Chapter 177: The Abominable Western Church

In the northwest battlefield, the remaining 16,000 people of the Russian Western Route Army had withdrawn to the Tangnu Ulianghai area, and the Qinglong Army marched to the Tangnu Ulianghai area after leaving a regiment to guard the Russian prisoners. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Northeast Battlefield, the Japanese army did not launch a new offensive against the Han army after being heavily damaged on 1 August, because the Japanese army lacked ships to cross the river, and the Han army learned from the intelligence from Korea that the Japanese army was trying all kinds of ways to collect ships, and it was afraid that it would be difficult to launch a new offensive against the Han army in a short time.

However, on the battlefield in the south, there has been no movement, which makes Sun Ran, the commander of the Xuanwu Legion, feel very strange, thinking that the British army and the French army have some conspiracy, and the Xuanwu Legion has strengthened its vigilance.

The Han Xuanwu Corps in Macao and Hong Kong did not plan to recover for the time being, because the combined British and French fleets were currently in Hong Kong, and the power of large-caliber naval guns would bring huge casualties to the Han army when it recovered Hong Kong and Macao, so it could only be postponed.

There was no war, which would have made the Han Kingdom look calm on the surface, but one incident shook the Han Kingdom and made Yan Xueyi angry.

On 23 July, the people of Danyang County, Qisu Province, found that more than 70 children's bodies had been buried in the church's cemetery, and that there was not a single living baby in the nursery.

The Danyang County Government quickly mobilized police forces to maintain law and order, and arrested seven British missionaries, who were interrogated and learned that the seven British missionaries actually used babies and children for experiments, and even performed vivisections, and the interrogation police were so angry that they almost wanted to pull out their pistols and kill the British missionaries on the spot.

On 30 July, the Danyang County Court held a public trial of seven British missionaries and sentenced them to Ling Chi because of the conclusive evidence, allowing the public to watch the execution.

In the laws of the Han Kingdom, the death penalty is not only a way to shoot to death, but also includes Ling Chi, car splitting, stick punishment, broken vertebrae, etc.

Shooting can give death row prisoners a painful pleasure, but some people are extremely evil, giving them a painful hatred, such as these seven British missionaries who aroused public anger, so the Danyang County Court sentenced them to Ling Chi.

Although this incident gradually subsided in Danyang County, where it occurred, it caused quite a shock in the outside world, and even Yan Xueyi learned about it, but Yan Xueyi thought of it more.

Since the Opium War, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was opened by the Western powers, and according to a series of treaties that followed, the Manchus had to allow missionaries from all over the world to preach in the land of China, which led to various problems, conflicts between Catholics and non-Christians, public anger caused by forced buying and selling of churches, conflicts of faith, and so on.

In 1848, French missionaries preached in Fuzhou, and under the pretext of returning the church, they wanted to occupy the Ma Shen Church in Huangzhuqi, which was the land of the local villagers, so the encroachment on the land to rebuild the church was intolerable to the Chinese people, in their opinion: "The ancestors are the foundation of man; If the original does not exist, the branches and leaves will wither. Therefore, after the news of the occupation of the church spread, the people of all directions and eight towns were angry to protect the ancestral land, but the priest led the parishioners to insist on digging up the graves and building the church, as a result, many villagers were beaten and injured, and some of the parishioners were injured, resulting in the 1848 Fuzhou Huangzhuqi Minjiao brawl.

In 1863, the French missionaries wanted to rebuild the Chang'an Temple into a church on the grounds of the relaxation of the ban and "return to the church" in the "Tianjin Treaty". As a result, "the public was in an uproar, and the original hall and other places were destroyed, and the next day the parishioners scolded them along the street, causing a provocation."

In 1864, at the instigation of British missionaries, the parishioners of Shuinian Village, Pingshan County, Zhili, gouged out the eyes of the statue of Emperor Guan, plucked out their beards, cut off the big knife of Zhoucang, and demolished the stone strips of the temple wall, prepared for the repair of the Catholic Church, and took the three wooden dragon gods of the Longwang Temple in the village to the church and made them into stools, causing fierce conflicts, killing and injuring more than a dozen people.

Similar to the "Danyang County Church Incident", in 1868, the French Catholic missionary Jin Yisan opened a nursery in Yangzhou Sanyi Pavilion, and 24 babies died in half a year, so the people rumored that the missionaries hid the children privately and secretly cooked them, in fact, the French missionaries also used Chinese babies for experiments, and the British missionary Hudson Taylor came to Yangzhou to forcibly rent a house and open a church, which aroused public indignation.

There are also "Jinan Lesson Plans", "Tianjin Lesson Plans", "Hulan Lesson Plans", "Qingyan Lesson Plans", "Kaiyang Lesson Plans", "Guizhou Lesson Plans", "Sichuan East Lesson Plans" and so on, from the Opium War to 1888, hundreds of lesson plans occurred.

The conflict between the Western church and traditional Chinese culture is three-dimensional and all-round, and the reasons for the dispute between people and religion are profound and complex, and the Western church relies on the aggression of the Western powers to forcibly proselytize in China and attempt to intervene in society, which is bound to meet with strong resistance and opposition from the Chinese people, and bloodshed continues to occur.

However, the final result was that because of the intervention of the foreign powers, the Manchu government groveled to pay reparations and apologize, and the cowardice of the Manchu government allowed the church to run rampant on the land of China.

Of course, these lesson plans all happened during the reign of the Manchu Dynasty, when the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown, the missionaries of various countries temporarily stopped and restrained the people, and now the situation is unclear, and they do not dare to carry out activities such as collecting money in a big way, but they know that the Han Kingdom is different from the cowardly Manchu Dynasty, if they are caught by the Han Kingdom, they will be punished, even if they have the status of foreigners.

As early as when the Han Kingdom occupied a place in Siqi Province, the Han Kingdom would continue to punish foreigners who violated the laws of the Han Kingdom.

Although there were no very serious cases like the "Danyang County Incident" and the "Yangzhou Teaching Case", there were also many churches that used their identities to make a lot of money, and the church's parishioners also had many conflicts with the common people, and there were casualties from time to time.

When the Han Kingdom ruled the four provinces, the governments at all levels of the Han Kingdom severely punished the missionaries and parishioners of various countries who violated the law, and thousands of people were sentenced to death and paid hard labor, and the churches involved in the case were also demolished.

However, this time the "Danyang County Incident" brought the Western Church and Western missionaries into the people's eyes again, and the people saw that the Han Kingdom was different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Han Kingdom was on their side, so they took out those "old cases" one after another, hoping that the state could give a fair verdict, and the people's boycott of the church reached a new high. tide, often churches are smashed. (To be continued.) )