Seeing that those foreigners not only heard their conversation, but also understood, and finally fought back in the unskilled and non-standard Ming language, Gao Jie and Ji Longfeng were so surprised that their jaws almost fell to the ground.

Ji Longfeng didn't laugh angrily, stood up and said loudly: "It's quite interesting that a few of you guys from foreign countries can listen to and say what we say. It's just that I really don't understand, what the hell did you grow up eating, you look so weird!"

Not to be outdone, the red-haired foreigner also stood up. It was not obvious when he sat down, and as soon as he stood up, Gao Jie and the others realized that it was more than two meters long, like a giant, almost reaching the ceiling of the tavern. Ignoring the obstruction of a brown-haired young foreigner dressed as a Confucian student, this red-haired foreigner strode up to Ji Longfeng, glared at him condescendingly, and said loudly: "You are just a lowly commoner, what world can you see?!"

Ji Longfeng was furious, pulled over the chair he was sitting on, and swooped up, feeling that he was about the same size as the red-haired foreigner, so he said-for-tat with him: "I'm a civilian, it's much better than you, a red-haired monster who popped up out of nowhere!"

The red-haired foreigner's eyes widened and said, "I am a noble Germanic knight, a nobleman, where is a monster?"

Ji Longfeng laughed and said: "I don't care what kind of ear steamed bun you are, seventy or eighty, what kind of nobleman are you? Are you a nobleman in the monster den?

Seeing that the two of them were about to make a move, Gao Jie was about to get up and persuade him, when he saw that the brown-haired young foreigner dressed as a Confucian had already rushed over, pulled the red-haired foreigner behind him, and saluted Ji Longfeng with a fist: "My companion has drunk too much, don't be strange!"

Ji Longfeng saw that he was polite, and his tone fell, and he said stupidly: "You demon... No, you're not a bad gentleman from a foreign land!Please, tell that red-haired companion that he doesn't think he's so big, if you really do it, I can get him down with one hand!"

The red-haired foreigner was furious when he heard this, and was about to rush up with a muttering mouth, but the brown-haired young foreigner turned around and grabbed him, and muttered in a foreign language to persuade him.

Gao Jie finally got up and stood up at this time, and pulled Ji Longfeng who was standing on the chair to the ground. In fact, he could have stopped this boring dispute from the beginning, but he was a little interested in these foreigners who suddenly appeared in the city of Beijing, so he sat quietly and watched coldly.

He stepped forward, clasped his fists at the brown-haired young foreigner and the red-haired foreigner, and saluted: "Two gentlemen from afar, my friend is rude, don't be surprised!"

The brown-haired young foreigner turned around and hugged his fist at Gao Jie and smiled: "You're welcome, there is a saying in Daming, a slap doesn't make a sound, and both sides are at fault in this matter!"

Gao Jie's eyes lit up, and he praised: "This big brother's Da Ming words are really good, the kid admires it!"

The brown-haired young foreigner said modestly: "I once studied the language of the Ming Dynasty in Macao for a few years, but my talent is stupid, and what I can listen to and speak is still very limited!"

Gao Jie saw that this brown-haired foreign young man looked good and behaved quite gracefully, so he suddenly became more fond of it, and said with a smile: "I still have a saying in Daming, if you don't fight, you won't know each other, maybe, this is a kind of fate." In Xia Gaojie, I don't know what your name is, big brother?"

The brown-haired young foreigner also smiled and said, "Gao Jie, I remember." What do you mean by not fighting, not knowing each other?"

Gao Jie explained: "It means that because of this little turmoil, we got acquainted and maybe became friends!"

The brown-haired young foreigner said in a loud voice: "That's right, that's right! This is chance! Gao Jie, I'm John Adam Schahl von Bhr, a missionary from the Holy Roman Empire. My name is very long, and it may be difficult for the Ming people to remember, so I also gave a special name to the Ming Dynasty, called John Tang!"

