Matteo Ricci's successful experience made the missionaries realize that in order to succeed in missionary work in China, they must learn the Chinese language and respect the Chinese ritual customs of worshiping heaven, worshipping ancestors, and worshipping Kong, and "the best way is to win people's hearts with scholarship." As a result, most of the missionaries to China were well-educated people in the West at that time, and they had high attainments in science, and they took the propaganda of Western scientific civilization as an important means of preaching.

One of the largest was the French missionary Kinnige brought in more than 7,000 books in the 48th year of Wanli, "Jinnige came from afar to repair tribute, and there were more than 7,000 decorated books in addition to square objects...... The book is seen in Xiangshan Ao, and it will be dedicated to the Ming court. Among these books, "in addition to the humanities, philosophy, theology, doctrine, and other famous works in our library, there are also many books on medicine, law, and music, and the mathematics books that have been invented today." "The missionaries compiled and published the book and cooperated with Chinese scholars to write directly in Chinese and disseminate Western knowledge of the natural sciences to China. It was in this context that the advanced firearms technology of the West began to be introduced into China, and it can be said that in terms of spreading the advanced technology of the West, the missionaries contributed to the development of the Ming Dynasty and were also the best candidates for dissemination.

And the missionaries at this time were extremely worshipful of the Ming Dynasty, and they were proud to stay in the Ming Dynasty, in their eyes, the Ming Dynasty was a huge empire, in this big country,...... The people were well-fed, well-dressed, richly furnished, and above all, they worked hard, and were great merchants and traders, all of which, together with the fertility of the land mentioned above, made it rightfully called the richest country in the world."

"There's a lot of sugar all over the country, and that's why sugar prices are so cheap. …… There is abundant honey, because they like beekeeping, and even wax is very cheap: the production is so large that you can load it on a ship, or even a fleet."

"They produce a large quantity of silk, of excellent quality and perfect colour, much more than the Granada silk, and is one of the largest trades in the country"

"It is surprising that the velvet, silk, satin, and other fabrics produced there are so cheap. Especially compared to the prices known in Spain and Italy. They did not sell silk or any other fabric by size, not even linen, but by weight, so there was no fraud.

"In the country there are many rivers and people grow rice, which is the common food and grain of the people of the whole country. …… They harvest so much that when the price of rice is at its highest, you can buy a pinch with one riyal. ”

"In the mountains uncultivable, there are plenty of pine trees, bigger and more flavorful nuts than you usually find in Spain. Between these trees, they grow corn, which is the general food of the Mexican and Peruvian Indians. In short, they don't leave a single foot of unplanted land,...... You can hardly see any wasteland or no harvest in the whole country...... Therefore, they studied Chinese, learned Chinese etiquette and culture, and even many became officials in Daming, and the emperor of Daming also attached great importance to these missionaries, such as in the 38th year of Wanli, Matteo Ricci died of illness in Beijing at the age of 59. During his lifetime, there were more than 200 believers.

According to tradition, foreigners are to be buried in Macao after death, but in order to commemorate Matteo Ricci, the Chinese went to the imperial court and applied for land and burial in Beijing. Mingshenzong made an exception and gave the funeral fee, and gave the western suburbs of Beijing "Erligou Buddhist Temple, 38 houses, 20 acres of foundation, burial of Lizi" and "standing stone for the text", and the tombstone was erected by Yin Wang Yinglin of Shuntian Mansion. When he was buried in October of this year, all the civil and military officials attended the funeral, which was very solemn and solemn. The Italian Jesuit missionary once recorded, "From time to time, there was an inner eunuch who said to Ye Wenzhong (Ye Xianggao, the head of the cabinet) of Xiangguo: 'All guests from afar, since ancient times, have not been buried, how can they be more generous than the son?', Wenzhong said: 'When the son sees the guests from ancient times, his moral knowledge is as good as that of the son? The fact that the first assistant of the cabinet attached so much importance to the "Geometric Original" shows that the Ming Dynasty, from the emperor to the scholar class, attached great importance to science and had an extraordinary mind. This is also the greatest benefit of choosing missionaries as the propagation of knowledge.

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Zheng nodded heavily and said, "Don't hide it, I've been thinking about these questions for a long time, but there is a way to get the best of both worlds?"

Yang Pu sighed: "Tell me?"

Yang Zheng pondered for a moment, and said: "If you want to break this situation, only people who understand logic, and I have a lot of Ming talents, but most of them are science talents, which is obviously not enough...... Just like Marco Polo of the Yuan Dynasty?"

