"In 1453, it was an unforgettable year. Do you remember the fall of Constantinople and the shame of the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque?"

Li Xiaofeng did not directly express his intentions, but instead talked about history. After Constantinople was captured by Ottoman Turkey, the once Orthodox status seemed quite embarrassing in the Balkans. For example, the universal patriarch of Constantinople mentioned above. In the tradition of Orthodoxism, this pope, who is actually equivalent to the Catholic Church (Catholicism), is the supreme leader of the Orthodox religion.

But in fact? After the Turks converted Hagia Sophia into a mosque and drove away the universal pastor who originally regarded the church as its "home nest", the authority of the universal pastor in Constantinople continued to decline. Later, the supreme spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church had to be appointed by the Ottoman Turkish Sultan. It can be said that he was simply a religious joke.

Especially with the rise of the Tsarist Empire, when the Tsar introduced Orthodox religion as the state religion, the religious status of the Russian Patriarch in Moscow was greatly improved. The once-in-one clerk who should have surrendered to the universal pastor far surpassed the universal pastor who was nestled in the Basil of St. George.

Anyway, the opening of this game always means to expose the ugliness and slap the face. At least Benjamin I's face is not very good-looking. But that doesn't matter, because Li Xiaofeng did not mean to humiliate Benjamin I's e-time. On the contrary, he came here to unite these great elders of the Orthodox Church.

"I think the 490-year shame should be washed away. Today, a world war has swept across the entire Eurasian continent and will soon sweep the world. This will be an era of great change. All those who are determined to change the status quo should stand up and take responsibility! And your responsibilities will be particularly important!"

The boss of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the so-called Archbishop of Bucharest, the metropolis of Wengervarachia, and the patriarch of Romanians (the title is really long). He asked: "What do you mean is to let us cooperate with atheist pagans, right? Can I understand this way, you are planning to use the influence of the Orthodox Church to assist the Soviet government in fighting against Germany?"

This question reveals the voice of this patriarch. Yes, whether it is based on national feelings or religious beliefs, the great elders of this Orthodox Church do not like Nazi Germany and hope to get rid of the Nazi rule. However, they also do not like the Bolsheviks. And this dislike is probably even more profound than that of the Nazis. At least the Nazis are not atheists, and the Bolsheviks are really too evil.

"Use your power to fight Germany?" Li Xiaofeng sneered and asked back, "Do you think you can fight Germany? Your little bit of your poor religious influence is a joke to me. It is even more a joke to the Soviet Union. Without you, we have resisted Germany's lightning offensive and are gradually regaining the initiative of war. It is only a matter of time to defeat Germany and kill the evil Nazis. It is as fast as one or two years, and as slow as two or three years. Parts of the entire Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Western Europe and Southern Europe, and most of East Asia will completely overturn the old order under the guidance of the Scythe Hammer Banner!"

Li Xiaofeng glared at the Romanian patriarch with contempt and said disdainfully: "You are already in the past. If you don't seize the opportunity to change, I'm afraid the status of the Orthodox Church in this area is similar to the current Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union. It is restricted, marginalized and completely destroyed!"

The universal Patriarch of Constantinople turned pale and asked, "Are you threatening us?"

Li Xiaofeng stared at his eyes and said, "I have no interest in threatening you. Have you heard of lions threatening sheep? I am just explaining a fact to you. Either cooperate with me to become my friend, or you will stop the car without knowing how to do it. I can guarantee that I will crush you into powder!"

The universal Patriarch of Constantinople's face looked very bad. In fact, none of the Orthodox Patriarchs looked good at this time. Their previous guess was completely wrong. They thought the Bolsheviks would send a signal of goodwill, but who thought that the other party would send a naked threat, which made many people unable to bear it.

"I don't know the world is high!" The Archbishop of Prague couldn't help but sarcastically, "The Soviet Union is in danger now, you should defeat the Germans first and then swear nonsense!"

Li Xiaofeng narrowed his eyes and replied, "Isn't this the archbishop of the devastated slave living under the iron hoof of the Nazis? I heard that the Germans are very friendly to you Czechoslovaks and can live a happy life like a slave after the devastated country. It seems that you are very satisfied!"

The Archbishop of Prague was furious and waved his hand suddenly, "I will not have a quarrel with you. If you are to anger me and to incite all the people of God in Czechoslovakia, then I must admit that you have done it. Mr. Andre Petrovic, you will face the anger of the entire Czechoslovakia and the heavenly punishment of my Lord!"

"Heavenly Punishment?" Li Xiaofeng snapped his fingers, and a lightning flashed out of thin air in the hall, directly slashing over the head of the Archbishop of Prague. With a click, the poor worm was blown away by the electric shock.

Li Xiaofeng asked with a smile: "How does the punishment feel like?"

The Archbishop of Prague could not speak at all. He barely opened his mouth and only vomited a stream of black smoke. Then his neck tilted and he fainted.

