Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 604 What can you do?
The maps of later generations unfolded a silent but magnificent picture in front of Zhao Kuangyin.

More than three hundred years ago, a Tang general named Wang Fangyi soaked into this painting paper like a drop of thick ink, creating a magnificent scenery.

The generals of the Tang Dynasty claimed their merits and established a territory of thousands of miles. The Turks fled and entered the far west.

For three hundred years, the remnants of a partial division stumbled and grew stronger, and finally swept the local area, defeated the powerful enemy, captured their leader, and became dominant.

Until he finally met the Khitans who failed to compete in the Central Plains.

Moreover... Zhao Kuangyin thought about it and felt that this Khitan man might not be that weak.

The maritime alliance before the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty was not discussed in detail in later generations.

But judging from the farce-like expedition to conquer Liao and capture Yan in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Khitan Liao were more likely to be defeated by the Jin people than to be subjugated by the Song Dynasty.

And look at the one named Yelu Dashi. Two hundred horses ran westward in less than ten years before they were able to successfully restore the country and defeat the Turkic Seljuks in the Western Expedition. He was worthy of being praised by later generations as a heroic leader.

Naturally, Zhao Kuangyin also came to a conclusion in his heart.

"Because of this, you took over my elite soldiers and banned the army, but left the name of donkey cart in the Gaoliang River. It's really..."

Li Shimin muttered this name and a completely unfamiliar vocabulary, and suddenly a new title was freely combined in his head:
"John Khan?"

"All the good soldiers and generals have been lost at your hands. They were disheartened in two battles, and the ruined army also started from you."

When he said this, Zhao Kuangyin's expression was surprisingly calm, and he even had a tendency to laugh when he looked at Master Kongjiong's bald head:

"The Khitan people are really brave."

After calming down, Zhao Kuangyin agreed:
"If you can have even three points of talent like Yelu Dashi, you will be able to make sure that future generations will not criticize you."

"What can you do?"

……

Seeing the officials looking at him, Zhao Guangyi said cautiously:
"Didn't brother also say that the Khitan is a powerful enemy?"

"It's really hard to believe."

Empress Changsun was immediately dumbfounded:

It was like a myth to him to think that Yelu Dashi, with its two hundred elite cavalry, had been in business for more than ten years and could confront the dominating Seljuks and defeat them.

He does yearn for his brother's throne, but what next?
No one knows how to enrich the people and strengthen the army, and even less knows how to defeat the enemy in battle.

"How can anyone call him such a Khan?"

At this moment, he felt a little confused in his heart.

Zhao Kuangyin glared at his younger brother and emphasized:
"In the sixth year of Xian De's reign, I served as a naval and land commander. I also defeated thousands of Khitan elite cavalry in Mozhou, so I know the basics."

Zhao Kuangyin calmly turned his head and looked at Master Kong Jiong shaking his head with two black eyes and sighing, which was somewhat similar to the giant panda that was so beloved by later generations.

What can you do? Zhao Guangyi also fell silent immediately, subconsciously twirling the rosary beads in his hand twice, but for a while he really couldn't find the answer.

"Yelü Dashi, Xiliao Khan, Priest King John."

Zhao Song Guanjia was at a loss for words for a while, and Zhao Pu also sighed:

"What I'm talking about is that today's most powerful enemy is the Khitan, not that the Khitan is invincible."

Li Shimin was quite dissatisfied:

"Guanyin Maid doesn't know that hundreds of years later in the Ming Dynasty, there was an emperor called Emperor Yongle."

"This Emperor Yongle also has a foreign name."

As he said that, he simply took a pen and paper and tried to remember to write out the words "Judy".

Then he looked at the light screen and copied the Yelv Dashi's name "Johannes" in Chinese to the strange-looking Yihuluhualaiao.

Immediately, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had a simple curiosity: "I wonder what this person will be called me in future generations?"

Queen Changsun held his hand:

"Since we are admired by the younger generations, we will not be wronged in the slightest."

That's true. Li Shimin nodded, he believed it.

