Xinshun 1730

Chapter 550 Butterfly in Macau
Moreover, at that time, Li Guo engaged in Zheng Bokeduan's tricks and was not in a hurry to destroy Nanming, which led to a mistake in the judgment of Macau.

To use a passage left by the later generations of Dashun, Li Guo said to the officials at that time: If the hypocrisy is an ally, I will prepare an army of 3 to prevent him from hindering him; enough.

However, there is no way to see the way in Macau, and there has been a mistake in strategic judgment.

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

Boym still embarked on the trip, but even without the historical situation, the Pope, Venice, and Poland still did not send troops in the end, but only brought a letter from the Pope to Empress Nanming, expressing verbal support.

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

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

Don't read the content of the letter, just this beginning alone caused an uproar in the world.

When asked about Japan’s borrowing of troops, the scholar-bureaucrats at the time understood and supported it. They also felt that Japan belonged to Confucianism, and that it would be enough to give Japan a few islands at that time.

It is not incomprehensible to ask the Pope to borrow troops.

After all, the Jesuits at that time were still relatively... tolerant, and didn't make so many "ceremonial disputes". They allowed both ancestor worship and emperor worship, and used the name "God", which didn't seem to be changed to "Dou Si", on the whole, is still acceptable to scholar-bureaucrats.

However, the title of this letter completely disintegrated Nanming's last bit of legitimacy.

No matter what, you can't be someone's son-in-law. What's the difference between this and Shi Jingtang's son-in-law?
Dashun got the letter and made it public, and then there was nothing more.

The Macau side was terrified to death, thinking that Dashun would definitely take back Macau, and would probably start a large-scale ban on religion.

But... sometimes fate is so elusive.

To pacify the world, the overall situation has been decided. Those veterans who have experienced Xi'an's establishment in Shaanxi, experienced a crushing defeat, experienced Tongguan's despair, and finally Jingxiang's resurgence. All of a sudden, I relaxed, and various ailments began to torment me.

During the war, those pains could not be felt under the excitement of the war.

Once the general situation of the war is settled, many people are getting old and old, and the accumulated problems such as overeating and drinking in the army also burst out.

And in the southwest of Dashun, there are many poisonous insects and snakes, etc., and there is an urgent need for good medicine.

The Macau people, or the missionaries, saw the right opportunity and thought it was a godsend, so they offered various medicines to Dashun.

For example, a minister is old, his blood pressure is too high, and he suffers from heart palpitations and headaches.The missionaries presented "quermes", which is transliterated as Geermos. Later generations said that this is the transliteration of the dye insect "cochineal" on the American cactus, which may actually refer to the cochineal oak tree.

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

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

The missionaries offered the magic medicine "Dinoka".

This is a "magic medicine" that existed in the Tang Dynasty. It was recorded in the "Old Tang Book".

What is this thing, how do I put it... After eating it, the pain disappeared for a while, the spirit was excited, and the whole body was comfortable, as if the pain left by the lead bullet had disappeared.

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

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

One is for those ministers who are suffering from illness.

The other is for the generals who fought in the southwest. The latter one contains less poppy and is really effective against snake and insect bites. It is an antidote that has been passed down from ancient Greece to ancient Rome.

It's really easy to use. In the 17th century, a kind of person was very popular in Europe, holding a poisonous snake... Of course, it may be exhausted and set up a stall in public.Bite yourself with a snake, and then take medicine: the medicine won't work, I'll die!
Many copper engravings about street life in the 17th and 18th centuries have similar scenes.

It has to be said that the ancient antidote did have some effect. During Dashun's march to the southwest, thanks to this medicine and Jinji Nashuang, many soldiers survived.

In addition, such as the magical medicine "Suhexiang" that can treat coughs and can cause hallucinations; it can sterilize, has a detoxification effect on poisonous snakes in the southwest, has a strange transliteration name, and is used for anti-inflammatory and anti-cobra toxins. In fact, the active ingredient is ammonium succinate magic medicine.

And so on, and so on, strange medicines, those who have been in "Materia Medica", and those who have not, are flocking to them in the era of great exchanges between the East and the West.

