"In addition to Henry, there is Suleiman." Duarte said: "That is a daring child, and although we have not been at war with the Ottoman Turks recently, the best outcome for him as a pagan prince is to be imprisoned for the rest of his life in the Vatican or in other Christian countries, like his uncle Jem." ”

"Because he knows, or guesses, that I have an alliance with his father, and that he is safest here until the covenant is broken." Giulio said that he walked to the window and saw Suleiman, dressed as a young Italian, with his most loyal attendant, walking out of the Pienza family's mansion in Rome - because of his sensitive status, Giulio could not have just put him in a Roman hotel, and that he should have reciprocated in view of the hospitality he had received in Istanbul - a group of Assasin Assassins was following him, and Suleiman might have been aware of it. But smart people will not pierce this veil of affection at this time.

Accompanying Suleiman on the surface was none other than Cosimo Jr. Medici, Suleiman once told him that he was coming to Rome, and people thought it was the impulse of a young man, but Cosimo Jr. was ready to meet the son of the Sultan - Suleiman's status was noble, was he just an unknown person? He was no less important to his courtiers than an orthodox heir, for his natural father, who had decided to dedicate himself to God, would never have had a second son, neither from the Medici, nor from the Order of the Monks of Mercy, nor from some illustrious family. The Medici now held the object of the willingness of all the powers, after all, his power was great, but it was too mixed—there were believers in God, servants of the true God, noble in the blood of the noble, some of the lowly of birth, some of the strong, some of the sensitive, some of the wise, some of the treacherous, some of the men, some of the women...... The only thing they have in common is that they can all be said to be strong men who deserve to be feared.

Caesar, Luclessia, now Avery the sole survivor of Bolgia, Duarte, Machiavelli, Ezio and his Assasins, the Templars, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Order of Prussia, Pius III and the people of the Picromini family, the Florentine family, the Lucca family, the Pisa family, the she-wolf of Forlì, and the people of Piombino and Romagna......

They are like planets attracted by the stars, gradually approaching him, and then involuntarily being mastered by him, and can only twirl and dance with his guidance—he is destined to become the emperor of the Church, no one doubts, but if you want to rule Italy, one pope is not enough, Alexander VI has already exemplified, then, Giulio. To whom can the Medici give all the worldly power they wield? Who can master such a great power and not waver?

In the same way, the people who can be around Cosimo Jr. never doubt that Cosimo Jr. The Medici will never be like the Caesar of the past. Borgia hated and doubted his biological father, and he was Giulio. The only child of the Medici, Giulio. The Medici also poured all the energy that a father could devote to his children, and it can even be said that Giulio was not absent at every important stage of Cosimo's growth from early childhood to the present.

Giulio not only loves little Cosimo, but also respects him and believes in him, and Cosimo Jr. reciprocates with more enthusiastic emotions, but also is full of gratitude to his biological father, although he was born in conspiracy and despair, but Giulio. The Medici opened a splendid door to him that would make any prince jealous.

But even so, when the opportunity came, Giulio. The Medici did not stop there—he loved his children, but he also knew that his children's journey would have to be thorny in addition to the sunshine, and when he could meet another great emperor, another prosperous country, or even another heir of his age, Giulio did not hesitate to take him to the crisis-ridden city of Istanbul before he could master his power.

So what's so strange about being the eldest son of Selim Sultan, his established heir, who fulfilled his promise and came to Rome?

The opportunity to have a safe glimpse of the reality of another country, especially a country that is likely to become an enemy in the future, not only Cosimo Jr. will not let go, but also Suleiman, the son of the Sultan, will definitely not let go.

Of course, Suleiman would not have been stupid enough to come here in his true identity, he had been the governor of Kaffa and now governed Edirne for his father, and the city was located in the southwest of Ottoman Turkey, close to Greece, so he had no trouble using Ibrahim's identity to disguise himself as a young Greek merchant, and sailed from Greece to Sicily, and then from Sicily to Rome.

They speak Greek, Latin, some Italian dialects, and it is not difficult to communicate with people, although when walking on the streets, they do attract the attention of some people, and only because they are accompanied by little Cosimo. Twenty years have passed since the Medici and the smallpox marks on the faces of Suleiman and Ibrahim – twenty years have passed since the promotion of cowpox by Pius III, Cardinal Picromini, and the horrors of smallpox can only be known from the elders, and the traces they leave behind are even more unfamiliar to young people in the cities where cowpox was first cultivated.

Ibrahim would subconsciously avoid people's curious eyes at first, but later, he could hardly care about his face - Rome, what a glorious and depraved city, he had "seen" it in the information sent by merchants and the accounts of wanderers, and those who had been to Rome said that although because of the existence of the church, Rome was like a beauty surrounded by pearls and emeralds, but also because of the church, this beauty was not worthy of respect, and her beauty was proportional to her weakness, Not to mention kings, or dukes, or ministers, even the families of the city of Rome could take it as prey, and plunder it at will, and humiliate it lightly.

