Invincible urban management

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130 [-]. The Auspicious World

On the other hand, this great plague that devastated tens of millions of lives not only caused changes in the population, but also caused profound changes in the political map.

Prior to this, the two camps holding the cross and the crescent banner had been confronting each other in the western world for nearly a thousand years.

During this long period of time, the two camps fiercely attacked each other and their spheres of influence were constantly advancing and retreating—the eight Crusades launched by Christians were a strong counterattack by the Cross camp; and Constantine The fall of the Fortress and the demise of the Byzantine Empire represented the glorious victory of the Crescent Banner and the Desert Scimitar, as well as the "greening" of the entire Asia Minor and parts of Eastern Europe.

By 1520, the Turkish army from Asia had fully inherited the legacy of the Byzantine Empire and had reached the banks of the Danube in Europe, taking the entire Balkan Peninsula into its pocket.

Although the Kingdom of Spain also recovered the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors at the same time and drove the descendants of the Arab conquerors who had invaded Western Europe for 700 years back to North Africa, it was far from being able to make up for the damage caused by the fall of the Byzantine Empire in terms of land area and political influence. huge loss.

So in the early 16th century, the Europeans, who were under tremendous pressure, were forced to retreat step by step in front of the Turkish army and suffered repeated defeats; at the same time, they set sail to try to expand their living space from other strategic directions and accumulate enough strength to fight against the Turks.

In the original history, relying on the huge wealth that flowed into Europe during the Age of Discovery and the vast lands brought by North and South America, the Christians indeed stabilized the battle line under the city of Vienna and blocked the offensive momentum of the Turks on the front line of Austria. In 1683 After the last defense of Vienna in [-], it successfully turned into a counter-offensive and gradually compressed the Turks' European map to a corner near Istanbul.

But the problem is that in this time and space that has been greatly disturbed by the traversers, the living space of Christians has been gradually compressed by the Turks, and the Europeans are struggling tenaciously and counterattacking with all their strength. The terrible plague of the second population has completely hollowed out the human resource base of the entire European camp at once - as if a section of the seesaw was pushed down to the extreme and was about to rebound when it was suddenly cut off by someone... Then the whole Christian camp collapsed irrevocably and completely.

First of all, the Iberian Peninsula, where the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal are located, suffered the most brutal blows—Sevilla, Madrid, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Barcelona were all reduced to ghost towns in the Kingdom of Spain. The ruling order of the Kingdom of Portugal collapsed completely and became countless autonomous small states. The entire Iberian Peninsula lost at least 90% of its population in the plague.

The Moors, who had just been driven from the Iberian Peninsula to North Africa by Christians 30 years ago, saw their old enemy for many years collapsed in an instant, and immediately took the opportunity to cross the Strait of Gibraltar again to counterattack the Iberian Peninsula and easily regained Granada. The entire Andalusian region in the center - this land has almost been ravaged by the plague and became a deserted wilderness Valencia, which produced oranges, marched all the way along the Atlantic Ocean to Lisbon and occupied the entire Portugal in one fell swoop. Since then, it has basically blocked the sea route to the Atlantic Ocean for Christians in the Iberian Peninsula.

With the disintegration of Spain and Portugal, many overseas trading posts and colonies established by the Spaniards and Portuguese around the world have naturally become rootless duckweeds, either disintegrating and falling on their own, or turning into small countries of du li.

The upheaval that made Europeans even more terrified was a new wave of invasion by the Ottoman Turks—due to the terrible plague, the famous city of Vienna in Central Europe was almost turned into a ghost town. In one fell swoop, the unguarded Vienna was swallowed up and almost the whole of Austria was swallowed up, and it continued to slowly infiltrate towards the German region of Central Europe and the Polish region of Eastern Europe.

On the southern front, the Turkish army also further launched a sea and land attack to destroy the Republic of Venice, which lost most of its population in the plague.Then Suleiman the Great of Turkey sent an army across the sea to land in Sicily and southern Italy, which were also hit by the plague, and took the important city of Naples, and finally joined forces with the Turkish army that conquered Venice in Central Italy, turning the Adriatic Sea into Turkey. the inland sea.

Although the panicked Catholic Church recalled from Rhodes Island the last remnant of the Medieval Tenth Army fighting in Asia - the Hospitaller Knights, they still could not prevent the fall of southern Italy and Venice after a bitter battle.

As a result, Rome, the holy place where the Holy See resides, suddenly became the forefront of the struggle between Christianity and paganism, and was surrounded on three sides and could only count on French reinforcements from the Alps.The poor popes no longer have to mobilize the Tenth Army to march across the sea with great fanfare, but they can personally command the holy war in St. Paul's Cathedral in the Vatican-the outskirts of Rome are the Turks' crescent flag!

Under the background that the entire Christian world is on the verge of collapse and the living space of Christians has been greatly reduced, under the persecution of the crisis of survival and the inspiration of the righteousness of faith, Europeans have to let go of their dreams of sailing to the sea and conquering new worlds and put all their energy into it again. Throw yourself into the glorious mission of fighting against Eastern pagans and defending the European homeland.On the other hand, the significant reduction in the population across Europe has also greatly reduced the interest of Europeans in overseas development-there is already too much land around them, so why spend a huge price to go to distant places to grab land?

As a result, the era of great exploration of the Western Europeans had just begun and had to come to an abrupt end—history has since completely diverged.

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Although the large-scale "greening" of Europe and the midway death of the Age of Discovery are very beneficial to the geographic security of the Native Americans at this time, it is a pity that the bad luck of a certain auspicious luck is too strong and does not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy.So his curse finally returned to the other side of the world after going around half a circle of the earth and descended on the traverser himself.

——Specifically, because a Spanish expedition that should have been famous in history sent "wrong" information from the island of Cuba that "discovered Chinese in the New World" at the last moment before setting off...so it set off in the autumn of 1519 After circumnavigating the southernmost tip of South America, the expedition fleet did not continue to cross the Pacific Ocean to the Philippines to complete the feat of mankind's first global voyage according to a certain period of historical records.According to the special instructions of the King of Spain before sailing, all turned to the north, so that the sailboat sailed northward along the desolate coastlines of Chile, Peru and other countries under the impetus of the Peruvian cold current, and quietly approached Port Hope from behind...

However, neither De Si, who was in Central America at this time, nor Wang Qiu, who had returned to the modern society, had any expectation of this.

A tragedy came quietly...

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