After the Battle of Baishan, Zhou Ming, who had won countless victories in his life this time, found that his opponents were not only the army that had as many natural disasters as the undead after issuing the "Heavenly Punishment Order", but also the aristocratic class that lacked complete transformation and still had the old concept of feudal feudal division in his mind.

No matter how many rewards or favors they have given to them before, once they have enfeoffed their fiefs, the old-fashioned concept of landlords makes them extremely sensitive and conservative about everything in their territory. They would rather live in a closed paradise than others to move every grass and tree on their territory.

reform!

A thorough reform must be carried out!

Therefore, after quelling all rebellions in the country, Zhou Ming spent three years to almost take the general measures of purge, implement centralization, regain control of all lords over the territorial people, change the lord system to the county system, change the aristocratic parliament to the civilian government, establish professional military officers academies, allow middle and lower-level military officers and soldiers to enroll, break the monopoly of military aristocrats over the army, establish a modern national defense force system and official retirement system, and popularize education for all... After some reforms, the Gangduo Kingdom underwent earth-shaking changes.

During these changes, 90% of the nobles in the Gangduo Kingdom were either cut off or beheaded or exiled. The upper nobles in the surrounding kingdoms stood up and their bodies were cold. They were full of vigilance and fear for this aristocratic hell. Although the dozens of vassal states around them were still obedient on the surface, they moved closer to the Holy Church Alliance in private, fearing that such reforms would also occur in their own kingdoms.

At this time, in order to eliminate the "heretics", the church spent billions of gold coins, mobilized hundreds of kingdoms in 20 years, launched thirteen large-scale siege battles, conscripted nearly 20 million troops, fought thousands of battles, and almost no victory (the Battle of Baishan can be seen, but the battle loss ratio of 1.6 million to 300,000 is really ugly), and with more than half of the casualties and hundreds of kings killed in battle, its appeal and prestige had long fallen to the bottom in repeated defeats. In addition, the church's assets that had accumulated for thousands of years were also spilled out. The church's subsequent heresy order issued by the church has few responded to it.

Therefore, after the Battle of Baishan, at the Holy See Conference, he appealed to hundreds of kings, demanding that he be given another 2 million troops to defeat the great marshal Franstein of the Kingdom of Gangduo, and found that at the Holy See Conference, none of the hundreds of kings who were extremely indifferent expressed their intention to continue to pay money and goods.

After all, when all the brave men died in battle, in front of the firearm cannons, after the fever faded in their minds, they found that the gods were only so many hundreds of kings. What they were most interested in and concerned about at this moment was the tens of thousands of breech muskets and hundreds of terrifying cannons seized from the battlefield by the Alliance Army after the Battle of Baishan. The power of these treasure artifacts was too terrifying. They really wanted to get a group of people back to their respective kingdoms to study, but there were too many monks and fewer porridges, and hundreds of kings were robbing them. They had to fight hard...

...

Years later.

The Kingdom of Gangduo, the capital of Agulis (formerly the capital of the King of Copper Mountain, next to the meteorite lake, Augustus means "pearl").

One covers a large area and is paved with stone slabs. On the parade ground with a huge array of military formations, there is a large array of military formations arranged here.

On the 100-meter-high reviewing stand, the guests invited to attend the pre-emptive parade ceremony took a deep breath after seeing the military formation below.

But on a large military parade, there were 100,000 soldiers holding firearms like ants; tens of thousands of war horses with big broad beans and jets of nostrils; and tens of thousands of huge monsters with two brass cannons on their backs, and occasionally swinging their long tails.

Kodomon!

Adult Kodo beasts with tens of thousands of heads are ten meters long and weigh five tons, and can hold 1-2 tons of heavy objects!

This giant Kodo beast, which is shaped like a rhino, has horns on its head and a broad sword on its back, was as if Zhou Ming was at first seeing them during the exploration of the New World, because this giant beast exists in the kingdoms of many indigenous peoples, like the cattle and horses on the western continent, it is extremely common and numerous.

