The current Ming Dynasty is not the same as the Qing Dynasty in later generations, although it is not as open and tolerant as the Han and Tang dynasties, but it is much stronger than the stubborn and conservative Manchu court.

Catholicism has maintained an open mind to Catholicism since Matteo Ricci came to China as a missionary in the Wanli period and developed a large number of followers at the top of the intellectual hierarchy. As a frontier city in South China's reform and opening up, the local residents have long been surprised by these high-nosed and deep-eyed Franc machine people.

Therefore, these missionaries did not cause a big reaction when they came to the streets of Guangzhou to preach, and only some businessmen who came to the Chinese mainland stopped to watch when they saw the Francophone for the first time, and the others were not interested.

At present, most of the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty were illiterate, struggling to make ends meet every day, and there was still the salvation spirit of Catholicism, and the residents of Guangzhou lost interest in this foreign religion after the novelty at the beginning. For these ordinary people, it is better to go to church and listen to a sermon for half an hour than to do some work and earn some money, so there are very few people on the street who are interested in these missionaries.

Zhu Hongsan led people to stand on the side of the street and watched these missionaries with great interest, and Zhang Cheng on the side also knew a little about Catholicism.

"Third master, it is difficult for the Catholicism preached by these Francis to spread in the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Hongsan was stunned, he didn't expect Zhang Cheng to have this insight.

"Zhang Cheng, I didn't expect you to have this knowledge, tell me what you think!"

Hearing that he was praised by the emperor, Zhang Cheng was very happy, straightened up and said: "Third master, I also went to the church to worship when I first arrived in Guangzhou, these Francophiles are very generous, as long as they go to the service, they will give money and things, so the villain still has some understanding of their teachings!" The others are easy to say, these Franc machine people said that they can't worship their ancestors after believing in their master, which is too unkind, so the villain concluded that they can't spread in the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded again and again after hearing Zhang Cheng's words, in the traditional Catholic canon, idolatry is not allowed. For this reason, the Holy See has always forbidden Chinese Catholics to worship their ancestors and Confucius, and has even sent a special envoy to China to emphasize this point. As a result, the Catholic Church came into conflict with the governments of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Zhu Hongsan looked at these missionaries and thought in his heart, it seems that there is no need to worry about these foreign devils, I don't know what is the reason for the great development of Catholicism in China in later generations, is it possible to let go of ancestor worship?

While Zhu Hongsan was thinking about this, these missionaries came to Zhu Hongsan and his party.

These missionaries were led by the Italian missionary Guo Xiande, a member of the Society of Jesus, whose original name was Fabrizio, who came to China and gave Guo Xiande a Chinese name for convenience.

The Jesuits were founded in 1534 by Loyola at the University of Paris, the founder of Loyola did not have much theological cultivation, just a brave and rash Spanish nobleman, with the personality of Don Quixote, in 1521, he read a biography of the saints, was infected, and then he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem as a knight, and after returning he described his life as a chivalric novel, "how he guarded the arms of the Virgin, and later acted as the protector of the Virgin; how a Moorish asked for a duel with the Moors when he spoke irreverently about the Mother he protected, and then abandoned the battle because his mount had taken a different path than the Moors; He intended to preach to the Turks, so he went all the way to Venice, but he realized that he did not know Latin, so he returned to Spain and studied in Salamanca." This quixotic knight studied in Spain and France, and did not get good grades, but managed to gather some of his colleagues.

In 1537, they went to Rome to recommend themselves to the Pope, who allowed them to form a religious order. They are not interested in the priesthood of the church, they are poorly educated, but they are keen to use knives and guns. But the Pope decided that the gang was available, so he made them swear allegiance to the Pope. In 1540, the Pope approved them to establish the Society of Jesus. Although the founder was not well-versed in theology, a group of theologians soon came to his side. The Society of Jesus has a general president, and there are many branch presidents and deans below them. Unlike other religious orders, the Jesuits had a strict relationship between the upper and lower levels, with absolute subordination to the superiors, secrecy rules, secrecy, lack of mercy, unscrupulous efforts to combat heresy, and often participate in intrigues. Because of their allegiance to the Pope, they are also the Pope's spy agency.

