The usefulness of such books is even more evident on the front lines of the confrontation between different sects.

For example, in order to confront the forced conversion policy of the Poles, the diocese of Kiev was in some parts of the front line. The local priests not only had to preach in their own diocese, but also often secretly went to the opposite side to carry out propaganda activities.

Although the Poles have become more and more religious, they are still very careless in their administration – it is not a matter of attitude or modus operandi, but that their administrative level does not support stricter management. As long as there are people alive, there is no way to strictly control them, and no matter how brutal they are, it is useless.

Under these circumstances, the local church produced a large number of easily concealed pamphlets that were widely distributed among Orthodox believers in the occupied territories of Poland. In the early years, the local Orthodox Church did not look down on this propaganda, because they considered the Roman Church and the priests attached to them to be a more serious heresy than the Polish Catholic Church.

In fact, this was the norm at the time.

Although the Orthodox and Catholic churches were divided, the contradictions between the two sides were not as fierce as later generations imagined—or perhaps because the Protestant movement was the focus of education, people would inevitably regard this situation as the general rule. But in reality, the Catholic Church's dislike of Protestantism and the conflict between the two sides are far more serious than between Catholics and Orthodoxy.

Although they often debated the scriptures and excommunicated each other from time to time, the two churches stayed at this step for most of the time, and the Pope once opposed the Crusaders against the attack on Constantinople. In comparison, the difference in attitudes is quite obvious.

But the church in the Purple Horde was different. From the moment their power gradually expanded and they came into the field of vision of major countries, the attacks they were under attack never stopped.

The nobles here hated the Purple Horde's division of land, and it could not be explained. In the earliest days, Guo Gai also wrote to the noble councils of Poland and Hungary, saying that this was a measure that existed in the Shang Dynasty and had been in existence for nearly 2,000 years, and was a tradition of the Eastern Seris. They are just acting according to their habits, and they are not trying to go against anyone.

Unfortunately, the local aristocracy did not know about Seris, nor did they have any concept of two thousand years, and felt that such exaggerated figures were exaggerated at first glance. In the end, the letter sank into the sea, and there was not even a single message.

And the local church is extremely hostile to them. Some saw the Purple Horde's expropriation of the Bulgarian region of the Church as a threat to the entire Church – even though they and the Bulgarians were not of the same denomination.

More people used religion as a banner, believing that the sect adopted by the Purple Horde had become heretical to the point of not being a branch of the Crucifixion. However, because of the work of Patriarch Zhang, the spread of this sect among the people is particularly fast, so it is necessary to eliminate them as soon as possible to prevent the situation from getting out of control.

Under these circumstances, the Purple Horde was constantly attacked by crusaders from all walks of life from the time the tent was officially established, and the Celestial Cultists on the Jerusalem side did not suffer more crusaders than them. At first, only a few nobles with relevant interests came out for relatives, but later as the power of the Purple Horde expanded, large countries such as Poland and Hungary joined in as an organization. In the end, it became what it is now.

Ever since Basil III invaded southern Italy and interfered in the question of the Naplean succession, the Catholic Church in Rome has changed its tune and recognized the Church of the Purple Horde, officially called the "Roman Church of God", as its own cousin.

Of course, the upper echelons of the Catholic Church have no control over the choice of local churches.

At this time, they were in the midst of a confrontation between the two Holy Sees, Rome and Avignon, which, as the old European saying goes, is Barbarossa's crossing of the river – it is difficult to protect itself. It's good to be able to maintain your own existence, how can you have the effort to care about anything else.

In the years that followed, the Hungarian Church gradually collapsed under the civil war and the attacks of the Purple Horde. The Church in Poland existed and became stronger, while the local Orthodox Church suffered.

In the early years, the two sides could barely coexist, but as the Purple Horde turned on the offensive, the mentality of the Polish people and clergy became more and more radical, and the secular aristocracy and the upper echelons of the church urgently needed someone to be scapegoats.

The policy of forced proselytizing in this period was even more vigorous than in the thirteenth century. In the rear and in the big cities, it is relatively easy to speak, and in the areas near the border on the front, sometimes it is simply skipping this step and massacring Orthodox villages as a way to vent.

In this case, the local Orthodox Church has practically no choice.

During the reign of the Empress Dowager Helena, the Poles, who had suffered successive setbacks in their attacks, thought that there were spies from within, and began to arrest the prisoners. So, the Queen Mother secretly ordered her henchmen to go to the northern shore of the Black Sea, where a military region had not yet been established, and from time to time she would pretend to be a local force and contact Poland.

From time to time, these headless letters would be intercepted by the Polish aristocracy, making them more and more suspicious. It immediately occurred to some people that the current situation was very similar to the Sicilian Vespers incident in the past.

It is said that the revolt that expelled the French at that time was the Greek Emperor Michael VIII behind the scenes. Through his intrigues, he was able to weaken the Kingdom of Sicily, which had long been opposed to him, and prevent French power from continuing eastward in the Mediterranean.

The situation now, as it was then, was that the obviously cunning Greeks were going to repeat their old tricks and incite the local Orthodox people to revolt.

Moreover, in their opinion, the most suspicious betrayal must be those Orthodox Christians whose hometown is in the south and fled from their hometown because of their opposition to God's worship. After all, it is easier to collude with their hometown under the rule of the Purple Horde, and who knows if any of them are spies themselves?

Therefore, the Poles decided to strike first. Now is not the time to discipline friendship, so we can only hurry up and strike hard.

The local nobles captured a large number of ordinary people, but failed to find the existence of the spy, which made the nobles even more alarmed, suspecting that the spy had already started to act and the plan had begun. Believing that they did not have time to conduct a detailed search, they approached the church, the only remaining local governing organization, and demanded that the suspicious person be handed over immediately, or else the church would be dealt with first.

In a panic, Dmitry, an Orthodox bishop from the Galich region, tried to go to the capital to protest. He promised the Church to be loyal to the king and to be strictly secular and not to participate in any military and political confrontation. However, others did not believe him at all, and on the way, Dmitry was killed by Polish thugs, and the documents he signed were burned. Arrests and killings of Orthodox Christians followed.

The Poles called Galicia Galicia, so the event is also known as the "Galician Martyrdom" incident. Upon hearing the news, the Empress Dowager Helena ordered the Patriarch to posthumously crown Dmitry, as well as more than 20 prominent figures who had been killed for refusing to convert to the Holy Church, and called on Orthodox believers to abandon their past prejudices and unite in the face of extreme threats.

Since then, the local climate has gradually changed. Many monks and believers of southern origin fled Poland and returned to the territory of the Purple Horde. Others insisted on continuing their activities in Poland, working to organize and call on Orthodox Christians in other regions to fight against religious oppression in Poland.

Due to some other areas, the conflict is less acute; Coupled with the distance from the Purple Horde and the fear of retaliation from the Polish army, there were still many Rus' villages and towns that insisted on neutrality and did not want to respond directly. But this kind of underground activity has continued since then.

The Poles were so tired of this that they suggested that they should be "converted to Orthodoxy" and that all these annoying creatures should be expelled, especially in the southern regions near the Purple Horde, even if not on the border, and that they should be driven back to the Purple Horde in the south.

However, because many nobles owned property in the Orthodox areas of Lithuania and Rus', and they were worried that things would be uncontrollable as long as they started, this plan of "returning Orthodoxy to the south and Catholicism to the north" was not really implemented.

(End of chapter)