All roads lead to Rome, but people always hope that when they enter the city, they will enter the famous gates.

The Great Gate dates back to the time of the Roman Empire, and even after 1,000 years, it was considered to have been built purely to promote the majesty and status of Rome.

It is said that when the Great City Gate was first built, it was full of six gates wide, which could accommodate 12 carriages entering and exiting at the same time, and the Great City Gate was complemented by the large avenue that led directly to the inside and outside, so wide that foreigners who saw it for the first time were staggered.

The neat hemp stones that paved the Roman road into the city are now long gone, some of which were used by later conquistadors to fortify the walls, and some of which were simply dug up to build houses, but even then, if you are lucky, you can still see traces of one or two of the kind of long stone slabs that have survived, and at that time, people always sigh that the Romans could have built such a glorious miracle in that era thousands of years ago.

"There are many miracles, not only built by the Romans, and some of them are often more ancient and yet more magnificent, which even makes people wonder if they were able to accomplish such a feat with the help of some unimaginable divine power." Alexander looked at the big city gate in the distance and said with a little emotion, the current Roman city gate is not as magnificent and large as the original legend, and there are only three of the six door openings that are said to have it, but even so, from the remains of those tall and heavy rows of Roman columns, you can still imagine how majestic this place was at the beginning.

"You mean a miracle like the Ark?" Lucrezia asked with interest, as the Pope's daughter, of course, she knows the Bible scriptures, whether it is the Old Testament or the New Testament, she can almost memorize it backwards, which also cultivates her very critical but quite accurate appreciation of works of art, so that she can easily find any errors or distortions in a religious painting with a large number of characters.

"The Ark is just one of them, and there are many things that are completely unexpected by us." Of course, Alexander would not tell Lucrezia about the origin of the pyramids or the almost absurd speculation that some of the strange structures found in the New World might not have been made by humans, but the people of today will always find it hard to believe the countless magnificent miracles created by the ancients in that backward environment, just as in a few hundred years people will be surprised by a man named Leonardo di Piero da Piero da Brown. It's amazing that Vinci people could have conceived so many strange things in the 16th century.

Ulliu must have already started his move, and may he be well, Leonardo da Vinci and Brother Pacioli, two real treasures.

Alexander pondered in his heart, he remembered telling Uriu that once he found that the situation had become very bad, he would use any means to get those two people to Montina, but in order not to arouse the disgust of the two treasures, he had repeatedly told Ulliu not to use rough methods until he had to, but this was only when the matter was not urgent enough, once it was really urgent, Ulliu could use all means, and the only thing to ensure was that the safety of those two people could not be lost.

Leonardo da Vinci, a genius who would be regarded as an enigma by posterity, and Brother Pasioli was the key figure in helping this genius realize his many whimsical ideas or make his whimsical possibilities a reality.

These two people, even if they are exchanged for a legion, will not lose money.

But before that, Alexander also told Ulliu in his letter that he should first ensure his own safety anyway, because "it seems to me that although those two masters have an extraordinary and important role, they are still not comparable to you, and you must know that you are my assistant and arm, which is not something that any master can exchange." ”

Alexander would not write this out of buying people's hearts, but he really thought so, in his opinion, although Leonardo da Vinci was a once-in-a-lifetime genius, even without him, it would not have much impact on him, but if he lost Ulliu, it would be an irreparable loss for him.

Oflei, who was leading the team in front, suddenly appeared, and Alexander, who was sitting in the carriage, heard Schell's loud greeting, and he couldn't help but smile slightly.

Speaking of which, he is still very satisfied with this Balkan, this man does not have the vulgar and unbearable manners of other Balkans, and it is rare that he is not only literate and hyphenated, but also has a more delicate mind.

Of course, Schell would shout so loudly to Ofrey, of course, not to be idle, but to remind the two people in the car, otherwise if the captain of the marching army had any urgent matter and had to see the Count immediately, but the Count was in a hurry to get dressed, it would be too embarrassing.

Alexander tapped the carriage with the hilt of his sword, and the carriage stopped, and he pushed the door and walked down.

