As long as people want to do, there is nothing they can't do - Leon Batista Alberti

This story begins in the late Middle Ages. Since that's the case, it's necessary to explain what the world was like at that time

Overall, the human world in the fourteenth century can be divided into three parts: the Christian world, the Muslim world, and the Confucian world

If an alien in that era had watched the earth on the moon, his first impression of the Muslim world would have been much more profound than that of the Christian world. He would have seen a very vast territory and its territory was still expanding.

The earliest Muslims were the first Arabs on the Arab Peninsula to unite under the leadership of the religious leader Muhammad. Many readers may not know Muhammad very well. In a sense, he is another version of Jesus. He believes that he has received the inspiration of God to warn people that the "end of the day" will come. Faithful people can go to heaven. The evil punishment is to go to hell. He requires believers to perform certain rituals, namely, the "five merits" of Islam, including daily prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage to Mecca, and other rituals combined with the discipline of the Quran, not only provides a religious belief, but also provides a social law and political system. Believers feel that they are brothers with common missions, which helps unite the Arab nation that was still very dispersed at the time.

After the death of Muhammad in 632, the Arabs rushed out of the peninsula and quickly expanded to the Byzantine Empire and the Sasan Dynasty in the Middle East and then expanded eastward to China, crossing west through North Africa, entering Spain to the end of the first phase of Muslim expansion in 750. A huge Muslim empire from the Pyrenees to India, from Morocco to China had appeared in the world. From 750 to 1500, Muslims carried out the second phase of expansion. During this period, they entered Central Europe west, penetrated north into Central Asia, broke east into India and Southeast Asia, and went south into the mainland of Africa. The territory of the Muslim world expanded completely, and its area was far beyond the Christian world at the western end of the Eurasian continent and the Confucian world at the eastern end.

During that period, in terms of territory, Arabs were the most qualified group of people to call their territory "the world". Of course, I don't know if there are any words like "the world" in their language.

Speaking of the world, let’s talk about the Confucian world. The Confucian world does not refer to China, but the entire East Asia. China is the ruler, and its peripheral North Korea and Japan are considered affiliated.

The Confucian world is an introverted society based on agriculture, so the change is very slow, and it is limited to the basic structure inherited from the earlier era. On the other hand, the Confucian world is very different from the other two worlds, that is, unity.

The confusing minority group similar to the various Balkan Christian groups in the Ottoman Empire, and the religious disagreement between Hindus and Muslims in the Mughal Empire, is not a phenomenon that existed at that time; it has existed since the early stages of Chinese civilization thousands of years ago and has continued to continue. Chinese civilization is the oldest and uninterrupted civilization in the world.

The main reason for the long-lasting continuity of Chinese civilization is geographical conditions. The degree to which it is isolated from other great civilizations of mankind is unparalleled in the world. The Mediterranean connects Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Indian Ocean allows India to influence the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. However, China has been separated by mountains, deserts and the vast Pacific Ocean for most of its history. Now it seems that this isolation is probably a double-edged sword.

Finally, let’s talk about the Christian world in the West

Putting aside the unfounded sense of national pride, objectively speaking, until the 20th century, most people on this planet would take it for granted that only Westerners could make historical reforms or discoveries that changed the path of human life and created the world's historical era. In fact, this view is completely unreasonable. Muslims and Chinese people also have great sailing traditions. Only in the early modern times, the pattern of the world was reversed and changed.

For most of the Middle Ages, Western Europeans felt that they were isolated on the western end of the Eurasian continent and were threatened to cross the Eurasian continent from northern China and reach the vast prairie of the Danube River Basin. The strongest army on the earth at that time - nomadic invaders: the Huns, Germans, Avals, Mazars, Mongols and Turks. Once an empire weakens and gives them an opportunity to take advantage of their unparalleled mobility to break into the center of civilizations.

However, in the early modern era, with the vigorous rise of the West, Westerners gained the upper hand in technology, especially weapons and ship manufacturing, which enabled Western Europeans to gain the mobility and advantages enjoyed by nomads on the Eurasian prairie in the world.

