"This change has swept across the entire continent of Europa. Theoretically, all major countries in the continent of Europa may have trouble, and it may be more lively than ours in England."
Zhang Jingxu dipped his finger in the teacup and then wrote four numbers on the table - 1077.
"It is now 1077, and the most famous event on the continent of Europe is the Canossa incident that you will learn in junior high school history class - Henry IV, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, came to Canossa Castle to request the Pope in the heavy snow.
Forgive, the Pope forced him to stand for three days and three nights before he came out to forgive him. This symbolizes that the religious power of the Cross overwhelms the secular royal power; the history book may stop abruptly here and will not tell you. The more you think about it,
The increasingly angry Henry IV would send troops to the Papal States in a few years, beating the Pope to death in a foreign land."
Having said this, Zhang Jingxu showed a mysterious smile, "So let's take a guess, what will happen to the Canossa incident after the mutation?"
"Well, the mutation should be getting worse and worse, so I think Henry IV will feel angry as soon as he comes. After standing for a while, he will go home to gather his troops and prepare to attack the Papal State." Zhang Huanyu said first.
"wrong."
Mo Chen interrupted directly: "I remember that the reason why Henry IV bowed to the Pope was mainly because many of his nobles and ministers sided with the Pope, so Henry IV had to go to Cano
Castle Castle apologized to the Pope, and after that, he could attack the Papal State to vent his anger. An important prerequisite was to clean up all these nobles and ministers. Therefore, if Henry IV went back to organize troops to attack the Papal State now, then he would have to
Let’s fight with the nobles and ministers who support the Pope first.”
"This orange cat is right. Although Henry IV is only twenty-seven years old today, he became the king of Franconia when his father died unexpectedly when he was six years old. You also know that young people like this
The emperor was definitely not able to rule, so someone was needed to help with the regency. At this time, the regent was basically either the queen mother or a powerful minister. As a result, Henry IV had both. In the beginning, it was Henry IV's.
His mother was regent, but a few years later, the Archbishop of Cologne usurped the position of regent. As a result, the Archbishop of Cologne took advantage of the regency to amass wealth and power for himself and his subordinates, and did not take Henry IV seriously at all, so Henry
It will take four generations to become at odds with the Pope."
As Zhang Jingxu spoke, he took out two simplified maps of the Europa continent from his arms and continued: "After Henry IV officially came to power, he has been committed to recovering the rights and land that were taken away by the Archbishop of Cologne and his party.
, but it had little effect, because he was too young and had always been under the control of others, so the territory that Henry IV could control was not large; the two maps you see now are
This picture was drawn when I first came to this world in 1700, and the other picture was redrawn by me based on the actual situation at the beginning of this year. The red solid line on this is the actual control area of Henry IV, and
The red dotted line is the area he can nominally control."
Mo Chen glanced at the map and couldn't help but raise his head and asked: "This second map is a bit, no, very wrong. How come Henry IV has become the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire now? I remember Henry IV should be
It was after he attacked the Papal States that he became the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, so he should only be the king of Franconia now, right?"
On the two maps Zhang Jingxu took out, the area actually controlled by Henry IV did not change much, but the area nominally controlled expanded dozens of times, occupying nearly half of the continent of Europa.
"Oh, it seems you know the history of this area quite well."
Zhang Jingxu looked at Mo Chen and said: "Yes, historically Henry IV should have been crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1084, but in this parallel world Henry IV proclaimed himself emperor ten years earlier. You know
Does this mean anything?"
Mo Chen's face changed, and he took a breath and said: "The Holy Roman Empire uses the candidate system to elect a new emperor. To put it bluntly, the emperor is selected from the kings of several big countries. Under normal circumstances, the emperor is elected
The new emperors who came out were all the most powerful and famous kings in the Holy Roman Empire at that time. Henry IV in 1074 obviously did not meet these conditions. Of course, Henry IV ten years later led the troops to conquer the Papal States.
With his remaining power, he became the new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, which is naturally justified and beyond doubt."
"So, Henry IV was able to become the new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire three years ago. I thought of a possibility, that is, the remaining electors were not convinced by anyone, so they turned the electors into
Henry IV, the weakest among the emperors, was promoted to the throne of emperor. In this way, the Holy Roman Empire was similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China. It was a weak suzerain state and a group of powerful vassal states. It seems that the Holy Roman Empire was already close to falling apart.
It’s not far away, especially this time the Canossa incident is likely to become a trigger.”
Zhang Jingxu looked at Mo Chen with some surprise, nodded and said: "You are right, I have been paying attention to the developments of the Holy Roman Empire in the past two years, and found that many countries have begun to mobilize troops and are ready to move.
As long as there is a flaw in Henry IV, they will not hesitate to send troops to annex the surrounding small countries, and then refuse Henry IV's mediation. By then, the entire Holy Roman Empire will be in chaos; in addition, I also asked
The Vikings in Northern Europe are gathering and can go south to attack coastal cities at any time."
"Hiss~ I remember that William the Conqueror was a Norman, and the Normans were, to put it bluntly, the Vikings who lived in Normandy and were recruited by the King of France."
Mo Chen's cat paws kept tapping the table and said seriously: "If the Vikings go south, England's position will be a little unclear... Wait, Mr. Zhang, you just said that William the Conqueror is very likely
He died suddenly in a short period of time, which means that when the Vikings went south, some people were worried that William the Conqueror would remember his old friendship and help the Vikings, so they assassinated William the Conqueror!"
"Yes, someone bought a large amount of arsenic from me some time ago, and I sold the arsenic in the name of killing insects. After all, people these days have more or less parasites in their bodies."
ps: Sorry, I have something urgent to do today, so the update is a little late.
