In the 28th year of Chongzhen, that is, in the first month of 1655 AD, Bu Mige took a newly commissioned Zheng He-class cruiser of the Ming Navy, and after several months of sailing, he finally caught up with the main fleet of the Navy in the Tyrrhenian waters of the Mediterranean, and boarded the Zheng He ship to join Chongzhen.

Bu Mige had already received the title of Chongzhen a few years ago and became the head of Christianity.

At least in the Ming Dynasty, the Christian theocracy was subordinated to the imperial power of the secular emperors, and the pope was renamed the head of the church, and every head of the church had to accept the emperor's title before succeeding to the throne.

When the head of the Christian religion saw the emperor, he also had to make a big salute.

Bu Mige paid the highest respect to Chongzhen.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Great Conqueror, Your Servant, the 240th Master of Christianity, hereby sends you the highest greetings and warmly congratulates you on your reign in the Mediterranean."

[In view of the general environment,

The self-proclaimed 240th generation of Christianity is a sign of inheritance and recognition of Western Christianity, because the current Pope Alexander VII is the 239th pope of the West.

"Bumig, you couldn't have arrived at a better time." Chongzhen said with a smile.

"When the 4th Army Division takes Rome, you'll be able to return home."

Wealth does not return to his hometown, just like a brocade at night, Bu Mige has been looking forward to this day for a long, long time.

He was anxious to show Alexander VII and the Vatican's bishops, priests, and deacons how far he had spread Christianity in the East.

In the Ming Empire, at least 300 million people already believed in Christianity.

Yes, the household department has just done a census, and the number of mouths in the Ming Dynasty is more than 200 million and more than 900 million, and if you count the number of mouths in Wadao, North Korea and Nanyang, it will definitely exceed 300 million.

Almost all of these 300 million people are Christians.

In this era, the total population of the world is only five or six billion.

This means that more than half of the world's population is Christian.

What a great result? Christianity has never been more splendid!

Of course, in addition to the believers of Christianity, the more than 300 million people of the Ming Dynasty are also believers in Buddhism and Taoism, but Bu Mige does not care, because Christianity is no longer a monotheistic religion.

At that moment, Bumige said excitedly, "I am looking forward to this moment."

……

In 1655, Fiumicino was still a small fishing village.

Early in the morning, the fishermen in the small fishing village got up early and were about to go out to sea to fish in their canoes, but they were surprised to see a large number of big black boats suddenly emerging on the sea in the distance.

What's even more terrifying is that these big black ships are still emitting black smoke outside.

Seeing this, these fishermen who had never seen the world were immediately frightened.

In the suffocating silence, I don't know which fisherman roared: "Tear Dan, Satan the Devil has sent his army to kill him, everyone run!"

Frightened, the fishermen scattered.

And what happened next seemed to confirm the fishermen's suspicions.

When the big black boats came to the shore, they immediately lowered the small boats, and then the army in all clothes went down the gangway of the big black boat to the small boats, and then rowed straight to Fiumicino.

In the 28th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in 1655 A.D., the 4th Division of the Ming Army landed on the Apennine Peninsula.

The next day, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the 4th Division of the Army, after a short rest in Fiumicino, drove towards the city of Rome, which was less than fifty miles away.

……

News of the arrival of a large army from "Hell" on Fiumicino soon reached Rome.

Pope Alexander VII and all the cardinals, cardinals and deacons of the Holy See who received the news were all stupid, Hell and Satan were just legends, and they could really send an army to crusade against the Holy See?

But soon, more and more exactly

The news came back one after another, and no one could not believe it.

"Your Majesty, the situation has been decided." "Yesterday morning a fleet of dozens of large black ships arrived in Fiumicino, and from it an army, about twenty or twenty thousand, carrying hundreds of cannons, was now heading for Rome," said the cardinal, who had gone to inquire about the news.

"Could it be the French or Spanish army?" Alexander VII still did not believe it.

"Or the army of the Holy Roman Empire? No, the Holy Roman Empire will not fight the Papal States."

"His Holiness is definitely not the army of France, and it is unlikely to be the army of Spain." The cardinal thought for a moment and said, "It's probably the Ottoman army."

"Ottoman troops?" Alexander VII was stunned and said, "This can't be, is it?"

The main forces of the Ottoman Empire, which were following Sultan Murad and fighting with the Safavid army on the Persian plateau, how could they still have the strength to invade the Papal States? What's more, even if the Ottoman Empire really had the spare strength to send troops, shouldn't it first recover Constantinople, which was taken by Ferdinand IV?

"But the scarf of this army is the Sun and Moon Flag, which is very similar to the flag of a certain religion," said the cardinal.

"At the end of the day?" Alexander was stunned for a moment, then hurried back to his chamber and took out a letter from a sealed cabinet that had never been revealed.