"John Tang?!" Gao Jie was stunned for a moment, and said secretly in his heart: "It turns out that he is the famous John Tang, I really can't imagine it!"

In China, Christianity generally refers to Protestantism. In fact, Christianity includes Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism.

In the ninth year of the Zhenguan reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (635), Christianity began to be introduced to China, but at that time it was the Nestorian sect, which was once considered a heresy, which was called Jingjiao in China at that time, and later called it the "Maronite Christianity", which was banned in the fifth year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (845). During the Yuan Dynasty, Christianity was introduced to China again, called "Yelikwen" (Mongolian for "blessed person"), but it was interrupted after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty. In the 10th year of Wanli (1582) of the Ming Dynasty, the Catholic Jesuits sent Matteo Ricci, who was allowed to settle and preach in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and for a time succeeded in establishing Catholicism in China.

Matteo Ricci, formerly known as Matteo Leach, is known as Xitai, Qingtai, and Xijiang. He was a Catholic Jesuit missionary and scholar in Italy. On January 24, 1601, Matteo Ricci came to Beijing, China, to spread Christianity. Wang Yinglin's "Lizi Tablet" said: "Wanli Gengchen has Taixi Confucian Matteo Ricci, called Xitai, several friends, sailing 90,000 miles, sightseeing in China. "Matteo Ricci was one of the earliest pioneers of Catholic missionary work in China, and the first Western scholar to read Chinese literature and study Chinese classics. He disseminated Catholic teachings through his identity as a "Western monk" and "Chinese writings", and made friends with Ming officials and celebrities, disseminating Western astronomy, mathematics, geography and other scientific and technological knowledge. Matteo Ricci died in Beijing five years ago at the age of 59, and according to Ming custom, missionaries who died in China had to be moved back to the cemetery of the Macao Theological Seminary for burial. However, other missionaries and Matteo Ricci's baptismists hoped to obtain the emperor's permission to bury Matteo Ricci in Beijing, thus recognizing the legitimate existence of the Church and Catholicism in China. For this reason, the Jesuit Fr. Pondy I presented a message to the Wanli Emperor, hoping to bury Matteo Ricci on an exceptional basis. Although some people in the court objected, the matter was quickly approved by Emperor Wanli thanks to the efforts of the cabinet scholar Ye Xianggao. In 1611, presided over by Xu Guangqi, the emperor gave Matteo Ricci to be buried in the Tenggong fence in Erligou outside the Pingze Gate. This land was also allowed to become the property of the Catholic Church free of charge, and the Tenggong fence also became the burial ground of the European missionaries who later preached in Beijing.

After Matteo Ricci, John Tong in front of Gao Jie was the most famous Jesuit missionary of the Holy Roman Empire.

John Tang, whose ancestral home is Cologne, Germany, is exactly 30 years old this year. He was born into the well-known local Baier family and received a good education. As a child, he studied at the famous Triple Crown High School founded by the Society of Jesus, but in 1607, the plague epidemic in the city of Cologne forced the Triple Crowns High School to close. At the age of sixteen, John Tong was recommended by the local Jesuit diocese to study at the German Academy in Rome. In 1610, he completed all the courses in philosophy, classics, mathematics and astronomy, especially in mathematics and astronomy, showing that he had great potential and talent. In October 1611, John Tong joined the Society of Jesus and swore an oath of poverty, chastity, and obedience for the rest of his life. Subsequently, he moved to the monastery of San Andreo in Rome, where he became a probationary monk and underwent rigorous monastic training. He joined the Brilliant Research Institute to explore new and evolving sciences, especially astronomy and mathematics. John Tong often visited the library of the monastery of San Andreo, and was thrilled by the achievements of the early missionaries in the East in China. He admired Matteo Ricci's missionary strategy in China, which was adapted to Chinese culture and customs, and the so-called "Confucianism" that he tried to integrate Catholic teachings with Chinese Confucian culture. When he heard that Father Matteo Ricci, with his mathematical astronomical wisdom, had astonished the Chinese and received the emperor's favor and respect, opening up a new and very large field of faith for the Church of God, he was overjoyed that Western mathematical astronomy had gained such value in China.

