"Stop!"

Several Eastern Roman Imperial Guards couldn't get off the stage with iron faces, so Foster snorted lightly, stepped forward and said, "Why don't you let us in?" ”

"The emperor summoned you alone, and then ...... Who knows what heart you Normans have? What if you want to assassinate? ”

"Really? It seems that the emperor of Eastern Rome was really timid and pitiful! But a few dozen Normans scared him? After Forster finished speaking, the Norman next to him immediately burst out laughing, making the faces of the Guards even more ugly.

"Alright! Wait here, I'll do it alone, and I'll have to be careful not to frighten the noble Roman Emperor! ”

Foss was so righteous and awe-inspiring that he generously went to see him before he died.

Came to the main hall of the palace and looked at the Eastern Roman Emperor on the throne and stroked his chest: "Norman Foreign Minister Foster, meet His Majesty the Eastern Roman Emperor Basil." ”

Basil II frowned, and Elius, who was beside him, immediately asked: "Emissary, please pay attention to your wording, it is the Roman Empire, not the Eastern Roman Empire, the great Basil II is the only emperor in the entire Roman world. ”

"I'm so sorry, but please forgive me for misusing this historic term."

Although Foster apologized on the surface, his words were still prickly.

Although everyone in the world knows that the Eastern Roman Empire is indeed the only Rome today, it is not because of its strong soldiers, but just because under the attack of the barbarians, the Eastern Rome breathes more than the Western Rome, and there is no commendable achievement at all, and it also implies that the Western Rome has perished, and you Eastern Rome will sooner or later follow in the footsteps of the Western Rome.

Therefore, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire restored the title of Rome, which was deliberately ignored, and the Eastern Roman Empire, which inherited the mantle of Rome, always deliberately avoided this fact, hoping to hide people's eyes and forget this shameful history.

Foster's words directly exposed the scars of others, slapped people in the face, scolded people and exposed them, and Basil II, who was sitting on the throne, suddenly had an urge to pull the other party out and cut it off.

"Calm down!"

Basil II forced himself to calm down, not to be provoked by the other party's words, but his face was ugly to death, and he didn't bother to use some of the methods he thought of insulting the Norman Empire before, and asked directly: "Your envoy came to Constantinople thousands of miles away and didn't know what happened?" ”

"Just to calm the flames of war, so that the lives will be miserable!"

"Fighting the war? Not to mention Poland and Lithuania, which were wiped out by you back then, the Normans went south to Eastern Europe, and I only saw a flood of mourning, and the people were not able to make a living. It's really upside down, black and white, shameless. "Elius answered the Normans' questions in place of Basil II.

"That's a mistake! The war with Poland and Lithuania was fought because Poland reneged on the alliance and forcibly attacked our country, and our country showed weakness, so His Majesty had no choice but to send troops to fight Poland, and as a result, he won a great victory with justice and truth, and defeated the strong with less, and the weak defeated the strong, as for sending troops to Eastern Europe...... Doesn't Your Majesty know that before our country intervened in Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe was constantly in flames, bullying the small with the big and bullying the weak with the strong, and the people were miserable, and after China officially entered Eastern Europe, the situation in Eastern Europe was gradually improving, the dawn of peace was falling again, all kinds of waste were rejuvenated, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. ”

When Basil II looked at Ellius, he saw the Roman general shake his head, proving that he was powerless, Erius was only a general after all, and when it came to diplomacy and debate, he was only two knives.

"Rubbish!"

Basil II scolded secretly: "Barbarian, what is the matter with Hugh's quick tongue, say it quickly, I have important things to do, and I don't have time to talk to you."

"It's clear that you bastards made it difficult for me first, and now you're saying that."

Foster also scolded in his heart, and presented a silk book: "Everything that our country needs is on this national letter, please read it Your Majesty." ”

Basil II nodded, and a eunuch next to him had already walked up to take the silk book away, and after examining it, he respectfully held it in both hands and handed it to his own emperor.

Basil II opened the cloth, this letter is a product of Randy's rare learning like the East, first written with cloth and ink, and the bearing is also used in the middle, which looks not much different from the Oriental scroll, the bearing is made of exquisite materials, it is a mahogany texture, and it is carved with a phoenix pattern, which is lifelike, so that Basil II can't help but love it.

I secretly thought: I have long heard that the Norman Empire artifacts are exquisite, and now when I look at it, every letter from others is so exquisite.

Randy naturally couldn't imagine that one of his accidental ideas would invisibly increase Basil II's favor for the Norman Empire. However, this good impression disappeared immediately after seeing the contents of the Norman Empire's national letters.

The national letter is divided into two parts, the upper part and the second half.

The first half is all written in Norman script, which Basil II directly ignores, and when you look at the bottom half, it is all in Latin, which Basil II can barely understand.

First of all, this letter is a polite greeting to Basil II, as well as Basil II's family.

"Since the end of the year, Jun's demeanor and voice are impressive, my memory is still fresh, I don't know if you are in good health, I specially sent a messenger to come to condole."

Seeing Randy write like this, Basil II snorted coldly, thinking to himself: That's how you greeted? Let a sharp-tongued guy come here and scold me? Got it!

Then look down......

The letter of state reviewed the historical friendship between the two sides, looked forward to the future of the war, and then proceeded to the present, and put forward several opinions and suggestions.

