Through this tribal alliance conference, the determination and achievements of the Ming Dynasty to govern the grassland were truly displayed.

The leaders and princes of the steppe tribes who were rich in Beiping would also cut off any ambition to return to the grassland and regain power after seeing all this.

Even if they have the ambition to return to the grassland, they are doomed to fail.

The current grassland is already the grassland of the Ming government and ordinary herdsmen, not the grassland of their tribal leaders and princes.

In the Mongolian steppe in the east, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

In the distant plains of Eastern Europe, an equally seismic change is taking place.

Soon after Wang Baobao led an army of 100,000 Mongols and Yuan to conquer Belgossa, he immediately announced the conversion of all Mongols to Orthodox Christianity.

This is definitely big explosive news for the whole of Eastern Europe.

The conversion of hundreds of thousands of Mongols to Orthodox Christianity made it possible for them to completely integrate with the local Slavs.

Both sides were originally pagans who were on the same page, but now they are religious brothers who believe in the same god.

Wang Baobao used his strong military ability to sweep away all opposition forces in just a few months, completely inherited the prestige of the original Golden Horde in this place, and even went to a higher level.

He asked the eighteen Slavic states to send their heirs as hostages to the city of Salai.

These eighteen states founded by the Slavs obediently obeyed the orders of Wang Baobao.

They were also very supportive of Wang Baobao, because Wang Baobao not only led hundreds of thousands of Mongols to convert to Orthodox Christianity, they also became the lambs of God, but also greatly reduced the taxes of the Slavs.

When the Slavs came to the city of Salai, they swore allegiance to the king.

They also received a promise from Wang Baobao that he would help them punish the Poles and Lithuanians to the west.

Historically, Poles and Lithuanians have had a very good relationship, especially now that it is almost good to wear the same pants.

The Poles and Lithuanians, after wearing a pair of trousers, had the greatest hobby of attacking the Slavs to the east.

The Polish-Lithuanian slaughtered the Slavic population, plundered their livestock and food, and often destroyed the Orthodox Church of the Slavs.

Because the Poles and Lithuanians were fanatical Catholics, they felt that the Orthodox Church, worshipped by the Slavic barbarians, was heretical and should be destroyed, and should not be allowed to be erected on the earth.

It turned out that the scattered Slavs had nothing to do with the Poles and Lithuanians.

After all, the Poles had a stronger military advantage.

The Poles have more advanced civilizations and cities, and they can craft more weapons and armor. Even the brave and warlike Teutonic Knights had been beaten to the ground by the Poles, not to mention the Slavs, who were even more backward in weaponry.

The Slavs could only let the Poles and Lithuanians ride on their heads and unbridled wild.

But.

All this seems to be a thing of the past, as the Orthodox Slavs have ushered in one of their great saviors, the Great Yuan Dynasty's Auxiliary Prince, Wang Baobao John Kuanko.

That's right, this is the new name that Wang Baobao gave himself after converting to Orthodox Christianity.

In the Orthodox Bible, John is the name of the saint.

In the biblical story, St. John was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.

And not only did he qualify to be called St. John, but he was also the only one of the twelve disciples to live a long life and die a good life.

After learning some Bible stories, Wang Baobao naturally had a special preference for this St. John, and gave himself the name of John according to the customs of the Orthodox Church, not only that, but he also gave the name of the Great Yuan Emperor Bayan Timur whom he supported according to the Orthodox tradition.

It's good now.

Their father and son are in the same lineage, Wang Baobao is the illegitimate son of Great John, and Bayannur is

Little John.

It can also be regarded as another recognized father-son relationship.

Because of the long-distance migration of the Mongolian tribes under his command, Wang Baobao's position has become very important and solid.

Wang Baobao gave himself a name called John, and his generals and nobles naturally followed suit, and within a few months at least thousands of names by John appeared among the Mongols.

All the orders issued by Wang Baobao are now signed by Wang Baobao John Kuanko.

If you add Wang Baobao's official position and title, the length of this name is the same as the name of the Slavs, which makes the Slavs also very worried about calling Wang Baobao's full name.

Many Slavs called the vassals of the Great Yuan Dynasty John Timur.

"John Timur", a name full of the flavor of the merger of East and West, Wang Baobao gladly accepted it.

On the banks of the Volga, the city of John Salai.

