Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Through this tribal alliance meeting, the determination and achievements of the Ming Dynasty in governing the grassland were truly demonstrated.

Those grassland tribal leaders and princes who were rich and wealthy in Beiping, after seeing all this, would cut off any of their ambitions to return to the grassland and regain power.

Even if they had the ambition to return to the grassland, they were doomed to fail.

The current prairie is already the prairie of the Ming government and ordinary herdsmen, not the prairie of tribal leaders and princes like them.

On the Mongolian grasslands in the east, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

On the distant plains of Eastern Europe, a similarly earth-shaking change is taking place.

Shortly after Wang Baobao led an army of [-] Mongols to capture Bergossa, he immediately announced that all Mongols had converted to the Orthodox Church.

For the entire Eastern Europe, this is definitely an explosive news.

The Orthodox Church converted by hundreds of thousands of Mongols made it possible for them to fully integrate with the local Slavs.

The two sides were originally pagans who were in the same situation, but now they have become religious brothers who believe in the same god.

Wang Baobao took advantage of his powerful military capabilities to wipe out all the opposing forces in just a few months, completely inherited the prestige of the original Golden Horde here, and even raised it to a higher level.

He asked the eighteen Slavic countries to send their heirs as hostages to the city of Sarai for custody.

The countries established by the eighteen Slavs obediently obeyed Wang Baobao's orders.

They are also very supportive of Wang Baobao, because Wang Baobao not only led hundreds of thousands of Mongols to convert to the Orthodox Church, they also became lambs of God, and also greatly reduced the taxes of the Slavs.

After the Slavs came to the city of Salai, they swore allegiance to Wang Baobao.

They also got Wang Baobao's promise to help them punish the Poles and Lithuanians in the west.

Historically, Poles and Lithuanians have had a very good relationship, especially now that it's almost a good thing to wear the same pair of pants.

After the Poles and Lithuanians wore a pair of trousers, their biggest hobby was to attack the Slavs eastward.

The Polish-Lithuanians slaughtered the Slavic peoples, looting their livestock and food, and often destroyed the Slavic Orthodox churches.

Because the Poles and Lithuanians are fanatical Catholics, they feel that the Orthodox Church worshiped by the Slavic barbarians is heresy and should be destroyed instead of being allowed to stand on the ground.

It turned out that the scattered Slavs had nothing to do with the Poles and Lithuanians.

After all, the Poles have a stronger military advantage.

The Poles have more advanced civilizations and cities, and they can craft more weapons and armor.Even the brave Teutonic Knights have been beaten to shame by the Poles, not to mention the Slavs with even more backward weapons and equipment.

The Slavs can only let the Poles and Lithuanians ride on their heads unscrupulously.

but.

All this seems to be a thing of the past, because the Slavs who believed in the Orthodox Church welcomed their great savior, that is, Wang Baobao John Kuokuo Timur, the grand master of the Yuan Dynasty.

That's right, this is the new name Wang Baobao gave himself after he converted to the Orthodox Church.

John is the name of a saint in the Orthodox Bible.

In the biblical story, St. John is one of Jesus' twelve disciples.

And not only did he qualify to be called St. John, he was also the only disciple among the twelve disciples who lived a long life and died in his bed.

After Wang Baobao learned some Bible stories, he naturally had a special preference for St. John. He named himself John according to the Orthodox custom. Not only that, but also followed the Orthodox tradition. Yan Timur also gave him the name John.

it's good now.

Their father and son are in the same line, Wang Baobao is the illegitimate son of Big John, and Bayannaoer is the

little john.

It can be regarded as another recognized father-son relationship.

Because he led the Mongolian tribes under him through long-distance migration, Wang Baobao's position has become very important and firm.

Wang Baobao named himself John, and his generals and nobles naturally followed suit. Within a few months, at least tens of thousands of people named John appeared among the Mongols.

Among all the orders issued by Wang Baobao, the signature is Wang Baobao John Kuokuo Timur.

If Wang Baobao's official position and title are added, the length of this name is comparable to that of the Slavs, which makes the Slavs very worried about calling Wang Baobao by his full name.

Many Slavs called the powerful minister of the Yuan Dynasty John Timur.

"John Timur", a name that is full of the fusion flavor of East and West, Wang Baobao readily accepted.

On the banks of the Volga, the city of John Sarai.

