Giulio returned to the Vatican Palace, and before he had told his teacher about the day, the envoy of the Medici family in Florence came to ask for an audience, and he had to give the file to Brother John and go to his room first.

The emissary of the Medici family was Giovanni. Medici. The Medici, a side branch, but because of the fragmentation of the current lineage, he also had a rather heavy responsibility - he kissed Giulio with joy as soon as he saw him, and for the Medici, who was on the verge of being expelled from Florence, he could not have known more than how important a cardinal served by the Pope's side - he brought two pieces of news, one bad and one good.

"Which one would you like to hear first?" Giovanni asked, saying that he was much older than Giulio and was a cheerful and open-minded man, so he didn't treat Giulio as reservedly as the others.

"It doesn't seem that the bad news is as bad as people think." Julio said, "So let's talk about the bad news first." ”

"Some of the people of Cadiz want to go back to Romagna." Giovanni. Medici. The Medici said that Cadiz, the new city that was close to Florence, although small, but very rich because of the production of white pottery and bone china, was almost all made up of Spanish and Brittany cavalry sent by Giulio from Forlì, Imola, Faenza and other places when the Borgia family and the French united to attack Romagna - they built a miraculous wall in Lucca, and in order to prevent them from being displaced again, Giulio bought a barren hilly land, let them do the handmade buying and selling of ceramics there.

Gatis was also Giulio's teacher, the name given by Cardinal Picromini at that time, Canaan was found by Moses and the people, a blessed land flowing with milk and honey, and Gatiz was the last place they settled before entering Canaan - in order to show respect for the Lord, Picromini did not use the name of Canaan, so he took Cadiz.

It is now also a place for the Medici family and a source of recruits for the army.

Sure enough, Giulio was not angry because of this: "I expected it, now Romagna can also be said to have finally returned to peace, Borgia's mercenaries have almost been driven away by those returning lords, there are always some people who will miss their hometown, and I did not allow them to go." Who are you trying to go? ”

"It's all old men," Giovanni. The Medici said: "The younger people are willing to settle in Cadiz, because you are such a good and merciful man, and you have shown miracles, and they feel that Cadiz is also a blessed and good place." ”

"Then it doesn't matter."

"But they may have taken away the recipes of white pottery and bone china."

Julio thought for a moment, "Just let them take it." From Imola to Rimini, Borgia and the French army passed through a devastated homeland that would allow them to find work as quickly as possible if they had a special craft. ”

"You're so merciful." Giovanni. The Medici shook her head.

"Nothing, I've got something better here, and it's Katerina who is in charge of Imola and Forlì. Sforza, you know, her eldest daughter, Bianca, is married to my brother, and since they are relatives, I want her to be safe. ”

When it comes to Caterina, the she-wolf of Forlì, even the strong and tall Medici can't help but have a strange look, after all, in Florence...... No, don't mention it, she's back to Forlì anyway, although she often appears out of nowhere in the Medici mansion or in Cadiz's manor because of little Cosimo.

"So, what about the good news?"

"The good news is your nephew, Cosimo Jr. The Medici grew up very well, very strong, and was already a big child...... "Giovanni. The Medici made an exaggerated gesture, "He is already five years old, so, your brother Giuliano, let me ask you what you are going to do about his education?" ”

There's a lot about that, Giovanni. The Medici was also a little curious, he knew that the relationship between several brothers and sisters of the Medici family was quite harmonious, especially because of Giulio's relationship as a cardinal, and his nephew was like his son or heir, but the question was, Cosimo Jr. was the eldest son of the only male in the Medici family, and it was impossible for him to become a priest, so did he still have to let his uncle make decisions about his education?

"Uh-huh......" Giulio calculated, in fact, Cosimo Jr. was not five years old, but six years old and nearly seven years old, but in order to disguise his origins, the date of birth was postponed to seven months after Bianca and Giuliano were officially married, so that he could inherit the Medici family without objection as legitimate children - as well as Imola and Forlì of Sforza.

But when it comes to education, we have to mention the children of this era.