Moreover, unlike the cattle and horses of fetal animals, Kodo is an egg animal left over from the ancient biological era. During the reproductive period, female Kodo can produce 5-8 Kodo eggs every year, but these eggs have a long hatching period and are not high in hatching rate. It is good to hatch one or two of them in a litter.

Before opening up the trench passage in the Dafeng Pass of the Ural Snow Mountain, although Zhou Ming wanted to send a few expedition teams to the indigenous kingdom and build a batch of Kodo beast eggs, the conditions were not mature at that time. The journey of tens of thousands of kilometers and the cold environment of the snow-capped mountain plateau had an incubation period of up to 8 months. The Kodo beast eggs that were easily frozen to death under low temperatures were also dead eggs when transported.

Therefore, Zhou Ming, who had been open for many years, sent out multiple caravans and successfully established trade relations with the indigenous kingdom, has only exchanged tens of thousands of Kodo beast eggs with ceramics, cotton cloth, iron and other commodities in the past decade. He used constant temperature incubation box technology to incubate the success rate of Kodo beast eggs with a success rate of nearly 60%. After hatching the cubs, he carefully raised them for more than ten years, and then there were tens of thousands of hideous giant beasts.

On the reviewing stand.

"His Majesty, can you stop participating in this expedition? You are in your seventies and a thousand miles of expedition. What if there is any accident in your body, what will happen to the kingdom?"

Alice's son Allen advised hard that this child has a weak personality and his filial piety is indeed the most honest of the dozen sons. Among the sons present, he was the only one who dared to say such unlucky words as "in case of an accident."

"Yes, Your Majesty, you should send a powerful general over there. General Eric has a wealth of battles and has fought with you for decades. Send him to the church and capture the Temple of Holy Light."

Fanny's son Alexander made a suggestion, which was supported by many people.

Zhou Ming smiled slightly, stared at the military formation below, stroked the thick white beard on his chin and said, "Yes, I am over 70 years old, and I have already spent more than half of my life. If I don't fight a war that is famous in history and leave the title of a great emperor, I'm afraid I can only sleep to death. Instead of doing this, let me burn the scenery again in this dim and twilight years!"

These passionate words made the sons fall into deep thought.

After saying that, Zhou Ming held a scepter and took a step forward. Facing the Pangran military formation under the reviewing stand, he held a scepter in his hand and shouted:

"Loyal and brave soldiers, follow your emperors to go on an expedition! Step across the mountains, cross the plains together, conquer miracles together, stand at the top of the high temple, and look at the sea to the west!"

"Long live His Majesty the King!"

"Long live His Majesty the King!!"

"Long live His Majesty the King!!!"

Looking at His Majesty the King on the reviewing stand, the 100,000 soldiers under the parade ground, raising their arms and shouting wildly.

...

After taking the oath to fight, Zhou Ming, with the 100,000 most elite conquest legion, planned the route according to the [World Map] and headed towards the magnificent building thousands of feet high on the coast of the west coast - the Church Ruling Center, the Temple of Holy Light.

A long journey of tens of thousands of kilometers, passing through hundreds of countries, conquering hundreds of cities that dare to resist, and adopting the strategy of fighting to support war. In just ten months, Zhou Ming's conquering army fought less than 300 kilometers away from the Temple of Holy Light.

The church's top leaders panicked and desperately sought help from the surrounding kingdoms, but after conquering them all the way, they had long since rumored that the conquering legion of countless kingdoms "attack everything and crush everything", "having countless hell monsters", "devil! The devil that cannot be defeated!" and other exaggerated but close to the facts, under the rumors that the surrounding kingdoms dare to send troops to die.

Helplessly, the church leaders had to make a desperate bet and sent out the Knights Templar, which was the only one left in their hands, with 100,000 people as the bottom of the box, hoping that this Knights composed of high-tech knights, who are extremely pious to the Holy Father and are equipped with extremely elites, can defeat the devil army that dares to provoke the church under the blessing of the Holy Father.

However, when the 100,000 knights of the Templar were shaken by a ground, and at the end of the horizon, the true face of the devil's legion was seen, the legion of 100,000 people was in a collective stir. Some of the Templars with firm faces almost collapsed and shook their firm belief in the Holy Father, and they had the idea of ​​turning around and running.

