Luo Wenzao's lips trembled violently, and he asked tremblingly.
"Grand Governor, this...are these all true?"
Zhu Hongyu said with a sneer.
"Who do you think you are, worthy of me specially preparing these materials to deceive you?"
Zhu Hongyu's words were very heartbreaking, but Luo Wenzao couldn't refute them.
Luo Wenzao was silent, but he spoke with some disbelief.
"But...but, why didn't something similar happen in the churches in the Central Plains!"
Zhu Hongyu just sneered and said.
"Not because they are civilized, but because we are strong enough!"
"Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the slaves who now control the Central Plains, they are powerful enough and cannot be offended by a small church!"
"So, when they preach in the Central Plains, they can only and dare to use the means of kindness, and use kindness and hypocrisy as a disguise to attract ignorant people like you to join the religion."
"And in Nanyang, in other parts of the world, in places where there is no force stronger than them to protect them, this is their way of preaching."
Zhu Hongyu gestured with his chin to the thick stack of files in Luo Wenzao's hand.
The fact is exactly what Zhu Hongyu said. The Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty was still very powerful when facing the Western barbarians.
Although it has reached the end of the dynasty, the country's national power has declined severely, and it is unable to intervene in Southeast Asia to punish the Spaniards who massacred China in Manila.
But in my own territory of the Ming Dynasty, those Western barbarians dare not jump.
This matter actually belongs to Zheng Zhilong. This pirate leader defeated the Dutch and British fleets several times, making them dare not underestimate the Ming Dynasty.
The mentality of Westerners is similar to that: if Zheng Zhilong is so awesome as a pirate, how powerful must the navy of the Ming Dynasty be?
Since they don’t know what to do, they naturally don’t dare to be presumptuous!
For example, if a Portuguese in Macao commits a crime, the county magistrate will take off his pants and slap him.
The situation in the middle and early Qing Dynasty was almost the same!
Although the Qing Dynasty was a mess internally, it still managed to stand up despite its size. It still looked very majestic on the outside.
Before the British used a duck war to tear away the halo of our Qing Dynasty and exposed the fact that our Qing Dynasty was a powerful foreign country.
The size of my Qing Dynasty is displayed there, and no one in the West dares to stir up trouble.
At the very least, they would not dare to do human experiments on Chinese children!
Before the Duck War, the officials of the Qing Dynasty were not afraid of the barbarians from the West.
Well, for example, the Portuguese in Macau still have to be pulled out from time to time and take off their pants to fight!
Therefore, during the period between the late Ming Dynasty and the middle and early Qing Dynasty, all missionaries were good children.
They are all scholars who come to promote cultural exchanges between the East and the West, they are all talents who are proficient in various Western studies, and they are all good people who are dedicated to saving lives and healing the wounded.
But by the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the Duck War, the entire Qing Dynasty suffered from foreign phobia.
Without the deterrence of the imperial court, the true nature of these missionaries and Catholicism was exposed!
Those endless teachings in the late Qing Dynasty are the most typical examples!
Luo Wenzao took a deep breath, took off his robe, pulled off the cross from his neck, and a thick Bible, and threw them all to the ground in one breath.
Then he kicked the things on the ground that represented Catholicism crazily and forcefully, and then spat on them.
How much he cherished these things before, now he hates them so much.
Looking at these crosses and Bibles, he felt sick from the bottom of his heart.
"ah……"
"Woooooooo..."
Luo Wenzao collapsed on the ground.
With his faith destroyed, he felt that everything was hopeless.
Zhu Hongyu looked at Luo Wenzao's performance, and the expression on his face softened a little.
Zhu Hongyu said in a soft voice.
"Don't be discouraged. Catholicism is not worth devoting your life to, but the world might be better without Catholicism!"
"You can also do other things to realize your own life value!"
Luo Wenzao's lips trembled and he spoke.
"Students are willing to work for the military government to completely expel the evil Catholicism from the Central Plains."
Zhu Hongyu nodded, and then handed over the translation work of the book to Luo Wenzao.
"Although the Catholics are a group of barbarians and scum who do all kinds of evil, there are some merits in their culture."
"In terms of astronomy, geometry, navigation, etc., they are indeed ahead of us!"
"Nowadays, exchanges between the East and the West have become a general trend. We cannot go against the trend!"
“For the knowledge and culture passed down from the West, we must take the best and discard the dross!”
"Their religious theology is just the dregs among the dregs, but there is something worth learning from us in astronomy, navigation, geometry, economics, etc."
"It is a very important and meaningful thing to translate all the books we seized from Manila and extract the essence and discard the dross!"
"Mr. Luo, I think you are qualified for this matter!"
Luo Wenzao did not hesitate and decisively accepted Zhu Hongyu's appointment.
…
The battle against the natives went very smoothly, and Li Guangyuan led his troops back to the court with a large number of prisoners of war.
The arrival of these prisoners of war has greatly supplemented the military government's labor gap!
In this battle against the Pampanga people, not only a large number of prisoners of war were captured, but also a large number of seizures were made.
Especially the buffaloes raised by the Pampanga people happened to be distributed and used for plowing the fields!
All the Pampanga people who had participated in the massacre of Chinese people were screened out, and then they were put in jail, and they were prepared to take these natives with them during the public trial of the Spaniards.
Zhu Hongyu once again convened a meeting with the generals of the Liberation Army and issued combat orders against Spanish strongholds in Zamboanga, Palawan, Sulu and other places.
The Spanish have strongholds throughout the Luzon Islands, not just Manila!
After the Liberation Army captured Manila, many Spaniards chose to surrender to the Liberation Army, or simply fled the Luzon Islands by boat.
Fleeed to Batavia, Manila and other places!
However, many people still choose to resist in the stronghold.
Now that the Liberation Army has withdrawn its hands, it will no longer leave those strongholds to the Spaniards.
Zhu Hongyu personally formulated a battle plan to remove all those strongholds one by one.
…
Early September, 1661 AD.
After mobilizing troops to remove all Spanish strongholds in the Luzon Islands, Zhu Hongyu ordered a formal public trial of all Spanish in Manila.
In the entire Luzon Island, almost all Chinese people gathered in Weiyuan City to watch the public trial!
A high platform was erected on the site of the original Manila Cathedral.
The public trial will be held here!
On this day, before dawn, the area near the platform was crowded with Chinese people who came to watch the excitement.
On this day, rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, and women's unwashed menstrual belts all became in hot demand throughout Luzon.
The Chinese people's love for watching the excitement has never changed from ancient times to the present!
Amid the much-anticipated waiting, Zhu Hongyu, escorted by a group of soldiers, rode a tall horse out of the military government's office and went straight to the high platform for the public trial.
Zhu Hongyu had no airs and waved and greeted the people watching the excitement on both sides of the road warmly.