Alexander didn't expect to find something strange in this house, or something unexpected.

In the hallways of the house, the guards found a room that seemed to be used as a library, with several large shelves of books that looked old or had long since been unread and dusty, and volumes of manuscripts that looked like countless rolled sugar rings.

In these books, Alexander found writings that might not have been of great importance to him, but which are all too sensitive at this time, and which would have tended to be accused of demagoguery even in the most religiously liberal places, and some of which would have been regarded outright heresy.

It was so obvious that they were in the chamber, and while the ash-strewn locks on it suggested that Colombo might not have known or had not paid attention to it, Alexander found that he seemed to have found another reason to excuse Colombo's death.

What really intrigued Alexander, however, was not the discoveries that justified him more, but the large number of notes on travelogues and explorations that he had noticed from the owner of the room.

From the familiar size and market research of the ports of call on the Mediterranean coast, to the customs and specialties of some of the villages and villages that traveled south along Africa, this travelogue, signed "Martin Marindao", records in great detail the farthest that Europeans can reach today from the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of Africa.

On the other hand, this Martin Malindaeu recorded many of the observations and gains of his travels to the north of Europe, starting from Italy, and was of great interest to Alexander, who, when writing about the North Sea region controlled by the Hanseatic League, had a different opinion in his travelogue than the others who were full of envy for this alliance that had gained great wealth without ceasing.

"The Hanseatic League were too strong and too united, they had complete control and control over all the cities on the North Sea coast, and they would strike mercilessly at anyone who wanted to offend their interests, just like the poor Danish king, who almost lost his crown on his head just because he punished a few fishing boats belonging to the League, and finally had to exchange the choice of the heir for his own position." The first half of the travelogue was not very special, although it was much more detailed than the other descriptions of these places, and at first Alexander did not pay much attention to these records, he was only more interested in the descriptions of the products and resources of the various regions in the travelogue, but the next words broke his thoughts, and he soon found that he seemed to see something strange, "But it is precisely because of this strength that I see the danger of this alliance, We can imagine how terrible it must be for a group of merchants who have escaped the control of their lords and kings, these towns generally pride themselves on being part of the alliance rather than being subjects of a certain monarch, they are far more conscious of their loyalty to the obligations of the alliance than paying taxes for the king, and even when the king's orders are contrary to the interests of the alliance, these merchants tend not hesitate to ignore or even disobey the king's orders, which is really strange. A group of businessmen would be so stubborn just to protect the interests of a chamber of commerce alliance, and even go so far as to subvert his status as a subject of a secular monarch. ”

When Alexander saw this, he couldn't help but think of a man he hadn't seen for a long time - Hubert van Groningen.

Grogenin, who can bring Sophia back to her side, is a member of the Hanseatic League, and she should be a member of the very status.

It was clear that the man knew how to use money and wealth to his advantage, from his initial huge financial support for Ferdinand in Naples, to his generous support for Joanna, and behind the Hanseatic League's seemingly wealthy friends was a disdain and contempt for those in power.

The higher their status, the greater their need for money, and the Hanseatic League, which held this huge fortune, was the benefactor behind these nobles.

Alexander could appreciate this disdain and contempt, so although Grogenin seemed to have extended an olive branch to him, he was only cautious in showing his goodwill to the man.

Alexander knew very well that when he was a small man in the minds of the Hanseatic League, they might not care about the return on the small investment they had invested in him, but when they were willing to invest a lot of money in him, in addition to acknowledging that he had become important, they expected him even more.

The so-called cannibalism with a soft mouth and short hands is common everywhere, is the money of the Hanseatic League really so easy to take?

Just look at Joanna, because of the Hanseatic League's money, Joanna had to run around Rome, desperately maneuvering between those powerful people, which was not an unbearable torture for Joanna, who was not really good at power tricks.

"It is hard for me to imagine how a monarch could tolerate the presence of such a group of men, who, while they do bring enough wealth to the realm, but when I think of the fact that they speak contemptuously of their monarch after they have eaten and drunk, I think that the grown-ups must not be very happy about such a thing," Alexander continued to look at the travelogue, and found himself a little fascinated, "and it is strange that the Hanseatic people were stubborn, Or rather, they are irrational and firmly blockaded the territory of the cities along the North Sea coast, they are hostile to anyone who dares to invade their territory, and they prohibit any merchants who are not members of the alliance from grabbing food in their territory, they control all the share of the northern cod, grasp the number of large cedar trees that are unique to the region, and they are like ancient dragons staring at the copper mines in the Swedish mountains, and these riches make outsiders who do not have much affection for the greed of the alliance even more hostile. ”

Alexander looked at the travelogue with interest, he felt as if he had inadvertently found a good thing, he had guessed that this Martin Malindao should be Connieo's father, but in his imagination this unlucky guy who failed because of business should be a somewhat reckless guy, but now looking at the travelogue he wrote, Alexander could not help but admit that this is really a person with his own extraordinary point of view, and can look at things from a high angle.

"It would be nice to see this guy, but I just hope this guy doesn't be as tough as his nasty daughter." Alexander thought so.

As a result of the killing of Colombo, the entire mine was temporarily unrestrained, and Alexander had to temporarily assume the duties of the owner of the Sunniro mine, and he summoned all the people who could be helpers to the house, and after letting the Bohemians show them how well they could use their swords, Alexander ordered everyone to continue their work honestly.

