Chapter 707: Find Bad Luck
According to a statistic from the Qing court, from the signing of the treaty allowing foreigners to preach to the Gengzi Incident, more than 3,200 foreign missionaries from foreign religions, including Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians, had come to China, more than 800,000 Chinese had joined the Church, and churches were all over the country's urban and rural areas. Since then, large and small lesson plans have occurred one after another across the country.
Since Qin Shihuang unified China with the concept of "books with the same text and cars with the same track", he has actually done something to unify the thinking of the Chinese. This thing was not only done (book burning and pit Confucianism), but also basically done. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the scene of a hundred schools of thought contending during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was gone forever, and in the history of China's political development, there were no great thinkers such as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Sun Tzu, and Zhuangzi. Even if there were great Confucian scholars such as Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming later, they actually operated within a fixed framework and never got out of the circle. Because from Qin Shi Huang, rulers began to unify the thoughts and thinking of the Chinese in their own ruling track. Therefore, the wisdom of the Chinese had to be used in the category of culture and art, and since then, there have been more writers and artists in China, but there are very few political reformers, and even if there are, they are failures.
At the same time, other civilized countries in the world, such as ancient Greece and ancient Rome, have undergone great changes in their political civilization. They have been unable to achieve great unification for a long time, let alone ideology, and even the factions on the hill cannot be balanced, so they can only engage in the exchange of interests and checks and balances. Therefore, when slavery still existed, they began to divide and balance the power of the state in order to balance the power of the various factions. Although there have been several iterations in the process of development, the direction of development of the West has not changed because the mountains have not been unified.
These lesson plans, which appear one after another, are the collision of the unified Chinese thinking and the Western balance thinking, and the inevitable conflict between the Chinese who cling to the thousand-year-old tradition when facing foreign thinking. Of course, ordinary people don't understand this, so the widely circulated rumors have become an inevitable element of the lesson plan. Every time it is rumored that the church abducts children as a drug primer, every time it kills missionaries and believers, burns the church, and every time the result is that the court says some marginal reasons, and then kills the people who died to pay for their lives and pay some money. The pinnacle of this kind of thing is the Boxer Rebellion, but it has been rehearsed countless times before, and the pattern is similar each time, and behind it is nothing more than the small tricks of the government to instigate, the scholars to plan, and the common people to drive out the foreigners. The foreigners were not driven away, and the Chinese shed blood again and again.
Missionary and teaching plans are not a family matter, and the Western powers almost all have a share, and the reason why they see great things every time they see it is because France is a little different from other countries. The common foreigners of the Chinese mainly went to Britain, the United States, France, and Russia, and after the American Civil War and Russia was crippled by Goxinga, they mainly watched France and Britain jump up. In all other matters, England was more cheerful than France, except for mission, because England was predominantly Protestant, while France was Catholic.
Monotheistic religions are inherently highly expansive, and Catholicism is the second largest in the world. Although more than a dozen crusades have failed, as an existence that can be compared with the Green Sect, how can it be taken lightly. Naturally, none of the people who can wage large-scale wars for religion are fuel-efficient lamps. The Ottoman Empire is no longer good, he is a sick man in West Asia, and naturally there is no way to come out to spread religion again, but France obviously can. And France has discovered a very good market, and China, with a population of 400 million, is definitely a paradise for their missionaries. If China could be taken, the Pope's territory would be expanded by a quarter, and there would be many more cardinal archbishops at once.
China is a country that believes in gods, and the beliefs of the common people are still very utilitarian. Today, you can make offerings to the Dragon King in order to ask for rain, and tomorrow you can beat the Dragon Lord because it is not raining. In the eyes of Westerners, this is the absence of faith, so they are very positive and confident, thinking that they will definitely be able to win over the Chinese and expand the area of God's people. After the signing of the Sino-French Treaty of Beijing, French missionaries infiltrated the provinces of Chinese mainland with great zeal and courage, and those missionaries once shouted a slogan that made the Chinese at that time sound terrible: "Set up a glorious cross in every hill and valley of China." Taoism and Buddhism have been in China for thousands of years, and they have never reached such a state, and your foreign religion will do this with the power of ministers and treaties, and it will not give the local religion a way to live at all. Moreover, these missionaries had certain privileges, and they always interfered in the local administration, from the doctors to the people, and regarded the missionaries as evil and unacceptable as opium.
The situation of the missionaries is not much better than that of Peter Jr. in North Manchuria, and the Chinese who respect the heavens and the ancestors are not at all interested in their set of things that do not worship their ancestors and disregard human morality. If you don't cultivate this life, you don't cultivate the next life, and you still say that Lao Tzu is guilty every day, and I am crazy to believe in you. The missionaries, who could not develop believers, were forced to come up with a weapon of mass murder - to spend money to buy believers. There is money to be made by joining the church, but this person who has joined the religion is coming, and believe it or not, he has made money anyway. There are few serious people who "do odd jobs", and who will sell their ancestors for money! The missionaries don't like to be heard, and they have a whole bunch of ruffians around them, and they treat them even worse. If they rely on their privileges to bully the local government and the people, they will be even more hated.
