New Shun 1730

And at that time, Li Guo was doing the same thing as Zheng Bo Ke Duan, and was not in a hurry to destroy the Southern Ming, which led to a misjudgment on the part of Macau.

According to a passage left by the later generations of Dashun, Li Guo said to his ministers at that time: If the pseudo-Ming is an ally, I will prepare 100,000 troops to prevent it from pulling its legs; and if it is an enemy, only 30,000 people will be enough to watch.

But Macau could not see the way, and made a strategic judgment error.

In fact, at that time, Macau was a window for foreign exchanges, and missionaries were the only channel for communication between the East and the West. Even if Li Guo did not die early, Macau would not be taken back in the future, but the Portuguese could not know it.

Boyim still embarked on the journey, but even without the historical situation, the Pope, Venice and Poland did not send troops in the end. They only brought a letter from the Pope to the Queen of the Southern Ming, expressing verbal support.

The beginning of the letter was: [Salute my beloved daughter and bless her].

Dashun was waiting for this letter, contacted people, intercepted the sender, and immediately made the letter public.

Without looking at the content of the letter, the whole world was in an uproar just by the beginning.

Asking Japan to borrow troops was understandable to the scholars and officials at that time, and many of them supported it. They also thought that Japan was also Confucian, and it would be fine to cede a few islands to Japan.

Asking the Pope to borrow troops was also understandable.

After all, the Jesuits at that time were relatively... tolerant, and did not make so many "ritual disputes". They allowed both ancestor worship and emperor worship, and used the name of "God", not like it was later changed to "Dousi". Overall, the scholars and officials were still acceptable.

However, the title of this letter directly completely disintegrated the last legitimacy of the Southern Ming.

No matter what, you can't be someone's son-in-law. What's the difference between this and Shi Jingtang's child emperor?

Dashun got this letter and made it public, and then there was no more.

Macau was scared to death, thinking that Dashun would definitely take back Macau, and it was very likely to start a large-scale ban on religion.

But... sometimes fate is so unpredictable.

After the pacification of the country, the overall situation was settled. Those veterans who had experienced the establishment of Xi'an in Shaanxi, the defeat of Yipanshi, the despair of Tongguan, and the resurgence of Jingxiang, saw that the world was about to be settled. The tense nerves of decades were relaxed at once, and various diseases began to torture them.

In the war, those diseases were not felt under the excitement of the war.

Once the overall situation of the war was settled, many people were old and old, and the accumulated problems such as overeating and alcoholism in the army also broke out.

And later, when Dashun settled the southwest region, there were many poisonous insects and snake bites, and good medicine was urgently needed.

The people of Macau, or the missionaries, found the opportunity and thought it was a godsend, and offered various medicines to Dashun.

For example, some ministers were old, had high blood pressure, palpitations and headaches. The missionaries offered "quermes", which was transliterated as Geermos. Later generations said that this was the transliteration of the dye insect "cochineal" on the American cactus, which may actually refer to the rouge oak tree.

It should be a mixed drug of tannic acid, which can stabilize blood pressure and relieve palpitations when paired with wine.

For example, there was a veteran who was injured by a musket in the war. After the war, the lead bullets left in his body made him miserable.

The missionary presented the magic medicine "Diyejia".

This is a "magic medicine" that existed in the Tang Dynasty. The "Old Book of Tang" once recorded that in the second year of Qianfeng, Basilius sent an envoy to present Diyejia.

What is this thing? How to say it... After eating it, the pain temporarily disappeared, the spirit was excited, and the whole body was comfortable, as if the pain left by the lead bullets had disappeared.

Of course, if you can find something to turn it into a paste, boil it and inhale the steam of the paste, the effect will be better. "Unfortunately" at that time, the professional smoke paste gun had not been invented yet, so it could only be taken orally.

Of course, "Diyejia" is actually divided into two types.

One is for ministers who are suffering from illness.

The other is for officers and soldiers who fought in the southwest. The latter contains less poppy and is indeed effective for snake bites and insect bites. It is an antidote that has been circulated from ancient Greece to ancient Rome.

It is indeed useful. In the 17th century, a kind of people were very popular in Europe. They took poisonous snakes... of course, they might have exhausted the toxicity and set up stalls in public. They took snakes to bite themselves, and then took medicine: If the medicine doesn't work, I'll die!

Many copperplate engravings about the life of the market in the 17th and 18th centuries have similar scenes.

It has to be said that the ancient antidote is indeed effective. During the Dashun march into the southwest, they were fortunate to get this medicine and quinine, and many soldiers did not die.

In addition, there are magical medicines such as "Suhexiang" that can treat coughs and cause hallucinations; a magical medicine that can kill bacteria, has a detoxifying effect on poisonous snakes in the southwest, has a strange transliteration name, is anti-inflammatory and detoxifies cobra toxins, and its active ingredient is actually ammonium succinate.