The current capital of the Yuan Dynasty has been renamed John Salai from the original Bergosarai.

Wang Baobao, the Grand Master of the Great Yuan Dynasty and the Great Mongol State, was summoning envoys from various Slavic tribes in his mansion.

This time, he wanted to discuss with these Slavic envoys about sending troops to attack the Poles.

Because not so long ago.

The Poles attacked several Slavic countries again. They killed the local people and destroyed the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church worshiped by the Slavs is a damned heresy. The Poles boasted that sooner or later they would go to the city of Salai to wash away the shame and blood feud caused by the Batu Western Expedition to the Poles.

After getting this news, Wang Baobao John Timur naturally couldn't tolerate it.

The Yuan Dynasty traveled thousands of miles and came to the city of Salai on the banks of the Volga River. Like a dragon crossing the river, how could this little shrimp in Poland bounce around under his nose? !
and so.

This time Wang Baobao planned to launch another Mongolian expedition to the west to establish the prestige of the Yuan Dynasty.

It's just that in order to consolidate the city of Salai in the rear, the scale of the western expedition is very small. Wang Baobao's general Hao Hai led [-] Oirat cavalry, and combined with [-] soldiers and horses gathered by [-] Slavic tribes, the total Forty thousand soldiers and horses.

Mainly launched punitive attacks on Poles and Lithuanians, only for massacres and destruction, not to occupy land.

Wang Baobao summoned these Slav envoys, and soon made a plan for the expedition.

but.

Before the military operation could start this time, it was obstructed by other forces.

In the southern part of the Eastern European Plain, on the Crimean Peninsula bordering the Black Sea, there is a famous city of Kaffa.

Caffa was a trading city founded by the Genoese.

It mainly transports goods from Europe and West Asia by sea, sells them to the Slavic tribes and the Mongolian Golden Horde, and then transports the oriental goods and Slavic slaves transported by the Golden Horde from the Silk Road to Egypt, East Rome and Europe etc.

After decades of development, the Genoese are very powerful in Kaffa City. They not only have an elite defense force, but also have an invincible merchant fleet on the Black Sea.

After hearing that Wang Baobao was planning to use troops against the Poles, the Genoese in Kaffa immediately sent someone to express their opposition.

The reason is that the Genoese are as Catholic as the Poles.

of course.

For these Genoese who valued interests, this was just an excuse for them to oppose Wang Baobao's sending troops.

In fact, the Genoese did not want a Yuan dynasty stronger than the Golden Horde to be born under their noses.

Moreover, this Yuan Dynasty also converted to the Orthodox Church and united eighteen Slavic countries under their command. This is absolutely unacceptable to the Genoese.

Because the existence of Kaffa City is mainly for the acquisition of Slavic slaves on the Eastern European grasslands, and
Oriental goods transported along the grassland silk road.

Now because of the migration of Wang Baobao's Mongolian army, they are destroying all the way along the way, and the northern road is the grassland Silk Road, which has been cut off.

Genoese basically can't buy any oriental goods in Kaffa.

And once the eighteen Slavic countries are united under the auspices of the Yuan Dynasty, there will be no more wars.

If there is no war, there will be no prisoners.

Without captives, there would be no Slavic slaves to sell.

This is equivalent to cutting off the source of income for the Genoese.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's parents.

The Genoese naturally did not want to see a Yuan dynasty that protected the Slavs.

What they need is a chaotic group of Slavs.

Therefore, the Genoese firmly opposed the Mongols sending troops to attack the Poles.

Once the Poles are beaten to the ground, the Slavs are about to rise, even if they rise under the leadership of the Mongols, it is unacceptable to the Genoese.

For these Genoese people who came out of nowhere, Wang Baobao didn't plan to buy them at first.

However, many pro-Slavs advised him to think carefully.

And these Slavs have repeatedly affirmed the importance and strength of the Genoese on the Black Sea with Wang Baobao.

Only then did Wang Baobao know where did the Genoese dare to criticize him in front of him.

Especially after he heard that the location of Kaffa City belonged to the land of the Golden Horde, Wang Baobao couldn't tolerate these Genoese jumping up and down.

"On the side of the couch, how can we allow other people to sleep soundly? A group of businessmen who do business with us dare to criticize our Dayuan national policy. It is unbearable. We must punish them well and let them know who is in this piece of land. master."