And the missionaries did something even more lacking, they all understood that education should start from the child, so they opened many nurseries and adopted local orphans. One is to do a good deed, and the other is to educate these children from an early age, so that they can grow up to become yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana people. This was originally a trick, but after they found out that it was good to give money, they gave money for everything, and they also gave bonuses for adopting children, which was to find their own death. There are many Chinese traffickers, seeing that the French buy orphans at a high price, they naturally flock to them, and how many real orphans have been adopted in the church, I am afraid it is a very debatable question.
Of course, the French are hated because they have unwittingly offended people. North Manchuria has been facing a lot of population pressure, so North Manchuria has set up immigration offices in many places in the customs to attract immigrants. In addition to recruiting adults, the Department of Immigration also works part-time to house orphans. Although these little guys will only waste money at the moment, they are innocent, and they can not only become the labor force of North Manchuria, but also become members of North Manchuria's spy system in Guannai after special training. The behavior of the church prying is naturally not tolerated by the immigration bureau in North Manchuria, and it is difficult to say anything on the surface, but there is no less rumor in private. Originally, everyone was unhappy with the church, and some relatives spread rumors, so naturally their impression of the church was even worse.
Speaking in good conscience, in fact, the Protestant churches in Britain and the United States did much the same thing as the French, and the reason why they did not bear the brunt of the brunt was because the British could behave. After the British lost several battles with Northern Manchuria, they have been very restrained in East Asia, and they are even more gentle towards the Qing Dynasty. And now there is no one around Guoxing'a, and the only one who can contain Northern Manchu is the relatively large Qing court. There was even a time when a British soldier was playing in the water at the gate of the city and splashed on the sedan chair of the county magistrate of Tianjin, and was beaten by the magistrate of the county in accordance with the laws of the Qing Dynasty, and the British consul at that time did not ask the teacher for the crime, but silently accepted it. Therefore, both the official and the people have a good impression of the British, but it is very unpleasant to look at the French.
The French consul Feng Daye and the minister Luo Shuya were recognized as short-tempered, like to find fault, and extremely unsuitable to get along with. This is also inevitable, France's interests in East Asia are like that, and they don't need the Qing Dynasty to check and balance anyone, so naturally their attitude is worse. After the British and French forces occupied Tianjin eleven years ago, the French army has been occupying the Wanghai Tower, which was once the palace of the Qianlong Emperor, and after the withdrawal, it was occupied by the French consulate. This made the Qing Dynasty very unhappy to see them, Lord Qianlong's palace, you will not leave if you occupy it, it is really too faceless.
The French ministers and consuls offended the court, and the French missionaries offended the people. Chongxiguan used to be a place where incense was flourishing in Tianjin, and there were many people who worshiped it. The French priest Xie Gospel did not investigate, nor did he understand, but felt that this place was close to the city and the consulate, so he demolished the old site of Chongxi Temple in the eighth year of Tongzhi, and built the first Catholic church in Tianjin at the end of the year - the Church of Our Lady of Victory, commonly known as Wanghailou Catholic Church. Although there is a noble approval for this matter, and there is a rent of 1,000 wen per year, which makes sense in law, it can offend many people in private. The believers of Chongxiguan and the original temple wishes are eager to burn down this immoral church, and the gangsters who eat Chongxiguan on the street are itching even more. Even those who run the rivers and lakes to sell their arts hate them, Chongxiguan has a temple fair, they can eat a portion, and the church is not lively. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, and they naturally don't share the same sky with the church.
It's a pity that Feng Daye didn't expect so much, he just resented the scoundrels for climbing their churches, and hated that the Chinese government couldn't suppress these stupid villagers. After discovering that Chonghou had only sent two patrols, Feng Daye was so angry because he felt that he had been slighted, and at the same time, he was angry that Chonghou was indifferent to the siege of the church. Paris revolted when nothing happened, and Feng Daye was still very wary of these people, and he felt that at this time, it was necessary to suppress these people strongly, so as not to further expand the situation and lead to further attacks on the church. Feng Daye always thought that this was just a church business, he was just a government official, and although he came forward in many things, it would not affect him. It's a pity that he was wrong, the Wanghailou Catholic Church is too close to the French Consulate in Tianjin, and if there is something to do, he will come out to create peace for the church, and the people have long thought that they are a group, and they are originally a group.
Seeing Liu Jie's Feng Daye, he was furious, and raised his hand to give Liu Jie a shot, he wanted to intimidate Liu Jie like intimidating Chonghou, but this time the bullet did not hit the chores, but hit Liu Jie's follower Gao Sheng. As Gao Sheng was shot and fell to the ground, the crowd immediately clamoured, and the county official was killed! The county magistrate was killed! * The barrel was finally lit by this shot of Feng Daye.