There was a great uproar among the cardinals, who, although they were also young, probably did not expect that one day a cardinal would fight with another distinguished cardinal in the Grand Chamber of the Vatican Palace in front of His Excellency the Pope.

"Julio!" Pius III exclaimed.

"Joshua!" This is Cardinal Grande Lovere roaring.

Joshua knew what he wasn't to do—wasn't that what they wanted to see? Even though most of these strategies came from him, he couldn't help but feel sad and angry for his teacher, his master, when he really saw this happen!

Julio. The Medici had snatched everything he had hoped for, but had never cherished it, Lucrecia was, and so did Picomini, his temples throbbing, his eyes blood-red, and his voices blurred.

He just wants to give Giulio well. Medici a lesson!

Julio allowed him to punch him two or three times, and when Joshua's arm fell again, he reached out with one hand and grabbed his opponent's fist with agility, and with the other hand, he made a fist and charged a blow to Joshua's lower abdomen, knocking him into a grain of shrimp.

Giulio stood up, blood streaming from the corners of his mouth, and Pius III took a step and stood again.

"I'm sorry, teacher." He said, and walked out without hesitation.

The Great Council fell into an embarrassing silence, Cardinal Lovere Jr. barely stood up with his stomach clutched, not bothering to check his injuries, he looked with concern at his teacher, Shelter III, and saw that this stubborn and strong man like a rock, as if in an instant, his will and spirit had been destroyed, and his whole body was curled up in pain like a dead branch in a flame. Looking at him as he was, the cardinals were convinced that his days were numbered—Joshua tried to help him, but he refused, and the Father stood there, his eyes full of pain, staring at the vestments and crosses that had been discarded on the ground...... It was a few minutes, but suddenly, he moved again.

He rushed to Julio's desk, picked up the quill, dipped it in ink, quickly wrote an edict, and shouted for Brother John to bring the oil, and printed his fisherman's ring next to the signature at the end of the edict, and then he picked up the robe, the round hat, the cross, and the ring on the ground with a speed that a seventy-year-old man should not have, and thrust them into Joshua's bosom along with the edict, "Go! He looked eagerly at his other disciple: "Go, Joshua, go and catch up with Giulio, and tell him that I have appointed him Archbishop of Florence, and let Joe. The Medici are back in Rome! ”

Joshua's heart churned, and the flame of jealousy only then rose, but it was extinguished by the expectation contained in Pius III's eyes, and for the first time, he saw himself in Pius III's eyes, completely, only: "If this is your wish." He said, "I'll go." ”

Without further delay, he immediately ran out of the Great Council Chamber, his father; Cardinal Grande Lovere's outstretched hand almost grabbed him, and Joshua knew that, according to Grande Lovere's intentions, Giulio Grande Laure. The Medici should have been left in Rome by them, and then, when he ascended the papacy, his father would celebrate with a Medici sunk into the Tiber!

Perhaps Julio's return to Florence would bring some trouble, but now that he is the heir of Pius III, he will not disappoint his teacher like the Medici!

Joshua, with his knowledge of Giulio, did not take the carriage, but chose a strong Arabian horse directly from the stable, chased him from the Vatican Boulevard, and sure enough, he chased Giulio outside the city of Rome, and as soon as Giulio saw him, he understood everything - Joshua suddenly had an urge to say something, for example, if Giulio stayed in Florence and never returned to Rome, whether it was to continue as an archbishop or as a layman, they might be able to continue to get along as friends.

But this time Giulio didn't wait for him.

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Sodrini's parents shuddered, it was already the middle of February, and he was wearing a beaver fur cloak, which should not have been cold, but for some reason, when he saw the small ball coat of arms on the eaves and walls of the old Medici mansion in the current city hall, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart—Cardinal Sodrini glared at him angrily, he was very tired of this brother, but he had only one mother with him, With no choice but to put this good-for-nothing man in the position of the first standard-bearer of Florence.

"When the voting is over," Sodrini's parents muttered, "we're going to tear those balls off." ”

Cardinal Sodrini turned his head, he was not afraid of the balls at all, of course, in the tyrant Cosimo Sr. While the Medici were still around, the Sodrini family might have had to succumb to his obscenity, and now the Medici family has been in a state of collapse since 1494, and the population is withering, if it were not for the presence of Giulio Pius III. The Medici, let alone return to the Florentine hierarchy, it is almost impossible to even gain a foothold in Florence.

And he also has such a powerful ally as Cardinal Grande Lovere, and if their plan can succeed, then they will no longer have to rely on Julio. The Medici were elbowed in every way.

Oh, of course, he remembered that there was also a Joe. Medici, but Giulio. The Medici made a big mistake, he was unwilling to leave Pius III, and he was unwilling to hand over Florence to someone else. The Medici came to spy on him instead, but what the hell was Joe? A fool whose mind was full of cheese and cream, lacking courage and not being able to make decisions, would have hesitated to choose the style of breakfast, but tonight, he was released, and Sodrini's men stood beside him, not allowing him to speak casually and influence the outcome of the vote.

