In the Governor's Palace, Xiao Xie said sincerely: "I'm a businessman, and I see this matter like this now." We Yinghua took over the Zhuangzi of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and you Portuguese are tenant farmers who rent my land. In the previous tenant agreement, neither the time limit nor the conditions were clearly stated, is it now...... We just want to reclaim the land, it's as simple as that. ”

He said with a look of pity: "But we Chinese talk about compassion, if you still want to rent this land again, you can, the conditions have to be renegotiated." ”

Xiao Xie oppressed this governor in his mouth, thinking in his heart, it was really boring for His Majesty to send him to talk about this business. There are too many chips in their hands, and the Portuguese in Macao have no room for maneuver at all. First cut off water and food, the fleet closed the sea, and put on the determination to achieve the goal of slaughtering the city at the expense of blood and fire, and then bring the situation back a little. This matter was handed over to the business relations department of the former Qingtian Company, and even a small guy could be competent and happy. It's not that he wants to involve foreigners, he wants to set up rules for Nanyang Zhuyi to do things in Yinghua, and he has to pay attention to the oil stains on the corners of his mouth, and he has the heart to scrape the family of these Portuguese people.

I still look forward to how I can stretch my fists and feet in the general office in the future, speaking of which, Your Majesty has really endured Macau for too long...... Set sail for the ghosts

Xiao Xie's emotion was a little off, Li Xi ascended the throne as the emperor, and after the matter of his wife was resolved, he was ready to wave his hand and regulate internal affairs. But with a wave of his hand, he found that there were still two black spots in the hinterland of Guangdong that had not been cleaned up, one was Xinhui, which was originally set aside as a "patriotic and Chinese-minded education base......

In fact, it's not that I really forgot it, but the strategy of maintaining the status quo was set two years ago, and no one paid attention to it after that, or when it comes to local government affairs, Ba Xuqi, the prefect of Tianfu, mentioned the special existence of Macao.

How to deal with Macao will involve the situation in the entire Nanyang, but the power in Li Shi's hands at this time is no longer at the level of two years ago. He decided that in addition to using both soft and hard measures to squeeze out the greatest benefits, he also wanted to send such a signal to the Europeans in Nanyang through the matter of Macao, that Yinghua is reasonable and has the strength to be reasonable.

As for the details, Li Xi didn't have time to list them one by one, so he gave Xiao Xie a bottom line, and he must completely and thoroughly bring Macao under the rule of the country.

He didn't think there would be any surprise in the prospect of this matter. When the Portuguese first came to Macao, they also acted in the style of pirates, but they were severely rectified by the Ming Dynasty, and after that, they could not be more docile. It was not until after the Opium War that he changed his sheep's face, destroyed the lease, crossed the border to occupy the land, and in the thirteenth year of Guangxu, he also forced the Qing court, which had seen the foreign adults at that time to make the "Sino-Portuguese Conference Treaty" and the "Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peace and Commerce", stipulating that "Portugal will permanently administer Macao and the land belonging to Macao, which is no different from Portugal's governance of other places", which is a cession, but the exchange of the contract is incomplete, and the legal theory is worse than Hong Kong.

To put it bluntly, the Portuguese are the style of Europeans in this era, and if the law is strict, they are good citizens, but when they are cheap, they will turn into robbers.

The establishment of administrative offices in Macao was also a consistent principle of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the history of his previous life, Yongzheng was supposed to set up Xiangshan County Cheng in Macau, but the Portuguese in Macao secretly resisted, but returned in vain. Now, the Manchu Qing can't control it, so he will do it, and he will do it so that he will never leave any trouble.

Using Xiao Xie's kind of person who can even scrape out a layer of oil from a stone to do this thing is to make the best use of people, and it can be regarded as a test for Xiao Xie, if this matter is effective, Li Xi is ready to hand over the Tongshi Pavilion to him, first give Yinghua a layer of businessman's face, and step onto the global political stage.

Li Shi had such intentions for the affairs of Macao, but he didn't want the various yamen in the court to have different intentions, so the matter of Macao became a free ride. The original Military Intelligence Department, now under the Privy Council, had to spy on the South Seas through the Portuguese in Macao, and the Maritime Affairs Department had to take precautions against possible changes in the sea routes. The customs department has to look at the changes in customs duties and commercial taxes, while the criminal department of the military department has to keep a close eye on the development of the situation in order to determine the security affairs of Macao. When the Chamber of Commerce and Industry heard that the Macao people might be evacuated, it even contacted all over the world to prepare for a "group purchase" of the Macao's property.

These are not unusual, but the god stick Xu Lingti also found him and wanted to go to Macau to intervene, which made Li Xian wonder, are you really idle? Xu Lingti said that although Catholicism has made great progress, it always feels that there are many things lacking inside. Following your instructions, Your Majesty, we have been trying to absorb the essence of the religions. The things of Buddhism and Taoism have been eaten, but some of the things contained in the Catholic Religion of foreigners still feel unfamiliar.

