Zhu Zhanji wanted to use this method to slap them in the face, and even if there was no assassin today, he would find an opportunity to pick someone who offended him to do so.

Many people think that in the ignorant Middle Ages, the punishment in Europe was the crucifixion, but this is actually a misunderstanding.

Even when St. Peter was crucified, the cross was turned upside down, and he did not dare to be like God.

This kind of punishment would never have been chosen by any Christian country, but the Ottomans often liked to do it against Christians.

Except for them, only pirates do this, but secretly.

Burning at the stake was popular in the Middle Ages, but the stake was just a cylinder and did not have a horizontal bar on it.

The crucifixion of the Assassins was the greatest affront to God, let alone the Vatican.

After a while, Martin V, who looked like a good old man, went straight to Zhu Zhanji angrily and shouted: "His Royal Highness the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, please immediately ask your subordinates to stop this kind of punishment of criminals, otherwise, this will be regarded as a serious provocation to the Papal States and the countries of Europa, and the only thing that awaits us is war!" ”

Zhu Zhanji deliberately pretended not to understand, and after listening to the general matter and translating it again, he looked up at a statue of Jesus above the main hall, and asked "in wonder": "Isn't this the most common punishment you use in Europe?" When I got here, I saw sculptures like this everywhere, and I thought it was your custom. ”

Everyone was a little confused all of a sudden, and the original aggressive momentum weakened suddenly. A cardinal named Philip, who looked bitter and bitter, asked, "Your Excellency, you mean that this was done without intention?" ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded, pretending to be puzzled and asked, "Is there any problem?" Why are these people so excited? ”

A group of people in the Holy See looked at each other, they thought it was the most serious provocation, and they were prepared to go to war in addition to reproach.

But now it seems that it was His Highness who was just for fun, so he let his subordinate scholars punish the Assassin with their sculptures.

Now it looks like it was just a misunderstanding.

Martin V said anxiously: "Your Excellency, please order your subordinates to immediately stop this form of punishment, and any other way will do. Because of the misunderstanding, countless people have now fallen at the guns of your soldiers, and the tragedy cannot be allowed to continue. ”

Zhu Zhanji also knew that the play had been played enough, and he came to demonstrate and do business, but he didn't want to go thousands of miles to find a difficult enemy for himself.

His greeting gift was not to crucify people, but to show the firepower of the Ming army in this way and let them know the power of the Ming musket.

Only when everyone knows the power of the musket, and when the army goes back in the future, no one will want to take advantage of the soldiers who remain.

He nodded and glanced back at Li Liang. "You go and talk to Feng Xiaonian and put the person in prison for interrogation."

Li Liang looked weak, he took a group of chamberlains and guards to pass the order, and it seemed to be slowly swallowed in this crowded square, and a group of upper-level figures of the Holy See couldn't help but grit their teeth, eager to kick him over.

Every extra second of delay may be the disappearance of a human life!

However, Zhu Zhanji laughed easily at this time, and said in Latin noisily: "Now that the matter has been settled, don't let this insignificant matter delay our precious time." Please ......"

A group of people looked at Zhu Zhanji, who was fine, and their hearts were tumbling.

To paraphrase a popular phrase from later generations: I have a sentence that MMP doesn't know whether to say or not!

His soldiers were slaughtering the townspeople, and even described the massacre as trivial and trivial.

However, it is precisely because of Zhu Zhanji's attitude that a group of nobles and lords in the Papal States cannot figure out Zhu Zhanji's mentality at all, which will cause great obstacles for them to evaluate Zhu Zhanji from the heart.

The combat effectiveness and economic strength of the Ming army are easy to assess, but if they can't understand the mentality of Zhu Zhanji, the commander, it will be difficult for them to make an accurate judgment.

The crowd entered the main hall, and Zhu Zhanji was first taken to see the old St. Peter's Church, and then through a cloister to a golden hall.

Seeing this extremely luxurious hall, Zhu Zhanji's heart moved.

In today's Europe, aside from the Ottomans with the most power and the most gold and silver, there are several countries that are very worthy of attention.

The first was the wealthy Venice, which controlled the commerce of the Mediterranean and whose per capita wealth was much higher than that of other countries.

The second was the Holy Roman Empire, a country that, although very scattered, could not withstand their size. The western front of the present-day Holy Roman Empire encompassed France from the east to the Netherlands, and to Hungary and Romania in the east.

Genoa on the Italian peninsula to the south, Milan to the south, and the Baltic Sea to the north. It was a vast empire consisting of nearly two hundred principalities, nearly a thousand knightly domains.

Unfortunately, the country is only a country of honor, and the current emperor, Sigismund, does not even have control over Hungary and Croatia in his own country.

