In the corner of the bookstore, the blonde man who claimed to have seen God himself was named Sauron. Sauron is a surname, and it has nothing to do with the demon king Sauron in the later magical masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings". The surname comes from Count Sauron of the Holy Roman Empire, and later, around 1192 AD, Frederick III of the House of Sauron died and was succeeded by his son-in-law, Conrad II, Count of Nuremberg, as there was no male heir. Since then, the surname Sauron has previously been given the name "Hohen", which means "noble". If it weren't for Meng Yuan's accession, this Sauron would probably be a member of the Hohenzollern family!

It's just a possibility! Because after Meng Yuan became the master of Europa, it was the absolute European script, and the history of the Europeans was broken, and all the Europa elites who could be literate, such as priests and nobles, were either not killed or were captured and sold to the black warriors of West Africa as slaves. Most of the white people who stayed in the Great Yuan Country and still used these aristocratic surnames were used by the Great Yuan Kingdom when they counted their household registrations, and often the same surname was used in a village - the serfs of Europa originally did not have a surname, but in order to facilitate management, the Great Yuan Kingdom required everyone to have a surname when registering their household registration.

And this Sauron's family is only a middle peasant, and his father and two elder brothers farm for him to study and progress. I hope that he can be selected as a talent so that the family can prosper -- the talent of the Great Yuan Kingdom has benefits, not only can he be exempted from paying part of the money and grain, but the state will also give him food on a monthly basis for those who have excellent grades. Moreover, Xiucai can also see officials without kneeling, and officials are not allowed to torture Xiucai.

In the Great Yuan Kingdom, Xiucai was the starting point of the squire class. A talent can often make a middle peasant family become a landlord. And a landlord's house, if there is not a showman. Then the decline is a matter of time.

In fact, the reason is the same as that of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties in Chinese history, and the gentry families with the fame of the imperial examination can legally and illegally avoid taxes. And the imperial court had to maintain its revenue, and the tax burden was naturally borne by ordinary peasants who had no reputation. Kublai Khan's tax rate and the ancestral system that was never increased. By the time Da Yuan was founded in Europa for a hundred years, it had long been reduced to empty words.

Without a talented person, he can only be overwhelmed by heavier and heavier taxes. Even if it is a rich peasant family, sooner or later it will go bankrupt and lose its land and become tenants.

However, this show talent is not good, and you need to pass the county test, the government test, and the hospital test in a row to become a student of the government, state, and county school where you are located, commonly known as "Xiucai". If you become a student, you will be further qualified to participate in the township examination. The township examination high school is to lift people, and only those who win the examination are eligible to go to the city examination in Paris, the capital of the Great Yuan Kingdom......

And our Sauron passed the county exam six years ago, but he was stuck at the threshold of the prefectural exam, and he failed to pass the exam several times, not to mention the college exam that was personally presided over by the Rhine Provincial Academic Administrator.

Therefore, Sauron's talent dream has woken up. However, another Spring and Autumn dream of "opening your own imperial examination" has just begun.

"Tell Gansev to try to win over the leaders of the miners, and that there are also Freemasonry organizations on Essen's side, and that they can join forces with them. The people of the Heavenly Daoist Sect did not refuse. If the Jesuits are to achieve great things, they must connect with the forces of all sides......"

He whispered to the visitor, and also mentioned cooperation with Freemasonry and Tiandaoism. Freemasonry is an old secret society that flourished in the first century of the Western calendar. It later declined because of the rise of Christianity. However, it did not perish, and after Meng Yuan became the owner of Europa, this secret organization once again had a good opportunity to develop. It became a rebel organization aimed at resisting the Mongol invasion and restoring the European state. However, because of the extermination of the European intellectual class by the Mongols. Freemasonry could only sink to the bottom, gradually throwing aside the goal of restoring the European country. It has become a powerful underworld group.

And the Heavenly Taoism in the territory of the Great Yuan Kingdom is also the same as Freemasonry, which is illegal on the surface, but there are many believers in private. However, this Heavenly Daoist Sect is not an orthodox scientific school, but a divine school founded by Ku Ballun.

Of course, Kubalun is no longer alive now, but the power of the Holy Sect is still huge. Not only in Europe, West and Central Asia, but also in Japan, there was considerable influence in Africa, Tianzhu, and North and South Mingzhou, all of which were divided between the Scientologists and the Divine Sects. In the territory of the Ming Empire, the scientific school prevailed.

