Churches and monasteries, there may be many people who don't know anything about Catholicism who don't know what the relationship between the two is.

To put it simply, a monastery is a complex of buildings with a variety of different functions, and churches are one of them.

In other words, there is a church in the monastery, just as the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty is in Suncheon City, and the monastery can be regarded as a city.

The original name of the city of Sofia was not Sofia, but Serdica, which was renamed Sofia a few decades ago in the 14th century, when it was renamed Sofia because of the Hagia Sophia Church.

Zhu Zhanyan didn't know much about Western religions, he didn't even believe in Buddhism, let alone Western religions.

All he knew was that some very large churches, such as those in Rome, had a special existence.

Either it is the cathedral of an archbishop, the site of a religious miracle, or the preservation of incomparably precious relics.

Is the Hagia Sophia Church like this? Zhu Zhanyan didn't know either.

Standing at the door of the Hagia Sophia Church, Zhu Zhanyan beckoned.

"Pass the order down and arrest someone!"

"In the convent, whether it is ordinary people, missionaries, nuns, even the pope, as long as it is a human being, they will all be arrested by me!"

"Yes!" Zhu Ling retreated with a bit of excitement.

However, Zhu Zhan's order was not over.

"Zhu Ping, did you come out this time to bring fierce fire oil?"

"Bring it!" Zhu Ping's body was shocked, but he still answered truthfully.

He had already guessed what Zhu Zhanyan wanted to do......

Although Zhu Ping didn't know much about Catholicism, and he hadn't even heard of it before he came to Europe, he knew that it was the same as a Buddhist temple or a Taoist temple.

At this time, it is necessary to fire the oil fiercely...... Hiss......

Zhu Ping gasped.

Soon, Zhu Zhanyan's words confirmed his guess.

"Get on the hot oil! Burned it for me! ”

"Yes!"

……

There was a terrible howl in the monastery of Sofia, people were constantly being taken away, those who disobeyed were summarily executed, and in the center of the cathedral, the Ming army was pouring barrels and barrels of fierce fire oil.

Soon, the fierce fire oil was sprinkled all over the floor of the Church of St. Sophia, and the expressionless Zhu Zhanyan took the torch in Zhu Ping's hand and threw it out.

With the help of the fierce fire oil, the flames burst into flames, and the heat rushed to their faces, making people unconsciously take two steps back.

Medieval Europe, especially from the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries, was mostly made of wood, but churches were different.

The chapel in small places may be made of wooden structure in its entirety, but the cathedral is only wooden in terms of the main frame and pillars, and many other places are filled with stone bricks.

This leads to the fact that even if a large church is on fire, it may not burn to the point of being particularly outrageous, and the Saint Sophia Church in front of Zhu Zhan is a large church.

However, it is enough that the main frame and pillars are wooden.

Seeing that the Church of Hagia Sophia had been completely engulfed in flames, Zhu Zhanyan clapped his hands with satisfaction, turned around and asked the princes to escort hundreds of households and thousands of households to take people down to clean up.

Sofia was an important garrison before taking Fort Nico, and as far as the people in this city were concerned, Zhu Zhanyan must also be cleaned up.

After all, in the eyes of Catholics, he, as an outsider, is the most typical heretic.

If such a person is not killed, will it be possible to keep it for the New Year?

After arranging these, Zhu Zhanyan began to ask people to help him find a place to live.

Originally, in the monastery, the most representative building may be the church, but now that the church has been burned, Zhu Zhanyan naturally has to find another place to live.

Besides, the church is a place of prayer for those who are worshippers, it is sacrosanct, and there can be no place for you to live.

The traditional monastery has a place for believers to live, but Zhu Zhanyan doesn't want to live there, not because he is playing music, but because there are too many people living in that place, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will leave anything bad.

Just as Zhu Zhanyan was looking at the burning Saint Sophia Church with his hands behind his back, the guards who had left first and were responsible for arresting the people in the monastery had returned.

"I would like to inform Your Highness the Prince, according to the interpreter, it seems that there are no cardinals here anymore, and all the cardinals have gone to Rome with the Holy See."

"Ask them if there are any important people, or ...... Forget it, drag it out and deal with it. ”

"Yes!"

Zhu Zhanyan just wanted the translator to ask if there were any important people here, but looking at the white pigs who were forcibly pressed to the ground but were still emotional, he felt that it was better to forget it.

Looking at that look, I also know that what these white pigs say is not a good word.

But also, judging from the attitude of the prince's guards, it is not difficult to see that he is the one who is really in charge, and for these white pigs, the people who ordered the attack on Sofia and burned the church of St. Sofia are naturally heretics.

In the Middle Ages, it goes without saying that people had an attitude towards pagans.

