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Shortly after the conversation, officials brought an update from Beijing and offered some of the Chen Jian's nominees in the Battle of the Ryukyus.

The statement of "giving a ride" that Jian Chen said to these people before can be regarded as fulfilled.

From the beginning of his stay in Quanzhou to the present, he has actually sent many people a ride. There is a future, there is life, there is hope, and of course there is death.

For example, for Sun Yuanhua, Jian Chen gave them a future; As for Matteo Ricci, who lives in Beijing, Chen Jian also gave him a ride on the way to heaven.

The news of the Battle of the Ryukyus had spread in the capital, and Matteo Ricci, who had become seriously ill and bedridden after arguing with the envoy sent by Chen Jian last time, became even more ill after hearing the news.

Originally, he hoped to rely on his knowledge of culture and calendar to make friends with dignitaries and nobles, so as to obtain officially approved missionary opportunities.

But this road was blocked by another group of people, and he could not support himself alone, and he was far from being the opponent of this group of prepared people. He was deeply worried about the future of Catholicism in China, and when he saw that his dream was getting farther and farther away from him, the sense of powerlessness and panic and the anger at heresy made his body in his fifties unbearable.

Shortly after the Battle of the Ryukyus, Matteo Ricci received another letter from a Jesuit priest who had come to China at the same time.

The letter is preceded by some words of greeting, and after the words of greeting are some vague criticisms and dissatisfactions:

"Dear Richie, I received the last letter, but I still stand by my thoughts."

"I looked through the books of the university, the Analects, and the Mean, and I became more and more uneasy about the title of God. The word God is alien to our God and has an explanation for what already exists in Himself. Even the Francisco priests in Japan considered our translations to be heretical and possibly unreligious. We must be clear that the Steeps we believe in are not God. ”

"And Confucius, as a pagan, we have to make it clear to those who have already become a believer, a talent, and an official. They should not go to the ceremony on the fifteenth day of every month to worship Kong. ”

"As for their worship of their ancestors, perhaps out of moral filial piety, this is what we support. But when they worship their ancestors, they pray and ask for their blessings. Only God can be prayed to, and their ancestors did not have this ability. If they pray when they worship their ancestors, then their ancestors are heretical gods, so they are allowed to worship their ancestors, but they must not be allowed to pray for anything. ”

"These are the bottom lines that cannot be changed, and if we even change them, then what is the difference between them and those heretics?"

"In addition, the Dominicans have begun to attack our missionary activities in the Spanish Viceroyalty, arguing that it is heretical for us to bring alpacas, guinea pigs, etc., into the content of the Gospel, and for allowing the Indians to sacrifice in their own way. Now we do not know the reaction of Rome, whether the diocese of China will be independent, this is unknown. If we continue to do this, using the name God or something, and allowing believers to worship their ancestors, it will be attacked by the Dominicans. They are passionate about heresy trials, and they don't need to think about these issues to know that they can't allow. ”

"Even if these changes are made to spread the Gospel, it is better to send someone to Rome as soon as possible to report what is happening here and let the Pope make a decision."

In addition, the focus of the monks should be on missionary work, rather than on spreading mathematics and the rest of the sciences. Now that we have established ourselves in China, and we are unlikely to be driven out, I think it's time to discourage the emperor and allow religion to spread freely. ”

"Judging from my missionary work in the South, we could have done something a little bolder. In the South, I tried to get religious fathers to teach their daughters and wives, because it was very difficult for women to show their faces here. Now it seems that the results are very good, and the women continue to spread the word in their own circles, organizing readings and singing confessions every few days, and they are happy to participate in them, and they are very sympathetic to the doctrine that we believers are brothers and sisters. ”

"It's very difficult to get along with scholars, it's hard for them to give up their wives and concubines, and it's hard for them to give up at the bottom, but they don't, so it's easy for them to accept. In the south, I organized the congregation, and if someone had a fire in their home, the congregation would help; When someone is in trouble at home, the congregation will also help. Every time something like this happens, more people are baptized. They rarely have such community activities, so it is easy to get a sense of identity and belonging on an equal footing. If Rome can support us with more money, membership and personnel, our communication activities at the bottom will be much smoother. ”

"We should be most pleased that when missionary activities are thwarted in some places, Chinese believers will stand up and cry out with yellow flags: 'May martyrdom die for God.'" Nothing pleases God more than having another faithful believer."

Seeing this, Matteo Ricci was already scared into a cold sweat, and his mind, which was already drowsy because of illness, was even more painful. He felt that if he died at this time, he was afraid that the achievements of his activities in China for so many years would be ruined.

May martyrdom die for God may be a cause for celebration in those wild places, but here it will lead to destruction.

If it is said that whether it is translated into God and Heaven that already exists in the four middle schools, it is only a question of whether it is convenient for culture and popularization. It is forbidden for officials and people to sacrifice holes, to worship ancestors, to erect tablets, and so on, but once they are implemented, they will not be able to gain a foothold in China at all, and it is only a matter of time before they are driven away.

