In the spring of 1131 in the Western calendar, Dabriz Mansion in Xijing, Great Liao.

Wang Zonghan, the prince of the Golden Horde, Yelu Dashi, the emperor of the Great Liao Kingdom, and the Holy Maiden of the Bright Peak, finally met in this ancient city that blended Middle-earth and Persian architectural styles.

The significance of this meeting cannot be overemphasized for Western history.

It was because of this meeting that a new world was born on the steppes of Ceylon, Persia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Later, the world will expand to all parts of the Black African continent.

This world is not a world in the geographical sense, but a world in the religious sense, called the world of light or the world of light and reason!

"Your Royal Highness, the slave family is a Persian himself, and he knows a lot about Western religious matters. Western countries have always built their countries on religion and defended their country through education. Both Christianity and Celestial Religion are religions used to exclude dissidents and protect the country.

And your Golden Horde, like the Great Liao State, is a foreign country from more than 20,000 miles away. The number of people in the country is small, but only a few hundred thousand. If there is no strong religion to rely on, then in a few years your Golden Horde will be overwhelmed by countless Persians, Saracens, Turks, Slavs, and Romans who believe in Christianity and Celestiality, along with the nations of Daliao! ”

The one who is talking to Wang Zongbi is the Holy Maiden Mo Niang of the Bright Peak.

She is telling Wang Zongbi the fact that in the Western land, you can't just rely on the handle of a knife, but also have the blessing of religious power.

The reason is very simple, there are few people in the Western Liao and Golden Horde, the core nation is only a few hundred thousand, and the soldiers are only about 100,000. No matter how powerful you are, you can kill tens of millions of Turks, Saracens, Slavs, Romans, and all sorts of others?

It's impossible!

Even if the knives of the Western Liao and the Golden Horde were fast and ruthless enough, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou in the East would not agree, because Rome, Great Food, Egypt and other countries were all important markets for industry and commerce in the Song and Zhou dynasties.

Moreover, the goods of the Zhou and Song dynasties had to be exported to Western Europe through the territories of Rome, Dashi, Egypt, and Western Liao!

This key trade route is now controlled by four evenly matched states or powers. The four countries or powers can contain each other, and there will be no situation in which one of them will have a monopoly and completely control the territory that will later be known as the Middle East.

Therefore, the Zhou and Song dynasties would not sit idly by and watch the Western Liao and the Golden Horde go on a killing spree no matter what, and if these two countries did not agree, the Western Liao and the Golden Horde would not dare to open the knife.

Besides, the clans of Western Liao and the Golden Horde are all going to be masters!

Kill all the people below, how can the master be? Exploitation of whom to go? Do you want to work and get rich?

This is certainly impossible!

Since it is impossible to go on a killing spree, the only way to use religious power is to defend the regime and national power of Western Liao and the Golden Horde.

"If there is no powerful religion that can be used by the Great Liao and the Golden Horde, it will not be long before both nations will be surrounded by Christians and Celestials. Some of them will be affected, others will be dangerous, and some will be lonely. ”

"It won't be long, maybe a generation or two." The nations of the Great Liao and the Golden Horde will be divided over whether or not they convert to Christianity and the Heavenly Horde. Christianity and the Celestial Religion will also participate in the struggle within the nation. Their strength will grow stronger, and they will only suffer temporary defeats, not real fiascos, and the final victory will definitely be theirs! ”

Wang Zongbi didn't say a word, just listened quietly.

He is a philosopher, and he has personally experienced the process of the spread and development of Tianli Sect among the Jurchens, so of course he can understand what Mo Niangzi said.

In addition, he also understood what the doctrine of Christianity was. On his way to Tabriz, he had been looking through the Bible translated by Constantian Reading. New testament. Now we know the ways in which Christianity deceives people.

As for the Quran of the Tianfang Sect, when Wang Zongbi was preparing for the 24,000-mile expedition, he obtained the Chinese translation from the Great Zhou Republican Army, which was translated by the Tianli Sect Doctor Group, which not only has a very good translation, but also has a large number of annotations and historical materials.

It can make Zong Bi understand the truth passed down by the prophet very well

Of course the truth is good, but that is someone else's truth!

If the Golden Horde is to gain a foothold in the steppes of Eastern Europe and the Kipchak steppe, it must have its own reason.

Oh, they happen to have one, and that is the Tenrikyo religion.

However, after learning about Christianity and Tianfang Religion, Wang Zongbi also discovered that the Tianli Sect of the Doctor Group had the defects of being too loose and free.

The Tenrikyo religion of the Doctor's Regiment is more like a school than a religion with strong cohesion and combat effectiveness.

Because it places more emphasis on exploring the principles of heaven, it takes a more tolerant stance towards all kinds of human desires.

In contrast, the Tianli Sect of the Xiliang Sect was much more extreme, and Xiliang was already in a rather difficult environment, and without a strong religion, there would be no sails, and the strength of the whole country would be gathered.

