Since Emperor Chongzhen has returned to the Forbidden City, the old rules of the past have naturally returned to operation.

After the end of the Jianji Hall court meeting of Layue Wangri, Emperor Chongzhen returned to the palace to have some refreshments, rested for a while, and then went to the Wenhua Hall to participate in the small court meeting with the cabinet.

By the time the emperor came to the Wenhua Hall with his attendants, the two ministers in Beijing, Li Guodi and Xu Guangqi, as well as the scholars in the cabinet, were already waiting in the Wenhua Palace.

Emperor Chongzhen had just sat down, and Xu Guangqi finished saluting and immediately said, "Your Majesty!" There is a matter here, the court meeting of the Jianji Palace will have time to report to Your Majesty in the future! However, this matter is not big, but it is not small, although it is not a report officially submitted by the General Political Envoy, but it is also a matter assigned by His Majesty before! ”

Xu Guangqi said this, seeing that the emperor was looking at him, so he continued: "In the previous June, His Majesty decreed that 12 missionaries in Jingtaixi, including Long Huamin and Tang Ruowang, should go to the trilateral governor's jurisdiction to teach Catholic teachings. Now, it's been nearly half a year.

"Not long ago, when His Majesty was in Juyong Pass, he knew that Taomin mutiny and Gannan were in turmoil, and he already suspected that behind the chaos, it may be related to Long Huamin and others going to the place to preach. It's just that Ku Wulong Huamin and others heard the news, although they had doubts in their hearts, they didn't dare to report it to Your Majesty.

A few days ago, the minister had just returned to Beijing with his car, that is, he received a letter from Tang Ruowang from Lanzhou to the minister at home, and he had a clear judgment on the Taomin mutiny and the civil unrest in Tao, Min, Long, Gu and other places.

"The mutiny in Taomin is not an ordinary mutiny, and the civil unrest in Gansu is not an ordinary civil unrest! Behind this mutiny and civil unrest, there is a rebellion of Mu Su Barbarian! ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, of course he already knew what was going on.

Even if John Tang did not write to Xu Guangqi, and Xu Guangqi did not report to himself, he knew the general reasons behind this wave of mutiny and civil unrest.

This is not the usual mutiny, nor is it the usual civil unrest caused by famine.

Behind all this, in fact, there are emperor's own reasons.

After all, Long Huamin and the others went to the place where Mu Suman settled in large numbers to preach, but Emperor Chongzhen arranged it himself!

Xu Guangqi looked at the emperor a little distracted, so he continued: "Your Majesty, do you know what Mu Suman is? ”

Next, Xu Guangqi didn't wait for Emperor Chongzhen to respond, quickly looked at the other people in the Wenhua Palace, and then said: "For more than three hundred years, the Mongol Tatars rose and entrenched in the Central Plains.

And these Huihui people who were brought into China by the Mongol Tartars are today's Mu Suman. In the past three or four hundred years, its people have not been transformed into China, after all, they are not our Chinese race, not only their race is different from our Chinese Han people, but also because of their people's livelihood and believe in the Great Food Religion!

"Its religion or Islam is called Islam, and the place of preaching is called Huihui Temple, and its weddings and funerals are all in accordance with Muslim law.

"Its people are not the people, they are all called religious people, and its people are also people, and they often regard their teachings as supreme, even greater than the king's law. This is the root cause of its entry into China for three or four hundred years and has never been transformed! ”

After Xu Guangqi finished saying these words, he saw that Emperor Chongzhen kept nodding his head in approval, so he continued:

"The previous time, His Majesty sent an order to the Governor Yamen of the three sides, allowing the Jesuit missionaries who came to China in Beijing to go west to preach, and the person in charge of it, Long Huamin, is very different from Matteo Ricci back then, although he is full of enthusiasm, but he has always been reckless and radical, and he is in charge of it, so as to cause the bane of today's Taozhou disaster!"

Hearing Xu Guangqi talk about the Taozhou Sect, Emperor Chongzhen raised his hand to interrupt him, and then asked: "What Xu Aiqing said opened my eyes, but if you listen carefully, there are also a lot of incredibles!" Since John Tang wrote a letter to the secretary, what is the situation elsewhere now? Are Long Huamin and the other Jesuits okay? What is the so-called Taozhou religious disaster? ”

Now in the memory of his later generations, the Chongzhen Emperor mentions the religious martyrdom, and only knows the "Nanjing Religious Martyrdom" of that year.

And after the so-called Nanjing Religious Disaster, the Ming Dynasty official who made the greatest contribution to the rescue of the arrested and imprisoned missionaries in China was Xu Guangqi in front of him.

