The news of Xiao Ruxun's banquet for the imperial envoy Matteo Ricci only found out after the envoy left, no one told him before, and he didn't ask, he shrunk in the room and wrote a letter to Xiao Ruxun, asking Xiao Ruxun to meet him and let him talk about the misunderstanding in the Philippines and the benefits of Christianity, and he didn't care about the outside world.

After the envoy left, Matteo Ricci learned that the officials of the Chinese central government had come here to announce the decree to Xiao Ruxun, and the announcement was still a call to war, which made Matteo Ricci almost faint, and he hurriedly asked Xiao Ruxun to meet with him, to make the last effort to stop the war, and also sent someone to send a letter to Bishop Alexander in the Philippines.

This time, Xiao Ruxun met with Matteo Ricci.

When Matteo Ricci met Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun was writing a warrant for the transfer of troops, and this was the first time he personally took command of the expedition after a lapse of three years, which was of great significance, and everything needed to be carefully arranged.

"General Xiao, I ......"

"Mr. Li, I know very well your intentions, don't say anything superfluous, you pick up important content and say, Benhou doesn't have much time."

Xiao Ruxun didn't look up, and while writing, he interrupted Matteo Ricci's words.

Matteo Ricci was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and immediately said, "I know, General Xiao, I heard that the emperor of your country has ordered you to give you an order to attack Luzon, right?" ”

Xiao Ruxun looked up at Matteo Ricci, then lowered his head and continued to write the warrant.

"This doesn't seem to be something you need to focus on, Mr. Leigh, wouldn't it be better for you to continue to ask Mr. Tilong to translate the classics? Why worry about such a thing? ”

Matteo Ricci hurriedly said: "There are many churches and missionaries on Luzon, and they are also congregants, so how can I stand idly by and watch this happen?" And this matter itself is a misunderstanding, as long as this misunderstanding is resolved, there is no need for war at all! ”

"Misunderstanding?"

Xiao Ruxun seemed to have heard some great anecdotes, and said angrily: "Benhou's soldiers died in battle, and the people under Benhou's rule were slaughtered, this is also a misunderstanding?" More than 700 people, those who got on the boat and came to Burma knelt before Ben Hou and cried to Ben Hou about their tragic death, and Ben Hou did not know how to comfort them.

Spanish Yi disobeyed Ben Hou Yang, ostensibly agreed to Ben Hou's request, and secretly slaughtered Ben Hou's people with Yin tricks, how do you want Ben Hou to swallow this breath? ! To deal with these people and such a style, Ben Hou only knows one way to solve it, and that is to fight! ”

Matteo Ricci's face tightened, and he hurriedly said, "This ...... These are all ...... General Xiao, there are a lot of missionaries and churches there, once there is a war, it will inevitably hurt them, we believers are not enemies of General Xiao, we are on General Xiao's side! Please also ask General Xiao not to forget this! ”

Matteo Ricci doesn't seem to have any good reasons to use it, but to play the emotional card.

"You can rest assured about this, Mr. Li, this time it is Ben Hou who personally goes on the expedition, your disciples and the church Ben Hou will order the soldiers to focus on protection and not destroy, you have to believe in this point, and you must also believe in the military discipline of the army under Ben Hou, Ben Hou pays the most attention to military discipline."

After speaking, Xiao Ruxun lowered his head and continued to write the warrant: "If there is nothing to do, Mr. Li, you can step down, and you should not participate in this matter." ”

"General Xiao, do you have to make a war to this point? Once the battle starts, I don't know how many people will die because of this, I really don't want to see this scene, the soldiers under General Xiao also have families, and their families don't want the war to happen, right? ”

Xiao Ruxun sneered.

How many people in the world like war?

But when the matter comes, when the country is ruined and the family is destroyed, will the nation that can sing "The mother calls her son to fight the East, and the wife sends her husband to the battlefield" will not even have this awareness?

"If, as Mr. Leigh said, parents in the world do not want their sons to go to war, then there will be no more wars and disputes in the world! Since ancient times, my China has suffered many disasters and difficulties, and it is the bloody struggle of countless bloody men that has the stable life it has today.

At the time of the national crisis, if no one stood up, China would have ceased to exist a long time ago. Mr. Li, don't worry, the consciousness of Chinese parents is much higher than yours. ”

Matteo Ricci's face froze, and then it became very ugly, he knew that his reason was untenable, and he knew that he couldn't stop Xiao Ruxun from going to war no matter what, but he still wanted to grasp that little hope, hoping to change all this.

But Xiao Ruxun's persistence was beyond his imagination.

He stopped imagining it and prayed for something else.

"Then, General Xiao, about the missionary ......"

"It's going to be a war, and Ben Hou doesn't have the heart to talk about missionary matters."

Xiao Ruxun directly refused.

"But, General, this matter is not our intention, it is something he did without us, and if the General is bent on going to war, the Spaniards will not give up, they still have a very strong army on their own soil, they ......"

"I can give away the lives of more than 700 people of Benhou without telling you?!"

Xiao Ruxun shouted, stood up and threw the brush in his hand on the ground, and shouted angrily at Matteo Ricci: "You keep shouting that God loves everything, God loves everyone!" But when the time comes, who of you will stand up and administer justice to the more than 700 innocent people who died tragically? It's you! Or that Alexander?! Who?! ”

Matteo Ricci was so frightened that he fell to his knees and shivered.

Since they met, he had never seen Xiao Ruxun treat him so fiercely, nor had he ever seen Xiao Ruxun with such a posture, he was panicked, and he was submissive.

"You don't preside, okay! Ben Hou led the troops to administer justice! I have to get justice for those people! Not only the more than 700 people, but also the innocent people who have died tragically at your hands over the years, Benhou wants to seek justice for them one by one.

Mr. Li, Ben Hou also called you Mr. Li, I have nothing to say about you personally, but you so-called priests enclosed land all over Luzon and asked my Chinese people to farm and cut trees for them to do hard labor, do you really think that Ben Hou doesn't know anything about it? Your church and the Spaniards are all in one place, and you run Luzon very well! Good! Yes! ”

Xiao Ruxun's words pierced Matteo Ricci's heart.

Matteo Ricci's face suddenly turned pale, his eyes widened, and he forgot that he was trembling.

Xiao Ruxun walked in front of Matteo Ricci, squatted down, and looked into Matteo Ricci's eyes.

"Spain, a small country of Vale, is a powerful country in your country, but in my opinion, it is just a small state, so what if he comes with the strength of the whole country? Since Ben Hou went to the battlefield, which battle has not won more with less? Mr. Leigh, do you really think that when Luzon is occupied by Spain, Benhou will be jealous of Spain?

To tell you the truth, Benhou was planning to expel the Spaniards three years ago, but there has been no good excuse, and this time, it was the excuse they took the initiative to give me, and they thought I would let go of this opportunity? The Spaniards are good at dealing with those ignorant and helpless barbarians, but against the Ming, hehe! ”

Xiao Ruxun stood up and smiled coldly.

"Come on, send Mr. Lee back to his house!" 10