Chapter 144: Killing the Pope

Yun Zhao only saw that the local talents of Daming were losing rapidly, and what he didn't see was that many talents in Europe were also losing rapidly.

It's normal for him not to see, Europe is too far away from the Ming Dynasty, even if there are many envoys in Europe, Yun Zhao, the emperor, only has some sporadic news about Europe.

Still, he knew the news of the death of Pope Innocent X.

After all, the black smoke coming out of the chimneys of the Vatican Basilica can be seen by anyone with eyes.

There is nothing special about a pope being called by God, after all, before Innocent X, there were already two hundred and thirty-eight popes who served God, and he Innocent X was only the twenty-thirty-nineth.

I don't know when the Pope died, people would put countless words of praise in front of his name, such as, kindness, wisdom, light, etc., as if to give all the good things in the world to this important person.

I didn't see the angels descending to meet the Pope, nor did I see the pillar of fire of judgment falling from heaven and burning the apostolic palace where the Pope lived.

On this day there was nothing unusual in the city of Rome, even the sky was not cloudy or sunny, except for the pigeons, because there was no one to feed them, began to snatch the pedestrians fiercely.

Little Descartes withdrew his gaze from the ferocious pigeons, crumpled a piece of black bread, and spread his hand, and a pigeon landed on the palm of his hand to peck at the crumbs.

A pigeon was not enough to eat, and little Emily had a good appetite, and the pigeon was too small, so he spread out his left hand, which was also breadcrumbs......

My grandfather, who had just come out of the Inquisition, was in dire need of such a meal.

After reading the documents of the Ming envoys stationed in Europe, Yun Zhao did not have a heroic feeling of sympathy for this mediocre pope, on the contrary, his attitude towards all religious people was the same - boredom.

Sun Guoxin was originally a benevolent and benevolent person, but since he began to believe in Buddhism, his whole person has not become so good, in the eyes of Yun Zhao, Sun Guoxin's great living Buddha has become synonymous with darkness and terror.

If he hadn't happened to be standing in the same trench with Sun Guoxin, the things that Sun Guoxin had done in Wusizang, in the Mongolian steppe, and in the Western Regions would have been enough for Yun Zhao, the emperor, to raise an army to fight.

Sometimes Yun Zhao didn't understand why a person like Sun Guoxin, who had been educated in the Yushan Academy system and was full of compassion for the people at the bottom, became so paranoid and crazy when dealing with teaching affairs.

In the past, he would cry when he watched it, and he would be in pain when he watched it, but now, he concocted it every day, and the people at the bottom who he once cared so much about were slaughtered by him like cattle and sheep just because of their different beliefs, and there was no mercy at all.

In order to compete for the position of the Great Living Buddha, he and Han Lingshan concocted a terrifying plan to clear the Wusizang, which directly led to the reduction of the population of Wusizang by more than 30%.

In the Mongolian steppe, in order to consolidate the position of his doctrine, he did not hesitate to set off a plan to purge the Mongolian steppe of sorcerers, and all theologians who contradicted his teachings were among his purges.

In the past few years, there are no witches that existed in ancient times in the Mongolian steppe, and some Huangjiao temples even use the skulls of wizards and human skins to make various decorations to highlight the revered status of Huangjiao.

In the Western Regions, he became even more frenzied, sweeping the Gobi and the desert with hundreds of thousands of Tibetan Buddhists who had taken refuge in him.

They had abandoned their missionary program of moderation and began to preach with butcher's knives.

The method of preaching with a butcher's knife is naturally extremely effective, just like a farmer in the field, pulling out unsuitable crops and leaving satisfactory seedlings, his methods are simple and efficient, judging from the recent news, the entire Western Regions has become a Buddha country.

The reason why he would do such a disagreeable thing was to clean up the cultural environment of the Western Regions.

Take advantage of the grand difference between Buddhism and Buddhism to create a gap in people's spirits, a boundary of thought.

I have to say that the missionary method of the year was very suitable for the Western Regions, and the believers of Allah have completely occupied the Western Regions and even the land in the river, and now, Sun Guoxin has created a Buddha country in the world, because of the relationship between security and strength, this Buddha country has no other way to go except relying on the powerful Ming Dynasty.

Without the support of the Ming Dynasty, this fragile Buddhist state would be swallowed up in an instant, and there would not even be any scum left.

It can be seen from this that Sun Guoxin is no longer the benevolent and magnanimous living Buddha, he has transformed into a politician, a politician with very clever means.

For this reason, Yun Zhao was going to give Sun Guoxin another ten years, and then he asked him to return to Yushan, and when his representative would have a vote veteran, he would preside over religious affairs on the top of Yushan by the way.

The boundaries of the Ming Dynasty have never been clear.

