A madman, naturally, is no longer fit to be a protector of the Orthodox Church.

Alexios said angrily to his archbishops, "John V has tried to rebel against God's will for the sake of worldly interests, which is absolutely unbearable for us pious people, and whoever can come up with a way to get John V to change his foolish idea, I will consider giving him the position of the next Archbishop of Constantine." ”

The Orthodox Church has a regional system of responsibility for the jurisdiction of each locality.

Each region has an archbishop.

Although these archbishops are equal in status, they also differ in status due to the size of their respective jurisdictions.

Among them, the archbishop of Constantinople is the most honorable, and generally speaking, the archbishop of Constantinople will eventually become the next Orthodox patriarch if there are no accidents.

This is the equivalent of the Orthodox religious prince!

Alexios's words made several of his archbishops gear up to offer advice.

Some of them proposed a petition of 10,000 people to show John V the fundamental bottom line that Roman citizens were pre-Orthodox and could not change their faith under any circumstances.

However, after the unanimous deliberation of the people, the idea did not feel useful.

Because John V had already made it clear that whoever could save the Eastern Roman Empire would go to whom he would uphold his faith.

It is difficult to persuade success by ordinary means.

Moreover, the Roman citizens of Constantinople are no longer the Roman legions that went into battle to kill the enemy, but have all become 'Eastern Roman waste'.

The Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Alexios, felt that he could not organize a large petition procession.

Because the Roman citizens of Constantinople had always been free and loose, unless there was a great enemy of life and death in the city, even if God came, he could not command them.

Disorganization and lack of discipline are the true portrayal of the citizens of the Eastern Roman Empire.

If one plan fails, everyone has another plan.

They felt that they should send someone to contact the Genoese, as long as they persuaded the Genoese to withdraw their troops.

Give up attacking and blockading the ports of the Eastern Roman Empire, and John V will have a change of heart.

But this idea was tantamount to painting a pie to satisfy hunger, and the Genoeseans demanded a lot of land reparations, and the Eastern Roman Empire could not come up with the money at all.

The Patriarch of the Orthodox Church is not the God of Wealth, so naturally he cannot make money to feed the greedy Genoese, and it is absolutely not permissible to sell the property of the Orthodox Church.

How can mortals have the right to dispose of God's earthly possessions?

Therefore, the proposal to bribe the Genoese to withdraw from the army was unanimously rejected after deliberation, and then they made several suggestions that seemed to be feasible, but in the end they were not unanimously approved.

Patriarch Alexios couldn't help but feel impatient as he looked at the archbishops under his command.

Suddenly, he had an idea, and a brilliant idea came to mind.

He clapped his hands to silence the crowd, and then said to them, "Since John V wants to turn his back on our Orthodox Church, why don't we strike first, depose his Eastern Roman Emperor, and choose a powerful man who can defend the interests of Orthodoxy and Roman citizens to be Roman Emperor?" ”

The words of Patriarch Alexios caused everyone to be horrified.

Over the past thousand years, the Eastern Roman Empire has changed more than a dozen dynasties, countless coups and mutinies, and many emperors.

But none of the Roman emperors were coup d'état by the Orthodox Patriarch.

Alexios' proposal can be said to be a bold move that has never been done before.

Everyone hurriedly asked how to do it.

"Patriarch, who can replace John V as Roman Emperor?"

"Isn't it possible to let the Bulgarian king come?"

"Or rather, let the governor of Thrace come and take office."

……

The archbishops were babbling about what they thought were possible candidates.

These mentioned candidates are all more or less related to the current Roman emperor.

By blood, it was not impossible to serve as Roman emperor.

But the Patriarch Alexios smiled coldly and said a name that no one had expected.

"John, John from Mongolia!"

"I think he can replace John V as the new emperor of the Roman Empire!"

Alexios said in an unquestioning tone.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this name.

None of them knew who this John was.

The crowd asked Alexios what he meant about John as sacred.

