In the pavilion of the Imperial Garden, Li Liangzuo was teasing his youngest son who had just been born a few months ago. This youngest son was born for Li Liangzuo by Wang Yunyan. He is the 18th prince of Li Liangzuo. He is currently the youngest. As for how many sons Li Liangzuo can have in the future, Li Liangzuo himself doesn't know.

"I am going to see Your Majesty." Yang Kai came to Li Liangzuo and bowed and said.

"See Your Majesty..."

"Your dear is not a gift..."

"Thank you, Your Majesty..."

Seeing that the two of them were a little restrained, Li Liangzuo said to them: "It's not that there is no need to be so restrained in the previous dynasty. I came to you two today to learn about the things about the West. I haven't had time to see the gifts you two have given to me yet! Xiao Fuzi, go quickly and move all those things here!"

Yang Kai brought a lot of things to Li Liangzuo from Europa, most of which were some Europa armor and weapons. Lang Weiping's gift to Li Liangzuo was a cross made of gold with gems. Lang Weiping sent the cross to Li Liangzuo and said, "Dear Emperor, this is a gift I have dedicated to you, I hope you can like it."

Li Liangzuo looked at the cross and said, "Thank you for your good intentions. I heard that this thing was used when you pray! But I don't seem to be able to use it in my life."

Lang Weiping didn't understand what Li Liangzuo had politely rejected him. Lang Weiping said to Li Liangzuo: "Yes, my Majesty, you are so smart. This cross is for prayer."

"Yang Aiqing, what's the name of this foreigner?"

"Report to your Majesty, his name is Langweiping."

"Longweiping, I ask you if you can paint."

"Of course I will."

"That happens that Xiao Fuzi went to the Royal Academy to send a painter to compare the painting techniques of the East and the West with Langweiping."

"Yes, the slave obeys the order."

Soon the painter from the Royal Academy came, and Li Liangzuo said to the two of them, "You two will paint my beloved concubine. Whoever paints the best will be rewarded."

"Thank you, Your Majesty..."

Lang Weiping later wrote in his memoirs, "Portraiting the emperor's concubine is the first task I accepted for the emperor. Later I learned that the emperor was actually testing whether I had real talents or not. Although the emperor was not interested in Catholicism, the emperor hoped that he could recruit more talents; the Emperor of Daxia had the same mind as the sea, and as long as he had talent, he could be recognized by the emperor..."

After the painting competition, Li Liangzuo evaluated the two paintings. The painters of the Royal Academy used Chinese classical painting methods. Although the paintings were not particularly real, they had more artistic conception. Lang Weiping painted an oil painting. Li Liangzuo said to Lang Weiping: "Lang Weiping, although you painted very real, you don't have more artistic conception. I hope you can improve your painting methods and combine these two paintings to make your paintings more realistic and artistic conception."

"Thank you for your teaching..."

"Lang Weiping obeyed the order, I allowed you to enter the Royal Academy and become the royal painter of my Daxia royal family."

"Thank you, long live, long live, long live..."

Li Liangzuo smiled and asked Yang Kai, "Yang Aiqing, have you drawn the map I asked you to draw?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the artistic conception has been drawn." Yang Kai said.

"Xiao Fuzi sent someone to move the map to the imperial study room. I want to take a good look." Li Liangzuo said excitedly.

In the imperial study room, the map drawn by Yang Kai was paved flat onto the ground. The whole map was actually a map of the Silk Road from Xingqing Prefecture to Rome. There were many countries marked along the way. Li Liangzuo took off his shoes and looked carefully and said, "Do you know Yang Aiqing? This time you have made great contributions to me; with this map, my army can go west..."

"Xiao Fuzi, send someone to draw a map of the Seljuk Empire and then send it to the Anxi Protectorate to hand it over to Li Yi. This kid must be waiting in a hurry."

"Yes, the servants received the order."

"Yang Kai! Who is the current Catholic Pope?"

Yang Kai looked at Li Liangzuo in shock because Yang Kai had never told Li Liangzuo about Europe and the Pope. Although he was shocked, Yang Kai still said to Li Liangzuo: "Report to Your Majesty, the current pope is Urban II. Why did Your Majesty suddenly ask about this person?"

Li Liangzuo did not answer Yang Kai's words, but walked to the window alone to look at the sky outside. Urban II Li Liangzuo had some understanding in his previous life. He was the activist of the First Crusade. It was from him that the Catholic power in Europe became increasingly large. Now Europe has entered the dark medieval era, and the rights of the pope have surpassed the power of the monarch. Although Lang Weiping did not say it, Li Liangzuo had roughly guessed the real reason why Urban II sent Lang Weiping.

Urban II sent Langweiping to preach was only the first step. Once the Eastern Catholic Church reached a certain level, I am afraid that Urban II would incite the people to revolt, and the ultimate goal was to control the entire East. Urban II was actually a very ambitious person, otherwise he would not have acted in the crusades. Seeing Li Liangzuo fall into his subjects, Xiao Fuzi waved to everyone, let everyone leave, then rolled up the map and slowly retreated.

Later, Lang Weiping wrote in his letter to Europe: "Before I understood the East, I had no idea that the emperors of the Great Xia Empire had such great power, and even their religion was controlled by the emperor; the people here believed in the emperor more than they believed in religion, and the emperors of the Great Xia Empire were the sons of God in the eyes of the Xia people;

After living here for a long time, I have learned a lot. It turns out that there is not only the Daxia Empire in the east, but also a huge empire called the Song Dynasty in the southeast of the Daxia Empire. There is also a Liao Kingdom, a country completely surrounded by the Daxia Empire. At present, these three countries are still in peace;

Twenty or thirty years before I came, the Great Xia Empire was actually a very weak country. They built up such a huge empire under the leadership of Emperor Xia. This was a powerful military empire, and the emperor was the supreme commander of all the troops, and no one dared to violate the emperor's orders;

In addition to bringing vast territory to his people, the Emperor of Daxia also made his people very prosperous, which is also an important reason why the people love the emperor. I also heard that the emperor was building a palace on the newly occupied territory in the south. Although I have not seen this palace being built yet, I am very fortunate to see the model of this new palace in the Royal Academy. It is really spectacular. Even if all the wealth in Europe is added up, I am afraid that such a luxurious palace would not be able to be built..."

After Langweiping's letter was sent to Europa, it immediately caused a great shock. For a moment, Europa caused an oriental craze. Both nobles and poor people were proud and proud of owning Eastern objects. Langweiping's letter was like a butterfly, which unknowingly changed the history of Europa.

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