When Chen Dexing and his ministers spent the night discussing Europa policy, Kublai Khan, who was about to become the Great Khan of Europa, was on his way to Paris!

This time, Kublai Khan really turned over with salted fish, and he was about to drink the Massena River and settle in the city of Paris. The battle of the Vistula seems to have frightened the Europa heroes, and tens of thousands of fiefdom knights died in the battle alone! Half of the knightly homes in Germany and France, the two knightly powers, changed owners, and the priests became the busiest for a while, officiating at funerals one after another. The coffins are usually empty, with no body at all, and at most a few pieces of clothing for the deceased.

However, all those who attended the funeral did not dare to have the illusion that the missing person was still alive in the world. Because terrible news kept coming from the East. The Mongols left few prisoners, all the knights and mercenaries they captured had their heads cut off, and the execution was carried out on the banks of the Vistula, and the severed heads were piled up together, like a hill - a mountain of human heads!

Of course, there are still survivors, and it was the Mongols who deliberately spared their lives. In every region of Germany and France, there were a few unlucky people who had their noses and ears cut off and tattooed on their faces, crying and crying about the terrible battle and the massacres that followed the war......

A climate of terror spread throughout the lands of Germany and France, where every city was in fear, every village was filled with an apocalyptic atmosphere, the death knell of every church rang day and night, and there were many new tombstones in every cemetery.

As for Poland, the state, which had been dissolved on its own for many years, ceased to exist after the end of the Battle of Vistula. All the towns and cities succumbed to the Khan's iron horsemen, all the knights either died in battle or fled, and some even chose to surrender on their knees! The church still exists. There are also priests who continue to stay there. However, these churches now have to pray for Kublai Khan. There is also news that Kublai Khan is ready to become the suzerainty of Christianity. All Christians must believe in the Great Khan as they believe in Christ, or they will die!

It's horrible!

Of course. There are still unyielding Christians. The Roman Catholic Church resolutely rejected Kublai Khan's unreasonable demands and announced the organization of the Tenth Crusade!

In Germany, the Holy Roman Emperor Alphonse I announced that the capital would be moved to Vienna and that it would be fortified to resist the Mongol invasion, which would become a strong fortress against Italy.

Rudolf of Switzerland also declared that he would resist to the end. However, his knights suffered heavy losses in the Battle of the Vistula River, and now they are no longer able to assemble a knightly army. And there is no money to create mercenaries. As a last resort, he had to go to Italy in person and borrow huge sums of money from several wealthy city-states such as Venice, Genoa, and Florence. Now he is recruiting troops in Switzerland and the nearby Black Forest.

Italy's city-states also showed a rare spirit of solidarity this time, with several wealthy city-states such as Venice, Genoa, Pisa, and Florence issuing public bonds (a financial instrument that was of course also an invention of pasta) to raise huge sums of money from wealthy citizens to form mercenary armies. And all the mountain passes that enter Italy from the northern Alps. All of them have been assigned by the Pope to the city-states, where they will build castles and deploy armies at any cost to defend their homeland and the last stronghold of the Europa civilization!

The Iberian nations behaved as stubbornly as ever – the Iberians were the best at saying no! The envoys who had been sent there were all stripped naked and nailed to a stake. The Iberians, who had fought with the Celestials for hundreds of years, knew how to defend their country and land. In the north, the Pyrenees were lined with bunkers, and now only the reinforcement of the defenses was needed to keep the Mongols out of the country. And the Seris of Macau will surely help them, and soon countless cannons, muskets, and steel armor will be transported.

And the Iberians are mostly devout Christians. In order to defend Christ, they don't care much about money. Several Iberian kingdoms could hire a large number of well-qualified mercenaries at relatively low prices - at this time, the two great tyrant states of Spain and Portugal were not yet developed. The Iberian countries, which had fought with the Celestials for hundreds of years, were basically poor and remote places with elite soldiers. Not only is Italy not a plate, but Spain and Portugal are just as bad as the two big teeth!

Another thorn in the head, needless to say, is England. Although the long-legged Edward has not yet shown the strength of a super thorn, it will not be long before this guy becomes a headache for Kublai Khan - of course, together with the North Sea and Baltic fleets of the Ming Atlantic Fleet.

