Chapter 810: The Son of Heaven Decrees to Canonize the Pope!
But anyone in their right mind could not guess how much chaos there would be in Europe at this time, let alone what was going on in the minds of those people in Europe.
The word cent has not yet been invented, and the word banana man has not yet appeared, and it is estimated that the opportunity to appear will be lost forever in the future, so now one of the most popular words in Europe is called egg man.
The yellow-skinned and white-hearted person is called the Banana Man, and the black-skinned and white-hearted person is called the Oreo, so the white-skinned and yellow-hearted person is called the Egg Man, and there seems to be nothing wrong with it?
Wu Sangui and Li Hongji also had a large number of double-flowered red sticks, including the head horse Zhang Zhiji, and even Emperor Chongzhen, the chief scoop commander, did not expect that England would be pacified so quickly.
Thanks to those leading the way in England.
With the help of the English Egg Man, even in winter, the advance of the Ming army did not stop, and it was not until the army crossed Edinburgh that the pace of the attack was suspended.
It's not that Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng don't want to continue to move forward, but they really can't move forward anymore.
In Yang Bailao's words, it was more than ten days of heavy snow closing the mountain......
A sudden heavy snowfall completely divided Wu Sangui and Li Hongji and other Ming horses into two with England horses, reproducing the situation of Charles I and Cromwell's division between the north and the south.
The difference is that no one can kill anyone between Charles I and Cromwell, and Da Ming stopped because the road was closed by heavy snow, resulting in a complete inability to advance, otherwise it would be impossible for the Ming army to stop without taking back the heads of Charles I and Cromwell.
In the face of the news from Wu Sangui and Li Hongji, Emperor Chongzhen did not have any good solution.
Saying that he is the son of God, this kind of thing is just bragging and bragging, if you really want Emperor Chongzhen to give Lei Gongdian Mother a decree to them, ordering them to stop the snow, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't have that ability.
It's just that if you stop, you stop, and it's just a few months, and it's gone in the blink of an eye, and there's nothing to worry about.
Emperor Chongzhen simply patted his ass and returned to Daming.
The affairs of the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire have been settled, and the third child was successfully sold by himself, so what would he do here in England again?
Waiting for Wu Sangui to get the heads of Cromwell and Charles I?
That meant that Emperor Chongzhen had to spend the entire winter in England - the broken thing of the Xiaoice River not only affected Daming, but the whole of Europe could not escape, and it would still be cold in winter.
Where to stay in Europe is comfortable in Daming, especially in the Forbidden City, no matter how cold the winter is, you can spend it comfortably, that is the enjoyment of the emperor.
As for the European side, let the barbarians mess with themselves, anyway, they have sown countless seeds of doing things here, just waiting for these seeds to bloom bright enough.
When Emperor Chongzhen ran away, Cui Lu had just arrived outside the city of Vatican.
Cui Lu didn't bring many soldiers and horses, only a guard of a thousand households plus a Jinyi guard of the general flag department, and a small flag of Dongchang Fanzi, and nothing else.
However, it was this team of about 1,000 people that made the Vatican, with a population of 10,000, begin to panic.
For thousands of years, the Vatican City was the center of gravity in Europe, representing the authority and glory of the Lord, where the most powerful secular monarchs had to bow their heads.
But again, the city has been ravaged countless times, not only by the Europeans themselves, but also by others, such as the Whip of God, such as the Mongol army.
Under the soldiers, no one cares about what is glorious or not, life is always the most important.
However, the living gypsies in the city can testify that no army has ever been as stressful as the thousand-odd people in front of them.
Silence, still silence, except for the sound of kicking and stomping when the war horses marched forward, even the neighing rarely happened, as if the more than 1,000 horses were puppets, and they didn't even have their own thoughts.
The soldiers standing on the top of the hill guarding the ancient Holy See spotted more than a thousand people early, and the roaring horn sounded, which soon spread throughout the city.
Unlike the trumpets that represented the war in the past, this trumpet did not seem to have any effect on the city at all, and even the gypsies, who are the most unlucky in every war, did not rush to wipe the ashes on their faces, but chose to wait and see like everyone else.
Thanks to the vigorous propaganda of the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy See, the image of the Ming Empire in Europe is really excellent.
