Support, must support.

My father-in-law expressed great interest in the ongoing rebellion in Japan, and he further learned from Chen Zhongji about the details of the Tokugawa shogunate's suppression of the Catholic Church.

Tao Jie and Zhang An added from time to time that after summarizing this information and remembering his father-in-law's previous life, he roughly had a preliminary impression and understanding of the reverse curtain movement initiated by the Catholic Church.

To put it bluntly, this incident is a battle of interests between the shogunate and the Catholic Church. The final result of the battle is the Tokugawa Shogunate's closeness.

About thirty years ago, before Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, Juntaku Omura, the lord of the Homomaeko Konomura who was baptized, donated Nagasaki, which opened a port ten years ago and was developing into the largest trading port in western Japan, and the nearby Motegi to the Jesus Society, allowing the Jesus Society to have a base belonging to the church on Japanese territory.

This move allowed the missionaries of the Western Lord to preach on a large scale in Japan. They used coercive measures through the power of the village, first allowing the rulers of the country and counties to believe in religion, and then asked them to issue orders to force all residents to join the church and harass all over the country.

The expansion of the ambitions of Western religious forces made Toyotomi Hideyoshi alert, so he announced the "On-Church Rebellion", arrested missionaries and some believers, and took Nagasaki and Mogi back from the Jesus Church. However, Toyotomi's attack on the Jesuits was not thorough enough, and a considerable number of Western missionaries remained on their way and hid in various parts of Japan. The problem has remained until now, becoming a thorny problem in the Tokugawa Ieyasu Shogunate.

Due to deep understanding of the relationship between missionary and trade, the Tokugawa shogunate initially adopted a relatively tolerant attitude towards Western religions in order to maintain economic and trade relations with the West. However, the shogunate and Catholicism are real oppositions, which intensified the contradictions and conflicts between the two sides.

From the shogunate standpoint, Catholicism is fundamentally opposite to shogunate rule in two aspects.

First of all, Catholic doctrine insists that God is the supreme authority and that everyone is equal before God, which is completely different from the shogunate system where the general is the supreme ruler and strictly divides the status quo;

Secondly, Catholicism rejects paganism, denies the belief in gods and Buddhas, and believes that God is the lord of heaven, earth and all things, and should obey God, rather than parents, masters, and monarchs. This is even more intolerable to Japan, who claims to be the "kingdom of God" and Tokugawa rulers who are respected as the "incarnation of Amaterasu's great god".

The increasing size of Catholicism made Tokugawa Ieyasu uneasy. He thought of the peasant uprising that Buddhism had been leading for 11 years not long ago, and was deeply afraid that the Toyotomi family and anti-Tokugawa forces used the organizational power of Catholics to launch a riot, so he finally made up his mind to take strong measures to exterminate the Catholic Church.

Just in February this year, the Tokugawa shogunate officially issued a ban on religion, targeting Shizuoka, Edo, Kyoto and Nagasaki, which are directly under the shogunate, and ordered a nationwide ban on religion three months later.

The Shogunate's "Church of the Book of Teachings" states: "Japan is the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Buddha. Christians have spread evil laws, planned coupons to seize the country, violated laws and regulations, slandered gods and Buddhas, and worshiped sinners. They are more evil and should be strictly prohibited."

After the ban on the church, the shogunate army destroyed churches in Kyoto, Fushimi, Daichi and other places, arrested religious people, and forced the conversion. The princes of various places under the shogunate also began to suppress the priests and believers in a comprehensive manner. Akashi (near Kobe), the famous Toyotomi, the Catholic prince Takayama Yukini, refused to convert, and was sentenced to exile to Manila.

The Catholic side must not sit there and wait for death. The measure they took was to mobilize believers to participate in the Toyotomi Yi family and continuously launch an anti-curve movement.

As a Japanese folk hero who has always been an anti-shogawa hero, Yan Siqi received an invitation from the Japanese Jesuits at this time, and the two sides agreed to raise an army to overthrow the shogunate.

However, overthrowing the shogunate was the common goal and wish of both sides, but the goals were different. The main body of the Japanese Jesuits was the princes of Japan, and the greatest support was the Toyotomi Yi family, so they were determined to overthrow the Toyotomi Shogunate and re-establish the Toyotomi Shogunate. Han forces such as Yan Siqi were determined to take this great opportunity to establish the Han regime in Japan in one fell swoop, and then to the Ming court to gain support from the Ming Dynasty.

Establishing a Han regime in Japan sounds very ridiculous and unimaginable. But it is by no means that Yan Siqi and others are whimsical, nor is it that they are committed to it, but that many Japanese people also want to do this.

Because the mainstream thinking in Japan now believes that Japan is a pre-Qin survivor, a branch of the Chinese, the Japanese people and the Chinese Han people have the same ethnicity and language, and some people even believe that the He tribe is the Han people, so the establishment of the Han regime in Japan was not excluded by the academic and ideological community, and even supported it.

There are many "intellectuals" in Japan who have the greatest dream of their lives is to come to the Ming Dynasty to receive a study of Confucian classics. These people can be collectively called "smart elements".

There are also many Catholics among Yan Siqi's subordinates, including the Japanese real sea overlord Kabitan Li Dan, who also has a considerable number of Catholics. The reason for this is that they are in control of the maritime routes and inevitably have to deal with Western forces.

Chen Zhongji is a devout Catholic. Since Eunuch Wei launched an armed intervention in Japan's anti-curve movement, he would have to support Yan Siqi and Japan's anti-curve forces with spirit and action.

Otherwise, with their strength, they would not be able to defeat Tokugawa Ieyasu. Although the Imperial Army cannot fight against Japan at the moment, it is still possible to support Eunuch Wei on a small scale. At least, the anti-curve movement will be delayed longer so that the Imperial Army can officially intervene.

Support is divided into action and spirit.

First of all, spiritually, Eunuch Wei must cheer Yan Siqi up.

He told Chen Zhongji that the Ming Empire would not use the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo in the future, but hoped to establish good relations with the new Japanese regime and would carry out trade between the two countries with the new regime.

My father-in-law did not explicitly say what this new regime refers to.

This sounds like a foreshadowing of simulation, but it gives Chen Zhongji the greatest confidence.

"Our family will draw up a formal statement later. You can bring it back to Japan and spread it widely, so that everyone in the Japanese people knows our Ming Dynasty's attitude towards Japan."

If nothing unexpected happens, this voice will definitely be called "Declaration of Good Ministers" and included in historical documents.

A statement alone would definitely not work, so my father-in-law said that he would submit a report to the emperor and the court would formally send an imperial envoy to Japan to accept Yan Siqi's invitation.

If the memorial is not submitted, my father-in-law still needs to consider it, but the imperial envoy is ready. Are the two guys Hu Guang and Sha Qiandao receiving etiquette training?

When my father-in-law thought that these two guys had given up halfway through the first time in his life, he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry.
Chapter completed!