"My lord, the Scoop Tribune is here." Seeing Alexander's puzzled look, the marching captain had to whisper, "That's old Madame Farne...... Well, do you remember? ”

"Oh, of course," Alexander nodded at once, not that he had really forgotten about the person Skop, but that he wondered when he had become a tribune, "I'll tell Lucrezia. ”

The reason why Alexander went out of his way to tell Lucrezia about the arrival of the Scoop Tribune was because the two of them were relatives.

Skop married Julia Farne's widowed aunt, who was not only Alexander VI's mistress but also Lucrezia's best friend.

And Alexander was also very impressed by Skop, in addition to Skop's frighteningly good luck, and because of this person's very unreliable personality, it was a little difficult for him to forget.

"Oh! The Count is a rarity. ”

Sure enough, from afar came the cry of Skop's joy, and Alexander always felt as if Skop was the only one who had shone in the sun, compared to the perverse character of many Roman nobles, who had perhaps been influenced by too much of the city's intrigue or depravity and extravagance.

"Rare, tribune." Alexander looked at the man in a retro robe and a pair of leather sandals with some curiosity, this person looked as if he had just come from ancient Rome, if it weren't for the familiarity of this face, Alexander really wondered if this was a remnant of the Roman Empire.

Skop seemed to be accustomed to this kind of look, so he walked over to greet Alexandria without care, and when he saw Lucrezia getting off the carriage, he opened his arms with some excitement: "This looks like a miracle, respected princess of Rome, you are finally willing to come back." ”

Hearing Skop's teasing, Lucrezia was a little shy, she had never returned to Rome since she was "kidnapped" by Alexander, and for more than a year she had almost forgotten what the city was like, and the bad thing was that if she could explain that she was reluctant before, then she really couldn't find any excuse to defend herself.

"Is Aunt Nicole okay? I heard that your daughter is 3 years old. Lucrezia and Skop hugged "I really miss you, but you know ......"

"Yes, I know," Skop waved his hand to keep Lucrezia from being embarrassed, but your news is really closed, my daughter is indeed 3 years old, but what I am waiting for now is the birth of my 6th child. ”

Hearing this, Lucrezia let out a sigh of delight, while Alexander, who was next to her, couldn't help but glance at Skop with strange eyes.

Speaking of which, the old widow of the Farner family was not young now, and Alexander doubted what kind of hobbies and interests Skop had to work so the old woman.

"It's great that you're back, Your Majesty was very happy to hear that you were near Rome, so he sent me to meet you, and it's true that you haven't been back for a long time, and we're family," Skop and Alexander rode side by side, riding together, "You know that the family should be in order." ”

Hearing this, Alexander's face twitched.

For the return of Alexander and Lucrezia, Alexander VI clearly did not want to make a big deal of it.

In fact, this is indeed not something to show off, or it doesn't matter if either of them comes back alone, but now the two of them have returned to Rome together, considering the big mess they caused when they left, and Lucrezia is still nominally still a surviving member of Giovanni Sforza, and their return actually brings more embarrassment to the Pope.

And there are some more important reasons why the Pope deliberately does not want to pay too much attention to this matter.

That is, their identities are a little too sensitive now.

The mother of the Duchess of Pisa, this is something that the Pope did not expect, not only has it already disrupted many of Alexander VI's previous calculations, but more importantly, he has heard that Alexander actually instigated his daughter to enter Florence with their daughter openly as a co-lord before coming to Rome!

This surprised the Pope and did not even know what to say.

The incident has caused an uproar in the Vatican, the most vehemently opposed to it is Alexander's titular father-in-law, Rovere the Elder.

And for Alexander's bold move, even the Pope, who had always been opposed to old Rovere, did not know for a moment what attitude to treat this matter with.

Rome was still so extravagant and depraved, Alexander even saw groups of prostitutes standing on the side of the road to the cathedral in Angel Castle waiting for the guests to patronize, and when he saw such a team of completely strong soldiers, those prostitutes immediately gathered around, they reached out and grabbed the reins of the soldiers' horses and barked, and a few of them, seeing that Alexander and Skop were gorgeously dressed, directly ripped off the collar of their clothes, revealing their plump or shriveled breasts to tempt the two lords who could obviously afford to pay more.

Lucrezia let out a low curse of disgust in the car, she wasn't really disgusted by these women, but she couldn't see that they dared to seduce Alexander.