But in the northern plains of Germany. But no one can do it. There was no danger to defend it, and the Mongol invasion was just around the corner. There was no time to build a fortified castle. The German knightly families and the merchant towns on the Rhine were retreating south. Austria and Bohemia are now under the control of the Emperor. Switzerland and parts of the Black Forest, which were under the control of the Habsburgs, were also the destinations of their flight.

And the fate of France was clearly more bleak than that of Germany. The latter also has large mountainous areas to hide. Emperor Alphonse I also had at his disposal a mercenary army of twenty or thirty thousand men and a large number of Iberian knights. And there is the existence of such a European superpower as Italy behind Germany - the Italians will not watch Germany fall!

France, on the other hand, does not have such a large mountainous area. The country is too flat and too vulnerable to ravage. And France was not too much for the protection of Italy, and the Italians would at most provide money and crossbowmen for the defense of the mountains of southeastern France. It is impossible to join the defense of Paris, Reims, Orleans. These cities seemed to the Italians to fall, and there was no need for them to devote their limited forces to these doomed territories.

And the French knights who followed Louis IX were almost completely lost on the banks of the Vistula. Philip III, who had just ascended the throne, could not muster enough troops to resist the invading Mongols. As a last resort, Philip III had no choice but to announce the relocation of the capital, abandoning Paris and moving to Marseille on the edge of the Mediterranean. To prepare here to lead the resistance of the whole of France is in fact to abandon the resistance of the north-west of France.

Now the Mongols can go all the way unimpeded. Swept from the banks of the Vistula to the Atlantic! However, a sweep is not the same as domination, and the former can concentrate their forces to fight hard. France and Germany in this era are not talking about the emperor and the Führer. After killing tens of thousands of knights from both countries, Kublai Khan's army was able to move sideways on flat terrain. Moreover, Kublai Khan's army had bronze cannons and H-poison in its army, which could easily collapse all the castles of the Europa built on flat ground. Neither in the field nor in the defense of the city, the Europa had no chance.

But the rule must be dispersed, otherwise they will all be concentrated together, and the territory they can control will be limited. And once the Eight Banners Headquarters under Kublai Khan's command of more than 2 million people scattered to the lands of the Bode Plain, the French Plain, and Lithuania (Lithuania was a big country at this time), it was really a bit thin. And among the more than 2 million people, not all of them are Eight Banners, but also many flag slaves, even Eight Banners are not all capable of doing things. There are also old and weak women and children. The one who can really do things is the 200,000 Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers. How much territory can they manage?

So on the way to Paris, Kublai Khan's biggest headache was not to occupy Paris so much, but how to rule Nuoda and Europa. Although the general direction is already there, it is to use Christianity and Confucianism to combine the two to a certain extent. Then, following the example of China, it was necessary to build a large centralized empire.

But how to achieve it, there are still a lot of things to ponder, no, it should be to find someone to give advice - the Mongols can rely on the Mongols to beat people. The rule also had to be helped by the Han Confucian scholars.

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"Great Khan, it is not difficult to govern the place. The art of politics is nothing more than the combination of grace and grace, both reward and punishment. Those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die. Of course, Wayne's reward and punishment and Shunchang's rebellion have to be in size. In the past, the Great Mongolia was in the Central Plains in the two rivers. It is that the power is too heavy and the grace is too thin, and the rewards and punishments are unfair. Improper employment. After the Great Khan took over, although he tried to improve it, it was already difficult to return. was taken advantage of by Chen Dexing and his ilk......"

Yao Shu sat in Kublai Khan's "mobile tent" with a pale face, and dutifully explained the political tricks to the Mongol Great Khan. His health has not been very good recently, he is already a 70-year-old man, he has been working hard all the way, and recently racked his brains to plan for Kublai Khan to build a country Europa, but he was overworked and suffered from wind and cold. In the past few days, the weather has warmed up, and he has only improved slightly, and he has come to Kublai Khan's side to give him advice.

