Chapter 81: Foreign Missionaries
86_86695Wang Shuhui's understanding of himself is hierarchical. He first considered himself a Chinese. It was only after that he considered himself a man of the world or a human being.
First the Chinese, then the humans. How should we understand this sentence?
If we analyze Wang Shuhui from an objective point of view, we can say that the first place in his identity label is nationalism. Then came patriotism, then imperialism, then hegemonism, and finally internationalism. If Wang Shuhui is viewed from a critical perspective, then he is a national chauvinist and a great power chauvinist.
It's not that no one has criticized Wang Shuhui so much. However, he is also in college, in graduate school, and at work. His teachers, mentors, and leaders were chauvinists. In the case of his graduate supervisor, the mild-mannered sociologist who spoke of foreign countries often referred to things like "barbarians" and "small states" in a disdainful tone.
Actually, because there are so few chauvinists on the fertile soil of China. Therefore, Wang Shuhui's kind believes that the Chinese and the Chinese nation are congenitally superior to the world's qiē nation; The chauvinistic idea that Chinese civilization is inherently superior to the world's first civilization is actually a relatively rare type in China, which has a history of 5,000 years of civilization and has always ranked first in human civilization.
In Wang Shuhui's view, the interruption and regression of the Chinese civilization of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as well as the loss of power and humiliation of the incompetent Qing government in modern times, completely broke the backbone of the Chinese nation. So much so that in modern times, when China is gradually returning to the world's number one altar, there are still so many traitors and traitors and foreigners' slaves among the Chinese, who are unscrupulously betraying the country to seek glory in modern China.
In fact, for Wang Shuhui, who is a history lover, the snooping and coveting of the Chinese nation by the Western powers began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
After the Age of Discovery, which opened the door to colonialism, the Spaniards first became the world hegemon. They conquered Africa and then the Americas, and then annexed Portugal and occupied its colonies. Spain occupied most of the Caribbean islands, Mexico, most of South America, the western part of North America (direct to Canada), and the central interior of North America.
Timor-Leste, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mozambique, Sudan, Oman, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and the Midwestern United States are all Spanish colonies.
At the end of the 16th century, after the Spanish conquered the Philippines, they began to actively investigate and analyze China's national conditions and people's conditions, and conducted reconnaissance along the coast of Fujian, familiarized themselves with shipping lanes and drew maps.
In 1576, in a report to Philip II, Sander elaborated on his plans for the invasion of China: "This expedition required 4,000 to 6,000 men, armed with spears, guns, ships, cannons, and the necessary ammunition"; "With 2,000 to 3,000 men, it is enough to occupy the provinces to be occupied, and with the ports and fleets there, it is very easy to form the largest power on the sea. After conquering a province, it is enough to conquer the whole country. ”
In 1580, King Philip II of Spain, as the nephew of King Manor of Portugal, concurrently served as the king of Portugal and formed the "Invincible Armada", making Spain the first maritime power in Europe. In Asia, Portugal established a colonial foothold in India, occupied Malacca, and conquered the Philippine Islands. At this time, the Spanish colonists planned to use the Philippines as a base to conquer China.
On January 11, 1574, the colonizer Requel wrote to the king: "If His Majesty is willing to dispatch, it will be possible to conquer and suppress them (referring to the Chinese) with less than 60 good Spanish soldiers." On June 2, 1576, the Spanish governor in the Philippines, Sand, wrote to the king: "This undertaking [refers to the conquest of China] is easy to carry out and inexpensive. ”
The Kingdom of Spain did not dismiss the idea of invading and ruling China as nonsense. In fact, the Spanish colonists who occupied the Philippines also drew up detailed plans for all phases and aspects, from invasion to domination of China. Philip II, the ruler of Spain at the time, had already agreed to this plan.
If it weren't for the fact that Spain had fallen into the quagmire of war in Europe, it had wars with England and then the Netherlands. I am afraid that the first imperialist country to invade China was not England, which was several hundred years late, but Spain at that time.
Therefore, it is conceivable that Wang Shuhui, who is a national chauvinist and a great power chauvinist at heart, will have a feeling when he sees the Portuguese missionaries who have been kidnapped by the soldiers.
In Wang Shuhui's view, there is no essential difference between the Western missionaries of the Ming Dynasty and the Western missionaries of the Qing Dynasty. Wang Shuhui knew that whether it was a Western missionary during the Ming Dynasty or a Western missionary during the Qing Dynasty, they all had the same two identities: one was the vanguard of cultural invasion, and the other was the leader of military invasion.
It's just that the Western missionaries in the last years of the Ming Dynasty were at the service of Spain and its little brother who ate leftovers behind its ass. And the Western missionaries in the last years of the Qing Dynasty were in the service of England and its little brother who ate the leftovers behind its ass. There is only one difference between the two.
Wang Shuhui met this missionary who was tied up in the office (office). If you don't look at the pale skin and unkempt and dirty beard of this white-skinned foreigner, it is really difficult to tell that this is a foreigner just from the way he dresses.
This missionary was arrested by officers from the officer training camp that is on guard duty today. Wang Shuhui, the person who arrested this "white-skinned ghost", knew him. His name is Jia Sanqiang, but the soldiers call him Silly Qiang.