However, the Jurchens have always accepted the Tianli Sect of the Doctoral Group, and now they are likely to suffer if they go to the West.

Therefore, Wang Zongbi was tempted by Mo Niangzi's proposal.

Mo Niangzi suggested the formation of a tripartite alliance with the participation of the "Bright Heavenly Principles", the Western Liao Empire, and the Golden Horde: Bright Heavenly Principles: Bright Heavens to educate the people of the Western Liao and Golden Horde, so as to establish a bright world that could compete with the Christian world and the Celestial Religious world.

Of course, the policy of religious freedom must be maintained! All religions, including Tianfang Religion and Christianity, can spread freely and peacefully in Western Liao and the Golden Horde.

However, freedom of religion does not mean that there is no control at all, and it does not mean that the state religion is not promoted.

For example, there is also a policy of religious freedom in the current Great Food Country, and there are many synagogues and Christian churches in Baghdad, but Tianfangjiao has always been the state religion of Great Food Food.

In Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in later generations, for a long time, Anglican Church was also insisted on as the Anglican Church.

As for the gradual withdrawal of politics from religious activities, the equality and even comity of the Anglican Church and the Celestial Church were unthinkable for most of the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries!

And now it's only the 12th century

"But the light is on the island of Ceylon," Wang Zongbi did not immediately agree to Mo Li's request, but asked a question, "Is it too far from the Great Liao and the Golden Horde?" ”

Yelu Dashi took over the topic and said with a smile: "Wushu, regarding the location of the Holy See, I and Mo Li have already discussed. For the time being, it will be placed on the island of Ceylon, and at the same time a new Roof of Light can be built in Baku on the shores of the Caspian Sea. ”

Baku has been part of the Persian civilization since the 6th century AD and is now part of the Great Stone Empire, along with the whole of Azerbaijan.

"Baku is the territory of Da Liao!" Wang Zongbi said, "I'm afraid it's inappropriate to be the Holy See, right? It is better to find a valley in the mountains of the Caucasus and establish a papacy. ”

Oishi smiled, "I intend to give Baku and the entire Apsheron Peninsula to the Holy See. In the future, the warriors of the Great Liao and the Golden Horde jointly defended the safety of the Holy See. ”

Wang Zongbi still refused to nod.

Dashi and Mo Li glanced at each other, and Mo Li said, "Baku is located to the east of the Caucasus Mountains, and if the Great Liao and the Golden Horde are bounded by the Caucasus Mountains, Baku will just jump between the two countries. ”

"Alright then!" Wang Zongbi laughed at this time, "If you can take the Caucasus Mountain as the boundary, it is not impossible to place the Holy See in Baku." However, whether our country converts to the principles of light or not still needs to be discussed with the lord of Meng'an. The Holy Maiden might as well go down to the Golden Horde. ”

"I have several galleys in Astara, and the prince can take them with the saint on the Volga River in the Caspian Sea to the Golden Horde," said Oshi. ”

The oblique city of the Golden Horde of the Ink Lady was very successful. Although the Golden Horde and the Great Liao are enemies in the east, when they reach the west, they each have rich territories and common opponents, so of course they have to hold a group ticket.

And the emergence of the Bright Heavenly Principle just made these two aspects find common ground, and they all believe in the Heavenly Principle!

The alliance between the two countries and their conversion to Bright Heaven, forever changed the shape of the Western world.

A Bright Heavenly Doctrine that is enough to compete with Christianity and the Heavenly Sect has been born!

"Bright Heaven Doctrine, hehe, I didn't expect Manichaeism to have a time when salted fish turned over!"

"My lord, our embassy in Ceylon Island has also received news that the Bright Heaven Religion is planning an exploration of the Black Continent≥ saying that it also wants to go around the Black Continent to the Atlantic Ocean."

"Hmm, what are we going to do?"

In the martial arts mansion in Tianjin, Wu Haogu asked his son Wu Yijiu, "Why don't you send a few ships to search the Black Continent?" ”

Wu Yi Jiuyu, "The ruling government doesn't have this plan, how can it cost millions to search the Black Continent once, right?" With this money, it is better to explore the New World again, this time you can start from Liangshan Town, and travel east along the Guifang Islands east of Yinzhou to see if you can find a place to settle in the north of the west coast of the American continent. ”

Now Wu Yijiu already knows that the Kamchatka Peninsula (Yinzhou) is not part of the New World.

Because the colonial pioneers in Liangshan Town established contact with the wild Jurchens on the peninsula, they learned from them that Yinzhou was originally a peninsula, connected to the mainland in the far north of the Zhou Kingdom, and naturally it was not part of the New World.

At the same time, the Discovery, which was on a search mission east of the Yinzhou Peninsula, found the coast of another unknown continent.

This continent, of course, is the real American continent.

However, most of the coastal areas in the northeast of the American continent are relatively cold and not suitable for human habitation, and if you want to open up a colonial base that can be compared to Shuangyajiang City, you must explore more deeply.