With the arrival of the end of August, the hot summer finally loses its long-standing majesty, and with the cool breeze that blows from time to time, the comfortable feeling of refreshing early autumn makes people feel refreshed.

A golden yellow has appeared in the wild, out of the wheat field, more wild flowers all over the mountains appear more delicate and gorgeous, whenever the wind blows, mixed with the cool smell of countless flowers will be blown away from afar, drifting to the distance that no one knows.

Autumn is refreshing, and if the breeze comes with unexpected news, it makes even more sense.

Alexander VI stood in front of the window and watched the crowd walk up and down the square outside, Michelangelo left, but another equally famous and more experienced architect, Sabali, became the head of the Vatican's renovations, and Sabali was a model of more collaboration with others than Michelangelo, who was somewhat too self-centered.

St. Peter's Square, which has not yet actually appeared, is still full of chaotic buildings of varying heights, and according to Alexander VI's vision, these houses will be torn down in the future, and the vast land will be covered with precious marble, and a huge square will be built that will make the Romans envious.

Of course, Alexander VI did not know that it would be impossible to see the completion of this huge project in his lifetime, and even several of his successors did not have the opportunity to see the square completed, but this did not stop the Pope from dreaming and envisioning this grand project, and he even asked Michelangelo to paint him an oil painting of the square after it was completed.

Then, sometimes the Pope would stand in front of this large canvas and imagine himself standing in front of St. Peter's Church, which was also built, preaching to the multitude.

It was rare for the Pope to be in such a good mood, especially since his children had left him one after another, and he had not enjoyed such a pleasant afternoon so calmly for a long time.

Another gentle breeze blew through the wide sleeves of his robe, causing a slight tremor on his body, Alexander VI snorted softly, and he suddenly felt the urge to make out with a woman, and just as he wondered if he should tell Julia Farne to make some preparations, a letter pressed under a silver cutter on the table caught his attention.

The envelope had already been opened, in fact, the Pope had read the letter more than once, but because he had different feelings after reading it each time, he simply put the letter there.

Now noticing again, the Pope went over and picked up the letter and opened it again.

In fact, he could memorize the content of it, but when he read it again, Alexander VI was still very serious.

The letter was written by Lucrezia, and Alexander VI had maintained a rare and reserved silence about his daughter's near-elopement with Alexander.

Although this silence inevitably gave rise to all sorts of speculation, Alexander VI did not pay much attention to it.

A person who can murder his son-in-law may not care if his daughter eloped with a man.

After seeing Lucrezia tell him in a proud tone that his granddaughter had become the Duke of Pisa, the corners of Alexander VI's mouth curled slightly, showing a smile that seemed to be gratified and full of meaning, but when he saw Lucrezia write Alexander's attitude towards the Venetians in a slightly worried tone, the Pope raised his hand and gently scratched the slightly thinning hair on the top of his head with his ring finger.

“…… Father, I fear that Alexander's pride will get him into trouble, I don't know how to describe it, but I can feel his anger at the Venetians, and the expectation of Estles, so I can understand his hostility towards the Venetians, and I fear that he may directly confront the Venetians because of this, so I ask you here to help Alexander, although my wayward actions may break your heart, but for the sake of your granddaughter, please help me......"

"Granddaughter." Alexander VI muttered softly, and then continued to read.

"Alexander was busy with his business now, and he seemed to be in a hurry, and he had to do a lot of things every day, and sometimes I even thought that maybe it would be better if he didn't come back to Pisa, because he would write to me every day as long as there was no war in the days when he was away, and sometimes if the journey was delayed because of bad weather, there might be several messengers at the same time to bring me his letters, but now though we live in the same palace, I often don't see his people, and sometimes I don't even see him late at nightIf it weren't for knowing that he loved me and me deeply, I would even have to suspect that he might have a new love, and he was fooling around with some nasty woman at those times. ”

Seeing the sweetness that his daughter seemed to reveal intentionally or unintentionally in her complaints, the Pope shook his head a little helplessly, in his opinion, maybe that Cambrai was actually fooling around with some nasty woman, but he wouldn't be upset for his daughter for this.

Speaking of the identity of the daughter, she is not qualified to complain about this, after all, the real fiancée of the family is still in Montina alone.

The conflict between Montina and Genoa was seen by many as purely internal strife among the Genoese themselves, which was a blessing for many Genoese enemies.

But Alexander VI didn't see it that way, he felt that he knew the young man well, and this understanding could be explained by his concern for some bastard who had kidnapped his daughter, or rather because he knew the people who had been with him.

Because he could sense Alexander's ambitions, the Pope did not see the brief war as an infighting, but rather as an event that had truly severed Montina's relationship with Genoa.

From now on, Montina was truly a completely independent territory, and perhaps Genoa's suzerainty had to be recognized in terms of nominal relations, but as in the case of Britain and France after the Hundred Years' War, this relationship really had only one name.

