New Shun 1730

After these words, which seemed too bizarre and shocking to religious believers, even Spain, which was the most fanatical in missionary work, and Portugal, which was involved in the Macau issue, did not directly refute Liu Yu's comments on the Vatican and the Jesuits.

The Age of Enlightenment meant the disintegration of "Tianxia" and the birth of the nation-state.

This Tianxia is not only the world of Confucianism, but also the world of Christianity.

Whoever enlightens will disintegrate.

The relationship between church power, political power, state, and Tianxia is a practical interest.

What is the most organized organization in the world at this time?

In fact, it is the Jesuits.

More than 30,000 members.

Regular military organization management.

Bottom-up organizational structure.

Systematic education received since childhood.

To join the organization, you must swear to be free of wealth, beauty, and wishes.

A talent training system and organizational structure across countries.

In order to preach, from the snowy land to the tropical rain forest of South America.

In some places where guns and cannons had never been colonized, these Jesuits had taken root there for a hundred years and really built the Paraguayan Indian Kingdom, which seriously hindered the colonial expansion and slavery and plunder of Spain and Portugal.

They could go to Japan despite Japan's ban on religion; they could go deep into Sichuan and other places at the end of the Ming Dynasty and organize tens of thousands of people; they could endure the climate and plague in the hot rainforest and spend their whole lives there.

They could also judge the king; publicly ridicule the French king's behavior of finding a mistress; interfere with the selection of Spanish ministers; and control the Portuguese education system.

There were even people who really carried muskets and fought with South American Indians and Spanish colonists.

How terrible.

The rise of the royal power of various countries is trying to find something similar to domesticated Confucianism rather than Confucianism. Rather than a group of organized, believing, knowledgeable, militarized organizations, who take pleasure in suffering and interfere in the political power of various countries, a group of things similar to some schools of thought in the pre-Qin period.

These things are really terrible.

The religious reactionary Utopian Society and the extremely advanced organizational techniques have created such a monster, which is really the biggest enemy of the monarchy and the enlighteners of various countries.

Let’s put it this way, after seeing the things they did in Paraguay, the Holy Treasury and the Land System of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, everyone will sigh that they are conservative.

In short, France has never been interested in the Jesuits and the Roman Catholic Church.

And Portugal and Spain, on the issue of colonial rule in South America, were indeed frightened by the Kingdom of God in Paraguay created by the Jesuits.

In order to preach in South America, the Jesuits paid a head tax of one peso to each local Indian, and then obtained a missionary license.

After going deep into the rainforest, they did the following things.

Build schools.

Cultivate land.

Plant tea - mate tea, not Chinese tea.

Teach handicrafts.

Raise militia.

Create language.

Engage in trade.

Because the Indians in South America are relatively backward, the concept of private ownership is not particularly deep.

Therefore, it is easy to guess what the Jesuits did in South America.

Textile cooperatives, planting cooperatives, animal husbandry cooperatives, collective labor system, income equalization system, public construction expenditures, etc.

Of course, they also paid money to the Vatican... because they controlled trade.

Compared with the enslaved South American Indians in other places, the South American Indians in the Kingdom of Paraguay are definitely better than those who work like cows and horses in the colonies.

Compared with the predatory colonization of Spain and Portugal in South America, the sustainable and wool-pulling development-style colonization of the Jesuits should be said to be much higher than Spain and Portugal.

To say that they are reactionary is relative to the Dashun, which has already seen the dawn of the industrial revolution, and relative to the situation in Spain and Portugal. And some of the extremely reactionary things in Dashun at this time are a kind of progress in South America.

The Jesuits strictly prohibited other Europeans from entering their Kingdom of God, and the huge profits from the developed agriculture and handicrafts also made the Spaniards and Portuguese very jealous.

The Jesuits themselves are a paramilitary organization, and the official title of the general president is "general", not a religious title.

Tens of thousands of organized South American Indians were armed, organized, had their own income, foreign trade industries, village economy... and even had the Guarani language created after being transformed by the Jesuits.

In fact, the prototype of a modern country has already appeared.

This is also one of the internal reasons why Paraguay, with a population of 550,000, dared to fight against the alliance of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, and was able to fight until only 30,000 men and 120,000 women were left in the end without losing the country. The prototype of the nation-state appeared a hundred years ago.

At this time, the problem faced by Spain and Portugal was that the two countries made a private deal in the colonial dispute and divided the area controlled by the Jesuits.

And Spain itself also coveted the trade goods and handicrafts here, as well as the developed agriculture.

Therefore, this war between the Kingdom of Paraguay and Spain and Portugal actually started last year.

Historically, this war of anti-colonial nature lasted for 18 years. In the end, the Roman Catholic Church betrayed this place and disbanded the Jesuits in exchange for the promise of Spain and Portugal not to withdraw from the Roman Catholic Church.

The Indians who resisted here were either killed or fled into the mountains, leaving the place completely deserted.

This war only had the nature of resisting colonization, but it was not a war of national liberation against colonization, because in the end the leadership was not in the hands of the Indians, and it did not end up being a Paraguayan war of independence, but it was fought into a war of independence between the Holy See and the colonies of the Holy See. During the colonial wars in the Spanish colonies, the Jesuit missionaries eventually betrayed the Indians.

