Chapter 19: Beheading John Tang
Li Yan was frightened when he saw the note in the bag.
Why did Li Zicheng kill me? There's no reason for that!
But why did you invite me to a banquet and drink so late?
Could it be that my advice today made Li Zicheng angry and angry, so he wanted to kill me?
Although Li Yan was skeptical, he also had a plan.
He asked one of his guards to wear his own clothes, jumped down from the window and rode to the west gate, and then asked another guard to shout downstairs, "Li Yan ran away"
"What, Li Yan ran away! Chase! Kill Li Yan, there is a reward! Niu Jinxing didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly let his subordinates catch up.
At this moment, Li Yan heard it clearly on the second floor, and he knew that Niu Jinxing reacted quickly, and after Niu Jinxing's people chased him out, he immediately rode to the east gate with his cronies to escape for his life.
Niu Jinxing soon found out that he had been fooled, and hurriedly ordered someone to notify the soldiers guarding the city gate, strictly prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving, and killing Li Yan when he saw him.
But it's too late.
Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing conspired to murder Li Yan without informing the guards in advance, so Li Yan easily let the guards at the east gate open the city gate and fled from Xi'an.
At this time, since the news of the typhoon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang on May 16 reached Beijing, the common people of Beijing regarded Chongzhen as the real Son of Heaven - this is not the Son of Heaven as other emperors claim to be, but the Son of Heaven with miraculous legends. And this miracle legend is not like Han Gaozu slashing the white snake, but everyone really saw it, the emperor said that there was a typhoon and rain on May 16, and it really happened!
Your Majesty, isn't he the Son of Heaven who is truly recognized by God!
In this era of feudal superstition, public opinion and deification are symbols of power!
Chongzhen is a person who has traveled through another era, and naturally knows the miraculous role of God, from ancient times to the present, the birth of every emperor will be connected with God. For example, Yu's mother saw the meteor through the Pleiades, and the dream received a sense of meaning, that is, swallowing the divine beads and giving birth to Yu;
For example, when Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian was born, he had a cluster of purple air, long dragon horns on his head, dragon scales on his body, and five lights soaring straight into the sky.
Of course, these are probably made up by the emperor, the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven, the son of God, is naturally different from ordinary people.
But some people made up the miracle of Chongzhen wrongly, such as the missionary John Tang.
Tang Ruowang was ordered to build a red-clothed cannon at this moment, and Tang Ruowang had already cast fifty cannons and took the opportunity to report to Chongzhen.
Chongzhen looked at these fifty red-clothed cannons, although the evaluation of Tang Ruowang in his previous life was not very good, but the Chinese are all hospitable.
"Very good, Mr. John Tang, you have worked hard, thank you for helping Daming prepare for the construction of the red-coated cannon."
"Great Emperor, you don't have to thank me, thank God, it's not my credit, it's God's credit"
"Where is the credit of God, it was obviously prepared by Mr. John Tang?"
"Great Emperor, God knows everything and can do anything"
"Does God know when there will be a natural disaster?"
"Almighty God, knows everything, for example, the emperor said that there was a typhoon and rain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang on May 16, and God also arranged for God to entrust the dream to the emperor"
"Mr. John Tong, I am the Son of Heaven, the son of God, there is no God to give me a dream, this is my sense with God"
Chongzhen intends to correct John Tong's statement, but casually attributing credit to God is one of the acts of the Jesuits, and the missionaries naturally hang God in their mouths at any time, which is a subtle teaching of the Jesuits to you.
Chongzhen thought to himself, WTF, Lao Tzu crossed over, Lao Tzu has read the local chronicles and knows what God arranged for God to give me a dream?
"Your Majesty, it was Almighty God who arranged for his servants to give you dreams, and all this was arranged by God."
I can't stand it, I didn't believe in Jesus in my previous life, and I still believe in you after crossing the ball! Lao Tzu is engaging in a personal myth, you are a god who will take all the credit, and in the future, it will be your God or me, the real Son of Heaven, who will say it! In the future, will the people believe in you, the God, or in me, the Son of Heaven? Mr. John Tang, since you want to die, then let it be you!
"Mr. John Tang, did God tell you that you were beheaded today" Chongzhen changed his previous enthusiasm and said coldly to John Tang.
When Tang Ruowang heard this, he was stunned, just now he praised me for casting a cannon, a meritorious man, why do you want to kill me, in the blink of an eye, he said that he wanted to kill me?
"God didn't tell you, today you are going to be beheaded!"
"Your Majesty, why did God kill me?"
"You go and ask God, come on, take down John Tang, and you can be escorted to the execution ground and beheaded!"
"Go to the ....." Before John Tang finished speaking, the guards had already put the mallet on John Tang's neck.
"I asked you to cast five hundred cannons, and now how long has it been before you have built fifty, and it is one of the sins of delaying the warplane; The Chongzhen Almanac was revised by Xu Guangqi, but you tampered with it to "according to the new Western law" to use the Ming calendar to expand its Western Ocean, and let all the countries in the world know that the Ming Dynasty is the right to serve the West, and its second sin is two; If you use the Western calendar to spread a cult, if you don't believe it, you will go to hell, but if you don't believe it, do I want to go to hell? The third sin. That's why I'm going to behead you today!" Chongzhen read out John Tang's accusation with enthusiasm!
At this moment, Tang Ruowang understood an old Chinese saying: the king calls the minister to death, and the minister has to die!
Let the crime of death be at your fingertips!
Tang Ruowang actually didn't have to die, but Tang Ruowang's missionary method had already threatened Chongzhen's direct interests, not to mention that Chongzhen also knew that if the Ming Dynasty fell, Tang Ruowang would be the first to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
Chongzhen read in a book that Matteo Ricci said: "We, the Jesuits, sail on the mountain according to the purpose for which we founded this society,...... Be a brave soldier of Jesus and fight for him against this idolatrous China. And this John was a Jesuit missionary.
Matteo Ricci came to the Ming Dynasty to preach and wanted to conquer the Ming Dynasty, but to Ricci's disappointment, the Ming Dynasty was a country dominated by Confucianism, and there were hundreds of immortals who believed in it.
What the? Adam and Eve were together XX and it was a sin to have a child, and it was not a sin for Jesus' mother to be pregnant if she was a C woman? Matteo Ricci: Aren't you XX in your country?
ARE YOU AND YOUR WIFE XX?
If you have been with your wife for a long time, and one day she gets pregnant and she says that God arranged for her to get pregnant, do you believe it?
Matteo Ricci's mission simply could not be carried out.
Later, Matteo Ricci found that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the calendar, so he informed the Jesuits of the situation of the Ming Palace, and asked the Jesuits to send astronomers to the Ming Dynasty to preach, so John Tong, who was proficient in the astronomical calendar, came to the Ming Dynasty, hoping to achieve the purpose of preaching by modifying the Ming calendar.
Chongzhen is crossed over, Chongzhen has seen the history of the Ming Dynasty and has seen the eve of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Ruowang said a sentence: "If this emperor is gone, there will be another one, and I may be better than him" Tang Ruowang said so, and he did so, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Ruowang took refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and this Tang Ruowang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty is also quite shameless - in addition to flattering the Qing Emperor, he took Xu Guangqi's revised "Chongzhen Almanac" as his own work and dedicated it to the Qing Emperor!
For such a shameless person, not to mention the person who wants to slander himself, Chongzhen is unforgivable!