Although they have money, the largest gold and silver mines in Europe are within their borders, but commerce still depends on the Venetians. Doing business with them can't eat fat people in one bite, so you can only stream water for a long time.

Portugal, Castile is still poor haha, Aragon is reckless, France almost wiped out the country, Britain has robbed a lot of wealth, but the Hundred Years War also left them with empty pockets.

Then there was the Papal States, which were small but had ruled Europe for nearly a millennium, and had amassed a great deal of wealth since the Crusades and the collection of eleven taxes.

In terms of liquidity, they may not have as much as Venice, but in terms of overall wealth, I am afraid Venice is not as good as them.

If nothing else, just saying that they started building the new Vatican a few decades later, it cost at least a few hundred tons of gold and silver!

Now that Daming is here, their new city has not yet been built, and they must have money in their hands, Zhu Zhanji is of course moved.

So at this time, Zhu Zhanji's eyes looked at them as if he saw fat sheep.

Zhu Zhanji has dozens of guards and dozens of subordinates on his side, while the Holy See side is headed by the Pope, seven cardinals, dozens of archbishops, and dozens of representatives of big families, which are more than the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone came to this fan-shaped meeting hall, and after some arrangement, they divided into two groups and sat down in turn.

Zhu Zhanji and a group of high-ranking generals and archbishops were seated in the front row, so that they could get up and speak, while others who wanted to speak had to apply first.

Entering the Vatican, the interpreters brought by the Ming Dynasty are from Portugal and Aragon, and as for the Arabs, they are not allowed to enter the Vatican.

The Vatican has also arranged for a few interpreters, all of whom can speak Arabic, and today they are all sitting at the front, one by one fidgeting.

When all the people sat down, it caused another turmoil, because an archbishop, because he was anxious to urinate, but he was unwilling to leave, so he asked a servant to bring him a urinal, and took out the bird in front of Zhu Zhanji.

This can be described as immoral in the eyes of everyone in the Ming Dynasty, and a clear son's long sword was put on his neck with a sudden, making his frightened urinals fall to the ground and urinate himself.

Zhu Zhanji was prepared, and it was already convenient when he got out of the car, so he watched it as a joke at this time.

finally calmed down, and another guard came to report the results of the battle outside.

In less than a quarter of an hour of fighting, more than two hundred soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were wounded, most of them were stoned at the beginning, and two died.

But the Romans, who had only long swords, suffered many casualties, more than a thousand were killed and wounded, and relying on their backward means to be wounded, injuries meant waiting for death.

This massacre made the eyes of the people of the Holy See look at the Ming people unkindly, but they wisely did not choose to break out.

Zhu Zhanji had the intention to downplay their emotions and proposed to Martin V: "Your Excellency, it is already noon, why don't we wait until after lunch to come to the formal consultation." ”

Martin V looked surprised. "Didn't you already have breakfast? Still want to eat? ”

The Portuguese translator who was still a Ming recruit replied for Zhu Zhanji: "Although the Ming soldiers basically eat two meals a day, the generals have three meals a day. ”

Eating three meals on this day aroused their curiosity again, asking about the grain production of Daming and what they ate at each meal.

If you don't eat a meal, you won't starve to death, not to mention that Zhu Zhanji can't be hungry at all, as soon as he sat down, Liu Wan and the others put more than a dozen sums in the palace in front of Zhu Zhanji, and soaked a pot of fragrant Longjing.

Although there were no snacks in front of the others, they all made a cup of fragrant tea.

There could be no fire in the main hall, and in order to drink a cup of tea, they needed dozens of people to boil water from the station, and then they couldn't get out of the sight of the overseer and quickly transport it here, and this waste made a group of archbishops dumbfounded.

Zhu Zhanji is here to show off, and he wants to give these Europeans the idea that you are very backward and we are very advanced.

The consultation finally began in earnest, but although European etiquette in this era has its own set of rules, there is no set of standards for international rules of procedure.

Faced with a complete set of rules of procedure that Zhu Zhanji came up with, it took them an hour before they finally settled down and proceeded to discuss the matter in accordance with the set of rules of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, this is not the rules of procedure of the Ming Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty, everything is decided by the emperor, or who is in power.

This kind of rules of procedure of mutual consultation and mutual compromise are actually copied from the set of later generations.

Of course, he will not come up with Robert's rules of procedure, and Daming does not need to be too fair, and he must occupy the right to adjudicate at all times.

What Zhu Zhanji did was to demand that the framework and content of the deliberations be determined, and then they should be consulted in order, and no one could change the procedures at will.

Second, in the course of deliberations, any objection must be accepted with more approval than the previous opinion, and cannot be opposed for the sake of opposition.