The letter was sent back by Bumig.

Because the contents of the letter were so deviant that Alexander VII never made it public.

Alexander carefully reread the letter, and sure enough, he saw that Bu Mige mentioned a sentence in it, the flag of the Ming Empire uses the sun and moon map, and it is the Ming army!

At that moment, Alexander VII returned to the conference hall and said, "It's the Ming Dynasty, it's the Ming Empire in the East!"

"Daming?" The dozens of cardinals, cardinal priests, and cardinal deacons present at the meeting were all stunned, "The Ming Empire, which completely annihilated the Dutch expeditionary fleet and took away all the colonial strongholds of the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal in the East? And the country of the Second Crusade?"

It is outrageous, the Western world has launched the Second Crusade, and the coalition formed by the entire Western world is fighting a decisive battle with the army of the Ming Empire in the Central Asian battlefield. It's unimaginable!

"Your Majesty, this can't be true, absolutely impossible! Impossible!"

"I don't believe it either, how could the Ming Empire send an expeditionary force to land in Rome?"

"Yes, there is at least 20,000 kilometers between Rome and the Ming Empire, so far away!"

Dozens of cardinals, cardinal priests and cardinal deacons questioned this judgment, and it was the first time that Pope Alexander's authority was questioned.

However, the cardinals' doubts were soon interrupted by the roar of cannons.

"Boom! Boom, boom!" With the sound of successive loud explosions, the cardinals sitting in the Great Chamber felt the ground tremble violently under their feet, and the roof of the conference hall was even more fluttering with soil, and even the murals painted on the dome and the walls on both sides began to fall off, which was terrifying.

Soon a monk hurried in and reported: "Your Majesty, Satan's army has reached the outside of Rome, and hundreds of cannons have been erected to bombard Rome."

As soon as the words fell, there was another roaring explosion.

And this time the explosion was louder than before.

The movement after the explosion was also even greater.

Even the dome of the conference hall collapsed with a thud and a corner fell.

But a cannonball landed on the roof of St. Peter's Basilica, and after the explosion, St. Peter's Basilica instantly collapsed, and several cardinal priests and cardinal deacons below did not even have time to escape and were buried alive.

Alexander VII escaped from St. Peter's Basilica with the help of two young friars.

Then he instructed the cardinals who accompanied him: "Quickly, send men to the Duchy of Tuscany, the Kingdom of Sicily, and the Kingdom of Venice for help, so that they can send troops to support the Papal States at once, and send a mission to Paris, Vienna, Madrid, London, and Lisbon at once, and ask the countries to send troops at once!"

……

Outside the city of Rome.

Wang Fuzhi personally came to Chongzhen and reported: "Shengshang, hundreds of cavalry have just rushed out from several other city gates, although the cavalry company of our 4th Division tried its best to intercept it, but because the number was too small, it could not be completely stopped, and it still allowed many Roman cavalry to escape, and it seems that they moved rescue troops."

Bumig said: "It doesn't matter, there are only a few small principalities and free city-states on the Apennine Peninsula, and the strongest ones are a few small principalities such as Florence, Venice and Naples.

"Did you hear me?" Chongzhen smiled and said, "You just have to attack the city."

Wang Fuzhi answered, and immediately went back to direct the artillery to continue the bombardment of the city of Rome.

Chongzhen asked Bu Mig again: "Bu Mige, such a large-scale artillery bombardment of the city of Rome by the artillery of the 4th Division of the Army will inevitably cause damage to the buildings in the city, and the St. Petersburg Cathedral is afraid that it will not be spared, aren't you worried at all?"

"Worried?" Bu Mige was stunned for a moment, and asked Chongzhen rhetorically, "Your Majesty the Emperor, what do I have to worry about?"

Chongzhen said: "Of course, I am worried that the ancient buildings in the city will be blown up, such as the ancient Roman Colosseum, temples or something."

"Arenas and temples?" Bumige smiled and said, "These buildings were only rebuilt a hundred years ago, and they are not real monuments, even if they are blown up, there is nothing to be sorry for."

"What, rebuilt?" Chongzhen said, "Isn't it a building more than 1,600 years ago?"

"How could it be an ancient building from 1,600 years ago?" Bumig shook his head and said, "The Mediterranean Sea is damp and windy, even if it is a marble building, it has been weathered for four hundred years, how can it exist for a thousand years."

Chongzhen was relieved when he thought about it, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty was not also made of marble.

The Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty has been weathered and collapsed in just 400 years, and it is indeed difficult to stand for thousands of years in the wind, rain, frost, snow and dew, not to mention simple single buildings or sculptures, not to mention complex large-scale stone buildings.

[Bar defense: It's just a plot, not an archaeological achievement]