Chapter 494: Trade-offs

Picking up the old business more than ten years ago made Zhu Zhanyan feel more or less like a world away.

Over the years, although there have been a lot of lives under his name, even more and more, there are really not many Jingguan he has built.

Nowadays, when people talk about Zhu Zhanqi, they often think of tyranny and killing, and it seems that Zhujing has become the most common thing Zhu Zhanyan did in the war.

But in fact, Zhu Zhan built a Beijing Temple on the grassland at the very beginning, and although he proposed to build the Beijing Temple, he actually didn't want to be the person who supervised the construction of the Beijing Temple, but was driven by Emperor Taizong to put it on the shelf.

After that, Zhu Zhan Yan also built the Beijing View in the Wa Kingdom, and at the same time, the Battle of the Conquest of the Japanese was also the largest battle in Zhu Zhan Yan's life.

But after the conquest, Zhu Zhanyan really didn't build much of a Beijing view.

The Indochina Peninsula was burned and encircled, and the Wu Wangyi at that time had decided to take the Indochina Peninsula as their base, so naturally they would not build a Beijing Temple in their own home.

Later, it was the Delhi Sultan, but from the very beginning, Zhu Zhan Yan planned to use the methods of brainwashing and temptation to make the Asan men work for him, so he just got rid of the high caste of the Delhi Sultan.

Finally, it's time to go west.

On the way to the west, many people died because of this war, but Zhu Zhan Yan did not let people build a view of Beijing, but buried them directly on the spot.

As for the end of the westward crusade, that is, Europe, there is something different.

Zhu Zhanyan's main approach to Europe was slavery, and the young and strong were taken away as slaves, while the women were mostly sold because they were more in line with the aesthetics of Asians.

To sum up, the Beijing Temple built in the Alps, at the foot of Mont Blanc, and above the head of Lake LΓ©man, is the first Beijing Temple built by Zhu Zhan in Central Asia and even Europe.

For this Beijing view, Zhu Zhan Yan is more satisfied with the meaning it represents, but he is not very satisfied with the scale of the Beijing view.

Because Zhu Zhanyan knew very well that this Jingguan might be one of the few Jingguan he had built in Europe, although he didn't expect it to be as big as the one he built in the palace of the Wa King, but it was only built by more than 100,000 people, which was still too small.

But there is no way, as the so-called willing to give, there is a giveaway, there is a giveaway, the same, there is a giveaway.

If you want slaves, the scale of Jingguan will not be very large; If you want to build a large Kyoto Temple, the number of slaves will decrease.

"Wu Keqin greets His Royal Highness!"

The night was thick, and just as Zhu Zhan was sitting at the door of the tent, drinking while looking at the newly built Jingguan in the distance, a voice broke the peace of the entire camp.

"Say." Zhu Zhanyan carried the wine jug and said lightly.

"His Royal Highness! Our scouts have spotted a small number of villagers who have been to the Jingguan we have built, but seem to have fled because they have been alarmed by the bonfire in our camp! ”

"Got it." Zhu Zhanyan's voice was still flat.

"Pass the order, leave tomorrow morning, no trace of the camp needs to be removed, just take the necessary things with you."

"Yes!"

……

To be honest, Zhu Zhan Zhen really wanted to protect this place, and even develop it into a scenic spot, because the purpose of this Jingguan was to suppress Catholicism.

The more people have seen it, the longer it exists, the more powerful the effect will be.

However, this is also doomed to be impossible.

If you want more people to see it, you can't build it at the foot of Mont Blanc, and if you want it to have a big enough impact, you can't build it in other cities.

In addition, there is another very important point, that is, the effective period of this thing will not be very long, which is also the reason why Zhu Zhan Yan drove those captives over thousands of miles away and built a Beijing Temple here.

If nothing else, from now on, there will be no trace of pure Europeans in Central and Eastern Europe, at least on the surface.

In the future, Western Europe and Northern Europe will also be like this, so the time for Zhu Zhanyan to need this Jingguan to take effect is only these two years.

In addition, there is another important factor in choosing the location, which is because it is the territory of the Duchy of Burgundy.

What Zhu Zhanyan wanted was to transmit this influence to Western Europe, because that was his goal in the future.

……

Approaching dawn, Zhu Zhanyan asked Zhu Ling to call Wu Keqin and Xue Shou over.

"Do you feel anything?"

As soon as the two entered the tent, Zhu Zhanyan motioned for them to sit down, and then asked, without giving the two any time to prepare.

Wu Keqin and Xue Shou were stunned for a moment very synchronously, and then came back to their senses very synchronously.

In fact, compared with Xue Shou, Wu Keqin's receptivity is relatively strong, because when Emperor Taizong first drove his personal expedition, Wu Keqin and his brother Wu Kezhong participated with their father.