The current capital of the Great Yuan Dynasty has been renamed from the original Belgosa to John Salai.

The Great Yuan Dynasty and the Great Mongol Auxiliary Emperor Baobao was summoning envoys from various Slavic tribes in his mansion.

This time, he was to consult with these Slavic emissaries and send troops against the Poles.

Because it wasn't that long ago.

The Poles attacked several Slavic countries again, killing the local people, destroying the Orthodox churches, and declaring that their Catholicism was the only true message of God, that the Orthodox Christianity worshiped by the Mongols and Slavs was a damned heresy, and that the Poles boasted that sooner or later they would kill the city of Salai, and wash away the humiliation and blood feud caused to the Poles by the Batu expedition to the west.

After getting this news, Wang Baobao John Timur naturally could not tolerate it.

The Great Yuan Dynasty traveled thousands of miles to the city of Salai on the banks of the Volga River, like a dragon crossing the river, how could he let this little shrimp in Poland bounce under his nose? !

So.

Wang Baobao planned to come to the west of Mongolia again this time to establish the prestige of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

It's just that in order to consolidate the city of Salai in the rear, the scale of the western expedition is very small, led by Wang Baobao's general Haohai 10,000 Warat cavalry, and 30,000 soldiers and horses made up by 18 Slavic tribes, a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses.

Punitive attacks were launched mainly against the Poles and Lithuanians, for the sake of massacre and destruction, not to occupy the land.

Wang Baobao summoned these Slavic envoys and soon made a plan for the expedition.

But.

This time, before the military operation could begin, it was hindered by other forces.

In the southern part of the Eastern European Plain, on the Crimean Peninsula bordering the Black Sea, there is a famous city of Kaffa.

The city of Kaffa was founded as a trading city by the Genoese.

It was mainly used to transport goods from Europe and West Asia by sea to the Slavic tribes and the Mongol Golden Horde, and then to transport the Oriental goods from the Golden Horde from the Silk Road, as well as Slavic slaves to Egypt, Eastern Rome and Europe.

After decades of development, the Genoese were very powerful in the city of Kaffa, with not only an elite garrison, but also an invincible merchant fleet across the Black Sea.

After hearing that Wang Baobao was preparing to use troops against the Poles, the Genoese of Kaffa immediately sent people to express their opposition.

The reason is that the Genoese were Catholics as well as the Poles.

Of course.

For these profit-minded Genoese, this was just an excuse for them to oppose Wang Baobao's troops.

In fact, the Genoese did not want a dynasty more powerful than the Golden Horde to be born under their noses.

Moreover, the Great Yuan Dynasty also converted to Orthodox Christianity and united the eighteen Slavic states under their command, which was absolutely unacceptable to the Genoese.

Because the existence of the city of Kaffa was mainly for the acquisition of Slavic slaves in the steppes of Eastern Europe, as well as from

Oriental goods transported from the steppe Silk Road.

Now because of the migration of Wang Baobao's Mongol army, they are destroying along the way, and the northern route is the steppe, and the Silk Road has been cut off.

The Genoese in Kaffa could hardly buy any Oriental goods.

And once the eighteen Slavic states were united under the auspices of the Great Yuan Dynasty, there would be no more wars.

Without war, there would be no prisoners.

Without captives, there were no Slavic slaves to be sold.

This was tantamount to cutting off the Genoese people's financial routes.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents.

Naturally, the Genoese did not want to see a dynasty that patronized the Slavs of the Great Yuan.

What they need is a chaotic group of Slavs.

Therefore, the Genoese were resolutely opposed to the Mongols sending troops to attack the Poles.

Once the Poles were defeated, the Slavs would rise, even under the leadership of the Mongols, which was unacceptable to the Genoese.

For these Genoese who came out of nowhere, Wang Baobao didn't intend to buy their account at first.

However, many of the obedient Slavs advised him to think carefully.

And these Slavs repeatedly affirmed the importance and power of the Genoese on the Black Sea.

Only then did Wang Baobao know where the confidence of the Genoese people to dare to point fingers in front of him came from.

Especially after he heard that the location of Kaffa City belonged to the land of the Golden Horde, Wang Baobao could not tolerate these Genoese jumping up and down.

"On the side of the couch, how can we allow others to sleep soundly, a group of businessmen who do business with us, dare to point fingers at my Great Yuan national policy, is it tolerable or unbearable, we must punish them well, let them know who is the master of this land."