Schell was very amuseful and urged his horse to drive the women away, but when he saw that Alexander's eyes had been wandering over the prostitutes, as if looking for a satisfactory target, the Balkans immediately quietly turned their horses and hid to the side.

"What, you're interested in these women?" Skop whispered, "Then do you want me to arrange a crazy enough night for you?" ”

"Thank you, tribune," Alexander said with a noncommittal smile, his eyes wandering over the women, and then his brow furrowed. ”

"Your Excellency." The marching captain came with his horse.

"Tell our soldiers that they are forbidden to associate with these prostitutes, and if anyone wants to vent, I have no objection, but they must go further afield, or go to the countryside to have fun, and I am willing to pay for them, but if anyone dares to fool around with these prostitutes, I will hang him and whip him, and then drive him out of my army." As he spoke, Alexander stretched out his hand and poked hard at Ofleiyi's clean and reflective breastplate, "Remember my words, you personally supervise this matter, if something goes wrong, I will only ask you." ”

The marching captain nodded in confusion, he didn't quite understand why the adults were making such a fuss, but thinking that maybe it was because he had been juggling between several women who were not so easy recently, and he could only shake his head secretly.

But an order is an order, and Ofleiyi immediately turned around and ran towards the front team, and he could clearly feel that the adults were obviously serious about this matter, not just talking about it.

Skop looked curiously at Alexander and at a few prostitutes nearby, he didn't understand why Alexander gave such an order, if he was an ascetic, but just look at his colorful life that was no less than that of any nobleman, or how ridiculous it was, or did he simply look down on these inferior prostitutes?

But Skop didn't understand why he forbade his men to touch these women.

"Tribune, if you don't want to spend the rest of your life in pain, I suggest you stay away from these women as well," Alexander said to Skop, who had a crush on the mercenary who loved the old woman, and therefore did not want to see him fall into a terrible quagmire because of his ignorance.

Those prostitutes, infected with syphilis!

From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, the world opened its doors to Europeans as a completely strange and vibrant one.

But not all of the New World was full of good intentions, and Columbus brought back not only pepper and gold, but also syphilis.

This terrible disease has not yet been recognized, but its terrible contagiousness has caused panic among the people, especially for Europeans, the shadow of the Black Death has lingered after all this time, and now this terrible disease has been carried across the ocean from the New World to Europe with those ocean-going cargo ships laden with wealth.

This terrible and discrediting disease had not yet fully demonstrated its power, but Alexander knew that it was only a brief calm before the outbreak, and that soon a plague was about to begin that would sweep across Europe and even further afield on the Asian continent, and that Rome would be even more terrible because of its extreme depravity and debauchery.

Alexander looked at the prostitutes along the way, this was the first time he had paid serious attention to them, and to Alexander's surprise, the Vatican, as a holy place, had a staggering number of prostitutes.

"This is truly a fallen capital." Alexander couldn't help but sigh, he could understand why even Caesar was inevitably disfigured by syphilis, and it was really difficult to clean himself in such a place.

Alexander glanced at Ofleiyi in the distance, and he felt the need to tighten his grip on the army in a harsher and even more brutal way, or else they might have been completely destroyed in the frenzied carnival of depravity before the enemy arrived.

Fortunately, although many of the soldiers looked at the prostitutes on the street, the fear of the earl still prevailed, and with Oflaiyi's incessant orders, the soldiers had to keep a neat line and walk along the street in the direction of the Sistines Cathedral without squinting.

"Gotta keep an eye on them." Alexander looked at the team in front of him and wondered, he knew that it would not be easy to keep such an energetic group of men in check, but it made him think that maybe he should think of something else to distract them.

Lucrezia leaned out of the car door, nervously and expectantly looking at the familiar streets, buildings, and vaguely familiar faces that she could recognize from time to time as she got closer to the cathedral.

And everyone who saw her was looking at Lucrezia in the carriage with strange eyes.

The scene when Alexander snatched her away in front of Caesar is still vivid, and even now this matter is the subject of many Roman gossip, but now Lucrezia has suddenly returned, and with her is not only Alexander, but also their child.