Although his words were accusing the Mongols of indiscriminate killing in the past, Kublai Khan nodded again and again. The Mongols are indeed too capable of killing, and they kill indiscriminately! In fact, most of the people are messing around, and whoever comes pays taxes, what's the point of killing them? Tens of millions of people in the north were slaughtered to only 10 million, and they were handed over to a bunch of Han marquis to manage, and the population under the direct jurisdiction of Great Mongolia was only two or three million. Before, it was able to maintain its rule because of the myth of the invincibility of Mongolia, but this myth was broken by Chen Dexing, and a group of Han marquis who supported the army and respected themselves all had different intentions. Kublai Khan could only rely on some Mongols and a small number of Han Chinese directly under the central government to fight against Chen Dexing and Li Pu......

"There can be no more Hanhou in Europa!" Kublai Khan gritted his teeth and said.

Yao Shu coughed a few times, his pale face was a little sickly flushed, he shook his head and said: "Great Khan, it is not necessary to use a few Europa vassal kings, such as Lithuanian Grand Duke Tredenis, Grand Duke of Feladimir Yaroslavich, and Roman Khan Michael VIII, all three of them must be reused. The Great Khan had already crowned Roman Khan as the king of Pingxi, and Tredenis of Lithuania and Yaroslavich of Feladimir could both be crowned kings, one king of Pingnan and the other king of Jingnan. The territory of King Pingnan can be Hungary, and the chassis of King Jingnan can be Serbia. ”

Hungary, Serbia and an Eastern Rome just make up the Balkan feudalities. Hungary and Serbia are not rich in Europa, but they are much stronger than Lithuania and the Duchy of Feradimir. The Grand Duke of Lithuania and the Grand Duke of Feradimir will not disagree, and they will not be able to oppose it!

"With these three feudatories, the southeast direction will not be worried." Kublai Khan stroked his beard and said.

"The north is not a problem for the time being." Yao Shu said, "Sweden and Norway in the north are poor, and Denmark is a little richer. The Great Khan could support one of the three northern states, preferably the Danish state. Their richest territory is on the mainland, and if they don't want to lose it, they have to listen honestly to the Great Khan. The Great Khan could let the Danish state control Sweden and Norway and blockade the Baltic Sea. In this way, Poland, Lithuania and the territory of the former Teutonic Knights will not be harassed. ”

"That's the best." Kublai Khan nodded thoughtfully. After all, the sea is the weak point of Great Mongolia, and it is certainly good for someone to look at the Baltic Sea.

"In this way, the Great Khan is now to govern the two rich lands of the Bode Plain and the French Plain."

"How should it be governed?" Kublai Khan asked again.

Yao Shu snapped his fingers and said, "The first step is, of course, to deter, the Great Khan has already scared many people by the Vistula River, and he will definitely kill some people next."

The second step is to employ people, and the Great Khan must use many Europeans to govern Europa, and it is not enough to rely on banner people alone. But when we first entered Europa, we are not familiar with the place, and there are not many people who can use it, so we can't be too particular, as long as we are willing to use it for the Great Khan, the Great Khan can use it. However, there is one thing that the Great Khan must keep in mind is that he should not divide the plains of Bode and the plains of France, but should practice the county system. For those Europa who are willing to take refuge in the Great Khan, the Great Khan can make them officials and give them land, but he must not let them have a stronghold.

The third step is to divide the troops and defend the town, and the Eight Banners and the Green Banner Soldiers of the Europa will be scattered to the ground. However, the Eight Banners were to concentrate on the key places and garrison, while the Green Banners were more dispersed, scattering some everywhere to keep a firm watch over the Europa.

The fourth step is to cut off the inheritance of Europa's cultural history! If you want to destroy its country, you must first destroy its history; If you want to destroy their people, you must first destroy their culture......"

When Kublai Khan heard this, his brows furrowed again. Failing to destroy the history of China and the culture of China is also a major mistake of the Great Mongolia in the Central Plains! Because the people of the Central Plains still know their history, as well as Confucianism and Taoism, although the country is dead, the heart is not dead, and when there are heroes, they will respond in groups. The Great Khan has arrived in Europa, but don't repeat the mistakes of the past, so that the Europa people will have a chance to recover one day in the future! (To be continued......)