However, at this time, the teachings of the Holy Sect had a great flaw - it recognized the sacredness of the lineage of the descendants of Chen Dexing! Therefore, once the Daoists of the Divine School entered the country ruled by the Chen Ming Dynasty, they had to obey and respect the kings of the Chen Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the activities of the Holy Sect in the Ming Empire and the Sixteen Lands of the Northern Ming Dynasty were restricted, although there were many Daoists and Daogus of the Divine Sect who entered and exited the Chen Ming court, but they could not promote the beliefs of the Divine Sect.

And the Scientology is not a small problem, as a religion they are too rational, so they lack the power of superstition. As a scientific school, they were too bureaucratic to spend most of their funds on increasingly bloated institutions, and although the number of Taoists was large and the teaching property was extremely large, their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Holy School. Therefore, although the strength of the Scientology is strong, it is always on the defensive.

In addition, the high-ranking Emperor Ming has always adopted the practice of keeping the two factions balanced since Chen Chang'an. On the one hand, he insisted on the legitimacy of Scientology and became a believer in Scientology. On the one hand, he accepted the holy daughters offered by the Divine Sect (the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom also had holy daughters, but it would not let them take over as the great host), and let them become their favorite concubines.

So, although in the past few decades, the Heavenly Daoist Sect has been divided into two, the Wars of Religion have not happened...... Of course, this is also related to the "curse of the bald man".

The Divine Sect of the Heavenly Daoist Sect, whose eastward expansion was blocked, regarded Europe as the main direction of expansion. sent a large number of Taoists to infiltrate Dayuan and spread the belief in the Heavenly Dao, and many believers have also developed in the past few decades, but they are not mainstream.

The mainstream of the ideological and political field of the Great Yuan Empire has always been Confucianism, which is combined with Christianity, and the "Four Books and Six Classics" is the real manifest science.

Sauron, who was familiar with the "Four Books and Six Classics", but couldn't even pass the exam, patted the hand of the person next to him at this time: "That's it, ask Gan Xiufu to pull more people." The big thing in the coming day is that the more people there are, the better. That's right. Tomorrow I'm going to my hometown in Utterberg, and next time you'll go to Sauron in Utterberg to find a quota. The Jesuits are now being targeted by the government. You can't stay in Cologne for a long time...... Go first. ”

He arched his hand and squeezed out of the bookstore with the corner of his robe, and then looked around again. No one was watching, and they disappeared into the alleys of the city of Cologne.

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At the same moment, thousands of miles away from Cologne, in the Daqing Shengjing City, in the Dazheng Palace, Zhu Chongba, the fourth king of the Daqing Kingdom, was holding a candle and looking up and down on the map hanging on the wall, his eyes were closely looking at the defense line composed of a series of castles in the northwest of Shengjing City. He compared and compared with his hand, and finally sighed and did not speak.

The Qing Dynasty is known as the "king guarding the country", and the national capital Shengjing is at the forefront. Out of Shengjing City to the northwest is only 200 miles, which is the territory of the Great Qing Kingdom and the Great Yuan vassal state Bulgaria. The Great Yuan soldiers and Bulgarian soldiers were stationed there for many years, and hundreds of castles were built based on the terrain, forming an impenetrable defensive line.

In addition, the Great Yuan State also placed a Black Sea Division at the mouth of the Danube River (built by Nahai, the last Khan of the Golden Horde), who had defected to Kublai Khan, and had fought with the combined fleets of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom and the Great Qing Kingdom decades earlier. In fact, the sailors of the three countries are very watery, and when added together, even the Hong Kong Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Empire is not as good. However, they compete with each other, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.

There is no distinction between the water divisions, the army of the Great Qing Kingdom and the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom. It seems that it did not have the strength to defeat the Great Yuan Army, although it was once the hardest hit area of the "Bald Disease" - in fact, it was not as serious as the Black Death in history, because the Great Yuan Kingdom controlled the movement of people in Europa very strictly. You can't go far without a road.

In addition, the Ming Empire's Mingdu Medical College uncovered the secret of the spread of the Black Death - rats and lice - ten years after the outbreak of the Black Death. Therefore, there are more effective preventive measures. It's more bathing and more cats.

So in addition to the initial outbreak of the Black Death, the following decades. The Black Death did not break out in the Great Yuan Kingdom.

Moreover, thanks to the relatively stable society and the equal distribution of land, as well as the relatively advanced production tools and technologies brought by the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty of the Great Yuan Dynasty, the population of the Great Yuan has increased by two or three times compared with a hundred years ago. Including the three vassal states of Bulgaria, Hungary and Bohemia, the total population has exceeded 60 million!

