My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 634

c624 Grand Governor’s Precedent

The conflict between the Catholics and non-Christians in Nagasaki is already deep. Normally, as the missionaries continue to preach, the non-Christians will eventually convert, or the excluded non-Christians will After leaving Nagasaki, this conflict was gradually resolved.

But Toyotomi Hideyoshi came.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi surrounded Nagasaki. Although Nagasaki had a port near the sea, Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not cut off Nagasaki’s supplies.

However, the people could only retreat into the city, and the crowded city began to intensify conflicts.

Originally, the number of Catholics in the city was greater than that of non-Christians, but as people from the countryside retreated to the cities, the number of non-Christians began to exceed that of Catholics.

In order to defend Nagasaki, Omura Junchu introduced a series of city defense policies and increased taxes on non-religious residents.

In this case, the conflicts within Nagasaki City were completely ignited.

The trigger was a quarrel between a family of parishioners and non-Christians over a house. In order to compete for the land between the houses, the parishioners built shacks on the land between the two families and rented them to those who crowded into the city. the people inside.

Another family of non-religious citizens was very angry about the infringement of his family’s land, so he sued his neighbor to the government.

The case was sent back to the local church. After the pastor of the local church came to see it, he immediately awarded the land to the parishioners.

The pastor also praised the parishioners who had occupied the land and built shacks to help others, which was a commendable behavior.

With the support of this judgment, those parishioners began to frantically occupy the land of non-Christians.

The dispute over property was already a very serious conflict, and the way the parish priest handled it made it even more serious.

In this case, the impulsive eldest son of a non-religious family who had lost their land rushed into the church members’ home and beat up their entire family.

The parishioners of this family reported the perpetrator of the beating to the government. After seeing the case, the parish priest immediately sentenced the non-believer who beat the person to death.

This time, the fire of hatred was completely ignited. The son was sentenced to death, and their land was occupied by a neighbor. The family finally chose to burn all the neighbors to death.

And because Nagasaki is now very crowded, with a large number of illegally built shacks and houses connecting the houses together, the fire spread quickly and began to burn to the entire neighborhood.

What was ignited with this fire was the long-term conflict between the Catholics and ordinary people in Nagasaki Castle.

Discriminatory policies after conversion, unfair treatment by regional bishops and priests, financial burdens, and after seeing the fire, non-believers immediately rushed into the homes of parishioners and robbed them.

Immediately afterwards, these non-Christians rushed into the church and began to rob the treasures in the church. They were shocked to discover that the usually sanctimonious missionaries had actually built a secret room for obscene pleasure in the church!

The anger was ignited and the flames burned the entire Nagasaki. The Jesuits asked Omura Junchu for help, but Omura Junchu was too busy to take care of himself at this time.

The non-religious soldiers seized the gate and opened it.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still hesitant. He thought this was Omura Junchu’s trap.

But seeing the flames soaring into the sky and the news coming from Nagasaki Castle, Toyotomi Hideyoshi completely understood that this was not the opponent’s plan, but that Nagasaki Castle was really in chaos.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi decisively ordered the army to enter the city and quickly took control of the city gates and forts.

Omura Junchu also knew that the situation was over at this time. He found the Jesuit missionaries and asked them to lead him out of Nagasaki.

But what Omura Junchu didn’t expect was that these missionaries directly tied up Omura Junchu and dedicated him to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi entered the city, he immediately ordered the surrendered troops and his own troops to participate in fighting the fire. However, due to the large number of wooden houses in Nagasaki, the entire fire spread to half of the city, and a large number of citizens were displaced.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was busy directing fire extinguishing, suppressing fire-riding robberies in the city, and settling disputes in the city.

When he returned to his military camp tiredly, the Jesuit priests who had been waiting for many days were already waiting for him respectfully at the door.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not hide his disgust, but after all, the other party was the “hero” of the attack on Nagasaki, so Toyotomi Hideyoshi still let them enter the military camp.

Azig, the leader of the Jesuit monks, bowed respectfully to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and then said in fluent Japanese:

“Dear general, we are just missionaries from the West. We have no intention of getting involved in the internal disputes in your country.”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi immediately interrupted him and said:

“If you are just a businessman, you should do business honestly, instead of building churches in the city and spreading your faith at will!”

“I once served under the Grand Governor of the Central Plains. When the Grand Governor expelled the priests and destroyed the churches in Macau, I still didn’t understand it. Now I know how wise the Grand Governor is!”

When they heard that Toyotomi Hideyoshi had served under the Grand Governor of the Southeast, these priests immediately became frightened.

Azig quickly said: “We, the Society of Jesus, are just a legal religious organization. We also protect our own believers and have no purpose of interfering in politics.”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already figured out the contradictions in Nagasaki, and he said with disgust:

“You guys, a group of priests, have internal moral decay, and you are all preaching some deceptive doctrines. If you establish a church at the grassroots level and instigate the church members to follow you in corruption, it is no wonder that the Grand Governor wants to resolutely eliminate you.”

“Governor Oda advocates Buddhism and hates foreign monks like you.”

Azig showed a desperate expression, but heard Toyotomi Hideyoshi say:

“I decided to follow the southeast’s decree. If you Portuguese want to stay in the long term, you must obey these orders!”

After hearing that they could continue to stay in Portugal, many Jesuit monks raised their heads again.

“First of all, you foreigners can only move in the port area. If you want to enter the city of Nagasaki, you must wait for permission. Your shops and churches can also only be built in the port area. All churches in the city will be destroyed!”

“The criminal behavior of believers or non-believers can only be handed over to the government for trial. The church has no right to judge and punish anyone, and the criminal behavior of your missionaries must also be tried by the government.”

After saying this, several warriors stepped forward and escorted several filthy missionaries away. Azige and other missionaries turned pale.

“You Jesuits have no right to levy taxes! The tithes collected previously must be returned within half a year!”

Azig’s face turned pale, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn’t give him a chance to bargain.

The same thing happened in the ports of North Korea. With the template provided by Su Ze, these tactics can be said to be aimed at the fate of these Western missionaries.

After occupying Nagasaki, Toyotomi Hideyoshi reported victory to Oda Nobunaga while sending a fleet to contact Southeast Asia and North Korea to request trade!