The Jesuits sent missionaries all over the world, Matteo Ricci in China, Xavier in Japan, and Jesuits. In South America, they preached in Paraguay, Spain, and gradually formed an independent power. Missionary to the Iroquois in North America. In Europe, the Jesuits hatched a plot against Protestantism. In France, they planned to assassinate Henry of Navarre, but were arrested. In Britain, they hatched gunpowder plots. Within the Catholic Church, they also competed with the Spanish and Portuguese crowns, because the Spanish and Austrian princes sought to control the Holy See by secular force, and the Holy See sought to break free from control and counter-control the princes, and the Jesuits were an important institution of the Holy See. The wealth they had accumulated became the target of the princes. The Jesuits have always been the great enemies of Protestantism, and all Protestant regions oppose the activities of the Jesuits. In the 16th century, the Protestant states in Europe struggled to survive, in the 17th century the Protestant states began to gain an advantage over the Catholic states, in the 18th century, England was invincible at sea, the Catholic base of Spain was in extreme decline, and the Jesuits, accustomed to intrigue, were discredited. At the end of the eighteenth century, France and Spain banned the activities of the Jesuits, and in 1773, the Pope ordered the dissolution of the Society of Jesus, and the Society went underground. In 1814, the Jesuits were restored in Rome, but like the Pope, they had lost power. Outside of religion and politics, the Jesuits contributed to science. Jesuits enjoy privileges within the church and do not need to worry about being condemned as heretical, so many science enthusiasts join the Society of Jesus.

Guo Xiande was originally a Catholic priest in Luzon, and he was the Pope's secret agent in Asia. But unexpectedly, Luzon's Spain was defeated by the Ming Dynasty, and Guo Xiande became a prisoner of war and was sent to Guangzhou.

Guo Xiande, the first power in Asia, still knows a little about the Ming Dynasty, after all, some Jesuit missionaries have been to China for a long time. But when he first arrived in Guangzhou, Guo Xiande was still very shocked, he didn't expect that there would be such a city with millions of people in the world. Now Europe has just entered the Age of Discovery, except for the "Pearl of Europe" Paris, there is no city with millions of people, but even Paris is not as orderly as Guangzhou.

After Guo Xiande went ashore, he found that the residents of Guangzhou were polite and prosperous. The infrastructure in the city is very complete, and there is even a drainage system, you must know that there is no drainage system even in Paris, the "pearl of Europe", and the whole of Europe is full of feces and urine. Parisians must be aware of urine falling from the sky when traveling, most likely from a noblewoman. Of course, not the whole of Paris is like this, the palace is still much cleaner because it is cleaned, and it is difficult to say about other places.

When Guo Xiande saw the prosperity of Guangzhou, he made up his mind to stay in the Ming Dynasty. This country has a population of hundreds of millions, and even if only one percent of the population is religious, it is enough for Guo Xiande to be canonized. Guo Xiande was thrilled to think that he was likely to be on a par with the great missionaries of the past.

Guo Xiande contacted a few good missionaries and decided to stay and missionary. Fortunately, there was a Catholic church here in Guangzhou, which saved Guo Xiande the trouble of starting from scratch. After a year of hard work, Guo Xiande has developed thousands of followers in the city of Guangzhou, which is not easy. You must know that his predecessor Matteo Ricci and others are all taking the high-level line, and they have little interest in these civilians at the bottom of society. And Guo Xiande is now directly recruiting followers among the common people, which can be regarded as setting a precedent.

Guo Xiande's eyes lit up when he saw Zhu Hongsan and his party standing on the street, Zhu Hongsan's four people have different images, but they are not ordinary people at first glance. Among them, the main person is of medium stature (1.7 meters is indeed of medium stature in the eyes of Europeans), with a beard, in his thirties, he is really good-looking, and the only drawback is that this person's eyes are dripping and turning, and there is an evil light (Zhu Hongsan: Your mother, is this a radiant look!). ）。 However, this person exudes a kind of majesty of a superior person at any station, and at first glance he is not an ordinary person. The few people around this person are not simple, the scholar in the long shirt should be the role of the master, the big black man is five big and three thick, he is a bodyguard at first glance, and there is a dog-legged person standing next to him (Zhang Cheng: Fart, the master is a hundred households!) ）。

How could such a person Guo Xiande let go, Guo Xiande came to Zhu Hongsan and said in strange Chinese: "This gentleman, can you take up your time?" ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't have a good impression of these foreign devils, and he didn't have any interest in Catholicism, so he hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, we don't have time!" After speaking, Zhu Hongsan took people and prepared to leave.

Guo Xiande sighed, but he didn't take it to heart, after all, he had to listen to it hundreds of times a day if he refused like this. After being rejected by Zhu Hongsan, Guo Xiande took the missionaries behind him to continue preaching.

Zhu Hongsan was just about to leave, when he suddenly saw two nuns following behind the missionary team, and finally the nun wore a missionary's wide hat, and when she turned her head, she showed a beautiful face, but she didn't expect to be looked at by Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan's eyes lit up, he didn't expect that there would be such a big beauty among the Spaniards. The nun is about 1.6 meters tall and about seventeen or eighteen years old, Zhu Hongsan has no experience with the age of Europeans, and she is about seventeen or eighteen years old. That nun does not have the high nose and deep eyes of Europeans, she looks a little like an Oriental, she is very beautiful between her eyebrows, and her appearance is exactly the same as that of the French singer Ellijie in later generations.