The two letters, although the people of the letters were different at different times, said the same thing, and as if they had been discussed, and although the wording was different, the attitude of the two men was the same, and they both hoped that Alexander would be betrothed to Barentia della Rovere.

Alexander didn't believe that this was just a coincidence, although he was quite surprised that the Rovere family found out so quickly that Jisha seemed to have a great influence on him, but as long as you think about it, even the establishment of a "free trade zone" was such a big thing that he entrusted to Jisha, and a slightly smarter person can also see the effect of Jisha's attitude in front of him.

Obviously, the Lovelle family has great hopes for this family affair, and from the letters, whether it is the Count or the Tsusha, they are no less concerned about this family affair than the Rovelle family.

The count needed this family business in order to have an ally to contain Frederick, but Alexander never thought that things would turn around, and in the end, it was actually himself who needed this family business.

As Jossa said, to build strong confidence in the FTZ in the minds of many regional powers, it is necessary to have a few influential players, and what could be better to join than a place like Venice in Genoa.

Venice may not have a chance for the time being, and the Genoese have been doing business with themselves from the beginning, and that large amount of food is enough for the two sides to establish a preliminary foundation of mutual trust, not to mention that there is a family affair that can add to this trust, but if even Genoa, who can talk about marriage, does not join this "free trade zone", how can they convince other places to believe in themselves?

And if you want to pull the behemoth of Genoa in, you must first consider the marriage with Barendi!

So as a result, it was none other than Alexander himself, who was most opposed, who ultimately needed this marriage.

Alexander felt a little ironic, he was like a fisherman who had carefully woven a large net that he could not escape, but the fish that was finally caught in it was himself.

Konstantin walked away satisfied, although he received no reply, or that Alexander did not even pay attention to him after reading the letter, but from Alexander's unhappy expression Konstantin could sense that he was under great pressure.

For the free trade zone, now even Konstantin, who did not think about it from the beginning or even knew it well, gradually understood that it was not simple, and it was precisely because of the discovery of the wonders that the attitude of the Luo Weilei family towards this marriage began to change.

Even if he doesn't want to admit it, Konstantin is actually very proud to have a sister like Barondi.

Except for Lucrezia, who was almost like the darling of Rome, Barenti did not attract the slightest attention among all the noble ladies of Rome, and even some people in the family said that if she could not rely on the favor of the archbishop to get a large dowry, Barenti's final result would be to spend her life in a monastery.

But Constantine knew how stupid this statement was, and whenever he saw Barentine sitting behind the desk and carefully looking at the running accounts and contracts, Constantine was proud of himself for having such a smart sister, although Uncle Lafort never admitted that Barentine was smart, but when he thought that even his cousin, who was his father's right-hand man, could not but take into account Barondi's advice on family business from time to time, Constantine admired his sister from the bottom of his heart who was ordinary-looking but had a more shrewd mind than a man.

So in Constantine's mind, he, like his father, thought that Alexander was not worthy of Barondi.

But what makes their father and son feel strange is that it is Barondi, who is the party to this marriage, who seems to not take this matter to heart at all, or not only does he completely let their father make the decision, but even takes the initiative to make this marriage go smoothly.

This made Konstantin a little unhappy, how could an upstart be worthy of his intelligent sister, if it were not for the archbishop's competition for the cardinal throne, he would even want to say a few words of opposition in front of his father.

But now it seems that this Gombray is not so useless, at least he is less like an upstart than he looked when he first met.

No one knows what the free trade zone will look like in the future, and Konstantin doesn't care so much, but since Uncle La Forther began to take the trouble to look up and look through the previous transaction accounts with Barendi again and again, and even sent someone to dig out various account books from Genoa for many years as a comparison, you can know that they attach great importance to this Cambrai from the free trade zone, which makes Konstantin also start to value this person.

What was written in the letter from Josha, the Rovile family could guess somewhat, and it was obvious that since the Modillo family attached great importance to the free trade zone they had proposed, then this marriage did not seem to be a problem.

