Chapter 993: Su Zhe Arrives

A huge fleet slowly entered the port of Civitavecchia, when the leader of a warship had just stopped at the berth, Zhao Jia had already walked up quickly, only to see that the escalator on the ship was also slowly lowered, and then a middle-aged man in his forties led a group of people to slowly walk off the ship.

"Uncle Su, I didn't expect you to personally lead the team this time, it's been hard along the way, please accept the little nephew!" When Zhao Jia saw the middle-aged man led by him, he immediately stepped forward and saluted, this middle-aged man is Su Shi's younger brother Su Zhe, speaking of which Su Zhe is the same age as Zhao Yan, he and his brother Su Shi are both close friends of Zhao Yan, and even Su Shi is one of Zhao Jia's teachers, so Zhao Jia has always been commensurate with Su Zhe as an elder.

"Haha, the prince is too polite, I was worried that the war on the part of the prince here would not go well, but I didn't expect that I had heard before that the prince had already controlled most of the Holy Roman Empire, which I am afraid even King Yue and His Majesty did not expect!" Su Zhe also laughed at this time, although he is not as good as his brother Su Shi in terms of literary talent, but he is extremely good at administration, and he is even a person who wants to worship the prime minister, but this time in order to stabilize the situation in Europe, he must need a person who is proficient in government affairs to assist Zhao Jia, so Zhao Yan and Zhao Xu discussed, and then asked the minister's opinion, and finally decided to send Su Zhe, who is relatively young and has a lot of experience in politics.

"Uncle Su praised the little nephew too much!" Zhao Jia also hurriedly said modestly when he heard Su Zhe's words, and then hurriedly asked Su Zhe and others to get off the boat, and at this time Su Zhe introduced Zhao Jia to these people around him, the most important of which was a middle-aged man who was about the same age as him behind him, this middle-aged man looked dignified and magnificent, and looked like a military general, but in fact he was a civil official, named You Shixiong. This person is Zhang Zai's eldest disciple, who has served in Huan Hai over the years, and has served in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty, especially in the Nanyang region for many years, and has made great achievements in assimilating foreign races, so he was also sent this time. became the second only person in this group of officials to Su Zhe.

In addition to You Shixiong, the rest are also some officials selected by Zhao Yan and Zhao Xu, after all, it is easy for Zhao Jia to conquer Europe, but it is not possible for one person to govern, especially if he wants to change the current pattern of Europe, he naturally needs more effective manpower, so the arrival of Su Zhe and these people is simply a relief for him.

At that moment, Zhao Jia invited Su Zhe and the others to a temporary residence near the port, where a reception banquet had been prepared for them, and Zhao Jia personally sat with them. Su Zhe and the others rested here that night, after all, the port of Civitavecchia was still a day's journey from Rome, and it was getting late today, so it was definitely too late to rush over.

At the banquet, Zhao Jia was also very enthusiastic, and kept persuading Su Zhe and them to drink, but Su Zhe and You Shixiong were both serious people, and after three rounds of drinking, they turned the topic to the current situation in Europe. Although they had heard about Zhao Jia's situation in Europe during this time, they only knew a rough idea. The specific situation is still unclear, and Zhao Jia can only introduce it to them in person.

Speaking of the several counterattacks from the Battle of Dawaben, although Little Henry did not give up on several counterattacks, he was defeated by Hu Yanqing, so if nothing else, Little Henry would be completely wiped out in half a year at most. With the defeat of little Henry. Nobles from all over the world also expressed their allegiance to Zhao Jia, which also made the territory controlled by Zhao Jia reach more than eighty percent of the Holy Roman Empire, and it is still expanding.

However, these newly expanded territories are actually only nominally owned by Zhao Jia, no, it should be said that they are under the control of Agnes. Zhao Jia can only give orders to these territories in the name of Agnes, but whether he listens or not depends on the lords of those territories, so most of these territories are actually in the hands of various nobles, Zhao Jia is like Zhou Tianzi in the history of the Central Plains, and the following vassal states are just serving him as the master.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that the land that Zhao Jia actually controls is actually around Rome, that is, in the territory of the original Papal States, which is the first area he conquered, and he also planted all the people he can use in this area, so he has absolute dominion over this land, but out of here and further north, Zhao Jia and Agnes's influence will slowly weaken, of course, in the area where Huyanqing's army is located, the couple still has a strong influence, But Hu Yanqing's subordinates only have tens of thousands of troops, and they can't control too much of an area at all.

After listening to Zhao Jia's introduction, Su Zhe and You Shixiong and the others all began to discuss in a whisper, and then expressed their opinions on the situation in front of them, these people were all elites carefully selected by Zhao Yan, especially Su Zhe and You Shixiong and others, who were even more experienced, and quickly discussed a feasible way.

"Shizi, according to your introduction, the Holy Roman Empire is almost in your hands, but now there are still two major problems in the country, the first is the problem of the Holy See, you can deal with this very quickly, support an obedient pope to ascend the throne, and then take back the military and financial resources in the hands of the Holy See, so that it will not take long to completely solve the problem of the Holy See."

Su Zhe paused when he said this, and then spoke again: "However, although this can solve the force of the Holy See, it cannot completely disintegrate the influence of the Holy See among ordinary people, and I think other religions can be introduced to divide the religious beliefs in Europe and completely disintegrate the rule of Catholicism in Europe!" ”

"Uncle Su and the little nephew want to go together, and I am also planning to send a message to the country, so that my father and they can organize a group of monks and Taoist priests to come to Europe, and then we can support them in various ways to preach, and I have asked the pope who was supported by us to promise other religions to preach." Zhao Jia also slapped his thigh and said excitedly when he heard this.

"Haha, it seems that the son of the world also had foresight!" Su Zhe couldn't help but praise when he heard this, since Zhao Jia had thought of this, it saved them a lot of trouble.

But then Su Zhe frowned and thought for a moment and said: "The strength of the Holy See is relatively concentrated, but it is not difficult to solve, the only trouble is that they need to continue to weaken their influence among the people, but in comparison, there are many princes in the Holy Roman Empire, and the separatist forces in various places have their own systems, which is the most troublesome!" (To be continued.) )