He asked Xu Guangqi about the basic situation of the Nanjing teaching plan. In the forty-fourth year of Wanli, Shen Yu, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Ceremonies, attacked Christianity three times in his speech to the emperor, in which he believed that Christian clergy had three major sins: First, missionaries gave gifts to the Chinese in order to buy people's hearts so that they could overthrow China at the right time. 2. Missionaries helped China to revise the calendar and calculate the dates of solar and lunar eclipses. Shen Guan believed that the missionaries used Western methods to govern the calendar, which violated the practice of Yao Shun and deliberately disrupted Chinese traditions. Third, Shen Yu accused the missionaries of destroying Confucian culture and teaching people not to worship their ancestors, which is even more intolerable to the Chinese. It is even said that Catholic missionaries in China have an affair with the White Lotus Sect and are plotting against each other. Under pressure from all sides, the imperial court had no choice but to ban Christianity and expel the missionaries. As a result, some of the missionaries were killed, some were imprisoned, and later deported to Macau, and churches were destroyed. Xu Guangqi once defended the priesthood, but in the end he was unsuccessful.

Of course, Shen Yu's reasons are not all correct, but the third point he said is the most intolerable to the Daming people, the Chinese have a tradition of worshipping ancestors, and Christianity opposes ancestor worship, which of course will cause most people to resent. Matteo Ricci had no objection to the Chinese people worshipping Confucius and ancestors, but after Matteo Ricci's death, the priest of Long Huamin, who succeeded him, miscalculated the situation, felt that the situation was very good now, and believed that there should no longer be the danger of being expelled from the country.

Kinnige actually agreed with Matteo Ricci's missionary method, and he shipped 7,000 books from Europe, which was actually the academic mission advocated by Matteo Ricci: it would be much easier to use Western scholarship to attract Chinese first, and then let them accept Western religion. But Long Huamin is his superior, and he has always admired him, and Long Huamin has his insistence on the Ming Christian sacrifice to Confucius and the translation of some Christian words, although he is not too impressed with Father Long's insistence, but at least the relationship between the two sides is still very good. Although he knew that the Nanjing lesson plan was directly related to Long Huamin's missionary strategy, it was still a little difficult for him to directly criticize Long Huamin and return to Ricci's old path.

Now the emperor directly pointed out that the Nanking case was on the missionary's side, that is, to tell him directly that the emperor was dissatisfied with their missionary doctrine and certain missionary methods, and in this country, the emperor's attitude directly determines the results of the mission and even whether the mission can be carried out.

"Your Majesty, the last time the envoy went back, he told our Pope that the Pope had given us permission to translate the Bible into Chinese and to perform sacraments in Chinese, and we very much wanted to spread the glory of God in Daming."

"You have learned to avoid the truth and follow the false, if you do not revise the doctrine, your mission in the Ming Dynasty will not achieve very good results, you should think about it yourself. I have given permission to build a church library in Beijing, and the books you have brought with you will be translated and placed in this library, and if you have discussed with yourself and are ready to revise the doctrine, then talk to me. ”

"Thank you, wise Your Majesty, for the great grace of your Majesty, the envoys will follow Your Majesty's advice and revise the doctrine, but it may take a long time, for we will have to report to the Church."

"Well, I'm interested in your books, and I hope to see them become our language soon." Zhu Youxiao looked at the catalog and said.

"I have set up a translation bureau to translate these books into our language, and we need your help in this process. In addition, I would like to set up a new school to teach mainly the mechanical aspects that you are good at, so please give us some suggestions on the curriculum and teaching methods. ”

Naturally, the Kinni Pavilion did not refuse to do anything, and these things were beneficial and harmless to their mission, so they naturally could not ask for them.

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he asked them to present the long-range mirror, pick it up and look ahead, the palace door was close in front of them, and the little eunuch who was yawning boredly at the door could see it clearly. He handed it to Xu Guangqi and said, "Sir, take a look, it's very interesting." ”

After Xu Guangqi took it, he looked at it like the emperor, but a huge eye suddenly appeared in front of him, and he was startled, but it was Zhu Youxiao who walked in front of the far-sighted mirror and deliberately looked at the camera in front of him.

Zhu Youxiao laughed, Xu Guangqi was helpless against the emperor's childishness, and he also smiled with a doting look on his face. Then he said: "This thing is quite useful in the military camp, and the minister thinks that if it is slightly modified, it seems that it can also be used for celestial observation." The minister asked the emperor to give the name of this thing. ”

"I'll give this telescope a name, let's call it a telescope." Anyway, that's the name in the afterlife, so I don't have to think about it.

He turned to the missionary and said, "Have you passed on the recipe to the people of the War Bureau?" ”

Tang Ruowang replied: "Your Majesty, we have already told the craftsman the production method, and in addition, the envoy has also told the principle to Officer Sun of the War Bureau. "This priest is not very proficient in Chinese, and directly calls Sun Yuanhua Sun official.

"Very well, how is the cannon casting going?"

"After we received His Majesty's order in Macau, we have already built some artillery, and recently we have also cast a cannon in the War Bureau, and the method of casting cannons has been told to Sun Langzhong." Kinney Pavilion is much stronger.

"Very good, I am satisfied! So be it. I wait for your good news. ”

After everyone gave the salute, they withdrew, and on the way, Jinnige couldn't wait to say to Xu Guangqi: "Thanks to the help of the parishioners, we can finally open a church library." For the missionaries, it can be said that the opening of a church library in Beijing can be said to be a great victory of great symbolism, and the emperor personally agreed to open a church library, in fact, to show his support for the missionary cause, which is nothing less than a great blessing.

Xu Guangqi was not sure if the emperor understood the meaning of agreeing to open the church library, but as a believer, he was certainly optimistic. However, he understood that the emperor's interest in new technologies and weapons should be far greater than in mission, and he even suspected that the emperor was not interested in missionary work at all, but only in Western technology. So he said directly: "My help is also for the spread of the teachings, but as for the translation of books, I am afraid that I will have to trouble a few parishioners, and the faster the speed, the happier the emperor will be, and the greater his support for us." Then there is Father Long, you still have to discuss with him, and the way of preaching still needs to be changed, I don't want to have another Nanjing lesson plan. ”

Jinnige nodded heavily, but his heart was full of sadness, the current situation, if according to Father Long's preaching method is obviously not feasible, the emperor expressed his opinion, the church must make corresponding changes, he knows that the old man's mind is not easy to change, then he has to be sorry for Father Long.