"Dear Your Majesty, today is the 1st November 1, 1406th anniversary of the Lord, Halloween. I hope you can spend this festival safely, and I hope that all those familiar with me can spend this festival safely. I don't have to worry about the capital of Ming Kingdom in the East, because the dead will return to where they lived, and the capital of Ming Kingdom has no believers of the Lord before me."

"After talking about the holidays, the first thing I want to report to you is that my servants learn the advanced papermaking and printing technology of the East. After a year of hard study, they have initially mastered the papermaking technology, but they still make mistakes in making raw materials. Moreover, the language of the Chinese people in the East is really too difficult to pronounce, and the servants do not have the language talent and often remember the meaning of the words incorrectly. However, I believe that after two years, when apprentices in Eastern countries usually study for the time they have reached, they will learn advanced papermaking and printing technology."

"The second thing I want to tell you is the culture of the Ming Dynasty. The culture of the Ming Dynasty is different from all countries that believe in the Lord, all countries that believe in the evil gods of heaven, and the barbaric Mongols on the prairie of Eastern Europe. First of all, they are their attitude towards gods. There are many religions in the Ming Dynasty. The Seris also seem to believe in these gods. You can often see that many people worship in Buddhist temples or in a religion unique to the Seris. But if you observe carefully, you will find that they do not believe as devoutly as we do. They are not as religious as we believe, but rather trade. They hope to give money to the gods in exchange for the benefits they think of or avoid disasters, and if they fail to achieve their goals, they will stop worshiping the gods. Rather than saying that they are believers of atheists."

"Of course, there are also devout believers among the Seris, but the number is very small, which is not enough to have any impact. As for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult for me to guess whether he truly believes in the existence of gods. He seems to believe in Taoism and gave Taoism extremely high courtesy to the presidency of a temple. Moreover, the word "Heaven" in another name that represents the origin of the sacredness of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also seems to be derived from Taoism gods. But he also allows the spread of Buddhism. Before reaching the final conclusion, I can only temporarily consider him a shallow believer of Taoism."

"But among the Seris there are also symbols similar to gods, which are their ancestors. All the Seris worship their ancestors, and their ancestors are supreme and cannot be blasphemed. Even the words said by the ancestors cannot be violated. They have become rules that all people in the whole family must abide by. Even the poorest people would rather endure hunger and take out the best things to worship their ancestors, just as we worship the Lord."

"The social organizations of the Cyris are also based on families, not on the host of the nobles or temples that rule them. Many people with the same surname live together and get their patriarchs in some way. The ancestral temple consisting of the patriarchs and older people in the family manages the entire family. The grassroots ruling institutions of the Ming Dynasty connect one family, not a family or an individual. Even in cities, there are families, but they are relatively loose. However, the government can manage not only one family, but a unit between the family and the family consisting of the same grandfather or great-grandfather's family."

"Usually, they will not leave their hometown, but if they leave, they do not rely on temples when they need help from other places, but from fellow villagers from the same place. These fellow villagers form mutual assistance groups to help each other."

"In Ming Dynasty, if only a single family lives in a certain place, it is easy to be rejected by people around him. The things ordered by the government are also likely to fall on such people, because a family usually has only one adult man, and a family will have many adult men. Like our country, adult men are not only productive, but also combat-ready. Families with few adult men in their families are more likely to be bullied, while families with only one adult man will be bullied. Therefore, they have the same bad habits as the Romans who had never been taught by the bishop at that time: infanticide, and mainly killing babies."

"Dear Your Majesty, I have praised the civilization of the Seris many times, but the bad habit of infanticide they possessed made me deeply disgusted. Babies are also God's creations, and they are redeemed by Christ. Killing infants should be equivalent to murder. But in the Ming Dynasty, everyone did not care. They believed that children were the property of their parents and that parents had the right to deal with their children in any way. Now the Seris are generally rich and there are few infanticides, but just when the Seris fought with the Mongols decades ago, most of them were very poor and often abandoned or killed their children, and were mainly infant girls. I hope that these people who abandoned or killed their children would be punished after death."

