The Battle of Pavia was both a blessing and a misfortune for the Fujian expeditionary force, unfortunately just in time for so many Lombards to attack the Byzantine Ravenna Doge's Palace, gathered together, invisibly added a lot of difficulty to conquer it, but fortunately, the defeat of the Lombard army, the task of conquering northern Italy was more than half completed.

However, after defeating the Lombards, Chen Zhangming and Yang Xiong had a headache again, the remnants of the expeditionary force were only six or seven thousand people, and the territory they conquered was far beyond the scope they could control.

Rome was a lesson in the past, thinking that it had conquered Germania, but the Battle of the Teutonic Forest shattered the dreams of the Roman emperor.

Fortunately, just when Chen Zhangming had two headaches, the second batch of fleets where Zhong Huang was located had also become lively, and the port landed in Northern Italy.

This fleet is even larger, following the road map sent back by Chen Zhangming, but the losses are more than ten times smaller than Chen Zhangming, compared with the purely military advance force, the composition of this fleet is also more and more complex, there are merchants, there are missionaries, there are poor people who can't survive in Fujian, there are also prisoners who have violated the law and have been exiled, and more than 10,000 mercenaries.

Either with a depressed mood or with expectations for a future life, this time, 30,000 people came all the way from Fujian to set foot in distant northern Italy.

Although there are 30,000 people, the real Han people are still less than 2,000, and the rest are either Indians, or some ethnic groups in the South Seas, Persians and Turks, but the moment these people set foot on the coast, the locals still label them.

Silk people who produce silk!

The arrival of these people undoubtedly brought a timely rain to Chen Zhangming, more than 30,000 people and 6,700 people, two concepts, even the governor's palace did not have time to set up, Chen Zhangming was busy and began to demarcate it, and divided a new administrative region in northern Italy with great fanfare.

Because of the small number of people, few soldiers, the rule of the Fujian country in Italy is very local customs, from the Roman city of the stonemasons union to draw a large number of craftsmen, in the plains and slopes of the castle built a castle, to point to the surface, a castle can rule the surrounding villages dozens of hectares of fields of the former residents, recruit locals to enlist, in the name of the Fujian canonization loyal to the expeditionary force nobles to live in the castle, or with the expeditionary force mercenaries guard, two months, large and small castles in the rich land of northern Italy.

It's like the medieval era when castles were lined up, when castle owners were knights and nobles, ruling a small territory under the mountain, and all the judicial and religious cases of peasants in several villages were adjudicated by the castle.

The complexity of the Middle Ages is also vividly reflected here, the Lombards, Franks, etc., who moved from the north, are accustomed to obeying Germanic law, and the people of Italy are accustomed to Roman law, and various ethnic groups also have their own strange customs.

In the midst of stumbling, with the rise of castles one by one, the rule of the Min expeditionary force in northern Italy gradually stabilized.

However, in a good situation, the surging undercurrent in the dark is also surging in northern Italy controlled by the Fujian expeditionary force, and it is not from the Lombards who have just conquered the Fujian country, but the Roman natives who invited the Fujian army to settle in and took the initiative to accept the protection of the Fujian army!

The Germans slaughtered into Italy fiercely, killed the Roman nobles who had been powerful in the past, and robbed the wealth of the Romans.

But by the time of the reign of the Min State, because of Pope Eugene I, the Min people's policy towards the native Italians was a little better, the taxes were reduced, and the peasants were also given some personal freedom, and they could go anywhere to send relatives, instead of being hunched over all day long like mules in the past, and working like animals.

So much so that the nobles of the castle also regularly organized bazaars, so that the farmers in the actual circle gathered together to sell surplus agricultural products, which was unimaginable in the era of the Lombard Kingdom, everything was robbed by the nobles, where are the surplus agricultural products to exchange?

However, this leaves an impression on those whose ancestors were once Roman citizens and also developed native Italians, not grateful to Dade, but.

The Fujian people from the Silk Country are easy to bully!

As a result, many people's hearts and eyes became lively.

In the bazaar, the taxes that should be paid refused to be paid, and there were even those who robbed the supplies of the Fujian army, and the administrative requirements of the Fujian State could not provoke a popular uprising, so the riots suddenly overwhelmed the local magistrates, and the official documents of the civil rebellion declared by various parts of the Genoa region in the northwest.

After assessing the Lombards, the headquarters of the expeditionary force finally got its wish and entered Rome, and the official residence of the former Italian king was requisitioned as the Roman capital, and the Fujian resources transported from Genoa continued to be transported here through the ancient Roman road, and under the three-story apartments built by the Romans, shops sprung up, and after several wars, the huge ruins of the Eternal City, which had been silent for almost a century, finally began to come to life.

