After arranging his confidant Xiao Tieniu to visit Ceylon and Palembang, Yelu Dashi began to write letters to an Egyptian queen.

The Queen of Egypt, who was in the same era as Oishi, was certainly not the Cleopatra who seduced Caesar, but Anna I of the Komuning Dynasty. A respected scholar, politician and military strategist, probably the second greatest woman in the Middle Ages - the first one was of course Wu Meiniang, the mother of the United States.

The butterfly wings flapped by Wu Haogu more than 20 years ago have also profoundly influenced the historical process of Europe and North Africa!

Anna Komningna undoubtedly benefited from this butterfly effect. Her fate was completely changed when Ji Yi went to the West. With Ji Yi's help, Anna Komningna and her husband Nikifruz Blinius seized the Sinai Peninsula shortly after Ji Yi returned to the east and became the queen and king of the Sinai Republic. Of course, the Republic can also have kings, and the Polish Republic in history had kings. However, the throne of the Republic cannot be inherited and can only be elected by parliament.

The Sinai Republic is a country jointly organized by various Balkan knights and merchants from the Italian four seas. It is really similar to the Zhou Kingdom founded by Wu Haogu.

The starts are similar, but the results are also a bit the same!

Benefiting from trade with the East and the import of gunpowder weapons (there is no artillery, but black powder and bombs), the Sinai Republic became the number one power among Christian forces in the Middle East shortly after its establishment, far surpassing the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The powerful Republic of Sinai naturally had to expand abroad, and the expansion direction of the Republic of Sinai could not be the Kingdom of Jerusalem of the same clan, so it could only attack the Fatima Dynasty in Egypt in the west.

At this time, the Fatima Dynasty had long been declining, and the authority of the Caliph had long been weak, and the military and political power had fallen into the hands of the ministers who were respectful to the army and the Mamruk Guards.

What's even more terrifying is that after losing the Sinai Peninsula, the Fatima Dynasty completely lost the possibility of being involved in the East-West trade routes. The fiscal revenue plummeted, and it was impossible to maintain a maritime power that could overwhelm the Christian navy.

In the battle of Nikifruz in 1120 (named after Komningna's husband, it is located on the Mediterranean coast, the capital of the Sinai Republic, very close to Egypt, so it is easy to become the target of the Fatima attack on the army and navy) the fleet from Eastern Rome and Venice joined forces with the fleet of the Sinai Republic. Under the unified command of Venetian Governor Dominic Michel, 120 Calais warships destroyed the fleet that was built to exhaust the Fatima to the treasury. They destroyed 81 Salandi warships in one fell swoop, killing and capturing tens of thousands of Tianfang warriors.

At the same time, knights and mercenaries, commanded by Komningna (at this time Nikifruz Blinnius had passed away) broke out of the castle in Port Nikifruz and destroyed the army of the Fatima dynasty attacking from land.

Fatima Chao, who suffered a crushing defeat at the same time, soon ushered in a final defeat. At the call of Komningna, Pope Kalixt II launched the Second Crusade.

The coalition forces from the Holy Roman Empire, Frank, Eastern Rome, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Republic of Sinai, and the Italian four-sea states rushed into Egypt in a fierce manner, and soon expelled the Fatima, who lost his capital in the Battle of Port Nichifruz, completely out of the historical stage.

Subsequently, Komninga raised a huge sum of money to bribe the Pope by borrowing from Suez's Jingdong Bank. With the support of the Pope and her younger brother John II, the Republic of Sinai became the Kingdom of Egypt and was elected as the Queen of Egypt, creating the Komning Dynasty in Egypt.

After being elected Queen of Egypt, Komningna went from being a Christian female saint (who was destined to be canonized after her death) to a tolerant and friendly queen.

Under her rule, Egypt became a harmonious place where all religions and races can live in harmony. And her queen also became a bridge and intermediary for the exchanges of various civilizations in the East, West Asia, North Africa and Europe.

She is best friend of the saint on the top of Guangming in Ceylon Island - she and Madam Mo met very early, and the relationship between the two sides is very good.

She and Ji Yi, the prime minister of the Eastern Empire, were an important business partner.

She was able to discuss reincarnation with the Buddhist monarch in Gaofucheng in writing letters, and was willing to provide protection for Buddhist temples in Alexander (her new capital).

She was particularly close to the powerful Allah Whip Yelu Dashi, and the two often used letters to communicate. Komningna, the queen of Sinai who had just been widowed, also met and lived together at Trabzon and Yelu Dashi on the Black Sea coast for nearly three months.

