"I heard that you won a great victory in Bavaria, no wonder His Majesty the Emperor is so important that he has left you in the palace for so long and arranged for dinner, and I want to say that it is really a great honor."

Varys has a wide range of facial expressions like an actor, especially the combination of eyebrows and facial muscles.

"But forgive me for being born and liking to talk a lot, how many words do I don't know if to say or not?"

Hehe, the fox's tail can't be hidden, so it's a lobbyist for his master, right?

I didn't even bother to put it on, so I simply listened to what medicine he sold in his gourd:

"It is a great blessing for me to be able to get the golden words of Lord Varys, and the golden finger that people are honorific refers to is not the kung fu of your guidance to the authorities."

Varys smiled shyly, picked up the torch that had been planted in the pillar, and turned to guide me side by side.

"If you want to say that the darkest and most desperate place in this world is not the hell of the devil, but the harem of the king, where there is always a life-and-death contest and a silent war, everyone only has one chance, either to rise to prominence or to die without a buried, believe me, those ugly sins have been experienced a lot since childhood, and I have long been surprised."

The eunuch poked the torch forward, illuminating a broken stone staircase, reminding me to be careful with the soles of my feet, like an old woman, but the sometimes thick and faint commotion on his body became more and more disgusting.

"Look at my ridiculous disability, isn't it a vivid portrayal of the palace cannibalism? Master Randy, you are a smart person, and you should know better than me the truth of being a companion, rest assured, I am not saying this today to pull you into the gang or have any insidious purpose, just a kind reminder that from the perspective of a friend, we are friends, right? Now the whole country knows the bad things between His Majesty and the Empress, the outbreak of the civil war is only a matter of time, the nobles who are not willing to be lonely are gearing up to prepare, the chaotic times of the melee seem to be inevitable, if it is not for the Duke of Carinthia to recklessly break this balance, the war may always be just a drop of water hanging on the tip of the leaf, balanced by all forces. ”

"Both coveting and restraining each other, a perfect balance of power." I couldn't help but be caught by him and blurt out my thoughts.

"That's right, the balance of power is equal, the right description."

Varys's smile grew even more hideous in the firelight, and the shadows of his two eye sockets reflected his fat cheeks, much like a terrifying skeleton, and the corners of his long robe cut across the flowers on the side of the road, carrying a few tender petals.

Further on is the inner city gate where the guards are stationed, and under the bright lights, you can vaguely discern the backs of several people carrying guns and roasting fires, and the eunuchs flash sideways, and the torches illuminate a hazy clump of plants, but they do not reflect the darkness under the lamp.

"From this point of view, civil war is really inevitable, and His Majesty, who thinks that he has the certainty of victory, will definitely be eager to divorce his wife, and then laugh at Nijmegen and fight with the enemy, waiting for the best time to start."

Hearing this, I vaguely felt that something was wrong, raised my head and stared at his feminine smile seriously, and asked word by word: "Forgive me for being stupid, Lord Varys, since you did not come to persuade me to join the gang on the orders of your master, what do you want to mention?" ”

"Keep your eyes open, Master Randy, keep your eyes open!"

Varys stretched out two fingers to point to his eyes, and replied in a low tone: "These bright eyes are a precious gift from God to us to distinguish between right and wrong, and to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages. ”

He looked me straight at me and asked, as if he had changed as a different person, and suddenly cared about me, an outsider who had never stammered him.

He was referring to His Majesty the Emperor!

I was shocked, and immediately reacted, and said hesitantly: "I don't understand what you want me to see?" ”

Varys put out the torch in the dirt by the roadside, the pungent smell of curling green smoke, and he turned his back and pointed in the direction of the city gate, his whole body shrunk in a wide robe.

"Keep your eyes open to distinguish between friend and foe, sometimes, standing behind may not be a trustworthy person, now I have my back to you, but are you so sure that I don't have a self-defense move? Overconfidence equals arbitrariness, my lord. ”

The eunuch walked away step by step without saying goodbye, and his voice became less clear: "Actually, I have a reluctant request, since you accept the advice and call me a friend, can it be understood that if the rebels who support the queen are defeated, can my crippled and rotten life continue to survive?" You know that I am a timid and death-fearing person, and I pray day and night that I can live peacefully and enjoy the sunrise the next day, and I want to survive, so I have no enemies or friends in this world. ”

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The prophecy of the eunuch Varys has unfortunately come true!

Shortly after I returned to Nijmegen, bad news came one after another......