As the saying goes, coming and not going is indecent, Wang Baobao also sent an envoy.

Wang Baobao sent an envoy to condemn the Genoese for interfering in the internal affairs of the Yuan Dynasty, and he also ordered the Genoese to withdraw from Kaffa City immediately within the prescribed time limit and return the land to the Yuan Dynasty, otherwise once the Yuan Dynasty If the dynasty is angry, it will use millions of troops to capture Kafa City.

At that time, the Genoese were bound to be mercilessly massacred.

If it was more than 100 years ago, when the Mongols just started their western expedition, this kind of fierce threat of massacre would definitely scare the Genoese to the ground.

but.

More than ten years ago, the Golden Horde threatened the Genoese with the same tone, but after a year of siege, they retreated in disgrace and failed to attack Kafa City.

From then on, the Genoese felt that Kaphacheng was indestructible.

They didn't take Wang Baobao's words to heart at all, but immediately countered Wang Baobao's threat in their own way.

The Genoese used their powerful sea fleet to attack many cities and ports in the northeast of the Black Sea.

These were all naval bases built by the Mongols during the Golden Horde period, and all of them were destroyed under the attack of the Genoese.

This is a naked declaration of war against the Yuan Dynasty.

Later, the Genoese did even more excessive things. They also blocked the envoys of the Eastern Roman Empire from Constantinople who came to the Yuan Dynasty.

Because the Eastern Roman Emperor John V was overjoyed when he heard that a powerful Eastern Mongols had replaced the Golden Horde and converted to the Orthodox Church.

John V felt that this was a powerful ally that could save the Eastern Roman Empire, so he sent envoys from the Eastern Roman Empire to form an alliance with the Yuan Dynasty.

The Genoese naturally did not allow this to happen, and they detained the envoys from Eastern Rome.

This is to announce that the Genoese have simultaneously launched a bottomless provocation against the Yuan Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire.

The emperor John V of the Eastern Roman Empire had long hated the greedy Genoese merchants.

Even if there are quite a few Renas among his mercenaries
The sub-humans still failed to calm John V to calm down the anger in his heart.

John V sent the last remaining elite fleet of the Eastern Roman Empire to launch a punitive attack on the Genoese.

The two sides fought several battles on the Black Sea.

The entire Black Sea is full of flames of war, coupled with the billowing black smoke from the northern shore of the Black Sea from time to time.

All the countries around the Black Sea know that the Genoese are not afraid of any opponent in order to safeguard their interests in the Black Sea.

The next situation depends on how the Yuan Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire deal with Genoa's powerful navy.

Since Wang Baobao converted to the Orthodox Church, he has learned more about religion and a lot about the Roman Empire.

He knew that although the current Eastern Roman Empire was weak, it had been bullied by surrounding countries and had become a regionally weak country.

But the history of honor possessed by the Eastern Roman Empire is an intangible wealth.

If an alliance can be concluded with the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, then the Great Yuan Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire will inevitably establish a strong Orthodox alliance here, which will be very beneficial to the Mongols to consolidate their position.

But now the hateful Genoese intercepted the envoys of the Eastern Roman Empire, preventing Wang Baobao from negotiating an alliance with the Eastern Roman Empire.

Faced with this situation, Wang Baobao was very angry.

But no matter how angry he is, Wang Baobao has nothing to do with the Genoese.

Because Mongolia does not have a navy, and the Genoese navy is too powerful.

They owned more than 100 large and small warships in the Black Sea, but Wang Baobao received less than ten warships from the Golden Horde naval heritage.

The only ten warships are still very small in tonnage, and they cannot cope with the powerful galleys of the Genoese on the sea.

Therefore, Wang Baobao decided to abandon the Black Sea for the time being, and delay the alliance with the Eastern Roman Empire.

First concentrate on reconciling the interior, and teach the Poles in the west.

Since Wang Baobao united with various Slavic slave countries to prepare to attack Poland westward, King Kami III of Poland launched a national mobilization, and an army of almost 4000 people has been mobilized.

Poland has never assembled such a large number of troops, which shows that they attach great importance to the Yuan Dynasty.

Because they have also heard that these Mongols from the east are the headquarters of the Mongols who crossed the Eurasian continent back then.

Otherwise, there is absolutely no such strong combat power that can defeat and eliminate the mighty Golden Horde in one fell swoop.