At that time, Li Guo, who knew what to do and how to take the road ahead, has died.But the trend of "discrimination between barbarians and summers" that had been agitated at that time could no longer be reversed. The Catholic Church and the Macau authorities, almost holding the attitude of a dead horse as a living horse doctor, dispatched a large number of missionaries with medical skills to Dashun.

Macau, or the Catholic Jesuits, almost relied on these Western "miracle medicines" to survive the crisis after Li Guo's death.

After surviving the crisis, he finally gained a firm foothold in one fell swoop by relying on the "solar eclipse gambling head" incident in the Che Chiguo fight.

This city wall, which was like a mantis holding a cart, survived like this.

On the line, the city wall means that Macau has become a country within a country; if you turn a blind eye, you can think that it is to prevent bandits and pirates.

Only in the attitude of the court.

However, the ancients said that the gentleman's Ze will be cut off after the fifth generation.

It has been too long since that era, and those veterans who have been favored by the Catholic "miracle medicine" 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 the cough medicine Suhexiang and the painkiller Diyeka were actually that kind of thing, and they thought they were really good medicines, and it was indeed the Catholic Church who donated the medicines.

But now, everything seems to have changed.Over the past few years, Dashun's foreign policy has become completely different.

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

Although Fazaklei didn't know all the details, he still knew a little about 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 fortresses;

This British man who thinks he is familiar with China's national conditions can't help feeling a lot of emotion when he thinks about the past and the changes in Dashun in the past few years.

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

At least, the Chinese uprising in Batavia was taken for granted in Fazaklei's view.On the contrary, it didn't happen until now, which surprised him.

He has studied some situations in China and knows that China has always had a tradition of rebellion.

Moreover, basically among the governors of the large colonies of European countries, the only one who died in the uprising was the Chinese. In 1593, the Chinese sailors revolted and killed the governor of the Philippines, and ran away with the Galen ship, which was considered a sensational news.

The heat of this matter in Europe is far higher than in China at this time.As for the reason, it has nothing to do with the uprising spirit of the Chinese, but a peculiarity of the time.

Thirty years ago, someone finally translated the Arabic "Arabian Nights" into a Western European language, and the European people saw the strange and magical Eastern world from the book for the first time.Don't look at the European merchant ships running around, but the vast majority of people have never been to sea.

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

So a writer was inspired by oriental mythology, and took advantage of the tide of oriental fever to fabricate a story of "unsolved mysteries".

It is said that in 1593, a soldier named Perez, who was supposed to be in Manila, suddenly appeared in Mexico City, and on the day the governor of Das Marias was killed by the Chinese, he made a prophecy in the city of Mexico, saying The Philippine governor was killed by the Chinese.

After this version appeared, another version appeared.It is said that the believers of Satan caused all this. The Indian witch in Mexico wanted to verify this, so she opened a portal and dragged the soldier named Perez to Mexico, and the soldier did not know how he came here. Mexico.

The focus of the common people in the market, of course, is not to think about the spirit of resistance of the Chinese, but rather the rapid spread of this mysterious urban legend, which is already a famous story.Witches, portals, Satan, teleportation, unsolved mysteries, the Orient, barbarism, mystery, the sea, pirates, Spanish Galen ships full of treasures... are the explosive elements of market rumors in this era, and this story covers almost all of them. , since it spread quickly.

Fazakle had naturally heard of this legend. Through this urban legend, he knew that the Chinese had killed the Spanish governor, so he was interested in studying the rebellious culture with Chinese characteristics.

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

Fazaklei has studied this matter and found that after the Chinese uprising, the first choice is definitely not to go to the imperial court, as if they naturally cannot trust the imperial court.

Not only do not rely on, but also distrust, and even fear the court.

Either to be a pirate, or to rely on one's ability to become a general in those small countries, or to become a king on one's own, or the small countries will replace the doves and occupy the magpie's nest in the future.

That being the case, it is perfectly reasonable for these Chinese to find themselves to buy weapons. Anyway, they will not find the court they do not trust at all.

(End of this chapter)