As for what the workers who seemed to have quietly accepted the change of boss of the mine were thinking in private, Alexander was not interested.

In fact, he had been to the mines to see the coal miners, and looked at the workers who had no skills at all, and who worked in the shallow coal mines in the open pit by the simplest way of digging, and Alexander could not think of any special way to change this backward way of mining, which was not only obviously inefficient, but even wasted most of the veins.

And he doesn't want to change anything.

Although the importance of coal is not fully appreciated today, the mines of Sanilo were a great asset to both Rome and Milan, and one can imagine how important the mines were to the two families because they refused to hand over the mines to the Borgia family because they did not receive Lucrezia's dowry money.

So Alexander was very sensible and didn't have the idea of fighting this mine, because he knew that this place was not what he could think about now.

The wait was always long, and while waiting for Rome to reply, Alexander sent several messengers, some to Naples, others to Agri.

Alexander had a hunch that with the defeat of Charles VIII, Italy, which was supposed to be pacified for a while, might have to undergo some changes that he was not familiar with or even had no memory of, especially when his letter to Caesar was sent, and Alexander was even more sure that everything that should have been following the trajectory seemed to have begun to slowly depart from the way it was.

Knowing his son-in-law's hostility to the Borgia family, would Alexander VI tolerate not attacking Giovanni Sforza until next year?

And Giovanni Sforza was able to escape from the hands of Alexander VI, and there is a lot of evidence that Lucrezia secretly tipped off her husband, but if it happened in advance, would it cause Lucrezia not to warn her husband?

So what would have happened if Giovanni Sforza hadn't escaped?

Alexander didn't feel how easy it was for him to hide in Mt. Sunniro, and if he had been able to make some judgments based on his plausible knowledge of these people and events, then from now on, he would have to rely on his instincts to face whatever might happen.

The messenger sent out has not yet returned, but someone has been sent from the town of Tampura to report that the destroyed bridge has been repaired and is passable.

This was a happy event, but the messenger brought another piece of news that confused Alexander.

Just after the local diocesan priest went to Tempra to investigate Father Nead's involvement in the murder, Father Neder's residence was suddenly burned down by a fire, leaving nothing in it, apparently it was the priest himself who gave the order, but the priest did not explain this move at all, and according to the person who reported it, the priest did not return to the diocese after leaving Tempra, but took people directly to Rome, despite the fact that it was late at that time and the road was not easy to walk.

Alexander realized that he must have neglected something when he was in Tempura, but now a fire had burned everything out, so even if he was puzzled, he couldn't do anything for a while.

But Alexander wasn't just waiting in the middle of a boring wait at Mount Sunniro, and in the intervening few days, he picked up a musket that had not been modified for a long time.

After a few battles, which were not really fierce, Alexander discovered many problems with the musket, and although he could not solve them completely due to the conditions, he felt that he could still help somewhat.

In the early days of arquebus, it is hard to imagine that people would do everything they could to keep the twist burning, rather than extinguishing it halfway through, and some people had the common knowledge of soaking it in urine and then drying it.

This method of over-tasting was once widely used and was even seen as the only way to increase the power of musket shots, so much so that after a while, if you don't have enough smell of urine, you are not a good soldier.

Alexander's soldiers didn't have to put up with the smell of urine, but flintlock pistols gave them faster shots, but they also had all sorts of worries.

The flint embedded in the striking iron sometimes falls off, sometimes it shatters completely, and the anvil that ignites the huǒ yào will not be able to knock the flint out of the spark for various reasons, and the simplest hook as a trigger can sometimes be directly bent and unable to return to its position because the soldier is too nervous, or it is simply broken, all of these problems are somewhat of a headache for Alexander.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but Alexander felt that if he didn't do something about it soon, maybe his Rome would never be seen.

Alexander began to have people look for stronger and easier stone to handle in the mines than the muskets used today, and he had a few skilled blacksmiths among the mine workers.

"Punch me a stronger anvil, the kind that can withstand a lot of force, and then make sure that the anvil doesn't fall off easily on the butt."

Alexander instructed the workers, and then he had a good piece of wood from the mountains carefully made a compelling bed for a musket, and when the disassembled barrel was fixed in the long, polished groove of the bed, Alexander fastened a hook made from clock parts from Connie's house to one side of the handle.

Calming down, he aimed ahead and pulled the trigger, the recoil made Alexander's upper body shake, and when the smoke cleared in front of him, he saw that two of the distant targets he was aiming at had been knocked to the ground.

"My lord, this is wonderful," shouted Carlo, who was standing nearby, "this is much more powerful than breaking the hook first, you must know that not every Agri has the strength to break the hook, and your marksmanship is really accurate, and you can be a good hunter." ”

"Yes," Alexander blushed a little, handing the newly made musket to the guard next to him, "but that's not what I'm aiming at." ”

"Huh?" Carlo was dumbfounded.

While waiting, the messenger returned a few days later with a letter from Caesar, which made no comment on Alexander's actions, but asked him to return to Rome.

And immediately after this messenger, another man who had been sent back also brought back a letter from Ulliu, which stated that "something was happening" in Rome.