One after another, not only tired of delivering messages, but also made this otherwise peaceful Pentecost surging.

The fuse has burned to the last section, and the earth-shattering explosion is not far off!

His Majesty Henry did indeed retire from the empress Kunigund, who was in love with him, and without warning, at a royal banquet, he suddenly announced his decision.

Amid the astonished voices of many nobles and church representatives, Empress Kunigund felt humiliated and angrily threw her glass on the spot, leaving several nobles and so-called concubines who were known to be loyal to the empress.

It is said that the scene spiraled out of control for a while, but the crazy Henry Majesty once again did something shocking, pushing the eerie atmosphere to a climax.

He took Princess Figura's hand in public, led her to the queen's place and sat down, and ordered the banquet to start again, and the clowns continued to perform singing and dancing, completely ignoring the face of the departing Empress Kunigund.

The next day, His Majesty Henry officially went to the church and asked the archbishop to dissolve his marriage with the queen, which frightened the well-informed old fritter into a panic, and finally he could only push the hot potato out, claiming that the marriage between the two was concluded in the presence of the Archbishop of Berlin, and now if it is to be dissolved, it must be presided over by the Archbishop of Berlin or His Majesty the Pope himself.

Later, he simply said that he was ill, so that His Majesty Henry touched a soft nail and returned to the dormitory in a stupid manner.

The angry Empress Kunigund was not idle, and on the same day she packed up her soft and set up a full pomp, moved out of the royal palace in Dresden, and set off for her mother's house under the protection of many knights who volunteered to follow.

The Archbishop of Berlin was also a smart man, and he did not dare to take the time bomb kicked by the Archbishop of Dresden, and every minute he found a high-sounding reason to throw it to the Pope......

The affairs of your big people are still solved internally, and you can't kill the chickens yourself when you save the time, and you will be splashed with blood!

Fifteen days later......

The reply from the Holy See came from the fast horse, and the answer was beyond everyone's expectations.

Not only did Sylvester II refuse to dissolve the marriage between Emperor Henry and Empress Kunigund, but the agitated Pope denounced and condemned the Emperor's absurd behavior, criticizing him for leading the united German Empire to division and war.

And this is not the most fierce material of the day, I don't know where the hard breath came from, let Ni Xia straighten his waist, he threatened that once His Majesty Henry dares to unilaterally announce the dissolution of the marriage, it will be illegal and not recognized by the Holy See, and the dissolution of the marriage is also the day of the emperor's membership and the removal of the throne, when all devout Christians must draw a line with the cursed emperor, and everyone will be punished!

As soon as this news came out, it was undoubtedly like a barrel of explosives that burned out the last fuse, and it exploded violently immediately!

"Crazy! It's all crazy! ”

I was going to take advantage of my anger and drop the wine glass in my hand on the ground and put on a handsome pose, but now that the glass is my cherished plaything, I gently put it on the table.

"Unfortunately, that eunuch guessed what kind of plane grandma was doing!"

Leonardo was still sitting by the window, with a thin cashmere blanket on his legs, looking at the busy crowd in the street market outside the window, and he didn't answer my words for a long time, but the bull sitting on the side couldn't help but interject:

"If you want me to say that it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, this battle will be fought sooner or later, it is better to fight early than late, and it is better to fight a small fight than a big fight, anyway, we have already made sufficient preparations, and the soldiers are waiting for this day, isn't it?"

Kohler was pinching the shaft of an arrow and sharpening it with a knife, stopping from time to time to squint his eyes to calibrate whether it was straight, and the fine wood chips on the ground at his feet.

Since he got married, he has become calmer and less talkative, and he has been busy making his own arrows all day, and he has accumulated a box full of them, and I have asked him why he did this, and he only answered one word succinctly: "Use it to ...... easily"

"I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, Emperor Henry must want to take this opportunity to draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle, deliberately let all potential enemies jump out and catch them all, we just need to guard our bottom line."

Leonardo still insists on his view of the whole thing, like an almost paranoid stubbornness about a certain business, gritting his teeth and not reducing his position even if the price falls below, always going against the grain when everyone is not optimistic, and finally doubling the cost.

"The two Majesties are as naïve as children, and I wonder where they get their confidence and certainty?" I asked, tugging my chair forward and holding my arms.

"His Majesty Henry should come half from Nijmegen to get Carinthia, and the other half from the support of the Poles after marrying Figura, some time ago the Grand Duke of Bohemia and the Count of Meissen reached a settlement under the mediation of the Emperor, and now his rear is completely solid."

(End of chapter)

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