The Florentine people gradually arrived, and although they were all the people, it was the members of the Council of 3,000 who really had the right to vote, and they first went to receive a red and a black ball, and then held it tightly in their hands or put it in their pockets, and lined up like a long snake.

When the voting began, they voted in a box with only a round mouth, the red ball indicating that they were not in favor of expelling the Medici, the black ball meaning the opposite, and the hands that were clenched into fists ensured that no one would want to see the color of the ball, lest they be retaliated against for seeking justice, although they also sought the golden florin of the House Sodrini in addition to justice.

That's how the first standard-bearers of Sodrini's parents came.

However, before the vote, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Sodrini's parents gave a speech as the first standard-bearer, and in addition to the misfortunes of the Carboni parents and the inner parents, he also gave a vivid description of the three terrible crimes committed by the Medici family against Florence.

First: Giulio of the Medici, who built high walls for their enemy, Lucca, but did nothing for his own city of Florence, is this not treason?

Second, he took in the displaced people outside the city of Florence and built a new city - weren't these tens of thousands of displaced people a threat to Florence?

Third: lanolin and cashmere were originally the Medici family's replacement for Pierrot. Isn't it a despicable and shameless deception for the Medici to pay Florence for the mention of lanolin and the potion for dyeing cashmere?

These words, which have been repeatedly polished by Cardinal Sodrini, have indeed succeeded in stirring up the emotions of some people, in the phrase "Expulsion of the Medici!" "Sodrini wins!" In the midst of the shouts, the voting began.

The line moved quickly, and in a few moments hundreds of people had cast their ballots, most of whom were watching the Sodrini family before voting, and some would wink at them before dropping the ball into the box—Sodrini's parents began to relax and look around absent-mindedly, so that he saw the statue of David standing in the city hall again.

This statue was completed by Michelangelo in Brest, France, and worked tirelessly to transport it back to Florence from France, which was unanimously praised by the Florentines, and Sodrini's parents also admired it at first, but since he became the first standard-bearer, he inevitably wanted to show his appreciation of art, so he summoned Michelangelo and told him that this statue is not not beautiful, but there is only one shortcoming, that is, the nose is too big.

The bastard Michelangelo looked at him, humbly admitted that he was right, rebuilt the scaffolding, climbed up, pretended to think about it a few times, and asked him if it was more appropriate now.

He said, yes.

Unexpectedly, the shameless craftsman just pinched a handful of marble powder in his hand before climbing up, and he didn't correct that nose at all, just sprinkled white ash on the first standard-bearer who should be respected!

Sodrini's parents were furious, but because his brother sternly warned him that he would have to throw Michelangelo into prison first after the Medici affair was done! Later, he also heard that David was based on the Giulio, and the Medici - which was even more unacceptable - when the vote was over, he ordered the soldiers of the House of Sodrini to smash the statue and throw it into the Arno River!

The last rays of nature were gone, Cardinal Sodrini ordered the soldiers to light torches, and the town square was lit up.

Just as a quarter of the people had thrown the balls, the sound of horses' hooves and wheels rolling over the stone floor came from the side of the square without warning, and in the silence of the night they sounded so clear and loud that they almost seemed to fall into people's hearts.

Joe. The Medici's eyes lit up, and they jerked up their long-gone waists, and the people of Sodrini, as well as the enemies of the Medici, and the people of Florence suddenly became nervous.

A black carriage pulled by two pale golden Arabian horses drove slowly into the Florentine view from the darkness, and without waiting for the soldiers of the House of Sodrini to ask, the coachman jumped down and opened the door. The Medici came out of it.

Cardinal Sodrini's gaze stopped at him, and he almost burst out laughing, it seemed that Cardinal Lovere of Rome was still quite competent, and the Medici actually came in a shabby black vestment - whether he was rejected by His Excellency the Pope or gave up his clergy, he could not save the fate of the Medici family from being expelled.

"Let's see who's coming?" Cardinal Sodrini scoffed: "Citizen Giulio. Medici? ”

He was laughing at the time of 1494, when the Florentines were full of hatred for the Medici because of Pierrot's betrayal. Medici, with Giulio. The Medici had to enter Florence as citizens.

"No," Giulio. The Medici said flatly, "It's Giulio. Cardinal Medici, as well as the Archbishop of the city of Florence. ”

He walked towards the group, and as he reached out his hand behind him, a little Cosimo with the same black curls as him, but with a pair of blue eyes. The Medici rushed from behind with a stack of objects and handed him the robes and round hats one by one.

He put on his robes again, put on his round hat, hung up his cross, put on his ring—the crimson silk and gold glittered in the light of the torches, almost impossible to look at—and then, like a devil, a young cardinal who was so handsome that he could instantly degrade him, to Joe, who was about to cry with joy. The Medici waved his hand, "Come here, Joe," he said intimately, "you can go back to Rome." ”

Joe. The Medici looked left and right, pushed the Sodrini family away, jumped to the ground, rolled to Giulio's side like a ball, opened the edict and looked at it carefully, and then turned around with a smile to let the pale Sodrini and his party see clearly.

"So." Julio. The Medici calmly walked up to Cardinal Sodrini and said, "Go ahead and vote, gentlemen. ”

He said meaningfully, "I'm watching." ”