Regarding Archbishop Pang Maichen’s Spring Festival celebration request, although Western priests such as Xiong Sanba felt that this was inconsistent with the Catholic tradition, they did not object.

This is mainly because Father Ricci always advocated that Catholicism should be combined with Chinese Confucianism, so Matteo Ricci believed that Western Confucianism was adhered to Confucianism and maintained a tolerant attitude towards Chinese customs.

Under the influence of Matteo Ricci, many of the believers who developed Catholicism in China continued traditional Chinese rituals, such as worshiping ancestors and Confucius.

This is also the reason for the "whether to be a Chinese" difference between the Matteo Ricci Group and the Longhua Nation.

Before Archbishop Pang Maichen was born, the Jesus in China led by Longhua Democratic denied the so-called rules of Matteo Ricci, forbidden Chinese believers to respect Confucius and worship ancestors, and forbidden to use China's "God of Heaven" to refer to the only true god of Catholicism, completely vanishing Matteo Ricci's efforts to sinicize Catholicism during his lifetime. Some priests of Matteo Ricci were also forced to leave Beijing or China, such as Guo Jujing, Jinnige and others.

Historically, this move has led to almost no effective development in China, and it cannot even retreat.

My father-in-law himself does not believe in God, so how Catholicism develops in China and whether it has achievements is all about him.

For him, whether it is Aliluya, Amitabha, Wuliang Tianzun, or Angel Baby, they are just a sentence in his mouth and do not represent any meaning.

However, the butt determines the head.

For his political and family interests, Pope Paul V actually slapped his head and appointed Eunuch Wei as the archbishop of Purple, established the Oriental Diocese, and granted His Majesty the Oriental Emperor the unrivaled power to the church of His Majesty's favored slaves.

Then, if Eunuch Wei illegally uses his identity and power to achieve some achievements that satisfy Paul V, he will inevitably be dissatisfied with his surname.

In the religious front, if the father-in-law does not occupy it, others will occupy it. To make the foreign-haired devils confusing people, it is better to improve the ideological program and become bigger and stronger, and to lose culture.

Just as Japan before the 17th century always boasted of the Han branches and regarded the Chinese dynasty as the chief, once China was invaded by a foreign race, Japan had the legal idea of ​​"slaving the throne" to restore the orthodox Chinese. Eunuch Wei also regarded the current Oriental Diocese as the concubine's son of the Roman Catholic Church. If the Holy See and the Pope are incompetent, then the Oriental Diocese will be qualified to replace it and become the orthodox location of the Catholic Church.

Therefore, reform is inevitable.

Without reform, you cannot become bigger and stronger.

Eunuch Wei must use this method of reform to enhance the strength of the Eastern Diocese.

When the Ming Dynasty was destroyed in Manchu, knowledgeable Han people traveled to Japan one after another, asking Japan to send troops to restore China. (Historical facts)

When the Holy See was incompetent, the father-in-law also hoped that the knowledgeable people of Rome could travel far away to China, and asked His Excellency Pang Maichen to cross the west and spread the lost lambs in the West.

Therefore, Eunuch Wei returned to Beijing and came to Nantang this time to officially promote the reform of the sinicization of Catholicism as the Archbishop of the Oriental Diocese, improve the status of the Oriental Diocese in the Holy See, and prepare for his democratic election to the Pope in the future.

Compared with this important goal, it is not worth mentioning to make some money to respect your father-in-law.

After expressing dissatisfaction with the failure of Nantang to integrate into the Chinese most solemn festival, the Chinese people, and accusing the obvious dogmatism of the Catholic Church in Beijing, Eunuch Wei asked Father Xiong Sanba to immediately organize a meeting of priests, priests and believers in Beijing, and "requested" Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and other officials in the North who joined the church to attend the meeting.

The meeting schedule was very fast, so it was set at less than three o'clock in the afternoon, and the church time was three o'clock in the afternoon.

In view of the authority of the status of the archbishop Purple-clothed, Nantang immediately arranged a venue in the auditorium for small diffusion according to Archbishop Pang Maichen's instructions. 25 Western priests in Beijing and 38 believers and 5 Ming officials attended the meeting.

The bronze saint seizure, personally designated by Archbishop Pang Maichen, Cui Yingyuan, a hundred household in the East Factory, led his fighters (fanzi) to pull up the banner written by Eunuch Wei, "Long live the great Wanli Emperor!" and hung high above the auditorium gate.

Below are the Latin words written by Father Xiong Sanba.

The Chinese characters are above and the Latin characters are below, which means that the main and the second are clear.

Although there were not many people attending the meeting, considering the influence, Eunuch Wei specially asked Chen Mo to urgently customize a large number of flower baskets to send to Nantang, which could add to the glory of the meeting.

But my father-in-law didn't consider the cold winter months, and there were no greenhouses to grow flowers these days, so how many flowers were there? Chen Mo, who received the task, had to lower his requirements. In the end, the purchase of paper flowers was all paper flowers. Because time was too late to dye, all of them were white flowers.

Each flower basket has a name for congratulations on the unit on white paper, and there is another mistake in the middle. It is because of the rush of time, and some of the congratulations on the paper are really not decent.

For example, "The internal officials and supervisors wish you a happy New Year to the Archbishop Pang Maichen! The Royal Horse and supervisors wish you a prosperous business! The Baochao Secretary wishes you a blessing from the East China Sea!" and so on.

No flower basket's greetings can be related to this meeting.

Who can blame this?

It’s up to him, Eunuch Wei. If you don’t explain the matter clearly, you will come in the morning and have a meeting in the afternoon. Who can understand it for you?

Not to mention, these flower baskets were placed along the entrance of the Nantang to the auditorium, which was very neat and looked solemn and solemn.

It is consistent with the reform topics held at this meeting.

I was busy outside, and my father-in-law inside also had a very speculative chat with Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and the others.

Xu Guangqi and Li Zhizao are the best professional talents in this era who combine Chinese and Western countries. They not only have amazing abilities in agriculture, mathematics, and water conservancy, but also have deep research on firearms.

Xu Guangqi himself built the most powerful firearms unit at that time during the Chongzhen period, but unfortunately he encountered the "Wuqiao Mutiny" and all his previous efforts were wasted.

Li Zhizao was not only proficient in Western calendars, astronomy and geography, but also rare that he was also an expert in casting cannons. Later, Johnson Chan followed him.

How could Eunuch Wei not recognize these two people? The reason why he was willing to devote his energy to the Catholic Church was to obtain all the resources related to the church besides being a pope?

During the conversation, Eunuch Wei briefly revealed that his Jiangnan Manufacturing General Administration had developed a flintlock rifle and simply drew the following drawings for Xu and Li to watch. After seeing them, they were indeed very strange. They all said that if this gun is energy-producing and equipped with the Ming army, its combat power will be doubled immediately.
Chapter completed!