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Chapter 800 Seven Thousand Western Books

Xu Guangqi said that things were not as simple as Bill Francis said: "It's not because of the heresy of Demons, but because there is an important official in this mission!"

Bi Francis already understood, and he immediately asked, "How important is it? What position is he? Is it more important than you, Paul?"

Before returning to Shanghai, Xu Guangqi was the Henan Provincial Censor and the standard Qingliu official. He had great power and light responsibilities and was prominent for a while. However, he shook his head and said, "Strictly speaking, this Mr. Ding is not an important official in the court. His position in the court is not important at all, but he was a commissioner of Liu Peng and the Haibei Army in Yanzhou Prefecture."

He knew that Bi Francis could not understand what "commissioner" means. In fact, there was no such term in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. This should be a new term created by Liu Peng. Therefore, he used the words of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty to explain it: "It is equivalent to a Taoist minister or a small governor in charge of military and political affairs. As long as he is willing, he has nearly infinite power in Yanzhou."

As soon as he said this, Bi Fangji understood and immediately asked, "I have some news about Liu Peng and Haibei Town, but I don't know much details. What do you mean is that although he is Liu Peng's personal representative, he has a high status and great power?"

Xu Guangqi immediately said: "In fact, although this Commissioner Ding is very important, what is more important is Liu Peng and Haibei Town behind him. If we miss this opportunity, we may miss the opportunity of the Holy Light shining on China."

As a missionary, Bi Francis was not as familiar with China's national conditions as Xu Guangqi, but he knew clearly that Xu Guangqi was the most important pillar of the Holy Church in China, so he immediately asked: "I heard that we had a very good relationship with Liu?"

Xu Guangqi immediately replied: "Yes, my teacher Huang Tiren was once Liu's Shangguan. He and Liu have maintained a very good relationship until now. Liu once asked me for the Holy Teaching books and all Western learning books that he could buy, but because of his hiring and reusing Demons, our relationship quickly deteriorated!"

Xu Guangqi obviously simplified the relationship between the two parties, so his disciple Sun Yuanhua, who was standing aside, added: "And like Demons, this General Liu is also an absolute heresy. It is said that he is a saint of an evil god Bixia Yuanjun. Bixia Yuanjun has entrusted him with dreams countless times, and General Liu does not deny this relationship."

Although Sun Yuanhua only joined the sect in Tianqi Yuanhua, his first-time believers were far more hostile to heresy than Xu Guangqi and Bi Francis, but Bi Francis didn't care that Liu Peng might be a saint of heresy and evil gods.

He just asked this question: "Why do we attach so much importance to this Liu Daotai or General Liu? Why did we miss this opportunity? It is possible that we missed the opportunity of the holy light shining on China."

Xu Guangqi immediately replied: "Because General Liu is the only general who can truly defeat the barbarians in Jianzhou, he led his army to destroy the barbarian army formations countless times and seize the barbarians' battle flags. He even recovered more than one city from the barbarians and held on to this day!"

Xu Guangqi continued: "Now he has amazing power, firmly controlling millions of people and dozens of prefectures and counties, with tens of thousands of troops that only obey his orders. He even has absolute control over local finances and administration. It can be said that we privately agree that he is the most promising general to defeat the Jianzhou Jurchens, and he may even..."

Xu Guangqi lowered his voice: "He may replace the rule of a certain dynasty."

Sun Yuanhua was obviously full of inexplicable hostility towards Liu Peng: "Liu Peng and Haibei Town are not only arrogant soldiers, but also wolves ambitions. They are the living Cao Cao of the world. If our Holy Church had not helped him, how could he be today? However, he has always adopted an extremely hostile attitude towards the Holy Church and did not allow us to preach in Shandong."

Bi Francis already understood: "He is a very cruel heresy?"

"No, he is by no means a very cruel warlord, on the contrary, he is an enlightened and kind warlord!"

"He armed his army from all the technologies introduced from Europe, and used them in his workshops, mines, farms, and over the past few years he has saved millions of people with his own efforts. If, in this alone, he is almost a saint, but his attitude towards the Holy Church..."

Xu Guangqi thought for a while and finally found a suitable adjective: "His attitude towards the Holy Church cannot be said to be hostile, but should be boycotting. Yes, it is boycotting..."

Although hostility and boycott are derogatory terms, Bi Francis can still understand the huge gap between the two: "Since he is an enlightened and kind warlord, we should be able to open a gap in him. Even if he refuses to change his faith, as long as he is given the right to preach freely, we can cooperate with him."

