Yin Feng has always believed that the most important thing is not to regret the problems that have occurred, but to solve the problems. After receiving Lin Xiao's report, Yin Feng remembered the three-generation hatred between the Dasmarinas family and the Chinese. From Pan and At the beginning of the Fifth Age, two generations of the Spanish Dasmarinas family became governors of the Philippines. They also died at the hands of the Chinese. This third generation of Dasmarinas was actually a Jesuit monk who preached in Japan. This is something no one could have predicted.
If it was really him who stole the flintlock musket, then there must be Western instructors in the military camp acting as internal agents. As a clergyman, Dasmarinas can easily communicate openly with those Westerners in the church; at the same time, Missionaries can openly enter the residences of foreign mercenaries and foreign instructors. This is because some Western mercenaries and officers only believe in Western medical skills when they are sick. Of course, missionaries who want to enter the military camp dormitory must obtain it from the Military Supervision Department. Pass. There was indeed an Italian Jesuit novice monk who entered the camp after throwing the gun. The officer on duty that day was a Catholic who had returned from Manila. He easily let the novice monk go and did not conduct a body search on him. .
He quickly asked Lin Xiao to send people to seal down the church and arrest all the monks working in the church for review. At the same time, Zeng Rui also conducted a review for all the Western military academy instructors who often went to the church to worship and hold mass. .
Lin Xiao used the torture methods he learned when he was a government servant to quickly pry open the trainee monk's mouth; it was indeed him who stole the gun from the Portuguese artillery instructor's dormitory in Luanda the day after he lost it. He brought out the flintlock gun that had been dismantled into parts. The reason why he did this was because he was attracted by the religious and financial temptations of Monk Dasmarinas.
And Luanda was indeed persuaded by Dasmarinas in the church to steal a flintlock gun for him. The whole gun-stealing plan was planned by Dasmarinas. And the instructor Luanda was persuaded for money. Jesus The Italian monks of the Society are here to raise funds for the church. As the Portuguese trade situation in Macau has become worse and worse in recent years, the funds allocated by Macau to the Jesuit Mission in China have also become less and less. Bishop Barra of Taiwan If Das had not been funded by Li Yue and other shareholders of the Chinese company who were believers, it would have been impossible to maintain the missionary association.
"To be fair, the Jesuits did not participate in this incident to make money for themselves. They wanted to raise funds for the church. And Dasmarinas promised that the Japanese Jesuits would provide them with a fund. Therefore..."
Currently in Yin Feng's study, Li Yue, You Wenhui and others are interceding for the Jesuit monks.
After the church was sealed, a group of Han Catholics spontaneously came to the door of the Zhonghua Company headquarters to petition. The boss and believers at all levels of shopkeepers also came to Yin Feng to intercede for the church.
This did not make Yin Feng open his eyes. Moreover, he immediately felt threatened by the church forces. Many people in the company's senior management also did not like the foreign religious forces. Han Ping and Han Jing's father and son were deeply persecuted by the church in Manila. Therefore, he and Lu Dahai, The new directors Huang Yan, Lin Xiao, Zeng Rui and others also believed that the Jesuit forces should be severely punished. If Zeng Jingshan had not rushed back to Manila to deal with the land auction meeting at the end of the year, he would have supported Yin Feng's move at all.
To be honest. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many Chinese Catholics regarded missionaries as their parents. Even during the ban on Christianity, some religious villages built forts to defend themselves. It almost became a religious separatist force. Catholicism is an expansionist and exclusive religion. Yin Feng was influenced by later generations. The influence of traditional political education. He has never had a good impression of it; after time travel, he was also influenced by the traditional Confucian cultural atmosphere and was very wary of Catholic forces. In fact, the Catholic church forces in Western countries at that time were basically the vanguard of colonial policies in various countries. The army is indeed not a good thing. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Chinese people lacked national identity and could easily be fooled by such exclusive and arbitrary religious sentiments.
Yin Feng convened a temporary board of directors. An Heping and Zeng Jingshan were absent. Directors who supported the church and those who opposed the church were each missing one person. However, those who opposed the existence of the Catholic Missionary Society accounted for the majority of the board of directors.
Until now, Yin Feng's democratic style has been limited to the board of directors. Generally speaking, out of trust in him, there has never been any opposition to his proposals.
Now, some people opposed his proposal to close the church and suspend the activities of various missionary societies in Taiwan. Although Li Yue is not a believer, his family members are believers. So he stood up for the church to oppose the ban on Christianity. He put forward another reason: "If Christianity is banned, many missionaries who teach in technical schools will leave. Some Western craftsmen and instructors will also leave. Then our losses will be great."
