Hearing this, Count Sartre raised his head and glared at his son fiercely, and he lowered his head timidly in his heart before the Count spoke: "Shut up for me, we have never made any promises to Hohenzollern, you must always remember that we are members of the Medici family." ”

The earl's son didn't dare to talk back, but lowered his head and took a step back to express his apology.

Count Sartre did not blame his son, he stood up, sighed and said: "Alas, the reason why I agreed to Hohenzollern's request before was because Eugen was only a Habsburg at that time and was not very involved, and second, because he deceived the Duke of Gian, and I am obliged to clear up the hidden danger for the Duke." ”

The earl's gaze deepened, he looked at the gate and said: "But now it seems that he is not the kind of villain who chases fame and fortune, the Duke of Ji'an has indeed put power in his hands, and the Pope also trusts his ability very much." In this case, if we continue to obstruct it, we will be infamous and the consequences will be very serious. ”

At this time, the second son of Count Sartre, a long-faced young man in a purple robe, took a step forward, stood behind his brother, and whispered: "Father, I don't think what that kid said is necessarily right, probably just a bluff, we can wait and see for a while, don't rush to make a decision, to see if the disease he said may spread to Verona." ”

Different from the recklessness of the earl's eldest son, this earl's second son has a very calm personality, and can even be called a little feminine, and likes to plan everything before acting.

The earl also admired his second son, and when he heard this, he smiled and nodded, turned to the eldest son and said, "You have to learn more from your younger brother, don't jump out at every turn, and make it easy for people to see through your thoughts." ”

The earl's eldest son naturally had nothing to say, just stood silently aside, but the fist he put behind his back was quietly clenched.

Standing at the end was a woman dressed as a man, wearing armor and looking heroic, looking at the brothers in front of her, she muttered quietly: "I think this Count Eugen is quite interesting, at least people do it sincerely, and they can say anything openly." ”

This sentence was not heard by Count Sartre and others, and even if they did, they would not care, Count Sartre's family has always paid little attention to women's opinions, in their opinion, whether it is military or political, it is a man's business, and women should not be involved in it at all.

This is not to say that they did not respect women, in fact the Count himself loved his wife very much, and he himself knew that without her help, the city of Verona would not have been possible.

But respect is respect, but this respect is just a simple feeling, and when it comes to practical things, Count Sartre is reluctant to let his wife participate in it.

As for the Earl's youngest daughter, if it weren't for the fact that the youngest daughter was wearing a man's armor, Count Sartre wouldn't have even let her participate in this meeting.

It is precisely because of this that the youngest daughter herself can often feel a clear hypocrisy from the seemingly rough and bold appearance of Count Sartre, which also makes her hate all these hypocritical things or people.

Eugen walked out of Verona, and he was also relieved.

He may have been calm and calm just now, but in fact he was also very worried in his heart, if the relationship between him and Count Sartre was completely stiffened, the defense line of the river would be destroyed in his hands.

Without the involvement of the city of Verona, the Po River defense line lost its most critical link, and once the Black Death hit, it simply could not withstand it for too long.

Without this line of defense, Eugen really didn't know how to build the next line of defense, and by that time, the European continent would be really dangerous.

In order to accomplish this, Eugen decided to simply find a place to stay in Verona, and informed the mayor of Venice to pass on some of the evidence of the Black Death.

As November approached, the weather was getting colder by the day, and the spread of the Black Death was somewhat suppressed and began to slow down.

The Po River defense line is still some distance from San Marino, and the defense line is almost complete, as long as Verona is filled in with the last brick, it will be foolproof.

For this reason, Eugen still has enough time to stay here and slowly settle the matter of Count Sartre.

The cold wind blew, the lead-colored dark clouds covered the sky, the sun was blocked and turned into a bleak blue and white, and the sun fell on the earth without warmth, adding another layer of coldness to the earth.

At midnight, in the darkness, large snowflakes like goose feathers fell one after another, piling up silently on the ground, on the treetops, and on the roofs of houses.

The first snow of the year finally fell on the earth at the beginning of November, and the flawless white snow covered everything, like a beautiful illusion, which can make people forget the grief and anguish of the land for a while.

It's a pity that after all, it is a short forgetfulness, and after waking up, people still have to face the cold.

Everything in San Marino was covered by a blizzard, and the sordid and ugly deeds seemed to have never happened, and the city had barely restored some order to survive in it.

Dirmit, who was in charge of intelligence, will never forget what happened when he first came to the city, it was as if hell had descended on the earth, and there were ugly images everywhere.

In the midst of panic, the originally kind and simple citizens completely revealed the darkest side of their human nature, and countless people turned into robbers and robbers, unleashing violence unleashed unscrupulously in the city.

Shops were looted, wealthy mansions were invaded, and ladies and ladies who walked down the street would be taken away by bandits and raped.

All sorts of horrific rumors arose in the city, where servants had killed their original masters, and in a moment of anger, the hawkers slaughtered the shopkeepers and arranged their corpses in the shape of 'gold coins', and there was even a fanatical group called the Society of Redemption in the city, whose purpose was to kill the citizens with the indulgence scrolls, saying that only by killing these sinners could they appease God's wrath and make the disease disappear.

All these things have put the whole of San Marino in a state of spiral out of control, where people are afraid to live in the city, but they are afraid to flee out of it, because it is extremely dangerous to go out of the streets.

Fortunately, these things, after Dirmit arrived, were greatly curbed.

On the first day of his arrival in San Marino, Dirmit sent soldiers to capture hundreds of citizens who were recognized as a "scourge" and hanged them outside the city.

When it was cold, there was no need to worry about the corpses decomposing, so Dirmit simply let the corpses hang there for days as a warning.