Although they have communicated with Lang Shining and other priests who serve in the imperial court, even including the priests of the Jesuits in Guangzhou and Whampoa, they are deferential to the imperial court or wary of them, and they will not seriously exchange their beliefs with them, so they urgently need to go out, and Macao is a suitable place.

Since the Changsha War, Li Xian has begun to pay attention to the Catholicism he has released, and when he heard Xu Lingti say this, he immediately understood their situation.

Catholicism has reached a point of development, not in terms of scale, but in nature. At present, Catholicism is still only serving the poor, helping them to worship their ancestors, as well as medical treatment and life and death ceremonies, acting as a superficial consolation of faith. And if you want to continue to move upward, you have to absorb the readers whose beliefs are broken and confused. In order to truly realize Li Shi's expectations and assume the responsibility of blocking the spread of Catholic Christianity in China, Catholicism must have its own set of speculative studies, which can interpret the history of China and reconstruct God's "mission" to China. Only this set of things can stand up to the religion and become the essence of true belief, otherwise it is a cult of vain belief.

This set of things, there are Buddhist scriptures in the Buddha, and there are Taoist treasures in the Tao, these are all on the surface, but inside they are actually a set of metaphysical philosophies.

Chinese philosophy has a long history, and it has been integrated and exchanged with the new theories of Europeans, and it has achieved success on the Catholic Path. Li Xian's "On Heaven", "On the Dao" and "On the Jun", as well as Duan Hongshi's previous book "The Study of Truth" are such representatives. The philosophy of the rational realm, based on the Catholic Way, is being promoted by the White City Academy and the Imperial Court, and is beginning to keep track with the rising industrial and commercial torrent of Yinghua.

But in the philosophy of the sensual realm, Catholicism is lacking. Although there is Zen Buddhism and Taoism in China, in contrast, the speculative philosophy of Catholicism and Christianity is more "scientific" and systematic, and not as foggy as Buddhism and Taoism.

Catholicism already has a lot of things to cottage the form of Catholicism and Christianity, and then the cottage, no, should be grafted with their speculative philosophy, which is naturally logical. Anyway, this kind of speculative philosophy is metaphysics, speculation triggered by a point, which is God in Catholicism and Christianity, and is replaced by Catholicism with "heaven", and then modified according to its own teachings, without much craftsmanship.

Thinking that scholasticism in Europe was also a milestone in the history of European philosophy that could not be ignored, and that it would not be a good thing for scholasticism to gradually separate theology and philosophy, so that Catholicism could also experience this speculative growth, Li Xi nodded and allowed Xu Lingti to intervene in the affairs of Macao.

However, he warned Xu Lingti: "You'd better bring enough people to go, I'm afraid that you will be hooked by their set of things and move their Yahweh to the throne of our Chinese people." ”

Xu Lingtu smiled: "The heavens and the gods are unknowable, and the spirit fetus explores the unknowable, in order to benefit the knowable people, how can it fall into the unknowable?" ”

Li Xian rolled his eyes secretly, Xu Ling's baby is small, Yiming is an old one, he doesn't believe in any gods at all, but he has made a sect out of his life, this world is really ironic.

As a liberal arts student, the history of philosophy or something, there are still some memories left in Li Xian's mind. Scholasticism declined as early as the fourteenth century, and philosophy and theology separated. At the present moment, when the church was anti-Protestant and counter-Reformation, there was a rise in later scholasticism. The essence of this part of the thing lies in natural law, that is, by theology, if Xu Lingti and others can gain something from this, it would be great.

After explaining to Xu Lingfu the changes in theology and scholasticism, Li Xi concluded: "To understand their essence, that is, to dissect transcendental beliefs with empiricism, is the fatal flaw of their scholasticism. We established Catholicism not to control the faith, but to erect a dam to give a shield to those who cannot turn their faith to reason, a gentle choice. Therefore, it is good to learn their speculation, learn their divinity and human philosophy, and don't always think about giving a priori and setting a clear face and end point for the unknown. ”

This warning is a little painful, and I don't know how much Xu Lingti understands it, and the only effect is to make Xu Lingti look at Li Xian's gaze with more admiration. , On the Guia Mountain in Macau, in the sanctuary of the Temple of Our Lady of the Snow, listening to the priest named Su Anxia in Chinese, who was "discerning" with his colleagues, Xu Lingfetus thought to himself, His Majesty is really wise and knowledgeable, and he also expected such a thing, not that he has his own heaven in his heart, and he may really be fooled into it by this priest.

