Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 387

On the front lines of confrontation between different sects, the usefulness of such books is even more obvious.

For example, in order to fight against the policy of forced conversion of the Poles, some parts of the Diocese of Kiev can be called the front line.Local priests not only preach in their own dioceses, but often sneak across to carry out publicity activities.

Although the Poles are paying more and more attention to religion, the management is still very rough in comparison - this is not a problem of attitude or technique, but their administrative level cannot support stricter management.As long as there are people alive, there is no way to strictly control it, and it is useless to be cruel.

In this case, the local church produced a large number of easily hidden pamphlets, which were widely distributed among the Orthodox believers in the Polish occupied areas.In the early years, the local Orthodox Church despised these propagandas, because they believed that the Roman Church and the priests attached to them were a more serious heresy than the Polish Catholic Church.

In fact, this was the norm at the time.

Although the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church fell into a split, the conflict between the two sides was not as intense as later generations imagined—in other words, it may be because the Protestant movement is the focus of education, so people will inevitably regard this situation as a general rule.But in fact, the catholic church's dislike of Protestantism and the conflict between the two parties are far more serious than those between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.

Although they often debated the scriptures and excommunicated each other from time to time, the two churches stayed at this step most of the time. Back then, the Pope opposed the Crusaders attacking Constantinople.In contrast, the difference in attitude is quite obvious.

But the church in the Purple Horde was different.Since their power gradually expanded and they entered the field of vision of major countries, they have been attacked continuously.

The nobles here hate the Purple Horde's land division behavior so much that they can't explain it.At the earliest time, Guo Gai also wrote letters to the aristocratic councils of Poland and Hungary, saying that this was a measure that existed in the Shang Yang era. It has been nearly 2000 years so far, and it is a tradition of the Eastern Seris Kingdom.They just acted according to habit, not against anyone on purpose.

It's a pity that the local aristocrats neither know Seris nor have any concept of the year 2000. They feel that such exaggerated figures are just nonsense at first glance.In the end, the letters disappeared like stones and seas, and there was no news at all.

And the local church is also extremely hostile to them.Some people believe that the Purple Horde’s deprivation of church land in Bulgaria is a threat to the entire church—although neither they nor the Bulgarians belong to the same sect.

More people used religion as a banner, thinking that the sect adopted by the Purple Horde Khanate was so heresy that it was not considered a branch of Christianity.But because of Patriarch Zhang's work, this sect has spread very quickly among the people, so they must be eliminated as soon as possible to prevent the situation from getting out of hand.

Under such circumstances, the Purple Horde Khanate has been continuously attacked by crusaders from all walks of life since it was officially established. The Tianfang believers in Jerusalem did not suffer more crusaders than them.In the beginning, only some nobles with relevant interests stood up for their relatives. Later, with the expansion of the power of the Purple Horde, big countries like Poland and Hungary joined in.In the end, it became what it is now.

Ever since Basil III entered southern Italy and interfered with the succession issue of Naples, the Catholic Church in Rome has changed its tune and recognized the Church of the Purple Horde—the official full name should be called the "Roman Church of the Worship of God", which is its own clan.

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

At this time, they are in the confrontation between the two Holy Sees of Rome and Avignon. According to the old European saying, it is Barbarossa crossing the river-it is difficult to protect themselves.It's good to be able to maintain your own existence, so there's no time to take care of other things.

In the following time, the Hungarian church gradually disintegrated under the civil war and the attack of the Purple Horde.The Polish church survived and became stronger because of it, while the local Orthodox church suffered accordingly.

In the early years, the two sides could barely coexist, but as the Purple Horde turned to the offensive, the mentality of the Polish folk and priests became more and more extreme. Both the secular nobles and the upper echelons of the church urgently needed someone to be a scapegoat.

The forced conversion policy in this period was stronger than that in the thirteenth century.In the rear and big cities, it is relatively easy to talk, but in the front line near the border, sometimes this step is simply skipped and the Orthodox villages are massacred to vent.

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

When the Queen Mother Helena was in power, the Poles suffered continuous setbacks in their attacks. They believed that there were spies inside and began to arrest prisoners.Therefore, the Empress Dowager secretly ordered her confidants to go to the northern shore of the Black Sea, a place where a military region had not yet been established, and from time to time pretend to be a local force to contact Poland.

These headless letters are intercepted by Polish nobles from time to time, making them even more suspicious.Someone immediately thought that the current situation was very similar to the Sicilian Vespers incident back then.

It is said that the Greek emperor Michael VIII was behind the riot that expelled the French.Through conspiracy, he can weaken the Kingdom of Sicily, which has been against him for a long time, so that French forces cannot continue to advance eastward in the Mediterranean.

The current situation is exactly the same as that at that time. It is obvious that the cunning Greeks are going to repeat the old tricks and incite the local Orthodox people to rebel.

Moreover, in their view, the most suspected of betrayal must be those Orthodox Christians whose hometowns are in the south and fled their hometowns because they opposed the worship of God.After all, it is easier to collude with the hometown under the rule of the purple tent, 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 I can only rush to strike hard.

The local nobles arrested a large number of ordinary people, but failed to find the existence of spies, which made the nobles even more panicked, suspecting that the spies had already started to act and the plan had already begun.Thinking that they didn't have time to search carefully, they found the only remaining local management organization that was still in operation—the church, and demanded that the suspicious personnel be handed over immediately, otherwise they would start with the church first.

Panicked, Dmitry, an Orthodox bishop from the Galic region, tried to go to the capital to plead his case.He promised that the church would be loyal to the king, and that he would be strictly secular and not participate in any military or political confrontation.However, others didn't believe him at all. On the way, Dmitry was killed by Polish mobs and the documents he signed were burned.Arrests and killings of Orthodox Christians followed.

The Poles called Galicia Galicia, so this incident is also known as the "Martyrdom of Galicia" incident.Upon learning of the news, the Queen Mother Helena ordered the Patriarch to posthumously confer Dmitry and more than 20 famous figures who were killed because they refused to convert as saints. Past stereotypes, unite.

Since then, the local atmosphere has gradually changed.Many monks and believers from the south fled Poland and returned to the territory of the Purple Horde.Others insisted on continuing their activities in Poland, devoted themselves to organizing and calling on Orthodox Christians in other regions, and also fought against religious oppression in Poland.

Due to the less acute conflicts in some other areas; coupled with the distance from the Purple Horde, fear that the Polish army will retaliate, so there are still many Ross villages and towns that insist on neutrality and do not want to respond directly.But this kind of underground activity has continued since then.

The Poles are very annoyed by this, and some people even suggested that they should "return to the Orthodox Church" and expel all these annoying guys, especially the southern area close to the Purple Horde, even if it is not the border, they should be driven back to the south Go to the purple tent.

However, because many aristocrats owned properties in the Orthodox areas of Lithuania and Ross, they worried that things would become uncontrollable as soon as they started, so the plan of "returning the Orthodox Church to the South and the Catholic Church to the North" was not really implemented.

(End of this chapter)