The large-scale military training has been going on for more than a month. From the end of August to the middle of September 1620, Wang Shuhui not only conducted a comprehensive training of all the militia and Fuxing Regiment soldiers, but also carried out a major examination. In more than 30 base villages, nearly 100 people have passed the basic assessment and have been absorbed into the revival group. Among them, this young man named Silly Qiang, Niu Daqiang, Jiang Dazhuang, Yang Sanhei, Xu Donkey and several other young people are very optimistic about Wang Shuhui.
After the end of the general examination, Wang Shuhui gathered together the qualified young people selected from various base villages, as well as all the non-commissioned officers and officers of the Fuxing Regiment. In the newly opened military academy, Wang Shuhui conducted a half-month intensive training for them. In the assessment after the training, Gu Guozhang and Jia Sanqiang won the first and second places respectively in the comprehensive assessment of military ability and cultural ability.
Wang Shuhui clearly remembered at that time that the two of them were in the battle test in the military ability test. When Gu Guozhang was fighting the stab, he showed a kind of avenger's violent feelings. And when Jia Sanqiang is stabbing the stab, he shows a kind of mechanical, like a wooden man.
In the cultural assessment, Gu Guozhang and Jia Sanqiang's results were actually better than the results of most instructors personally educated by Wang Shuhui. In particular, in the political examination based on "The Unification of All Things" and "The Uniformity of All Ages", Gu Guozhang and Jia Sanqiang not only fully grasped the basic content of these two books, but also developed their own unique understanding of the dialectical materialism and historical materialism in the skin of "Xunzi".
Although in Wang Shuhui's view, the views of these two young people are still quite rough and shallow. However, among the more than 400 people who participated in the general examination for the selection of party members of the revival society, only two of them were not like the others, but they were completely familiar with the contents of the book. Of all the people who have passed the examination, they are the only two who can have their own unique ideas about the contents of the two books, "The Law of the Unification of All Things" and "The Uniformity of All Ages" and the guiding ideology of the Revival Society.
Wang Shuhui is naturally still the temper of a school teacher. Gu Guozhang and Jia Sanqiang also became Wang Shuhui's proud disciples, and they were around Wang Shuhui every day. Wang Shuhui, like all his favorite disciples, often called the two of them to his house for dinner and exchanged ideas with them.
In Wang Shuhui's view, Gu Guozhang is the kind of passionate character. Although his six-year career as a miner has worn away his edges as a feudal scholar. However, his character of having a big picture at best and being ambitious at worst will still be reflected from time to time. Jia Sanqiang, on the other hand, is a different style entirely. It may be that the childhood experience stimulated Jia Sanqiang too much, and this child reflects an extreme calmness in temperament.
Jia Sanqiang, who is less than twenty years old this year, gives people the impression that he doesn't care about anything and won't be surprised by anything. Although he is not like Gu Guozhang, he is full of passion when discussing problems. However, every word he said could make a guy like Gu Guozhang unable to refute.
When Wang Shuhui met the missionary in the office, he was accompanied by the little Lori Zhu Weiyan, who was regarded as the hostess by the people of the entire Wangfu Town, and everyone called her the master. Wang Shuhui didn't pay much attention to the foreigner who was in love and lowered his head without saying a word. On the contrary, Zhu Weiyan's attitude when he saw this foreigner surprised him.
Obviously, Zhu Weiyan was not very surprised by this white-skinned and red-haired foreigner. She smiled and said to Wang Shuhui, "Yibin also knows, this Yiren is from Nanyang." When Emperor Chengzu was alive, there were Nanyang Yi people who followed the treasure ships of the Three Treasure Eunuchs to the Celestial Empire to pay tribute. ”
Recently, Zhu Weiyan has read a lot of processed Ming history materials brought by Wang Shuhui from modern times. Therefore, for Zhu Weiyan, a little girl who has never left Zhijiang County in her life, her understanding of foreigners is still stuck in the Yongle era more than 200 years ago. Of course, Wang Shuhui would not think that foreign missionaries were like Matteo Ricci, who were knowledgeable and mild-mannered foreign scholars, as he had been in contact with in this era.
He clearly knew what kind of hideous faces were hidden under the skin of these missionaries who yearned for and looked up to Chinese civilization.
Wang Shuhui ignored Zhu Weiyan's words, he just nodded casually, and then said to Jia Sanqiang, "Sanqiang, you put this foreigner to the police department, and let the review personnel of the revival group and the police department jointly interrogate this white skin." You sue them, and my request is that we must dig deep into the root cause and conduct a careful and meticulous interrogation of this Yi people. As for why he came to Daming, what he has done, and what is the purpose of spying on our camp, he must be seriously and strictly interrogated, and not a single trace can be missed. In addition, you sue them, as long as you don't kill this person, the methods in the "Interrogation Manual" must be a process that is not bad, and every kind of thing must be used. ”
It was clear that the foreign missionary was able to understand what Wang Shuhui was saying. After Wang Shuhui gave an order to Jia Sanqiang, the white-skinned devil who was dragged away let out a howl like killing a pig