Zhong Huang, who came from afar, not only stabilized the territory of the Fujian Expeditionary Force with his special identity, but also brought a great gift to Chen Zhangming.

Li Jie is also lacking in virtue enough, while bullying Anna, on the other hand, he is still using Anna's name to swagger everywhere, passing by the Roman governor's palace in Carthage, Zhong Huang rested comfortably on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea for several days, and also bought a lot of North African specialties by the way, and when he arrived in Rome, there was a letter of persuasion written by Anna to the governor of Ravenna.

Now the Byzantine Empire is really in turmoil, losing two-thirds of the territory of the empire, more than 100,000 Arabs besieged the capital Constantinople from land and sea, gathering almost all the troops in the Balkan Peninsula, the last territory, and the Byzantine also drew troops from the Italian Peninsula, almost desperately struggling, otherwise, how could the Viceroyalty of Ravenna, which originally had 20,000 elite Roman legions and auxiliary legions, let the Lombards fight so powerlessly, and retreat in the city of Ravenna to be beaten passively.

The Min Expeditionary Force now flexed its muscles in northern Italy, with a letter of surrender from the former Byzantine emperor.

Now that they are in the position of being surrounded by enemies on all sides, the lives of thousands of Roman nobles in the entire Viceroyalty of Ravenna will be over, and there are olive branches thrown by the former emperor in the internal and external difficulties, even Agrius, the governor of Ravenna, has to think carefully.

These days, both Chen Zhangming and Yang Xiong have put all their energy into the contact with the Viceroyalty of Ravenna, and received so many recitals, and the two of them were almost out of breath, and in anger, the two simply sent all the recitals back, and ordered the local magistrates to be appeased.

But just when the two of them were all focused on the contact with Ravenna, they didn't notice the city of Rome next to them, and the commotion that was about to stir up also arose everywhere.

Vatican City.

In this era, the famous Vatican Palace, Sistine Chapel, Castel Sant'Angelo, and St. Peter's Basilica are still a blank slate, and the seat of the Holy See is still the Basilica Roman Basilica built by Constantine the Great for the Holy See on the tomb of St. Peter, also known as the Old St. Peter's Basilica.

The stone buildings of Takamatsu are carved with flying and serene angels and saints, and the large sixteen-sided pillars supporting the stone domes weighing hundreds of tons, the chanting of monks, and the melodious singing of choirs, all as if they came from heaven.

However, traces of ordinary people can still be seen on such a sacred building, and in the east of the sacred church, a dense network of scaffolding covers half of the church, and a group of stonemasons' guild workers who have mastered the ancient Roman stone building craft carry marble blocks with hammers and chisels, and are busy up and down like ants.

No matter how great the building is, it also needs to be repaired, in the past one or two hundred years, the Western Roman Empire has fallen, and the Holy See has lost the support of Rome, and there is no money left to repair the church.

It was not until His Majesty Eugene I brought back the big benefactor of Fujian, relying on the financial support of the expeditionary force, that the impoverished Holy See just had spare money to pay the stonemasons' guild to repair the face of God's representative on earth.

It is also because of the Fujian Kingdom, the cardinals, cardinals, and archbishops have finally changed into brand new silk robes, and in front of the holy table where the Pope prayed in front, Miao Miao's burning spices have also changed from inferior rosin to dipterocarp.

The atmosphere of the whole Holy See has taken on a new look.

However, some of the powerful archbishops of Rome did not seem to be happy.

"Amen!"

After the long prayer, the white beard of Eugene I, the pre-biblical leader of the ceremonies, trembled, the old face under the jewel-adorned papal triple crown was full of kindness, and a holy cross was drawn on his chest, and with his movements, the archbishops who prayed and chanted also seemed to wake up, and also read Amen, and also drew a cross on their chests.

After the ceremony, according to the custom, the pope would usually give two sentences to summarize the prayer ceremony, and more than 100 bishops from all sides were not busy walking, reverently lining up on both sides, waiting for the lecture of Eugene I.

Satisfied with the deferential appearance of his bishops, Eugene cleared his throat slightly, and then gave a magnetic lecture in his old and kind voice.

"Recently, there have been a lot of anti-tax riots in various suburbs!"

"The merciful God finally chose the Min people as protectors for the suffering Christians, so that the believers will not be harassed and plundered by the ferocious Germanic tribes, the gift of the Lord, there is no need to cherish the ranks, after this return, there is no need to restrain the believers, obey the leadership of the Min people, and then organize troublemakers and expel the church!"

After saying this, some of the cardinals below immediately changed their faces......

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