Chapter 906 Holy Roman Empire

Since the Shangyuan Festival, Guanzhong has been much more peaceful, the people's lives have also been steadily developed, and Chang'an City is a prosperous scene. With the reopening of the Silk Road, merchants in Shuzhong, Guanzhong and Hedong strengthened their trade in the Western Regions, which also led to Chang'an becoming more and more prosperous in the former Tang Dynasty. After the trade was prosperous, the countries of the Western Regions were profitable, and they also frequently sent caravans, and by the second year of Taikang, there were already merchants from the Rus Kingdom who came to Chang'an from thousands of miles. Rus' is a Nordic kingdom ruled by the Danish crown. Today's Danish Dynasty, the most influential is the Vikings, that is, the Vikings who have risen for more than a hundred years, the Vikings call themselves Rus, so the Danish Dynasty is often replaced by the Rus' country, but in fact, the Rus, that is, the Vikings, are paying tribute to the Danish royal family, and the Vikings are able to open up Northern Europe and attack England completely from the support of the Kingdom of Denmark. The arrival of the Rus' in Chang'an shows how great the influence of the Silk Road was. You must know that there is no westward expedition of the Mengyuan Dynasty now, and the distant Westerners have not been defeated by the mysterious forces from the east. The new Silk Road was a success, from Chang'an through the desert through the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea, along the way all countries were influenced by the Silk Road, it can be said unceremoniously that even without the birth of Marco Polo, the distant Eastern Empire has been deeply implanted in the hearts of Westerners.

A Silk Road, the wealth and interests involved are immeasurable, and the Persians are obviously the country that most desires this benefit. Since Zhao Yougong took charge of Guanzhong and brought the Uighurs and Khotan under his rule, coupled with the perfect integration of the Tangut people into Guanzhong, the vast territory from the Uighurs to the Tangut became an inseparable part of Guanzhong's interests. The construction of the Uighurs and Khotan is obvious to all, and this long Hetao corridor has brought countless taxes to Guanzhong, and the Persians obviously saw how attractive the benefits were, so they were eager to introduce the ************ doctrine into the Great Song Dynasty, but because Chang'an had not agreed to the idea of the Persians preaching for various reasons. In fact, whether it was Zhao Yougong or Zhu Lian, they didn't take the Persian Seljuks too seriously, after all, Persia and the Great Song Dynasty were thousands of miles apart, and it seemed unlikely that there would be any direct contact. But with the food problem, the intelligence department dug deeper, and the news dug out shocked Chang'an. In order to prevent any accidents, Zhu Lian transferred Xiao Yue and Liu Jian back to Chang'an with the order of the royal general, at this time there were several people in the imperial study, and Ah Jiu stood aside and described the information just sorted out in detail. Xiao Yue and others have not seen any scenes in these years, the battle in Guanzhong that occurred last year, it is estimated that others may not be able to experience it in a few lifetimes, but these fierce generals, after hearing about Saiyam, they couldn't help frowning, just under the noses of everyone in Chang'an, Saiyam quietly recruited more than 8,000 believers, this ability is simply staggering.

Zhu Wu obviously thought about it more, if he still had opinions on the move to seize grain before, then now he fully supports it, "Princess, according to the minister, Saiyam is probably not simple, he has a large amount of grain in his hand, but he is not in a hurry to trade, obviously this person's intentions are not like ordinary businessmen, and what he wants is not as simple as money." Secretly cultivating the cultists, it is even more ill-intentioned, and the minister suggested that the Saiyam forces should be quickly attacked, but this person should be captured alive. ”

Xiao Yue and Liu Jian glanced at each other, and both expressed their support for Zhu Wu's views, seeing that several important ministers were not much different from what he thought, Zhu Lian did not hesitate, and immediately ordered, "Everyone, this matter should not be delayed, before noon tomorrow, this concubine wants to see Saiyam himself." Also, keep an eye on the other Persian merchants in the city, and the concubine will want to see what the hell this Saiyam is up to. ”