Although there were a lot of negotiations at the beginning, the first day of the meeting did not last too long.

The two sides determined the scope and rules of the consultations, established a framework for the consultations, and then Zhu Zhanji, on behalf of Daming, expounded the purpose and significance of the European trip.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji will not say that he came to Europe to curb their development, but puts trade at the forefront.

All the goods he brought with him were what Europe needed, even desired.

They took great risks and developed seafaring, the purpose of which was gold, silver and spices.

Now, the Ming put the goods they needed directly in front of them, and they didn't need to risk any more to get "cheap" goods, which was much lower than the previous trade with the Ottomans.

Zhu Zhanji didn't even need to explicitly say that they were not allowed to go to sea, and when the cost of going to sea was greater than the benefits they could obtain, they naturally would not take risks.

At the very least, not for all.

Of course, because of the appearance of the Ming Dynasty, they will also be full of curiosity about the East, which may also become their motivation to the East.

But it will take a hundred years for them to build a ship that can sail in the Atlantic, and the Ming will definitely not help them develop technology. When they can go to sea, they only need to arrange a special group of navies and destroy their fleet.

Zhu Zhanji's occupation of Ceuta was, on the one hand, to occupy this sea artery, and on the other hand, to arrange for people to monitor the development of Europe.

Therefore, in addition to the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Europe, the second purpose revealed by Zhu Zhanji was to develop "friendly" relations with Europe.

Daming will set up embassies in European countries in the future, and also welcome European countries to set up embassies in Daming.

And this future time is also determined by Daming, at least not this time.

Zhu Zhanji's speech was high-sounding, and although all of the people present were old and cunning, no one could really understand Zhu Zhanji's deep purpose behind the topic.

Subsequently, on behalf of the people, King Martin V also welcomed Zhu Zhanji's arrival. And can't wait to say that the Papal States have a strong interest in the spices brought by the Ming Dynasty, and hope that when the transaction is made, the Papal States can give priority to the spices.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji would not directly promise them, but only smiled at this.

Although they did not meet their needs in terms of spices, Zhu Zhanji also gave his "sincerity" and was willing to give priority to providing them with a boatload of copper coins to alleviate their money shortage.

For hundreds of years, Europe lacked all kinds of precious metals, and with the development of trade in the Middle World, coupled with the deposits of the upper class, the numismatic shortage became more and more serious.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji, who knows history, will not let go of this opportunity, and when he came, he brought five boatloads of copper coins.

These copper coins were not copper, but the fifty copper coins he later struck, which is really a world of difference compared to the crude copper coins made in Europe today.

Daming also lacked copper before, but since the development of the Beimingshan copper mine, countless brass has flowed into Daming. Compared with previous years, the copper shortage in Daming has been alleviated.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji will not exchange these copper coins for any commodities with them, only for gold.

If all the gold and silver in Europe can be exchanged for the Ming Dynasty through trade, so that the Europeans only have copper coins, then it will be fun.

Today's money is not yet a credit currency, and it is unlikely that a large number of issues will cause a financial crisis. However, there are many copper mines in the world, and the Ming Dynasty will occupy these copper mines, which can plunge Europe into a currency crisis at any time.

Even if this is difficult to operate, Zhu Zhanji can scrape another layer of skin from the Europeans by controlling the exchange of silver and copper coins.

When the Ming soldiers came to Europe, they used the copper coins that were die-minted by the Ming Dynasty, which were favored by several women, who had more or less samples in their hands.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji say this, everyone was excited, and Martin V couldn't wait to ask: "I don't know what goods Your Excellency wants to exchange for copper coins?" ”

Zhu Zhanji said with certainty: "We can exchange wool, sisal, horses, and even slaves for other goods, but copper coins, as the currency of the Ming Dynasty, will only be exchanged for the corresponding gold and silver." ”

"So...... What is the standard? ”

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said, "These are not topics that we should discuss, and we can let the people below talk about them specifically." ”

The first day's conversation did not go into details, and after the agenda for the second day was determined, today's meeting ended, and Martin V also set up a feast to entertain Zhu Zhanji and his party.

However, because the Ming soldiers killed thousands of Roman citizens, they did not dare to besiege the Ming military camp, but vented their anger on the Vatican.

In St. Peter's Square, tens of thousands of citizens gathered, holding protest signs and shouting slogans to protest against the massacre of the Ming Dynasty.

This also cast a shadow on today's welcome dinner, and the banquet seemed extremely deserted. If it weren't for the fact that the families represented by these bigwigs all wanted to trade with Daming, I'm afraid they wouldn't even want to participate in tonight's banquet.

But now, in a profitable situation, they don't care about the dead at all, and they went to today's dinner party with a hard head.