But these are nothing more than trivial matters, and I immediately focused on the more conspicuous words:
"Pope? Bishop? Eastern Expedition?"

He also recalled a word that the younger generation often used when talking about Taoism and Buddhism, and he naturally came up with a guess:
"Could this Pope mean the religious emperor?"

Du Ruhui became even more clear:

"I'm afraid that all the countries in the West respect Christianity, so the power of the Pope is even greater than that of the kings of other countries."

Fang Xuanling also guessed:

"Perhaps this is the only way to enable these dozens of countries of different sizes to join together in the Eastern Expedition in the name of holy war."

The two prime ministers and assistants were very careful in their words, but the people in Ganlu Palace basically agreed with what they said.

After all, the map clearly shows that the Southern Song Dynasty alone, which has always been said to be relatively peaceful, had enough territory in the west to carve out about ten countries.

The huge Roman Empire that was said to have used the Mediterranean as a bathtub by later generations has disappeared. Only one called the Eastern Roman Empire still exists, and others such as the County of Sicily, the Kingdom of Croatia, the County of Toulouse, the Hamady Dynasty, etc. The country whose name is completely incomprehensible occupies the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Chu Suiliang had the best eyesight. After observing carefully, he pointed at the map on the light screen and said:
"Could it be that this Papal State is where the Vatican is said to be in later generations?"

Among the Western countries, this is the only country whose meaning can be seen from its name alone, so I made this conjecture.

Using religion to order the nations to cut off territory, Li Shimin vaguely felt that this far west seemed to have embarked on a completely different path after the fall of Rome.

So the emperor of the Tang Dynasty made a decision of course:
"I am ordering Honglu Temple to set up an additional office to recruit talents of Tongyu, record documents from the Western region, and learn about its customs and observe its people's sentiments."

[Two years after the battle of Katwan, Yelu Dashi died of illness at the age of fifty-seven. His temple name was Dezong.

Throughout the life of John Yelu, he experienced the three kingdoms of Song, Liao and Jin, the demise of Liao, and the restoration of Northern Liao. In the end, he chose to run west when faced with Emperor Tianzuo's failure, and finally successfully established the Chinese culture of Western Liao. It was brought into Central Asia and defeated the Seljuq Empire head-on to create a new political situation in Central Asia. It is an absolute man of the hour in world history.

In addition, his behind-the-scenes story is also exciting enough:

Christianity assigned him the status of priest-king, saying that he longed for the church and wanted to worship in Jerusalem.

Persian historians believe that Yelu Dashi "secretly became a Muslim."

Arab historians assigned him the identity of a Manichean.

From the perspective of the development of world history, since the defeat of Gao Xianzhi and Talos, the Chinese cultural circle has lost its right to speak in Central Asia.

Three hundred and ninety years later, Yelu Dashi's Western Expedition finally expanded the influence of the Chinese cultural circle to Central Asia again.

In terms of achievements alone, Yelu Dashi alone was enough to bring up the rulers of both Song and Jin Dynasties. It is not an exaggeration to praise a romantic figure.

In addition, the impact of Wang Fangyi's Battle of Rehai has not yet completely ended.

One hundred years after the demise of the Seljuk Empire, a group of natives in Asia Minor established a world-famous empire called the Ottomans in the name of the descendants of the Oghuz Turks.

More than four hundred years later, the Afshar dynasty of the Persian Empire rose. Its founder, Nader Shah, was from the Afshar tribe, which evolved from the Oghuz Turks.

However, Wang Fangyi himself, who triggered this butterfly effect that lasted for thousands of years, ended up not so good.

The year after the Battle of Rehai, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi died of illness. Wu Zetian, who was proclaimed emperor, began to eliminate dissidents due to the Luling King's anti-military incident, and incidentally implicated the political opponents in the Wang Liwu incident.

Prime Minister Pei Yan was killed, and Cheng Wuting was accused of colluding with Pei Yan and was beheaded in the army.

Wang Fangyi himself was also imprisoned, and because he was a relative of the queen and the king, he was convicted and exiled to Yazhou, where he died on the way. 】

(End of this chapter)