Xu Guangqi immediately said: "Yes, he is an enlightened and kind warlord, and he has more than a dozen Europeans under his command. He has transformed his jurisdiction from the technology introduced by Europe. He has even had very pleasant cooperation with us, but the problem is that he has made very strict demands on us, and he is also an enlightened and kind warlord."

It was Liu Peng's enlightenment and kindness that made Xu Guangqi feel terrible. A brutal warlord could not accomplish anything, but an enlightened warlord was likely to succeed and turn the Catholic Church out. Bi Franci immediately understood: "How harsh is it?"

Xu Guangqi immediately replied: "I have been in contact with him through Mr. Huang Tiren. His recent request was to transfer all 7,000 Western Books to Shandong, and to send all the best and best missionaries and fellow believers to Shandong to help him translate and promote these 7,000 Western Books, but he still does not want to give us free missionary rights."

For the late Ming Catholics, the right to free missionary is the key power they are bound to fight for. Therefore, when they heard that Liu Peng refused to give the Catholic Church the right to free missionary, Bi Francis already understood, but he was still exclaiming: "The problem is, how did he know the seven thousand books of the Western Book? This is too incredible."

The Catholic Church did not regard the seven thousand Western books as absolute secrets. On the contrary, they have disclosed the existence of these seven thousand Western books in publicly published books, and hope to establish a good relationship with the Ming court through these seven thousand Western books.

But they did not want these seven thousand books of the Western Book to fall into the control of others, and everything about the seven thousand books of the Western Book must be firmly controlled by the Catholics.

Seven thousand Western books can be said to be a major event in the history of exchanges between China and the West and the history of science and technology in China. The French missionary Kinnige, who followed Matteo Ricci's entry into China, decided to continue to adopt Matteo Ricci's "academic missionary" strategy and prepare to set up a church library in China.

In addition to religious theology books, the collection also contains a group of scientific books that Chinese people never knew and felt novel, and intends to translate them into Chinese to show off the cultural and scientific achievements of Europeans, thereby "impressing the hearts of the Chinese", and thus attracting Chinese scholars and officials to join the church.

In 1614, Kinnige returned to Rome and began two trips to the Western European continent in Europe. He wore Chinese Confucian uniforms and delivered a warm speech in public, recruiting more than 7,000 books in one fell swoop. This situation is unprecedented in European history.

Jinnige tried his best in the process of recruiting books and received support from Deng Yuhan. "Jin and Deng Yuhan continued to collect books wherever they went. All the famous publishing centers at that time, such as Lyon, Frankfurt, and Cologne, were often visited. Besides, there were no more gifts from writers and publishers."

Kinnige spent tens of thousands of gold coins on this batch of books, and said proudly, "The people I have obtained so far, regardless of the number of words (repeats), the many words of academic categories, and the rich words of decoration, are not enough in the Jesus Church to compete with this."

Moreover, the seven thousand Western books selected by Kinnige were the result of his and Deng Yuhan's careful selection from a large number of books. "Those who repeat themselves do not enter, and those who weave them do not enter."

Even he himself said, "I try my best to make all books big books." It is at least a few hundred pages of large books, including thousands of pages, and each one is printed with fine words on both sides of a single page. The content of a book is often equivalent to dozens of Chinese books.

Moreover, these seven thousand Western books highlight books of natural sciences. Kinnige once said: "In terms of disciplines, in addition to the human, philosophy, theology, doctrine and other famous works we have learned in the library, the medicine, law, music, and other famous works, I have also searched for. And the mathematical books that have been invented today can be said to be full of them."

Li Zhizao, a native of the Ming Dynasty, explained it more clearly. In addition to the books of astronomical and calendars, these seven thousand Western books are: "There are also books of water, which are extremely clever and can be used to irrigate the fields and help the fortunes. There are also books of algorithms, which do not require beads, and you can get a pen.

There are also books of surveys that can measure the depth of mountains, rivers, rivers, and the size of the seven politics. Books of ceremonies can discuss the body of heaven and earth and the principles of their changes.

A book with sun track can be displayed on the ground and engraved the shadow lines of the twenty-four qi; a book with 360 directions can be used to determine the solar terms. All kinds of different creations are in line with heaven. A book with the accusations of all countries can be used to carry the customs of various countries, mountains, rivers, and dangers of far and near.

There are medical books that can discuss the human body, body, blood and blood, and treat the prescriptions for treatment. There are musical instruments, and all the carp, qin, sheng, and pipes have a unique skill.

There are books on studying things and exploring the principles, and are used to discuss physics and principles to guide beginners. There are books on "The Origin of Geometry", which specializes in square, round and straightness, and is considered to be the ability to make craftsmen.

Most of the above books are not included in our Chinese books. They are all useful for practical learning and useful for the world."
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