Chapter 540 The Centennial Western Expedition and the Eight-Power Allied Forces! Ask for a monthly ticket)
"Your Majesty the Emperor, this time the Song Dynasty of Dongtu was really good. They started to build a gunship called a treasure ship five years ago since three years. This kind of gunship is said to be 3,000 materials, can carry dozens of cannons, and can carry 200 soldiers of the mainland. According to reliable information, the Song Dynasty of Dongtu is preparing to build 1,000 treasure ships, which will be completed in the 32nd year of Hongwu, and then they will go west to the sea to fight Rome! At that time, there will be 400,000 troops of water and land, and the western seas will come from the sea.
Moreover, the Song Dynasty of Dongtu is likely to join forces with the Seljuks! Because the main target of the Song Dynasty of Dongtu is Your Majesty the Heavenly King! And the mortal enemy of the Turks is also Your Majesty the Heavenly King!"
In the hall of the Holy Palace in Constantinople, in Chinese, he told John Vasilius I, who was wearing a cloak, a cap on his head and a straw rope on his waist, that was both reliable and terrible bad news. He was Li Renyou, the brother of Emperor Li Renxiao of Western Tang. He was the posthumous son of Li Ganshun and was not highly valued in his early years. However, after the deaths of Prime Minister Cao Mian and his uncle Regent Li Renli, he finally made a fortune and became an important official in the Western Tang Dynasty.
This time, he was sent to Constantinople to the loyal allies and most important trading partners of the Western Tang Dynasty under the will of Li Renxiao, and sent an early warning to the loyal allies and most important trading partners of the Western Tang Dynasty.
Although the Western Tang Dynasty was a vassal of the Song Dynasty in the East, their relationship with the Golden Dynasty of the East Roman, the mortal enemy of the Song Dynasty, was surprisingly friendly.
Because the Golden Dynasty of the Eastern Roman not only opened up the land Silk Road for the Western Tang Dynasty, allowing the silk, paper, gunpowder, porcelain, blankets and other handmade products produced by the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Western Tang Dynasty to be exported to Europe, earning a lot of real gold and silver. In addition, the Golden Dynasty of the Eastern Roman also joined forces with the Western Tang Dynasty to fight against the Saracens and Turks!
The reason why the Golden Dynasty of Eastern Romans could gain a foothold in the Western world of worshiping the Church of God and was also recognized by the two churches in the East and the West, in addition to their powerful "hot pot" and powerful chopping people, they also played the sign of the priest King John, because they have worked very hard for God over the past decade to fight the Sarasen and Turks for God, and look at the current power goals of Asia Minor and the Levant.
The Roman Sultan dynasty, which once occupied most of the Asia Minor Peninsula, has now been almost expelled from the peninsula. A "Hamburg Defense Line" from Trabzon in the north and the Mediterranean coast of Chiriqia in the south appeared in the eastern part of Asia Minor, completely defrauding the Seljuk Turks outside the peninsula.
In the Letfan region, the Golden Dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire also achieved victory that was enough to cheer for all believers of the Church of God!
In the past decade, the powerful Golden Dynasty not only defended the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Principality of Antioch, the Tripolibes and the Edsaber, protecting them from the occupation of the Tianfangists, but also defeated the coalition forces of the Sultan of Damascus and the Sultan of Zanji in the Julian calendar through 10 months of fierce fighting, and captured the richest and most prosperous city of Damascus, the entire Letfan region!
In addition to winning cheerful victories in Asia Minor and Leterfan, the Golden Dynasty's army also landed across the Mediterranean on merchant ships from the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa in 1155, near the Alexandria in Egypt. Then, relying on a powerful camel artillery team, defeated the army of the Fatima dynasty of the Tianfang Sect and captured Alexandria and the entire Sinai Peninsula.
After this series of victories, almost all the eastern territory of the Eastern Roman Empire was restored by the Golden Dynasty. If we consider the sovereignty of the Eighteen Rakshasa princes, the sovereignty of the Alan Kingdom, the sovereignty of the Georgian Kingdom and the ruling power of the Crim Peninsula, the territorial area of the Eastern Roman Empire has exceeded that of the Justinian era!
The reason why the Eastern Roman Empire could not resist the Seljuk Turks was not only because their camel artillery was particularly powerful and the hamburgers were also particularly strong, but because of their coordination with the Western Tang Dynasty.
In the past decade, whenever the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty wanted the Seljuk Turks to launch an attack, the Western Tang Dynasty would definitely march into the Hezhong Prefecture, the Fergana Basin and Khwarezm areas.
Therefore, the Seljuk Turks have been in a dilemma of fighting on both sides for a long time!