"Don't worry, he is not dead!" Li Xiaofeng snorted contemptuously, "I just gave him a little lesson. Because I hate bragging and self-righteous guys the most. The situation is very simple now. If you don't cooperate with me, I promise that if you can't get out of this hall, you will be chopped into pieces by the Heavenly Punishment..."

A large group of archbishops and patriarchs looked pale because they were not mortals without knowledge. The ability shown by a certain immortal just now exceeded their imagination. For a moment, more than a dozen eyes stared at a certain immortal, as if they wanted to figure out how the certain immortal did all this.

"What's going on?" Benjamin I was questioning Moscow and all Russian patriarchs, "How could this pagan master such a divine power!"

The new Damushou felt bitter in his heart. Where could he answer this question? Before his master was killed by someone, he kept thinking about this question, and he couldn't figure out how someone's power came from. He was not as good as his master now, so he was even more confused.

Fortunately, Benjamin I didn’t really want to get the answer from the new Patriarch. In fact, he had a lot of wisdom. Soon he found the answer from the political changes in recent decades. He was also surprised back then that the predecessor of Tsarist Russia, the pillar of Tsarist Russia, was killed. With the behind-the-scenes strength of Britain, France, the United States, Italy and Japan, he could completely dismember and annex Russia! But what happened later surprised him. Under such a sinister situation, Tsarist Russia only lost Finland and half of Poland and passed easily. This is not scientific no matter how you look at it!

Now, Benjamin I understands why Tsarist Russia was able to pass the test safely back then, and a great paladin died, but there was another even more awesome existence. It was precisely because of the existence of the person in front of me that the integrity of Tsarist Russia's territory was ensured.

After sorting out his thoughts, Benjamin I thought a lot: we must never look at someone from a worldly perspective anymore. In the superhuman world, the strong are respected. And there is a strong man who is willing to stand up for the Orthodox Church. This is definitely not a bad thing. For thousands of years, the reason why the Orthodox Church can only survive in the gap between Catholic Church (Catholicism) and yslj is not because there is no strong backstage. Now, although this backstage is a bit fucked and does not take special care of the Orthodox Church, it is better to have it than not, right?

Benjamin I also thought that this time someone is willing to show their identity and gather them together is a signal in itself. What does someone need the Orthodox Church to do? And judging from the so-called cooperation, doing so should be beneficial to the Orthodox Church.

Thinking of this, Benjamin I immediately threw his previous unhappiness into Java and asked very seriously: "What do you want us to do?"

Li Xiaofeng likes people who go on the road. In his opinion, Benjamin I was more on the road. Anyway, he was more than the Russian Patriarch. He was stubborn and did not know how to adapt. If he was a little smarter, how could the Orthodox Church have been so miserable in the Soviet Union?

In the 1920s and 1930s, Li Xiaofeng suggested: "It is indeed difficult to say that the Orthodox Church wants to survive and develop in the Soviet Union, but it is easy to say that it is easy to say. If you can ensure that the Orthodox Church supports the rule of the Party, obeys the leadership of the Party, and follows the Party's banner, all problems will be easy to solve."

However, Li Xiaofeng's suggestion was rejected by this very stubborn patriarch. He overestimated the power of religion. In the face of the state machine of the Soviet Union, as long as the core leadership is not stupid, killing the Orthodox Church is like playing. Anyway, Li Xiaofeng does not appreciate this patriarch very much, so he simply ignores him. It is conceivable how miserable the new Patriarch is.

Now Benjamin I is obviously different. Only those who are highly oppressed and suppressed know how to turn over. The universal Patriarch, who has existed for five hundred years in the shadow of Turkey, understood too much about what political art is, and only then did he understand how to survive and develop. He is much better than the new Patriarch.

"It's not that I ordered you to do something, but that you must do it!" Li Xiaofeng smiled slightly and said, "I need you to start a holy war!"

Holy War?

The great elders of the Orthodox Church generally had no good impression of the word jihad, because in the past crusades, the ones who suffered the most were not the ysl pagans, but the people of the Eastern Roman Empire. The slogan of jihad simply destroyed the Byzantine rule in the fourth expedition, forcing the universal patriarch of Constantinople to withdraw from Constantinople for the first time and move a church to Nicaea.

Anyway, the Orthodox Church really has a painful memory of the so-called jihad. The Crusaders led by the Catholic Church burned, killed, robbed, and left, leaving only scorched earth-like homes and groups of crazy Muslims. In short, the Crusaders brought only painful memories to Constantinople and Asia Minor. The locals did not like these beasts dressed in religious cloaks.

Li Xiaofeng naturally knew the local people's views on jihad. Whether they were crusaders or Muslims, these guys who shouted jihad slogans were destructionists. Of course, in essence, what a certain immortal is doing now is also destructive work. However, he is more confusing.

"It is a jihad. But it is not a jihad belonging to the old crusaders. It is a jihad by local Orthodox believers against the extremist forces of YSL. In the past five hundred years, the living environment of Orthodox believers in the Balkans and Asia Minor has been deteriorating, and religious persecution from outside exists at all times. Only by destroying these imposed shackles can Orthodox believers live and work in peace and harmony and live in peace. And this is the responsibility of the church."

