In June, the city is unusually hot, and the tall and spacious palace buildings in the Forbidden City can block and filter out a lot of heat, but it still makes people feel unbearable.

On the sixth day of the first month of June, Emperor Chongzhen had just finished rewarding the meritorious soldiers on the front line of Shanxi's suppression of thieves, arranged the aftermath of the civil unrest in northern Guangdong, and once again strangled the opposition to the opening of the sea and trade in the middle of the country.

Although the Chongzhen Emperor's previous ambiguity and tolerance for the Yiren Yijiao have been exchanged for the positive service of the Western missionaries in China in this era, and in exchange for their strong support for various imperial court undertakings such as the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, the Wubei Academy, and the Baiye City, it has also raised their expectations for the current Ming Emperor.

Since last year, Emperor Chongzhen has put forward a series of policies on the popularization of religion, which have made the Italian missionary Long Huamin, the head of the Jesuit mission in China, feel that they seem to have knocked on the door of the missionary mission in China, and feel that the spring of the Jesuit mission in China has arrived.

For example, Emperor Chongzhen's previous edict made it clear that as long as he had lived in China for three years, the missionaries had published or presented a Western scientific or technical work to the emperor, or had experience serving in the Ming court or the army, they could buy a house and settle down, do business, or preach.

Such a policy of openness was unseen and unheard of by these missionaries who had been away from their homeland for many years in any non-Catholic country in the world.

As a result, not only did their own ambitions to preach in China swell, but many missionaries who were already in China wrote letters to the Roman Catholic Church, especially the radical Jesuits under the Roman Catholic Church, calling for friends and recruiting more like-minded Jesuit missionaries to preach in China.

The Jesuits who had originally lived in Ho Ching-O, Manila, Batavia and other places, after receiving letters from missionaries in China, learned about the policies of the Chinese emperor and no longer felt that missionaries in China were a dangerous route, so they began to go north one after another, taking with them novelties and various writings that they felt were not available in the Ming Dynasty, passing through the ports of Guangzhou and Quanzhou, which were gradually opening up, and entering the territory of the Ming Dynasty one after another.

These missionaries were followed by merchants from the Tessie nations.

Regarding this situation, Wang Zhichen, the governor of Liangguang, Zhou Yanru, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Luo Yangxing, who is now leading the Nanzhen Fusi to clean up and rebuild the entire Jiangnan Jinyi Wei Thousand Households, have to send a batch of detailed reports to the Beijing Division every once in a while.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the Forbidden City, also mastered these situations.

However, now that Emperor Chongzhen, there are still many things that need to be borrowed and relied on by the missionaries from the West at this time, and the right time has not yet come.

Whether before or after the crossing, the current Chongzhen Emperor is a very traditional or orthodox Chinese, and has no good feelings for all schools of Christianity, whether Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, or Protestantism.

As for the Islam of the white cloth or the black cloth Baotou, it is even more disgusting.

But at this time, the Ming Dynasty, how many big things are waiting to be done, and it is not yet time to deal with these problems, so they have to use them first, and endure them first, at least until they are eliminated before they can deal with these problems.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's actions, such as his reliance on Western missionaries, his trust in Western craftsmen and technicians, and his ambiguous attitude towards the Jesuit missionary mission in China, caused many people to misunderstand.

In particular, in the past six months, Emperor Chongzhen and his court officials first allowed Antonio de Capo and Juan Dias to open a private Dias gunpowder factory in Baliqiao, Tongzhou, and then allowed the Portuguese Joe Rodriguez and Portugal to take over Gautinho to open a glass factory in Gyeonggi, and finally purchased a large amount of embossed glass made by Gottinho in China to replace it with the traditional window screen paper of the major palaces in the Forbidden City.

One after another, these measures soon spread among the circles of Western missionaries living in the Ming Dynasty.

Long Huamin, the current president of the Jesuit missionaries in China, once again firmly believes that the previous statements of His Majesty the Ming Emperor are not deception, on the contrary, the conditions promised before, and the promises made to those who meet the conditions, are being fulfilled.