Only then did Alexios say, "Have you forgotten? On the northern shore of the Black Sea, the Mongols from the East have just replaced the Golden Horde, and their leader has recently converted to our Orthodox Christianity, and has a new name called John, who is a descendant of the Three Wise Men who blessed Jesus in those days, and how deeply connected to God! And he has a lot of force, and as long as we can welcome him to Constantinople to replace John V as Emperor, I don't think it's a problem at all. ”

When the group of people in the room heard these words, their mouths opened wide in shock.

All of them did not make a sound for a long time.

Because the news was so shocking that they couldn't digest it for a while.

Let a Mongol from the east become the emperor of the Roman Empire.

If it weren't for the Orthodox Patriarch Alexios in front of him, everyone would have thought that this would have to be a madman's nonsense.

Alexios was not in the slightest surprised by the reaction.

Everyone questioned.

"This John is a Mongol!"

"Yes, he was an unfaithful heretic not long ago!"

"Nope! To be more terrible than a pagan is to be an unbeliever. ”

"These Mongols just killed 100,000 Poles!"

"They are the butchers of terror, the Satan of Hell! How can you become a Roman emperor? ”

"If the Mongols are allowed to become Roman emperors, all Roman citizens will probably take to the streets to rebel!"

Faced with a lot of doubts, Alexios showed a disdainful look, he waved his hand at the crowd, quieted the gossip archbishops, and then said slowly.

"What's wrong with him being a Mongol?"

"Now John V, he is still an Armenian! Among the previous Roman emperors were Thracians, Macedonians, and even slaves of unknown origin. Don't we still see them as emperors of the empire? ”

Alexios was right.

In the history of the Roman Empire, there have been numerous coups and mutinies, and many generals who had commanded the army were put on the throne of Roman emperors.

Because of the tradition of using foreign mercenaries, many mercenaries were not Roman citizens at all, and many became Roman emperors.

"Therefore, it is not unusual for a Macedonian, or Armenian, to become a Roman emperor, and a Mongol to become a Roman emperor."

Alexios's words made everyone feel that it was really reasonable.

Then Patriarch Alexios said. "It doesn't matter if he is a Mongol, it doesn't matter if he didn't have faith before, before he converted to Orthodoxy, he killed countless pagans, isn't such a great credit enough to make up for it?"

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"Inspired by God in the dark, this John has come to us from far and wide!"

Alexios' words were also very convincing to everyone.

According to previous rumors, a fierce war broke out between the Mongols and the Celestial Cultists in the East, and hundreds of thousands of Celestial Cultists were slaughtered by the Mongols. The results of such a wind and such a great force even surpassed all the results of the last two crusades launched by the Pope.

Alexios continued: "This John from the steppe killed more than 100,000 people in Poland, but they Poles deserve it, who allowed the destruction of the Orthodox church and the slaughter of many Orthodox believers!" ”

"There is nothing wrong with the Mongol John as a devout believer in punishing the Poles, but he has a great deal of merit."

The Poles were the licking dogs of the Pope, and in order to show their devotion to Roman Catholicism, they regarded almost all Orthodox Christians as heretics. The Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople had long been unhappy with the Poles, and now that the Poles had been slaughtered by the Mongols, Patriarch Alexios was naturally very happy.

After some arguments by Patriarch Alexios, all the archbishops under his command felt that John from the Mongolian steppe was the best candidate for the position of Roman emperor.

Of course, all these reasons are not decisive for the last reason.

That is, John from the steppe had a force that the current Roman Emperor John V could not match!

Hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops!

They are now Orthodox believers, and once they succeed in Constantinople, the glory of the Orthodox Church will flourish again!

The situation that had been suppressed by Roman Catholicism for hundreds of years would inevitably be completely overturned.

In this chamber, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Alexius, and a dozen of his archbishops finally made a secret decision to go to the northern shore of the Black Sea and ask John Timur to come to Constantinople to become Roman Emperor.

In order to accomplish this great and arduous task, Alexios personally appointed Archbishop Joseph, the most trusted of his subordinates, as a plenipotentiary envoy to represent himself on the Yuan Dynasty.

In the city of Salai, thousands of miles away from Constantinople.

Wang Baobao never thought that he just wanted to spend a winter in Salai City.