Basically, as long as the herdsmen of the Ming Empire smashed there and found a new pasture, it must be the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the border guards who followed the herdsmen migrated together also erected the boundary monument of the Ming Dynasty.

No one doubts whether the Ming border army is right to do this, someone once questioned the border army like this, after his brave questioning, these brave questioning people will generally disappear, and then the sound of questioning will become smaller, and finally no one will question anymore.

The way the border army handled the questioning incident was not even worthy of being listed in the official documents of the Lantian Dynasty, and only the secretary and superintendent would ask about the location of the boundary monument when a new map was printed every year.

There must be so many people who have died, and there must be a lot of wronged.

However, whether it is Yun Zhao, the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Supervision, and the Ministry of Justice, they have all chosen to turn a blind eye to this kind of matter.

This made the border soldiers very enthusiastic about moving the boundary pillars.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, a group of people were born who specialized in investigating, investigating, and discovering new lands, and this group of people formed a team to go deep into the wasteland to find any valuable land, of course, their focus was on gold, silver, and gem veins.

In the early stage of development, Yun Zhao allowed them to be more chaotic, more radical, and more barbaric, however, there are another ten years, and such a laissez-faire way is definitely inappropriate, and sooner or later the imperial court will standardize and restrain them, so that some chaotic places will finally enter peace and order.

With the death of Pope Innocent X, some of the efforts of the European legations should be in vain.

The new Pope, Alexander VII, who had just been elected by igniting a fire, was a far cry from the mediocre Innocent X, who relied on his sister-in-law, the greedy Majdalzini, to run the church for money.

Innocent supported the Habsburg clan in Spain and refused to recognize the independence of Portugal, Spain's enemy.

These are extremely selfish manifestations, and with such manifestations, there will inevitably be a large number of opponents and enemies.

In this situation, the rich Ming envoy group has the opportunity to get up and down, and they can be like fish in water.

Now, Alexander VII, a graduate of the University of Siena, is the new pope, which is troublesome.

This guy is not like his predecessors who liked money, and unlike his predecessors, who liked to hand over official duties to his relatives, he hid in the apostle's palace and drank day and night.

He was highly educated, and he was keenly aware that theology was at a precarious point, and that many ancient texts were completely unjustifiable, and Alexander VII was ready to look for traces of God in these new learnings.

From these detailed information, Yun Zhao finally understood the reason why the new science in Europe was so prosperous during this period of time.

Copernicus was questioned by the Pope for the rest of his life, Galileo was watched for the rest of his life, Bruno was burned at the stake, and the Inquisition did everything he could, but instead of being suppressed and disappearing, more people began to pursue it.

Alexander VII cannot live on earth!

This was Yun Zhao's first reaction after reading the paperwork.

European theology must be strictly guarded against new learning, it must be severely suppressed, the Inquisition must do its duty, and it must carry out the most brutal suppression of any heresy that arises on the land of Europe!

These heresies must be allowed to take root in the Ming Dynasty, and only the mellow land of the Ming Dynasty can carry these heresies, and religion can continue to maintain its transcendent sense of existence.

There are countless assassination warrants issued by Yun Zhao in his life, although those warrants have long been burned by the secretaries of the past generations, and people have no way of knowing at all, but Yun Zhao knows that he once ordered and assassinated many people......

Some of these people are good people, some are bad people, and some are not good and do not sin to death.

But they all died.

Death is silent.

This assassination made Yun Zhao use a red pen to write.

This means that for this assassination order, all the partners of the secret front of the Ming Empire have the obligation to carry it out, and they will not die.

Qiao Yong, who followed Descartes to Rome the Younger, had a gloomy face.

Zhang Liang was also a little angry.

If this Innocent X had lived for another two months, he would have been able to get Monsieur Descartes out of the Inquisition through some secret channel, and, of course, his loyal friends.

As long as these people left the Inquisition, there would be no room for them to live on the European continent, and if they wanted to survive, they could only board merchant ships from Venice and eventually go to the Far East.

As soon as Alexander VII became pope, he ordered the release of Descartes and all those who were imprisoned in the Inquisition for their connection with the new discipline.

This caught Qiao Yong off guard.

After two years of arrangement, it cost nearly 100,000 silver dollars, and in the end, such a result was unacceptable to Qiao Yong and Zhang Liang.

"The only way to do this is to kill the Pope!"

Qiao Yong said viciously to Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang frowned and said, "Alexander VII is in the Apostolic Palace, heavily guarded, and we have no chance to attack. ”

Qiao Yong sneered: "In ten days, it will be the Mass day presided over by the Pope, and it will also be the first time he will meet the believers as the Pope, I thought that I could send someone to ambush in the crowd and snipe!" ”