The Dominicans were founded by the Inquisition of Heresy and had a conflict with the Jesuits, and Matteo Ricci knew what would happen to those fanatical men known for judging heresies if they were to be involved in the missionary work in China by the Dominicans.

As for the divisions within the Society of Jesus, Matteo Ricci also knew that these matters were not simple, but about major doctrinal matters. Many people were extremely dissatisfied with his translation of words such as God, but he opened the door for the Jesuit to be active in China, and the people respected him very much, and no one dared to refute it directly when he was alive, and he was able to suppress the contradictions between the two factions and unite the people.

But he also knew that once his soul returned to God, the people of the two factions would immediately fall into quarrels and conflicts because of this disagreement. I have a lot of things to do yet, but time is running out.

Early the next morning, Matteo Ricci began to prepare the letter, and at the same time began to prepare for the aftermath.

After his death, what should be done with the missionary methods of the Chinese diocese? What exactly does Steeps translate into? Is it permissible to worship ancestors and allow sacrificial holes? Who will be the next overseer of Chinese missionaries? Will the successor be able to implement his or her own philosophy? Can unity within the missionaries in China be guaranteed? Will the future mission be on the upper or lower routes? Can attracting officials through culture and technology prevail over the sudden emergence of atheistic and pantheistic heresies? Will you be able to fight the infidels who are clearly prepared? Is it possible to outdo the philosophical debate over the pan-natural gods or simply atheistic missions who believe that God has no meaning since the creation of the world?

All these aftermaths have made Matteo Ricci support his crumbling body with extremely tenacious spirit, and the oil has run out.

A few days later, the same group of people with whom he had debated the Word and the Divine came again, this time to visit him, to bring him some gifts, and to ask some questions.

Matteo Ricci did not want to close this door, hoping to convert these people and convert their souls.

However, this group of people did not come to ask questions about God, but some translations of mathematics, geometry, and so on. The geometry they brought was not the original geometry, but another set of self-contained arithmetic and geometry from shallow to deep, as well as some books on water conservancy, architecture, engineering, accounting, etc.

It is said that it was because I heard that Matteo Ricci had dictated the first few volumes of the original geometry, and that Ricci was the only one who knew geometry in the capital, so he wanted Matteo Ricci to help guide some of the content or make some changes in vocabulary. As for some calendar questions, I asked Matteo Ricci directly about how many days they predicted a lunar eclipse, I wonder what Mr. Ricci thinks about this prediction?

It's better to say that you are here to ask for advice, than to show off. said that he came to visit, but it was better to say that he was afraid that Matteo Ricci would not be able to attack and die of anxiety.

Matteo Ricci flipped through a few books, and knew in his heart that the way to win over the upper bureaucrats by relying on science and technology and culture was completely blocked by this group of people, and when he thought of the letter he received before about etiquette and translation, he suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, his heart was in severe pain, and he covered his heart and made an extremely painful expression.

But he didn't want this group of people to take out a small pill, and Matteo Ricci's heartache and panic were much better after eating it, but the uneasiness in his heart was even more serious.

After his body gradually recovered, Matteo Ricci finally couldn't help but ask: "How much does the envoy sent by your country know this knowledge?" ”

He was desperate for a negative answer, and if the envoy on the other side was a professional bureaucrat or an aristocrat who didn't understand these things, then things might turn around.

"Our envoy? Speaking of which, I'm going to call him sir. He was extremely religious. ”

In a short sentence, the last bit of hope in Ricci's heart ended.

A few days later, the delegation led by Chen Jian officially entered Beijing. In terms of novelty, there are a large number of skins and furs of exotic beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas; In terms of proximity, there is the fact that the Battle of the Ryukyus supported the tributary system of Asia; On the calendar, there is a full-time astronomer; On vigilance, there are businessmen who are fully bent on spreading monotheism; In terms of technology, there are excellent craftsmen brought with the ship; In terms of mathematics, there are many of the first learners of this historical online calculus and plane Cartesian coordinate system who brought all of this to Beijing.

A few days later, Matteo Ricci, who was worried and restless and seriously ill, passed away, and this envoy of Eastern and Western cultures, who was supposed to live a few more days and a figure who could be called Lizi, was given a ride by Chen Jian.

The last letter was not written, the next overseer of the Chinese mission was not appointed or recommended, and the question of etiquette could no longer be suppressed when he died. A controversy over the worship of ancestors, God, God, doctrine, whether it still makes sense to continue the academic mission of the upper echelons, and whether to send people to Rome to ask the Pope to adapt to local conditions, etc., unfolded after his funeral.

And the spread of his influence on the translation of names such as right angles, obtuse angles, acute angles, line segments, straight lines, geometry, etc., has not been interrupted by his death, and continues to influence the present and future here.

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