Barondi should be satisfied, the thought flashed through Konstantin's mind, and then he immediately shook his head disapprovingly.

How could she think that Barondi's willingness to accept this marriage was because she was satisfied with the marriage partner, wasn't it just because she wanted to help her father as much as she could?

Thinking so, Konstantin left the San Marino Palace.

He didn't care too much if the next bohemian girl would quarrel with Alexander over this, although he had heard of this girl's fierce style, but it had nothing to do with him, he just had to go home and report everything to his father.

Sophia didn't jump as much as Konstantin had guessed, she was always sitting next to Alexander and eating her snack very intently, as if she would run away if she wasn't careful.

Sophia's quietness somewhat made Alexander a little hairy, according to previous experience, she should be waiting for the guest to leave at this time and immediately do everything possible to know what the letter is written, especially thinking that the letter is from Zhensha, it must be whether she can read the letter herself before she can rest assured.

But now Sophia is quiet and strange, which makes Alexander suddenly start to miss those "good days" when she wore tinkling armor and angrily waved her long sword and slashed indiscriminately.

Alexander opened his mouth to say something, but Sophia, who was eating a snack, suddenly stopped, she leaned over and kissed Alexander on the cheek very gently, and after leaving a slightly greasy lip print on his face, she smiled silently, and then walked upstairs to her room with the rest of the snack.

This is really abnormal!

Alexander finally made up his mind, and just as he was about to get up and catch up, he saw Nashan walking slowly.

"Let's talk like two men, lad." Nashan showed a rare smile, and then stretched out a strong arm and grabbed Alexander's shoulder, "Come, let's go to the garden and have a good chat, there are few people there." ”

There were few people, and it was convenient, and Alexander remembered only these two sentences later, and as for the rest, they were all forgotten with the sharp pain of the dazzling series of punches that Nashan threw at him in the garden.

Lying on the ground, Alexander put a stone with ice ballast that Nashan had given him, and he felt that his eyes were hot, but in fact they were hot except for his face, so he did not refuse the kindness of the gypsies.

"You kid can take a beating," Nashan sat next to him a little gasp, mainly tired from beating, "Listen, Sophia is very upset, you have to coax her." ”

"I know, but I don't know how to coax her," Alexander said, tilting his head and whispering, his nose itching and bleeding, "I didn't expect it to be like this, no one should disturb our lives." ”

"You should have thought of this result a long time ago," Nashan pushed Alexander a little angrily, "Listen to me, you are not comfortable like this now, so just listen to me obediently, let me take Sophia away, and then you will marry the eldest lady of the Rovie family, so that everyone is satisfied, isn't it great?" ”

"And what about Sophia, will she be satisfied?" Alexander glanced slightly sideways at Nathan, and when he saw the gypsy's gloomy face, he continued, "And do you think I'll be satisfied, I told Sophia that no one can separate us, not the Count, nor the Archbishop, nor you. ”

Nashan tilted his head to look at Alexand, he felt the urge to teach this bastard another lesson, but when he saw the glitter from the glass window of a room on the second floor, he lowered his hand again.

"Don't be too greedy, I can't let Sophia follow you in such a daze," Nashan said fiercely, "She can be a princess who is pleasing to everyone when she arrives at the Bohemian palace, and if she can, the queen can even find a good marriage for her, but what can you do with it, or do you want to learn from your old man?" Don't think I don't know what that Rovere is. ”

"He's not my father-in-law," Alexander tried to sit up slightly as his neck ached, and then he changed the stone and continued to apply it to his eyes, "I admit that I do need the help of the Roveres, but this is not the same thing as marriage. ”

Nashan looked at Alexander with disdain, then stood up and shook off his injured hand: "Say whatever you want, but your time is running out, and I think by the time you get engaged to that Miss Rowwere, we will be back at the Prague court." ”

Alexander looked at Nashan coldly, and he suddenly felt that he hated the gypsy.

