"Jesuit missionary John Tong knocks on the master of the eastern land, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Long live the emperor, long live, long live. "The authentic one bowed down.

Foreigner?

Yang Gengai thought about how long it had been since he had seen foreigners. In the 21st century, foreigners are superior to others! Now, in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, it was a time when foreigners envied China. The foreigner in front of him was prostrate at his feet and bowed to himself. I think this world is really 300 years in the East and 300 years in the West!

He has a beard and wears a Confucian shirt. Dressed as a native Confucian scholar. If you didn't look at his face and those colored eyes, who would have thought that this was a foreigner?

The person in front of him can be regarded as a celebrity in Chinese history, and in the process of contact with the West in Chinese history, it is indispensable to bring this person out and say, a historical celebrity.

"John Tang? Get up. With mixed feelings, Yang called the fanatical missionary up. This fanatical missionary has lived in China for most of his life, and finally achieved the level of Zhengyipin, which is really strong, is already the highest level among officials, and has also experienced the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's Dashun, the Qing Dynasty Three dynasties, lived comfortably in the troubled times, quite has a legendary surname, and has a "protagonist halo" more than the protagonist of many books. The protagonist of many books also has to open a golden finger, relying on the prophet of history to mix into a product, a product, an official residence, this is good, directly as a foreigner, mixed into the position of the first product, it is really powerful. If a certain writer writes about a blue-eyed blonde foreigner who has mixed up with the official position of Zhengyipin in ancient China, presumably, the reader will definitely scold the writer for being crazy and rushing to death in the street. But reality is often more bizarre than fiction. [Hehe, did anyone write about John Tang? But it's a good subject! You don't need to mix, you can get a product. 】

"His Majesty Emperor Xie Daming." With a bit of weird emphasis. Tang Ruowang finally stood up, and then he had time to look at the legendary young emperor. Sure enough, he is quite young, this is the Eastern Emperor who controls the life and death of hundreds of millions of people and controls the entire area of Europe? It's so young. is looking at himself with a strange gaze, that kind of gaze, quite profound, as if it is an abyss that cannot be seen, that kind of gaze, as if he has seen through his own future, through his own life, John Tang has never felt this way, there are still such people in the world? Is it really young? John Tong began to distrust his own judgment. If you are a hairy young man, you will never look at yourself with that kind of "detachment", "wisdom", and eyes that seem to be able to penetrate time. If it's just a hairy young man, you should look at yourself with curiosity and surprise.

Yang Gengai looked at Tang Ruowang for a while, and turned the information of this bull in his mind. He asked, "John Tong?" Tell us about your experience, from birth to how you came to Beijing, and then introduce the situation in the West. "Yang Gengai intends to use John Tong's mouth to find out how this Europe is developing now.

Tang Ruowang felt very curious and surprised, this emperor didn't seem to be in a hurry to let him do anything, but chatted, talked about his hometown, talked about his own experience, could it be that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty still had a deep interest in his hometown?

"His Majesty the Emperor Qiqi, born in 1592 A.D., Cologne am Rhine, Germany......" John Tang was very curious, could the emperor still understand what he said? The emperor knew where Germany was? Where is the Rhine? Seeing that the emperor didn't ask, he kept talking.

Yang Reform actually didn't understand what Tang Ruowang said at all, at this time there was still a difference between Europe and later generations in translation, and there was also a difference in the pronunciation of pronunciation, Yang Reform had seen the map of "The Complete Map of All Nations", and the Europe marked on the map was definitely not the Europe marked on the map of the 21st century.

"Wait, 1592 is the year I'm heading?" Yang Gengai planned to test this supposedly learned missionary.

"His Majesty the Emperor Qiqi, 1592 A.D., 20 years of belonging to the Wanli Emperor of the Eastern Empire." Tang Ruowang reported his birth year very accurately, and also reported it once with the Ming Dynasty's chronological method, which made Yang Reform a little curious......

"Go on."

"His Majesty the Emperor Qiqi,...... In 1617 A.D., that is, the forty-fifth year of the Wanli Emperor of the Eastern Empire, he graduated from the Academy of Rome,......, uh, this Roman Academy ...... "John Tang is going to introduce his alma mater, the Academy of Rome is a famous school, he should show his face in front of the emperor, let the emperor know that the school he studied is very good."

"Needless to say, the Academy of Rome, go on." Yang Gai thinks, no matter how good your Roman Academy is, can I still send people to study? Saying this is a pure waste of time.

“…… Graduated from the Academy of Rome, in 1618 he was sent by the King of Portugal to set sail to the ...... of the East"

"Wait, what month will you leave in 1618? When did you get to the middle ...... Am I heading? Where to dock? Yang found that these missionaries were really fanatical, and it was said that it would take several years to travel from the West to the East, and Yang now wanted to know how long it would take.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I set out on April 16, 1618, and arrived in the Ming Dynasty on July 15, 1619, and ...... on the shore of a place called Macao." However, this speech always has a little "foreign flavor".

