Chapter 153 Culture Conflict
"What's wrong? Who made our young master angry? Why are you so angry?" Zhao Weiji hurriedly asked when he saw his son running to the deck.
"It's not that group of gentlemen. They have to say that there is only one god in the world, that is, their Allah. I told them that there is also the Jade Emperor and Sun Wukong in the East. They don't believe it, they have to say that what I'm talking about is
Pagan fallacies, and then we started arguing."
It turned out that the cause of this incident was that Zhao Teng accidentally asked the group of gentlemen when he asked questions: "Have you ever met Sun Wukong? I heard from my father that he is amazing."
Those scholars have never heard of Sun Wukong. Not to mention those Arab scholars, even the Song people of this era know Sun Wukong.
The reason why Zhao Teng knew about Sun Wukong was because Zhao Weiji used Journey to the West as a story on his pillow to tell them a few siblings.
However, because the character of Sun Wukong is so charming, it left a deep impression on Zhao Teng. In addition, there was a legend of the Monkey God in the Central Plains, so Zhao Teng believed that he really thought that he really had the god Sun Wukong.
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Since Zhao Teng believed that Sun Wukong existed, when scholars asked about Sun Wukong, he introduced Sun Wukong vividly to the scholars, hoping to get the recognition of others. Unexpectedly, when he just said that Sun Wukong had become a member of the heavenly court, he just said that Sun Wukong had become a
When he was a god, he was immediately interrupted by Arab scholars.
In the mythological system of the Central Plains or the mythological system of Journey to the West, there are many gods, and none of them are omnipotent. These gods all perform their own duties, thus forming a theocracy system.
But this is completely in conflict with the religion that scholars believe in. In their religion, there is only one God, that is, Allah.
Allah is an omnipotent existence, and no other person can compare to Him in his life. They only recognize the existence of the only God in their religion, let alone the gods in other religions, and there are so many gods.
Exist at the same time.
So, the scene that Zhao Teng mentioned before happened immediately.
After hearing all the ins and outs of this, Zhao Weiji smiled and comforted his son: "They don't know that Sun Wukong is because their god has never fought with Sun Wukong. In Sun Wukong's eyes, their god is too weak and not worthy of Sun Wukong's attack.
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Moreover, their God has never seen the world and does not know that there are other gods, so his people do not know that other gods exist.
So don't worry about these things, but don't discuss things about gods with those gentlemen in the future. It's getting late now, so you'd better go back to the cabin to rest early."
After listening to his father's words, Zhao Teng nodded and walked back to the cabin by himself.
After seeing his son return to the cabin, Zhao Weiji also fell into deep thought, because he saw something from this incident that might become a hidden danger that may cause trouble in the future.
This is cultural conflict, especially conflict of faith.
Conflicts of faith are often a very troublesome thing, especially when they are involved in a land where faith is already there.
Moreover, the belief system in China was a bit chaotic, including Buddhism, Taoism, ancestors, emperors, and even Confucianism, which was originally a school that evolved a bit like religion, as well as Islam that had begun to penetrate into the Central Plains.
However, since Islam mainly operates in the northwest and has not entered the Central Plains yet, there are basically no traces of Islam in Xinhua City, composed of immigrants in the Central Plains.
But now it’s different. Once this group of scholars enter Xinhua City, in addition to academic research, they must conduct missionary missions. And now there are signs of showing up.
Now on the boat, this group of scholars always kneel and pray in the direction of Mecca at a specific time. After their prayers, some of them often have to ask the crew to preach.
Although their sermons did not play any role in the crew, it does not mean that they would not succeed in preaching after they arrived in the city.
Once they have to build a mosque, it will be a little troublesome.
To be honest, Zhao Weiji doesn’t like Islam very much. They are a bit overbearing and are not conducive to his future governance of the city.
Therefore, he could not allow these scholars to continue preaching, or to promote Allah.
However, such things cannot be banned just by banning them. Moreover, forcibly banning them can easily offend these scholars, which made Zhao Weiji scratch his head a little.
Just as Zhao Weiji was scratching his head, a person walked out of the cabin. This person was one of the group of Arab scholars, and his name seemed to be Saudi Arabia.
This person is very strange. Although his name is Saudi, he does not look like other Arabs, but has a bit of European flavor.
Moreover, he is a student of Jabbar, so he can speak a pretty good Chinese language. During this period, Zhao Teng often communicates with him.
