Alexander didn't intend to use the Pretty Men trick too seriously.

But after watching the tricks played by Caesar and Konstantin one after another, he felt that it was a waste to have such a ready-made charismatic uncle as Nashan by his side.

In this day and age, eating soft rice does not seem to be despised, but rather seen as an enviable shortcut to fame, at least many aristocrats are proud that they or their sons can marry a woman who is rich, powerful, and powerful.

As for whether this woman is a young girl in the boudoir or a widowed woman who is already old, no one cares.

It doesn't matter if you can't marry such a woman, as long as you can be their lover, you can also get a lot of benefits.

Alexander felt that Nashan had a good ability to eat soft rice, and he seemed to be eating soft rice in Bohemia, so since he had already eaten one, he probably didn't care about eating more.

Caesar's banquet was very sumptuous and grand, he held this banquet in the name of congratulating the establishment of the Council of Order, so in addition to the 39-person group, almost all the member families of the Council of Order attended the banquet, and for a time hundreds of people gathered in Caesar's palace, looking at this feat of people surging to meet each other, Caesar was quite complacent for a while.

Although the style of his cardinal's robes, the lavish furnishings of the whole banquet, the fine food, and the various splendid costumes seemed out of place, no one showed anything out of the ordinary, as if he should have enjoyed this worldly prosperity rather than obey the rules of being willing to be poor.

In fact, there is no one in the entire Vatican who really regards the Benedict canon as a model and rule, and extravagance and depravity are the portrayal of this era.

When Alexander came to Caesar's palace of clear springs, he saw several women dancing around Caesar, these richly dressed ladies were dancing and laughing loudly, and Caesar, who was surrounded in the middle, had a handkerchief over his eyes, and from time to time he reached out and tried to grab the woman in front of him, which caused them to laugh and scream, and the people in the outer circle followed their cries and let out a burst of applause.

Alexander took off his broad-brimmed hat and handed it to the servant beside him, and he walked along the circle of Roman columns on the periphery of the crowd until he was stopped by a man.

"Look, who's coming," came a slightly sharp, seemingly diacritical voice, and Alexander followed the voice to see Geoffrey standing under a pillar glaring at him, "the great hero of the Council of Order, Caesar's most faithful lackey, why are you here, shouldn't you be by my brother's side to cheer him on, see how proud he is now." ”

Jeffrey said and looked into the crowd, but because he was short and could only see the back of the crowd's heads, he became angry again, and then turned his head to stare at Alexander fiercely, as if it was all his fault.

"My lord, do you need me to pick you up and take a look inside?" Alexander asked teasingly, seeing that Geoffrey's face turned pale because of his words, Alexander walked past him with a slight smile, he didn't take the bear child seriously at all, even if the bear child was the Pope's son.

"How dare you, how dare you speak to me like that!"

Jeffrey's angry voice behind him had already attracted the attention of many people next to him, but Alexander didn't look back, he felt that Jeffrey seemed to be a follower who was informing him, because as he heard his screams in the voice-changing period, many people nodded and smiled at him because they saw Alexander.

Caesar happened to be holding a woman who seemed to be caught by him on purpose, and when he heard Geoffrey's cry, he took off his handkerchief and let go of the woman who kept screaming, and he laughed when he saw Alexander walking by.

"I'm wondering who made my little brother angry like that, knowing that Geoffrey, though he always loses his temper all day long, is an angel when he's quiet, and makes me think about what he looks like when he's not throwing a tantrum," Caesar pretended to rub his head, and then said to the people around him helplessly, "I forgot, I just remember that he lost his temper except for his temper tantrum." ”

There was a burst of laughter all around, and no matter whether they thought the joke was funny or not, they either held their stomachs or covered the corners of their mouths and couldn't stop laughing, and the laughter never stopped, as if they were laughing longer than whom.

Geoffrey stared at Caesar from afar, and he could see the irony in Caesar's gaze, which made his face, which was as beautiful as Caesar said, an angel, tremble.

