Feeling that the European Church had been infiltrating the American continent and wanted to use the power of religion to achieve their ulterior goals, Zhao Hongyu and his team formulated a plan for the counter-impact of faith.

On the European continent, the Church has always been the dominant presence over the royal families.

The divine right of kings is not just a rhetoric, but a real thing.

Any monarch in Europe who wants to be king cannot avoid the side of the Church.

It must be approved and instructed by the Church for the king to have legal rights, as well as stability and good rule.

If the king is dissatisfied with the church, or has other ideas.

Then the church will come up with a rhetoric or fabricate some such event as the wrath of the "gods" to threaten the kings' rule.

Because the people on the European continent basically believe in Christianity, the power of the church is extremely large.

Although they keep saying that they will not participate in worldly things, everything they do is related to the world.

Even, the high echelons of the church have much stronger ambitions for power than ordinary people.

To put it bluntly, these people in the church are just using the guise of Christ to collect money for them, or to participate in government affairs.

Even the supreme ruler of the church, who claims to be the spokesman of 'God' in the world, calls himself the 'pope'.

Therefore, no matter how they interpret it, no matter how they say it, they cannot erase their ugliness behind the crown.

According to the Chinese side, the church is actually a person who wants to set up a memorial arch after making a watch.

Such people say that they are all light.

Although they can fool the people of this era, but for Zhao Hongyu and others, this set of the church will not play a role.

Zhao Hongyu, who has a lot of knowledge, really knows too well what kind of organization the church is, and knows very well what kind of virtue the people in the church are.

Therefore, how could Zhao Hongyu allow the church to take root and develop believers on the American continent.

This is simply not possible.

If the church is allowed to succeed. Then the stability and unity within the Song Empire in the Americas will no longer exist.

Those believers will certainly be instigated by the Church and have a great influence on the rule of the Empire.

This is what Zhao Hongyu does not want to see, nor does he want it to happen.

Then, cutting off the tentacles of the church reaching out to the Americas is something that must be done.

In fact, Zhao Hongyu is not interested in the church, and another point is that he has to do it.

Because he knew too much about the church, it was impossible for Zhao Hongyu to let the church spread their faith in the Americas.

If you let them succeed. The church will definitely ask to be the emperor of the Americas.

At the same time, there are a large number of believers who are fully qualified to negotiate terms with themselves.

Unless Zhao Hongyu's brain was pumped, or he was caught by the door, otherwise he would not let the church succeed.

This is not at all beneficial to him and the empire.

Besides, those people in the church are complete parasites.

They don't produce, and they don't have the slightest use for the development of the empire except to talk about believing in their so-called 'gods' all day long.

And they will continue to deceive believers. Use their money to fatten themselves.

With such a guy and organization, it is impossible for Zhao Hongyu to give any color at all.

Moreover, the American continent has now become a land of wealth because of its development.

its kingdom. It is practiced in both European and Arab circles.

A country like this, full of wealth, is very attractive.

How could the church let go of such a place of anointing?

Now that the wealth of the people on the European continent has been squeezed to the limit by the Church and the lords and nobles of all classes, it can be said that they need to reopen their financial resources.

So. On the side of the Song Empire in the Americas, it will definitely enter the sight of the church.

Originally, according to normal history. This era was the time when the great voyages of the European countries began.

Because of the opening of the Great Voyage, the Europeans found a way to open up financial resources in the ocean.

At the same time, it also alleviated the economic crisis of European countries.

It also allows the church to continue to plunder wealth from the 'lambs'.

But the problem is that because Zhao Hongyu suddenly came to this era, and seized the American continent and cut off the possibility of Europeans making a fortune in the Americas, this made history suddenly distorted.

As a result, the finances of the Church and the nobles and lords of various European countries suddenly became strained.

Originally, they could still continue to look for a way out from the sea.

However, because of Zhao Hongyu's relationship, European countries began another historical development.

Wars that have never been fought before in history are now being played out on the road of Europe.

The Portuguese and French formed an alliance that prevented the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and prevented the church princes from looking at the sea.

And the vassal states of the Church, because of some problems with their power itself, were divided.

Protestantism, and because of the Protestant wars, began to break out.