What really brought Alexander VI's attention to was Alexander's attitude towards Venice.

Is it possible for Montina, who was completely independent, to form an alliance with Venice?

It was this speculation that made Alexander VI's attitude towards the war unusually ambiguous.

However, what makes many people feel strange is that when dealing with this conflict between the two sides, the attitude of the Rovere family, who is a Genoese wang clan, seems to be very strange.

And what caught the attention of Alexander VI in this letter was still this passage.

"Father, Alexander told me that he wished to be reconciled with Caesar, or at least not to be an enemy again, and to be honest it made me both happy and surprised, because he had never offered to forgive Caesar before, after all, it was difficult to forget what had happened so quickly, but I am glad that he could say so."

The Pope looked at this passage repeatedly, and he felt incredulous when he had just received the letter before, but after pondering it again, he had to admit that Alexander's proposal to improve relations with Caesar at this time, whether what he said was true or not, could not be ignored.

No one knew better than Alexander VI the importance of an independent union of Montina and Pisa in Tuscany and Romagna.

"Father, please make sure to make this happen, I want to see my family in harmony and friendship, the men of the Borgia family should only compete in the arena and not on the battlefield, please listen to your daughter's request for you, I believe it is the best for all of us."

Alexander VI scratched his hair again, but this time because he felt a little headache.

They don't let themselves worry, the Pope complains in his heart.

None of the Borgia family had a fuel-efficient lamp, and even the seemingly naïve Lucrezia was secretly expressing a certain attitude through such a letter.

If it can't be done, does that mean that Cambrai will fall to the Venetians?

What the Pope saw in the seemingly warm letters from his relatives was such a hint that annoyed him.

As for the Cambrai, the Pope suddenly felt that he was really fit to be a Borgia, just thinking about his prospective old man, Alexander VI shook his head again.

It's okay for your own daughter to be a mistress for someone else, but it's another thing if she is a mistress for the enemy's son-in-law.

Everyone knows that the Borgia family and the Rovere family can't be friends.

However, it was Florence that attracted the most attention to Alexander VI in this letter!

The letter was thick, so the Pope took a sip of his glass and then took a short break before continuing to read.

"Alexander insisted that Tomneo's death was related to the Venetians, and he had publicly presented his credentials to the Doge of Venice asking them to hand over the responsible forces behind Tomno's murder, which Alexander believed were from Florence, and that Venetian support had enabled Florence to carry out this plan."

The Pope stroked his freshly shaved chin and found it interesting, and when he first saw it, he thought it must have been written by Alexander at Lucrezia's behest, because it could be interpreted in any way.

There was a slight knock on the door, as if he knew who was coming, and the Pope did not look up but waved his hand slightly not to disturb him.

So as soon as he entered the door, Nomelo, who was holding a document in his hand, walked to the side and stood quietly.

The Pope's gaze kept wandering over the letter, sometimes stopping for a long time to look at a certain paragraph, sometimes going back to look somewhere in front of him, and after a while, he finally landed on the last paragraph of the letter.

"I know that Barentia della Rovere is now in Montina, and I can't help but admit that this is very bad news for me, the point is that she is still the regent of Montina, which makes me worry about the rights of Estelles, the future of Pisa depends to a large extent on the relationship with Montina, and if it is the children of the woman of the Rovere family who will inherit Montina in the future, I doubt that they will seriously consider the interests of Pisa, and maybe even covet it, Unless pizza is strong enough to defend itself by then, there is another solution to this future conundrum. ”

The letter came to an abrupt end, and after reading the father's honorifics and familiar signatures for a long time, Alexander VI slowly raised his head to look at Nomerlo, who had been waiting quietly.

"Your Majesty, the clerk of the Carolingian Palace has just sent a copy from the bishop of Venice, a meeting between the Venetian governor Barbarig and an imperial envoy."

The news brought by Nomelo made Alexander VI's expression froze, and the shadow of Emperor Maximian passed over his heart, and then he frowned imperceptibly.

Seeing this little action of the Pope, Nomelo couldn't help but wonder in his heart, assuming that he was willing to betray the news, I don't know how much someone would pay for the Pope to frown when he heard about the emperor.

"Are the Venetians going to intervene in the affairs of Romagna?" Alexander looked at the copy with some annoyance, and he looked at Nomelo with dissatisfaction, not angry at him, but also asking, "Have they forgotten the agreement they signed with Giovanni not long ago, or do they think that because of the misfortune that happened to my son, they can break it without any scruples?" ”

Suddenly mentioning the sorrow of the loss of his beloved son, even after a long time, the Pope was still pale in pain, which made Nomelo a little flustered, he quickly poured a glass of wine for the Pope and gave it to him, and then half knelt in front of him and took Alexander VI's other hand and bowed his head and kissed it.

"My Majesty, Father, please don't be too sad, you know that all this is God's arrangement, and Giovanni is already in a position in heaven that is enough to prove him."

