That night, the envoy and his men stayed in the small hotel, and he had to think about what he would do next.

Papal envoy Petrus. Baptista was not usually the kind of person who would be troubled by the people's writings, and he had received all kinds of complaints in Neustria alone, not two hundred, but one hundred and fifty.

He knew too well what to do—Wen Yan accepted it, claiming that he would definitely tell them all about the suffering of these people, the father of all believers, that is, the Pope himself.

When the people who had written the letters had gone away happily, he took the elaborate letters and set them on fire.

He knew very well that if the pope or the emperor wanted to sit comfortably in their seats, they had to rely a lot on the nobles everywhere, who had the financial resources and the force, and as for the people of Neustria, they had nothing but complaining. It's that the pope is naïve enough to want to help them, is it crossing

How many countries sent troops?

There was such a story about Song Renzong on Baidu Encyclopedia - when Song Renzong was in power, there was a time when the tribute from Goryeo had not arrived, and some ministers suggested sending troops to attack Goryeo, and the emperor said, why should you hurt the people of Goryeo for a little tribute? There is no need to send troops.

The compiler of Baidu Encyclopedia used this passage as evidence of Song Renzong's "benevolence".

However, at that time, Goryeo and the Northern Song Dynasty did not border, and Song Renzong just wanted to send troops, whether to use the Liao State to attack Goryeo, which was a vassal state of the Liao State, or to follow the example of the US army to land at Incheon?

If you don't want to, you can't.

Petru. Baptista thought the same way.

If the Pope was powerless to deal with the suffering of the people of Neustria, why did he go all the way to bring these letters back?

Give these people a comfort, and then dispose of the letters at will.

Of course, he could also give these letters to the accused, but it would not be ordinary peasants who could deliver the letters to the papal envoys, and this was secondary, and the important thing was that if these letters were easily handed over and turned completely to one side, the impact on the pope in Neustria,

but it is harmful.

In this chaotic and barbaric era, in the early years, Hugh said that the nobles, that is, the bishops of all places, did not take the pope seriously. They attacked and killed each other, and did not listen to the orders of the Pope at all, and the Pope was inferior to Zhou Tianzi in the Spring and Autumn Period at that time.

And how did the Pope get out of this situation?

It was because of the political suicide of these bishops.

Bishops do not forget to fight with each other when they fight each other, and when they fight, in order to show that they are superior to each other, they often claim that the pope is on their side and issue various papal oracles on behalf of the pope......

These "papal edicts" were promulgated in many ways, and the impression that the pope was the authority was popularized in the minds of the nobility, the populace, and the lower clergy.

At the end of the day, they went to the Pope to support them.

As a result, the Pope gradually regained his authority and was re-promoted by a group of politically unqualified bishops with false advertising.

Petru. As the Pope's envoy, Baptista was politically passable, and he would not have made such a political suicide mistake.

However, he is only politically passable, and he is a politician even if he is a politician, and when it comes to politicians, he has not even touched the edge.

What politicians need is realism, and what politicians need is idealism.

In this world, it is realistic, and idealists tend to lose very badly, very miserably.

However, it is the idealists who can change the world, because they do not follow the crowd, they rely on ideals, beliefs, and enthusiasm to change the world...... Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine out of 10,000 will fail very ugly, and the remaining one, combining ideals and reality, will change this world.

Petru. Baptista was not the latter, nor was he ever ambition to do so. He was the kind of person who served the Pope and the Church, the powerful, the clergy of his rank, not God and the faithful.

This sophisticated and worldly attitude has made him soar in the Eternal City, and the question of whether the Eternal City will rise or fall with the efforts of people like him is beyond the ability of a politician like him to think.

The model of a person like him is Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty.

During Sima Guang's reign, the Western Xia sent people to ask for Lanzhou, Mizhi and other places occupied by the Northern Song Dynasty in the Song-Xia War.

Sima Guang said: "This opportunity for the safety of the border must not be overlooked. The battle of Lingxia, originally started from me, and the new number of bars was opened, all of which were other fields, and now they are allowed to be attached, how should they not be with? He will say: 'The new Son of Heaven has ascended the throne, and I will be humble and courteous to China, and I will invade Xinjiang, and if I still do not allow it now, it is deferential and useless, and it is better to use force

Take it. 'The small ones are slow to write, and the big ones are the new ones. At this time, it is a shame for the country to have to deal with it, and it is more than today? The ministers still see the small and forget the big, guard the near and leave the distance, and regret this useless place, so that the soldiers are not puzzled and worry about the country. May the Sacred Heart be decided for the sake of the people. "When there are many dissenters, only Wenyan

Bo and photosynthesis, so follow it.

In this way, Sima Guang "planned for the people", and generously recaptured the blood of the soldiers—the entire territory of Western Xia originally belonged to the Northern Song Dynasty—and sent it out of Lu.

Of course, with such a big stroke of the pen, he said beautiful words, admitting that "the battle of Lingxia should have started with me", without mentioning the rebellion and the invasion of the Western Xia at the beginning, and sending the land out of the country was politically beneficial to him - Mizhi and other places were seized during the period when the New Party was in power, and it was the merit of the New Party, while Sima Guang was the old

Party.

New Party, what do you have? Isn't it just "opening up the border provocation without permission" and seizing some "useless land"?

I don't care about these places at all!

O people, don't "see the small and forget the big", for the sake of the "useless place" to "open the border", be a generous, benevolent, from time to time to slap yourself, while generously giving away the land, while also saying "I started" to admit that he is not right "Heavenly Empire"!

In this way, he deceives himself, while being a foreign plate, he thinks that he is a "generous and benevolent heavenly kingdom", so that he can not think of enterprising!

I think it's good to keep it as it is!

In this way, we, the old party, will be able to do nothing, continue to hold a high position, receive a generous salary, and enjoy the treatment of "sharing the world with scholars" and "not killing scholars and doctors" that will be the envy of later generations of public knowledge!

If you continue to fight, you will spend precious food and copper coins!

As for the fact that there was already a big hole in the finances when we were not fighting...... As for the fact that after giving away the land, the Western Xia continued to invade and rob......

As long as you don't continue to take the initiative to fight, the generals won't be able to get ahead! As long as you don't continue to take the initiative to fight, the doers are not as good as the mouth guns! As long as he does not continue to take the initiative to fight, it is impossible for the emperor to truly become the orthodox emperor of the great unification of China by virtue of military exploits!

Without military exploits and no force to rely on, he must continue to "share the world with the scholars" and rely on our conch to maintain his legitimacy!

Sima Guang is a very shrewd politician.

As for the future of the Northern Song Dynasty?

Hmph, such a vast land, such a large number of people and armies, such advanced firearms, the border savages are at most robbing at the border, just send them more money, can they still grab Bianliang?