"Your Majesty, the Eastern Song Dynasty has really taken action this time. They started building a type of gunboat called the treasure ship from three to five years ago. This type of gunboat is said to have a weight of 3,000 pieces. It can carry dozens of guns, and can also carry 200 army soldiers. According to reliable information, the Eastern Song Dynasty is planning to build 1,000 treasure ships, which will be completed in the 32nd year of Hongwu, and then they will take the sea route to conquer Rome! At that time, there will be an army of 400,000 land and sea troops coming from the South and West Oceans...
And the Eastern Song Dynasty is very likely to join forces with the Seljuks! Because the main target of the Eastern Song Dynasty is Your Majesty the King of Heaven! And the mortal enemy of the Turks is also His Majesty the King of Heaven! "
In the austere hall of the Holy Palace of Constantinople, John Vasilius I, who was wearing linen clothes, a linen hat, and a straw rope around his waist, was telling the reliable and terrible bad news in Chinese. The man is Li Renyou, the king of Khwarezmo, the brother of Emperor Li Renxiao of the Western Tang Dynasty. He was Li Qianshun's posthumous son and was not taken seriously in his early years. However, after the deaths of Prime Minister Cao Mian and his uncle, Regent Li Renli, he finally managed to make his mark and became an important minister of the Western Tang Dynasty.
This time, he was sent to Constantinople on the orders of Emperor Li Renxiao of the Western Tang Dynasty to issue an early warning to the Western Tang's loyal allies and most important trading partners.
Although the Western Tang Dynasty was a vassal of the Eastern Song Dynasty, their relationship with the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty, the mortal enemy of the Eastern Song Dynasty, was surprisingly friendly.
Because the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty not only opened up the Silk Road on land for the Western Tang Dynasty, it also allowed the silk, paper, gunpowder, porcelain, blankets and other handicrafts produced by the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Western Tang Dynasty to be exported to Europe, earning a lot of real gold. silver. Moreover, the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty also joined forces with the Western Tang Dynasty to fight against the Saracens and Turks!
The reason why the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty was able to gain a foothold in the world of the God-worshiping Church in the West, and was recognized by both the Eastern and Western churches, was that in addition to their great "hot pot" skills, they were also great at killing people, and they also used the signature of John the Priest. In addition, it is because they have worked very hard to fight the Saracens and Turks for God for more than ten years... Just look at the current power map in Asia Minor and the Levant.
The Roman Sultanate dynasty, which once occupied most of the peninsula of Asia Minor, was now almost expelled from the peninsula. The "Hamburg Line", which started from Trabzon in the north and reached the Mediterranean coast of Cilicia in the south, suddenly appeared in the eastern part of Asia Minor, completely keeping the Seljuk Turks out of the peninsula.
In the Litfan region, the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty also achieved a victory that was enough to make all believers of the God-worshiping Church cheer!
In the past ten years, the powerful Golden Dynasty not only defended the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli and the County of Edessa from being occupied by the Celestial Cultists, but also in 1154 of the Julian calendar Between January and October of that year, after 10 months of fierce fighting, they defeated the coalition forces of the Sultan of Damascus and Sultan Zanji, and captured Damascus, the richest and most prosperous city in the entire Litfan region!
In addition to the gratifying victories in Asia Minor and Litfan, the army of the Golden Dynasty also crossed the Mediterranean on merchant ships of the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa in 1155, and landed near Alexandria, Egypt, and then relied on powerful camel cannon. The team defeated the army of the Fatimid dynasty of Tianfang religion and captured Alexandria and the entire Sinai Peninsula.
After this series of victories, the eastern territories of the Eastern Roman Empire were almost restored by the Golden Dynasty. If we also consider the suzerainty of the Eighteen Rakshasa princes, the suzerainty of the Alan Kingdom, the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Georgia and the rule of the Crimean Peninsula owned by the Golden Dynasty, the current territorial area of the Eastern Roman Empire has exceeded that of Justinian It’s time!
The reason why the Eastern Roman Empire was able to overwhelm the Seljuk Turks was that their camel artillery was particularly powerful and Hamburg was particularly strong. It also depended on the coordination with the Western Tang Dynasty.
In the past ten years, whenever the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty launched an attack on the Seljuq Turks, the Western Tang Dynasty would definitely also march towards the Hezhong Prefecture, the Fergana Basin, and the Khwarezm area.
Therefore, the Seljuk Turks have been in the dilemma of fighting on two fronts for a long time!
Not only were they retreating steadily in Trifan and Asia Minor, but they were also beaten hard by the Western Tang in Central Asia. Now we have lost the Fergana Basin and the Khwarezm Oasis. The two large cities of Samarkand and Bukhara were also defeated by the Western Tang army.