Perhaps, they still see a beautiful woman today, but it is clear that she has grown strong, and has put on solid armor and picked up a sharp spear, and anyone who wants to possess her will be met with merciless head-on blows—Suleiman and Ibrahim had seen with their own eyes how the French king Louis XII, who had been sanctioned by the law, followed the papal procession barefoot and in sackcloth, but these were far less than the towering walls for the two pagans, The dark corridors, the heavy drawbridges, and the brightly clad warriors...... Along the way, they found that the number of guards here was almost comparable to that of Istanbul, which was garrisoned by the entire Janissary legion, but such a dense number of soldiers did not cause unease among the Romans, but on the contrary, ...... They were loved and respected, unlike any other Christian city they had seen before, where the soldiers and mercenaries were not welcomed, because they were sometimes like robbers and thieves.

No, it would be more accurate to say that these soldiers seemed to have blended into the city, and that they were treated as if they were their friends and brothers, and that no one would bother them while they were on duty and on patrol, but when they took off their armor and put down their spears, the people of Rome would gladly greet them and invite them to their homes for a drink and a rest.

As Suleiman looked at the group, a young man in the crowd turned around, the son of the head of the House of Colonna, who had taken the right position in the battle between the King of France and the Pope, and this time they had overcome the Orsinis, who had been banished from Rome, and who should be grateful to Claricher from the Orsini family, who was Lorenzo. The Medici's wife delivered Constène and Giulio with her own hands, her husband also had a love for Giulio for more than ten years, and Constena, who stayed in Florence, was like her daughter, so the Orsini family had two chances to stand on the wrong side.

The first time was after Caesar and Giulio completely turned against each other, Caesar raided Florence, and as a citizen of Florence, he and Giulio's nominal cousin, Paul. Orsini did not give a warning in time, he probably did not expect that Caesar, who had always been mighty. Borgia in the mild-mannered lamb-like Julio. The Medici were defeated in front of them, and there was no chance of recovery.

After the death of Alexander VI and the accession of Pius III, the Orsini family also had a relationship with Giulio. The Medici tried to get close, but Giulio. The Medici were clearly not the kind of people to be impressed by false compliments and bribes, perhaps that is why they chose King Louis XII of France in the end? - A bunch of fools, the Colonna son laughed in his heart, but he also knew that the Orsini family was against Julio. The Medici, more because Giulio's changes affected the interests of the Orsini family in Rome. The Medici did not allow Rome to continue to be divided by the family, or rather, he allowed them to go their own way, but Rome could only have one voice, and when he pointed to the other side, their weapons had to be in the same direction.

The Colonna family had a discreet patriarch, and he sent emissaries to Romagna, to Cadiz, to Florence and Lucca, to Piombino and Siena, even to Milan and Naples, and to Brest in France, in short, to every place that the cardinal had trodden on, and who had carefully studied what the cardinal, the uncrowned king of the Church, had done, what he had said, his character and his thoughts, and above all, in the name of the Monks of Mercy, Churches, monasteries and schools in the various principalities and kingdoms.

"Are they training priests?" Colonna's parents, the young man's father, put it this way: "Are they training warriors, merchants, clerks, farmers, craftsmen? Yes, so to speak, but more than that, they are cultivating a mind," he said, looking at the people in the room, with fear in his eyes, "this is the most feared thing, Ladies and Gentlemen, we were born in Rome, and no one knows better than us what a terrible thing the mind is—it is a beast, it is a torrent, it is lava, and even the walls of God cannot stop them." ”

The Colonna family still made a late decision, after all, no one had imagined that the army of the Church could compete with the army of a king - people were accustomed to the Pope's groveling to power and army, even if Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire had suffered such humiliation outside Canossa Castle, but it was only the intricate form of the time that made him bow his head in the end, and the Pope's excommunication could only be said to be the last weight on the scales.

But Julio. The Medici did just that, he commanded an army, defeated and captured a king, and the king of a powerful nation.

The always mild-mannered cardinal did not seem surprised by the Colonna family's defection, until the Colonna family was brought to his room and the former realized that two-thirds of the Roman family had sided with Giulio. On the side of the Medici, their contribution can only be said to be the icing on the cake, not a charcoal in the snow, and here we have to thank the Orsini family, the consistent enemy of the Colonna family, because of the Orsini family's rebellion against the pope, Giulio must have someone in his hands to oppose it - no one knows the Orsini family better than the people of the Colonna family, and the son of the Colonna family was sent to transfer the guards of St. Paul's Gate, and it is for this reason that the son of the Colonna family was sent to transfer the guards of St. Paul's Gate.

Those who stand with the sons of the Colonna family are the Gardis soldiers of the St. Paul's Gate, they are now very good friends with the sons of the Colonna family, after all, if it were not for him, they would definitely be killed by the Orsini family, they are not afraid to die for God on the battlefield, but they are not willing to die under the sword of a conspiracy and traitors, but the son of the Colonna family is a little embarrassed and said, this is Julio. The task given to him by Cardinal Medici.

And he was still confused about his true purpose while working on this cardinal, and he could not help but be surprised when he found out that the cardinal was really only trying to save the lives of the Caddis, after all, there was nothing to sacrifice for the previous rulers, not to mention that these people were just lowly soldiers.

But for him, there is also the Colonna family, and so inclined to Giulio. It's a good thing for the Medici, a merciful master is better than a cruel and merciless master, isn't it?

So as soon as he saw little Cosimo, he waved his hand happily and invited little Cosimo and his new friends to go to the Palazzo Colonna to enjoy beauty, wine and food.

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