How to capture Saiyam, there is no need for Zhu Lian to bother, this action commanded by Zhu Wu is fast and fierce. Saiyam has been operating in Chang'an for many years, and his influence is not small, in the south of Huichang Temple, Saiyam also funded the construction of a Leiguang Temple, although this temple is modeled on the Chang'an Temple, but in fact, it is not Buddhism, but ****** teachings, and the base camp of Saiyam is located here. Before the end of the day, Liu Jian secretly mobilized the soldiers and horses of the Nanya battalion, secretly surrounded the Leiguang Temple, from the hour, it was the time of the Leiguang Temple to preach, at this time many people came to the flat land in front of the temple, religiously listened to the Persian messenger to teach the doctrine, for some reason, can always see a trace of fanatical atmosphere in the eyes of these people. Just when the Persians were chanting hotly, a loud bang pierced the quiet temple, and the temple door was also pushed open, and then the Nanya soldiers in black soft armor poured into the temple in batches, and they aimed their swords and guns directly at the chanting disciples. What a Saiyam, obviously not allowing him to preach, even dared to mess around, it was really ill-intentioned, ignoring those panicked believers, Liu Jian walked up to the Persian envoy, his cold eyes were like steel knives, "Ben General knows that you can understand Chinese, now tell me, is Saiyam in the temple?" ”

The Persian envoy was at first frightened by what was happening in front of him, but he quickly calmed down, folded his hands, and asked rhetorically in fluent Chinese, "General Han people, we are all devout disciples of God, and we preach the compassion of our Buddha normally, but have you violated any law of the Great Song Dynasty?" Why did the general lead his troops to invade my Leiguang Temple, and wanted the regent to rule the world, so he wouldn't let the general come so nonsense, right? ”

"Hmph, what a sharp-toothed beard" The corners of Liu Kuan's mouth turned up, his hand was forceful, and he pressed it the shoulder of the Persian envoy, and he heard a click, and the Persian envoy's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and the whole person was half-kneeling on the ground, "You really want to be blind?" Is it deaf? Give me back the Buddha's compassion, are you preaching Buddhism? Are you reading the Diamond Sutra? The royal palace and the Shuntian government have repeatedly decreed that the people are not allowed to spread pagan religions privately. ”

After that, Liu Jian looked back at the people who didn't know what was going on, and rebuked loudly, "And you, don't you understand the laws of the Great Song Dynasty?" There are so many temples in Chang'an, Buddhism and Taoism are complete, what bearded people do you actually come here to believe, do you all want to learn Fang La, just wait for the time to come, and rise to the side? Hmph, I think you've had enough of your good days, and you're all impatient, right? ”

Liu Kuang's eyes were fierce, coupled with the bright swords and guns around him, many disciples were suddenly frightened and turned pale, and some people directly knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic, "General Liu is angry, and the grass people really don't know." ”

The people were really frightened by Liu Ji, since the matter of Fang La, the official has repeatedly ordered the Zoroastrian to be banned, and when the trouble was the most fierce four years ago, the Great Song Dynasty wantonly searched for Zoroastrian rebels, and many people died at that time. Most of the people know about Zoroastrianism, but they don't know much about the teachings of Zoroastrianism. In fact, it's not that Zhao Yougong is not enlightened, Zhao Yougong also likes a hundred schools of thought and an open-minded situation, but today's ****** doctrine is far from being the next generation, and the current ****** doctrine is too biased, on the one hand, it teaches people to exterminate human nature, on the other hand, it teaches people to resist, and every aspect goes to extremes, so there are often a group of thugs. If Fang La's teachings are softer, then the genuine ****** is simply unacceptable, especially the article "Disaster is God's punishment for the world", which is simply instigating others to rebel. In the eyes of this group of ****** fanatics, whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, all of them are led to people, so whether it is Persia or Zoroastrianism in the Western Regions, whenever there is a natural disaster, no matter how big or small, there will be rioters. In the land of China, later generations called the White Lotus Sect, which continued Zoroastrianism, a "rebel professional household". It is impossible to make Zhao Yougong like such a religious organization, natural disasters are already annoying, your so-called ****** people still run out to make trouble, there are no human disasters and man-made disasters, even in later generations, Zhao Yougong feels that these people have no ability to build Huaxia, but they definitely have a hand in making the lives of the land of Huaxia miserable. Now that the Great Song Dynasty has been controlled, it is impossible to let such an evil sect exist anymore.

