Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

The maps of later generations unfolded a silent but magnificent picture in front of Zhao Kuangyin.

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More than three hundred years ago, a Tang general named Wang Fangyi soaked into this painting paper like a drop of thick ink, creating a magnificent scenery.

The generals of the Tang Dynasty claimed their merits and established a territory of thousands of miles. The Turks fled and entered the far west.

Over the past three hundred years, the remnants of a partial division stumbled and grew stronger, and finally swept the local area, defeated the powerful enemy, captured their leader, and became dominant.

Until he finally met the Khitans who failed to compete in the Central Plains.

Moreover... Zhao Kuangyin thought about it and felt that this Khitan man might not be that weak.

The maritime alliance before the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty was not discussed in detail in later generations.

But judging from the farce-like conquest of Liao and capture of Yan in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Khitan Liao were more defeated by the Jin people than subjugated by the Song Dynasty.

And look at the one named Yelu Dashi. Two hundred horses ran westward for less than ten years before they could successfully restore the country and defeat the Turkic Seljuks in the Western Expedition. He was worthy of being praised by later generations as a heroic leader.

Naturally, Zhao Kuangyin also came to a conclusion in his heart.

"The Khitan people are really brave."

Zhao Kuangyin turned his head calmly and looked at Master Kong Jiong shaking his head with two black eyes and sighing, which was somewhat similar to the giant panda that was so beloved by later generations.

Seeing the officials looking at him, Zhao Guangyi said cautiously:

"Didn't brother also say that the Khitan is a powerful enemy?"

"What I'm talking about is that today's most powerful enemy is the Khitan, not that the Khitan is invincible."

Zhao Kuangyin glared at his younger brother and emphasized:

"In the sixth year of Xian De's reign, I served as a naval and land commander. I also defeated thousands of Khitan knights in Mozhou, so I know the basics."

"Because of this, you took over my elite soldiers and banned the army, but left the name of donkey cart in the Gaoliang River. It's really..."

Zhao Song Guanjia was at a loss for words for a while, and Zhao Pu also sighed:

"It's really hard to believe."

After calming down, Zhao Kuangyin agreed:

"If you can have even three points of talent like Yelu Dashi, you will be able to make sure that future generations will not criticize you."

"All the good soldiers and generals have been lost in your hands. They have been disheartened in two battles, and the army has been destroyed since then."

When he said this, Zhao Kuangyin's expression was surprisingly calm, and he even had a tendency to laugh when he looked at Master Kongjiong's bald head:

"What can you do?"

What can you do? Zhao Guangyi also fell silent immediately, subconsciously twirling the rosary beads in his hand twice, but he couldn't find the answer for a while.

He really longs for his brother's throne, but what next?

No one knows how to enrich the people and strengthen the army, and even less knows how to defeat the enemy in battle.

It was like a myth to him to think that Yelu Dashi, with two hundred elite cavalry, had been in business for more than ten years and could confront the dominating Seljuk army and defeat it.

At this moment, he felt a little confused in his heart.

…

"Yelü Dashi, Xiliao Khan, Priest King John."

Li Shimin muttered this name and a completely unfamiliar vocabulary, and suddenly a new title came up freely in his mind:

"John Khan?"

Empress Changsun was immediately dumbfounded:

"How can anyone call him such a Khan?"

Li Shimin was quite dissatisfied:

"Guanyin Maid doesn't know that hundreds of years later in the Ming Dynasty, there was an emperor called Emperor Yongle."

"This Emperor Yongle also has a foreign name."

As he said that, he simply took a pen and paper and tried to remember to write out the words "Judy".

Then he looked at the light screen and copied the Yelv Dashi's name "Johannes" in Chinese to the strange-looking Yihuluhualaiao.

Immediately, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had a simple curiosity:

"I wonder what the name of this person in future generations will be called me?"

Queen Changsun held his hand:

"Since we are admired by the younger generations, we will not be wronged in the slightest."

That's true. Li Shimin nodded, he believed it.

