In fact, Xavier also had a bitter saying, although he was one of the founders of the Society of Jesus, but he had been away from Europe for too long for more than 20 years, his two best friends...... The first president, Loyola, has been dead for ten years, and the second president, Renes, also returned to the arms of God last year, and the third president, Bovadillia, who is now in power, although he is also ambitious to open up the eastern territories, hopes that his own people will complete the credit, so as soon as he came to power last year, he sent his own missionary group to replace Xavier, but because these people went to China, they found that they knew nothing about this huge world, and they could not do without Xavier's guidance for the time being. Therefore, they did not immediately announce the order of the head of the meeting, but obtained relevant information from Xavier, and then, through a few letters from Xavier, and some knowledge of southern China, they thought that they understood the political and personal feelings of the Ming Dynasty, and thought that the time was ripe to replace them. They could only do what they said, and as a result, they stabbed the hornet's nest and almost put years of hard work to waste, and under the great pressure of facing failure, the priests who came did not dare to be arrogant anymore, so they had to ask Xavier

After the rework lord Xavier returned to power, he only did one thing, that is, no matter how much it cost, he had to obtain Lord Shen's understanding...... Silence is not to blame Xavier, missionaries are not Bethune, it is impossible to be self-conscious, dedicated to benefiting others, behind all their actions in the Ming Dynasty, the fundamental purpose is to preach, but silence opens the door for them to be convenient, but not to let the glory of God shine on China, but to use these foreigners who are proficient in science and philosophy to open a window for the Ming scholars to understand the world, so he must dispel their thoughts of taking shortcuts, and firmly fix them on the trajectory they have delineated, on this oriental land, The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great, and Silence doesn't even need to take action in person, to achieve his own goals, for this young adult's thoughts, Xavier, who has seen the world, naturally will not be unaware, at first he was not willing to be used, but through the temptation of his companions, he has been mercilessly hit After understanding the attitude of the other party, Xavier understands that if you want to preach here, you can only be used by the other party, and you have to do a good job of errands, only under this premise, can you get the freedom of mission, but it is useless to understand yourself, It didn't take long for his companions to realize that it was useless to gain the trust of the emperor, who was not as strong as Philip II or Queen Elizabeth, who was his age, but who cared only about his own well-being, and gave all the affairs to his ministers so that he could get the approval of them

The most important thing that frustrated them was that although the officials in the capital were polite and invited them to be guests, they were only curious about strange things, and they asked about overseas customs and customs, inquired about the origin of the chiming bell and the Western piano, and whether they could buy on behalf of them...... And this is the root cause of the mission's predicament, because the "Ming Huidian" only records the Western Zoli country, and there is no Atlantic country, so the officials in the capital generally believe that they 'are suspicious, and the truth of the country is unknown' and the learned Ming Dynasty intellectuals are still like this, not to mention the ordinary people, in the hearts of the common people, these Westerners are described as ugly, with thick body hair, and with a strong smell only willing to watch from afar, and will never get too close, will not accept their gifts, The dislocation of this conceptual level of completely rejecting people thousands of miles away made them finally understand that their missionary career would be extremely difficult, so they wanted to come up with a killer idea, by providing free breakfast and distributing food and clothing to the poor, to attract the lower classes of people to join the church, but they were strictly forbidden by Xavier, because this is the usual method of the local cult, which can only make Catholicism be labeled as a cult, causing everyone to be arrested and beheaded. Sincerely ask him to teach him how to go

Although he was angry with them, Xavier paid a little attention to the overall situation, and still shared his experience and his thoughts, and he preached to others: "First of all, in order to reduce the resistance to proselytizing, in the early stage of mission, it is naturally easy to insist on pursuing the upper line and convert to ordinary people, but we cannot beat them as soon as we come up, as we did in India, because the officials of this country, like monitoring private property, keep a close eye on their people, and we get too many people's beliefs, and we will be regarded as a cult that causes social instability, and we will be severely attacked." Seeing everyone's disappointment, he changed his words and said: "But this does not mean that religion cannot be spread, in fact, people in this country freely believe in Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam and other beliefs, the key is to be recognized by the upper class of society. The influence is also great, so at least for a long time, the object of our efforts is not a large number of people, but the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty" Xavier sighed secretly in his heart, and finally got on Lord Shen's thief ship In order to facilitate exchanges with Chinese officials and doctors and win their trust, Xavier let others be like himself, first from dressing up, first learn to comb his beard, wear a scarf on his head, no longer wear loose hair, and cannot but wear a hat, because in the eyes of the Chinese, this is a typical barbarian