Yin Feng thought for a while and said: "These are two different things. Brother Li, the church contacted the Japanese pirates privately. This is a violation of our company's rules. If the church makes a mistake, it must be responsible for it. The Jesuits must stop all missionary activities and the church is closed. Finally, those foreigners can let missionaries go to their homes to worship. Anyway, I will not allow Westerners to preach to Chinese people. Only Chinese missionaries can preach to our people. Moreover, our company can give those Chinese priests are paid salaries. From now on, as long as each missionary association can train Chinese priests to serve as clergy, I will allow them to preach in Taiwan. Of course, these missionaries will be organized and managed by our company."
Everyone looked at each other in shock, not understanding what Yin Feng meant. Yin Feng said proudly: "In this way, we can cultivate missionaries who are loyal to our company. This is called a self-organized church."
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After the Chinese Company issued its regulations that only allowed foreigners to preach, the Chinese Jesuit Diocese was greatly shocked. Even Matteo Ricci, who was far away in Beijing, could not sit still. He now lives in the newly built church on Shuncheng Street inside Xuanwumen, Beijing. This is the predecessor of the famous Beijing Catholic South Church. In another time and space, in the seventh year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1650), Tang Ruowang rebuilt the lobby on its old site. It was named "Immaculate Conception Church". It was later called the South Church.
The old and frail Matteo Ricci has been busy dealing with China's upper echelons for many years. Now he has successfully penetrated into the top echelons of China. The news of Taiwan's ban on Christianity has not spread throughout the Chinese officialdom. Whether it is preaching or banning religion in this remote small place, it is basically not possible. It would damage the power of the officials and gentry. Therefore, the official circles in the capital completely ignored the Fujian government's report on the ban on Christianity in Taiwan. Two Jesuit missionaries in Fuzhou reported this matter to the Fuzhou Governor's Yamen: requesting the governor to mediate and lift the ban.
Governor Xu Xueju was busy with the handover matters with the next governor and was too lazy to take care of the matter. He directly reported it to the court. One was to shirk responsibility, and the other was to make Yin Feng feel sad before leaving.
At this time, the center of the imperial court was in a fierce commotion over the competition for the chief minister of the cabinet. Thirty years after Wanli, the central official of the imperial court was inactive.
This year, there is only one Minister of Household Affairs left, while the local county guards are short of almost half. Many officials either because of Ding worry, or because of old age, or because of infirmity. They submitted their resignations one after another but could not get approval. They had no choice but to resign directly.
For example, Li Tingji, who was appointed as the first assistant, submitted his resignation more than 120 times. In the end, he had to leave without saying goodbye. Therefore, the court officials did not care about this small matter in a remote place that had just been added to the territory, so it was automatically ignored.
However, Matteo Ricci was indeed shocked. Because the Catholic Church has been preaching in various parts of China for many years. It is only successful in Taiwan. There are nearly 2,000 believers among the 70,000 to 80,000 settlers. It is the place with the largest number of believers in China.
.If this place were to suddenly ban Christianity, there is no guarantee that it would not cause a chain reaction in various places. It would be a huge blow to the Jesuit missionary cause.
Matteo Ricci was getting very old, so he had no choice but to send the Italian missionary Giannigo, who was about to return to China, to Taiwan to find out what was going on.
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Before winter came, Dasmarinas returned to Japan by detouring through the Tsushima Strait. The reason why he had to detour through the Yellow Sea to avoid the Ryukyu Route was because he was afraid that the Chinese Company would send people to pursue him.
After the Sendai Domain's ship arrived at Nagasaki, Dasmarinas did not return to Kagoshima. He went straight to Edo. The head of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain was in Edo to meet with the shogun.
This year is the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, the twelfth year of Keicho in Japan (1607). On January 25 of this year, the Tokugawa shogunate issued an order to the foreign daimyo across the country to undertake the Sunfu Castle project. According to
According to the record of "Dadaiki", the general content of the project was to expand the original Sunfu Castle in three directions: south, east, and north. "Dadaiki" said that at that time, the ten countries of Kinai, Tanba, Bitchu, Omi, Ise, and Mino were
The daimyo issued the order for the project. But the actual number of daimyo involved was far more than this. Even distant feudal clans like Satsuma were recruited. Today there is a Satsuma Avenue in the west of Shizuoka City. In the past, the road was called "Hoya Dote".
The causeway (also known as "Satsuma Dote") was built by Tadatsune Shimazu of the Satsuma Domain at that time using the remaining stones of Osaka Castle. It has both flood control and defensive functions.
In fact, this was a measure taken by the Tokugawa shogunate to weaken the daimyō. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was nominally retired, was in charge of Sunfu. He had always been merciless to those threatening forces. Even after the Battle of Sekigahara, there was no response.
