If you want to preach, then well, go to the Northwest first.

Let's first influence those thousands, or even tens of millions, of Mu Speed Barbarians.

If you really finish reforming the Mu Suman in Gansu in this era, there are also those west of Gansu.

There are also a large number of lamas of the Qinghai Hui in later generations, as well as a large number of lamas of the Red Sect, the Yellow Sect and the Bon Sect in the territory of the more sinister Uszangdu Division, which is definitely enough for them to work for a while.

Long Huamin and the others sang so many high-pitched songs before, and Emperor Chongzhen was not afraid that they would not go.

This is exactly what is called seeking benevolence.

Aren't you going to dedicate yourself to God? Then go deep into the Musu barbarians, go deep into other pagans of all stripes, spread the gospel and dedicate yourself to God, and then you should be satisfied.

If you don't go, it means that you missionaries are not strong enough to really want to preach.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, Li Guoqi, Xu Guangqi, and Jiang Yueguang were all dumbfounded, including Long Huamin and Tang Ruowang, who also looked at each other a little.

I don't know if they knew that the northwest was a dangerous place for them, or because they were surprised by the courage of the young emperor in front of them.

It's just that before they could react and didn't know what to say, Condenius, a Dutch missionary from Batavia, suddenly took a few steps forward, bowed down to Emperor Chongzhen and said:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Great Emperor, you are truly a friend of the Roman Catholic Church, a patron of the Jesuits in the East, and as a missionary who is loyal to God and the Church, I am very grateful for your generosity and forgiveness, and you are a hundred times greater than all the monarchs of the East!"

After saying this, this Dutch missionary, who had always insisted on refusing to kneel and salute, and had spoken disrespectfully, solemnly knelt down under the throne of Emperor Chongzhen, and kissed the "gold bricks" laid on the ground in front of the throne.

As soon as the Dutch missionary knelt down like this, Emperor Chongzhen burst out laughing.

Emperor Chongzhen laughed so loudly, and Li Guohao, Xu Guangqi, and Jiang Yueguang also took the lead in kneeling down in the Wenhua Hall and chanting together: "Emperor Shengming!" Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

And Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard who accompanied him in the palace, and the commanders and attendants of the three guards of the guards, also knelt down and shouted long live.

At this moment, Long Huamin and Tang Ruowang, who were standing in the hall, didn't expect this result, but everyone knelt down, and praised His Majesty the Great Emperor in front of them for being wise and long-lived, and it seemed that he couldn't do it if he didn't kneel down and shout!

What's more, Condenius, a senior Jesuit priest who came to the East to preach with a letter of introduction from the Holy See, has already received the will of the Chinese emperor and called him "a friend of the Roman Catholic See, a patron of the Jesuits in the East", which is the highest honor that the Holy See can give to the monarchs of non-Catholic countries in the East!

Seeing that the Ming Dynasty courtiers and guards in the hall all knelt down, Long Huamin and Tang Ruowang couldn't hesitate for too long, when Emperor Chongzhen laughed for a while, the laughter stopped, and when he looked at the two of them coldly, Long Huamin and Tang Ruowang hurriedly knelt on the ground and said:

"His Majesty the Great Emperor is the wisest monarch of the East! We thank His Majesty the Great Emperor for his infinite generosity, and we, the Jesuit missionaries, will always be by your side, always praying for Your Majesty's health and long live you and your country! ”

Long Huamin had been in the East and China for decades, and he knew how complicated the northwestern frontier of the Ming Dynasty was.

After all, he had been a missionary in Xi'an for many years, and now the northwest is in a state of civil unrest and turmoil.

Although he had recently heard that the rebellion caused by famine in the northwestern provinces had been effectively contained, for a missionary like him who had been to Xi'an, his original intention was of course to stay in Beijing and establish a church of his own in the prosperous and wealthy city.

Because there was only one chapel in Beijing at this time, and this chapel was still a product of Matteo Ricci's struggle in China.

As Matteo Ricci's successor, Long Huamin's greatest wish was to be able to build another church in Beijing, a church that was different from Matteo Ricci and his doctrinal denominations.

This church will remove all the doctrines of Matteo Ricci and will be a pure and clean orthodox Catholic Jesuit church.

I thought that this wish would come true this time, and it was indeed only a little bit away, but it fell short, and was screwed up by this self-proclaimed clever Dutch missionary Condenius.

In Long Huamin's eyes, the emperor of China does not believe in God and has no constraints, so he is willful, if you offend him, he will immediately take revenge on you, if you make him satisfied, he will reward you immediately, and even agree to any request.

This is how Matteo Ricci was given the opportunity to establish a church in Beijing and settle down as a missionary during the Wanli Emperor's reign.