Now the so-called Taozhou Sect martyrdom he mentioned is a completely unfamiliar term, could it be that those Mu Suman who participated in the Taomin Mutiny are so "powerful"?!

Emperor Chongzhen allowed Western Jesuit missionaries such as Long Huamin to preach in China, and also placed the location of the open mission in the northwest.

He concluded that something would happen to this group of people who went to the area where the Musu barbarians were gathered to spread the Gospel of God.

But I didn't expect the effect to come so quickly.

Sure enough, when Emperor Chongzhen asked, Xu Guangqi's expression was gloomy, and he said slowly:

According to John Tang's letter, Long Huamin, the president of the Jesuit Society in China, and the four priests Wang Fengsu, Luo Yage, and Zeng Dezhao, who followed Long Huamin to preach in the Taozhou church, died at the hands of the rebel mob in the Taozhou mutiny, the church and the icon were destroyed, and more than 100 Jesuit people were killed.

According to Tang Ruowang's letter, Xiong Sanba, Yang Mano, Guo Jujing and others, who went to Minzhou, Guyuan and other places to recruit believers and prepare to build churches, were unknown in the mutiny.

"Now only Tang Ruowang, Pang Di'e, and Ai Ruluo in Lanzhou, as well as Luo Ruwang and Deng Yuhan in Ningxia and other places, are still safe!"

The reports of the Taomin mutiny and the Gannan civil unrest that Emperor Chongzhen received from Jinyiwei before were just the factual descriptions of the mutiny and civil unrest by the Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu Si.

Although the spies of the Jinyi Guard are pervasive, there are not many Jinyi guards at the bottom who really know the inside story of these mutinies and civil unrest and the inside story of the religious difficulties in Taomin and other places.

Yes, what Xu Guangqi learned from Tang Ruowang, but Emperor Chongzhen also heard about it for the first time.

However, a good meal is not afraid of being late, and the good news is a little late, so there is a sense of surprise.

Of course, although Emperor Chongzhen did not have a good impression of the Catholicism spread by the Jesuits in China, he still preferred Catholicism a little more between the two than the Great Food Religion that Mu Suman believed.

At this time, when he heard the news of the death of Long Huamin and others from Xu Guangqi's mouth, the joy in his heart flashed, and he said to Xu Guangqi while thinking:

"Before Long Huamin and others went west to preach, they said that they were willing to serve their God to the death and sacrifice everything for their God! Although he was martyred this time, he also sought benevolence! He was born to spread the Gospel of God, and he died to spread the Gospel of God, and he must have been recognized as a saint under the throne of God by the Jesuits of Tessie! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's words sounded high-sounding, but in fact, even he didn't believe it, and the two ministers sitting upright in the Wenhua Palace, as well as Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and Gao Wencai, the commander of the Tiance Guard, and several scholars in the cabinet, everyone looked at each other.

This truth can't be said to be wrong, but it sounds strange at this time, and Xu Guangqi sighed in his heart, once again confirming the emperor's attitude towards the Jesuit missionaries.

That is: you can use it for me, but you can't do what you want to do.

However, at this time, Xu Guangqi still had to put forward the suggestion behind his initiative to talk about this topic this time, only to hear him say again:

"Your Majesty, after the death of Long Huamin and others, the current Jesuit missionaries in the northwestern trilateral land are mainly promoted by John Tong. The purpose of John Tang's letter to his ministers was to convey to His Majesty through the Ministry of Rites, hoping that His Majesty would be gracious and allow the Jesuits in the northwest to return to Beijing! ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he looked at Xu Guangqi with an expressionless face and said, "So, in Qing's opinion, is it better for me to agree or not to agree?" ”

Since Xu Guangqi already knew the emperor's attitude towards the Jesuits, he naturally couldn't sit crooked at this time, so he said:

"In the opinion of the ministers, if Your Majesty is unwilling to change the decree at all times, can you allow the Jesuit missionaries in the northwest to hire their own parishioners as their guards?

"Now the northwest land is mixed with the Han Dynasty, and the border realm is even more salty for Mu Suman, Tang Ruowang and others go west to preach, if there is no escort to accompany them, it is tantamount to a sheep into the tiger's mouth, and this matter will not last long!"

As soon as Xu Guangqi's words came out, Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, immediately said: "Your Majesty! This is not feasible! If the Taixi missionaries come to China to preach, they can hire their own parishioners as mercenaries, and over time, if their power is great, they will be harmful to China! The harm may not be under the wood speed barbarian! ”