Conquer the Dawn of Heaven

August 1497 is destined to be a very unstable month.

On the southern shore of the Mediterranean, the Ottoman Empire once again sent troops to Egypt, this time to eliminate the remaining forces that Mamluk left in Syria.

This is a long war destined to last a long time, and the expedition in August is just the beginning of the last battle until the complete demise of the Mamluk dynasty.

On the west coast of the Mediterranean, the sudden outbreak of conflict between Poland and Moldova surprised everyone. Both the Holy See and the kingdoms realized that the war in the Balkans would have a huge impact on Europe as a whole. From Vienna to Prague, from the Vatican to Belgrade, countless people rushed to appeal, hoping that the war between the two Christian countries could be ended as soon as possible.

As for France, it was reported that King Charles VIII of France immediately engaged in busy work after healed, and in early August he dispatched several men under his care to be dispatched to some places not far from Nice. Many people who heard the news later couldn't help worrying.

Also in August, Caesar, the son of Pope Alexander VI, relied on his father's power and strong financial power, quickly recruited an army that was enough to fight against any Italian city-state at that time.

Then, in everyone's guess, Caesar first sent Pezzaro at the end of August.

This move attracted the attention of many people, especially the Sforza family, for which a messenger was sent to protest against Alexander VI, but according to Caesar's reason, Pezzaro as Lucrezia's late husband Giovanni In Sforza ’s territory, he has the right to claim ownership of his sister.

Just as everyone knows, this is just an excuse to cover up his ambitions.

But even at this time, people do n’t think Caesar ’s ambition is so great.

On the contrary, at this time people's eyes turned to another place, which was once a symbol of wealth and artistic charm of this era, and was once the cradle of many admirable masters, but now it is completely suppressed by the seriousness. Overwhelmed with almost harsh dogma.

There is Florence, and now its ruler is Savonarola.

Florence in August is clearly the focus of everyone's attention, because it is this month that Pope Alexander VI once again issued an decree to Florence, and the Pope ordered Savonarola to give up the order of the Abbey of Florence in the name of the Holy See, and decided He was appointed as the priest of Legten, but the order was rejected by Savonarola again.

Although he guessed it would be the result, Alexander VI couldn't help but be furious. He announced to all bishops of the Roman parish that Savonarola's actions were apostasy and even threatened to expel his membership.

But these threats did not shake the beliefs of the Florentine ruler at all, and what made the Pope embarrassed and angry was that the people of Florence were more willing to believe and follow the Savonarola he hated rather than him. pope.

After Savonarola announced that it would never accept the Pope ’s appointment, the Florence City Hall announced a decision that embarrassed the Vatican. They would give Savonalola a golden key symbolizing the rule of Florence, and Savonar Lola's response to this decision was a simple prayer of gratitude in exchange for the honor of the City Hall.

All these actions in Florence made Alexander VI very angry. He felt that he had been the most insulted, and he was directly stripped of his face by the monk who had been with him, which made Alexander feel that he was completely lost.

It is said that when the Pope heard Florence ’s response, he used a lot of almost indecent words to curse loudly regardless of identity. If he was not dissuaded, he would not threaten, but directly announced the expulsion of Savonarola ’s membership. Too.

August is turbulent. Compared with these tumultuous things, the other two things seem a little bit trivial.

One of them is that Alfonso, Duke of Billy Shelley, has agreed to the Pope ’s invitation and decided to negotiate specific details of the marriage with the Borgia family as soon as possible.

And another thing was an attempted assassination against Count Montina in Pisa, not far from Florence.

According to the description of some merchants passing by Pisa, it was a dangerous operation that almost claimed the count's life. The assassin cut the count's clothes with his dagger, and even pierced his inner armor.

The assassination apparently completely angered Count Montina. His army rushed into Pisa City with anger, and then arrested hundreds of people overnight.

It was only when the sun was dawning that reason finally defeated the anger. The count ordered his army to quickly withdraw from the city, and the suspects who were caught were completely handed over to the Pisa government.

This sounds rather dangerous, but it is actually very common in this era.

The nobles were assassinated, the nobles retaliated, and the nobles washed all their enemies.

All of this is just a trivial matter in this turbulent era, so even if someone thinks a lot after hearing about it, it will soon be attracted attention by more things coming one after another.

But for some people, what happened in Pisa is a big deal.

On the 5th day after the assassination on the parade day, an unexpected guest came to Pisa. After hearing the person's request for a meeting, he was discussing the future of Pisa-Montina with the Tombino at the Ducal Palace Alexander of the Mutual Economic Assistance Treaty agreed to this person's request with only a little hesitation.

