Everything has a cause and effect.

Although Father-in-law Wei himself won the trust of Pope Paul V, who was thousands of miles away, and gave him full authority to dispose of the Eastern Diocese, his father-in-law still did not agree with what the former Jesuits of the Eastern Diocese did in Japan.

As early as three months ago, my father-in-law listened to Guo Jujing's report on the Japanese Catholic movement at the cathedral of the Special Administrative Region.

This report is an extremely detailed report written by Guo Jujing at the behest of Wei Gonggong and specially sent people to contact the members of the Jesuit Society in Japan, and after a multi-faceted and systematic process, combined with the many reports sent by the Jesuits in Japan to the Jesuits in Macao and the Holy See.

Through this report, Father-in-law Wei fully understood the ins and outs of the development of Catholicism in Japan, but when he put this report on the shelf, Father-in-law said a word to Ruan Dacheng, who was working hard to complete the sixth volume of the "Selected Writings of Gong Wei", to the effect that this report has a strong color bias, is idealistic, not materialistic, and even self-deceptive.

Prejudice is a complete demonstration of this report.

Prejudice stems from the so-called oppression of Catholicism by the Japanese government, but prejudice comes from the misdeeds of the missionaries and their self-proclaimed justice.

To put it bluntly, the Shogunate's repression of Catholics was actually the Catholics' own faults and deserved.

Because, those red-haired devils from the West take it for granted.

In terms of time, Catholicism has only been in Japan for more than 30 years.

More than 30 years ago, Juntada Omura, the lord of Hizen Kunimura, who had been baptized, donated Nagasaki, which had opened ten years earlier and was developing into the largest trading port in western Japan, to the Jesuits along with nearby Motegi, and allowed the Jesuits to have a base belonging to the church on Japanese territory.

With Nagasaki as a missionary area, missionaries from the West began to proselytize on a large scale, using coercive means to convert the prefectural and prefectural officials of Hizen Province, and then issuing orders through these officials to force all the inhabitants to convert to Christianity and harassing various localities.

In essence, there is no difference between the foreign devils in my father-in-law's previous life, and there is no essential difference between the believers and the two devils in the development.

There is no need to do too much investigation, and my father-in-law also believes that there will inevitably be a phenomenon of "relying on religion and bullying people" in Hizen Country and other places.

"How can clerical power be greater than political power? How can church affairs interfere with the world? ”

The father-in-law snorted coldly, even his old man understands the truth, how can Toyotomi Hideyoshi's generation not understand.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, of course, understood, so he quickly issued a ban on Christianity, began arresting missionaries and some believers, and recovered Nagasaki and Motegi from the Jesuits.

Twenty years of hard work by the Jesuit priests came to naught. But even so, the priests did not leave Japan, but stayed in Japan, and Toyotomi's death left the problem to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

After that, it was the suppression of Catholicism led by the Tokugawa shogunate, which led to the movement of the fall of Catholicism in Japan, and dramatically made the Han Yan Siqi the hero of the fall of Japan. After that, it was the Catholic War against Japan led by His Excellency Pang Maichen, who was dressed in purple robes.

The conquest of Japan was one thing, the military conquest was one thing, and the cultural and religious conquest was even more one.

Wei Gonggong, who has a high degree of political wisdom, summed up several contradictions after listening specifically to the reports of those influential believers and clergy of Japanese Catholicism.

The first is doctrinal contradictions.

Catholicism insists that God is the supreme authority and that all people are equal before God, which is completely different from and completely contradictory to the shogunate system in which shoguns are the supreme rulers and strict hierarchies.

The second point is the exclusivity of Catholicism, which denies the belief in God and Buddhism, believing that God is the master of heaven and earth and should obey God, not parents, masters, and monarchs.

This was even more intolerable for Japan, which proclaimed itself the "Kingdom of God," and the Tokugawa rulers, who were revered as the "incarnation of Amaterasu."

In addition, Catholicism's opposition to seppuku and polygamy among the samurai was in direct opposition to the traditions of the Japanese ruling class.

Taken together, the Japanese government would never have allowed Catholicism to continue to develop in Japan, even if it had not been for the slander of the Protestant Catholic priests of England and the Netherlands against the old Catholic priests of Spain and Portugal.

Even if Gonggong Wei was Archbishop Pang Maichen, it would be impossible for him to spread the old doctrine of Catholicism in China.

Therefore, only by reforming Catholic doctrine, adhering to the path of sinicization, denying the exclusivity of Catholicism, and combining God with the myths of Eastern civilization can Catholicism truly be used by the father-in-law.

Last year, my father-in-law raised a number of points on doctrinal reform at the work conference on the road to sinicization held in Nantang, Beijing.

"The east wind must prevail over the west wind!"

"The emperor, who occupies the first place in terms of population, must overshadow the less populous ethnic groups in the field of religion."

"In the process of dealing with the West, we must be soberly aware of the influence of Catholicism, Christianity, and even the major sects on the peoples of Western countries, and if we do not fight, control, or grasp this thing, our enemies will take advantage of it."