"In addition to ancestors, the thought that the Ming people generally believed in was a thought called "Confucian". This idea was proposed by a sage named Confucius about 1900 years, and later it was determined as the orthodox idea of ​​a country by an emperor of the Seris 1,600 years ago, and later it was determined as the designated idea of ​​an examination for selecting officials eight hundred years ago. The books written by the sage of Confucius also became designated textbooks. Because the sage of Confucius called his thoughts Confucianism, those who later believed in the thoughts of Confucius were called Confucianism."

"The status of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty is similar to that of the church in Europe, but it is different. The Ming Dynasty is a truly powerful country, and the emperor of the state regime is also the highest current leader of Confucianism. There is no separate organization to promote Confucianism to ordinary people. These things are all undertaken by the government. Although the Ming Dynasty does not show more religious nature like the cannibal regime, and the Ming Dynasty shows more secular nature, it is still undeniable that they are the best countries. The emperor is responsible for the mission of governing the country, and also for the mission of worshiping the 'saints' and heaven, earth, and gods."

"Dear Your Majesty, I have suggested to you in my previous letter that a similar official selection system as the Ming Dynasty, but after understanding the culture of the Cyris, I now feel that the Ming Dynasty's official selection system is difficult to implement in our country. The Ming Dynasty's official selection system and its culture complement each other. Only such a culture can implement such an official selection system, and only such an official selection system is most compatible with such a culture. Castilla cannot implement it."

"But your Majesty, I am still studying the culture of the Ming Kingdom, and want to find places similar to that of our country, so that I can learn from the culture of the Ming Kingdom to improve our country's system. In addition, I always believe that European civilization is not behind any civilization, and Castile will sooner or later become a country comparable to that of the Ming Kingdom."

"Finally, at the risk of blaspheming the Lord, I tried to compare European civilization with those of the Cialis. First, the lives of ordinary people under the rule of European civilization are not as good as those of the Cialis. Although I really want to justify the barren land in Europe, I seem a little pale and powerless in the face of facts. Secondly, because there is nothing awesome except for the ancestors, the Cialis have done less care. Whether it is doing business or farming, they are better at making artifacts than Europeans. The better lives of ordinary people of the Cialis are also related to this. But this also makes them lack the bottom line in doing things, so it is difficult to distinguish whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage."

"In addition to lack of concern, I think another reason why the Cyris lives better than Europeans is that they have a unified country. A unified country means that resources can be allocated in a wider area, and more people in the same industry can communicate more easily, making manufacturing processes easier to improve, which is reflected in both agriculture and commercial."

"But the civilization of the Seris also has its shortcomings. The grassroots organizations of the Ming Dynasty were composed of people with the same ancestors. When they left their hometowns and were in other places, they were united with their fellow villagers. The family or fellow villagers' mutual aid groups were one governments from top to bottom. This made no one except the emperor and the vassal kings he enfeoffed could organize people who were more than the same blood and within the same township. This was a good thing for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but it also made it difficult for the Seris to truly unite when facing enemies outside the Ming Dynasty. The country where the Seris was destroyed by the Mongols was about to be destroyed.

When they died, a group of Tianfang Cultists who lived in Quanzhou, the largest port in the East at that time, controlled Quanzhou with their not strong strength. The Seris, who had more people in the city, quickly expressed their surrender. More than 40 years ago, before the regime established by the Mongols was eliminated, the family no longer served to the Mongols and wanted to establish a country belonging to the Tianfang Cultists in Quanzhou. The Seris in the city still did not resist. It was not until the Mongolian army rushed into the city that they suddenly woke up and rushed into the homes of the local Tianfang Cultists to kill them, and robbed their property."

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"From the above content, European civilization and Cyris civilization each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Without that, it is perfect, and there is no perfect system and culture in the world. But I believe that under the glory of the Lord, European civilization will definitely get better and better." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!