The propaganda of the Holy Roman Empire clearly means to put gold on its own face - the Roman Empire in the West and the Ming Empire in the East are the twin stars of the world today, and as two superpowers, they should make due contributions to the stability and development of the whole world.
Therefore, the Europeans saw that the whole of Europe was in flames, and the arms made by the Ming Dynasty were harvesting the lives of Europeans every day.
Many Europeans can't help but maliciously speculate that maybe one day in the future, after all Europeans die under the fire of the Ming Dynasty, the world will really be peaceful and stable, right?
The propaganda of the Holy See is also putting gold on his face, or simply putting a thick layer of gilt on his whole person.
"The Holy Spear of Christ", "Son of God", "Guide of the Civilized World", "General Helmsman of the Progress of Mankind", and so on were added to the head of Emperor Chongzhen by the Holy See, although Emperor Chongzhen himself had always expressed his position on this.
Then this son of God not only sold a lot of arms, but also sold countless blessing ointments into Europe, so that Europeans could get close to God.
For these propaganda, Emperor Chongzhen and the Ming Empire naturally don't care - as long as the Ming is strong enough, they can publicize it as they want, and it will not have any impact on the Ming Dynasty anyway.
Because the people of the Ming Dynasty, as an heir to the hall that has been passed down for thousands of years, they are no longer familiar with these strategies that their ancestors have long played, so they naturally don't care.
The barbarians are willing to say that Emperor Chongzhen is the "son of God", anyway, we all know that His Majesty the Emperor is originally the Son of Heaven, and he is 100% the son of God.
Although Cui Lu has been riding forward on the horse with a blank face, her heart is really not very calm.
For a traditional scholar, what kind of emperor is a good emperor? In other words, for the people of the world, what kind of emperor is a good emperor?
It's very simple, the people don't add to the endowment and the country is sufficient, and the one who can do this is a good emperor!
If this condition can be met, then expand the territory for thousands of miles and raise the country's prestige overseas, then such an emperor will definitely be remembered by history, and then write a special book.
There is no doubt that Emperor Chongzhen met both of these conditions.
The changes in Daming are too big for those cubs born after Chongzhen twenty years later, or even after Chongzhen ten years later, anyway, Daming is good enough.
And for those who were already sensible during the Apocalypse and began to read, Da Ming seems to have completely changed and become completely incomprehensible.
From the Apocalypse to the early Chongzhen period, natural disasters have never stopped, and it is very troublesome for a student to go out to study.
The first is the issue of safety, and the third is that the carriage is also a rarity, and not everyone can sit in the carriage.
Now, many places can be directly passed by train, such as from Nanjing to Beijing, lying on the train to rest slowly, and you can reach Beijing from Nanjing in two or three days.
Who has ever heard of a train before? The straights are almost the best way anyone can imagine!
And now, the Ming Dynasty is carrying out countless projects every day, and no matter which project is pulled out, it is not necessarily smaller than the project of the Grand Canal, even if it is not much worse than the construction of the Great Wall.
However, how many generations has the Great Wall been built? Several countries spent countless manpower and material resources, and it took several generations to repair it before it was about to be completed, and it was still repaired from time to time until the early Ming Dynasty.
The construction of the Grand Canal almost directly sounded the death knell of the Great Sui Empire, and even His Majesty Yang Er, who His Majesty Li Er regarded as an idol, inevitably sang cool in the end.
And these projects of the Ming Dynasty, from river bridges to railways, from steel smelting to countless factories rising from the ground, should be a project that consumes countless manpower and material resources, and it should be an unbearable burden for an empire, but the Ming Dynasty is still as stable as an old dog.
was already collecting less and less endowment, but now no one collects it anymore - in the spring of the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen, although Emperor Chongzhen himself was not in the country, and Emperor Chongzhen's will was still transmitted back to the Ming Dynasty by sea, and then spread all over the world.
The collection of levies will be stopped, and all previous arrears will be waived.
What kind of impact will this will have on Daming, Cui Lu thinks that he is not smart enough to see it for the time being, but judging from the news he got in the countryside, almost all the people are thinking about Emperor Chongzhen's goodness.
As for the ongoing projects, the views of the common people made Cui Lu a little difficult to understand.