And so many other strange medicines, all kinds of medicines that have been included in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and those that have not, all came in droves in that era of great communication between the East and the West.

Li Guo, who knew what to do and how to go in the future, had passed away. But the trend of "distinguishing between the barbarians and the Chinese" that was aroused at that time could not be reversed. The Catholic Church and the Macau authorities, almost with the attitude of trying their best, dispatched a large number of missionaries who knew medicine to Dashun.

Macau, or the Catholic Jesuit Society, survived the crisis after Li Guo's death almost by relying on these Western "magic medicines".

After surviving the crisis, the city finally gained a firm foothold with the "Sun Eclipse Gambling Head" incident, which was like a battle between the Chechi Kingdom and the State of Chechi.

This wall, which was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, survived like this.

To put it in a radical way, the wall means that Macau has become a country within a country; turning a blind eye can be considered to prevent bandits and pirates.

It depends only on the attitude of the court.

However, the ancients said that the grace of a gentleman will be cut off after five generations.

Now it has been too long since that era, and those veterans who have benefited from the "magic medicine" of Catholicism have all died.

The magic medicine soothed their physical pain and paralyzed their nerves, making them extremely tolerant of Catholicism. After all, they didn't know that cough medicine storax and painkiller diyega were actually that kind of thing, and they thought they were really good medicines, and it was indeed the Catholic side that contributed the medicine.

But now, everything seems to have changed. In recent years, Dashun's foreign policy has begun to become completely different.

The wall that witnessed the chaotic history of the late Ming Dynasty, or the wall that symbolized the status of a country within a country, finally collapsed.

Although Fazakley did not know all the details, he knew the general situation.

Now his ship has arrived at the port of Macau. Behind him is Hong Kong, which has built a military port and is full of forts; in front of him is Macau, where the city wall is being demolished and the people are carrying or carrying away the bricks of the city wall to build the pigpen.

This British man who thinks he knows the national conditions of China, thinking about the past and the changes of Dashun in recent years, can't help but feel a lot of emotion.

In just over a decade, this Dashun seems to have become a little strange to him, but the Chinese seem to have not changed.

At least, the Chinese uprising in Batavia is simply a matter of course in Fazakley's view. On the contrary, it has not happened until now, which makes him feel surprised.

He has studied some of China's conditions and knows that China has always had a tradition of rebellion.

Moreover, among the governors of the large colonies of European countries, the only one who died in the uprising was the Chinese. In 1593, Chinese sailors revolted, killed the governor of the Philippines, and fled with the galleon, which was also a sensational news.

The popularity of this incident in Europe was much higher than that in China at that time. As for the reason, it had nothing to do with the Chinese uprising spirit, but was a special feature of the time.

Thirty years ago, someone finally translated the Arabic "One Thousand and One Nights" into Western European languages. For the first time, the European people saw the bizarre and magical oriental world from the book. Don't look at the European merchant ships running around, but the majority of people have never been to sea.

And in the story of "One Thousand and One Nights", there are many myths such as teleportation and flying away. For Western Europeans, especially Christian countries, this kind of story is very fresh. Because... their stories do lack similar romantic imagination.

So a writer looked at the oriental myths and got inspiration, and took advantage of the tide of oriental fever to make up a story of "unsolved mystery".

It is said that in 1593, a soldier named Perez, who should have been in Manila, suddenly appeared in Mexico City, and on the day when Governor Dasmarias was killed by the Chinese, he made a prophecy in the city of Mexico, saying that the governor of the Philippines was killed by the Chinese.

After this version appeared, another version appeared. It is said that Satan's followers caused all this. The Indian witch in Mexico wanted to verify this, so she opened a portal and pulled the soldier named Perez to Mexico, and the soldier had no idea how he came to Mexico.

The focus of the common people in the market, of course, would not think about things like the resistance spirit of the Chinese. Instead, this mysterious urban legend spread quickly and has become a famous story. Witches, portals, Satan, teleportation, unsolved mysteries, the East, barbarism, mystery, the sea, pirates, Spanish galleons full of treasures... are the explosive elements of market rumors in this era. This story almost includes all of them, so it spread quickly.

Fazaklai had certainly heard of this legend. Through this urban legend, he learned that the Chinese had killed the Spanish governor, so he was interested in studying the Chinese-style rebellion culture.

Then, he had the mentality of taking the Chinese uprising in Batavia for granted. The European who translated "One Thousand and One Nights" himself did not expect to lead to such an urban legend, nor did he expect to bring such convenience to the Chinese insurgents in Java.

Fazaklai studied this matter and found that after the Chinese uprising, the first choice was definitely not to find the court, as if they naturally did not trust the court.

Not only did they not rely on it, but they also did not trust it, and even feared the court.

Either they became pirates, or they relied on their abilities to become generals in those small countries, or they became kings, or the small countries would replace them in the future.

In this case, it was completely reasonable for these Chinese to buy weapons from him, because they would not find the court they did not trust at all.