Beijing City, Forbidden City, South Study.
At this time, the Jesuit missionary Nan Huairen, the Heavenly Supervisor and Minister of Taichang Temple, was also carefully handing a piece of talisman paper to the young British master, Emperor Kangxi.
This bearded man from the Spanish Netherlands felt guilty now, so he had no choice but to recite the Psalm in his heart to calm himself down.
And the reason why he felt guilty was because the "Fire Spirit Talisman" he returned to Emperor Kangxi was fake!
Emperor Kangxi could not wait for the arrival of the monks sent by Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain and the Great Lama of Snowland, so he first asked Nan Huairen to take the "Fire Spirit Talisman" that Deng Zhong brought to Beijing and the gunpowder filled in the Tianlei Pot to study... ....
Nan Huairen didn't take it seriously at first, because he found that the gunpowder in the Tianlei Pot was very ordinary, and the so-called "Fire Spirit Talisman"... He believed in God, so of course he didn't believe in this "demon" Law”.
However, in the past few days, reports of defeat from Guangdong have been sent in succession, and the "Zhuge Divine Thunder" has been mentioned again and again!
Now Nan Huairen didn't dare to take it lightly, but he was not familiar with magic, so he could only trace a fake talisman, and then send the real talisman and the report he wrote to Rome. Holy Roman Catholic Inquisition!
So what he returned to Kangxi now was the fake talisman... This was the crime of deceiving the emperor! If he is discovered, he will be martyred and become a saint!
Although he loves Heavenly Father so much, he does not want to return to Heavenly Father right away...
When the New Year of the eleventh year of Kangxi was approaching, the young British Emperor Kangxi was a little confused by the bad news one after another from Guangdong, so he didn't pay much attention to the authenticity of the charm Nan Huairen returned to him. Fake?
His current thoughts are entirely on the title book jointly submitted by Shang Kexi and Mi Sihan about "The Third Prince Zhu Runs the Imperial Court".
Although the Third Prince Zhu was not bold enough to proclaim himself emperor, his behavior of establishing a court in the name of the Ming Dynasty Supervisor was still unacceptable to Emperor Kangxi... You must know that before this, his Qing court was under the rule of the whole world. The only imperial court has monopoly rights, with a market share of 99.9%!
There were more than a thousand counties in the Qing Dynasty. Previously, Qiu Hui occupied Chenghai County, Jiang Sheng controlled Siming Prefecture on Xiamen Island, which was almost the same as the county. Zheng Jing also had two prefectures in Taiwan that were equivalent to counties, so there were only a few counties. four counties.
Moreover, Zheng Jing did not dare to proclaim himself emperor, nor did he dare to support a supervisory state to run the court. In fact, he already regarded himself as the vassal king. If the Qing court had not insisted on "shaving his hair" and "landing", and had previously tricked Zheng Zhilong, who sincerely surrendered, Zheng Jing would have mostly surrendered.
But now... although the market share is still very high, it has only decreased by a few tenths, but Prince Zhu San has declared himself a prisoner in Jieyang County, and he has openly established a court, and even shouted something like "the world is for the common good" slogan, and also claimed to "return to the original Confucianism".
Although Emperor Kangxi didn't quite understand what was going on? How did a good campaign to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty turn the world into a public institution? But he still vaguely felt that the court created by the third prince Zhu and the third grandson Zhu was still a very troublesome thing. Maybe it was really a bigger threat than San Francisco!
By the way, so far, Kangxi still regards San Francisco as the biggest threat to the Qing Dynasty, bar none!
Although the names of the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu have been pasted on the pillars of the South Study Room where the names of the Three Feudatories were originally posted... Emperor Kangxi did not ask anyone to put the words "Sanfei" on them. After tearing off the paper, replace it with the paper with the names "Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Heji" written on it. Instead, the new paper was pasted on the old paper to cover it.
After the two great rebels Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Heji were killed, the "new paper" was torn off. When Emperor Kangxi was thinking about when to "change the list" again, Nan Huairen came to deceive the emperor with the fake talisman he drew.
Emperor Kangxi took the "Fire Spirit Talisman" and looked at it in the dim light of the South Study Room. He always felt something was wrong and asked in a low voice: "Nan Huairen, do you think the lines on this Talisman look a bit Latin?" Letters?”
