As for Long Huamin and most of these people, for many years after Haojingao went north to Beijing, they were never allowed to leave Beijing and go deep into the interior of the Ming Dynasty to preach, let alone Gansu and Ningxia in the far northwest.

Even Long Huamin, the president of the Catholic Society of Jesus in China and the presiding missionary work in Xi'an, had not been so far away.

At this time, following the Jinyi guards sent by the emperor, they went to the trilateral governor's jurisdiction outside Yansui Town to preach Catholicism, but there was a trance feeling that the kingdom of heaven was about to descend on the east.

A group of 12 missionaries traveled all the way to the west, just like the 12 apostles under whom Jesus was seated, heading out for a world full of infidels, with a full sense of divine mission and a sense of generosity and tragedy that I will not go to hell and who will go to hell.

For Emperor Chongzhen, he is not afraid that you will go, but that he is afraid that you will not go.

Are you not going to convert the infidels, not to convert all the heretics to your holy faith, well, then go,

When I arrived at that place, facing the pagan Mu Suman and the Muslim church they believed in, Lao Tzu wanted to see which of you was more powerful and who could kill whom.

And just before they left, Emperor Chongzhen personally issued a decree forbidding these missionaries to refer to China as China in their letters to the Holy See and their respective countries, and only to use the transliteration or paraphrase of Zhonghua or Daming.

Because the word with the same name as porcelain is really not a good word, China must not be considered a gorgeous, hollow and fragile porcelain.

However, what he did not expect was that from then on, these Western missionaries and Western merchants who traveled to and from China no longer referred to China as porcelain in their written letters and records, but the transliteration and paraphrase of Zhonghua and the Ming Dynasty lacked a basis in Western literature, so that another European gave China an older name to revert to use.

That is the land of silk, Seres, that is, Seris, where silk is abundant.

It was before the overland Silk Road was cut off, the nobles and merchants of the ancient Greek and Roman empires gave the name of China to the Far East.

It's not good, but it's better to be called the land of silk than the country of porcelain.

But that's all for later.

After sending away Long Huamin and other Jesuits in the Ming Dynasty, the missionaries in Beijing were almost empty, and although there were still many in Gyeonggi, they were all Portuguese and Spanish veterans, craftsmen and craftsmen, and speculative merchants employed by the martial arts halls, military institutes, and gun factories, and these people were actually not very harmful.

After all, these people came to Daming to make a living and make a fortune, not to preach and sell their religious beliefs to the Chinese.

For such a person, this Emperor Chongzhen is of course welcome now, which can not only bring technology and novel products, but also will not cause any fatal losses and harm to the Ming Dynasty, which is much easier to deal with than those missionaries with ill intentions.

As for the Dutch missionary "Geng Zhige" Candinius from Batavia, Emperor Chongzhen deliberately left him behind.

Of course, it's not because of his uprightness, or being friendly to Daming or anything, that's nothing.

He was left in Kyoto because he was from Batavia and knew something about the Dutch East India Company, an organization that integrated government and business, and because he had been to Japan, preached in Japan, and had some understanding of the shogunate rule in Japan, so keeping him in Kyoto might come in handy when he could.

Therefore, Condinus, a Dutch missionary who was regarded by Long Huamin and John Tang as a bit of a lack of success and more than enough failure, took over the Beijing Catholic Church that Long Huamin took over from Matteo Ricci.

It turned out that the other missionaries who had lived in Beijing for a long time had all gone to the northwest at once, and Long Huamin could only entrust the Catholic Church of Beijing to such a person who had just arrived in China and did not know anything about the court, folk and cultural conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, whether it is the rigid and inflexible Long Huamin, or the sleek and sophisticated and speculative John Tang, or even the other ten missionaries who were unknown in the original history, they will understand in the future that Emperor Chongzhen's approach is full of "malice" towards them.

In the name of tolerance and reward for them, there is a "evil heart" that harms them, but even if they know it, they are helpless.

This is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy.

What you mean is that even if you know it's a pit, you have to jump into it, and if you don't, you're sorry for your God, sorry for your church, or even for what you say about your faith and conscience.

However, even so, some unknown Hanlin, imperial historians, and speech officials still jumped out to oppose these priests going deep into the interior to preach, demanding that these priests could only stay in the vicinity of the treaty ports and the capital division, and were not allowed to wander around the Ming Dynasty through the state and the government.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to say anything or explain anything more about the various letters of these court officials who didn't know the truth, so he laughed it off and ignored it.

