Although most of the officials present already knew that the purpose of the friendly countries sending envoys this time was to ask for permission to spread their Datong religion within the territory of the Ming Empire.

But what they never expected was that in order to achieve this goal, they actually invited Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang as a lobbyist, or in other words, they used some means to make His Majesty Taizu unable to become a volunteer to promote the emerging religion.

But no matter how this situation was formed, since it had already been formed, then the question they would face was, how to prevent His Majesty Taizu from doing what he wanted to do in the Ming Empire?

First of all, they can not recognize this His Majesty Taizu, after all, the entire empire knows that His Majesty Taizu has been dead for more than 200 years, how can he appear here full of vitality.

But this method is very likely to not work, since the attitude emperor who has been dead for more than 200 years has appeared in front of them, then if the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who has just lost a few years, appears in front of them, does it mean that Emperor Chongzhen should abdicate!

They can't afford to take this kind of risk, if they don't recognize the true identity of Emperor Taizu, then, the friends who are already ready to move the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, do not rule out using the same way to make the Emperor of the Apocalypse write in front of the very scary, and then, accuse the current Chongzhen Emperor of rebellion and usurpation, then in this way, the friends who have obtained the name of righteousness will soon launch an attack against the Ming Empire, and their attack will not be hindered too much.

But all the ministers who still have some eyes know that their power is based on the legitimacy of Emperor Chongzhen. And Emperor Chongzhen himself has said many times that the military strength of friendly countries is very strong, and he relied on their help to be able to return to this era and ascend to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

According to the statement of the Yellow Emperor, the strength of the Ming Empire and this friendly country is quite different. Then once the war starts, the victory or defeat is predictable.

No one wants to lose their official position. Then they can only acquiesce that this Emperor Taizu is the attitude emperor who was resurrected by some Datong sect.

Since Emperor Taizu's true identity cannot be denied to prevent him from spreading new religions within the territory of the Ming Empire, then he can only be persuaded to give up this behavior by convincing Emperor Taizu on his own initiative, after all, he is currently ruling this country. His children and grandchildren.

However, the person who came to him at noon was a strong man who never took other people's shortcomings seriously. What these juniors say may not be able to grasp her ears.

More importantly, Emperor Taizu was obviously very disappointed with the current direction and level of the empire. He has decided to create a peach blossom paradise again, that is, the Ming Empire as his work more than 200 years ago. has been completely denied by him.

So how can a work that was denied by him be moved by emotion, understood by reason, and let him create the action of Peach Blossom Land again!

Ministers. Once they thought about it, they immediately found that they didn't have many options left,

Everyone's faces began to look ugly. Only Xu Guangqi has not changed at all.

He just wanted to spread religion, and it wasn't a big deal for him. Catholics also want to spread religion in China, but Chinese law does not allow it, and many people are wary of them.

However, after some careful understanding, he believes that Western Catholicism is not without merit. For example, their things in the astronomical calendar and geological surveying and mapping are very worthy of being humbly learned by the Celestial Empire.

Of course, he was also pleased with some of the novelty crops he had received from the missionaries. It's just that he hasn't realized the humility and shamelessness of Catholicism.

This is actually a bunch of hypocrites, neither the knowledge of astronomy and geography, nor the seeds of fresh crops, which they have discovered.

Scholars and explorers, with their tireless pursuit and courage to defy hardships and dangers, have obtained these things, which could have directly enabled ordinary people to better understand the world and live a better material life.

However, the efforts of the astronomers were thwarted by them, and Bruno was even burned to death in the Place de la Rose. Both Copernicus and Galileo were on the verge of persecution by the Church.

And they, now stealing the fruits of their labor, have come to the Far East, to propagate their religion, and to try to find their supporters among the upper echelons of the intelligentsia by virtue of these things.

It is difficult to say whether Xu Guangqi was a deceived person, he may have seen through the conspiracy of the Catholic missionaries, but he was willing to be deceived, because those things were indeed needed by the great powers of the East. But there is another possibility, he did not see through the small methods of the missionaries at all, but simply blindly worshiped these new things.

But in any case, it was more familiar with the nature of the so-called new religion than anyone else present.

He didn't think that the other ministers would try their best to prevent missionary affairs from taking place in the land of China, after all, compared with foreign Catholicism, the doctrine of this Datong Church was closer to the reality and academic atmosphere of China.

Just by looking at the name, you can see that this is definitely a religion based on traditional Chinese ideas, but since ancient times, no one has been able to systematically summarize these things into a religion.

The basis of Confucianism is nothing more than a summary and statement of some gossip of Confucius, and does not systematically form a complete religious system, so in terms of objective composition, Confucianism is more like a school of thought, and cannot be regarded as a religion.

But this Datong religion is very different. Xu Guangqi had done some understanding before, and he knew that this new religion? To a large extent, it is based on Confucianism.

In other words, his compatibility with the local religion is unmatched by any other foreign religion.

Moreover, in his education, there must be a certain degree of exclusion of migrant workers, but there is also a certain degree of inclusiveness. He systematically exposed the abuses of a number of religions, including Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, and Christianity. He reminded his followers that these religions were not only deceitful, but also cruel to the infidels. At the same time, he asked his followers to be both vigilant and tolerant of the infidels.

Vigilance and tolerance coexist, perhaps no one has noticed their statement, but Xu Guangqi understands that this is the mentality of the people who first came into contact with Catholicism, that is, the mentality of the general public, and some strangers, vigilance, and tolerance, which are the unique mentality of the main body of the small-scale peasant economy. Vigilance is due to the need to prevent others from usurping their insignificant property, and tolerance is the result of the simple mentality peculiar to those who work in the small-scale peasant economy.

Based on this alone, Xu Guangqi knew that the new Datong Sect had captured the psychology of the believers, so it was very likely that his spread on this land would be unstoppable.

In this case, there is no need to stop it, after all, every religion has a certain degree of science, and it is a religion that takes special care of the local culture.

So, just when everyone was still thinking about how to stop His Majesty Taizu, Xu Guangqi slowly stepped forward, bowed respectfully, and said sonorously: "Weichen Xu Guangqi, support His Majesty's decision, and will give up Catholicism and switch to the belief in Datongjiao." (To be continued......)