Because each has some entanglements of interests, this war will last for 30 years.

It is the famous 'Thirty Years' War in Europe.

And in the autumn of 1622, the war was just going on.

However, because of the appearance of Zhao Hongyu, there has also been a big deviation.

Originally, according to the normal course of history, the Protestant and ecclesiastical vassal states should have fought hotly now. But now, the Protestants and the church have a very tacit truce confrontation, and they have begun to lick their wounds and recuperate.

This was entirely due to the alliance between Portugal and France, which began to challenge the vassal states of the Church.

Because of the alliance between Portugal and France, the vassal states of the Church discovered a crisis from Western Europe.

In addition, after the restoration of Portugal, the Spanish Empire, the gold medal fighter of the church was destroyed under the appearance of France, which made the church a little anxious to jump off the wall.

As a result, the Church and the Protestants came to an armistice in the Netherlands and began to attack Portugal and France.

Despite the fact that the church is now divided, its power is still very strong in Europe.

After all, the Church had ruled Europe for so long, and they could not have been without a foundation.

Therefore. In the face of the attack of the Church, the pressure on Portugal and France suddenly became great.

In addition to the British in the island nation outside the European continent, they make some small moves from time to time.

This is a headache for Portugal and France.

In fact, the British are also very dick now, they are not so strong at all in this era.

Although they had defeated the invincible Spanish fleet many years earlier, the British were not alone on the seas.

At least, the Spanish Empire was stronger than the British until it was destroyed by the Portuguese and French.

The British, on the other hand, are just second-rate countries.

But because of the fall of the Spanish Empire, the British saw an opportunity.

Because of the Spaniards. There are large colonies in Africa and the Indies, and there are many well-built ports.

As long as the British could take advantage of the chaos on the European continent and seize all the colonies that belonged to the destroyed Spanish Empire, then the British could open a sea route to the East.

At that time, spices and silk from the East, as well as other goods, would bring great commercial profits to Britain and make the British economy stronger.

Originally, the Song Empire was also a choice for the British, but they had a bit of a stalemate with the Song Empire.

So. It's impossible to do trade anymore.

So, they have to look elsewhere.

Of course, in fact, many British maritime merchants still come to the Americas to do trade.

It's just that. They will not carry the British flag, but will change to the Portuguese and French flags.

It can be seen that the British people in this era have no patriotism at all, as long as they can make money, they can do anything.

Even if it's a businessman from Portugal and France. It's not impossible.

The British continued to attack Portugal and fought many battles with the Portuguese at sea.

In order to open up the sea passage to Africa.

But if they want to go to Africa. Then first they had to defeat the Portuguese.

But the problem is that although the Portuguese have just regained their country, they are not so easy to defeat.

After all, Portugal and France had taken over the shipyards that had been left behind after the fall of Spain, as well as their mechanics.

As a result, both the Portuguese and the French were given a big boost in terms of their navies.

Especially after the economic aid of the Song Empire in the Americas, Portugal and France placed a lot of orders for shipyards.

As a result, the shipyard began to operate at full capacity, constantly building warships.

This is also the reason why the Portuguese and French were able to withstand the sea and land attacks from the vassal states of the Church and the British, although they were under great pressure.

At the same time, although there is a truce in the Netherlands, anyone who is not a fool will understand that this is only temporary.

A new battle may begin at some point.

Because both Protestants and churches know the Tao, things between them will never end so easily.

It's divisive.

If the church does not solve each other's problems, then their prestige will be greatly reduced.

Who will believe in the church in the future?

Besides, after the schism, will there be two popes?

Are believers also going to be divided in two?

The Church has always claimed that the Pope is the only and unique secular administrator appointed by God.

But after the schism, Protestantism will also elect a pope at that time, right?

So, who exactly is Orthodox?

It is impossible for God to appoint two earthly administrators.

Therefore, if this problem is not handled well, then the church will be nakedly slapped in the face.

The solution to this problem is to exterminate Protestantism with all its might.

Only in this way can this crisis be resolved.

It was precisely this complicated war on the European continent that made Zhao Hongyu and them see the opportunity, and sent Jenny and his party to Europe to make plans. (To be continued......)