After a little pause, Li Xiaofeng continued: "But unfortunately, you made me unable to see such courage and ability. You are just monks and clocks for a day, and you always just pass by. You have not fully exerted the power of faith. And this is what I want to bring to you now!"

The elders of the Orthodox Church looked at each other. If it weren't for the fact that a certain immortal showed his skills and showed his super abilities just now, you would have really thought that someone was crazy.

However, Li Xiaofeng continued to implement his philosophy regardless of the scruples: "The jihad will arm all Orthodox believers in the Balkans and Asia Minor, and use force to expel the invasion and spread of the ysl extremist forces in order to win a living space. And I will provide you with these arms!"

Several elders looked at each other and it was impossible to say that they were not interested at all. Who would not want to expand their influence? Of course, it is also false to say that they are very interested. After all, a considerable number of archbishops in Central Europe do not pay attention to the issue of Asia Minor. Those who are really interested are the archbishops of Athens and all Greeks, the Patriarch of Constantinople, Alexander, Libya, the Federation of Five Cities, Ethiopia, Egypt and All Africa, and the Archbishop of Cyprus.

These four dioceses are closely covered with yslj. The struggle between the two sides exists at all times. If they can fight off Muslims through a jihad, it means that their power will be greatly expanded. Who doesn’t want their power and territory to be large?

Of course, they were not without doubt: "The current situation in the Soviet Union is not particularly good. Is it capable of supporting this jihad?"

Li Xiaofeng's answer was: "There is no problem for the Soviet Union to win this war, and the holy war does not mean that it starts at the beginning. If there is no preparation, it will be self-destruction!"

The patriarchs agreed with this, and then they asked, "So when will the holy war start? And how will the preparations be carried out?"

The answer given by Li Xiaofeng is: "When the Soviet Union fights back in full swing and when the Red Army's spearhead enters the hinterland of Germany, that is the day when the jihad begins. According to my estimate, it should be two years left. As for the preparations, this will be divided into two parts. The first part is your propaganda to believers. Jihad must accumulate people's hearts and make ordinary believers widely accept the jihad ideas, and you are responsible for this. And I will be responsible for the other part, that is material investment. I will provide you with weapons and necessary materials and funds to help you build a jihad army. We will even directly send military advisers to train your people."

Benjamin I thought about it and asked, "What about your request? You must have any requirements for providing these, right?"

"My request is simple," Li Xiaofeng smiled slightly, and then replied: "I hope you will target Turkey, severely attack the Wahhabi sect, expel the sect's forces from Asia Minor, and forever curb its spread in the region, and ensure the prosperity and stability of the Soviet Union in the Caucasus."

Benjamin I was about to interrupt and ask a question, but Li Xiaofeng continued: "After expelling the forces of the Wahhabi sect, I can promise that the Soviet government will support the establishment of a new religious country in Asia Minor, and you will gain the same international status as the Vatican."

This deeply touched Benjamin I. For him, it was a pie that fell from the sky. Since the Eastern Roman Empire died, its influence on Christians has been greatly reduced. So later generations only knew that there was a pope, but not a universal pastor. If Turkey could be transformed into the Orthodox Vatican, my god, Benjamin I would be so happy to think about it.

Soon, under the inspiration of Li Xiaofeng's silence, the two sides reached an agreement that the Soviet Union would secretly support the Orthodox jihadist movement, and the first batch would provide one million dollars in funding and thousands of long guns and short cannons to help the Orthodox church build a jihadist army. The Orthodox church will promise to respect the Soviet jurisdiction over the Orthodox church in the Soviet Union, as well as to ensure that the door to the Bosphorus will always be open to the Soviet Union after the establishment of a religious state.

Yakov was a little confused about this, and he asked, "I think these Orthodox pastors are mostly verbal and have done things that have not been done for thousands of years. Can you ensure that they will keep their promises after success?"

Li Xiaofeng smiled, and Yakov was a little puzzled. After a long time, a certain immortal replied: "Yakov, you really don't understand politics. For me, they only need to start the jihad reasonably and legally. All I need is a jihad. As for the result of this jihad, is it important?"

Yes, Li Xiaofeng does not attach much importance to the outcome of the jihad. He can even imagine that the jihad army created by these religious people is likely to be vulnerable. However, there is no problem, because he is just trying to start a hatred mode between the Orthodox Church and Türkiye, and he is just trying to mess up this area.

Because only when this place is in chaos, the Soviet Union has an excuse to intervene and can take it for granted. Moreover, maintaining a confrontation between the Orthodox and the Wahhabi sect for a long time can also divert the attention of those extremists and turn Türkiye into a meat grinder and guillotine for religious extremists. How great is this... (To be continued...)

ps: Bow to thank the bad kid Dragon God, jsky, drunk without maple, water... Gun and comrade Juventus!
Chapter completed!