In that era of change, the Islamic Empire and the Confucian Empire remained in seclusion and became increasingly rigid. However, in Western Europe, the Renaissance and Reformation brought profound changes in the lives of Western Europeans in all aspects. A vibrant, expansionist civilization - modern civilization was born. It is essentially different from any other traditional and agricultural-based civilization on this planet. This modernization process has been continuously operating to this day with additional levels and has influenced the historical process of the modern world...

1314, it was also a summer in Italy, Rome

Europeans in this day and age believe in everything, whether it is fantasy, science fiction, fantasy, magic. If you put a table to tell a book, you might be able to tell a group of believers.

God, evil god, witchcraft, magic, alchemy, black technology, basically everyone has studied everything. Of course, you can't do something that is more discordant.

At that time, people could tie up your innocent teenage daughter to death as a witch in order to have a stable sleep.

It was a fierce battle between royal power and church power, and it was a dark era. There were many crimes in the Inquisition that seem incredible to modern people, such as "witch crime" and "heretic" crimes. Until a hundred years later, Europeans were convicted, and Joan of Arc was burned to death.

Speaking of burning, on March 18 of that year, De Molei, the head of the Knights Templar, died of burning. As mentioned in the previous article, the brother cursed two people before his death. One was Pope Clemon V. This brother went to the underworld on April 20 of the same year, while the other, Philip IV, was still alive in summer.

It is said that he is a handsome man and a king with some means. Although he died strangely by the end of the year, he was still alive at this time.

So, when this guy was still alive, some people were under great mental pressure, that is Mole's nephew, the young Count Kissette De Boger

He had secretly inherited the position of the chief commander several years ago, on the eve of Black Friday. Of course, this position has basically become synonymous with wanted criminals.

Importantly, he had a wealth of wealth that was as rich as a country, and led a group of the most reliable confidants to flee France and came to Italy.

This pile of treasures that he vowed to "hide to the end of the world" was like a curse that followed him like a shadow, as if there was an unknown force that caused those who were related to this group of treasures to die one by one and smuggle the treasures from the pillars of the tomb. In the past few months, several of the confidants of Earl Bore have passed away for various reasons. I just said that people in that era were not as firm in their beliefs as fearing ghosts and gods. The theory of evolution has not been proposed yet. People must find some spiritual sustenance to explain those things that cannot be explained.

The Count carried a heavy burden on his shoulders, the kind that he could not put down, the treasure was really a troublesome thing. He could not hide it indiscriminately, dare not use it indiscriminately, cannot be discovered by others, and cannot be mentally consciously and must be worried about whether he would be cursed to death.

It was under such pressure that he came to Rome

That night, the Count came to an alley, which was very dirty, and it smelled like a slaughterhouse. Maybe there was a pig farm nearby? Who knows, anyway, you can see all kinds of disgusting things in this kind of alley, swarms of mung bean fly around a pool of water on the ground; drunken alcoholics were thrown out of the wine, and they slept on the edge of the stinky ditch; bullies beat the thin old man; even the women in the romantic places had rough skin and uncovered odor of armpits.

If a Roman man wants to write an autobiography, when he tries to recall the worst night in his life, then there will probably be such a place in his mind.

The count's dress is very low-key, but his demeanor when walking makes him a little out of place with this environment. He covers his face with a handkerchief to slightly block those unpleasant odors.

After searching for a long time, he finally arrived at his destination. This place was found by the Count who spent a lot of money to inquire from the "well-informed" people in the city. It is said that the boss here can help you solve all the problems.

It was a bookstore, which occupied a large area. The words "OKS" were painted casually on the wall. The dilapidated wooden door was covered with empty space. The shop was chosen in this area, and it didn't look like someone would visit.

Seeing this, the count wanted to give up. After hesitating for a while, he sighed and thought: Since he has come, let's go in and take a look.

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