With such a population base, the Great Yuan Kingdom naturally had a large number of armies, with an army of one million, which not only firmly suppressed the Holy Roman Empire (consisting of the Iberian and Italian states, and the struggle between the Holy See and the Empire was already at a disadvantage) south of the Alps and the Pyrenees. Moreover, there are enough troops deployed in Bulgaria and Lithuania to resist the Great Qing Kingdom and the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom.

Although the Great Qing Kingdom has also undergone a hundred years of recuperation, because the population base is too small, and it was ravaged by the Vulture disease a few decades ago, not counting the two subject countries Georgia and Armenia, the population of the Great Qing Dynasty is less than 4 million, and its Chinese (Han) are less than 3 million. The country's standing army is no more than 50,000.

As for the Divine Heavenly Dao Country, the population has always been a big problem. Before Kubalun became the ruler of Sarai, the Rus and Kipchak grasslands had just been ravaged by the decades-long Heavenly War. After Kubalun came to power, he destroyed all the Rus' countries, established the Sacred Heavenly Dao State that unified the Rus' steppe and the Kipchak steppe, and then forced the Heavenly Dao Religion, and fought a war with the Great Yuan State, and was also ravaged by the Black Death - but the population mortality rate was not too high, because the number of horses in the Divine Heavenly Dao was large, and they were important production and living tools, and the smell of horses could drive away the lice that spread the Black Death. However, in the current 108 years of the Heavenly Dao, the population of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom is only more than 500,000, and the number of standing armies is 80,000......

50,000 plus 80,000, but 130,000, and the armament is steel helmets, cuirasses, smoothbore guns, and bronze cannons - about the same as 100 years ago. In the past hundred years, except for the outbreak of a major war between the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom and the Great Yuan Kingdom, the entire world was basically at peace, and the progress of weapons and equipment was naturally very slow. And the army of the Great Yuan Kingdom, the proportion of firearms is not low, and there are 200,000 Eight Banners known as the Heavenly Soldiers. Looks like a tough deal!

The door was knocked gently, this is Zhu Chongba's bedroom study, except for a few eunuchs who are Zhu Chongba's henchmen, it is his queen Ma Xiuying. Ma Xiuying is the adopted daughter of Guo Zixing, the king of Western Persia, and a disciple of Yang Xiao, the left envoy of the Heavenly Dao of the Sacred Heavenly Dao Palace of Salai, and a purple-clothed Taoist aunt of the Divine Sect. The one who will knock on the door of Zhu Chongba's study at night is most likely this Ma Niangniang.

Hearing the knock on the door, he didn't look back, but just whispered, "Xiuying, right?" Come on in. ”

A soft female voice laughed and said, "King, if you are still looking at the map of Bulgaria so late, you must be thinking of Grandpa Taizu's last wish, right?" ”

Zhu Chongba turned his head around, and in the candlelight, he showed a rather handsome face, about forty years old, with good facial features, a very neatly trimmed beard, standing there with a straight back, and at a glance, he knew that he had received strict military training since he was a child.

Standing opposite him was a woman in her thirties, without makeup or makeup, but still showing a bit of beauty. He was only wearing a purple cotton robe, which was quite simple, but he couldn't hide a graceful and good figure. It was Ma Xiuying, the queen of the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Chongba sighed: "Taizu's legacy, how dare Chongba forget it?" In the past 13 years, Chongba has been training soldiers and horses all day long, how can there be few small soldiers in the country...... I'm not sure! ”

Of course, the Taizu in Zhu Chongba's mouth is Zhu Sijiu, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, and also the Marquis of Huaiyin of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Sijiu finally didn't meet "Empress Lu", and Li Cuixian kept saying good things for Chen Dexing in front of him. Later, he also asked the crown prince Chen Chang'an to accept Zhu Sijiu's daughter as a side concubine, which can be regarded as a marriage between children and daughters. Zhu Sijiu also died well, and lived to be 69 years old before dying in the palace of the Marquis of Huaiyin in Jiangdu. And his last wish is that his descendants can sweep the Great Yuan Kingdom within a hundred years!

Zhu Sijiu died in the forty-third year of the Heavenly Dao, sixty-five years ago. The hundred-year period is probably going to be realized by Zhu Chongba!

Ma Xiuying smiled: "It may not be that there is no chance, it seems that the country of Dayuan has not been very peaceful in recent years, and there is news of riots and civil uprisings every three or five days, and their Eight Banners are likely to be decayed, and it took a lot of effort to suppress the Transylvanian riot fifteen years ago." In addition, does the king still remember the three strategies of the dead yuan in the table of Old Master Liang's testament? (To be continued.) )