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They had heard of the Crusades, and just now the fat man also introduced some history about the Leper King and Saladin.

They had also heard of the Age of Discovery, and had played a single-player version of the game of the same name before.

But they never thought about the so-called connection between the two.

"There are many theories about the root cause of the outbreak of the Crusades. The fat man touched his chin and smiled, "One of my preferred theories is that because the Arabs seized the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea from the Byzantine Empire and controlled the end of the Silk Road. The various commodities supplied by the Silk Road, especially silk, porcelain, tea, medicinal herbs and other special products from China, were indispensable to Europeans. In order to reopen the Silk Road and break the Arab monopoly on trade, European rulers and merchants launched crusades in the name of the Holy See. ”

"Piano?" Liu Kewei's eyes widened.

Hearing him jump in Korean again, the fat man's face turned straight: "Talking about people!"

"Really? It's impossible!" Liu Kewei pouted and changed to Chinese, "In the end, it's just some goods, and as for making it so big, it also involves so many countries!"

The fat man sneered: "We are from the Celestial Empire, of course we think these things are not uncommon and ordinary, but the Europeans at that time were not like this." In the 18th century, a Swedish merchant ship called Gothenburg sailed back to Sweden from Canton with almost all of these things, but it sank not far from the port of Gothenburg. And guess what, some of the goods salvaged from the wreck were auctioned off to cover the entire cost of the voyage, and the merchant even made a small profit!"

Liu Kewei opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak.

"Well, even if the Crusaders were launched for the Silk Road, what does that have to do with the Great Voyage?" Cao asked.

The fat man spread his hands and said, "The crusaders have failed, and the Arabs are still entrenched on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. In order to find another route to the East, European navigators were forced to explore south and west, which led to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, the discovery of the Indian route, and the discovery of the New World...... This led to the great geographical discoveries, and then, the Age of Discovery. ”

"Aixi!" Liu Kewei exclaimed, "No, the Crusaders and the Great Voyage were created because of our China?

The fat man pointed at him with a smile: "Ah! You even came to Han Wenguo to scold him! I said that the car shouldn't teach you these things!"

Liu Kewei raised his chin and made a tsundere look: "If you want to take care of it, don't you also learn to 'ah' and 'ah'?"

"'Ya' is not only in Korean, I just use the Chinese 'ya' to express my amazement, you and I are like you?" said the fat man disdainfully.

Cao System interjected: "What Korean Chinese, are you learning Korean?"

The fat man pointed at Liu Kewei again: "It has nothing to do with me, it's the old Liu Chengtian who is pestering the car in the dormitory to learn Korean, and then I just heard a few words." ”

She Guankan said curiously: "Lao Liu, why are you learning Korean?"

The fat man just wanted to speak, but Liu Kewei reached over with both hands and covered his mouth: "Don't say it, otherwise you will break off your relationship!"

"Woo. The fat man made two indistinct sounds, he couldn't struggle, he had no choice but to nod to Liu Kewei, and the other party let go of him.

"Uncle Duan's story is really good, Lao Liu, don't interrupt," Cao said dissatisfiedly, "Uncle Duan has another one!"

"I'm not talking about a story!" the fat man protested dissatisfiedly, thought for a moment and started talking again, "Well, speaking of the impact of the Celestial Empire on Europe. I'll just say two more things. Do you know the Roman Empire?"

The three nodded.

The fat man touched his chin again and put on the style of a storyteller: "The Roman Empire later split into two empires, the East and the West, do you know why they each perished?"

"Could it be related to our Celestial Empire?" asked Liu Kewei with an incredible look on his face.

The fat man nodded affirmatively: "In the early days of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu often entered the Central Plains, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, drove the expedition in person, but was besieged by the Xiongnu Shan Yu in Baishan Mountain, and finally had to buy Shan Yu's wife to help speak, so he got out of the encirclement. Since then, the Han Dynasty has adopted the countermeasures of harmony and Huairou against the Xiongnu, and seized the opportunity to develop national strength, so there is the story of Zhaojun's exit.

After the rule of Wenjing, the national strength of the Han Dynasty was greatly enhanced, and when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, he successively sent Wei Qing, the younger brother of Empress Wei Zifu, and Huo Quai, the nephew of Wei Qing, to lead the army to defeat the Xiongnu. So the Xiongnu split into two parts, the north and the south. The Southern Xiongnu submitted to the Han Dynasty, and the Northern Xiongnu continued to confront the Han Dynasty. By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty united with the Southern Xiongnu to wage successive wars against the Northern Xiongnu and won victories, and finally forced the Northern Xiongnu to migrate westward.

