Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 390 The Holy Light Forced Back by Darkness

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

Simply put, a monastery is a complex of buildings with a variety of buildings with different functions, and the church is one of them.

That is to say, there is a church in the monastery, just like Daming's palace is in Suncheon City, the monastery can be regarded as a city.

The original name of the city of Sofia was actually not Sofia, but Serdica. The name was changed decades ago in the [-]th century, when it was renamed Sofia because of the Hagia Sophia Church.

Zhu Zhanhe didn't know much about Western religions. He didn't even believe in Buddha, let alone Western religions.

He only knew that some very large churches, such as those in Rome, had special existences.

Either it is the cathedral of an archbishop, the place where a religious miracle occurred, or where extremely precious sacred objects are preserved.

Is this what Hagia Sophia looks like?Zhu Zhanhe didn't know either.

Standing at the door of Hagia Sophia, Zhu Zhanhe waved.

"Give me the order to arrest people!"

"In the monastery, whether they are ordinary people, missionaries, nuns, or even the Pope, as long as they are human, come to me!"

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

However, Zhu Zhanhe's order was not over yet.

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

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

He already guessed what Zhu Zhanhe wanted to do...

Although Zhu Ping didn't know much about Catholicism and had never even heard of it before coming to Europe, looking at the appearance of Hagia Sophia, he knew that it was the same existence as a Buddhist temple or a Taoist temple.

At this time, you need to use a lot of fire oil... hiss...

Zhu Ping gasped.

Soon, Zhu Zhanhe's words confirmed his guess.

"Fire up the fire! Burn it for me!"

"Yes!"

……

The monastery in Sofia was full of screams, and people were constantly being taken away, and those who disobeyed would be executed on the spot. At the cathedral in the center, the Ming army was pouring barrels of fierce oil.

Soon, the fire oil was scattered all over the ground of the Hagia Sophia Church, and Zhu Zhanhe, who had no expression on his face, took the torch from Zhu Ping and threw it out.

With the help of the fierce fire oil, the flames suddenly jumped up, and the heat hit their faces, making people subconsciously take two steps back.

In medieval Europe, especially from the [-]th to [-]th centuries, most of them were wooden structures, but churches were different.

Small churches in small places may be entirely made of wooden structures, but only the main frame and pillars of the cathedral are made of wood, and many other places are filled with stone bricks.

This means that even if a large church catches fire, it may not burn to a particularly outrageous extent, and the Hagia Sophia in front of Zhu Zhanhe is a large church.

However, it is enough that the main frame and pillars are made of wood.

Seeing that the Saint Sophia Church was completely engulfed in flames, Zhu Zhanhe clapped his hands with satisfaction, turned around and asked a group of princes to escort hundreds of thousands of households to lead people to clean up.

Sofia was an important garrison before taking Fort Nico, and as far as the people in this city were concerned, Zhu Zhanhe definitely had to clean up.

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

If we don’t kill such people, is it possible to keep them for the New Year?

After all these arrangements were made, Zhu Zhanhe began to ask people to help him find a place to live.

Originally, the most representative building in the monastery was probably the church, but now that the church was burned down, Zhu Zhanhe naturally had to find another place to live.

Besides, for the believers, the church is a place for prayer and so on. It is sacrosanct and there is no place for you to stay.

Traditional monasteries have a place for believers to live, but Zhu Zhanhe didn't want to live there, not because he was trying to show off, but because there were so many people living in that place, it was difficult to guarantee whether anyone would leave anything behind. Good stuff.

Just as Zhu Zhanhe was looking at the burning Saint Sophia Church with his hands behind his back, the prince's guards who were the first to leave and were responsible for arresting the people in the monastery had returned.

"To inform His Highness, according to the translator, there seems to be no cardinal here. All the cardinals have gone to Rome with the Holy See."

"Ask them if there is anyone important, or...forget it, let's wait and deal with it."

"Yes!"

Zhu Zhanhe 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 still agitated, he thought it was better to forget it.

From that look, I knew that what these white pigs said was not good.

But yes, judging from the attitude of the prince's guards, it is not difficult to see that he is the one who really calls the shots. As for these white pigs, the people who ordered the attack on Sofia and the burning of Hagia Sophia are naturally heretics.

In the Middle Ages, it goes without saying that people's attitudes towards pagans were undeniable.

Not to mention the heretics themselves, even your family members and relatives have to be tied to the cross and burned at the stake, which is a bit similar to the Jiuzu Xiaoxiaole in the Central Plains.

"His Royal Highness..."

Just when Zhu Zhanhe shook his head in disappointment because he didn't get any useful information, a prince guarding Baihu spoke hesitantly.

"This time...is it the same as before?"

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

"Let's build the capital and watch..."

With a few words, Zhu Zhanhe left.

This simple sentence made the prince's guards a little excited, because they had not built a Jingguan in a long time.

Since the beginning of the Western Expedition to the Timurid Empire, most of them, whether they were prisoners of war or otherwise, were killed and buried to avoid the occurrence of disease.

Or they were taken away, the female slaves were sold to various places in South Asia and East Asia, and the young and strong were taken to the Suez area to dig canals, or sent to Delhi Sultan to mine.

Building a Jingguan is already a very distant thing.

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

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

Sure enough, there are no gods in this world. Even if they existed, they would not overlook the world all the time.

The so-called holy light of God did not shine on them, but instead allowed himself, the dark force, to succeed.

So, what’s wrong with darkness?Isn’t it enough 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 Zhanhe 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 Zhanhe would not do anything extraordinary this winter. After all, few people would start a war in winter.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Sigismund and the other kings left, he received information from the Principality of Venice.

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

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

The news spread, and Martin V began to hold his forehead in thought.

How to do?
Plovdiv has fallen, and the next target of the Ming army will not be too far away even if it is not Fort Niko.

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

Neither the Holy Roman Empire's coalition forces mobilized by Sigismund nor the Holy See's Crusaders could arrive before the Ming army attacked Fort Nico.

Similarly, the failure of large forces to arrive means that the coalition forces of several nearby countries are basically doing useless work.

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

How to do?
Martin V suddenly ran out of ideas.

Once Nicoburg falls, the victory announced by the Holy See before will become a joke, and the reputation of the Holy See will fall again and again.

When the time comes, he, the Pope...

Even if it's not a joke it's pretty much it.

In the past, the Crusaders rushed to the aid of Constantinople and were completely annihilated. The armor symbolizing the glory of the Crusaders was hung on the wall of the castle. Now that Nico Castle fell again, he was really pushed to the edge of the cliff.

Slowly leaning on the back of the chair, Martin V took a deep breath, feeling the powerlessness rising from the bottom of his heart.

However, others are not as pessimistic as him.

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 and seek refuge with his mother-in-law Yolanda.

After receiving the news brought back by Agnes, Charles VII immediately found his mother-in-law Yolanda.

"So, you are planning to hand over Joan of Arc and ask me to relax 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 heard wrongly.

The Kingdom of Aragon is one of the few countries in this era that has control of the sea, because they dominate the Balearic Islands at the exit of the Mediterranean Sea, and the United Kingdom of Castile, which controls the Strait of Gibraltar, is also their federation.

If the Ming army wanted to get out of the Mediterranean, they really had to go here, otherwise they would have to go around the entire African continent.

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

Similarly, this also proves that Charles VII has made a decision and intends to give the historically famous Joan of Arc to Zhu Zhanhe.

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

(End of this chapter)