"You mean that the Chinese have their own beliefs? And the faith is very strong, passed down for thousands of years, and has received strong support from the government? ”

Bishop Alexander was shocked by the cultural traditions of China, and as the top leaders of the Church, these bishops certainly knew how Catholicism had developed step by step into the behemoth it is today, and how could Catholicism have developed without the stupid emperor of the Roman Empire and the unscrupulous descendants of future generations.

And no matter what kind of government China changes, no matter who is in power, it is insisting on supporting Confucianism as the official ideology of the country, and anyone who goes against this idea is a heresy and will be attacked.

Ideological heresy within one's own country will be hit in such a way, let alone externally, and the destruction of humanity will be light.

For some reason, Bishop Alexander felt a strong sense of déjà vu in this image—as if that's what we had done before, right?

Are we facing Catholicism in China?

Bishop Alexander began to question his own assumptions.

That's right, how can such a large civilized country not have its own official ideology? If there is no official ideology, the country will definitely be chaotic, you say yours and I talk about each other and argue with each other, so do you still want to do something? Does the royal family still want its own dominance? Does the government want a stable situation?

Therefore, after a hundred schools of thought contended, the strongest, most treacherous, and most pandering to the ruling class will inevitably become the official ideology of the state, accompanied by the political unification of the country, and the ideological unification will be carried out, as was the case in the Roman Empire, and the same was true in the Han Empire.

Therefore, Catholicism has to face this strong idea that has been passed down for thousands of years, not only its own inheritance is long, even the Chinese emperor supports it, and the tricks that Catholics are best at getting official permission to proselytize do not seem to work very well, after all, Xiao Ruxun only manages a piece of Burmese territory, and he can't intervene in the broader Chinese mainland.

But no matter what, if you don't accumulate steps, you can't take the first step, so what can you talk about development and growth? First of all, it is necessary to start the mission from Myanmar, which is the least difficult, to find a set of missionary strategies that are effective for the Chinese, and then to focus on the grassroots people and grasp the right to speak at the grassroots level.

For, according to the experience of Bishop Alexandria, in order to take root and survive in a place with official permission, it is necessary to become the second institution that can be trusted by the common people besides the official authorities.

No matter where they are, the people at the bottom are not able to read and write well, the literacy rate is extremely low, and the illiteracy rate is extremely high, such people are the most easily fooled and instigated, and they often become die-hard groups of the Holy See, helping the Holy See to overthrow many small governments.

The reason why the Holy See can become a behemoth with a transcendent status in Europe is that it has attracted a large number of foolish men and stupid women, who really have little money and no strength, but they have public opinion and numbers, and if the government does something that is not in line with the wishes of the Holy See, the Holy See will immediately fan the flames and guide these foolish women to die for God.

They really have no status, but they are the source of taxes, and the Holy See can easily do many things by controlling the minds of these people, so the lower the level of education of the people, the weaker their resistance to religion, and the easier it is to be brainwashed.

China has a very high degree of civilization, and there are many literate and literate people among the common people, and the resistance of these people to Catholicism is quite high, and it is definitely not easy to proselytize.

But in Xiao Ruxun's Burma, the number of these people is almost negligible, so as a starting point and base camp, the Holy See can gain a foothold in the East as long as it controls more than a million Chinese in Burma.

Bishop Alexander swept away his previous worries and smiled triumphantly.

The fleet sent by Xiao Ruxun to pick up people arrived in the Philippines thirteen days later, and the representative of the arrival was Chen Longzheng, who had rich experience in envoys, and brought 100 large ships to bring people, and it was not a problem to take more than 7,000 people at a time.

The Spanish government fully cooperated, and under the promotion of Bishop Alexandria and Matteo Ricci, even the Philippine Governor's Office sent Xiao Ruxun a boatload of precious spices as an apology gift.

Chen Longzheng originally thought that this was an easy errand, and he could go back and continue to be busy with the Genoese and the French, but he didn't expect that there would be many episodes on such an errand to pick people up and go home, very annoying and angry episodes.

You know, not every immigrant wants to return to their home country.

Landless farmers from Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong are very willing to go back, even if they can't go back to their hometowns, but they can go to Myanmar to get a piece of land to farm and live a small life, which is much better than the tiring work on the Philippine island before, so these people are very eager to follow Xiao Ruxun, and these people are not a problem.

But there are also some people who have a vested interest in the rule of the Spaniards in the Philippines, those big merchants, they have the power and power in the local area, they have their own private armies, relying on their relationship with the Spaniards, showing off their might in front of their compatriots and bullying men and women, for fear that others will not know that they are powerful and powerful, how dare such people return to the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

No one cares about being free here, how to do business and how to bully people, as long as you give money, everything can be solved, but in that place in Myanmar where the regulations are very strict, they dare not make a mistake, for fear of annoying Xiao Ruxun to give them a meal of the board.

And more importantly, they have bullied so many compatriots, in case they are sued and retaliated after they go back, this bit of family property and the lives of their families cannot be saved, and when the time comes, they will be slaughtered by others, and there will be no place to cry, so how can they accept it?

With such bad intentions, they took the initiative to ask to stay in the local area and not go to Burma, and to leave with their slaves and hired workers who were not allowed to do so, which can be regarded as a hornet's nest.

The slaves and subordinates are okay, they are all members of their own family, but the people hired outside will not pay attention to you, they will leave as soon as they say, they can't stop it, they can't stop it, and they can't stop the processing money from wanting to return to the country.

These big families also understand that the reason why they can talk and laugh on an equal footing with the Spaniards is because they have a lot of human resources in their hands, and a large number of Chinese immigrants are under their hands, and they rely on them.

The Spaniards need to make friends with them to get the manpower and material resources of the Chinese, but if the Chinese are all gone, and only a few of them are left, then how can they mix?

Leave behind some of the people who are necessary, that is a must.

Even coaxing and cheating the processing money, they gathered a group of people and stayed here without leaving, because the agreement between the Spaniards and Xiao Ruxun was to leave voluntarily, and those who did not leave voluntarily could not interfere, naturally, Xiao Ruxun would not want to take them all away.

But there are too few people who stay by normal means, and the big ones decide to use unconventional means when they see that they can't do it.