Therefore, Long Huamin soon brought the celestial globe, globe, magnifying glass, table clock and other things brought by the new group of missionaries from the north, and found Tang Ruowang, who taught in the Huangming Jiangwutang, as well as their Chinese parishioners, Li Tianjing, who was also teaching in the Jiangwutang Artillery Department, and asked these two figures who were quite respected by the emperor to help contact His Majesty the Emperor who met the Ming Dynasty.

It just so happened that John Tang and Li Tianjing had just recently completed a co-translated tome of Western science and technology, and they wanted to dedicate this opportunity to the emperor.

So the three of them hit it off, led by Li Tianjing, who was also working part-time in Qintianjian, and went to find Xu Guangqi, a cabinet minister and a secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

In this way, on the morning of the 6th day of the sixth month of June, Xu Guangqi, a cabinet minister and secretary of the Ministry of Rites, led Long Huamin, Tang Ruowang, and Condenius, a Dutch Jesuit missionary who had recently entered Beijing, to the Wenhua Hall in the Forbidden City with gifts for the emperor and the newly translated works of John Tang and Li Tianjing, to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

Xu Guangqi took these Jesuit missionaries, under the guidance of several imperial attendants and military attachés, to the main hall of the Wenhua Palace, Emperor Chongzhen sat on his throne, and on both sides below stood the heads of the imperial attendant military attachés and Jinyi Guard, Tiance Guard, and Yulin Guard.

In the main hall, under the throne, there is also the cabinet chief assistant Li Guoyi.

And Li Guoyi's subordinate stood Jiang Yueguang, the deputy envoy of the Li Fan Yuan.

Now, in addition to the three major halls in the Forbidden City, the cabinet ministers and the emperor have their own seats, although it is just a brocade stool without backrest and armrests, but it also makes the status of the cabinet ministers have a qualitative improvement.

In the past, it was the emperor who cared for the old ministers and gave the throne, which was a reward, and in the future, it is the law of the imperial court, reflecting the rise of the status of the ministers.

Xu Guangqi led the missionaries to salute, and then after flattening down, he walked to the lower right of the emperor's Wenhua Hall throne and sat down on the brocade bench prepared for himself.

Long Huamin, Tang Ruowang and Condinius followed Xu Guangqi into the main hall, and when they saw the emperor sitting on it, they immediately followed suit.

Long Huamin, who has been in China for a long time, knelt down on one knee and bowed his head, while Tang Ruowang, who held a position in the Ming Dynasty, knelt on his knees and bowed to the ground.

The only difference was that Condenius, a Dutch Jesuit missionary who had just arrived in Daming, just stood and bowed.

Standing in the hall, Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Gao Wencai, the commander of the Tiance Guard, and Li Ruolian, the commander of the Yu Linwei, saw that one of the missionaries could not even kneel on one knee, and everyone was angry at the moment.

Including Yan Yingyuan, the head of the military attache who is now well-informed and very calm and sophisticated, they are all angry, take a step forward, and then turn their heads to look at the emperor on the throne, just waiting for the emperor to take down this red-haired devil who doesn't know whether to live or die as soon as he gets angry.

However, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about this problem, just waved his hand, signaled Yan Yingyuan to stand back, and at the same time stopped Li Guoyi, the head of the cabinet who was about to speak, and just looked at Long Huamin and his party calmly.

Soon, the people in the palace heard the fluent Beijing official words of the Longhua people led by them:

"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, I am the priest Long Huamin from Sicily, Italy, and the other two, one is the priest John Tong from the Holy Roman Empire of Germany, and the other is the priest Condenius from the Dutch territory of Batavia in the east.

"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, we are all clergy from the far West, commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church to come to the East to preach the Gospel of God, and you are our protector in China.

"We came to China because we admired China, hoping to stay here and serve God here until we died.

"And you, Your Majesty the Great Emperor, have personally promised us that if we, the priests from the far West, could serve your court and army, and could present to you our works of wisdom and science, His Majesty the Great Emperor would allow us to remain in China forever, to build churches, and to spread the Gospel of God.

"Now that we have brought you the gift you wanted, we pray that Your Majesty the Great Emperor will be able to keep your promises! Promise us land and build churches to influence more lost lambs! ”