Hongyi's ulterior motives "provoked" the relationship between John Tang and the "brothers" such as Ricci and An Wensi, and waited for John Tang's "due" reaction.

"Sir, where there are people, we must not forget God's teachings to the people! Despite this, Lao Chen will still sincerely cooperate with his fellow brothers for the great cause of spreading the gospel to the east, and share weal and woe. Some brothers have been blinded by the devil for a while, but I want to let the light of God awaken him! ”

Tang Ruowang didn't know if he didn't understand the sinister intentions of the master, or if his heart was too "sunny", but he didn't react anyway!

"It's always good to repay grievances with virtue, but I'm afraid it's not that simple. As you say, the truth is in God's hands, but why is it that there are always people who are wronged? "Hongyi doesn't give up.

"Master, please believe in God and the Virgin Mary like the old minister! I firmly believe that justice is in the hearts of the people! Tang Ruowang also wanted to persuade Xiao Xuanye not to let his "sorrowful urging" affect the pure mind of the saint.

"Justice is in the hearts of the people? I am afraid that for you priests who have made the four vows and kept the four precepts, more justice will be in the Vatican in Rome, right? "Hongyi is ready to punish his heart.

"What the master said is reasonable. However, the minister still believes in the Vatican Pope[1], who is the representative of Jesus Christ in the world, and will definitely judge me! John Tong was full of confidence.

"I'm just afraid that the emperor is far away, right? You have endured all the hardships in the East, but you have entrusted your innocence to the Vatican, which is far away from the ocean? ”

"This ...... What do you mean, sir? John Tang finally had a little enlightenment.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter what I mean. Important: You, my old Marfa, serve your God without complaint or regret, or you can't avoid the seven passions and desires of all ordinary people, and you still have to have a reputation after all. If 'fame' is finally something that cannot be abandoned, it cannot be handed over to a cardinal who is thousands of miles away and does not really know you. ”

Hongyi clicked to the end, and saw that Tang Ruowang didn't speak for a while, so he had to add another sentence-

"Now it seems that you still need a good reputation. As for whether you can get your wish, the key is yours! ”

"My little master......" John Tang wanted to say something. But there is still no follow-up.

Seeing the old man react like this. Hongyi was not discouraged, but secretly rejoiced. After all, it was not a day's work to accomplish that earth-shattering event, and John Tang was silent. It's better than a rhetorical rebuttal to your face. At least it shows that his exhortation has some effect. That being the case. You can make good use of the identity of "angel saint" that John Tang has canonized himself.

"Old Marfa, I'll just reveal another secret to you!"

"Secret?" John Tong was taken by surprise and didn't know how to respond.

"This secret is a matter for the future. You can listen to it, whether it is right or not, he will know it every day! ”

"The old minister listens!" John Tang unconsciously sat up straight, in case he heard or saw any "holy signs" or "holy sounds".

"Next year, on March 23, 1656, the 28th day of February in the 13th year of the reign of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the new Pope of the Vatican, Alexander VII, will issue a so-called 'Edict of Tolerance,' the main purpose of which is the 'liturgical dispute' that has existed in the Catholic Church in China since the Council of Jiading in 1628. He will fully affirm the missionary strategy of your Eastern Catholic Mission in China. At the same time, it will also be announced that Chinese believers can participate in the ritual of worshipping ancestors and paying homage to Confucius! Hongyi is finally unavoidable, and he has to foresee the "things of the future"!

The so-called "Jiading Conference" has to start from the end of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci came to China to preach. In practice, he found a set of effective methods, that is, to knock on the door with academics, use Western science and technology, arts and crafts to attract the support of scholars and emperors and other ruling figures, find common ground between Catholic doctrine and Confucianism, combine Confucianism, supplement Confucianism, and preach in a way suitable for Chinese customs.

This method of missionary work is called the "adaptation strategy", which is determined by the reality of China's social development and national strength. Its core is to respect Chinese culture, adapt to Chinese culture, and find the place of identity in the two heterogeneous cultures of Chinese culture and Western culture, and the point of convergence between this and the other. In order to facilitate the missionary work in China, a group of Jesuits led by Matteo Ricci obeyed Chinese etiquette and did not prohibit worship, ancestor worship, and worship of Confucius among believers.

After Matteo Ricci's death, controversy arose within the Society of Jesus. The controversy is whether the words "heaven", "god" and "god" in the Confucian classics have the same meaning as the Latin word for Deus. Are worshipping heaven, worshipping ancestors, and worshipping holes idolatry and superstitious activities? This is the Chinese "etiquette dispute". In 1628, during the reign of Ming Qi, the Jesuits in China held a meeting in Jiading. The meeting was attended not only by Jesuits, but also by several prominent Chinese believers such as Xu Guangqi. The meeting decided to follow Matteo Ricci's view, not to regard ancestor worship as a superstition, to prohibit the use of "heaven" and "God" to address Deus, and to retain the translation of "God". This is actually a compromise resolution.

