Peloto Caderon walked through the bustling crowd in front of him, keeping his head as low as he could, walking down the street.

It is a place not too far from Rome's famous canopy bazaar, the streets are narrow and follow the terrain downward, and every few steps there is a small door on the side of the road leading to the houses on either side, and from these small doors sometimes men and women come out of it, and you can guess what they have been doing in it from the looks on their faces.

Caderon cautiously came to a small and inconspicuous door, which was a famous place for prostitutes in the city of Rome, and there were even more prostitutes here than in the square outside the Vatican, which was said to have become a large open-air brothel.

Cadron cautiously looked to both sides of the street, then tapped the door vigorously, and after a short while, the door opened slightly, and after seeing Caderon standing outside, the small door opened, and a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway.

"You're late." The woman said, carefully looking outside as she let Caderon in, and then quickly closed the door.

Caderon, who walked into the house, said apologetically to the woman, "I know, but I can't get out of it these days, and I know that the Count of Montina ......"

"That Count Montina is not your master," a cold woman's voice came from the end of the hallway of the house, and a figure blocked the light, casting the entire aisle into darkness, "or you haven't forgotten Lucrezia." ”

"How is this possible, my lady," Cadron hurried towards the woman, and when he walked up to the woman, he first bent down and saluted, and then reached out and took the woman in his arms, "I have always thought of your wife, and I would like to stay by your side every day if I could." ”

Cadron's hug was a little intense, which made the woman's slightly clumsy body move, and the middle-aged woman who had been accompanying him reached out and patted Cadron's shoulder to remind him: "Madame is not in good health now, you be careful." ”

"I'm so sorry," Cadron said, letting go of his arms around the woman, and then looking at the woman's tall belly with shiny eyes, "Do you know how excited I am right now, because you are pregnant with my child." ”

"Just because I'm pregnant with your child, that's why you care so much about me." The woman asked a little deliberately provocatively, and seeing that Caderon was dumbfounded by the question, the woman coldly broke free from his arms and dragged her clumsy body towards the room.

Cadron looked at the middle-aged woman next to him, and after getting a hint to catch up, he quickly followed into the room at the end of the hallway.

It was a small house, and in addition to the street, there was a small door to the back yard, so that the owner of the house could come and go at will without the attention of many people.

The woman walked into the house and stopped to turn, the sun shining on her black mourning dress and face, reflecting a face that was familiar to many Romans.

Giovanni Borgia's wife, now a widow, Maria de Luna.

Maria de Luna's body was much more bloated than before, and her waist was fully protruding, and because she had already given birth to two children, she was not as careful as those women who were new mothers, so when Caderon hugged her again, she only made symbolic movements, and let Caderon perform small movements on her affectionately.

"What the hell does that Cambrai want, does he want to just keep you around?" De Luna looked at Cadron suspiciously, "You still asked him yourself, haven't you forgotten about Lucrezia?" ”

"Madame, you have wronged me," said Cadheron, a little aggrieved, "I don't know why the Count of Montina left me behind, he has been with me since he sent Caesar away, and I haven't even been to Pisa during this time." ”

"Is that so?" Maria de Luna looked at Cadheron in disbelief, because of her affair with Caderon, she was even more aware of the young entourage's obsession with Lucrezia, which made her think that her sister-in-law was her greatest rival.

"Of course it is, you know that my love for you is real, and I can do everything for you."

De Luna was slightly stunned, then nodded slowly.

"Listen, I don't care if you're still in love with Lucrezia, but you have to be by my side when I give birth, even if you can't be by my side, you have to be in a place where I can see you at any time, and I don't care how you leave that Cambrai."

De Luna commanded strongly, then ignored Caderon's somewhat helpless look, and sat down a little tiredly and leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and slowed down slightly.

Cadron looked at the middle-aged woman who had been standing in the doorway without saying a word, and he couldn't help but smile wryly when he saw her expressionless face.

Becoming the lover of a woman of Maria de Luna's stature is probably the dream of any man, but it is only after he actually becomes her lover that he knows that this woman can sometimes be even terrifying.

Caderon went out from the back garden when he left, and they were very careful, first letting the middle-aged woman stand outside the courtyard and look at it to make sure that there were no suspicious people, and then Caderon hurried out and walked along the courtyard wall into the distance.

Unbeknownst to Caderon, behind him, Maria de Luna and the middle-aged woman had been watching his back disappear.

"Do you think he's going to reveal this?" Maria de Luna asked the woman next to her.

"Who knows," the woman was still expressionless, her voice was a little hoarse and thick, as if she had a hot towel wrapped around her throat, "Speaking of which, the man you sent to the monastery of St. Teresa, where Lucrezia lived in seclusion, didn't make much difference. ”

Hearing the woman's words, a hint of annoyance appeared on Maria de Luna's face.