Not to mention the infidels themselves, even your family and relatives have to be tied to the cross and burned at the stake, which is a bit similar to the Nine Clans of the Central Plains.

"His Royal Highness ...... the Prince"

Just when Zhu Zhanyan shook his head in disappointment because he didn't get any useful news, a prince guarding Baihu spoke with some hesitation.

"This time...... Is it still the same as before? ”

Zhu Zhanyan turned his head to look at the hundred households, and then looked at the white pigs that were forcibly pressed to the ground that the hundred households were referring to.

"Let's ...... the view of Beijing"

Throwing off a sentence, Zhu Zhanyan left.

A simple sentence made the prince's guards a little excited, because they hadn't built a Jingguan for a long time.

From the beginning of the western conquest of the Timurid Empire, most of the prisoners of war or anything were killed and buried to avoid epidemics.

Either they were taken away, and the slaves were sold to various parts of South and East Asia, and the young were dragged to Suez to dig canals, or sent to Delhi to mine in the Sultan.

The construction of the Beijing view is already a very distant thing.

In comparison, those led by Jian Xiao were better, after all, they had built a Jingguan in Tarnovo.

Listening to the incomprehensible howls of those European white pigs, Zhu Zhanyan raised his eyebrows.

There really are no gods in this world, and even if they do, they will not overlook this world all the time.

The so-called light of God did not shine on them, but allowed themselves to succeed as a dark force.

So, what's so bad about the dark? Isn't it okay to be happy?

However, regardless of whether there is a so-called God or not, the Holy See and those kings will not let Zhu Zhanyan continue like this.

Papal State, Rome.

Pope Martin V looked at the information in his hand and felt a little headache.

Originally, they all thought that Zhu Zhanyan would not do anything particularly out of the ordinary this winter, after all, no one would start a war in winter.

But unexpectedly, Sigismund and other kings had just left on the front foot, and he received information from the Duchy of Venice on the back foot.

Plovdiv fell, and the Ming army had crossed the Balkan Mountains and seemed to be advancing in the direction of Fort Niko.

After receiving this news, Martin V immediately passed the news to everyone, including Sigismund, as quickly as possible.

When the news spread, Martin V began to raise his forehead and ponder.

What to do?

Plovdiv has fallen, and the next target of the Ming army will not be too far away, if not Fort Niko.

Judging from the current situation, it is still possible for the coalition forces of nearby Bosnia and other countries to arrive before the Ming army advances to Fort Niko, but the others are not.

Neither the allied forces of the Holy Roman Empire mobilized by Sigismund nor the crusaders of the Holy See could have arrived before the Ming army attacked Fort Nico.

In the same way, if a large army cannot arrive, it means that the coalition forces of several nearby countries are basically doing useless work.

Constantinople, which had stopped the Ottoman Turks, could not stop the Ming army, and Martin V did not think that these stinky fish and rotten shrimp could stop them.

What to do?

Martin V ran out of ideas for a moment.

Once Fort Nicoburg falls, the victory that the Holy See has previously proclaimed becomes a joke, and the prestige of the Holy See will fall again and again.

When the time comes, he this pope ......

It's pretty much the same, if not a joke.

In the past, the Crusaders rushed to Constantinople and were completely annihilated, and the armor that symbolized the glory of the Crusaders was hung on the walls of the castle, and now that Fort Nicoco has fallen again, he has really been forced to the edge of the cliff.

Leaning back slowly, Martin V took a deep breath, feeling the powerlessness that welled up in his heart.

But others are not as pessimistic as he is.

Kingdom of Aragon, Zaragoza.

After the area north of the Loire, including Paris, was occupied by the Kingdom of England, Charles VII had to flee Paris to seek refuge in his mother-in-law, Yolanda.

After receiving the news of Agnès's return, Charles VII immediately found his mother-in-law, Yolanda.

"So, you're planning to hand over Joan of Arc and ask me to lift the restrictions and let the Eastern army, which the Holy Roman Empire calls the Legion of Hell, leave the Mediterranean?"

Yolanda looked at her son-in-law and felt that she had misheard.

The Kingdom of Aragon was one of the few countries of this era to have sea supremacy, as they held the Balearic Islands at the exit of the Mediterranean, and the United Kingdom of Castile, which controlled the Strait of Gibraltar, was also their federation.

If the Ming army wants to get out of the Mediterranean, it really has to go from this side, otherwise it will have to go around the entire African continent.

Therefore, Charles VII approached his mother-in-law as soon as he got the news, hoping that his mother-in-law would order the opening of the Strait of Gibraltar for the Ming army.

Again, this proves that Charles VII has made a decision to give the famous Joan of Arc to Zhu Zhanyan.

Perhaps no one expected that the darkness of the Ming Dynasty had begun to slowly penetrate, and even infected most of Europe.

(End of chapter)