The destruction of the combined fleet of Western Europe smashed into the Vatican like a big stick, and the Pope was furious, feeling extreme anger and fear at the infidels of the ancient Eastern countries invading Western Europe!

It's fear!

It was an encyclical issued by the Pope in the name of God, a joint military operation that integrated all the Christian states throughout Western Europe, but was easily defeated by the infidels of the fleet!

Such a blow is not painful, the first battle off the coast of Portugal almost knocked the sea power of Western Europe back to centuries ago, it is simply unrealistic to build enough warships and train enough elite sailors in a short period of time, and the question is that even if the Holy See calls on all countries to go all out to build such a combined fleet, will they have the power to fight back in front of the infidels fleet?

No!

Because the information obtained by the Holy See is that the Eastern heretics only used a dozen invincible warships to completely annihilate the combined fleet without losing a single cent of their own, and there are more than a hundred equally powerful warships behind the main force of this battle!

The maritime power of the pagans in the East has surpassed the Holy See's perception of the ancient kingdoms of the East, and even the Lord, who once did not think that the omnipotent Lord, who was not too firm in his beliefs, has abandoned Western Europe and turned to the East.

The power of faith is incomparably powerful, which is also incomprehensible to the Chinese people who have no religious beliefs, and similarly, the collapse of faith often occurs in an instant!

Portugal and Spain, which should have been blessed by the Lord, fell into the hands of the infidels, so why didn't the Lord send down the judgment of God to destroy the infidels and return the two countries to the arms of the Lord?

Now the destruction of the Combined Fleet has made many believers question the Holy See, they will not question the greatness of the Lord, but as the spokesman of the Lord in the world, they should be responsible for this matter!

Therefore, for the Holy See, the most important thing to do now is not to reorganize any more sea forces, because it is useless, and any means will be futile until the sea forces of Western Europe are unable to contain the naval armies of the infidels in the East.

What is needed now is to unite the forces of Western Europe and form an invincible crusader army against the infidels and exterminate the thieves of the East who occupy the territory of Portugal and Spain!

This is the easiest way to restore confidence in the Holy See to all the faithful!

And this crusader union will be commanded by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, because he wants revenge, to get back his face, who made him not only the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, but also the king of Spain, and now his people are trembling under the power of the infidels, if he can't save his people, then his dominance will be greatly questioned and even threatened!

At this time, at the initiative of the Holy See and under the encouragement of Charles V, nearly 20 countries in Western Europe sent troops to march towards the Roman Empire, once they converged, then Western Europe would have an army of more than one million to launch a decisive battle against the Eastern pagans in Spain!

And at this time in the ancient East, the Ming Dynasty, which was inherited from the ancient Chinese civilization, also set off a bloody storm!

The river patrol carrying the Sword of Heaven made Zhang Xuan in Huai'an at the moment, and behind him was a river of blood!

It can be said that in the history of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to Emperor Taizu's murder of tens of thousands of officials and their families, only Yu Qian killed the enemy in the defense of Beijing, and Zhang Xuan was different!

He was ordered by Jiajing to thoroughly investigate the case of Caoyun, and in accordance with the emperor's will, he set off a major case of rectifying the rule of officials with the Caohe River as a point!

Caohe has killed more than 3,000 people all the way!

Officials, officials, gentry, and wealthy families, under the absolute will of the Son of Heaven, countless heads fell to the ground, and the blood in the cavity gathered into a river of blood!

Emperor Jiajing gave Zhang Xuan the power to cut first and then play, and the officialdom of the world was shaken, because from ancient times to the present, there are countless officials who have the power to cut first and then play, but no official has ever dared to set off such a shocking killing!

Zhang Xuan is going to isolate himself from officialdom and Shilin, he is going to be a lonely minister of the Jiajing Dynasty!

At this time, Zhang Xuan slowly walked into the execution ground under the escort of hundreds of soldiers, walked straight to the prison beheading platform and sat down!

The periphery of the execution ground was crowded with people, and the one that was surrounded was called a flood, and thousands of people whispered, with hatred flashing in their eyes!

The execution ground was set up temporarily, because the original execution platform in Huai'an was too small......

And this time, Zhang Xuan wants to personally behead people, as many as 1,037 criminals!

Shocking killing, thousands of people are killed!

These criminals are not all officials or officials along the canal, but Emperor Jiajing's will to Zhang Xuan is to use a butcher's knife to deter the world!

Zhu Houwei knew that he had made great reform moves, and he had already offended the interests of the whole world, especially after he sent hundreds of clans and Sancheng nobles overseas, the nobles all over the world panicked.

But the interest class also knew that the emperor had an army of absolute loyalty, and if they rebelled, it would almost be a good excuse to send the emperor to the emperor in person, so they didn't dare to come openly, but who knows if those people would take risks!

As an emperor, it is normal to be suspicious, just like the history records that Emperor Zhengde fell into the water, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse fell into the water and died soon after, there is no evidence to prove that the death of the two emperors is a conspiracy, and there is no evidence related to the interest class, but there is no evidence to doubt it......

Zhu Houwei felt that he was still too merciful, and he had already had the capital to kill, but he never let go of his hands and feet.

Which of the reforms of the past dynasties is not bloody and bloody, if you want to complete the big reform silently, even if the reform is successful, Zhu Houwei must guard against the hidden danger of people dying and politics!

Therefore, he wants to kill, sacrifice tens of thousands of heads, pave the road of reform with blood, and cut off the thorns that stand in front of him!

This is also something that can't be helped, everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is even more difficult later, Zhu Houwei left the world's biggest maladministration to the end, so one or even several killings that are enough to shock the world are inevitable!

Zhang Xuan can obviously understand the meaning of Emperor Jiajing, at least when the emperor handed over the sword of the Son of Heaven to him, the meaning expressed in his eyes, Zhang Xuan saw it very clearly!

He wants to become a generation of famous ministers, but the emperor wants him to be a lonely minister, then he has no choice!

What's more, what the emperor asked him to kill was a corrupt official and a gentry who harmed the people, he was also from an ordinary people's background, and he hated this kind of person himself, so killing him would certainly damage his reputation in Shilin, but he would become a good official!

So he set off big cases along the river, one big case after another with conclusive evidence, Zhang Xuan has the Sword of the Son of Heaven, so these big cases don't need to go through the legal department, just his words can determine the life and death of thousands of people!

"Slash!" At the sound of an order, more than 1,000 heads fell to the ground, and the bloody breath rushed straight to Douxiao, and the haze shrouded in the canal seemed to disappear with this word!

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