"Who would have thought that man would be so unlucky, I thought that if Lucrezia was sent alone in the convent alone, a beautiful young man would be easily charmed by her, I know Lucrezia too well, she is a spoiled silly girl, as long as he is obsessed with that man, he will not pay attention to Peloto anymore, who would have thought that the guy would be killed by that Gombre before he could attract Lucrezia's attention."

"But isn't it also good, that now Lucrezia is completely infatuated with that Count Montina, and even willingly bears a child for him, isn't it better than you sending someone to seduce her?" The middle-aged woman looked at Maria de Luna, whose face was gloomy, a little puzzled.

De Luna squinted at the woman, a hint of sarcasm in her eyes.

"You know what, to a man Lucrezia is like a princess who has been kidnapped by a dragon, and Pelotto now sees himself as the knight who wants to save the princess, and he is willing to stay with the Count of Montina honestly, in fact, he is looking for an opportunity to rescue his princess. You must know that a woman who has been kidnapped and a woman who is willing to hook up with her subordinates have different status in the minds of men. ”

The woman listened silently, not missing the contemptuous look that Maria de Luna had given her as she said these words, and her gaze looked out the window, out of the courtyard walls, where Cadron had long since disappeared.

Cadron walked cautiously forward, sometimes stopping to look to the right and left, or walking in a large circle to return to the same place, and after such a long delay, he finally made sure that no one was following, and then walked in the direction of the Carolingian Palace.

Caderon knew he had to be careful, after all, if someone found out about his affair with Giovanni's widow, he wouldn't end well.

He had been to the Borgia since he was a child, or since he could remember, so he knew the family better than anyone else, and he knew how Alexander VI spent his days of lasciviousness when he was still the Archbishop of Valencia, and why the Pope suspected that Geoffrey was not his own child.

But none of this matters, the important thing is that he is well aware of the cruelty of the Borgia family.

Probably all Borgia except Lucrezia inherited the family's ruthless and cruel character, which is why Cadron always misses Lucrezia.

Maria de Luna was not mistaken, he had never forgotten Lucrezia, and he did have the intention of saving Lucrezia from Alexander, who had taken her captors.

Cadron was clever, as evidenced by the fact that he had been able to serve the Borgia family for two generations, and was considered a confidant.

He knew that it was impossible to save Lucrezia with his strength, or he knew very well that even if he could take Lucrezia away from Alexander, it would be of little use.

Though reluctant to admit it, Caderon knew that Lucrezia was infatuated with the Count of Montina.

At times, Caderon was angry at Lucrezia's naivety and inability to speak sweetly to men, especially when he heard that she was willing to conceive and bear a child for Alexander, and his jealousy was like poison that made him almost do something desperate.

If it weren't for the hunters around Alexander and the dangerous-looking Paul Busaco, Cadron came close to attacking Alexander several times.

But he was in no hurry to take the risk now, for he found that Alexander's visit to Rome seemed to be planning something.

This is evident from the fact that he often received a variety of visiting guests in the Marino Palace, and that Caderon was keenly aware that some of the guests who came to visit Alexander seemed to be something that Alexander did not want the Pope to know.

This made Caderon decide to be patient and take a closer look, he wanted to know what Alexander was doing, and then he would report everything he found to the Pope, maybe when the time came, he would not only be able to help the Pope rescue Caesar as a hostage as soon as possible, but even take the opportunity to completely overturn Alexander to the ground.

Thinking so, Caderon smiled with relief, feeling that he should not be too far away from victory.

In the corridor outside the Carolingian Palace Tiego office, several people were gathering together to talk to each other, and when they saw someone passing by, they would immediately stop and stare at the person who came to see them, and then wait for the person to go away before continuing to talk in a low voice.

Caderon's appearance attracted the attention of these people, they watched him come over, when Caderon was about to pass by these people, one of those people seemed to suddenly remember something, this person first sent a tentative "hey", seeing Caderon stop and turn back, he walked up and asked a little hesitantly: "May I ask if you are the retinue of the Count of Montina, I remember seeing you following the Count outside the cathedral." ”

Cadron's mind quickly turned, and then he moved slightly to this person: "Yes lord, I am the earl's attendant, I don't know what you have to do." ”

"It's true, the count's retinue," the man looked a little excited and looked back at the other companions, "yes, we are from Florence, we want to see the count, or the Count's side Tyego, we are Florentine merchants, and we want the count's help." ”

Caderon groaned slightly, he had been listening to the people around Alexander mention Florence, but he didn't know what Alexander wanted to do.

However, he was well aware of the Pope's hatred of the Florentine consul Savonarola, and he had seen one time when the Pope was so angry that he whipped a young prostitute who had been sent to him for amusement because he heard that Savonarola had publicly criticized him during a sermon, and the tragic appearance of the girl at that time made Caderon tremble for several days.

These people came from Florence to ask Cambrai for help?

Cadron's heart skipped a beat, and when he looked down the aisle, and seeing that no one noticed them, he motioned to them a little and asked them to walk towards Tiego's office.