It's just that Alexander didn't see this person immediately, but promised him to have him at dinner.

Listening to Alexander's order to Uliu, Tomnio was a little disappointed.

He actually hoped that Alexander would go to see the guest immediately, even if the time was short, at least that would save him from the pressure.

The Pisa-Monti Economic Mutual Assistance Treaty, this is a new treaty proposed to him by Alexander in the past two days. Unlike the treaties signed before, this time Alexander gave you two options, one Yes, all agreed, and one totally rejected.

As for the consequences of the choices, Tomnio knew very well.

Promised to grant 40% of the operating rights to the port of Pisa in Montina, promised to open the cooperative rights of all the guilds in Pisa to Montina, and promised to exempt Montina from all the shipping taxes and transit taxes of the small commodities that were previously allowed ...

The treaty of this paragraph makes Tomnio angry and dare not have any rebuttal. As long as he thinks about the pizzas who are still being held, he knows that he has no bargaining power at all.

To think of those people, Tomnio felt a headache. Some of them were the nobles of Pisa, some were officials of the former Republic, and some were quite wealthy businessmen in the city and important figures in some chambers of commerce .

The vast majority of him knew, some of them are still familiar, but whether these people are involved in assassination or insiders, Tomno is not clear.

Tomno wants to plead for these people, he knows this is a rare opportunity, if they can save these people, they will be grateful to him, even some of them may become his supporters, but this The thought soon dissipated after seeing Alexander.

This is because he saw the anger of Alexander.

Although he quickly ordered all the suspects to be handed over to Pisa, Alexander said to Tomnio in a very angry tone in private: "I want to see these people hanged on the light pole of Pisa."

This statement really frightened Tomnio. As long as you think about the identities and numbers of those people, and then think about the way that the streets in front of the Ducal Palace may be covered with corpses, Tomnio thinks that Alexander or Was mad, or scared crazy.

This made the Duke who originally wanted to plead for those people shut his mouth immediately. Not only that, even the amnesty order that he was planning to sign was locked in the drawer by him.

Then, such a new treaty appeared before him.

Obviously, the calm Count of Montina wanted to get some compensation, or simply to exchange conditions.

In this way, the lives of those pizzas are now in the hands of Tomnio.

It ’s just different from thinking about the people ’s gratitude in exchange for pleadings. Tomnio knew that once he signed the treaty, those people would not be grateful even if they were free. Even most of them would be better than before. Hate him even more.

Even the next person to be assassinated may be him.

"Duke, this is a situation that is not embarrassing for you. Instead, it is me who should be embarrassed." Alexander looked at Tomnio sitting opposite. "I originally thought that when I was in trouble, I could get from With the help of my friends, I did not return directly to Montina, but came to Pisa after leaving Rome. But what did I encounter? After helping you calm down the mob, the Pisa people not only thanked me but used a Assassination to repay everything I have done for this city, Duke, you know, if I ca n’t show the attitude I deserve at this time, then my dignity will disappear, even if my men will treat me Be suspicious of being a qualified lord. "

Alexander ’s words made Tomno feel a headache. He knew that Alexander was right, because if he was replaced by him, he could only do so, and he might even use more brutal methods to retaliate in order to re-establish his prestige.

"But Count, such a treaty made me unable to explain to the Pisa," Tomno said annoyedly. "You know that if the people knew what I did, maybe what happened to the Zaroni family a few years ago was my role model."

Looking at the sometimes red and sometimes gray look on Tomnio's face, Alexander showed a hard-to-detect smile.

He knew the time was almost up.

Alexander slowly took out another document from the leather bag next to him, and slowly placed it next to the treaty under Tommonio's fearful gaze.

Looking at the document with the words "Supplementary Provisions of the Pisa-Montina Mutual Assistance Treaty" written in exquisite fonts, Tomnio's face has become very ugly.

"Maybe this will allow you to have an account with the Pisa," Alexander said self-confidently. "Trust me, I value the friendship between us, so I hope the Duke you can work hard to continue this friendship." Go on. "

Tomnio was a little puzzled to pick up the supplementary clause. When he saw a clause listed above, he couldn't help looking at Alexander with a certain amount of surprise.

"Count, Montina can allow all goods of Pisa to pass through without tax, and can also give the lowest sales tax rate in the country?" Tomno asked in amazement.

He suddenly felt that Alexander might have been terrified by the assassination. He had to resist signing the treaty because of the unilateral preferential clauses in those treaties that caused Pisa to be almost completely reduced to Monti. In the situation of the subordination, if Montina also gave such a discount to Pisa, then it means that the two sides are once again on an equal position.