Thinking about the fact that the gypsies who didn't know who said it wouldn't stab you in the back even if they hated you, he felt that the person who said this must not know Nashan.

However, the letter from Josa woke him up, and after calming down, he went back to his room and opened the map, and looked at some of the places that had been marked on it, Alexander's brow furrowed slightly, and then he whispered because he had pulled the pain.

A cold hand towel was handed to the side, and Alexander turned his head to look and saw Sophia, whose fingers were red from cold water, standing next to her with a wet hand towel.

Alexander let Sophia press the handkerchief against his bruised eyes, then his lips touched her cold skin and kissed her gently.

Sophia leaned over Alexander's back, her cheeks side by side with him looking at the map on the table.

Taranto, Naples, and Palermo and Messina in Sicily, a region that has become a triangle is beginning to take shape, and although this is only the beginning so far, as Jossa says, if the merchants are not stupid, they should understand that no single power can compete with the decline of the Mediterranean.

However, in order to quickly establish a trustworthy trade alliance at this time, support from Genoa is indeed indispensable.

Sophia stretched out her finger and kept pointing on the map, Alexander saw her first knocking on a place in the south of Sicily, he knew that it was Arszhenta where they had met, and then her finger paused to the north, it was Palermo, when her hand crossed the channel, Alexander thought of the time when they were separated, and then the unexpected reunion of Naples, together through the road north of the battle, when her hand stayed in Rome, Sophia gently grasped his earlobe with a side face, Then the other hand gently pulled his head, and he looked at the map.

Sophia's hand finally rested on Genoa!

"Sophia."

Alexander called out her name softly, and when he saw a trace of tears that seemed to be flashing in Sophia's big dark eyes, Alexander suddenly shook his head!

He swept the map off the table and strode to the corner, where there was a large cabinet containing several bulging purses and two finely crafted muskets.

Alexander hurriedly took out the money bag and musket, and said to Sophia while packing up his things: "Fortunately, we are always prepared, this money is enough for us, I said that you will not go hungry, let's go now, while no one knows it, leave Rome quickly, the city will soon be in chaos, it is still too late to go, if you want to tell Nashan to hurry up, he can go with us if he wants." ”

"Huh?!" Sophia asked, stunned.

"Yes, let's get out of here, but I don't want to go to Prague Palace, let's go to a place where no one knows us, trust me and I'll make you live a good life." Alexander hurriedly packed his things, and did not forget to comfort Sophia: "When we give birth to a large number of children, we will go to Nashan, he will definitely be happy to see his grandson." ”

Seeing Alexander busy in the room, Sophia stood there dumbfounded, as if she didn't know what to do for a while.

"Are you worried about not being able to eat snacks?" Alexander laughed, he pulled the rope of the package tightly, and then put it on the bed, "Trust your husband, as long as we find a place to settle down, I will let you eat the best snack in the world, now you need something to prepare as soon as possible, we will leave tonight." ”

Sophia tilted her head to look at Alexander, and after a moment she burst into a happy laugh.

She nodded, then kissed Alexander before turning and running out the door.

Alexander, who was alone, sat down slowly, bent down to pick up the map on the ground and looked at it, then slowly rolled it up and placed it on the table.

Alexander began to write letters, knowing that his decision would not only surprise many people, but also make many people scramble, so he wished to leave a few letters to let them know about his decision.

It was already getting dark, and Sophia hadn't come yet, but Alexander wasn't in a hurry, it was still a little early, and he didn't want his departure to be discovered, so he wouldn't call Sophia until later.

It was completely dark outside, and several letters had already been written, and just as he began to write to Jisha, he had just started the beginning, when there was a faint sound of footsteps outside the door.

The footsteps weren't like Sophia's always cheerful rhythm, and somehow, Alexander's heart trembled slightly, and he slowly raised his head to look at the door.

The door opened, and a slender figure appeared outside the slightly dimly lit door.

Looking at Barentia della Rovere with a blurred face, Alexander's heart suddenly felt an inexplicable coldness.