As the saying goes, it is rude to come and go, Wang Baobao also sent a messenger.

Wang Baobao sent an envoy to denounce the Genoese for interfering in the internal affairs of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and he also ordered the Genoese to immediately withdraw from the city of Kaffa within the specified time limit and return the land to the Great Yuan Dynasty, otherwise if the Great Yuan Dynasty became angry, they would capture the city of Kaffa with a million troops.

At that time, a merciless massacre of the Genoese was bound to be carried out.

If it had been more than a hundred years ago, when the Mongols had just begun their westward expedition, this fierce threat of slaughter would have scared the Genoese into the air.

But.

More than a decade earlier, the Golden Horde had threatened the Genayans in the same tone, only to have failed after a year of siege and a devastated retreat.

From that time on, the Genoese felt that Kaffa was indestructible.

They didn't take Wang Baobao's words to heart at all, but immediately countered Wang Baobao's threat in their own way.

The Genoese used their powerful naval fleet to attack many cities and ports in the northeastern Black Sea.

These were naval bases built by the Mongols during the Golden Horde, but were destroyed by the Genoese attack.

This was a naked declaration of war against the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Subsequently, the Genoese went even further, and they also blocked the Eastern Roman Empire's envoys from Constantinople to the Great Yuan Dynasty.

The Eastern Roman Emperor John V was overjoyed when he heard that a powerful Eastern Mongol army had replaced the Golden Horde and converted to Orthodox Christianity.

John V felt that this was a powerful ally that could save the Eastern Roman Empire from its demise, so he sent an envoy from the Eastern Roman Empire to conclude an alliance with the Great Yuan Dynasty.

The Genoese naturally did not allow this to happen, and they detained the emissaries of the Eastern Romans.

This is to announce that the Genoese have carried out bottomless provocations against both the Great Yuan Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire.

Emperor John V of the Eastern Roman Empire already hated the greedy Genoese merchants.

Even if there were quite a few Genna among his mercenaries

The sub-people still could not calm the anger in John V's heart.

John V sent the last remaining elite fleet of the Eastern Roman Empire to launch a punitive attack on the Genoese.

The two sides engaged in several engagements on the Black Sea.

The entire Black Sea is filled with war, coupled with billowing black smoke from the northern shore of the Black Sea from time to time.

All the countries surrounding the Black Sea know that the Genoese are not afraid of any adversary in order to defend their interests on the Black Sea.

The rest of the situation depends on how the Great Yuan Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire dealt with Genoa's powerful navy.

Since his conversion to Orthodox Christianity, Wang Baobao has learned more about religion and much about the Roman Empire.

He knew that although the current Eastern Roman Empire was weak and was bullied by various surrounding countries, it had become a regionally weak country.

But the history of honor that the Eastern Roman Empire has is an intangible treasure.

If an alliance can be concluded with the Eastern Roman Emperor, then the Great Yuan Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire will inevitably establish a strong Orthodox alliance here, which is very conducive to the Mongols to consolidate their position.

But now the abominable Genoese intercepted the emissaries of the Eastern Roman Empire, making it impossible for the king to negotiate an alliance with the Eastern Roman Empire.

Faced with this situation, Wang Baobao was very angry in his heart.

But no matter how angry he was, Wang Baobao could not do anything about the Genoese now.

Because the Mongols did not have a navy, and the Genoese navy was too strong.

They had more than 100 warships of all sizes in the Black Sea, while the Golden Horde naval heritage that Wang Baobao received was less than 10 warships.

The only ten ships were too small to deal with the mighty galleys of the Genoese on the sea.

Therefore, Wang Baobao decided to abandon the Black Sea for the time being and slow down the alliance with the Eastern Roman Empire.

First of all, he wholeheartedly reconciled the interior, and then taught the Poles to the west.

Ever since Wang Baobao united with the Slavic client states to prepare to attack Poland westward, King Kami III of Poland launched a general mobilization of the whole country, with an army of almost 34,000 men.

Poland had never amassed such a large number of troops, which shows the importance they attached to the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Because they have also heard that these Mongols from the East are the Mongols who once crisscrossed the Eurasian continent.

Otherwise, there would definitely not be such a strong fighting power capable of crushing and destroying the mighty Golden Horde in one fell swoop.