It is precisely because of Zhao Yougong's insistence and Fang La's lesson that Chang'an will never be polite to Zoroastrianism. Now the temple is kneeling, most of them are begging for mercy, Liu Jian frowned, in fact, he also knows that most of these people are blinded, although they will not kill them, but they must be given a profound lesson, "Du Yang, take all these people to the Shuntianfu prison, and the Shuntianfu will send people to Kipzhou to serve in labor, there is no half a year, whoever goes to lead the people is not allowed to be released, during the period of labor, if anyone dares to escape, there will be no forgiveness." ”

"Oh" Du Yang commanded the men and horses to arrest these disciples, but the people who knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic before breathed a sigh of relief, only half a year of labor, which was much lighter than the punishment of killing the head. Many people even sighed that they were unlucky, and they had a good life, but what kind of bearded religion do they believe, now it's okay, the so-called Muhammad gods didn't see it, and first sent themselves to Kip Prefecture to serve hard labor. Leiguang Temple made such a big move, and all the people of Chang'an around them gathered nearby, wanting to see what was going on, and some people couldn't help but sigh that the forest was big and there were all kinds of birds, and Fang La's matter was so big, and someone went to the Persian beard to write to him. As soon as a believer was escorted out of the temple gate, a young woman rushed out of the crowd, she held a broom in her hand, and kept patting the man's body, "You person, I told you not to believe in any bearded people, but you just don't listen, isn't there enough incense in Huichang Temple, let you burn bearded incense?" ”

"Hey lady, don't fight, I don't know that these bearded people are Fang La's comrades, I knew this, and I didn't believe this when I was killed" The man cried bitterly, full of remorse, he can't wait to slap his face twice now, why do you have to believe this and that, can't you live your life well? If you have to find some sustenance, you can go to Huichang Temple to get incense.

For a while, the matter of the Leiguang Temple was in an uproar, but Liu Jian didn't care about it, as more soldiers poured into the temple, the bearded Persian envoy finally knew that he was afraid, and Liu Jian finally learned that Saiyam had actually been living in the backyard of the Leiguang Temple. As for the mansion in the south of the city, it is just a cover to cover people's eyes. At this time, Liu Jian had already concluded that this Saiyam was definitely not an ordinary person, so he quickly led the troops to surround the backyard, but unfortunately more than 100 Nanya soldiers searched for an hour, but they did not find any trace of Saiyam. At the end of the day, a soldier sent a secret passage in the room where Saiyam lived, and standing at the door of the secret passage, Liu Jian and his eyes were glaring, and he said angrily, "I actually let this Saiyam run away." ”

Since the secret passage leads directly to the west gate, I am afraid that Saiyam had already sneaked out of the city through the secret passage when there was an accident in the front yard. Saiyam is obviously a careful person, and it is impossible to catch him again. However, Liu Jian did not find nothing, in the room of Sayam, he found a lot of Persian letters, Liu Jian took all the letters in the house and handed them over to Shuntianfu, Fang Qiliang found someone to quickly translate these letters, and finally handed them over to Zhu Lian. From the content of the letter, Zhu Lian learned a lot of things, the real identity of Sayam turned out to be the eldest son of Sanjar, the king of the Great Seljuk Empire, whose real name is Omar? Hydro, and Hydro did not come to Chang'an simply to do business, but to cultivate his own power in the name of missionary work in the Uighur region of Khotan. Everything has to start with the situation of the Persian state, the Persian state after the strong period of Malikshah, quickly went to split, although the third son of the Sanjar Omar family inherited the ruling power of the empire, but still could not prevent the Persian Empire from declining, a large part of which is the advance of the Byzantine Empire in the west. With the reopening of the Silk Road, the Persians also saw hope, if they can regain their strength through the Silk Road, it is not a dream for the Persian Empire to regain its strength, and Hydero's original idea was to establish a force in the Western Regions of the Great Song Dynasty, and cooperate with the Persian Darsel Empire to use troops against the Khorezm Kingdom, as long as the Khorezm Kingdom is taken, the Great Seljuk Empire can control the Silk Road and reproduce the prosperity of the Persian Empire, and he Hydero can also use this merit to stand out among the brothers, Become the most legitimate heir to the royal family.

With the flight of Sayam, the Great Song court also got the food it wanted, but what Zhao Yougong didn't know was that the problem he faced was not the revenge of the Persians at all, but the entire history had changed dramatically because of the reopening of the Silk Road. If the Persians wanted to take revenge on the Great Song Dynasty, they did not need to send troops into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. Although there is no such thing as the powerful Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire was destroyed hundreds of years ago. However, the influence of the Roman Empire was far-reaching, and until the Great Song Dynasty, the shadow of the Roman Empire was still active in the Western world, including the Eastern Roman Empire, which was the Byzantine Empire, and the other was the Holy Roman Empire, a Germanic people. The Holy Roman Empire, in particular, influenced the entire Western world with its powerful military power, and even when the Vikings were at their strongest, they could not pose a threat to Holy Rome. With the Persians' propaganda of the Silk Road, this economic corridor has become a golden corridor for the Western world, and the Germanic people have regarded the mysterious Eastern Empire as a cornucopia. (To be continued.) )