"Hurry up, the Duke will be back in a while!"

The head of the family glared at the children angrily and added, leading a few fierce family members to rush out of the gate with a stick, and wanted to beat the children so that they would never dare to come again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Duke Abraham hated poor children the most, and he grew up with a golden spoon with a natural sense of superiority, and when he left in the summer, he said that if he could see these children in winter, he would let all the family go.

As soon as the duke returned to Venice this morning, he heard the news of the birthday of the Romanian prince, and immediately went to the mayor of the town to take over the errand.

The duke had been chatting with the prince all morning, and he didn't rush to the manor until noon, and it was almost time to calculate the time.

Facing the menacing family, Santiago stretched out his arms to block it without thinking about it, twisted his neck, and his face changed from kind to fierce.

The family is strong, but not as good as San Diego.

They clenched their sticks and looked uneasily at the leader for advice.

The leader gritted his teeth and hesitated, but when he thought that there was a big backer behind him, he smiled evilly, put the stick on his shoulder as if he was proud, and said with a horizontal eyebrow: "You, do you want to go against Duke Abraham?"

Unable to help but sneer, Santiago sneered and replied, "Duke? ”

He was thinking of something that he couldn't say: Lao Tzu even had the king of Portugal!

Uh, not the mastermind though.

The head of the family didn't expect that even the duke's name didn't shock him, and he was speechless for a while, seeing that the children were about to run away, he motioned to his subordinates, held the stick tightly, and prepared to beat Santiago together.

At this time, Zheng Fei and the others on the side of the road finally stood up, holding a dagger in their hands, flicking the knife flower briskly, and looking at the family calmly.

Seeing such a group of people holding sharp weapons, the family members panicked and subconsciously moved back slightly.

The head of the house pursed his lips tightly, and his face turned the color of pig liver.

Since the duke and his family are in Rome all the year round, the escort force is not very strong, and there are only a few of them in total, nominally responsible for the safety of the manor, but in fact they are a janitor, and by the way, they protect the old people who are inconvenient to go out by car.

Therefore, he couldn't find foreign aid, and he had no chance of winning at all, so in the face of the increasingly stiff situation, he had to choose silence and confrontation.

This feeling was so embarrassing that he wanted to go down the rabbit hole, and he didn't have the courage to give the order to fight, but that meant being embarrassed in front of his men, and it didn't matter, the important thing was that there was a beautiful maid in the fence who was looking with big eyes, and that was his sweetheart.

Gradually, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead in the cold winter weather.

The subordinate asked, what's wrong, boss?

A: I wear too many clothes.

And just like that, after a while.

When he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, he opened his mouth and exhaled with relief, a hint of gratitude in his eyes.

Finally, there's an excuse to divert attention!

Without hesitation for a moment, he turned his head to look, and at the moment of turning, he showed a relieved smile and wiped his cold sweat.

However, seeing who it was, his smile instantly froze, and he was stunned, and hurriedly beckoned to pretend to be courteous, shouting, "Master Abraham!"

The appearance of the master did not make him feel that the backer was coming, but gave him a headache, the master was demanding, but what he cared about most was his status in the manor.

When the master didn't come back, he was the boss of the manor, and he only needed to occasionally pretend to be a grandson in front of the old man and the old lady who never went out, and the servants had to listen to themselves, move a chair and lie down all day, Erlang's legs to drink and eat snacks, not to mention how moisturizing the small life was.

This is probably the fact that the tiger is not at home, and the monkey is called the king.

No matter what he thought in his heart, he still had to pretend to be a welcome to return, and led his family members to meet him quickly.

After hearing him call Master Abraham, Zheng Fei's face sank, and he whispered to the guys: "Put away the knives, remember, I am a rich merchant from the East, and you are all retinues." ”

Before coming to the manor, Zheng Fei took the sailors to take a good bath, and then went to the best clothing store in Venice, and bought each of them a set of clothes that were not expensive but absolutely decent...... Well, there's a decent one.

Duke Abraham, even in the whole of Italy, was a very influential figure.

"Except for the royal family and the people of the church, he didn't pay attention to anything, and he was notoriously arrogant. Santiago muttered as he stared at the approaching wagon.

Ha, a new force has emerged, the Church.

At some point, the power of the papacy was greater than that of the kings of Europe, simply because the church had an innumerable number of believers, and faith was able to manipulate people into doing many, many fanatical things.

The peak of the church's development was during the Crusades.

The crusade was in essence a great plunder under the pretext of punishing the infidels.

From 1096 to 1291, the Crusades lasted nearly 200 years, with eight large-scale military campaigns, in which European knights always acted as pioneers based on religious fanaticism, and their graceful chivalry was obliterated by the killing frenzy.

After the first occupation of Jerusalem, the Crusaders carried out massacres throughout the city, in which more than 10,000 women and children who had taken refuge in the Al-Aqsa Mosque were stripped of their hearts by the Crusader soldiers, and the gold and silver belongings of the monasteries, palaces and people of Islan were looted, and many pagan works of art were destroyed.

After three days of slaughter, not a single non-Christian was left alive in Jerusalem, and a knight wrote to the Pope as saying: "As I rode through the streets, the blood of the pagans covered my horse's legs to my knees. ”

With conquest and plunder, the greed and thirst for gold filled the souls of the Crusader soldiers. Among them, the Fourth Crusades were planned by Pope Innocent III, and it was initially decided to conquer Egypt, but the Venetian merchants used threats and inducements to induce the Crusaders to change the direction of the crusade and attack the Byzantine Empire, a commercial rival who believed in the same religion.

On April 13, 1204, the Crusaders captured Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium, burned and looted for several days, destroyed countless historical relics, and occupied most of the Byzantine territory in the Balkans in the same year, establishing the Latin Empire, from then on, the Byzantine Empire was fragmented, and its commercial status was replaced by Venice and others.

The Crusader Knights are an evil bandit organization covered in blood and copper, but evil has evil retribution, and among the Crusader Knights, the Templar Order with the most strength and wealth is also the most miserable. After the final crusade, the Kingdom of Palestine collapsed and the Knights Templar left the Holy Land and returned to France, believing that a powerful organization such as the Templar Order, if it existed in France, would pose a serious threat to his throne and to France as a whole.

On Friday, October 13, 1307, the Pope of the Holy See and the King of France jointly executed a secret execution of the Templars, who had been sentenced to death for being described as pagans and homosexuals, depriving them of their long-standing rights.

The Elder was arrested, tortured, and crucified, and over the next few years, countless Templars were executed, and the Order was completely disintegrated.

That's why, many Westerners consider Friday and the 13th to be bad days.

From then on, the power of the Church began to decline, and after the discovery of the New World, the wealth and power of the country grew stronger and stronger, until the sixteenth century, when the Holy Roman Empire conquered Rome, the seat of the Pope, and the Church existed in name only.

......

But now, in the middle of the fifteenth century, and before anyone knew that Zheng Fei had discovered the New World, the power of the Church was not to be underestimated.

This organization, which has countless believers, Zheng Fei must make good use of it.

[Yesterday's interruption, I'm sorry to everyone again, I've been outside for two days, and I'll come back in the afternoon to save more manuscripts, and this situation won't happen again/tot is very late, everyone go to bed early~] (To be continued.) )