Everyone is looking forward to what new projects the emperor can toss, and it is best to recruit more people to work, and the last thing the farmer is afraid of is to work hard.
There are even some people who are constantly complaining, thinking that many projects have been done by the barbarians, and there is less work left for the people of the Ming Dynasty, and there must be those bastards above the court who are fooling the wise and great emperor.
Better pull those bastards out and shoot them!
Even the group of businessmen who should be most dissatisfied with Emperor Chongzhen, the style of painting has been a little wrong recently.
These guys who will wash and eat every soybean they pull out not only no longer scolded the imperial court for collecting business taxes, but began to consciously start paying taxes, and no longer thought about how to avoid taxes and evade taxes.
Cui Lu didn't know what happened to the ancient sages and kings, after all, no one had seen what was recorded in the history books, but the merits and popular hearts of Emperor Chongzhen were really in the eyes.
Emperor Chongzhen's exploits along the way, as well as the people's hearts in his hands, are so powerful that they are almost terrifying - this means that Emperor Chongzhen has enough capital to be capricious, no matter how angry and resentful things he does, as long as the people's hearts are not defeated for a day, Emperor Chongzhen will be invincible for a day.
As long as Emperor Chongzhen is willing, he can build several railways while digging the Grand Canal, and he can pull up millions of horses to scare people at the same time.
As long as there is silver in the treasury, all problems are not problems.
However, what made everyone in the court secretly rejoice was that Emperor Chongzhen was never so willful, and even if he was a scaremonger, he often only chose one target to die.
In this way, a lot of manpower and material resources will be saved, which can be used for more projects in the Ming Dynasty, and then the people's hearts will become more and more cohesive, forming a good cycle.
The bell woke up Cui Lu, who was already a little distracted.
On the top of the mountain high in the Vatican, a giant bell that had just been planted rang leisurely when Cui Lu and his party were about to arrive at the city gate, and the crisp and loud bell rang far away, as if the activation button was pressed, and the whole city became alive.
An old man who has traveled from south to north, and is considered knowledgeable among the civilians of the Vatican, when he speaks, the beard curled on his mouth is shaking: "Look at the soldiers of the Ming Empire, this is the elite!" ”
Everyone else around them nodded in agreement.
The most elite Swiss halberd soldiers of the Holy See have come out of the queue - but how to look at the spirit of the halberd soldiers in the past in front of a thousand households in the Ming Empire, there is a feeling of eclipse.
Because many people's legs are shaking silently, if it weren't for the sense of mission of loyalty to the Holy See that has been passed down for nearly a thousand years and has been deeply engraved in their minds, I am afraid that these halberd soldiers have dispersed in a hurry.
As for the Crusaders and the Three Knights, who were always boasted about before, now they can't even see a shadow.
After the Swiss halberds were arrayed, Innocent X and a group of cardinal archbishops also came out of the castle, and these great men who were high in the past appeared together, so that all the Europeans present could see enough.
Cui Lu sat on the horse and did not make a sound, but Innocent X bowed to Lu first, and said in a loud voice: "Minister, Innocent, I would like to greet the Holy Son of Heaven!" ”
Cui Lu nodded, and said loudly: "Holy bow!" Innocent excuses! ”
After answering the salute, Cui Lu got off the horse and walked to Innocent X - when Cui Lu was on the horse, he held the Son of Heaven Festival, representing Emperor Chongzhen, not to mention Innocent X, even if the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty came to Cui Lu, they had to honestly greet first.
It can be seen that Innocent X used his heart, and he really used his heart.
Although the official words of the Ming Dynasty are extremely awkward, they are also the official words of the Ming Dynasty, and the necessary incense cases and so on have been prepared, just waiting for the canonization ceremony to begin.
The Jinyi guard who followed Cui Lu immediately stepped out of the crowd and shouted loudly: "By the edict of the Son of Heaven, Innocent is canonized as the pope, and Innocent accepts the decree!" ”
PS: Today I sacrifice a book friend to write "Regret Ming", I just died two days ago, see how many days this product can last.
Re-PS: Thank you for the tips of the past I years! There is one more alliance leader, and there are dozens of lost ones, when will they return to the team?
In addition, PS: It's okay to come back and support the pirated versions? Even if it's just today and tomorrow!
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