Of course, Alexander knew that Caesar was not helping him by making Jeffrey make a fool of himself in public, but purely to make Jeffrey embarrassed, and even if you think about it carefully, Caesar was a little bit deliberately cheating him, because Jeffrey must have hated him to the core.

But Alexander didn't care, he didn't plan to get along with the bear kid in the first place.

Caesar seemed pleased with Alexander's attitude, and he rejected the women who continued to play the game, but gave the handkerchief to one of the women with slightly plump brown hair, who was obviously interested in the chubby woman, much to Alexander's surprise, for he remembered that the little sister of the Borgia was very slender.

Throwing Alexander by the shoulder, Caesar led him to a somewhat secluded corner, where several people were already seated in the chairs, all influential figures in the Council of Order, of whom Giovanni seemed to be the centerpiece.

Several people seemed to be arguing about something, but Giovanni was neutral and did not favor anyone.

It's just that after Caesar appeared, this circle with him as the core was a little chaotic.

"The French must get out of Rome at once," said an old nobleman with gray hair, standing up and violently emotional, waving his arms in the air in order to strengthen his tone, his face flushed with anger, "we cannot allow them to continue to ravage our city, and see what they have done since they came, and the honor of being a Roman nobleman does not allow us to sit idly by any longer, otherwise what is the value of our order council." ”

"But what can we do, go to war with the French?" The other man was-for-tat, his slightly obese size made him stand up a little difficult, but he still struggled to stand up and argue, "The coalition forces outside the city have never moved, if they fight the French, they will only watch a good show, how long do you think we can fight the French?" And we are only here to protect our own safety and property, not soldiers. ”

"Mercenary merchant," the old nobleman looked at the fat man with disdain, "what do you have in your eyes but money, and your honor and dignity, are you worth the five florins?" ”

Caesar stood by with great interest and listened to the argument between the two men, and when he saw that they were both looking at him, Caesar turned to Alexander and asked, "What do you think of this, should we drive the French out of Rome?" ”

Giovanni frowned, Caesar seemed to be an arbiter in doing so, which made him invisibly higher than the others, Giovanni didn't like Caesar's little tricks, especially in front of him, which annoyed him even more.

"I think we should first figure out why we set up this Council of Order," Alexander looked around at the others, he felt that it was time to make a voice, although it was still necessary to rely on Caesar's strength, but at least in the Council of Order it was necessary for others to listen to his voice, "because the French are no longer able to guarantee the safety of the city and all of us, since we can only arm ourselves, it can be said that there are not many places in the city of Rome that are really controlled by the French, Even in those areas where the French were still stationed, many nobles had joined the Council of Order, and the French did not object but acquiesced in their own guards. Speaking of this, Alexander's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and when he saw Giovanni's slightly playful and Caesar's smiling eyes, Alexander lowered his voice, "The present city of Rome is not French, but ours, and belongs to our Council of Order, isn't this more exciting than the strongest wine?" ”

Several people fell silent for a while, no one spoke, several pairs of eyes looked at each other and asked, and gradually the originally concealed looks in people's eyes were revealed.

The idea that had been hidden in his heart from the beginning but had not been exposed was torn off by Alexander at this moment, and several people who were originally arguing slowly sat down, and the atmosphere seemed a little weird because of the silence for a while.

"Maybe, I mean maybe," the fat merchant looked at the others and licked his lips, "it is really in our interest for the French to stay in Rome, knowing that once they are driven away, the coalition will enter the city, and by that time ......"

What will happen then? Everyone knows it in their hearts.

The Council of Order was still in its infancy, and everyone's power had not yet been secured, so if the coalition entered Rome, would it be necessary for the Council of Order to survive?

Or will the coalition allow the existence of a city power with the same powers as them?

