John looked at the young emperor in front of him and felt a little sad. The once powerful and glorious Heinrich family began to decline and needed a young child to save all this.

"John, when will we be able to return to the Father?"

Looking at his young and tender face, John shook his head, "It's not the time yet, we really have to go east!"

"I really want to go to the Song Empire?"

Little Nick looked at John in surprise. He thought all this was just a means to confuse Gregory VII, but who knew that he really wanted to travel across thousands of mountains and rivers to the Song Dynasty.

At a young age, he was already full of fear of traveling far away, but John insisted on doing so. His words were simple: "Your father has planned many things for you. If you want to fight against Gregory VII, you must have strong enough power."

"Can the Song Empire go to the east obtain such power?"

John smiled: "The empires in the East are old and powerful. Only those who set foot on that land can understand his horror, but God bless them, they are not barbarians who blindly invade. There you can learn a lot of wisdom and knowledge, which are not the Frankian dynasty, and are also something that your father cannot teach you."

"The emperor of the Song Empire is even wiser than his father?"

John smiled bitterly again: "Yes, although he doesn't want to admit it, the emperors of the East must be wiser and the Song Empire is stronger."

In this way, the young Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV began his journey to study in the Eastern Empire...

But before this, we have to face a serious problem: how did the mission of the Song Dynasty leave the Holy Roman Empire?

As Henry IV and most people speculated, Gregory VII also felt that this was just a means by Henry III, and he could not send his young children to the East.

However, the wheel of history has been bumped by Zhao Zhen's "huge stubborn stone" and has completely deviated from the original historical track. In another time and space, the Song Dynasty was still surrounded by enemies, but now it has begun to influence the world.

The missions of the Song Dynasty were quite safe. No prince of the Holy Roman Empire dared to provoke the majesty of the Song Dynasty. The merchants of the Song people once lobbled for interests to unite many vassal states to destroy a prince who humiliated the Song Empire and plundered the Song Dynasty's merchant group. Even Emperor Henry III, the emperor, agreed to this matter.

Therefore, no one dared to provoke the missions of the Song Dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire. This not only involves interests, but also concerns the survival of a force. Who dares to provoke?

However, this was not afraid of the threat from the Song Dynasty for Rome, Gregory VII was the pope, the highest minister of the Catholic Church, the pope in the secular world, and the ruler of the pope.

His power is very powerful, and his influence in the Holy Roman Empire is also extremely powerful.

Gregory VII was originally named Hilldebrand and was born into a poor family.

When he was young, he was taught at a Roman monastery of the Cluny Order, and later joined the Benedictine monk and was deeply influenced by the reform ideas of the Cluny faction.

He was the first to be the entourage of Pope Gregory VI. Later, he followed Pope Leo IX to Alexander II for more than 20 years, and served as an important position in the church under his successive Popes.

During Leo's tenure, he was appointed to take charge of the Holy See's finances only to assist in the sacrificial rank; later he was favored by previous popes and rose step by step.

He assisted the Pope in implementing reforms and gradually became the actual authority of the Holy See. He visited Germany and France, presided over church meetings in various places, and strengthened the Pope's authority and influence.

These were just his time of study, and the time he really came to the world was at the Easter meeting in Rome, where he fiercely condemned the popular trading of clergy and clergy marriages that were at that time.

In the same year, at the French Reims City Conference he presided over, he affirmed the principle of election of important church positions that "no one shall not be held in the leadership position of the church unless it is selected by the clergy and believers", in order to resist the selection of important church positions by secular regimes.

Doing so would have offended many people. He was opposed by some nobles, bishops and priests, and made many enemies. However, he used his political skills to support reformist figures as popes, and took advantage of the chaos of the aristocrats in various countries to expand the power of the Holy See.

Such a person will naturally be elected as the pope. While he ascended the throne of the pope, he began to continue to expand his power for the Holy See, thus confronting the beginning of the imperial power.

No matter how powerful the Catholic Church is, it is still a religion rather than a secular power. People believe in religion and support the church but are not the people of the church. Compared with secular imperial power, the power of the church is still not worth mentioning.

Especially Henry III's continuous suppression of the church made the power of the church even weaker. The reason why Henry III did this was because everything came from the empire in the East! Everything came from the emperor of the empire in the East!

This is a kingdom ruled by the devil! There are no gods or faiths there, and the only thing everyone believes in is themselves, their own value and rights.

If they have to say that they have any faith, then they believe in their emperor, the emperor who is known as the son of heaven.

This is equivalent to comparing oneself to Jesus Christ! What kind of person dares to be so arrogant and arrogant, and actually compare himself to the Son of God?

Although it is two concepts, in Gregory VII's view, this is an analogy and a blasphemy!

There is a reason why Gregory VII hated Zhao Zhen so much, not only because of the belief in the Song Dynasty, but after all, it was thousands of miles away. The belief in the Song Dynasty was related to Gregory VII?

The reason why a vicious curse emanates from the heart is that the letters of Zhao Zhen and Henry III were peeked by Gregory VII.

Among them, the two people discussed the issue several times. At the beginning, whether Henry III still stubbornly believed that the church brought the destination and happiness of faith to the people. However, after Zhao Zhen's facts and analysis, Henry III, the great German king and the emperor of the Roman Empire, began to change his attitude towards the church.

Originally, Henry III only targeted the Pope who did not obey him, but only slightly attacked the church and did not carry out fundamental reforms. However, the reforms he planned that were not implemented were discovered by Gregory VII's confidants.

As a result, the struggle between imperial power and ecclesiastical power gradually began, and at this time, Henry III's health was getting worse and worse, and Henry IV was too young, which was an excellent opportunity for Gregory VII.

He was about to achieve the expansion of the ecclesiastical power and also began to fight against the young emperor, but at this time variables appeared again, and the missions of the Song Dynasty actually dared to take away the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire!
Chapter completed!