On April 15 of the seventh year of Jiajing, Wang Shouren, who was appointed Minister of National Defense after returning to the capital, led an expedition of 30,000 troops to Turpan!

On the same day, Lang Shufen, the champion of the third year of Jiajing, was appointed as a special envoy to the southeast, and he had the privilege of mobilizing the troops of the Yunnan-Guizhou and Sichuan Military Regions to go to the southeast to negotiate with the Tusi.

On the same day, in distant Western Europe, the Vatican, the seat of the Holy See, also welcomed the special envoy of the Dawu Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

The 219th Pope of the Holy See, Leo X, known as the god of wisdom by the congregation, welcomed the arrival of the envoy of the Great Martial Forces, the second assistant of the cabinet of the Great Wu Dynasty, with the greatest ceremony.

Cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, and countless clergy lined up in the wide streets of the Vatican to greet them, while cardinals gathered in front of St. Peter's Castle the Grand.

The Vatican can be regarded as a real projectile place, but it is like the religious center of the entire Western Europe, where the faith of tens of millions of Catholics in Western Europe is entrusted, and it is a first-class holy city, an absolute holy place!

Cardinal Archbishop Amideo, with a faint smile on his face, greeted the pagans from the East into St. Petersburg with the most sincere gesture.

In the next short or long period, Amideo will negotiate on behalf of the Pope and the pagan envoys, and the outcome of the negotiations will have a profound impact on the future situation in Western Europe!

"Messenger from the East, Amideo welcomes you on behalf of the Holy See."

Hou Si returned the salute, he came to negotiate, so he naturally knew the significance of this negotiation better.

In fact, Emperor Xuanwu didn't like to negotiate very much, he preferred to speak with troops and weapons, and Emperor Jiajing, who was far away in the Ming Dynasty, once said to Emperor Xuanwu that a weak country has no diplomacy.

Assuming that the defeat of the Dawu Dynasty in the Battle of Andorra was the Great Wu Dynasty, would the Holy See negotiate with him at this moment?

Obviously, no, if he is defeated, the Holy See will only gather forces to completely annihilate the army of Emperor Dawu, and the people from the east will be slaughtered and enslaved!

This is the essence and truth of war!

But the opinion of the Cabinet is different.

Because the situation in Western Europe is far more complicated than imagined, with a population of tens of millions on this land, not to mention the surprise attack of the Dawu Dynasty, which quickly wiped out Portugal and Spain, and captured France in the Battle of Andorra, and in recent months, it has invaded nearly 30% of the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, but with the expansion of the territory, problems have begun to appear one after another.

Population is the most important factor first, and now the Ming Dynasty has immigrated several times, so that the number of Han people in Western Europe has reached two million, but the two million people can only completely sinicize Portugal and Spain, as for the newly conquered territory is not enough to occupy the population, in fact, it does not have much significance.

Therefore, the cabinet believed that the Jiajing Emperor's assimilation policy should be implemented, that is, to let the Han Chinese and Western Europeans live together, and use the power of Confucianism to assimilate the Western Europeans.

But this was vetoed by Emperor Xuanwu......

The reason lies in the Holy See!

In Emperor Xuanwu's view, these Western Europeans all have deep-rooted religious beliefs, and it is too difficult to assimilate Western Europeans, and there is even a possibility of being counterattacked, not that Zhu Houzhao does not believe in Confucianism.

It's that Confucianism is not so powerful in Western Europe!

Since Christianity in Western Europe has tens of millions of faithful followers and has never decayed in the course of thousands of years of history, it is very clear that the power of Christianity does have merit.

Zhu Houwei did say that he wanted to use the power of Confucianism to assimilate Western Europe, but only by understanding this land in his shoes will he know how difficult it is to assimilate!

It's so big that it's impossible to do!

In Zhu Houzhao's view, the easiest way to conquer Western Europe is genocide, by massacre, by deprivation of reproductive rights, and then after a few decades, Western Europeans will naturally be completely wiped out!

But according to Zhu Houwei's words, the massacre is against humanitarianism, God's humanitarianism, Zhu Houzhao can also respond to these four words with four words, but he doesn't think so.

In Zhu Houzhao's view, slaughter is the simplest, most direct and most effective way to solve the problem once and for all, and slaughter can deter and deter the enemy to the greatest extent, just like when he was in the grassland, he implemented a policy of sweeping, slaughtering, and capturing at the beginning, and the purpose was to consume the fundamental power of the grassland to the greatest extent.

Originally, Zhu Houzhao thought that he could do the same in Western Europe, but now he feels that his brother is right.

The situation in Western Europe is not complicated and extremely complicated, and the reason for this is that as long as the Holy See can be conquered, then for Western Europe it will be equivalent to the complete collapse of the spiritual pillar, and without the support of the spiritual pillar, then the countries of Western Europe are a group of lambs to the slaughter.

This is definitely not a joke, because Western Europeans believe in God, they are all believers in Christ, and it is not terrible to lose a war, but the terrible thing is that the collapse of the Holy See will make all believers realize that their faith in the Lord has completely abandoned them, and will make them feel that they have become sinners, and then give up on themselves.

But the complexity is also in the Holy See, don't look at Western Europe with large and small kingdoms and principalities, they really do not have a big unity, but the existence of the Holy See and the theory of descent make these countries actually like many branches of a big family.

For example, the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France can actually be seen as a fight between two brothers in the family, but this fight lasted a little longer.

Because of the relationship of blood, the nobles of Italy can become the king of France, and the nobles of Rome can also become the monarch of Spain, as for whether it is a man or a woman, it does not matter, because regardless of men and women, the noble blood is unchanged, so both men and women with noble blood have the right to inherit the throne.

In China, a woman becomes Wu Zetian, who will be tolerated by the world, and the queen mother who listens to the government will be said to be a chicken Sichen, but in Western Europe, that is completely non-existent......

Zhu Houzhao has been in Western Europe for a long time and knows how much influence the Holy See has in this region, so he knows very well that even if he now occupies a vast territory, and even uses strong force to suppress Western European countries and beat them wildly, this is only a symptom and not a cure!

Even Zhu Houzhao knew very well that as long as the Holy See had the heart to break the net and called on the believers in Western Europe to rebel against Dawu at all costs, then the Dawu Dynasty would face a crazy counterattack from millions of believers!

Although these temporary so-called armies are a group of rabble, the battlefield will always be a place of transformation for soldiers, and 10 million rabble, too many dare not say, and finally transform into tens of millions of soldiers who dare to fight, there is no problem!

What kind of situation will the Dawu Dynasty face at that time?

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