However, the Western Tang Dynasty did not turn Samarkand and Bukhara into its own territory. Instead, it withdrew from these two cities after collecting a large amount of ransom. This was because the Western Tang Dynasty was expanding at a steady pace and would not Easily swallows indigestible territory.
But the decline of the Seljuk Turks is still clearly there!
Therefore, in the eyes of the two brothers Li Renxiao and Li Renyou, joining the Eastern Song Dynasty seems to be the only way for the Seljuk Turks to survive...otherwise, the Eastern Song Dynasty, the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty and the Western Tang Dynasty will fight against the Seljuk Turks together. Pillars, can they still live?
Once the Seljuk Turks surrendered to the Song Dynasty, the good days of the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty would be over!
"What about you?" John Vasilius I looked at Li Xiaoyou, "Who will you support then?"
"Of course... the Eastern Land and the Great Song Dynasty!" Li Renyou said with a bitter smile, "After all, we are Han people, and we are also disciples of Confucianism... How can we not support the Eastern Land and the Great Song Dynasty?"
Are you Han Chinese?
John Vasilius I was speechless. These party members were bragging so hard that they even believed it!
If you want to tell them that they are not Han Chinese, but Dangxiang people, they will definitely be in a hurry with you, and they will produce some kind of Li Tang's family tree to prove it!
But John Vasilius I didn't have the shame to discuss his ancestors with Li Renyou... After he had become the Three Sages of the East, he still had the shame to talk about others?
This is even more ridiculous than Li Renyou's intrusion into the Tang Dynasty family tree. After all, Li Renyou's Li was given by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty... Maybe it has something to do with it?
And John Vasilius I and Priest John definitely had no penny connection. Moreover, the Li Tang Dynasty existed after all, and the Priest John did not exist at all!
Li Renyou said again at this time: "King of Heaven, if we don't stand with the Eastern Song Dynasty, the people below will not agree!"
Of course the people of the Western Tang Dynasty are Tang people!
The ancestry of this group of people is very complicated. There are Han people, Dangxiang people, Uighurs, Tubo people, and Khotan people... But after arriving in the Western Regions, they called themselves Tang people and considered themselves the same as Song people. , all Han Chinese.
Moreover, the Confucian imperial court began to open schools and academies in the Western Tang Dynasty more than ten years ago to educate the Tang people.
So although the Western Tang Dynasty is now pro-Roman, the people in the Western Tang Dynasty below are pro-Song...
Li Renyou finally assured John Vasilius I: "But the king can rest assured that we will not launch an attack on the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire."
They can't even reach the Eastern Roman Empire!
Between the Western Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire, there was the Kingdom of Georgia and some tribes on the Kipchak grassland!
John Vasilius I nodded, then turned to his wife, Bertha, who was also filial, and said: "Bertha... after the funeral is over, I want to talk to Redbeard and... Adrian IV (Pope of Rome), Louis VII (King of the Franks), Henry II (King of England), Geza II (King of Hungary), William of Sicily (William I), as well as Venice and The consuls of Genoa meet. A conference could be held in Rome to discuss how to defend against the great threat from the east!"
"Yes, I'll arrange it as soon as possible!" answered Bertha.
John Vasilius I smiled: "Bertha, tell Redbeard, I hope that through this meeting, the power of all monarchs who believe in God can be gathered together! Only in this way can we fight against the evil forces from the east." powerful enemy."
This international conference, later known as the Eight-Nation Council of Rome, played an important role in the history of the Church of God in the world.
Because at this meeting, a pope and eight powerful European monarchs will reach a series of important resolutions and piece together an eight-nation coalition to fight against the Eastern Song Dynasty!
From the 1260s to the 1380s, for more than 120 years, these eight countries and other God-worshipping countries would face waves of Eastern conquerors.
The main body of this wave of Eastern conquerors are steppe barbarians with extremely powerful fighting power, but they possess powerful gunpowder weapons and iron weapons, making them almost invincible! So much so that it was called the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth "scourge of God" by later God-worshippers (Attila's time was called the first whip of God). .....In just 120 years, he was beaten eight times in total, and each beating lasted for more than 10 years! In the end, all eight countries were defeated by enemies from the east, but their spirit was still very commendable and will be firmly remembered by subsequent God-worshippers.
However, contrary to the expectations of those countries in the God-worshiping church who had been beaten to pieces by eight whips of God, Zhao Kai, who started this "Hundred Years of Western Expedition", didn't care about Europe at all... His real goal was vastness The boundless new continent and the talk of the threat to Rome are just to open the magic box of geographical discovery.
And he allowed Zhao Ping to launch the grassland tribes and the savage Jurchens to march westward, just to find some way out for this group of barbarians with explosive fighting power and his own descendants.
As for the British Empire, the French Empire, etc... In the early 32nd year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, when he went to Jiaozhou Bay to inspect the "Thousand Treasure Ships" fleet, he could hardly remember them.
