The Pope summoned him the day after the emissary of Pope Julius II returned from Florence.

The bishop who was the papal emissary was also a black-clad priest in the Ministry of Jurisprudence, and he was undoubtedly loyal to Julius II, but he was equally terrified at every meeting - from the outside, he looked like a weak teenager and could not be associated with a ruthless tyrant, but his actions had proved that he was not just a puppet or a harmless good man as the cardinals expected - he hanged his nominal uncle, de facto biological father, He also hung him like a thief on the piers of the Pont Sant'Angelo until his body rotted and he fell from the piers into the Tiber.

The members of the House of Lovere appealed to Julius II several times to collect Cardinal Lovere's body, but no matter how much they pleaded, threatened, or persuaded him, Julius II ignored him - but now they could not care about Cardinal Lovere's death, because Julius II's whip had already whipped them. Not only did they have to deal with those who were subsumed by Joshua. The families and kings behind the cardinals who were outraged by the Seven Decrees of Lovere also had to face the investigation and prosecution of the churches and monasteries under their names by the black-clad priests of the Ministry of Jurisprudence - when Cardinal Grande Lovere was still alive, the Lovers family did not have to worry about their interests being harmed, but now it is different, Julius II did not even leave a single church or a monastery belonging to Cardinal Grande Lovere, but appointed them all to people outside the family, and even paid them ordination and annuity in advance.

And not so long ago, the lord of Seniganya, the nephew of Cardinal Grande Lovere, Joshua. Lovere's de facto cousin, who also met with the Pope's emissaries and ordered them to pay Seniganya as soon as possible, as well as his latest conquest of Camerino, two cities that had been in arrears for decades, amounting to 130,000 gold ducats. This money is not much for a powerful duke or king, but it was previously used by Caesar. When Borgia occupied, Senegany was plundered, and when Lovere returned to Senigana, with the support and encouragement of Cardinal Grande Lovere, he waged war against Camerino, and although he won and annexed Camerino, Camerino was also killed by Caesar. Borgia had cleaned, and it would take years for the rich furs to grow back - at the time of the Pope's edict, the lords of Seniga still owed money to the arms merchants and wheat merchants, which had been consumed at the Battle of Camerino.

And Julius II's meaning is also very clear - he not only opened the first gap in the political situation with his father's life, but also used his cousin's territory as his first stepping stone to unify Italy.

Julius II chuckled.

"Then has he accepted the appointment?" he asked the messenger.

"Accept it with great trepidation and humility," said the messenger, "and he is full of reverence for you, and does not dare to complain or rebel in the slightest." ”

Julius II shook his head: "What you say is too exaggerated. He said, "Don't forget, he is my senior brother, I have lived with him for more than ten years, he knows me, I know him, he just accepts it calmly, right?" ”

"Isn't that a tribute to you?"

"You'll find out when you're familiar with him." Julius II said lightly: "He has always been like this, money and power can never shake him, the only thing that can destroy him is ......" He paused suddenly, "although I don't know if this is his disguise or his heart." ”

He hung his head as if in thought, and neither the messenger nor the attendant dared to interrupt him, and after a long time he said, "Is there anything else?" ”

"When the news of the death of Pius III, your venerable teacher, reached Florence, he did not see anyone for a whole week, and when he reappeared, he celebrated three great masses in Pius III as mourning and blessings."

Julius II bowed his head slightly: "I don't doubt it, he does love his teacher." ”

Then he went to Cadiz, where it is said that there was a down-and-out man from Spain, Christopher. Columbus, he specially invited from Valladolid. ”

Julius II looked up sensitively: "Columbus, I seem to have heard this name. ”

"A greedy thug with no courage but no virtue," said the papal emissary disdainfully, "he may be said to have been expelled from Spain, and when he came to Florence from Valladolid, he was so depraved that he could not even afford ale." ”

"He used to play for Isabella I, Queen of Catislia of Spain, and why, after Juana I ascended the throne, didn't she give her mother's favored subjects a little favor?"

"No," said the messenger, "according to what I have inquired about, he has tried to initiate legal proceedings concerning the unfulfilled remuneration promised to him by Isabella I and Ferdinand II." ”

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Christopher. Christopher Columbus, born in 1451, is fifty-five years old this year, but his decades-long sea life has made him age faster than the average person, and it seems that even sixty years old will be believed, and in the same way, realizing this, he deliberately rubbed a woman's fat powder on his face, hoping that he would look younger in front of the new benefactor, but this only made him more miserable, because the white powder and rouge were embedded in his deep wrinkles.

As soon as he saw Julio, who was sitting behind his desk, he saw him. The Medici bent down deeply, almost touching his forehead to his knees, and he did not dare to think that he could kiss the bishop's ring, but when Giulio raised his hand, he stepped forward flatteredly, and cautiously took the bishop's white fingertips, and kissed the amethyst ring he wore on his index finger, before hunching his waist and hurrying back to his place.

