After waiting for a long time, little Walter, who received a reply from Constantine X, did not have much excitement in his heart, because the purpose of his trip was only half accomplished, and he only let the second prince Friedrich and the eldest princess of the Ducasse royal family, Anna. Ducasse made a marriage contract, but the marriage contract of the third prince Robert has not yet been settled.

Although little Walter will not be punished if he returns to Paris to return to William with this result at this time, but will be rewarded by William, but little Walter, who has always pursued perfection, is not reconciled, and not seeking the princess in purple for the third prince Robert is a failure in his opinion.

However, where could Constantine X's will be controlled by him? Suddenly, Walter Jr. was in a dilemma.

Fortunately, William had considered this situation before, and he prepared several candidates for this purpose, in addition to the two princesses in purple, Princess Ryder, the only daughter and heir of Cresimir the Great of Croatia, and Yudita, the eldest princess of the Bohemian Kingdom, were also among the candidates.

Of the two men, a marriage to Croatia would allow William to intervene in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, forming a defensive alliance against the Holy Roman Empire through an alliance with Croatia, while a marriage to the Kingdom of Bohemia would divide and disintegrate the Holy Roman Empire from within, especially if the Bohemians had a strong independence.

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A month later, Basilius of Byzantium agreed with Friedrich and Anna. The marriage of Ducasse and the tentatively agreed covenant were finally delivered to William by the postal system of the border.

In this regard, William was quite surprised, in fact, he did not have much expectations for Walter Jr., and the marriage with the purple princess of the Byzantine royal family had not happened in hundreds of years, and William set a precedent this time.

Although William was a little overjoyed that this marriage could be reached, he was not enthusiastic about the alliance between the Norman Empire and Byzantium, knowing that the Byzantine Empire was a troubled country, if he signed an alliance with the other party, how would William implement his strategic decision to recuperate?

For the time being, the enemies he has to face are the Seljuk Turks who have risen strongly, the Cumans and Bulgarians in the north, and the Normans in Sicily, Italy, none of these three opponents are easy to deal with, not to mention the first two remote opponents, let's talk about Caesar in Sicily, William actually has no intention of clashing with the other party, and even he gives the other party a certain amount of funding in exchange for friendship with Caesar.

"It's better to sign a non-aggression pact or a less binding pact first, and wait for the noble princess in purple to arrive in Paris, and then depending on the situation." William said so decisively.

After writing to Walter Jr., William put aside the moment and his priority was to popularize the French version of the Bible in order to lay a solid foundation for the Reformation in the future.

In the intervening months, the royally funded publishing house has sold 60,000 copies of the Bible in French around the world through the royal chamber's extensive sales channels.

Because of the low price of the French version of the Bible, it was unanimously welcomed at home and abroad as soon as it was released, and no one with a little money would be stingy with the cost of a book or two.

If it weren't for the Royal Press's production capacity, the popularity of the French version of the Bible would have been able to ship more than 100,000 copies in three months.

Selling the Bible through the market is one solution, and promoting universal education and wrestling a monopoly on education from the church is another.

William donated 50,000 pounds of silver from his royal private coffers to help improve the facilities and teachers of parish schools around the country.

Of course, William's donation was not given in vain, on the one hand, the church schools that received the donation had to accept the personnel sent by William to participate in the management and accept William's guidance, on the other hand, after accepting the donation, these church schools had to make achievements, such as increasing the number of students and graduates, and the number of classrooms should meet the standard, and many other hard goals, otherwise not only could not continue to receive donations from the royal family, but even attracted investigation by the authorities.

Among these schools donated by William, two schools were William's most important, they were Melun College and St. Paul's Girls' School, and the role of these two schools was actually to train his own children and the aristocratic private schools established by the domestic aristocracy.

For example, William founded the school as a medieval Eton school to train the Norman royal family and the political and economic elite of the domestic aristocracy.

The curriculum of this Melun School is more targeted than that of ordinary church schools, aiming at the characteristics of boys generally maturing later than girls and being good at sports, Mellen College will have a few more physical education classes and various extracurricular activities in the curriculum, such as football, golf, polo, squash, cricket, hunting, rowing and other activities, especially hunting, students have to learn to walk with seven or eight beagles first, and then go hunting on horseback.

By organising a variety of activities, Melun School allows students to learn about competition, friendship, teamwork and communication before learning knowledge.

In terms of faculty, Melun College is also the world's top existence, where there are not only knowledgeable professors of the University of Paris, but also respected religious figures such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Reims, and the Archbishop of Normandy, as well as the Duke of Hubert, the Duke of Richard, Prime Minister Ladolph and other military and political aristocrats come to teach from time to time.

The faculty and educational conditions of Melun College are so strong, but the number of students it enrolls is very small, including the two princes of the royal family, and the entire Melun School has less than 100 students.

Of course, William also did this to ensure the quality of education at Melun College, after all, the original intention of this school was to solve the education problems of his own children and the children of domestic nobles.

Another St. Paul's Girls' School is similar, it was also set up by William for his eldest daughter Constance, and the curriculum is much more ladylike than that of the boys' school, in addition to professional courses, St. Paul's Girls' School will also arrange courses in cooking, crafts, nutrition, table manners, etc., with a strong emphasis on allowing students to master more housekeeping and social skills.

It can be said that the aristocratic boys' and girls' schools established by William were a great step forward in the field of education, and he shared the rich educational resources possessed by the royal family, and improved the quality of the future nobility of the Norman Empire by an entire era.