Seeing Saudi Arabia coming to the deck and being polite, Zhao Weiji greeted him: "Hello, Mr. Saudi."
"Hello, Your Honor, Your Excellency."
"The sea breeze is very strong now. I wonder if the sir is on the deck?"
"Go back to the prince, I'm here to find your young master, Mr. Zhao Teng. He just now had a little dispute with my colleagues and seemed to be a little wronged. He ran out alone, and I just came out to see his situation."
"Oh, Zhao Teng is fine about this matter. He has gone back to rest. He is worried about Mr. Lao."
"Where, where. There is something wrong with us in this matter. I apologize to the prince here."
After hearing Saudi Arabia's apology, Zhao Weiji nodded, meaning that he had accepted the apology. Then Zhao Weiji looked at the sea again, because he was still in pain at this time, so there was nothing to say with Saudi Arabia.
At this moment, Saudi Arabia suddenly spoke again: "Does the prince have something to do? Is it related to what happened to the young master just now? Are you worried about Allah's problem?"
Saudi Arabia's three consecutive questions suddenly made Zhao Weiji confused. It can be said that Saudi Arabia's three questions completely guessed Zhao Weiji's thoughts.
Not only that, the key is that Saudi Arabia has stated a taboo, that is, it is related to Allah.
After asking this question, Saudi Arabia looked at Zhao Weiji. When he saw a surprising reaction in Zhao Weiji's eyes, he knew that the answers to all his questions were yes.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I don't believe in Allah."
After the Saudis finished speaking, Zhao Weiji was even more surprised. Your name is Saudi Arabia, a typical Arab who doesn’t believe in Allah? You don’t believe in you and pray every day without interruption.
"Actually, my real name is not Saudi Arabia. My real name is Sokratis Papastasopoulos. I am a Greek, and my true belief is the Greek gods."
"Aren't you a big cannibal?"
"No, I took the name of Big Cannibal and pretended to believe in Allah because I needed to live and study in Baghdad, so I had to pretend to be Big Cannibal."
At this time, Zhao Weiji finally understood why this Saudi Arabia looked a bit like a European, he was European.
"Didn't you Greece have rich knowledge? Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all famous scholars in your country in ancient times. Why did you travel thousands of miles to Baghdad to study?"
Papastasopoulos never expected that Zhao Weiji would know them famous Greek scholars, so he had a little more admiration for Zhao Weiji at this moment.
"I didn't expect that the prince actually knew these three sages. He was really disrespectful. The prince didn't know that because the establishment and division of the Roman Empire, a lot of our Greek knowledge was scattered in the war, and many things could no longer be found in Greece.
But I was collected in Baghdad, so I had to go to Baghdad to study.”
"So that's it. Since you see that I'm having trouble with Allah, do you have any way to help me?"
"Does the prince not really want Allah to spread in your rule?"
"That's right, you live in Baghdad and pretend to believe in Allah. You should know some of the characteristics of Islam." Zhao Weiji did not continue his words because he knew that Papastasopoulos should be able to understand
What he means.
"Prince, I know what you mean, but what you want may not be able to achieve so easily unless..."
"Unless what?"
“Unless you can make them change their faith.”
"I'm not easy to let them change their faith? If this is possible, I won't have to worry about it."
"Actually, this matter is not very difficult. I felt that there were some great gods in the East in the mouth. As long as the prince could find a way to make these Eastern things appear and shock those people, even if they could not change their faith, they could not change their beliefs.
At least it can stop them from preaching.”
Zhao Weiji understood the meaning of Papastasopoulos's words as soon as he heard it. He is worthy of being a scholar who studies the Central Plains. Not only does he have knowledge, but he also knows the matter of pretending to be a god and a ghost in the Central Plains.
As he said, Zhao Weiji could find any god as a support, so that he could do some tricks that were not easy to see through, and even use the more advanced knowledge in his mind to create some seemingly supernatural phenomena to shock this.
The crowd may really be able to stop them from conducting missionary activities.
"Thank you sir."
"Your Majesty, you're welcome. This is just a little thought about the prince finding some of the books in the Alexander Library."
After thanking Papastasopoulos, Zhao Weiji returned to the cabin first. He had to use this time to return home to think carefully about how to jump into the great god to be foolproof and then win the game in one fell swoop. (To be continued.
Chapter completed!