But these are nothing more than trivial matters, and I immediately focused on the more conspicuous words:

"Pope? Bishop? Eastern Expedition?"

He also recalled a word that the younger generation often used when talking about Taoism and Buddhism, and he naturally came up with a guess:

"Could this Pope mean the religious emperor?"

Du Ruhui became even more clear:

"I'm afraid that all the countries in the West respect this Christianity, so the power of the Pope is even greater than that of the kings of other countries."

Fang Xuanling also guessed:

"Perhaps only in this way can these dozens of countries of different sizes join together in the Eastern Expedition in the name of holy war."

The two prime ministers and assistants were very careful in their words, but the people in Ganlu Palace basically agreed with what they said.

After all, the map clearly shows that the Southern Song Dynasty alone, which has always been said to be relatively peaceful, had enough territory in the west to carve out about ten countries.

The huge Roman Empire that was said to have used the Mediterranean as a bathtub by later generations has disappeared. Only the Eastern Roman Empire remains, and others such as the County of Sicily, the Kingdom of Croatia, the County of Toulouse, and the Hamady Dynasty Wait for a large number of countries whose names are completely incomprehensible to occupy the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Chu Suiliang had the best eyesight. After observing carefully, he pointed at the map on the light screen and said:

"Could it be that this Papal State is where the Vatican is said to be in later generations?"

Among the Western countries, this is the only country whose meaning can be seen from its name alone, so I made this conjecture.

Using religion to order the nations to cut off territory, Li Shimin vaguely felt that this far west land seemed to have embarked on a completely different path after the fall of Rome.

So the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty made a decision as a matter of course:

"Let the Honglu Temple set up an office to recruit people who can speak Chinese, record documents from the west, understand their customs and understand their people's sentiments."

[Two years after the Battle of Katwan, Yelu Dashi died of illness at the age of 57, and was posthumously named Dezong.

Throughout Yelu John's life, he experienced the Three Kingdoms of Song, Liao and Jin, the demise of the Liao Dynasty, the restoration of the Northern Liao Dynasty, and finally chose to flee to the west in the face of Emperor Tianzuo's failure, and finally successfully established the Western Liao Dynasty to bring Chinese culture to Central Asia, and defeated the Seljuk Empire head-on to open up a new political situation in Central Asia. He is an absolute figure in world history.

In addition, his posthumous affairs are also exciting enough:

Christianity arranged for him the identity of a priest king, saying that he admired the church and wanted to go to Jerusalem to worship.

Persian historians believe that Yelu Dashi "secretly became a Muslim."

Arab historians gave him the identity of a Manichean.

From the perspective of the development of world history, since Gao Xianzhi was defeated in the Battle of Talas, the Chinese cultural circle has lost its voice in Central Asia.

Three hundred and ninety years later, Yelu Dashi's westward expedition finally expanded the influence of the Chinese cultural circle to Central Asia again.

In terms of achievements alone, Yelu Dashi alone was enough to pull up the rulers of both Song and Jin, and it is not an exaggeration to praise him as a romantic figure.

In addition, the impact of Wang Fangyi's Battle of Rehai has not yet completely ended.

One hundred years after the demise of the Seljuk Empire, a group of natives in Asia Minor established a world-famous empire called Ottoman under the name of descendants of the Oghuz Turks.

More than four hundred years later, the Afsharid Dynasty of the Persian Empire rose. Its founder Nader Shah was born in the Afsharid tribe, which evolved from the Oghuz Turks.

However, Wang Fangyi, who triggered this butterfly effect that lasted for thousands of years, did not end well.

The year after the Battle of Rehai, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi died of illness. Wu Zetian, who was in power, began to purge dissidents because of the Luling Prince's rebellion against Wu, and also implicated political enemies who had deposed Wang and enthroned Wu.

Prime Minister Pei Yan was killed, and Cheng Wuting was accused of colluding with Pei Yan and was beheaded in the army.

Wang Fangyi himself was also implicated, and as a relative of Queen Wang, he was convicted and exiled to Yazhou, where he died on the way. 】