Marco Polo's name in Europe at this time, with a "Marco Polo's Travels" famous in Europe, but in the Ming Dynasty is not a very famous person, and only some big people have heard of this person's name, an Italian merchant, at the age of seventeen, followed his father and uncle to China, lasted more than three years, arrived in the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in 1275, and established friendship with the Great Khan Kublai Khan. He traveled in China for seventeen years, visiting many of the ancient cities of China at the time, as well as Yunnan and the southeast. After returning to Venice, Marco•Polo was captured in a naval battle between Venice and Genoa, and his travels were dictated in prison, and Rustician wrote Marco•Polo's Travels, which was widely available in Italy a few months later"Five years later, Marco•Polo's Travels•Before Polo's death, Marco•Polo's Travels" had been translated into many European languages and widely circulated.

"Marco Polo, have I heard of this person?" Yang Yangpu nodded and said: "When the Mongols were in power, they also did some good things, and it is rumored that this person knows a lot of things?"

Yang Zheng said: "In the West, they have also established universities, not only teaching poetry, books, etiquette and music, but also teaching architecture, mathematics, geometry, astronomy, physics, natural science, logic is a subject that must be learned, although their country is not as good as the Ming Dynasty, but this situation of a hundred schools of thought, if it continues, their country will be developed in the future, the level of craftsmen is very high, their people are very civilized, their science and technology are very advanced...... Even more than Da Ming?"

Yang Pu said: "Although this is a bit exaggerated, but in the past few years, the old man has also seen a few missionaries, they are too ugly, they don't eat rice, the smell of their bodies is simply unbearable, they talk like crows, but I have to admit that their geometry, astronomy, geography, Navigation does know a lot more than I do, a lot of things sound very systematic, a lot of things we think are ingenious skills, they are more enthusiastic, I can't figure it out in the past, but now I think about it, it must be that people in the West are more fond of technology?"

Yang Zheng said: "Isn't this the truth, it's a pity that my people in the Ming Dynasty are still immersed in the beautiful scene of the abundant products of the Celestial Empire, which is all-encompassing, and does not rely on foreign goods to pass through nothing, and it will be difficult to say in a few hundred years......?"

Yang Pu frowned and said: "This is also where the old man is worried, if logic can't change the current situation, in a few hundred years, it's not the missionaries who come to learn the advanced technology of our Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid that my Ming Dynasty will go to learn others?"

"Isn't it, in the previous life, the scholars didn't go to the United States, Britain, France, and Germany to learn any advanced culture, but they didn't know that hundreds of years ago, their missionaries still regarded staying in the Ming Dynasty as the first honor?" Yang Zheng muttered secretly in his heart.

"Don't worry too much, my Daming foundation is not bad, as long as we seize the opportunity, transform well, and then let the missionaries worship us...... chance?" Yang Zheng comforted.

Yang Pu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "But isn't it, now that you have begun to reform, the opportunity has taken me, and the rest is to transform well, those missionaries have this ability, we can use it and have to use it?"

Yang Zheng was overjoyed and said: "As the saying goes, no matter if the black cat is a white cat, the one who catches the mouse is a good cat." Elder Ge can think like this, it is really a blessing for my Ming Dynasty?"

"Is there such a sentence?" Yang Pu recalled these words, asked hesitantly, and without waiting for Yang Zheng to answer, he said to himself: "Although this is a little rougher, but the words are not coarse! The missionary affairs will be handed over to the old man, I will try my best to persuade the emperor to make it convenient for these missionaries to stay in Daming, I believe they will be happy to stay in the Hanlin Academy?"

Yang Zheng said: "Xia Guan also believes that they are happy to stay in Daming?"

"But such a missionary doesn't understand my Ming rules, but it's a bit troublesome?" Yang Pu frowned.

Yang Zheng nodded and said: "This is indeed a troublesome matter, they believe in God over there, everyone is a believer, and the Pope regards himself as the spokesman of God, and his power is extremely great, even above the kings of various countries." So his biggest one is the Pope, and they don't have to bow down to ......?"

"Hmph, a pope is bigger than a king, what does this mean?" Yang Pu said with some disdain.

Yang Zheng said: "The elder of the pavilion doesn't understand, the lower officials heard that they have established a strict hierarchy early on, God is the boss, and the Bible is God's speech, and no one can violate it, otherwise, the religious court will sanction him and even punish him with death." So what they fear is not people, but an ethereal God, just like our Ming Emperor who sealed the Jade Emperor?"

"Oh......?" Yang Pu said in some surprise: "Fear God but not the king, this rule is only afraid that it will not be easy to do?"

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