But if so, what other advantages does Montina have?

The same tax exemption, the same price, under this mutual offset, what is Alexander looking for?

Looked at Tomno's confused expression, but instead of stopping, Alexander pointed to the file in his hand and begged to continue reading.

The following content made Tomnio really doubt whether Alexander was scared. At least he looked at the clause above that said that he would not levy a high entry fee for pizza fishing commodities, making him think how much it was. It's a bit strange.

Unlike Pizza, Montina is inland. If pizza people can rely on convenient trade at sea to obtain enough agricultural and sideline commodities, then people in inland cities will have much more difficulty in eating fish.

In addition to poor roads and poor transportation conditions will increase the cost, the inland cities are preparing for the high cost of entry fees for coastal city fishing commodities is one of the most terrible expenses.

No fisherman or guild is not afraid of this cost, because they understand that their goods cannot be preserved for a long time. Under the danger of serious losses caused by small troubles, the merchants have to bear the cost. Entry fee for suffocation.

Because of this, the price of marine fish in the inland city market has become ridiculously high. Even in some places, except the nobles and the rich, ordinary people simply cannot afford those foods.

Now, Montina will voluntarily give up such an important fee, which makes Tomnio feel that this treaty is simply a disguised favor for Pisa.

"Remember what I said, we can use the least money to mobilize the largest resources," Alexander smiled at the doubtful Tomno. "Believe me, this is just the beginning, and soon you will find that you decide to sign this The treaty is the most wise decision you have made. And let us not forget that there are many people who hope that we can solve this embarrassing thing for us all. "

Tomno nodded a little bit hard, he knew what Alexander meant.

Those suspects who have been detained so far must be released. Even if some of them did participate in the previous murder, they should not be directly detained by the Montina, but at least in the name of both parties. Arrest and sentencing can only come out.

This is related to the dignity of Pisa.

So now, Alexander has clearly opened up the conditions.

Sign a treaty that at least looks beneficial to both parties. In exchange, Alexander promised to release those caught.

Tomnio hesitated, he knew that things would certainly not be as simple as the terms he saw, but at least for now it seems that Alexander gave him a step that was justified in front of the people.

It is just that once this treaty is signed, the relationship between Pisa and Montina is destined to become closer and closer, which makes Tomnio vaguely uneasy.

Seeing Tomno hesitate, Alexander decides to give the final "hit".

He leaned forward and whispered in Tomnio's ear: "Duke, if you can agree to sign the treaty, I can find a way to let the Vatican recognize your legal status."

Tomnio's face was suddenly agitated. He looked at Alexander in disbelief and got a positive look.

Tomnio's hand shook slightly, and this commitment of Alexander was so important to him that he even completely forgot all the previous scruples, and for a while he even thought, even if Alexander did not come up with that The supplementary clause, even if it will be opposed or even rejected by the people of Pisa, he will agree without hesitation!

At the time, King Alfonso of Naples, in order to get the Vatican's recognition of his succession to the throne, tried his best to marry Alexander VI and married his daughter Xia Sang to the son of Alexander VI Jeffrey.

Compared with Alfonso, Tomnio is very clear that his seat of the Duke is not stable at all. Whenever he thinks that the Zaroni family in exile in Rome may at any time announce the contest for the Duke of Pisa with the support of the Vatican He has an unspeakable panic.

And now, Alexander's assurance made him seem to see a glimmer of light.

Tomnio knows that the relationship between Alexander and the Vatican, or with the Borgia family, is so complicated that it is impossible to tell at all. This can be seen from the Roman princess who lives in a house near the river ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ Count, can I use these words as a promise? "Tumnio asked carefully.

"Of course, this is the promise I gave." Alexander said softly.

Listening to this, Tomno finally took a deep breath and nodded.

"Count, God testifies, may our friendship last forever!"

In the northwest wing of the Ducal Palace, through a corridor connecting the main palace, there is a palace belonging to Alexander.

In addition to the Pisa Guard in the garden, the palace is guarded by the hunting guards.

After the assassination, in consultation with Pisa, the garden near the outside of the palace has also been handed over by the guards.

The slightly dazzling outside light came in through the window, dragging the shadow of the guests standing in the room very long.

This guest appeared a little anxious, as he could see from walking back and forth, so when Alexander had come to the door, he heard footsteps.

"Adult!" The guests greeted immediately.

Looking at the opposite familiar face, Alexander smiled as he traced his intentions.

"Welcome to you, Machiavelli diplomat." ...

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