In October 1613 he entered the Academy of Rome. Four years of theological and mathematical studies began. Founded in 1551 by Loyola, the College of Rome is a "seminary of the spirit of Christ", and its curriculum includes mathematics, astronomy, geography, mechanical mechanics, chemistry and other subjects in addition to religious content. In 1617, he completed his studies at the Academy of Rome summa laude and was promoted to priesthood. On April 16, 1618, under the leadership of Kinney Pavilion, 22 missionaries, including John Tong, Deng Yuhan, and Luo Yagu, were dispatched in the name of the Portuguese government to set sail from Lisbon to the east.

On July 15, 1619, John Tong and his parishioners arrived in Macao and were housed in St. Paul's College. As soon as the missionaries set foot on Chinese soil, they began to study the Chinese and Chinese dialects and culture, even with the goal of mastering the official dialect of Beijing. These Western monks followed the customs, took off their monks' robes, changed into Confucian clothes, lived in Chinese-style houses, and devoted themselves to the study of Chinese classics and ethics, looking for the fusion point of Eastern and Western cultures. In the process of interacting with celebrities in the government and the opposition, these Western missionaries, who were familiar with astronomy, geography, and Chinese classics, naturally won the favor and trust of Chinese literati and doctors, and thus achieved their goal of spreading the faith.

However, since Matteo Ricci's death, some fanatical missionaries, believing that Matteo Ricci was too accommodating to the Chinese, affected the "purity" of Catholicism, and developed Catholics too slowly, so they began to change Ricci's missionary line, adopted radical missionary methods, resolutely rejected Confucianism, and strictly forbade Chinese parishioners to worship heaven, ancestors, and Confucius, arousing the disgust and suspicion of people in society, resulting in the "Nanjing Case", and the missionaries were expelled, and there was almost no place in Chinese mainland. John Tang and other missionaries could only stay in Macao for a long time, unable to set foot in the inland land of the Ming Dynasty, let alone go north to the capital.

It was not until last year, that is, in the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), that the Emperor of the Apocalypse adopted the advice of the Manchurian Nurhachi brave soldiers written by the Ministry of War, and sent people to Macao to buy artillery from the Portuguese. As a result, the missionaries stranded in Macao were able to travel with the artillery and enter the mainland as military experts.

After landing in the inland of the Ming Dynasty, John Tang changed into the Confucian costume of the Ming Dynasty, changed the German name "Adam" to the similarly pronounced "Tang", and "John" changed to "John", officially named John Tang, and his word "Daowei" came from the "Mencius" "Looking at the Tao but not seeing it". Soon after, he set out north with a few monks and knights.

Today was the first day they arrived in Beijing, and after settling down in the inn, they came to eat at this tavern nearby, and happened to meet Gao Jie and others.

Gao Jie was born in archaeology, so he naturally knew everything about the big celebrity Tang Ruowang, and after being a little stunned, he returned to normal, and said enthusiastically: "It turned out to be Brother Tang Ruowang, fortunately, I will be lucky!"

John Tang was also polite, pointed to the red-haired tall foreigner and introduced: "This is Lord Muller, the knight of our church!"

Gao Jie clenched his fist at Muller again, but who knew that Muller still stared at Ji Longfeng as if he hadn't seen it, and his anger was unabated.

Ji Longfeng is an aggressive guy, and when he saw this, he also became energetic, and said loudly: "That red-haired big man, what are you doing with your eyes, do you want to fight with me?!"

Gao Jie couldn't stop it, knowing that the incident had been provoked again, he smiled bitterly in his heart, and secretly scolded Ji Longfeng, this kid was really a troublemaker sent by a monkey.