Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

It is not possible to maintain a long-term relationship with these potato-eating serf girls...

But -

Nan Huairen longs for those big figures wearing religious robes!

Because the priest - even though he "donated" all his personal property.

However, they have the power to collect taxes, so what if they have no money?

The church pays for food and clothing!

The churches everywhere are their property!

The believers in the church are their source of wealth!

It's still an aboveboard, tax-free property.

Uh!

wrong!

It was a few years ago that the priest donated all his family property.

Today's priests only need to pay tithes.

After all, priests are also nobles...

The priests talk about "the gift of the Lord", hold whips in their hands, carry Bibles in their waists, and ask people to pay taxes...

If you refuse to surrender, the cross of the Lord will deal with you...

You infidel who choked to death for not believing in God, wait to be sent to the stake!

Amen to Allah!

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However, after reading the book, Nan Huairen is no longer one of those ignorant Europeans who don't know how to avoid people when going to the toilet, or don't know how to be ashamed when shitting on the street!

Nan Huairen already knew how carefree life was as a missionary!

In this world, anyone who persuades others to believe in a certain religion - he himself will never believe it!

The real religious fanatics are at the grassroots level.

Those who have some power in their hands and outside their hands only use it to make profits.

True religious believers - they are so busy trying to achieve enlightenment that they don't even have time!

What kind of close relationship do you have with them?

Can you let others waste your precious time to become an immortal to persuade you to believe in religion?

Such as Taoism.

True Taoist disciples, who cares whether you believe it or not!

People are busy comprehending the secrets of heaven and attaining enlightenment and immortality - you really want to believe it or not, you will be put down if you don't believe it!

He doesn't even have time to teach his own son, but he still tries to persuade you!

The person who spends time explaining Taoist culture to you is just--hey, come and approve a word, tell a fortune, and "voluntarily" offer some "incense"...

To put it bluntly, it’s not just for your money!

——This is the eternal truth!

The missionaries who "travel around the world for human technology" are so kind only in books...

Well~~~!

The one who easily sends people to the stake - kindness...

There is a black mole on the body, which is the witch who is going to be burned alive - kind!

The local aboriginals can do nothing directly - be kind!

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Nan Huairen yearned for church people and longed to become one of them, because after reading, he already understood the truth.

This is just on a personal level for him.

What’s deeper is——

In Europe at that time, people had to bear multiple taxes!

It’s not just the states and governments at all levels controlled by the Habsburg family...

In addition to the taxes collected by the government, the church also collects "tithes"...

——The whole of Europe is like this!

It was not until the French Bourgeois Revolution in 1789, and Emperor Louis XVI was guillotined ten years later, that the tithe was abolished.

In the UK, it was not until 1936 that the tithe was abolished!

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The so-called tithe means that you only need to pay one-tenth of the tax.

However, it is actually a matter of knocking on the bones and sucking out the marrow!

For example, when you sell grain, you have to collect the "big tithe"!

One-tenth of the proceeds goes directly into the pockets of the church.

And those who buy food also have to pay the "big tithe"!

Because this is the gift of "choking to death", you can buy food!

Amen!

They are all gifts from the Lord.

If you buy and sell vegetables and fruits, you will naturally have to pay tithe!

It’s called the “little tithe”!

Both parties must pay!

Otherwise - it is disrespect for "choking to death", and you will be burned at the stake.

If you are buying and selling livestock, there is still a "blood tithe" waiting for you!

Forget it, at the end of the year, your legal income that has already paid "tithe" will have to pay tithe again!

Because it is the gift of "choking to death", you can make money.

As for inheriting inheritance, it is also inseparable from "tithe"!

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Well, look at this group of people headed by Xu Guangqi. They try their best not to pay taxes, and they also swallow up the taxes paid by the people of Ming Dynasty.

He turned around and gave tithes to the "Holy Lord"!

I have to wonder - who is the famous mathematician "Mr. Ding" who taught Matteo Ricci astronomy and mathematics?

Is this person one of the masterminds behind this?

Oh, the explanation given is-Christopher-Clavius.

Well, this is our greatest scientist in the West. He not only invented the calendar, but also invented many astronomical instruments...

slip!

If the shame is not enough, patch it up!

Well, Christopher-Clavius, an advanced mathematical scientist based on astronomical observations, put Copernicus on trial...

very good!

This patch is made of transparent plastic!

Black hair - I can’t cover it!

The thief opened the door for the thief...

The thief is home!

No wonder I compiled a Peking Opera called "The Trial of Galileo in Three Halls"...

Feelings, this is the truth!

This picture comes from: The simulated college entrance examination paper for the 2020 senior high school students in the No. 4 Middle School in Weifang City, Shandong Province.

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The Nan Huairen family is just an ordinary small landowner, although they can transfer the exploitation of the church to the lower class people under their rule through grafting.

For example, for land leased to the common people, it is assumed that the rent is only "four pounds".

(European currency was very chaotic during this period. Take the later pound as an example. One pound is equal to 20 shillings.)

Since the church has to collect the tithe, the graft back and forth is 20%.

How to do it?

Just ask the people directly for "four pounds 16 shillings".

It has always been the case that whether taxes are raised or water is released, it is the people at the bottom who ultimately foot the bill.

But - if the exploitation becomes severe, the people will be lost.

Without people working the land, the land would not grow crops on its own.

Landlord families like Nan Huairen tried their best to minimize losses to their own interests only within the scope that the people could afford.

Just subsidize it yourself. Within a certain range, losing your own vested interests has become the choice of such small landowners.

For example, a stated profit of four pounds...

Reduce the rent a little, and it becomes 16 shillings on the three-star list...

Therefore, under the tithe system, even landlords would not have a hard time!

(In fact, this system was the real reason for the capitalist revolution in Europe.

What advanced productive forces, what sharp class antagonisms...

Just an appearance!

The essence is that the plunder is too powerful! )

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After a long period of exploitation, the landlord’s family has no food left!

This is just church exploitation.

There are also taxes from the imperial court!

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As the saying goes - only death and taxes are inevitable...

What's more, the Habsburg emperor was constantly fighting foreign wars.

For war, money is not enough!

Naturally, taxes must be collected from the king below under various names.

And the king will increase taxes on the feudal lords below, and the lords will naturally impose taxes on these landowners...

Ever since he was a child, Nan Huairen has been yearning for the priests wearing robes.

He imagined that one day he would be able to put on a priest's robe, hold a sword in one hand, wave a pastoral whip in the other, and carry a Bible in his waist...

Go show off your power and collect taxes!

As for owning his own church and collecting tithes from the believers - Nan Huairen couldn't even think of it!