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The founder of the Holy Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles I, attacked the Republic of Venice when he was still King of East Francia.

Because the Republic of Venice almost monopolized most of the business in the Mediterranean, and the Venetian merchants were the ones who could sell their faith and ancestors for money.

Not to mention anyone else, the Holy See has asked the Carolingian dynasty to punish the Republic of Venice several times.

It's a pity that the Republic of Venice has a father, and their father is the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, so they have a monopoly without fear.

Even today, the Republic of Venice has a monopoly on the Mediterranean.

The northern states of the Chinese Empire had to deal with the Republic of Venice.

After all, the Chinese Empire did not have sea control in the Mediterranean, and the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire and Venice were the supreme hegemons in the Mediterranean.

The Republic of Venice stood behind the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, so the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire was the supreme hegemon of the Mediterranean.

It can be said that the Mediterranean Sea is the inner lake of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, and the Arab countries in the east and south are not weak.

But in the Mediterranean, none of them was able to defeat the armies of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire.

The Mediterranean has been dominated by the Romans for hundreds of years and has never changed.

In the past few hundred years, countless countries have challenged the Roman Empire's supremacy of the sea, but unfortunately they have all failed.

The mighty Arab Empire also failed.

But there was an unspoken rule of sea supremacy, the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire allowed the Republic of Venice to move through the Mediterranean Sea at will.

In addition to this, some ports in other countries have also been set up by the Republic of Venice.

Although the Republic of Venice taxed these countries, in fact it was the Republic of Venice that monopolized the ports of other countries.

Even the papal state of Rome was set up as a port by the Republic of Venice.

If it seems to the visionary that the Republic of Venice brought prosperity and commerce to these regions.

But in the long run, it was not the Republic of Venice that occupied these ports, since they belonged only nominally to the states.

But the classes that really ruled the port were the great families and guilds of the Republic of Venice.

They ruled the port for generations, and a small amount of the money was given to the local state as a conservation fee.

Most of the income was pocketed by the Republic of Venice, and the merchant families and guilds of the Republic of Venice were the real winners.

Even when the merchants of the Chinese Empire arrived at the ports of the Republic of Venice set up in other countries, the merchants of the Chinese Empire had to coil up.

The Republic of Venice even had a port in the Arab region, which shows how strong their means of communication were.

It can be seen how rich the Republic of Venice is, which is a country that monopolizes most of the region!

If someone came out and said that the Republic of Venice was not rich, I am afraid that no one would believe it.

The affluence of the Republic of Venice has given it many rivals, all of whom wish the Republic of Venice to perish and take its place.

For example, the governor of the Viceroyalty of Genoa, on the western coast of the Italian peninsula, was always looking forward to the end of the Republic of Venice.

Genoa has been suppressed by the Republic of Venice for many years.

Genea was a merchant republic established by the kings of the Frankish kingdom.

The aim was to suppress the Republic of Venice so that it would not infringe on the interests of the Frankish Kingdom.

In fact, the Republic of Genoa did work, and they prevented the merchants of the Republic of Venice from reaching out to the western part of the Italian peninsula.

But it also meant that they could not reach out to the eastern part of the Italian peninsula or even to Greece and the Middle East.

The Republic of Venice did not build a commercial port in the western part of the Italian peninsula, but it did establish ports in the Kingdom of West Francia and the Iberian Peninsula.

The business of Sicily was also controlled by the Republic of Venice, and there was no sense of wavering.

So Genoa seemed to be a mercantile republic, but in reality they were just drinking a little soup behind the Republic of Venice.

Because the leaders of the Republic of Venice knew that Genoa was no threat to them, and that they could also gain the favor of some of the Frankish lords by giving concessions to Genoa.

It has to be said that Venice played a very slippery hand, and it didn't take much time for the Republic of Venice to fool a few Carolingian lords into setting up ports in the coastal areas.

But after all, this kind of thing was negotiated in private, and there were no restrictions, so Charles, the king of East Francia, found out about the news at that time.

He was furious, and those people were clearly disobeying their orders.

But he couldn't kill all those people, those lords still had a certain value.

So Charles, who was then king of the East Franconian kingdom, put all this responsibility on the Republic of Venice.

The king of East Francia even wanted to bribe the pope to get the Republic of Venice excommunicated, thus having the right to declare war on the Republic of Venice.

You must know that in this era, the right to declare war in various Western countries was openly held by the Pope of Rome.

If the Pope does not excommunicate a country, then other countries have no right to send troops to attack.

It was illegal, unrecognized, and the pope would even reappoint kings from other countries to find the heirs of previous kings to succeed them, and then extort large sums of money.

Although the Republic of Venice was a vassal state of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, the religion of the Republic of Venice was Catholic, not the Orthodox Church of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire.

That's why King Charles of the Franks had the idea of excommunication, but unfortunately the pope had been bribed by the Republic of Venice with a lot of money.

So the Pope was actually on the side of the Republic of Venice, and the Pope was always helping the Republic of Venice.

At that time, King Charles of East Francia was so angry that he even had the idea of sending someone to assassinate the pope and then support a new pope.

But he still didn't dare to do that in the end, he was afraid that what would happen if he did it himself.

In this era, the power of religion is extremely powerful, and even the Chinese Empire has to set up a Taoism to control the world.

Not to mention other countries, from monarchs to slaves, they all have an inexplicable fear of the Lord in their hearts.

Even if it was the emperor of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, Basil, who killed his master and seized the throne. Macedonia was also very fearful and respectful of the Lord.

After all, even if people don't believe that there is a god in the world, they still think, what if there is?

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