The Shimadzu family was severely punished, but they were still greatly exploited economically. Tokugawa Ieyasu greatly weakened those alien and disloyal feudal lords through different ways of weakening the economy and territory. Many feudal clans therefore
Their strength was greatly weakened. Some Ming Dynasties were re-confessed or had their fiefdoms seized because of delays in city construction projects.
The Shimazu family invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources for the expansion of Sunfu. They did not want to just sit back and wait for death. They had been thinking about how to make up for the previous losses. So they began to consider annexing the Ryukyu Kingdom and Taiwan Island.
Brother Dasmarinas took the initiative to train troops and equip weapons for the Satsuma Domain out of a feud with the Chinese Company and the idea of avenging Spain's defeat in the Philippine colonies.
The Shimadzu family also took into account their geographical advantages and figured out the shogunate's thoughts before boldly making such a decision. As long as the shogunate agrees, the Shimadzu family can recover a lot of previous losses in the Ryukyu Kingdom and Taiwan and restore them. The strength of the feudal lord.
During the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era, Japan wanted to bring Ryukyu to its knees and occupy the trade routes between Ryukyu and the Ming Dynasty. Tokugawa Ieyasu also set his sights on the Ming Dynasty. He attempted to reopen the prosperous maritime trade between China and Japan in the early days of the Muromachi Shogunate. Road. This gave a boost to the economic development of the Edo shogunate. Although the Ming Dynasty and Japan had negotiated peace after the last invasion of Korea, the Ming Dynasty became increasingly wary and alienated from Japan as a neighbor. Even Tokugawa Ieyasu No matter how close he was to the Ming Dynasty after the peace negotiation, he could not win the trust of the Ming Dynasty. Tokugawa Ieyasu was famous for his sophistication and shrewdness. Naturally, he would not imitate Toyotomi Hideyoshi in his old age and start a conflict with foreign countries. After many years, After all efforts failed to work, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally chose to control the Ryukyu Kingdom by force and planned to control it behind the scenes as an intermediary for Sino-Japanese trade. Although this seemed to be an easy thing to succeed, it also had its own consequences. Huge risk. If the Ming Dynasty helps the Ryukyu Kingdom like it helped North Korea last time, then the shogunate just established by Tokugawa Ieyasu will fall into chaos again. China and Japan will go to war again. Japan will definitely enter troubled times again. Tokugawa Ieyasu is in After thinking hard for a long time, I finally made up my mind to give it a try.
But who should be sent to attack? At this time, the feudal lord of Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Tadahashi, came to ask for help. After weighing the pros and cons, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally agreed to Shimazu Tadahashi's request. What Tokugawa Ieyasu thought was: if it succeeds The economy of the shogunate will be strengthened, which will be absolutely beneficial to consolidating the feudal rule of the shogunate in the future. If it fails, the only loss will be the Satsuma clan. If the Ming Dynasty comes to accuse, all the blame can be passed on to the Satsuma clan. However, what the Satsuma clan lord Tadashi Shimazu was thinking about was: Ever since the Toyotomi clan and the Edo period, the Satsuma clan had been exploited and oppressed by the great lords. The originally powerful Shimazu family was no longer strong. It exists. If you don't find a chance to get something back, then the days to come will be even more miserable.
Although Shimazu wanted to arm his troops with Spanish missionaries, he did not dare to attract too much attention. Therefore, he only secretly summoned Brother Dasmarinas at night. Moreover, he had to ask the monk to leave from his residence. Enter the backyard through a small door.
Shimazu Tadahashi. His childhood name was "Mijumaru". He was fond of martial arts when he was young. His martial arts name began to spread when he went to Korea with his father at the age of 14. Because his brother Shimazu Kubo died in the Battle of Bunroku in the invasion of Korea. He became He became the designated heir of the Shimadzu family. During the Sino-Japanese-Korean War, he and his father Yoshihiro Shimazu defeated 3,000 Liaodong cavalry led by the famous Ming Dynasty general Li Rusong in an ambush. They are famous in Japan for this.
In 1599, he killed the family elder Iji Ruan Zhongdong and his son Ijuin Tadazhen. Then he suppressed the Zhongdong clan who had raised a rebellion in the country. He showed outstanding qualities of bravery and courage. Later, because of the name of the general Tokugawa Hideyoshi, there was a taboo. Later. His name was changed to Iehisa. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1602, he succeeded his father Yoshihiro to the position of daimyo of Satsuma Domain. However, he did not fully gain real power until Yoshihiro's death in 1619.
The last time he went to Beijing to pay homage to Tokugawa Ieyasu, he received the character "家" and the surname Matsudaira given by Ieyasu. He changed his name to Shimazu (Matsudaira) Iehisa. This time he met the second-generation general. The most important purpose was that he
The plan to annex Ryukyu and Taiwan can be approved by the shogunate.