Zhu Zhanji didn't care about them at all, this time he came to Rome, in addition to the 10,000 navy who needed to take care of the ships, there were more than 30,000 soldiers who landed with him.

Among them, there were 12,000 Yulinwei and 8,000 double-barreled muskets. The young army was nearly 20,000, 12,000 single-barreled muskets, and 300 artillery pieces.

In addition, the thousands of navies entering the Tvere River can also provide support, so Zhu Zhanji has no worries about his own losses.

If you really want to fight, the opponent's one or two thousand muskets with a range that is not as far as a longbow will not pose a threat at all.

Of course, if there is a street fight in the city, Daming will definitely lose a lot of people.

But Zhu Zhanji will not fight with them in the street at all, if there is really a fight, Zhu Zhanji will definitely burn Rome, anyway, he will not stay here, and the Ming soldiers will not stay here.

When night falls, the snow falls even heavier.

Zhu Zhanji walked out of the Vatican, his dragon chariot stopped at the foot of the steps of the square, and was guarded by thousands of heavily armed Ming soldiers.

The dragon chariot was extremely huge, although there were four lanterns hanging outside, but Zhu Zhanji entered the dragon chariot, and he couldn't see where he was from the outside.

Whether it was a longbow or a musket, Zhu Zhanji was not afraid.

Under the hateful gaze of the Romans, the dragon chariot walked slowly. Although they hated the Ming people, the massacre at noon also made them fearful.

No one dared to ram his dragon chariot, not even the army formation of the Ming soldiers, and watched Zhu Zhanji's dragon chariot leave the square and arrive at Castel Sant'Angelo.

Their hatred Zhu Zhanji is not afraid, and when all kinds of rich goods enter Rome, most people, except for the families of the deceased, will forget the tragedy that happened today.

History tells him that people are forgetful, not to mention that today's tragedy is just because of a "misunderstanding".

The open space around Castel Sant'Angelo has all been turned into a military camp of the Ming Dynasty, and there are pots and stoves set up everywhere.

When they entered the castle, they were greeted by the soldiers who had stayed outside. Zhu Zhanji looked at Feng Xiaonian, who had a smug face, and asked, "Can you ask about the origin of the assassin?" ”

Feng Xiaonian shook his head and said, "When he is put down from the cross, he is already dying, and now he just has one breath left." Neither can the punishment be moved. ”

He turned back to Jin Chun and said: "Today's occasion is not suitable to hold him accountable, and from tomorrow, put pressure on the Pope." ”

Jin Chun nodded yes, and he asked Feng Xiaonian again, "Which family belongs to the house where the assassins stayed today, and do they have anything to say?" ”

"It was Bishop Borgi's house, he was the general reception of His Highness to Rome, and it is certain that it was not the Borgi family, who either snuck in or bribed the servants. Because we don't know His Highness's intentions, we haven't looked down yet. ”

"No wonder Borji has been in a state of mind this afternoon, if he comes over tonight to make amends, he will let him go tomorrow, if he doesn't come to ......, he will ...... tomorrow"

Outside, there was the sound of a small yellow door. "Your Highness, the Pope and Bishop Borgi ask to see ......"

Zhu Zhanji laughed and waved his hand. "After a tiring day, let's disperse. As soon as we came back, they came over to see what they had to say. Summoning ......"

Martin V and Borgi came to the gate of Castel Sant'Angelo, and when they saw the rows of cauldrons, they couldn't help but admire: "I'm afraid that an earl doesn't have such a big iron cauldron, but the Ming people use it to cook for soldiers......"

Borgi said uneasily: "Your Majesty, no one thought that the assassin would hide in my house today. For the arrival of His Royal Highness, I have been busy for nearly half a month, and I have not taken care of my family, hoping that Your Majesty can mediate on my behalf. ”

Martin V said with a smile: "Don't worry, according to my observation, this imperial grandson is also a person who puts interests first, and will not make wrong choices because of personal joy and anger." Instead of worrying about him holding you accountable, think more about what to do with them this time! ”

"Your Majesty, you have to be careful of the Orsini family, they have already received the support of three banks, and this time they have made multiple arrangements specifically for your Colonna family."

Martin V sighed and smiled freely: "Our two families have been fighting for more than two hundred years, and will continue to fight, I think it is difficult to defeat them, but if they want to defeat me, it is impossible to ......"

At this time, a general trotted over and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty the Pope, Your Excellency the Archbishop, His Royal Highness the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is invited." But your retinue are not allowed to enter unless they have been inspected. ”

"Only the two of us will go in......," Martin V glanced at Borgy, who happened to look over as well, and both of them couldn't help but take a breath and suppress their emotions before stepping into the heavily guarded castle.