"But leave me, an old man who is about to grow old, to continue to suffer in this world." After taking a sip of wine, the slightly stable Pope sighed sadly, stood up and walked slowly in the room with the help of Nomerlo, "Whether the Borgia family will continue to be glorious in the future, or whether it can continue to exist in Rome, depends on each Borgia, but in fact, each of them does not let me worry. ”

The Pope said as he handed the letter to Lomeno, and motioned for the secretary to pay attention to the two passages that he had read several times.

The Pope noticed that Nomelo's expression was changing slightly, and he sighed again.

Seeing Nomerlo's gaze at the end of the letter and smiling slightly, Alexander VI raised his glass and took a sip, then looked at his secretary with an inquiring look.

"Your Majesty, if this letter does not have the tacit approval of the Count of Montina, then this is Miss Lucrezia's request for help from you, and if the Count knows all this, then there is something to look forward to."

"You mean pizza?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, is it not the 'only other way' that Miss Lucrezia speaks of, asking you to help Miss Estelles in her future struggle for the inheritance of Montina in her dual capacity as Pope and Grandfather?"

"Well, that's so, so do you think Gombray knows these words of hers?"

The Pope's question made Nomelo hesitate for a moment, and he felt that he needed to think carefully before answering, because his answer could greatly influence some of the Pope's decisions.

"Your Majesty, as far as I know, the Count is a cautious man," Nomelo finally decided to be cautious himself, "so it seems unlikely that he knew what Miss Lucrezia wrote in her letter. ”

The secretary's answer seemed to satisfy the Pope, and he drank silently, and after a moment of silence received the letter in a thick wooden cabinet on the table.

Seeing the wooden cabinet, Nomerlo's expression could not help but be a little solemn, and he knew that everything that could be put into this cabinet was extremely important to the Pope, such as the various records and transcripts of diplomatic foreign letters that he had finally demarcated the famous papal meridian a few years ago in order to settle the maritime dispute between Portugal and Spain.

"So, are the Venetians really going to intervene in Romagna?"

The Pope, who had put away the key, turned to look at Nomerlo, then walked to the table and looked at the copy he had just seen.

The Vatican has a huge news channel covering almost the entire Christian world, which is slowly formed by more than ten centuries of heaviness, every diocese, every monk, almost all the tentacles sent by the Vatican to all parts of the world, especially in those times when the Holy See still has great prestige, the Vatican can be said to be the most well-informed place in the world.

Even today, the Carolingian Palace is still the distribution center for all the major news from the entire Western world, which is one of the reasons why Alexander took a fancy to the Carolingian Palace in the first place.

"They seem to have sent people to deal with the Florentine government."

"Are these depraved Florentines all they have in their minds prostitutes or **," the Pope cursed in jaw-dropping language, "that Massimo, what is he doing, is there something in the monastery of St. Mark that fascinates him so much, is he ignorant of all this news?" ”

"The abbot doesn't seem to have a very good relationship with that Sazi, or the Florentines are still a little wary of him," Nomelo thought for a moment about what he had heard, "and the people we sent in Florence had not heard about it before. ”

"Oh, then I'll have to inquire more." Alexander VI said dissatisfiedly, he was obviously not interested in how to find out the news, but more concerned about what he heard: "So Venice has the support of the emperor this time?" ”

"It still needs to be proven," Nomelo looked slightly worried, "I think if the Emperor is really going to intervene in Romagna's affairs, maybe the Milanese will take the opportunity to join in, you know that the Sforza family has always had a close relationship with the Emperor." ”

"If that's bad enough," the Pope frowned again, "do you think Cambrai will be able to hold on, knowing that if he fails, it means that he must give up his rule over Pisa." ”

"So this is where your support is needed, after all, Mademoiselle Estelles is your granddaughter, and may have the opportunity to become Count of Montina in the future if possible."

The words of the private secretary made the Pope's originally gloomy face smile, but no one knew whether his smile was due to the thought of his granddaughter, whom he had not yet met, or because he finally had an excuse and opportunity to meddle in the affairs of the two territories he had coveted for a long time.

"Nomerlo, I'm going to send you to Pisa," the Pope's tone became lighter as his mood seemed to improve, "I want you to bring my granddaughter a holy gift that I have bestowed upon her, and I think it would be fitting for me to have a sacred relic of St. Aden, as the Duke of Pisa, the first saint to be martyred for the conversion of Pisa, which is a very honorable thing." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Nomelo bowed and nodded, by this time he had already guessed that the Pope had actually made plans before he entered the door, and it seemed that Lucrezia's letter had really moved the Pope.

"And bring me a message to Cambrai," said Alexander VI, with a strange look on his face, "and tell him that I will not allow the Venetians to infringe on Pisa in any way, as a papal and grandfather promised." ”

Listening to the words of Alexander VI, Nomelo bowed again.

However, the Pope did not see the slightly upturned corners of the secretary's face.

That Gombray is really good at blackmail, Nomelo thought to himself.