Sure enough, John Tang couldn't sit still anymore, knelt on one knee on the ground, and prayed sincerely......

Regardless of whether John Tang believes it or not, Hongyi has already made up his mind: such a golden finger can only be used once, otherwise it will cause immeasurable losses to his sixty-year plan! After all, the purpose of his time travel is to use real people and real things to redo the permutations and combinations, and then seek to maximize China's interests, rather than abruptly inventing any time and space shuttles, electronic cannons and other artifacts, and using the science fiction of the "31st century" to destroy the civilization of the 17th century!

But the reason why he chose to be so ruthless to the "innocent" Tang Lao Mafa was because as a devout Catholic priest, John Tang could not explain this little Xuanye's "auspicious fortune from the sky" and "all kinds of miracles" with any empirical science at that time, so he could only "privately" promote him as an "angel saint", but he never dared to "publicly" publicize it. In this case, Xiao Xiao used a golden finger to strengthen Tang Ruowang's existing thinking and consolidate Xiao Xuanye's existing status, so as to facilitate the "big move" in the next few years! This point, Hongyi thought it was barely reasonable.

"Moreover, in September 1659, there will be a major change in the organization of the Holy See in the Far East, in which the dioceses that had been under the patronage, that is, Portugal [responsible for most of the Asian continent] and Spain [responsible for the Philippines and other places] under the Padroado regulations, will be transferred to the so-called ...... directly under your Roman See Latin is called ...... Oh, it's called Sacra-Congregatio-de-Propaganda-Fide, and it's time to manage. Old Marfa, how did you translate this institution? ”

Hongyi used the translation of a Latin word to bring back John Tang's somewhat "short-circuited" thoughts!

"Oh, if you go back to the master, is it the Holy See's 'Holy Ministry for the Spread of Faith'?" John Tang replied half-asleep.

'Hmm!' Ministry of the Communication'! Not bad! Within two years from then on, the Vatican would establish Tokyo, Guanyun, Guizhou, Hu, Gui, Sichuan, and present-day northern Vietnam and Laos. Jiaozhi, which was in charge of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong and present-day southern Vietnam; and Nanjing, the three 'apostolic vicariates' of Suzhou, Henan, Jin, Shandong, Shaanxi, Northeast China, and Korea, where the Pope appoints the so-called 'bishop' vicario-Apostolico, to have direct control over all missionary matters. Old Marfa, don't you want to be one of the 'vicariaries'? "Hongyi continues to give fierce information!

"Ahh My Virgin Mary! My Holy Lord! O slave guilty of covetousness! ”

Hongyi never thought that his little Shi Jinzhi actually made Tang Ruowang quickly admit that he had committed a crime! In fact, how did he know that before the old man Tang went out this morning, he was in the chapel to analyze the future!

Now at first glance, I heard Xiao Xuanye say this, and the small application of this golden finger immediately achieved the effect of "10,000 percent" - regardless of whether the master's various "predictions" about next year can be fulfilled, but just say that what he thinks in his head in the morning, the master will know after an hour, this is not a "miracle" and what it is!

Tang Ruowang was completely convinced, although Hongyi was still unclear!

But Hongyi was thinking about the disadvantages that the establishment of these three apostolic vicariates would bring to his country and the Church itself-

Since then, missionaries from Portugal (mainly in support of the Jesuits), France (Jesuits, Paris Foreign Mission), Spain (Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians) and the so-called "Ministry of the Mission" have been sent to China and Indochina, respectively, and the conflicts of interest between the countries and the long-term conflicts between the churches have also had a serious negative impact on the Catholic missionary cause.

In this case, maybe at that time, it will be a good opportunity to set things right!

"A limerick poem. Hidden Head

Reading literature and reading history is only a long breath

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

The layout is a long-cherished wish

It's hard to come and go

Get up and spend a hundred years

Point out the suffering and diseases of the world

The edge of the town was razed to the sea

Wen'an Wuding tears of joy

[1] The Latin word for "pope" is papa, the nickname "father" for fathers, and does not mean "emperor" at all. Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the head of the universal Catholic Church and the head of the Vatican City State, and is traditionally considered the successor to St. Peter's apostleship. Theocraticly, the Pope is equal to the bishop. The Catholic Church has always used the Chinese translation of "Pope", while non-Catholics in Chinese mainland, as well as Japan and South Korea, are called "Pope". This inaccurate title actually comes from the fact that the "pope" had a status that surpassed the secular kings of Western Europe and was almost equal to the Chinese "emperor" in the Middle Ages, so it was introduced by some Chinese translators in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties as the so-called "religious emperor", and later evolved into the so-called "pope". Therefore, the word "pope" has been avoided in this article, and the more accurate Chinese translation of "pope" is used. (To be continued......)