There was a guard outside Tiego's office, which was rare in the Carolingian Palace, but since Tiego now held almost all of Rome's wealth, it was not surprising that he was kept safe.

Tiego was not in the Carolingian Palace, he had been in the Bourse of Rome during this time, and he did not even leave at night.

According to Alexander's orders, he had to get the exchange to work as quickly as possible, because as far as he knew, the Grogenin had left Rome a few days earlier, and the next step was to raise all kinds of cheap goods in the shortest possible time, according to the agreement between him and Alexander, and then ship them to Amsterdam.

It was a loss-making deal, because their purpose was not to make money with those goods at all, but purely to occupy the throughput and warehouse reserves and transportation routes of the Port of Amsterdam, so that the money could be thrown directly into the canals of Amsterdam.

When he heard that Alexander had given a credit note of up to 21,000 ducats to Grognin for nothing, even Tiego, who thought he had seen a lot of things, was frightened by such a large bet.

This suddenly made him feel a little overwhelmed, for he knew that if he could not mobilize the wealth of Rome in the nearly four months of lockdown that Rognin had created for him, Alexander's dizzying plan would be in an irreparable predicament.

At that point, huge debts, collapsed credit, and all the terrible consequences that followed, all of which Thiegor could not have imagined.

So during this time, Tiego locked himself up in the exchange, and he needed to make sure his men knew what to do, and at the same time, to let the rich people of Rome know as soon as possible what a rare opportunity they stood in front of a plunder for wealth.

Cadron brought the men into his office, a small room with only two chairs, except for a large desk and a row of cabinets full of drawers by the wall.

"I'm sorry, Master Tiego isn't here now," Cadron said quickly after seeing the disappointed looks on the men, "but I can report your affairs to him, and of course it must be really important, so you have to tell me what you are looking for Master Tiego." ”

Several merchants looked hesitant, as if they did not know whether to tell the retinue about it, and after exchanging glances, the merchant who had greeted him before finally spoke, encouraged by his companion.

"That's right, we hope to get some goods from Mr. Tiego."

"Buying goods?" Caderon looked at these people in surprise, he felt that he was really a little in vain, "Then you can go to the market in Rome to buy, if you need more, maybe you can go to Pisa, it is very lively now." ”

Caderon's arrogant attitude caused several merchants to look angry, but after looking at each other again, the merchant held back his breath and said in a low voice, "In fact, we are not buying ordinary goods, which may cause us some trouble, so we can only ask for the help of Mr. Tiego, and we have been here on the recommendation of a friend before that." ”

The merchant's mysterious actions aroused Cadron's curiosity, and after thinking about it, he said in a slightly respectful tone: "Sir, please forgive me for my rudeness just now, but as a person sent by the Count to be with Lord Tiego, I must do my duty, if you don't tell me what the matter is, I can't bother the Lord rashly, you have probably heard about the exchange, which was established by order of His Majesty the Pope, even the Earl cannot delay this important matter casually." ”

The merchant was embarrassed, and several of them gathered in the corner to whisper again, and just as Caderon was about to feel a little impatient, the merchant came over.

"So, a mutual friend of ours with Lord Count in Florence, James Columbus," the merchant lowered his voice slightly, as if afraid of being heard by someone outside the room, "recommended us to come to Lord Count, who said that the Count had here some special goods we needed. ”

"What is it?" Cadron also asked in a low voice.

"It's some weapons for self-defense, and, "the merchant licked his lips," he said, "to help us organize a small but useful firearm. ”

Cadron's young face froze slightly, he seemed to hear his head buzz, and then looked at the merchant in front of him in disbelief.

"I'm sorry, but can I ask if you're sure that James Columbus is a friend of Lord Earl?"

Cadron couldn't be careless, he felt that the event in front of him was almost overwhelming him.

The contradictions and even hostility between Alexander VI and Florence are well known, and many people even say that if it were not for the French invasion and the subsequent Romagna War, Alexander VI would have had to pay a lot of money to hire an army to fight against Florence.

This is also the reason why the Pope will spare no effort to support Caesar in raising an army, even if it is not for the fight for Romagna, the Pope obviously can't stand the monk of Savonarola that he hates to the core.

But now, there were so many Florentine merchants who came to Rome to buy weapons from Alexander, and the person who recommended them was a friend of Alexander's.

Cadron felt that God had given him a favor today.

"Please wait here for a while, and I'll go and report this to Lord Tiegore," said Cadron, who hurried to the door, and when he got to the door, he did not forget to turn back and instruct, "I think you know what this place is, and where you came from, so ......"

"We won't get into trouble," the merchant said in a low voice, "don't worry, we're here waiting for your news." ”

"That's great, please wait for me right here."

With that, Cadron walked out of the room.

Walking out of the Carolingian Palace, Caderon stood on the steps and thought for a moment, then he turned and ran briskly in the direction of the Sistine Chapel.