Chapter Twenty-Four: Yidi Enters China

"Honorable Ye Guan, what did you say?" Didas heard Ye Guan talking to himself, thinking that he was going to say something to himself, so he stepped forward to ask.

"I said, this can be had!" Ye Guan turned around suddenly, his eyes stared straight at Didas, and the hot eyes made Didas a little scared.

"What's there?" Diddash asked cautiously.

"You have the Pope's credentials, you know?" Ye Guan said word by word.

"No! I haven't seen the Pope's credentials! Didas was shocked and quickly denied it.

"If you say that you have it, you will have it, and if you don't have it, with the national letter, you will be able to meet His Majesty the Emperor, you will be able to obtain the power to establish a church mission, you will be able to spread the mercy of your Lord, and you will be able to return to the Holy See and become a bishop, you know!" Ye Guan said in an accentuated tone.

"If you follow my method, not only will you succeed in achieving your missionary goals, but you will also have a better chance of becoming an archbishop and a cardinal. Think about the way you celebrate Mass in a Roman church with a scepter in hand, is it especially accomplished for you to spread the glory of the Lord? And if you succeed, your name will be carved into the walls of Amiens Cathedral and worshipped by future parishioners, and your deeds will be remembered forever. Priests, can you imagine the scene of the evangelism in a country populous of 50 million? Can you imagine what it would be like to have churches in this land? Can you imagine what it would be like for you to join the bishopric to decide on the affairs of the Holy See? Ye watched the priests and stimulated the missionaries who wanted to spread Catholicism and went crazy with the pie he painted.

"Your Excellency Ye Guan, can you let us take a deep breath?" Didas imagined what it would be like to decide all the events of the church in Rome and in the church in the future, and when he heard that the country had a population of 50 million, and imagined that the number of parishioners would increase dramatically with the establishment of the church in the Ming Kingdom, Didas suddenly felt that his heart was about to be a little unbearable.

"If you don't have a national credential, you won't be able to see His Majesty the Emperor, you won't be able to spread your teachings, and you will even be expelled from the government and rejected by other religions. In our country, if we do not have the support of the royal court, all religions will have no choice but to perish! ”

"Do you have it now?" Ye saw the battle between heaven and man in Diddash's heart, and asked again in a seductive tone, like the snake that lured Adam and Eve to taste the forbidden fruit.

"Your Excellency, you have so selflessly helped us, the messengers and servants of the Lord, will you be baptized?" Although Didas was blushing and heartbeat by the big cake painted by Ye Guan, he was the principal of these priests who could go to sea after all, and he was not an idiot. Ye Guan joined them and became a Catholic, so it shows that Ye Guan's plan is not big. But Ye Guan didn't want to join them, but was willing to help them...... Hehe, although the Lord is omnipotent, but it is not omnipotent to this extent, otherwise the Ming Kingdom would have been full of churches, how could it be that the glory of the Lord would not have reached this highly civilized country more than a thousand years later. If Ye Guan doesn't want to become a believer, then it means that Ye Guan must have other plans. If the plan is harmless to them spreading their teachings, then forget it, but he came all the way from Fujian and found that the people here also have their own religious beliefs, and he didn't want to be given a trip to the Trojan Horse Massacre by the Ming people, so that the religion of the Ming Kingdom would spread to Europe and become another Islam, then the European states that were already fluctuating in people's hearts would be even more alienated from the Holy See!

"Hehe, this official is a nobleman, so he can't join a foreign religion." How could Ye Guan join Catholicism, what he wanted was the humanities and various progressive books brought by European missionaries to change the closed state of the Ming Dynasty through exchanges between the East and the West, instead of making the Ming Dynasty another Christian country through teachings like the Bible, because Christianity in this period could not bring civilization, and they themselves were still ignorant.

Hearing Ye Guan's refusal, Didas sank in his heart, sure enough, Ye Guan didn't want to join Catholicism, so what was he trying to do? When he was silent, Ye Guan's words made his heart active again.

"However, if you succeed in meeting His Majesty the Great Emperor of our country, and if His Majesty decrees that you are allowed to build a church, you may become the Lamb of the Lord, and not only the Lord, but also the Dukes and Counts will become pious servants of the Lord because of your merits. And what I want is only the credit of being rewarded by His Majesty for introducing foreign envoys to my country, and that's all. Ye Guan continued to draw big cakes for them, played a set of pyramid schemes for them, gave them a big head to others, and only said his purpose by the way. But in fact, it seems that the big head is in someone else's place, but in fact, it is still in his own hands, so that those people can feel relieved when they hear that they also have a plan.

"Okay, we have the national certificate, so Your Excellency Ye Guan, what should we do next?" Diddash made up his mind to serve a mission.

"First of all, you have to follow my steps, and if you succeed, I promise that you will achieve your goal, and I will achieve mine!" Ye Guan was very confident, because what he would do next was what Matteo Ricci's missionaries would do in the late Ming Dynasty.

"Your Excellency Ye Guan, you say, as long as it is to spread the gospel of the Lord, that is, let me face Satan, I will do it without hesitation, and you will get the credit and honorary status you need!" Didas looked righteous and awe-inspiring, like a martyr who was about to go to righteousness, he didn't know much Chinese, otherwise he must take a proud oath of "I don't go to hell, who will go to hell".

"First of all, take out all the books you have brought, what astronomy and geography, humanities, history and mathematics, cultural system. By the way, there's also the world map you made. Let's change it, add my operations, and soon you'll be able to get the best of luck. Maybe with a bit of luck, you'll be able to build a church soon. ”

"What? What do you want those things for? Change it and see His Majesty the Emperor? Didas didn't know what Ye Guandong was doing with a hammer and a mallet in the west, so he was stunned.

"What are you doing? The first step is to give me the book. The second step is to grow a beard, learn Chinese, know etiquette, and wear Confucian clothes. Ye Guan urged.

"Do you want to learn etiquette and wear your clothes?" Didas has always worn a teaching robe, and he pays attention to his personal appearance, and he shaves his beard clean every time, even if the teaching robe is torn, it is cleanly washed. As soon as he heard Ye Guan say this, he couldn't react for a while.

"Yes, there is a saint in my country who once said: If Yidi enters China, China will be China. Any idea what that means? Ye Guan asked deliberately.

"What do you mean?" Diddash raised his head cooperatively and asked.

"What he means is that when foreigners come to China, they will learn Chinese etiquette, and they will soon be like a fish in water on Chinese soil." Ye Guan said.

"What fish, what water? Is it the meaning of going to the sea to catch fish? "Diddash's Chinese is only coarse, so I can't understand idioms.

"To the sea? Honorable priest, did you go to sea to spread the glory of your Lord to the whales? Ye Guan was angry for a while.

"What does that mean?" Diddash asked shamelessly.

"Like we're doing right now, I'll teach you to learn. When you understand the etiquette and language of our country, you will know how much it will help you! By the way, the books I wanted, in addition to the originals, as well as your translations, should be regarded as homework. As long as you can successfully translate those books, it means that you are about to meet His Majesty the Great Emperor of our country. Ye Guan himself did not know Portuguese, so he had to fool the missionaries into translating those books.

"Oh, okay, what else is there to have?" Didas thought that these books would not do him any harm in proselytizing, and that he could just learn Chinese, so he nodded in agreement.

"Okay, now take off your clothes," Ye Guan continued.

"What! Could it be that there is still a ** sacrifice! Didas was shocked.

"My old Di, isn't it easier to undress in front of men than to go to Satan?" Ye Guan smiled and looked at the shy Didas and the priests.