gradually, some country gentry scholars have become interested in the sect.Chinese people actually have an attitude of using religion. For them, gods and Buddhas are not beliefs, but just a kind of sustenance when they encounter difficulties or ask for something. People who often worship Buddha When you encounter a Taoist temple, you will naturally not dismiss it, thinking that it is a heresy.Even many well-known monks are actually proficient in Buddhism and Taoism. No matter how many Catholics there are, there is no pressure on them.According to religion, most people are hypocrites when they die.

If so, there are quite a few churches nowadays. Anyway, the Central Plains can’t figure out the difference between Christianity, Catholicism, and Judaism, just like ordinary people don’t think there is any difference between the Buddha of Zen Buddhism and the Buddha of Buddhism. .Therefore, when the Department of Daolu counted the churches that had undergone legal procedures over the years, it was discovered that this Western sect now has dozens of strongholds.

Tu Jingnian actually has no prejudice against religion, the so-called freedom of belief!However, in the colonial era, the role played by missionaries was not so glorious. It is true that they brought advanced European knowledge, which is also a kind of cultural invasion.Of course, the development of Catholicism in the Central Plains has been frustrated. After all, it is a completely different cultural origin. Even Buddhism, when you come to China, you have to do as the Romans do. However, Christianity, as a religion that has ruled Europe for thousands of years, is almost completely unable to do this. Because there are too many cultural differences between them, there are not many authentic Christians in the Central Plains at the moment.

Tu Jingnian looked at the so-called decree of the Pope that was translated by the Lifan Academy, sneered, and said: "We, the Chinese people, have nothing to do with the gods of these barbarian countries. The Pope's hand, stretched out It was too long! These missionaries entered our court at will, without even the consciousness of following the Romans, but they want to tell us what to do! The decree is to expel all the priests who have no formal entry records and customs clearance documents. If these missionaries The priests have committed illegal activities in the local area, and they should be dealt with according to the law! In addition, in the future, missionaries are prohibited from preaching in this dynasty. Once discovered, they will be designated as obscene temples and destroyed immediately! As for those missionaries, they are only allowed to enter the country as scholars and can spread the word. Western knowledge about things, but you must take the assessment before entering the country, otherwise you will be expelled directly!"

Of course, the Ministry of Rites also concocted a flowery article, reprimanding the shameless pope. In short, since the dynasty is the kingdom of heaven, we naturally have our own beliefs. We worship the Haotian God here. That is the supreme God, your God is nothing!Give you three points of color, just want to open a dyeing workshop, and even want to interfere in our dynasty's internal affairs, remote control the change of the dynasty's artifacts, what do you think you are!All in all, the Pope is an arrogant idiot, so what kind of God is a god of Fanbangmao, what is there to believe in!

Tu Jingnian couldn't help laughing when he saw the parallel, four, double, six, swearing articles without dirty words. Who has the ability to translate this stuff into Latin? After the translation, the Pope would probably vomit blood, but he felt very happy in his heart. , Immediately, I handed over a letter of credence to those few missionaries who hadn’t even seen Tu Jingnian and received a good beating for nothing, and then they were directly escorted to Tianjin. What awaited them was A ship bound for Quanzhou, when it arrives in Quanzhou, just put them on any ship going to the west. As for how the people on those ships treat them, it has nothing to do with the court.

A few missionaries were driven away, and some who ran over in the name of envoys were actually some dilapidated little nobles. When they saw these people in Europe, they could easily designate someone as a witch and set a fire to burn them to death. The priest was beaten half to death by a group of wolf-like yamen servants and thrown out. He felt terrified for a while, and suddenly became well-behaved.

They don't have the confidence like those priests. These days, it is not a comfortable thing to go to sea. Compared with the treasure ships of this dynasty, the displacement of Western ships is much smaller. Naturally, it is more dangerous to sit on such a sea ship. Besides, scurvy is prevalent at sea, there are pirates infested, coupled with the invasion of wind and waves, going to sea is purely a desperate job.They were just from minor aristocratic backgrounds. For various reasons, except for an unattainable title, their families were so poor that they even owed a whole lot of debt for the sake of their so-called decency. Naturally, they had to go to the Far East to try their luck.These days, they have been almost stunned by the wealth of the Far East. In Europe, a small piece of inferior silk handkerchief can be kept by a nobleman as a family heirloom. Why, the food is not the kind of black bread that is so hard that it can be used as a murder weapon. Even if it is the work meal that makes the petty officials of the Lifan Academy feel sick, they can eat it so much that they want to lick their plates clean.In short, this trip to the Far East has brought them a great shock. They are pretending to be envoys, and even the so-called credentials are made by themselves. Panicked, when they got the news that the emperor planned to summon envoys from various countries, they almost didn't know how to move their hands and feet.