Chapter 8: A Land Without Soil
"I'm Really Not a Big Hero" is recommended to 300 this week, or if the collection is full of 300, "Gluttony" will be even more, and everyone will support "Big Hero".
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"The countries with the largest territorial area in the world, everyone knows it, and the smallest country in the world has also heard of it, after all, it is easy to remember the most important word. ”
The smallest country in the world is, of course, the Vatican. The Vatican has cigarette butts, ten thousand times more than people in this country.
There are only about 300 people in this country, and the civilian rate is only 7 percent, because the vast majority of the citizens hold high-ranking positions or diplomats in the integration of church and state, and there are only a very small number of civilians.
Of course, that number is likely to double in the next few years.
One of the largest countries in the world, gradually shrinking into the smallest country in the world, you may think that it is a little miserable, but you have not seen the worst.
"The smallest country in the world is that, rush to answer. ”
A large number of people gave answers, and the Vatican, all in one color, floated in front of them.
Fang Hong shook his head: "This is a wrong answer. ”
"How is that possible, I learned it in history class. ”
"There are so few things that are wrong in history class. ”
There is also a section of Wu Chengen's mental journey to write about Journey to the West in history class, in fact, whether Journey to the West was written by Wu Chengen or not is two things.
Four famous works were finalized in the history class, and four authors were Wu Chengen, Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong, and Cao Xueqin.
In fact, Wu Chengen wrote only a vague piece of evidence about Journey to the West, and someone mentioned it in his biography, but only wrote one sentence, Wu Chengen wrote Journey to the West after retirement.
I didn't say it was Journey to the West, I didn't say it was Journey to the West, I didn't say that it was Journey to the West, I said Journey to the West.
What if Wu Chengen wrote Wu Chengen's Journey to the West? Just like Xu Xiake's Travels.
Of course, in the era of the Republic of China, many people have done a lot of research, and some people say yes and some say no. The Qing Dynasty believed that Journey to the West was written by Qiu Chuji.
People in the Republic of China think that Qiu Chuji wrote the journey to the west from Maoshan to Zhongnan Mountain, and modern people can also think that Wu Chengen wrote the journey to the west in Jinling to Anqing Mansion.
Similarly, the Water Margin is most likely written by Luo Guanzhong, not Shi Nai'an, in other words, two of the four famous novels Luo Guanzhong wrote.
History books don't write about this, because history needs the only truth, and even if it's not necessarily true, it must be the only one.
So, it is written in the history books that the smallest country is the Vatican.
In fact, the smallest country is the Knights Hospitaller Nation.
The Knights Hospitaller is the Knights of Shantang, which country was formerly known as the Knights of Malaysia.
Fang Hong pointed to the building in front of him: "There are a hundred people living in this building, and here it is, all of the other knight kingdoms." ”
Napoleon changed the whole world, including the destruction of the Knights.
In this confusion, the Knights Hospitaller, like the old nobles, went to Russia.
At that time, Russia became the leader of various countries, and for the first time became the leader of the European continent.
When the reversal was successful, Napoleon stepped down.
But the territory of the Knights Hospitaller is gone, and it is really gone.
Compared to the Holy See, they were not strong enough for Italy to be afraid of setting aside a cathedral for them to establish a state, so they really had no territory and became a government in exile, which was two hundred years.
The Sovereign Military Hospitallers of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta of St. John for short, the "Knights of Malta", are observers of the United Nations, have a "quasi-state" character, have no territory, are one of the oldest Catholic monastic orders, and are one of the most famous microstates in the world.
Also known as the Knights of Rhodes and the Knights of St. John, its "national form" is "located" at 68 Avenue Condogi in Rome, a building covering an area of 12,000 square meters - the Malta Palace, with only a few dozen residents of the Knights. The Knights of Malta, formerly known as the Knights Hospitaller, once owned territory but lost it to war. Now the Order of Malta is engaged in charitable activities, managing hospitals, caring for refugees and the disabled in the war.
The Order emerged during the Crusades of medieval Catholic Europe into the Middle East, and the First Crusade ended in 1096-1099 with the establishment of four Crusader states. Under the threat of Muslims, the Crusader states were in turmoil. As a result, the Pope organized several knightly orders of monks, which are the three famous orders in history, namely the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Templar and the Teutonic Knights.
"This building, known as the Palazzo Palazzo Mad, is where they are now. ”
As you can expect, the quarter of the picture is definitely not here.
"The Knights Hospitaller were called the Knights of the Horse Chamberlain at that time, and in order to survive, they elected Emperor Paul I of Russia as their great chief. It can be expected that, in view of the power of the Russian emperor to defeat Napoleon, Britain and France must recognize the other countries of Malaysia, but it is precisely because of this that the other countries of Malaysia have not been able to return to their islands. ”
The reason is self-evident, Interland has been using continental checks and balances to deal with European countries all year round, and there are three centers in total, allowing Germany and France to fight, West and Italy to be poor, and Russia not being able to go to sea.
Paul I became the chief of the Knights, if the Knights succeeded in returning to the island, wouldn't it mean that Russia had a place to go to sea?
Britain and France work together, and the rest of the horses will never want to go back.
Time has passed, two hundred and fifteen years have passed, and no matter how hard the other knights try, it is unlikely that they will go back.
"Why don't we identify them as a country?"
"Standing in line, standing in line is not good, it is equivalent to losing. "Although the other knights and the Vatican do not have a direct subordinate relationship, they are politically identical in some ways, and they are biased towards the Taiwan Strait.
In a way, we are not even birds in the Vatican, let alone small organizations of dozens of people.
Two thousand years ago, the Holy See angered us by posthumously proclaiming missionaries who had preached in our territory at the end of the Qing Dynasty as saints and sages and believing that they had spread the Gospel.
Those things don't do good things after they come, while stealing Dunhuang antiquities, while bringing foreign troops to come, and returning the sages?
Although the Pope later apologized several times, acknowledging that the move was inappropriate, and wishing to come to China, we refused.
Don't think that when the Italians are a green onion, you can really make a bowl of noodles.
In the past, when the Pope went to the country of sticks, he had to bypass the airspace of our country, and if he dared to pass, he would really be able to crash.
However, I heard that the situation is improving recently, and the Pope went to the country of sticks this time, passing through the airspace of our country. I heard that he wanted to meet with the Archbishop of China.
The Archbishop of China is considering whether or not to see him.
The archbishops of China are like the Russian archbishops of the past, and the Holy See are at odds with each other, and they do not recognize each other, and now the Holy See is more and more aware of its place in the world.
Not to mention the Pope, even if Christ himself is resurrected, it will not be his turn to intervene in the affairs of our country.
The two sides have their own goals, and our side wants to sabotage diplomacy in the Taiwan Strait one by one, and if the Pope himself allows the Chinese region to recognize the Holy See, it will be tantamount to spreading the gospel.
When China and the Vatican officially make contact, it is estimated that the Taiwan Strait will retreat to the next best thing and contact other knights.
"Brother Gun, go in and have a look?"
"What are you going to do in there? Just take everyone to see the smallest country in the world, and there's nothing to see in there, and incidentally, this building is rented by them. ”
Any other treasures of the horses are not in the hands of the current knights, and they are poor jingles, and they are not as rich as the water friends who reward them.