Not only did they retreat in Trivangelica and Asia Minor, but they were also beaten to the point of being beaten by the Western Tang in Central Asia. Now they have lost the Fergana Basin and the Khwarezm Oasis. The two major cities of Samarkand and Bukhara have also been broken by the Western Tang army.
However, the Western Tang did not turn the Samarkans and Bukhara into their own territory. Instead, after collecting a large amount of ransom, they withdrew from these two cities. This was because the Western Tang Dynasty's expansion pace was very stable and they would not easily swallow territories that could not be easily swallowed.
But the Seljuk Turks are still clearly placed there!
So in the eyes of the two brothers Li Renxiao and Li Renyou, defecting to the Eastern Turkish Song seemed to be the only way for the Seljuk Turks to survive. Otherwise, the Eastern Turkish Song Dynasty, the Eastern Roman Golden Dynasty and the Western Tang Dynasty, could they still survive?
Once the Seljuk Turks surrender to the Song Dynasty, the good days of the Golden Dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire will come to an end!
"Where are you?" John Vasilius I looked at Lee Hyo-woo, "Who do you support then?"
"Of course it's the Song Dynasty of the East!" Li Renyou smiled bitterly, "After all, we are Han people, and we are disciples of Confucianism, how can we not support the Song Dynasty of the East?"
Are you Han people?
John Vasilius I was speechless, and these Dangxiang men believed in their bragging!
Whoever tells them that they are not Han people, but Dangxiang people, will they come up with Li Tang's genealogy to prove it once they are anxious!
However, John Vasilius I had no shame to discuss the affairs of his ancestors with Li Renyou. After he became the Three Sages of the East, he still had the face to talk about others?
This matter is more absurd than Li Renyou's involvement in the Tang Dynasty genealogy. After all, Li Renyou's Li was given by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, maybe it really has something to do with it?
And John Vasilius I must have no relationship with the priest King John. Moreover, the Li Tang Dynasty existed at least, so the priest King John did not have that priest King John!
At this time, Li Renyou said again: "God of Heaven, if we didn't stand on the side of the Song Dynasty in Dongtu, no one below would agree!"
Of course, the people of the Western Tang Dynasty were the Tang people!
The origin of these people is very complicated. There are Han people, Dangxiang people, Uighurs, Tubo people, and Khotan people. However, after they arrived in the Western Regions, they called themselves Tang people and believed that they were Han people, just like the Song people.
Moreover, the Confucian clan opened schools and academies in the Western Tang Dynasty more than ten years ago, and educated the Tang people.
So although the Western Tang Dynasty is pro-Rome, the people of 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 attack the land of the Eastern Roman Empire."
They can't reach the Eastern Roman Empire either!
There was a Georgian Kingdom and some tribes on the Qinzha grassland between the Western Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire!
John Vasilius I nodded, then turned to his wife, who was also filial to his wife, Bertha, said: "After the funeral, I want to meet with Red Beard, Adrian IV (Popular), Louis VII (King of the Franks), Henry II (King of England), Geza II (King of Hungary), William of Sicily (William I), and the consuls of Venice and Genoa. A meeting can be held in Rome to discuss how to resist the huge threat from the East!"
"Okay, I will arrange it as soon as possible!" Bertha replied.
John Vasilius I smiled: "Bertha, tell Redbeard that I hope to bring together the power of all the monarchs who believe in God through this meeting! Only in this way can we fight against powerful enemies from the East."
This international conference, which later became known as the Council of the Eight Romans, has a very impressive position in the world history of the Church of God.
Because at this meeting, a pope and eight powerful European monarchs will reach a series of important resolutions and piece together an Eight-Nation Alliance against the Eastern Tu Song Dynasty!
And in the later 1260s to the 1380s, in more than 120 times, these eight countries and some other worshipping kingdoms would face waves of Eastern conquerors.
The main body of these waves of Eastern conquerors all had extremely powerful combat power, but they had powerful gunpowder weapons and iron weapons, which were almost invincible! So much so that they were called the second, third, fourth, fifth, six, seven, eight, and nine times by the later worshipers of God (Attila was called the first God Whip). In just 120 years, they were beaten eight times in total, and each time they were beaten for more than 10 years! Until the end, all of these eight countries were defeated by enemies from the East, but their spirit was still very commendable and would be remembered by the later worshipers of God.
However, beyond the expectations of the various countries of the worship church who were whipped by God eight times, Zhao Kai, who started this "100-year Western Expedition", did not care about Europe's real goal was the vast new continent, and clamoring for the Roman threat theory, just to open the magic box of great geographical discoveries.
He allowed Zhao Ping to launch the grassland tribes and the savage Jurchens to expedition the West, just to find some way out for this group of barbarians with great combat power and his own descendants.
Chapter completed!