In addition, we should make more use of Western scientific and technological knowledge and humanistic ideas to arouse the respect of Daming intellectuals for Catholicism, and Xavier told them: 'You will soon find that the Chinese are more interested in 'practical learning' than in Catholicism, and in order to attract the attention of many Chinese to our religion, we had better take ') That's why I asked you to bring prisms, chiming bells, globes, world maps, and all kinds of scientific books to Beijing to take advantage of every opportunity to introduce Chinese to astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics, and other knowledge...... In this regard, the Chinese are very weak, but they are keen to discuss and research, as long as we can cause controversy and win controversy, we can naturally become famous and win their respect" paused: "The Chinese are not blindly arrogant, as long as they can prove that they are wrong, we are right, they will naturally admire Western science, humbly learn from us, and then have the opportunity to convert them to me" Seeing that he finally pointed out a clear path, the priests couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but listened to Xavis's slightly accentuated tone:" But I would like to remind you that although various religions are prevalent in this country, Confucianism is still the real dominant religion, and even local religions such as Buddhism and Taoism must remove doctrines that conflict with Confucianism, so that we can be at peace and sound, and we must not conflict with Confucian culture.

Instead, it should appear in a cooperative posture of 'complementing Confucianism' and 'Confucianism', so as to make the other party accept our ......" "The future is bright, the road is tortuous...... Xavier embezzled a silent famous saying: "For this reason, you need to work hard to master and study Confucianism, you will realize that there are many similarities between our religion and Confucianism, such as both believe in monotheism, both advocate 'benevolence', and both attach importance to spiritual and moral cultivation, and this is the basis for mutual communication and understanding between the two sides. When there is an inevitable conflict between the two sides, we should not go toe-to-toe and abide by the rules, but should temporarily make some adjustments and adaptations to our teachings, so as to integrate our religion with Confucian culture to the greatest extent and make it a religion suitable for survival in China. Not only was it unanimously supported by other priests, but it was even summarized as the 'Four Principles of the East', which ordered all missionaries and believers who entered the Ming Dynasty to abide by it, laying a solid foundation for Catholicism to quickly gain a foothold and flourish in China...... Shen Mo did have high hopes for these Western missionaries, in Nanjing, in Shanghai, and in the Soviet Union

State, in Hangzhou, in fact, there have been churches, thanks to his open side and Shen Mo is willing to help them, because he needs this kind of exchange and dialogue, he believes that the change of thought is the prelude to any change, the idea remains the same, any reform is in vain Chinese traditional culture, although the history is brilliant, but also because the history is too long, it has been stagnant and slight, and it no longer flows, so the result is that the essence is deposited at the bottom, it is difficult to see the day, the dross floats on it, the smell is unbearable, only let the stagnant water of the lake flow, can the dross be washed away, Let the essence see the light of day again, realize the ideological rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, China can not and cannot repeat the old path of the Western Renaissance, but the stone of his mountain can attack the jade, he hopes to take advantage of that wisp of the west wind, blow this pool of muddy water, use the exchanges and dialogues between different cultures and even different civilizations, so that the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty can broaden their horizons, realize their own shortcomings in science, philosophy and other aspects, and then make up for my shortcomings, reflect on traditional Confucianism, and hope to finally reproduce the spring and autumn scenery of a hundred flowers and Western missionaries, It was the catfish he put into the fish pond, as for the effect, it can only be left to time to test some things can be left for the future, but there are also some things that must be dealt with now, the Luzon envoy has arrived in Beijing, and the letter of state asking the emperor for help is placed on the desk of the signing room of the Ministry of Silence, but the silent gaze fell on another thing, which is the most information in Nanyang sent by the king, since he got the promise of silence, the old shipowner has paid close attention to the wind and grass there, and passed