Discovered? Want to see Heavenly Father? Heavenly Father, come and bless me quickly...Amen!
Nan Huairen was startled and silently recited "Heavenly Father bless you" in his heart, but he said: "Your Majesty, I don't look like this..."
In fact, Kangxi did not doubt Nan Huairen. He still trusted this "foreign monk" very much and never imagined that he would dare to deceive the emperor. So after asking, he didn't mention it again, but asked about the "gunpowder in the chamber pot", "Nan Huairen, have you tested the gunpowder in the pot?"
"Your Majesty, I have tested it." Nan Huairen breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "It's just ordinary gunpowder, of average quality."
Kangxi frowned and whispered to himself: "Is there really a magic in this charm?"
Nan Huairen did not dare to answer this question - the Inquisition was in charge of this matter, and he, a Jesuit missionary, did not dare to talk nonsense, otherwise he would probably go to hell.
Kangxi still wanted to inquire, "Nan Huairen, does anyone in the West use magic to enhance the power of gunpowder?"
Another heretical question!
Nan Huairen did not dare to talk to Kangxi about Western magic - the magic was all heresy! If you really believe in God, all you need to do is "God bless you". If you practice magic by yourself, you don't believe in the Lord! Moreover, those spells are not recorded in the Bible, so how can they be practiced casually?
But I don’t dare not answer Kangxi all the time—accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. Can you ignore the emperor’s questions? Maybe he will become a saint immediately!
So I had to say hesitantly: "Your Majesty, I...I don't understand the magic of demons. There is a special yamen in the West to deal with this. I am not from that yamen."
"Ah, there is a yamen that specializes in catching monsters!" Kangxi became interested and asked, "What is this yamen called?"
"Call, call..." What is it called? Nan Huairen thought hard about how to translate the Latin word "Inquisition"? After pondering for a long time, he finally remembered a more appropriate name. He said to Kangxi: "The name of this yamen is translated into Chinese, that is Zhen Mo Si, Roman Zhen Mo Si!"
Kangxi nodded and decreed: "Then you convey my decree to the Ecumenical Church of Rome and ask them to send mages from the Suppressing Magic Division to our Qing Dynasty to work with the lamas from the Snow Region, the real people from Longhu Mountain and our shamans from Manchuria. Let’s fight against the evil magic of Ge Yaodao together!”
Beads of sweat appeared on Nan Huairen's forehead. Did Kangxi mean to ask the judges of the Inquisition and a group of pagan clergy to deal with pagan sorcery?
They won't start pinching themselves first, right?
But Kangxi just said "will"!
If you resist and disobey the decree, you will become a saint immediately!
Nan Huairen seemed to have seen that the Lord in heaven had opened his arms to him... so he quickly knelt down to the Qing Emperor and shouted: "嗻!"
"Kneel down!"
Emperor Kangxi was busy and had no time to continue discussing with Nan Huairen the Vatican's suppression of the magic priest, so he sent him away.
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Not long after Nan Huairen left with a heavy heart, he saw seven bachelors under Emperor Kangxi and Xiong Cilu, the master of the Hanlin Academy, Xue Zhang, who had just been awarded the bachelor's degree of the Hanlin Academy, and the third-class bodyguard Deng Zhongjiu. We entered the south study room together.
They were called to the South Study Room by Emperor Kangxi to discuss matters because Prince Zhu San and his son secretly established a court in Chaozhou, Guangdong.
This group of bachelors, great Hanlins, and the little third-class guard all had serious expressions and full of indignation - how could they open the imperial court privately? Moreover, Prince Zhu’s actual control area does not even include an entire county. Now the imperial court will be opened. If they want to conquer a province, wouldn’t they have to open the heavenly court?
How lawless!
After a group of people knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, they dropped their hands and lined up on both sides, waiting for Emperor Kangxi to ask questions.
Emperor Kangxi did not talk nonsense with these cabinet ministers, but got straight to the point and said: "This third prince Zhu said that he wanted the world to be a public one, that he wanted to restore Confucianism and Taoism, and that he wanted to be a true Confucian... You know what? What does it mean?"