"However, it is not a good thing if the French stay all the time, you know, maybe the coalition will later use the excuse that we are cooperating with the French, or we are going to ban the Council of Order." The old nobleman hesitated and said, "At least we have to stay away from the French, otherwise we will have a hard time when they are gone." ”

As Duke of Gandia, Giovanni naturally didn't have to prove anything to the coalition forces in the future, but as a member of the Order Council of 39, he felt the need to get rid of the atmosphere that was already under Alexander's control.

"We have the permission of the Pope, and that is enough," Giovanni glanced at Caesar, who knew that Caesar would support him, and that the Borgia would never oppose themselves in front of outsiders, "so for us, the real thing to consider is how to make the decisions of the Council of Order become a reality as soon as possible, and neither the French nor the coalition forces can oppose the authority of the Pope." ”

Giovanni's words made several people look in a trance, and at the same time they looked at Caesar, and when they saw Caesar smiling and nodding silently, everyone immediately became relaxed.

Giovanni glanced at Alexander, he didn't want to show off anything, he just wanted to see Alexander's depressed face.

But he didn't see anything unusual in Alexander's face, or if it was well hidden, he thought.

Then it seemed to be a lot easier, and a few people began to talk about how to make the order meeting more useful.

Because Alexander had already pierced the disguise, the discussion became a real division of power.

At such times, Alexander was invisibly sidelined, at least in the eyes of others, and he had received enough as an outsider.

Caesar seemed to have no intention of standing up for Alexander's injustice, which made Giovanni look at them with amusement.

He wondered what the man who had done so much for Caesar would have thought when he found himself being ostracized in the end, and perhaps he would have to get a full response from him now with a little kindness.

It's just that Caesar didn't give Giovanni this opportunity, and he called Alexander to his side after the banquet officially began, and to the surprise of many people, Alexander was actually placed next to Julia Farne, who arrived later.

Everyone knows who Julia Farne is, as Alexander VI's most favored mistress today, not only is she not hostile to the children of the Borgia family, but on the contrary, she has become more intimate with Lucrezia, which cannot but make many people deeply admire this woman's skill.

So it's not surprising that Caesar would invite Julia Farne, but why he arranged for Alexander to sit next to her is strange to many.

Or maybe it was because the Borgia family was not good to sit together, and Caesar didn't want other Romans to get rid of it, so a Neapolitan took advantage of this, and many people thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that it should be like this.

Although it was a banquet with many people, Julia Farne showed a lot of interest in Alexander.

But perhaps it is precisely because of her innocence that people don't think too much, after all, Julia Farne's youthful liveliness and curiosity are known to many people.

In fact, there are not many people who are curious about Alexander.

In the eyes of many people, Alexander is the typical adventurer of this era, who may have a humble background, but will spare no effort to climb up whenever he has the opportunity.

As for the fact that he seems to be the illegitimate son of George Anne, Countess of Cosenza, although it has aroused people's interest, not much has been concerned since then.

After all, the host of this banquet is himself an illegitimate child, and his brothers, who are also illegitimate children and are in high positions, are also present in a grand manner.

During the banquet, in addition to eating and drinking, people also used various topics as condiments, and the theme of which was naturally inseparable from the future planning and arrangement of the order meeting.

In this way, the French became the laughing stock of the people, and even Alexander's battle in the valley of Bruni was once again brought up as a French affair.

When the banquet was over, Giovanni had wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Alexander, and he always felt that the young man should be of some use.

Even if it didn't work, he didn't mind doing it just to make Caesar angry for betraying him by his doglegs.

However, Caesar still did not give Giovanni a chance, and after the banquet, he and Julia Farne invited Alexander to the Potico Palace, and for a good reason: Queen Joanna, who was a guest at the Potico Palace, wanted to meet Alexander.

Alexander gladly accepted the invitation, and then he sent someone to the Marino Palace to tell Nathan: "The opportunity has come. ”

On the way, however, Caesar suddenly asked Alexander, who was walking with him, "Tell me what you want, I can see that you despise the Romans, and I don't even think you can look down on Giovanni, so tell me what you want." ”