Chapter 499: Lobbyist
As a general, Zhu Houzhao attaches great importance to his image, and when he is in the army, he will always be a majestic and majestic god of war.
But as a king, as long as he is allowed to sit on that throne, then he is a lazy thing......
Now the lazy Zhu Houzhao sat on the king's throne in the Palace of Versailles, looking at the twenty red-clothed lamas in the main hall with blazing eyes...... Cardinal......
"What conditions did they propose?" After one of the bishops finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao frowned and looked at the translator next to him.
Zhu Qiong, the first translator of the Dawu Dynasty, said: "This is Bishop Charles from the Holy See, and he said that he brought the will of the Pope and the blessing of the Lord."
"Bless the fart." Zhu Houzhao said in a foul language: "I'm about to beat their out, and now I bless it, isn't this a cheap panic?"
Zhu Houzhao spoke, so the twenty bishops also looked at Zhu Qiong, but unfortunately, Zhu Qiong did not translate for them.
"Venerable Overlord of the Eastern Empire, you have led an invincible army to the West, but what you don't know is that the West is the Lord's domain, and your actions have violated the dignity of the Lord and will cause the Lord's wrath......"
Zhu Qiong translated it, and Zhu Houzhao's eyes suddenly straightened......
"Tell this SB, I don't believe in God, I don't believe in any bullshit master, I only believe in my ancestors!"
After listening to Zhu Qiong's translation, Charles's reaction was very flat, as if all this was expected, and there were detailed archives about the Eastern peoples in the archives of the Holy See.
Therefore, Charles knows the temperament of the Oriental nation, and in Charles's understanding, the Oriental nation is not without faith, but mixed in faith.
To put it simply, when the Oriental people feel that something is beneficial to them, they will believe in something.
For example, women worship the Guanyin Bodhisattva of Buddhism in order to give birth to children, for example, if they want their deceased relatives to suffer less sins in the underworld, they will go to worship the king of Jizo, in order to make a fortune will worship the god of wealth, for the wind and rain will worship the dragon king, and so on.
That is to say, the beliefs of Oriental people can be changed at will, and today they will worship the Taoist monarch if they feel that the gods of Taoism are useful, and tomorrow they will worship the Bodhisattvas if they feel that the Bodhisattvas of Buddhism are useful......
If you are a Christian, then your lifelong belief in God can only be, and if you still believe in Buddhism when you believe in God, then it means that you are not devout enough to the Lord, you are a heretic, and you should be judged, and once it is implemented, you will be burned at the stake.
For hundreds of years, all the missionaries sent by the Holy See to the East failed, and the missionaries found that they could convert believers, but it was absolutely impossible to make the Easterners believe only in the Lord......
But failure does not matter, failure is more challenging, and the Holy See feels that sooner or later the gospel of the Lord will be spread throughout the East, and the Easterners will surely become devout Christians.
However, before that day, this group of infidels in the East entered Western Europe, destroyed Portugal and Spain, defeated the combined armies of Western Europe, and fought Andorra, with the elite losses of the Crusaders exceeding seventy percent!
This group of infidels occupied a large part of Europe with an incomparably strong attitude, making countless parishioners tremble under the indignation of the infidels!
The cardinal is the most honorable clergyman under the papal see, and every bishop must make it his lifelong belief to reform, expel and exterminate heretics, so they come even though they know that there is a lot of danger.
Because devout Christians believe that with the blessing of the Lord, even if they cannot influence the pagan leader and let this so-called Dawu Emperor embrace the glory of the Lord, there is no problem in getting this group of robbers to make certain concessions.
So Bishop Charles, who is at the top of the list of cardinals, automatically puts himself in the role of lobbyist.
"Your Majesty, the Great Emperor of the Martial Kingdom, Charles knows that you are not a servant of the Lord, but the all-powerful Lord has the most merciful heart in the world, and if one day you are willing to throw yourself into the arms of the Lord, the Lord will soon accept you as one of his greatest servants in the world."
Zhu Houzhao's eyes were about to protrude.
"What? I am a descendant of Chinese Miao, the once supreme Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Empire, and now the founding emperor of the Dawu Dynasty, let me be a servant to your pseudo-god? Are you sure you got the translation right, or did this guy get kicked in the head by a donkey? ”
Zhu Qiong was helpless......
"Okay, don't tell me what I have, tell them that since the Pope asked them to negotiate with me, don't talk so much nonsense, make the purpose clear, and make an offer!"
"Your Majesty, the great Emperor of the Ancient Orient, the Pope has sent twenty cardinals to show his sincerity, His Majesty the Pope hopes that you will release His Majesty Charles V and King Francis of France, Bishop John and Bishop Anthony, and if you can, I hope that you will release the captured crusaders, believing that your kindness will surely lead to goodwill from the Holy See and the friendship of the Pope."
"Gone?"
Zhu Qiong nodded.
"Pinch it!" Zhu Houzhao was angry, Nima, who does the Holy See think he is? Don't put chips in the bare opening condition? Who the hell was defeated!
"Tell him that it is impossible to return the captives, because the 400,000 captives are the spoils of the Dawu Dynasty, and their hands are stained with the blood of the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty, and they will spend their lives to atone for their sins.
As for Emperor Charles and that Francis, they are now my prisoners, and they are witnesses of my destruction of the enemy country, and I plan to send them to the far east, and then keep them in captivity like pigs, of course, I can't release them, but we have to see what kind of price the Holy See gives. ”
"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, in exchange, the Holy See is willing to cede the territories of Spain and Portugal to the Dawu Dynasty forever."
Zhu Houzhao's eyes were straight, and after asking Zhu Qiong to translate again, he almost didn't jump to his feet!
Isn't the Holy See going crazy and trading with the territory he has already occupied? And that's not even mentioning France and the two principalities.
What's the matter, is this going to ask him to spit out these territories again? Isn't this a loss of heart?
"Your Majesty, and the Cardinals of the Holy See."
"Bullshit bishops, they are all prisoners of Lao Tzu, if you want people, you can exchange them for equivalent property!"
Charles frowned and said: "Your Majesty the Great Emperor, with all due respect to Charles, although your army won the battle of Andorra, but the whole of Europe is the territory of the Lord, as long as the Lord issues an oracle, all Europeans will pick up the weapons in their hands to fight you, Your Majesty, do you think that if you are lucky to win once, will the Holy See continue to lose a second time?"
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