"Come closer." Julio said Christopher. Columbus was puzzled and took a step forward cautiously, and Julio shook his head slightly, and he immediately took a step back, and when he saw that Giulio was still shaking his head, he took three more steps forward, so that he was completely exposed to the bright sunlight.

Julio looked intently into his eyes, Christopher. Christopher Columbus's alcoholic history dates back to 1502, when he returned to Spain for the last time from the Americas, and although he insisted that he had arrived in the East Indies – it didn't matter, the point was that Alexander VI was still in Rome at the time, and he reminded the two Spanish co-rulers, Isabella I and Ferdinand II, the sinner Christopher. Naturally, Columbus could not get the remuneration he wanted—he received only a sum of money, which was more like a beggar's money than his exploits, which, in his words, was not enough to repair his ship and his crew.

He pleaded, quarreled, and threatened to go to court, but he got nothing but to make the two Majestys feel so disgusted that even if Alexander VI died, he could not be used again.

But fortunately, his history of alcoholism is not long, although his temples are gray, his body is still strong, and his limbs can be seen to be quite powerful......

Julio's sharp gaze made Christopher. Columbus was sick—really, a little like he looked at those black slaves, and then he laughed at himself again, an archbishop! Can you still plot something for yourself? Or rather, if he had any plot for himself, he had to thank God, who had been wandering for years, lobbying the kings of England, France, and Portugal for their support in exploring new routes to India, only to be ruthlessly rejected by their petty demands (such as the title of "Commander of the Seas", the possession of ten percent of the booty, and the fact that he and his descendants could be appointed governors of the new lands, etc.).

Queen Isabella I of Castile, who refused him, was finally willing to give him some support, and he was able to land in the Americas (of course, he thought it was the East Indies) several times between 1492 and 1502, and he found an infinite amount of territory for Spain, but hatefully, not only did he not receive more rewards, but even his desire to become governor of New Earth was dashed when he met an emissary sent by the queen, who did not allow a Genoese to become governor of the Spanish colony.

After the death of Isabella I, Juana I, who succeeded her, was very interested in Christopher. Columbus, who had been living in the Holy Roman Empire with her husband Philip, had no memory of Columbus at all, and when Columbus first met her, he tossed and turned, and the way he spoke made the eccentric new queen impatient, so she threw him out - and then the Spanish Civil War broke out, and no one cared about him. Or Gonzalo. Morality. Córdoba remembers that Giulio. The Medici once commissioned him to go to Xindi to find some strange plants, and thinking of Pius III's former nickname of "wizard", he wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Florence and asked him if the plants had no time to look for them. Columbus or not?

Yes.

So Christopher. Christopher Columbus was sent here.

"I have two portraits of plants here," said Giulio, "look, have you ever seen anything like this?" ”

Christopher. Columbus cautiously leaned over and looked at it, and immediately recognized one of them, which was most often used by the Indians, a long-shaped fruit that grew on a small tree, but which tasted so coarse that sailors had tasted it a few times for freshness or necessity, but they said it was coarser than oats.

There was another, and he also had the impression that General Gonzalo had shown him, "This is the fruit of the devil." ”

But the flowers of this plant were very beautiful, so he brought a little bit of ...... to the dignitaries of Spain The roots of this plant, of course, he waited for them to bloom before sending them out.

"Can you still find this plant? And these...... These are ...... with these" Giulio asked urgently, "or do you still have one there?" ”

Christopher. Columbus found that many of the albums were the ones he had seen before, and the first two were found here, as well as a first mate who liked to collect all kinds of strange things.

"Good." Julio. The Medici closed the catalogue contentedly, "Give me those two first, sir, and I will reward you with ten thousand gold florins." ”

Christopher. Columbus clenched his hat all at once! Ten thousand gold florins! Almost twice as much as he had been rewarded before, and he had only come up with two ...... that had no effect on him Who cares what it is!

"You can choose a mansion in Cadiz or in Florence, and your daughter may be my sister's lady-in-waiting and your son as you like...... Do you want him to go to sea with you, or to study at my school? ”

Christopher. Columbus was overjoyed: "Your Excellency...... My lord ......" He stammered, not knowing what to say, and after thinking for a while, he knelt down suddenly: "Whatever you want!" Your Excellency, your arrangements are always the best! As long as you can...... If I could, my youngest son, I would like him to become a priest......"

"Yes." Julio nodded. "But I have something for you to do."

Christopher. When Columbus heard this, he relaxed, and the unjustified reward made people fearful. "What do you want me to do? My lord? I know how to fight, if you need a general......"

"I don't need a general," said Giulio, "I just need a captain." ”