"Kodormon, attack!"

With a command, the 10,000-headed Kodo beasts that slowly moved forward slowly, after reaching less than a kilometer away from the Templar Army, the brass short cannons mounted on the back of the Kodo beasts fired first. "Boom boom boom". Under the bombardment of nearly 20,000 bronze cannons, countless raindrop-like cannons fell into the Templar. The heavy armor and silver-shining Templars melted a large area like snow watered.

"Cabinet Charge!"

"Run!"

Even though they felt shy of fear in their hearts, out of devotion to the Holy Father and the glory of the knights, the Knights of the Templars bravely launched a charge. However, these knights, with a weight of no more than one ton, weighed no more than one ton in front of the "double cannon tank" Kodo, whose total weight was nearly eight tons after wearing armor and erecting bronze cannons, were gently hit by the sharp corners of the armor covered by Kodo beasts, like paper, and after piercing through several people, they could not produce any waves.

In addition, the musketeers and artillery on the back of the Kodo beast operated firearms and continued to bombard the battle. In just two hours, the battle ended like a massacre, and also erased the traces of the existence of the Knights Templar, which had thousands of years of war history and had caused countless "heretics" to terrify and tremble.

...

A few days later.

The head coach is in the big tent.

"Franstein, my old friend, I didn't expect that we would meet in this way?"

Looking at Franstein standing in front of him with a rope tied up, Zhou Ming couldn't help but smile. Unexpectedly, after he sent a messenger to deliver a letter with two conditions to the senior church leaders, Franstein, who was tied up by several believers, was escorted to him in just two days.

"Bah! Despicable villain, kill me now! Why do you have to pretend to behave here? I only hate those short-sighted and incompetent people who will never give me a chance, otherwise-"

Franstein spat, cursed indignantly, and glared at Zhou Ming fiercely.

Zhou Ming shook his head: "It's useless to give you ten more chances, but it's amazing to be able to do this. Go to my Gangduo King... No, it's the Gangduo Empire soon. Go to my Gangduo Empire... It's a pity to kill you like this."

Franstein was only in his early fifties and looked depressed. Obviously, after the Battle of Baishan, which almost fulfilled his generation of famous generals, was hidden by snow and never reused, and lost the stage to show his talent and the opportunity to continue fighting with Zhou Ming.

"Go to your empire?"

Franstan was stunned, a little surprised that the old opponent not only did not kill him, but also expressed his intention to recruit him.

I thought again that when he just walked into the military camp, he saw the group of monsters that made him frightened and desperate, and instantly cooled down his ambition, and when he heard this, it seemed that he had begun to thaw again.

Yes, he longed for victory. He lost countless battles and dreamed of victory. Although he could not have fought this talented and powerful monarch, standing in the camp of this monarch and fighting a victory that he could not count even when he was counted together, it seemed very good.

...

Temple of Holy Light.

In the magnificent cathedral, the coronation ceremony for the throne began.

The new Pope Saint-Mano III trembled and put a nine-foot gold edge inlaid with jade agate around it. A crown with a twinkling gem embroidered in the center of the lotus-shaped arched gold edge was gently worn on Zhou Ming's head, and then handed the golden scepter in his hand to Zhou Ming's hand.

"Kneel down before my crown."

After making a gesture of blessing from the Holy Father, Pope St. Mano III was about to recite, "This is the divine power given to me by the Holy Father. I will follow the teachings of the Holy Father and benefit the world in the name of God..." When the emperor had to recite the words of these throne crowning ceremonies, this sentence came to his ears.

"Kneel down in front of my crown!"

When he was stunned, the thunderous sound made him tremble all over. When he looked up, a stimulating look filled with supreme majesty and endless oppression was deeply imprinted in his mind like a nightmare. He couldn't help but soften his knees and kneel on the ground on one knee.

A day later, San Mano III, who had just taken over the position of pope, was assassinated in the toilet by several fanatical believers, and no one was merciful in the Temple of Holy Light.
Chapter completed!