Less than 300 years later, in the direction of the migration of the Northern Xiongnu, a people called 'Huns' rose up in West Asia, they first invaded the Ostrogothic kingdom, and then pursued to the Visigothic kingdom, the Ostrogoths perished, and the Visigoths were forced to migrate southwest, retreating into the territory of the Western Roman Empire, and then to Spain. The armies of the Western Roman Empire were defeated first by the Visigoths and then by the Huns several times, without being able to fight back. The Huns then swept across Europe, and both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires were forced to pay huge amounts of gold to the Huns.

In order to escape the invincible front of the Huns, the Germanic tribes had to migrate south and west. The Angrus and Saxons moved into the British Isles and became the majority ethnic groups of England, the Franks moved into Gaul and later developed the Frankish kingdom that included France, Germany and Italy, the Vandals moved into Spain and later became a large country in North Africa, and the Visigoths drove the Vandals from Spain to North Africa and occupied most of Spain and the south of Gaul.

The formation of these later European subject nation-states was inseparable from the invasion of the Huns, so the Huns were also called the 'whip of God'.

After the defeat of the Western Roman Empire by the Huns and Visigoths, the state declined and finally perished due to the rebellion of Germanic mercenaries......"

The fat man picked up the teacup again, and turned his head to look at the three listeners while drinking tea, all of them looking attentively listening.

"I didn't expect me to have a talent for storytelling. The fat man joked, "But you guys should give some reactions, and it's hard to talk about such a long paragraph, okay." ”

Only then did the three of them react and began to applaud.

"You have been talking for a long time, are the Huns and the Huns the same thing?" Liu Kewei was the first to ask a question.

The fat man shook his head: "The domestic historical circles basically believe that the two are one and the same, but the Western historical circles have not yet recognized it, after all, from the westward migration of the Huns to the rise of the Huns, there have been nearly three hundred years, and during this period, the Huns seem to have disappeared in history." But I think that a powerful nomad migrated somewhere, then disappeared, and three hundred years later another nomad with a similar style arose, and there was no connection between the two, would you believe it?"

"Yes, it makes sense. Liu Kewei nodded and said, "I don't believe it either." ”

Cao Zheng urged: "After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, there is still an Eastern Rome, Uncle Duan hurry up!"

The fat man drank two more sips of tea, then put down the teacup, cleared his throat and continued: "This one in Eastern Rome is simpler. It is said that when the Huns were at their most prosperous in Europe, a new nomadic people also appeared in the steppes of northern East Asia, called the Turks, which soon developed into a huge khanate from the Khingan Mountains in the east to Asia Minor in the west, and then divided into two parts: the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks.

During the Zhenguan period, Tang Taizong sent the general Li Jing - yes, Li Jing of the three heroes of the wind and dust, the prototype of the Tota Heavenly King - to lead the army to conquer the Eastern Turks, capture the Jieli Khan, and the Eastern Turks perished. More than 20 years later, Tang Gaozong sent Su Dingfang to lead an army to conquer the Western Turks, captured the Shabaluo Khan, and the Western Turks perished.

The Seljuk family of the Western Turks invaded Western Asia, founded the Seljuk Empire, and established the vassal Punzhirom Sultanate in Asia Minor.

Another Ottoman tribe of the Western Turks was initially attached to the Sultanate of Rûm. After the fall of the Seljuk Empire, the Ottomans gained independence from the Sultanate of Rum and also annexed most of the Sultanate of Rum. The Ottoman Empire then defeated the Byzantine army and the coalition sent by the Christian countries of Europe to support Byzantium, and finally captured Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul, and Byzantium, the only true thousand-year empire in human history, came to an end.

The Ottoman Empire lasted until the Great War of modern times, after which the empire was dismembered, the sultanate system was abolished, and the Republic of Turkey was formed, from which the word 'Turkic' was derived. ”

"In other words, the remnants of the Western Turks, who were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, ended the Eastern Roman Empire?" Liu Kewei muttered in disbelief.

"I didn't expect it," Cao Zheng also smacked his lips and said, "The two Roman Empires that are so famous have been wiped out by the defeated generals of our Celestial Empire......"

She Guanjie asked curiously, "Uncle Duan, you are studying history, right?"

The fat man shook his head and said, "I studied science, and my college major is computer management and application ......."

"How can you know so much history as a science student?" She was stunned.

"Watching movies, playing games, and then I went to look up some information on my own, and I knew a little bit. The fat man shrugged and said, "In our information age, it's not that difficult, right?"

Liu Kewei looked at Cao System and She Guan, and said with a strange expression: "I'm very curious, where did Xu Zhuce find such a copywriter...... Isn't that a bit against the sky?"

Cao Zheng and She Guankan nodded in agreement.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here.

At this moment, the door of the conference room opened, and Xu Zhuce and a group of people from the program department walked out one after another.

"The problem is solved, go back to rest if it's okay, don't be late tomorrow morning." Xu Zhuce said.