Religion may have no fatherland.

But there are missionaries.

The tragedy of the Guarani people is that they lack a long history and a national stage in which civilization can develop itself.

Otherwise, if a group like Dashun really has such a start - tens of thousands of people with grassroots organizations, a basically qualified economic foundation, and hatred for Europeans - a group of ambitious people with a historical accumulation, can they really seize power? , self-reliance, and a wave of national establishment that pushed Spain into the sea.

At this time, Dashun pointed the direction of his criticism directly at the Holy See and the Jesuits, and gave the Jesuits a final evaluation, which made it impossible for Spain and Portugal to express direct opposition.

What Liu Yu is doing now is tantamount to directly intensifying the conflict between the Holy See and Spain and Portugal.

There is no need to intensify the French side. The rise of the Enlightenment school, the spread of Gallicism, general dissatisfaction with the church, and the "seven deadly sins" issue between the French king and the French king's mistress are already very unhappy.

Liu Yu wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to directly dismantle the Holy See.

What is the Holy See without Spain, Portugal, France, Naples, Palpa, and Sicily?

When the religions of various countries are under the management of political power and royal power, the pressure on Dashun to be preached will be much smaller.

On the one hand, if these countries stop giving money, the Holy See will have no money. How can it teach without money?

On the other hand, even if these countries compromise with the Holy See, the most amicable result will be the dissolution of professional missionary organizations such as the Jesuits. Without professional missionary organizations, the pressure on Dashun will be greatly relieved.

This time Dashun chose the most extreme method of expulsion, and the reason did not include "Chinese etiquette issues" at all, because the people in the Holy See have a flexible bottom line. If one day something from the Mongolian era is found and says that Chinese etiquette is okay, it will be troublesome. .

It would be better to break up with them directly and not give them the opportunity to preach flexibly.

The reasons for the expulsion are that one is no longer progressive but reactionary; the other is that the religious power interferes with political power, which is never allowed.

Since Europe is now filled with China fever, in addition to bringing advantages in trade and luxury goods, China fever can also bring about the leading role of this heaviest crown.

Is it necessary for the Holy See to exist?

Can various countries learn from Dashun and set up their own religious management institutions?

Because Dashun is rich and defeated the Netherlands easily, and all Dashun's policies are correct. Is there a logical connection?

This kind of thinking that requires brains is relatively difficult. Most people have the mentality of admiring the strong and feel that the strong must be right. This is a factor that can be exploited.

Of course, this time Liu Yu wants to directly tear down the Holy See, with a total of two allies.

One is the royal powers of various countries mentioned earlier. The regime hopes to control religious power, and it is best to separate church and state, thereby strengthening centralization.

Another ally was the Enlightenment forces that were already permeating Europe at this time.

The Enlightenment forces were definitely anti-Jesuits, and they were also anti-Vatican.

The time Liu Yu chose to demolish the Holy See can be regarded as a kind of disgusting man-eating steamed buns, which is the earthquake that is about to occur in Lisbon with a magnitude of about 8.5.

His method of eating human blood steamed buns does not involve theories of divine punishment, induction from heaven and man, or early warning from heaven.

In fact, some "civilian" and "Scientology" rumors have begun to spread throughout Europe.

These pamphlets are being circulated efficiently in enlightenment circles.

Are comets and earthquakes related?

There should be none.

Adding complicated mathematical symbol calculations, weird incomprehensible formulas, gravity calculations, tidal nonsense and the like, does it matter?

That's all right, it's just editing anyway.

In short, the core of the editor is: this is a natural phenomenon that can be calculated or predicted through science and mathematics, and has nothing to do with God, heaven or the like.

An important reason why people can eat steamed buns with human blood in this way, accelerate enlightenment, and even directly dismantle the Holy See is the "optimism" that permeated the Enlightenment Movement at this time.

It’s not the kind of optimism that’s taken literally.

The naive optimism characteristic of the Enlightenment is a special concept and a characteristic of the times.

How to roughly understand it is a summary of the views of some ironic philosophers after the Lisbon earthquake:

[(Earthquake) What serves the overall good cannot be judged by individuals. The descendants of those who died can improve their destiny; masons will earn more money in earthquake reconstruction; wild beasts can eat corpses buried under the ruins; living people will know better how to deal with disasters in the future... In short, This is an inevitable cause and an inevitable result. Your own misfortune is nothing, for it will contribute to the good of the whole...]

This trend of thought, as a whole, comes from Leibniz.

Leibniz’s philosophically optimistic explanation of “If God is good, why is there still evil in the world?”

That is: God created and arranged the world with reason, and the highest purpose of reason is goodness. The result of strictly following this purpose is that the existing real world is the best world. Under the complex formula, this is the best result of all possibilities...

And this earthquake also led to the final and most radical model: the Temple of Reason, the destruction of the four old things in France, the smashing of churches, the extermination of priests, and a series of radical actions.

Philosophers can say that, saying that "the whole serves the good."

But in the face of real disasters, facing ruins, death, pain, blood, and despair, this optimistic and overall good explanation of the world is impossible for anyone to accept. The so-called goodness of "God loves the world", the optimistic reality is the best result, etc., will be completely eliminated with this earthquake.

Reality is no longer the best, so reality can be broken.