Of course, although Emperor Chongzhen deliberately brought these Jesuit missionaries from the West back to Ningxia, Gansu Province, the works that their missionaries worked hard to write or translated during this period were still highly valued by Emperor Chongzhen.

Not only did he immediately order the Hanlin Yuan, who were so idle, to copy and copy as soon as possible, and send it to the Guozijian in the north and south for the study and research of the Guozijian in the north and south of the capital, but also ordered the Guozijian in the north and south to change the name of "Kunyu Gezhi" to "The Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgy" as soon as possible, and then make engraving and publish it in the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen's subsequent practice made Xu Guangqi and the figures of the Western school who looked forward to Xu Guangqi, such as Li Zhizao, the current Qing of Guanglu Temple, Li Tianjing, the teacher of Wutang Artillery, Wang Zheng, the deputy envoy of the Agricultural Academy, and Yang Zhihua and Huang Hongxian, the official records of Guanglu Temple who participated in the translation of "Kunyu Gezhi" (The Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgy), as well as the scientists of the Western School in the late Ming Dynasty who were helping to revise the "Datong Calendar" and compile the "Chongzhen Calendar", were also relieved.

After all, most of these people converted to Catholicism because of Matteo Ricci's relationship, and after Matteo Ricci died, he was still very close to these Jesuit missionaries from the West.

Including Song Yingxing, who was in Baiye City in Zunhua at this time, supervising the operation of various government-run industrial and mining factories near Baiye City, and at the same time had begun to conceive and write the masterpiece "Heavenly Creations", after hearing various rumors about the "expulsion" of missionaries from the imperial court, his heart was also suspended.

Originally, in history, when Song Yingxing was in Chongzhen for four years, he failed to participate in the examination for the fifth time, and he was forty-five or sixteen years old, after returning to his hometown in Fengxin, Jiangxi, he was disheartened by the imperial examination, and broke off the idea of taking the entrance examination to become an official and take a career, and began to bury himself in writing the long-conceived "Heavenly Creation", and finally became "China's Agricola".

However, in this life, Song Yingxing's career is quite proud, not only in the Jinshi, but also in a career that is highly compatible with his interests and hobbies after being admitted to the Jinshi.

Song Yingxing, who was already more interested in the study of 100 crafts, plunged into the various factories and mines in Baiye City, asked the craftsmen from all walks of life gathered in Baiye City for skills, and participated in the improvement of various technological processes while recording them in detail.

Therefore, the Jinshi in the examination not only did not delay the writing of "Heavenly Creations", but also very likely to advance the time of writing the book by many years.

Just when Song Yingxing was still thinking about finding an opportunity to return to Beijing and ask those learned missionaries some questions, he suddenly heard that these missionaries had let Jinyiwei leave Beijing "escorted", and of course he was very puzzled in his heart, worried that the current emperor's emphasis on miscellaneous studies would change because of this.

However, what made him feel very relieved was that a few days later, from the mouths of the officials of the Ministry of Industry who traveled between Beijing and Baiye City, he heard that Emperor Chongzhen had summoned Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Guangqi, the minister of the cabinet, Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the secretary of the Ministry of Ministers Cheng Ji, to ask the Ministry of Industry to choose a place near Tongzhou City to build an official school dedicated to teaching and studying hundreds of works and miscellaneous studies.

A few days after this news came, the official order of the imperial court arrived in Baiye City, and one of the orders was directly sent to Song Yingxing by the Jinyi Guard who came to deliver the decree.

Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict and ordered Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to be the general office to build the "Huangming Institute of Technology" in a place outside Tongzhou City, and to preside over the translation of the "Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgy" Li Tianjing as the sacrificial wine from the four products, to the Ministry of Industry member Song Yingxing as the sixth product of the business, and to participate in the translation of the "Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgy" of the Guanglu Temple Eight Products Record Minor Officials Yang Zhihua and Huang Hongxian two people as the left and right courtyards of the seven products.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen also asked Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and Cheng Chengji, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, to write together the three political envoys of the two capitals and thirteen cloths, and recruit scholars who are proficient in hundreds of crafts in the world to enter Beijing to select and confer officials.

At the same time, it also uses the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Officials to jointly recruit students from the College of Engineering, no matter which class you are in the Shinong industry and commerce, no matter whether you are a military household, a civilian household, an artisan household or any other household registration, and whether you are a white ding, a child, a Xiucai or a small official, as long as you are willing to apply for the examination, the travel expenses and accommodation will be free after the examination, and you can be awarded an official after three years of study.