This made many people ready to see the show, and as Lucrezia's carriage turned along the edge of the main square onto the path leading to Palazzo Potico, many of those who heard the wind could not wait for what kind of drama would turn out in the future.

Palazzo Potico is still so magnificent, with the intoxicating fragrance wafting from the small but very quiet garden, and the curtains in the Romanesque domed pavilion in the corner of the garden flutter in the wind, as if its owner had just slept in the shade.

The path leading from the gate to the front of the palace was immaculately clean, and the two rows of delicate sculptures of Roman mythological figures on either side of the path shone in the sun, and it was evident that the place was often cleaned and not neglected by the departure of the hostess.

Before the carriage had stopped, Lucrezia had already rushed out of it, and she hurried towards the gates of the Potico Palace, and Lucrezia had forgotten about Alexander and her daughter.

The gates of the Potico Palace were already open, and on the steps stood the two mistresses of Alexander VI.

Madame Adriana de Mira looked a little more changed than before, but Julia Farne was still radiant, and when the carriage entered the courtyard, she had already come down the steps, and when she saw Lucrezia running from the carriage, she immediately greeted her, and the two beautiful young ladies embraced each other in the middle of the garden.

"Julia, we're finally meeting again, do you know how much I miss you!" Lucrezia kept screaming, and even jumped up and hugged Giulia Farner tightly in spite of her image.

"I know, because I've been thinking about you, my little Lucrezia, you must have suffered a lot during this time, and that Gombray must have been tormenting you all the time, look at you now," said Giulia Farne, who let go of Lucrezia and looked at her, and then she let out an exclamation, "Look at what you're wearing, people who don't know think you've been in some barbaric country for a long time." ”

Listening to Julia Farne's exaggerated tone, Alexander, who was following behind, couldn't help but glance at her, and then he suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Lucrezia's arm and took her away from Julia Farne.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but we still have to see His Majesty the Pope." Alexander said to Giulia, who was a little stunned, and then he took Lucrezia towards Madame Adriana de Mira, who was watching them quietly on the steps.

"Ma'am."

Alexander bowed slightly, and his attitude towards Lucrezia's nanny, teacher and guardian, Alexander was much better than his daughter-in-law, although he saw that Madame de Mila suddenly pulled Lucrezia away from him without saying a word, and then stared at him vigilantly like a hen guarding chicks, Alexander only smiled slightly, and did not show dissatisfaction.

"Count, I think you should consider whether you should go into this house or not," said Madame de Mila by the arm, taking Lucrezia in her arms, and then glaring at Alexander, "you must remember how humiliating your actions have brought to the Borgia family, knowing that until now Lucrezia was the wife of Giovanni Sforza, but you have done such a thing that is detrimental to her reputation, and you are not afraid of the Borgia family's revenge for it?" ”

Looking at Madame de Mira, who was quite imposing, and then at Lucrezia, who had become timid in an instant because she had become accustomed to obeying her teachings under this lady's upbringing, Alexander's expression did not change and raised his hand slightly and beckoned back.

A crisp "Mama" came from the carriage behind, and as the door opened, the maid stepped out of the carriage with Estelles in her arms.

Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on Estelles, listening to her daughter's cry, Lucrezia's original reverence for Madame de Mira that she had cultivated for many years disappeared without a trace, she immediately broke free from Madame's protection, and then walked a few steps briskly to meet her daughter and hold her daughter in her arms.

"Madame, you asked me if I was afraid of the Borgia family's retribution, and now I can tell you that I dared to enter this house not by my army and guards, but by more powerful weapons," Alexander stretched out his hand and took Lucrezia's mother and daughter into his arms, "I and Lucrezia's daughter Estles, the only grandson of His Majesty the Pope. ”

The look on Madame de Mira's face froze completely at this moment, and she stared at the three people who were hugging each other tightly in front of her, and suddenly felt for a moment that the young mother in front of her was no longer the obedient and well-behaved girl she was familiar with.

"This is a terrible weapon," a voice suddenly came from the gates of the Potico Palace, and as the figure flickered, Pope Alexander VI slowly walked out, and just as Lucrezia threw himself into his arms excitedly, Alexander VI crossed Lucrezia's shoulder and stared at Alexander, "but I am curious to know how you use this weapon." ”