"Everything in the world is born, and all changes have a beginning. All things are born, they are also moving, and they exist. Where did the first move of the universe come from? What was the initial move? Naturally, it was our lord who exerted this force, and my lord began to move. Su Anxia heard Xu Lingti say that there was still a master in Huaxia, which naturally made him very angry, and also made him full of war. In front of a devout believer like him, he still maintains the superiority of "I have another Lord, and my Lord is greater than your Lord", which is a heresy among heretics. It would be his greatest glory to be able to bring such heresies down to the glory of the Lord.

So Xu Lingti put on a contemptuous posture and asked, how do you prove the existence of your Lord, Su Anxia immediately threw away his envoy mission as a governor and debated with another heresy brought by Xu Lingti in the church.

Su Anxia said, the gentle-looking heretic on the other side listened gently, and interjected from time to time to introduce Su Anxia's arguments into the depths of speculation, this heretic always had a palm upright, and his thumb was subconsciously twisting something, faintly like a monk, and Xu Lingti sat on the side, burying his head in the small notebook and quickly remembering.

"Huaxia also has the primordial qi of the clouds, there is no root, this movement is just an unintentional movement, how can it be the all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good Lord you say?"

Listening to Su Anxia's talk about the beginning, the heretic interjected and asked.

"Why is it unintentional? You Chinese also say that human nature is inherently good, where does this goodness come from? Is the reason why everything in this world exists because of different causes? Naturally not, the reason why they exist, retrospectively, is there not a fundamental cause that allows them to exist? And the cause, the original mind, is to make all things at ease, isn't that the supreme good? And what kind of existence can one have that supreme goodness? Of course, the All-Knowing, All-Powerful, All-Good Lord......"

Su Anxia's heart was full of fighting spirit, and he was even much more fluent in Chinese, but the heretic who called himself "Daoyin" smiled when he heard this.

"Heaven and earth, I am the only one, and the Lord you speak of should be in the heart of each of us. Why is it not that we have a thought and see the beginning, why is it not that we hold on to the original goodness with one mind? Why not ......"

Su Anxia was stunned, Xu Lingti coughed, interrupting the gushing of Daoyin, we are here to learn from the scriptures, not to compare the scriptures with him...... This Daoyin is the Jialingyin monk who was enshrined in the Yongwang Mansion before, and was pulled into Catholicism by Xu Lingti and renamed Daoyin. Listening to Su Anxia's lively words, he subconsciously "showed" the Buddhist dialect again.

"These entanglements between your Lord and the Lord of the Jews are not always clear in your account of God, creation, incarnation, redemption, and the seven sacraments of the Church.

Xu Lingfu was inspired to take out the theological textbook "Four Books" of the Catholic Church, and wanted to continue to squeeze Su Anxia, but was interrupted by another group of priests.

"Can the two of you help accommodate Lord Zhou first, let him open the gate and release the water, it matters if the people live first, there are already people who can't hold on......"

The man who came was Father Doro, trembling and sick, accompanied by Bishop Silbo of the Whampoa Church.

Xu Lingti patted his forehead and spread his hands: "Yo, I really forgot about this, but our envoy is talking to your governor, if your governor is still unwilling to accept the reality, then we can't help." ”

Su Anxia also suddenly forgot the "heretical" identity of these two people, lowered her body and said: "Whether you are the lord or my lord, the living are the same, and I ask you two to help." ”

Xu Lingti smiled "slyly": "In this case, in the future, my Catholic Church will build a heavenly temple in Macao, and you should also welcome it." ”

The three priests suddenly changed color, what are you kidding!?

Xu Lingti sighed: "This is not a request, but a notice, just like the matter of Macau." ”

There was silence for a while, and then it was broken by footsteps, and the person who came was Lang Shining, dressed in a green-robed official uniform, with hard wings dangling behind his head.

"Bishop Silbo! Father Doro is here too! Great, His Majesty the Emperor has asked me to deliver the edict to the Society of Jesus and Father Doro......"

Lang Shining stuffed a silk cloth scroll, except for Xu Lingti and Daoyin, the two civilians present, all of them were Catholic priests, so naturally there was no need to pretend to be an incense case. Father Sirbo, who was thinking about Macau, unfolded the scroll disapprovingly, and swept it roughly, turning his face from pale to red.

Father Doro came over to take a look and let out a violent cough, but if Su Anxia didn't hold him, the whole person fell to the ground.

Bishop Silber swallowed his spit and asked Lang Shining, "Do you know the content of this edict?" ”

Lang Shining shook his head, he was an honest gentleman, loyal to his duties, how could he open His Majesty's edict without authorization?

Silbor said with difficulty: "Your Majesty the Emperor, if we want to prohibit the spread of our Catholic Religion under the rule, how should we deal with this matter?" ”

Lang Shining's eyes widened, and after a long while, he said weakly: "This is not a request, but a ...... Notify. (To be continued) [This text is provided by the Ghost of Sailing]