At this time, Long Huamin attributed the success of this time to Condinius's disrespectful remarks, which caused the displeasure of the young and willful emperor in front of him, and "assigned" them to the northwest, especially Ningxia, Gansu, and Xining, which had never gone deeper, was definitely a "punishment" for them.

As for John Tang, he had also been to Xi'an, and when he was in Xi'an, he also saw the famous "Great Qin Jingjiao Popular Chinese Tablet", and knew that there were traces of the spread of Christianity in the northwest of China.

Therefore, although he felt that the emperor's pride was a little inexplicable, he was quite happy that the emperor allowed them to openly go to the trilateral governor's territory to establish churches and preach.

Although the trilateral governor's territory may sound like a very distant frontier region, isn't Beijing also a border region close to the Mongolian steppe?

As everyone in the hall knelt on the ground and shouted long live, this meeting in the Wenhua Hall was successfully concluded.

Although the people who shouted the emperor's holy name had different understandings of the connotation of this holy ming, when they shouted this sentence, it meant that they all accepted the emperor's decision.

Li Guowei and Jiang Yueguang, who had a clear understanding of Huayi's defense, saw that the young emperor was just throwing thousands of pounds into the northwest to lead the disaster brought by the Jesuit missionaries to the northwest, and they knew the emperor's deep intentions in their hearts.

Of course, it is not okay to say that it is "sinister intentions", after all, it is their emperor who made this decision in front of him, but this intention is indeed "sinister" enough.

When they finally knelt down to the emperor and left the palace with Long Huamin and the others, they looked at Long Huamin as if they were looking at a dead person.

As for Xu Guangqi, of course, he also knew the intentions of this young emperor, but after all, he was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, although he converted to Catholicism, but it was the kind of Catholicism spread by Matteo Ricci, not the people in front of him, especially the Catholicism spread by Long Huamin in Beijing after Ricci succeeded Ricci.

Matteo Ricci translated the Western word for God as God, but Long Huamin believed that God was an inherent word in traditional Chinese texts and was not enough to express the meaning of the only God, so he insisted on abandoning the term God in favor of God.

At the same time, he did not allow the followers who had previously converted to the Society of Jesus with the support of Matteo Ricci to honor their parents and worship their ancestors, because he believed that God was the parent of all people, and as a result, people like Xu Guangqi turned away from Long Huamin's Catholic teachings.

Now the emperor asked Long Huamin and others to take his Jesuit missionaries to Gansu, Ningxia, Xining and other places in the northwest to preach, which is simply a strategy to kill two birds with one stone, but Xu Guangqi can't say it.

You Xu Guangqi is the cabinet minister and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites personally promoted and appointed by the emperor today, and you can't turn your elbow out!

In this way, on the ninth day of the sixth month, Emperor Chongzhen issued a holy decree to Yuan Chongfang, the governor of the three sides.

The content of the decree was naturally promised to Long Huamin and others, allowing Jesuit missionaries in China to go to Xining, Ningxia, Gansu and other places within the jurisdiction of the trilateral governors to establish churches, and to spread the teachings of the Catholic Jesuits in the face of Musuman and Mongolian and Tibetan people in the northwest, so that Yuan Chonghuan, the trilateral governor, could provide convenience and good protection for Yunyun.

It was also the ninth day of the first month of June, Emperor Chongzhen sent the envoy of the Lifan Yuan to Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying's son, Wu Kezhong, the deputy of the Jinyi Wei Division, with more than 100 Jinyi Wei people, escorting Long Huamin, Tang Ruowang, Xiong Sanba, Luo Ruwang, Luo Jacob, Pang Di'e, Yang Mano, Julius, Deng Yuhan, Guo Jujing, Zeng Dezhao, and the new Jesuit missionary Jinnige, a total of "twelve apostles", set off from Beijing, went to Datong, and went to Huamachi, where the yamen of the trilateral governor was stationed.

At the same time, Founder Zhenghua also selected five shopkeepers who were familiar with accounting and trade from the headquarters of Baohe Company in Beijing, headed by Zhang Xiang, the head of the Dongchang Factory, with more than 100 servants from five stalls, with the emperor's edict, and the Dutch missionary Van Delie, who had just come to Beijing, to convey the emperor's edict to the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion and Dongfanwei.

Of course, they not only wanted to convey Emperor Chongzhen's message, but also set up a branch of Baohe Company in Guangzhou for trade in the Nanyang region, Nanyang Company.

Moreover, it is necessary to find Shen Tingyang, who has already gone south in the Fujian and Zhejiang regions, and then cross the sea with Shen Tingyang and his entourage, followed the Dutch missionary Vanderliew to Batavia, the largest stronghold of the Dutch in Southeast Asia in this era.