In this era, children are in an extremely difficult and humble environment, and there are generally two kinds of perceptions about them: one is that they are guilty of original sin and do not know how to repent—and the nature of infants seems to prove this, as Augustine, the founder of fourth-century Christian theory, said that a newborn child will show hostility and jealousy towards his fellow brothers who compete with him for the same chest; And some of the baby's subconscious reflex behaviors, such as clenching fists, arching legs, etc., are also like some kind of evil spirit, or ominous totem, and some people even believe that the baby crying is possessed by the devil, and the only way to deal with it is to beat viciously.

There are also priests who advise parents to fast for a child who is not yet old – although he said that he should not be fed milk and meat, but if a child is only a few months old, not being able to feed is not a matter of his life. Sadly, its parents, weeping incessantly, sat down as the priest had told...... The results can be imagined.

Others, because they can't afford to raise a child and don't dare to have an abortion (abortion is a fire to hell), so when the baby is born, the parents sleep with them and accidentally "crush it to death".

When they grow a little bit - if it is the children of the lowly commoners, they are usually taught by their fathers, the content of the teaching is determined according to the father's occupation, and the way of teaching is the same, that is, with sticks or slaps to memorize the sex - sometimes the father's mood is not good for various reasons, and they will also be beaten violently.

Both men and women sleep in the same bed every day with their parents, siblings and sometimes livestock, and their parents do things for men and women without concealment—this is also a kind of education.

Even the clergy had to appeal to parents to "stay avoided" lest children as young as a few years old begin to imitate them – starting with the loss of the virginity of the flesh and ending with the loss of the virginity of the soul.

The children of the king, courtiers, and lords were educated more systematically, and their teachers were usually bishops, priests, or some well-known bachelor, and in a clever fit with another place thousands of miles away, these children who were born with honor also read with them, and when they did not study well, they were also beaten with them, and they watched from the sidelines, and became the monkeys who killed the chickens and monkeys.

And these children's ...... Another kind of education, which does not seem to be much better—formal education at the age of four, when a king is said to have brought his son to a lady and pointed to her "there" and told him that her child had been born there, and the prince immediately ran between the queen's legs, indicating that he had also been born there.

What's even more surprising is that the prince knew how to "play" with a maid at the age of five, and he also described the maid's **** with his teacher.

In between them are merchants and merchants such as Martin. Ludd's father, a man of property but no title, sent his children to school, and the teachers at the school knew how to physically punish their students more than how to teach them—this was no joke, and when Brother Desi heard that Giulio intended to teach his nephew Cosimo the Younger himself, he brought with him a plainly dressed commoner boy who said that he had a very important lesson to teach him.

At the sight of Giulio, the boy bowed, almost buried his head between his legs, and then, at the signal of Brother Desi, jerked off his pants, revealing two round little white buttocks.

Julio was really taken aback - although many priests had this shameless inclination, he did not think that Brother Desi was one of them, but could only say that he must have been possessed by the devil, and should use his own black iron ring ruler to fight the sinful place until the devil never came to him again.

Thankfully, Brother Desi wasn't the kind to procrastinate, and he pulled out a birch stick about shoulder-to-elbow long, with his thumb and index finger looped up, and was polished very smooth, and began to whip the child's ass hard.

Julio watched in amazement as he hit him several times—even forgetting to stop it, until the kid sobbed and pulled up his pants, turned around, and took the two silver Wisney coins handed by Brother Desi...... As soon as he saw the money, the child sniffled and his eyes shone with a bright smile.

After taking the two silver coins, he did not leave immediately, but looked between Brother Desi and Julio for a moment: "Monk......" he whispered, "I don't think this lord has grasped the trick...... Look, do you want another two bucks? If you still want to consolidate it, my lord, for five more dollars, I can get another twenty strokes......"

Brother Desi didn't know what kind of disaster he was about to bego, and judging by Julio's expression, he felt the need to teach him another lesson.

"Wait......" Julio watched the kid raise his ass again, and quickly stopped, "What are you doing here?" ”

"This is the command of His Holiness the Pontifical Majesty - to teach you how to beat a child?" Brother Dési said, "This child is also five years old, as old as little Cosimo - do you see my hand and strength?" If you get it, why don't you give it a try? ”

"But I ...... I don't want to hit the child. ”

"What are you talking about, it's a very important skill - if you're a teacher, you won't get a certificate if you don't pass this exam!