Suddenly, a crown fell from the sky and was about to fall on his head.

Sent by Patriarch Alexios, Archbishop Josephus disguised himself as a merchant and headed north along the Black Sea in a small boat, after evading the patrols of the Genoese navy.

Archbishop Joseph finally arrived on the Crimean Peninsula after much hardship.

After expressing their intentions, the local Mengyuan defenders immediately sent someone to report the situation to Wang Baobao.

Wang Baobao naturally attached great importance to the envoy from Constantinople, thinking that the Eastern Roman Emperor had sent someone to discuss the alliance, and sent a special person to lead the elite cavalry to escort Archbishop Joseph to the city of Salai.

After a long journey, as soon as Archbishop Joseph saw Wang Baobao, he immediately knelt down on one knee and explained his intention to Wang Baobao with the most pious attitude.

"How can you be a translator, a barbarian, people obviously came to me to talk about the alliance between the two countries, how did it come to your mouth to give me the throne? I'm an outsider and I'm not the son of a Roman emperor, so why do I get someone else's throne!? Wang Baobao looked annoyed.

This is a serious diplomatic accident!

But the Slavic translator in front of him was innocent.

After another careful inquiry, he looked at Wang Baobao with very pitiful eyes and said, "Your Royal Highness, there is nothing wrong, this is what Archbishop Joseph said. Patriarch Alexius of Constantinople and a dozen archbishops have unanimously decided that they want you to go to Constantinople to replace Joseph John V as the new Roman Emperor. ”

After confirming that the news was correct, Wang Baobao was simply stunned.

The world is so big that there are no surprises.

Wang Baobao felt that he had traveled from south to north, trekking mountains and rivers for tens of thousands of miles, and he was well-informed, but this kind of thing of sending a throne to the door was definitely the first time he had heard of it.

"I'm a Mongol, not your Roman!" Wang Baobao asked in a very skeptical tone.

"Although you are a Mongol, but you become a Roman emperor, then you are also a Roman." Archbishop Joseph said with an extremely solemn expression.

When Wang Baobao heard it, it was the same reason, but he thought of his identity again.

is now the corrupt assistant Taishi of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and has been made a prince, after all, he is still a courtier of the Great Yuan Emperor.

Let a courtier of one country be the emperor of another.

It's not appropriate to think about this kind of thing.

Then Wang Baobao expressed his concern.

"Huh?!" When Archbishop Joseph heard this, he was also a little overwhelmed.

It turned out that because of the lack of information, when the people of the Eastern Roman Empire received the news about the Great Yuan Dynasty, they all thought that Wang Baobao, who controlled the affairs of the Great Yuan Dynasty, was the monarch of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

They hadn't even heard of Bayan Timur, the Great Mongol Khan and Emperor of the Great Yuan.

Archbishop Joseph reacted flexibly and immediately resolved the embarrassment.

"The Emperor of the Roman Empire can have the titles of Caesar and Augustus, and both can perform the duties of the emperor, and just like your Great Mongol State, you and the current Great Mongol Emperor can serve as Augustus and Caesar of the Roman Empire respectively, so that the original relationship can be maintained, and the imperial affairs can be presided over normally."

Archbishop Joseph is not an honest man, and he is just a fool of Wang Baobao.

In the Roman Empire, the official title of the emperor was actually the head of the state or first citizen.

It's just that in the later evolution, Augustus and Caesar gradually had their own specific meanings.

As for whether the pie falling from the sky would be a trap, Wang Baobao did not feel anything terrible.

He now clearly understands that the military capabilities of these countries in Europe are very weak, and they are no match for the Great Mongolian State at all.

Hao Hai led 10,000 Vairat cavalry to kill seven in and seven out of the Kingdom of Poland, and finally retreated, and also captured a large amount of gold and silver treasures and tens of thousands of Polish women.

This shows that the Mongols' combat power was far superior to that of European countries.

Of these European countries, the Eastern Roman Empire was the weakest in combat.

Even if he has a supreme glorious history, it can't change the current very embarrassing situation.

Wang Baobao himself is a robber, how can he be afraid of any black shop!