The line of 'Mao Haifeng-Shen Jing' transmits messages to Shen Mo at any time to help him achieve his goals...... Through various intelligence analysis, Shen Mo can already have a relatively deep understanding of what happened in Nanyang...... Ten years ago, Philip II became King of Spain, a great emperor who wanted to expand his colonies from the Americas to Asia, and to turn the 'South Seas' into ' Eight years ago, he wrote to the Viceroy of Mexico, repeatedly emphasizing the importance of the colonization of the Philippine Islands, and he instructed the Viceroy to organize an expedition to the Philippines, and four years ago, after careful preparations, the expeditionary force set out from Mexico under the command of the adventurous Admiral Legazpi; Then, in ten months, the two soft and hard forces seized Cebu Island in the middle of the Luzon Islands, which can reach Luzon in the north and Mindanao in the south, the island has good harbors, sufficient food and products, and is a good place to attack and retreat and defend to establish a central colony At the same time, the Spaniards also found a route back to Mexico, and could not wait to start trade with China, which of course caused strong dissatisfaction among the Portuguese, who considered it a blatant provocation to the "Zaragozayo", and used it as a reason

Although the Spanish blockade on Cebu Island was difficult to compete with the Portuguese power here, after receiving a steady stream of support from Mexico, Legazpi broke the Portuguese blockade of Cebu Island and promised not to go south to touch the Spice Islands, in exchange for the easing of relations between the two sides and the elimination of the hidden danger of the great enemy, the Spaniards burst out with great energy, continued to expand their territory in the Luzon Islands, and finally approached Manila, the capital of the Kingdom of Luzon. Sending people to ask the suzerain, Daming, for help, I am afraid that even the Luzon envoys do not know, but Shen Mo felt that it was better for them not to know, otherwise they could only increase panic and fear...... It turned out that under the pressure of the strong enemy, the internal chaos before the battle, which led to the enemy taking advantage of the void, was once again really staged Before the war, the rulers of Manila were divided into two factions, the Raja Suleiman of the main war faction advocated avoiding the enemy's edge, retreating to the north, accumulating strength and preparing to fight again, and Raja Matanda, who was the main peace faction, believed that resistance would only increase casualties, and it was better to surrender under the dispute between the two sides, Hu did not want to do so, and finally went their own way, Suleiman led the troops to leave Manila, and Matanda really removed the fortifications, Let the Spaniards enter Manila unscathedOn May 19 of this year, Legazpi announced the occupation of Manila and began Spanish colonial rule On June 3, Suleiman united with more than a dozen other tribes to launch a counteroffensive against the Spaniards, but unfortunately failed, Suleiman continued to fight for several months, and was driven out of land, and finally in another naval battle, the ship was destroyed and people died

Of course, the people of Luzon will not accept this cruel reality, they still continue to fight against the colonizers in the name of Suleiman, and what makes Shen Mo worry is that the main body of resistance has gradually shifted from the local tribes to the Chinese in Luzon. And ask for help from the maritime merchants who are in close contact, hoping to get their help To tell the truth, the maritime merchants are very willing to help with this, and they have understood the importance of controlling the shipping routes in many years of maritime trade...... Every year, the merchant fleet that passes through Luzon Island to Mexico has to be drained by the Spaniards of more than 10 million taels of heavy taxes, as well as high supply costs, which is simply a roadblock robbery, if the Spaniards can be driven out of Luzon, or at least dare not collect taxes indiscriminately, it is simply great news for the maritime merchants, but Nanyang is the sphere of influence of the Wufeng shipowner, without him to speak, no one dares to rush to help, can only secretly sell them some martial arts...... Of course, this also has to do with the fact that the Spaniards are well-armed and powerful, and everyone expects that the old shipowner can take the lead and fight with Yangmaozi together, but Wang Zhi did not express his position for a long time, because he was waiting for a silent attitude, and he often recalled that brief meeting, and the adult, who was still very young at the time, actually predicted what would happen in a few years with unmistakable accuracy

-- Including Xing's trade routes, Wang Zhi made a lot of money, no longer envy Xu Hai's side, if it was Xu Hai, he would have already beckoned his younger brother to cut off the Spaniards' brains, but Wang Zhi is old, and he seeks stability in everything, he knows how powerful the Spaniards are, their fleet is invincible in the world, and their marines are also extremely powerful, is it not to provoke this powerful enemy, Wang Zhi is not sure, he must first listen to the meaning of silence, and see how the court reacts, and then decide how to act......