Why are Chinese like this? It's very difficult to deal with.

The bishop secretly slandered himself.

"According to what Mr. Li said, the people in your hometown are used to going straight and seeing the mountains, so the Hou will not beat around the bush, and the distinguished guests come from afar, so what's the matter?"

Matteo Ricci immediately translated—General Shaw was asking you what you were here for.

The bishop nodded and replied cautiously: "Dear General Xiao, I have come here to serve the will of His Royal Highness the Pope, and I want to establish a peaceful and friendly relationship with General Xiao, so that both of us can live and communicate peacefully and amicably, and we very much welcome General Xiao to visit Rome." ”

Matteo Ricci translated immediately.

"Welcome Benhou to the city of Rome? Hehe, okay, good, Ben Hou also yearns for the customs of your hometown, but now Ben Hou is entangled in mundane affairs, I'm afraid there is no time, it's okay, and when there is a chance in the future, Ben Hou will definitely go to see your Roman city, but you have come all the way just for this? ”

The bishop said: "Of course, it is not only for this, His Royal Highness the Pope also very much hopes that General Xiao can allow our missionaries to spread the doctrine of God in this land, you and our missionaries have also been in contact for a while, and you should know very well that God's doctrine is to guide people to goodness, to obey order, and to worship God." ”

Matteo Ricci explained them one by one.

He also has some expectations, to be honest, he has been following Xiao Ruxun for three years, Xiao Ruxun has never said anything like supporting his mission, but he is very interested in the mathematical sciences he has mastered, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin, not only pulling him to translate the "Geometric Original", but also translating many other works of Greek sages, especially mathematical works.

Matteo Ricci gradually felt like a teacher who spread Western culture and science, not a missionary, he came here to spread Catholic teachings, not to spread mathematics and scientific knowledge.

What a great opportunity to go to Europe this time, as long as the craftsmen don't want scholars, someone will definitely follow you when you open your mouth! Why do you have to hold me a missionary?

In the past three years, he has helped Xiao Ruxun translate Western Renaissance and Greek works, and translated five or six books, but he has not had a few opportunities to spread his teachings, and he has not even talked to a few people about the transaction, let alone let the other party accept his own teachings.

But Matteo Ricci was reluctant to leave here, because he knew that Xiao Ruxun had absolute power in this land, as long as he opened his mouth and promised to allow Catholicism to preach here, then more than a million people would have no way to run, and Matteo Ricci also knew that there were not too many Confucian scholars here, and the resistance to spreading the doctrine would be very small, as long as he agreed, then this matter would be done, and the Catholic base in China would be there.

But he didn't want to think about it, what he knew, would Xiao Ruxun not know?

Xiao Ruxun already knew, so he found things to do for Matteo Ricci everywhere, so that he didn't have the time to go out and fool people, so he could only stay in the office to translate anthologies and write out the Western classics he remembered.

This guy's memory is very strong, and he also has his own special memory method, the legendary "memory palace" memory method, which was transmitted to China by Matteo Ricci, and there are still many people studying, or opening cram schools, specializing in teaching memory palaces.

It is precisely because of his super memory that Matteo Ricci can almost write out the Western classics he has memorized completely and unmistakably, and then use his Chinese level to translate these Western classics together with the assistance of Xiao Ruxun, which is Matteo Ricci's main work in the past three years.

Don't think it's simple, this is a particularly time-consuming thing, sometimes you can't translate a page or two in a day, and Xiao Ruxun doesn't have time every day.

When Xiao Ruxun didn't have time, he asked Chen Longzheng to replace him, Matteo Ricci once tried to develop Chen Longzheng into his first believer in Myanmar, but Chen Longzheng, who was full of romantic idealism, was completely immune to Christianity and was not bewitched by Ricci at all, but instead told Matteo Ricci about the legends of ancient Chinese sages.

Yes, Chen Longzheng taught the stories of sages such as Confucius and Mencius to Matteo Ricci in nine chapters and eighty-one sections, so that Ricci could further understand the history of China, especially the cultural history, as well as the customs and legends of a place, etc., which made Matteo Ricci forget about what he wanted to develop downline in the end, and was almost attacked by Chen Longzheng.

Matteo Ricci finally realized that Chen Long was a mallet, a mallet that could never be developed into a Catholic, if it were in medieval Europe, such a person would not have escaped the fire of the Inquisition, but in sixteenth-century China, Matteo Ricci had no choice but to try to maintain his faith and not be bewitched by Chen Longzheng.

But in the process, Matteo Ricci gradually realized that in order to preach in China, it was necessary to understand Confucianism and come into contact with Confucian scholars.

However, the bishop does not know, he only knows that by asking Xiao Ruxun's consent, he can win the favor of the pope, so that he has the opportunity to be elected as the next pope and go to the peak of his life.

But Xiao Ruxun didn't seem to care too much about this.

"You people are really interesting, Mr. Leigh, I won't say anything else, but I will ask you, how is the life of the people under my rule? Do you have to eat? Is life guaranteed? Is someone bullying them? Aren't they simple and kind? Don't they follow the regulations of my town's Nanhou Mansion? ”

Matteo Ricci said to himself, "If you say that, you're going to talk to death......

But it is true that the greatest function that Catholicism can handle is to control the mind, control the hearts of the people, keep the people's hearts from disorder, abide by the order, achieve the effect of fooling the people and the weak people, and cultivate excellent taxpayers.

Note that it is the taxpayer and not the citizen, the citizen knows his rights, knows the rights that he can get after paying taxes and obeying the law, and dares to defend his rights when his rights are violated, while the taxpayer only knows to pay taxes, pays taxes honestly, knows nothing, and does nothing.

Governments all over the world want their citizens to be taxpayers, and taxpayers to be the ideal commoners in the eyes of their rulers.

Catholicism was used by the Roman government to educate taxpayers.

But the more than one million people under Xiao Ruxun's rule are almost like this, living a stable life, not making trouble or quarreling, getting up early and greedy to farm and do business, and the Chinese are hardworking and willing to work like he has never seen.

Xiao Ruxun also paid great attention to protecting the lives and lives of the people under his rule, and safeguarding their interests, so these people also paid great attention to maintaining the Zhennan Hou Mansion, abiding by laws and regulations, and building an ideal society - Plato's ideal ideal society.

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