The sixth volume of the Selected Writings of the Duke of Wei is being compiled in the section on religion that quotes several of the speeches of the Duke of Wei.

In private, Father-in-law Wei did not shy away from proposing with Guo Jujing and others that the only goal of the Eastern Diocese now and in the future is to take over the leadership of the Catholic world.

"If our parish is the largest, if we have the largest number of believers, if our saints are the strongest, why should we obey the orders of the Vatican?"

"Why do the popes and popes have to be Westerners? Aren't the people of the East God's people? ”

The same principle applies to Japan, and the same applies to Sinicization (Orientalization).

Japan is a miniature version of China.

Gonggong Wei made it very clear to those Japanese Catholics that in the future, Catholicism should be integrated with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shintoism, and that only by winning the approval of the majority of the people could Catholicism win more followers in the East for God.

"The past Jesuit practices were wrong, and we must correct them, because if we continue to do the wrong things, the damage to the clergy and the faithful will be irreparable."

If it were possible, Wei would have liked to publish a revised version of the Bible now, but it was clear that it would not be practical to launch a new Bible now, because the current strength of the Eastern dioceses was far from being comparable to that of the Western dioceses.

Therefore, after pointing out the erroneous practices of the Jesuits in Japan in the past, Wei Gonggong still made it clear that he would carry out a strong blow to the devil's shogunate regime, so as to promote all walks of life in Japan to accept Catholicism and stop the persecution of God's believers.

"By His Holiness the Pope's Decree!"

Father-in-law Wei, who has always talked about Paul V and can't wait to offer the portrait of Paul's old man, habitually showed Paul's tiger card.

In his capacity as the archbishop of the Eastern Diocese, he demanded that the Japanese Church must mobilize believers to assist the Imperial Army in the war against Japan, and demanded that the Catholic institutions in Japan immediately improve the Saint Seiya system.

For believers who have made meritorious contributions to the Japanese shogunate in the past, they should be awarded the glorious title of saint seiya, such as the former daimyo who came this time, the son of the Catholic Arima Harunobu Arima Naochun, and Wei Gonggong canonized him as a second-class bronze saint on the spot, and gave him the great title of "Pegasus Meteor Fist" as a purple-clothed archbishop.

This was both a tribute to Naojun Arima's secret sponsorship of the Catholic rebellion, as well as an endorsement of his father, Harunobu Arima.

As the first lord of the Shimabara Domain, Arima Harunobu used the Japanese-licensed seals to travel to and from Taiwan, Luzon, Macao, Champong, Cochin, Siam and other places to engage in shipping trade, and became extremely wealthy.

After that, Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered Arima Harunobu to attack Taiwan, and later was ordered by Tokugawa Ieyasu to burn Portuguese ships anchored in Japan, but he himself was still a devout Catholic and did not persecute Catholics in the territory on Ieyasu's orders.

Because of this, Arima Harunobu was ordered by Tokugawa Ieyasu to cut his stomach, but the Catholic doctrine could not commit suicide, so Arima had no choice but to let his subordinates kill him.

After his father's death, although Naojun Arima was exempted from sitting in a joint seat and continued his father's territory to become the lord of the Hizen Province Hizene Domain, Naojun Arima dared not forget the revenge of killing his father.

In addition, the new Tokugawa Hidetada was also very wary of Naojun Arima, and always wanted to replace him, so in order to protect himself, Naojun Arima secretly funded the Catholic Rebellion.

Under his protection, the missionaries in the Shimabara territory also developed many Catholics, mainly peasants, who were dissatisfied with the shogunate's excesses and taxes, and revolts could occur at any time.

In this context, for the Ming Imperial Army, which crusaded against the shogunate under the banner of saving Japanese Catholics, Naojun Arima needed to establish a good relationship with the Imperial Army, whether it was for his father's revenge or for his own interests, especially since the Ming Dynasty and the Eastern Diocese made a commitment to the interests of the Arima family.

"The shogunate is turning Japan into a demon country, which neither the emperor nor the diocese wants to see, and we hope that after defeating the shogunate, there will be people in Japan who will turn this land into a real imperial country, the country of God."

In a secret meeting with Arima, Wei presented an edict from the Ming Emperor, which showed that the Ming Emperor and the imperial court had no territorial ambitions for Japan, but only hoped to bring down the evil and cruel Tokugawa shogunate. After that, Japan remained a country of the Japanese.

"I hope that you will be able to make extensive contact with people with lofty ideals who are dissatisfied with the shogunate and work together to establish a new order in Japan."

In order to show his attention to Arima Naochun, Father-in-law Wei wore a kimono for the first time, knelt on the ground and raised a wine glass to Arima Naochun.

"The Imperial Court will not use Tokugawa Hidetada as the object of negotiation, and such as Your Excellency is a trusted partner of the Imperial Ming Imperial Court, and it is also a friend that the Catholic Court can trust."

Naosumi Arima took a sip of the wine glass, and then hesitated to ask Gonggong Wei a question, that is, whether the imperial army was sure to defeat Tokugawa Hidetada.

"Three months to destroy Xiuzhong."

Father-in-law Wei gave such a statement.

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