Regarding the relationship between the two, rumors even spread about marriage. Later, the rumors did not come true, and the friendship between Yelu Dashi and Komunina was proved pure by later history - their friendship was based on philosophy, mathematics, history and military science.

During the three-month meeting between Trabzon, Komningna never got along with Yelu Dashi alone, but met with scholars from both sides. The issues discussed were also academic.

As the result of this meeting, the two universities that combine the highest academic achievements of Europe, Asia and Africa (North Africa)—Alexander University and Tabriz University were successively opened in 1122 and 1123 of the Western calendar.

The establishment of the University of Alexander, independent of Christianity, also meant the revival of the Aristotle school... decades later, it also became the birthplace of the Renaissance!

Egypt itself will also become the richest and most progressive country along the Mediterranean coast with the east wind of the Renaissance.

The butterfly effect produced by Wu Haogu not only acts on the East, but also causes drastic changes in the Western world.

The letter Yelu Dashi wrote to Queen Komunina in the summer of 1127 of the Western calendar also had a profound impact on later history.

In this letter, Yelu Dashi told Komninga that the war in the Eastern world has come to an end for the time being. The two major Eastern powers that rose in this war will open up the West with unprecedented enthusiasm, which is what Europeans call the Indian Ocean!

Therefore, the further decline of the Arabs and the Tianfang Sect is inevitable.

Now the Caliph of Baghdad and the Sultan of Iraq (also the Seljuks) no longer pose a threat to the Christian civilization in Europe. Reconcile with them and treat them as a way to resist Zhou State, the meat shield that Song State advanced westward is the best option.

In addition, Dashi also told Komunina that a semi-nomadic country, the Golden Horde, which failed in the Eastern World War, had already gone into exile to the Chincha grassland. Their target was likely to be the grassland along the Volga River.

And when they gain a foothold in the Volga River Basin, the rich Black Sea coast and the Caucasus Mountains will become their targets for attack.

And such a situation is expected to occur within 10 years!

Therefore, Yelu Dashi hopes that the Liao Kingdom can form a reliable alliance with the Roman Empire and the Grand Duchy of Kiev, and directly protect the Georgian Kingdom.

That is, let the Liao Kingdom become the sect leader of the Georgian Kingdom!

Of course, Yelu Dashi will guarantee the religious beliefs of the Georgian people.

At the end of the letter, Dashi also tentatively proposed a marriage. Of course, it was not that he married Komninga, but that he married an Egyptian princess for his son, namely the daughter of Anna Komninga and Nikifruz Blinius.

Emperor Dashi hopes to tie the Liao Empire and the Egyptian Kingdom together through this marriage.

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"Alexe," in the magnificent and rich palace full of Tianfang religion, Queen Komningna asked her son Prince Alexe, "The Emperor of Tabriz wants your sister to become his daughter-in-law... The only official daughter-in-law, the future queen, what do you think?"

"Is Maria going to be a pagan?" asked the young prince.

"Yes," Komningna replied, "she must convert to Manichi or the celestial sect...but she is still the child of the Lord, and the celestial sect is just the name of the Creator by the Eastern people. Although they did not receive apocalypse, they still discovered the existence of the Lord with their own knowledge, which is a very amazing achievement."

"But the Pope doesn't think so," said the prince. "He visited the East more than a decade ago...he has great research on the East's knowledge."

When the current Pope Kalixt II was still a cardinal, he was appointed by the previous generation of Popes and followed Ji Yi to the Song Dynasty. He also had contacts with the people who believed in Nestorians.

During those years in the East, this future pope also studied Confucianism in depth and finally came to the conclusion of "blasphemy" - Eastern scholars can freely study whether there is such a problem in the "Lord" (the law of nature)!

If the same thing happened in the West, it would have a fatal blow to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

This means that believers can communicate directly with God without having to go through the priest, or even study whether God exists!

Therefore, after Kalixt II became the pope, the spread of Orientalism was once banned until Yelu Dashi's army entered Tabriz...

"He can use religious laws to ban the theory of nature, but he cannot use laws to block the army of Emperor Dashi!" Komningna smiled, "and now, the Golden Horde, a nomadic country that is the same as Emperor Dashi's empire, has set out from the peach stone and will soon appear near the Black Sea and Kiev Rus. If we cannot unite with the Empire of Dashi, then the good time of Christian revival will soon end. Constantinople may also become a pagan castle!
Chapter completed!