At that time, he had seen the young Zhu Zhan Gully, and he had witnessed how resolute Zhu Zhan Gully, who was still a child at the time, and how he supervised the Ming army to build the first Beijing Temple of the Ming Dynasty.

"Now I'll leave it to the two of you." Seeing that the two of them were thoughtful, Zhu Zhanyan spoke again.

"You two, one of you will stay...... It's not that I want to stay, but I need to rush to Vienna, which is not very far from here, and garrison there. ”

"The other is to follow me south, back to Rome."

"However, no matter which option you choose, you will not experience too many wars in the future, and most of them will be small-scale cleanups."

"After all, while fighting the world, we must also settle the world, otherwise it will only be a bamboo basket for nothing."

"So, these two choices are basically the same, you two make your own decisions."

After Zhu Zhanyan finished speaking, he picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip.

Early in the morning, in fact, it is not very suitable for drinking tea, but the Ming army is ready to go, Zhu Zhanyan's biological clock has always been very punctual, this kind of unclear time is not her biological clock, it can only be assisted by external forces.

Wu Keqin and Xue Shou looked at each other, looking at their expressions, both of them had something to say, but they seemed to have considered something and chose to keep silent.

"His Royal Highness, it's better to ......" After a long time, it was Xue Shou who opened his mouth first.

"Why don't you go south with His Royal Highness?"

"Oh?" Zhu Zhanyan raised his eyebrows, with an inquiring look on his face.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Keqin's brother is still in Aachen, let him go to garrison Vienna, the two brothers can still work together when they encounter problems, maybe one plus one is greater than two."

Zhu Zhanyan nodded slightly when he heard this, and turned his gaze to Wu Keqin.

"Everything is in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince!" Feeling Zhu Zhanyan's gaze, Wu Keqin's head lowered.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he was still grateful for Xue Shou's decision.

In this kind of unfamiliar place, anyone must want to know someone around them, even a relative.

In fact, for them, staying away from Zhu Zhanyan is the best choice, because now that the war in Central and Eastern Europe has preliminarily ended, there will be no more major wars, that is to say, there are no military merits.

In such a situation, encircling and suppressing the remnants of the enemy army and clearing the enemy's cities became the biggest tasks, and in these tasks there was a lot of oil and water to be fished.

There is no doubt that the farther away from Zhu Zhanyan in this case, the more reassuring it is.

Of course, it's not that Wu Keqin has this kind of thought, it's just a matter of facts, and even if this is not counted, staying away from Zhu Zhanyan will make them a little easier.

It's like when you were a kid in front of your parents, in front of your teachers when you were in school, and in front of your leaders after work, even if you didn't do anything, you didn't do anything wrong, but there was still some pressure.

"Since you don't have any opinions, let's settle it for now." Zhu Zhanyan waved his hand, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked a little sleepy.

"Let's all go down and prepare, let the soldiers bury the pot and cook, and set off in an hour."

"Yes!" Γ—2。

……

From Aachen to the present day, the deaths of Sigismund, Albrecht, and members of the Habsburg dynasty marked the end of the Holy Roman Empire.

Of course, there will definitely be remnants, but even if they rise up in the future, they will not be based on the general foundation of the Holy Roman Empire as they are now, but on the basis of various countries and even various noble fiefdoms, and small-scale rebellion.

If you want to suppress or even eliminate this level of resistance, for the Ming army, it is a bone doctor: take it casually.

With the death of Eugene IV, the Holy See in Central and Eastern Europe also collapsed.

Rome is a city of special significance to Catholicism, so not only the pope is in Rome, but also a large number of cardinals, and the faithful also regard Rome as one of the holy places.

When Rome fell, not only the previous Pope Martin V was killed, but also a large number of cardinals and religious.

After that, Sigismund, in order to maintain control of the Holy See, concentrated the few cardinals in Aachen and elected a new puppet Pope Eugene IV.

This time, with the fall of Aachen, the few cardinals in Central and Eastern Europe were almost wiped out, and with Zhu Zhan Yan bringing Eugene IV here and using him to worship the heavens, the Holy See in central and eastern Europe was also destroyed.

This also means that Zhu Zhanyan can finally start to show his talents, but there is still a problem for him to decide.

That is, to take advantage of the victory, to begin to intervene in the struggle between Western Europe through the Aachen region and the strength of the Ming army's naval fleet, or even to directly capture Paris?

Or is it to take one step at a time, first stabilize the central and eastern regions, and come steadily little by little?

……

Rome.

Before Zhu Zhanyan returned to Rome, someone had already returned here first, and this person was Zheng He.

In fact, according to the original plan, Zheng He should have come back last year, and not only back to Rome, but also to Daming.

However, because of the rapid changes in the war situation in Europe, for the sake of safety, Zheng He stayed near the English Channel for a while.

(End of chapter)