It took a whole year and three months to get from the west to the east, and this journey was too far away. These missionaries are really fanatical! Yang Gengai calculated the time a little and came to this conclusion. If it is said that if you come to China on a ship for more than a year to do trade and seek profits, you can barely say that in the past, people died for money, but for the sake of preaching, they actually risked their lives and spent more than a year floating across the ocean to preach to places they had never set foot in. And this kind of momentum and enterprising spirit is exactly what accompanies the rise of every country and nation.

This is not a plane ride in later generations, it will take more than ten hours to arrive, this is a boat, a whole year and three months of sailing! If you want to go back, you have to sail for a year and three months, and two or three years have passed like this, and they are all young people in their twenties, which is the golden age, and how many three years are there? The danger of this can be imagined. However, it is for the sake of their own beliefs that they are willing to take such a risk, although there are not many people in this group of people, but the energy is quite huge! It also represents the spiritual outlook of a country and a nation when it rises.

Let's take a look at my own side of religion.

Taoism, a religion that can only be played in China, does not have fanatical believers like Christians, and does not have the determination and perseverance of Christians who dare to risk their lives to preach abroad.

Looking at Buddhism again, it was still transmitted from India, and when it came to China, it also withered, and there was no fanaticism and belief in the early years of trekking through mountains and rivers to preach, and it gradually fell on its stomach.

In China, this religion is not enterprising, and it is quite ineffective!

Yang reformed and drew conclusions in his mind.

These religions and the performance of their respective missionaries can be seen as a microcosm of the spiritual outlook of society. It can also be seen as a manifestation of the competitiveness of the East and the West. These states of the local religion of the Ming Dynasty also represent the current situation of the Ming Dynasty society to a certain extent, which is not enterprising enough and more conservative.

With the frequent contact between the East and the West, the earth has gradually become transparent, and there are no mountains and seas as shields, and all countries and nations in the world have since entered an era of the law of the jungle. Either the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind, and in this big "jungle", there is always only one person at the top of the food chain.

And now, the Ming Dynasty seems to be very hazy, and he is going to sound the alarm for the Ming Dynasty. If you don't make progress, you will only lag behind, and the world will become a big jungle, and there will be only one person at the top of the food chain.

“…… In the next year in 1623, it arrived in the capital. John Tang gave a brief introduction to his life according to the emperor's request.

……

After sorting out the chaotic thoughts, he analyzed the reasons for the backwardness of the Chinese nation and comforted himself.

"Who is the overlord of the Western Sea now?"

"His Majesty the Emperor is a 'Dutchman'." According to the truth, Tang Ruowang really couldn't figure out whether the emperor had figured it out.

This sentence, Yang Reform actually barely understood, the overlord of the Western sea, in the early days, it was either Portugal or Spain, or the Netherlands, or the United Kingdom, these countries, the pronunciation is very different, Yang Reform still barely heard the way.

Originally, I wanted to talk to John Tang about the situation in the West, talk about the history there, and I was very shocked by this John Tang, and when I talked, I found that during the Ming Dynasty, the translation of the West was very different from the translation of later generations, and it was difficult to understand at all. It's hard to use that little impression of the 21st century.

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"John Tang, do you know why I summoned you to Beijing?"

"Your Majesty the Emperor Qiqi, I don't know if I am here, but the last time I entered Beijing in Xia, it was to make artillery for the Ming Dynasty, maybe this time, Your Majesty needs to make artillery for you." John Tang is not the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty, and he speaks very "foreign". In the discourse, the self-consciousness is very strong.

“…… Last time? That? Build a cannon? Yang Reform only looked at Tang Ruowang's information, but he didn't expect that he had the experience of making cannons for the Ming Dynasty?

"Your Majesty the Emperor Qiqi, it was the last time, that time...... The Franc machine is to build the Franc machine cannon. Tang Ruowang's words were obviously a bit of a big tongue, and after he couldn't understand it, he waved his hand and gestured, saying the general name of the Ming Dynasty for Western cannons. I hope that His Majesty the Emperor can understand and talk, it's really a bit difficult!

"Uh...... Franc machine? A panacea that can represent people, geography, countries, and cannons? Yang Gai despised it in his heart, and the people of the Ming Dynasty all referred to Europe as Franc Ji. In the literature, those who don't understand, don't know, and don't know are changed to the name of the Franc machine. Can't we just send someone over and find out? Although I despise it, this Franc machine is indeed a good thing.

Missionaries from the West were able to come to the East to preach. But no one in the East wants to go to the West to figure this out. Could it be that this is another manifestation of the spirit of not going in? Yang Gai thought self-deprecatingly in his heart.

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