First, in response to the insincerity of the Eastern Roman Empire, which was torn up with his own hands a year after the signing of the peace treaty, this immoral act was condemned, and it was hoped that Basil II would show his sincerity for peace and pay 500,000 gold florins in liquidated damages.

Second, in view of the current territory of Eastern Europe, it is believed that Eastern Europe, including the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Crimean Khanate, has become the territory of the Norman Empire, and Randy deserves to be the tsar, hoping that Basil II will accept this.

Third, in order to better develop exchanges and trade between the two sides, it is hoped that the Eastern Roman Empire can open the Dardanelles Strait for Norman ships to come and go, and it would be great if it could generously cede some islands in the Mediterranean Sea to the Norman Empire.

Fourth......

Before Basil II could see the fourth, he threw the letter to the ground and shouted: "Randy von Hoffmann is too much, come on, give me this fellow ......"

Fortunately, Basil II still had a trace of reason in his heart, and changed the temporary chopping to blast away, and the two Eastern Roman Imperial Guards next to him immediately came over and wanted to push Foster away, Foster snorted coldly and shouted unhurriedly: "Wait a minute!" ”

The voice was so loud that it was hard to suppress two soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army who had been through a hundred battles and had a tenacious mind.

"What else do you have to say?" Basil II was still angry, and the middle finger of his right index finger was pressed together, pointing at Forster and questioning loudly.

"The minister's right leg, he can walk by himself."

Forster's words made Basil II stunned for a moment, and then he saw Foster turn around and flick his sleeves and stride away, so that Basil II's anger did not ease, and his chest was full of nausea.

"Damn it! I never seem to have met a Norman who could make me feel comfortable, and it seems that this is no longer a question of whether we want to fight or not, the Normans have no sincerity in negotiating, and the recent string of victories has made the young Norman leader feel invincible. ”

"Is that so?" Elius didn't care, picked up the book on the ground and began to read, when reading the first few articles, Erius was in the same mood as Basil II, and felt extremely angry, but when he finished reading the fourth article, Erius couldn't help but shout loudly.

"What's going on?"

"Your Majesty, look here..."

Erius handed the credentials up and reminded him, pointing to the fourth and fifth articles that Basil II had not seen.

Seeing that his henchmen were so anxious, Basil II naturally knew that something had happened, so he immediately snatched the letter from his hand and looked at the fourth.

Fourth, because of the historical relationship between the Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire, the Norman Emperor expressed his willingness to accept the canonization of the Roman Emperor, and the Rus' Tsar was on the same level as Caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire and was willing to show a certain degree of submission to the Eastern Roman Empire.

"That Norman is willing to accept the canonization of the Empire and bow down to the Empire?" Basil II found it a little difficult to accept for a moment that the Norman Empire had a large territory, a large army, and that Randy von Hoffmann's prestige had spread all over the world, in other words, he would never bow down to any country, even if it was the most powerful country in the traditional sense of Europe, the Roman Empire, which carried endless glory.

Although Basil II understood that this so-called submission was nothing more than a verbal exchange to satisfy the vanity of the other party, that is, the Roman Empire, the Romans were good at it, and Basil II understood what would become of Constantinople if the news was announced, and all the Romans would be drunk and revelry in celebration.

Basil II also understood what would become of Constantinople if the news of his rejection of this opinion was published.

The Romans, who have always had a tradition of rebellion against the government, will surely riot, oust this old foolish emperor from power, or even kill him, and then change to another emperor, and there must be many people who want to sit on this crater, even if they think it is wrong, but so what? Even if half of the Eastern Roman Empire were taken out and sold, so what? Anyway, it's not their own thing, and who wouldn't do such a deal in exchange for the ruling power of an empire with something that doesn't belong to them in the first place?

And the fifth condition made Basil II feel a little incredible!

The Norman Empire is willing to negotiate with the Eastern Roman Empire on the reorganization of the Eastern and Western churches, both sides believe in the same God, the two sides are brothers in Christ who are related by blood, the Normans and the Romans should not be separated for a little dispute, for religious issues, maybe the two denominations are slightly different, but you can sit down and discuss slowly.

Compared with the fourth condition, the fifth condition of Basil II is more beneficial to the Roman Empire, and it is a substantial benefit, the Norman Empire put aside the Holy See, and discussed this issue with the Eastern Roman Empire, it is simply shouting that I want to apostate, I want to proselytize, and the Roman See will never allow the Norman Empire to do so, if this document is circulated, it is conceivable that the Holy See and even the entire Catholic world, the military action against the Norman Empire will inevitably be put on the agenda in the fastest time, Those savage Franks will inevitably rush forward and bite the behemoth of the Norman Empire to get enough meat, and the Norman Empire itself will also have a series of problems due to the confusion of faith, when Randy is accused of heresy and excommunicated, what will he do?

In any case, the Norman Empire punched itself like this, and such an act was beneficial and harmless to the Eastern Roman Empire.

However, Basil II did not know how much effort Randy had put into religious matters, and after coming to this world for nearly six years, since the construction of the first church in New Nijmegen, Randy has been thinking about leaving the Catholic Church aside and taking the national faith into his own hands.

After acquiring such a large area of Eastern Europe that believed in primitive shamanism or Orthodox Christianity, Randy became more and more interested in breaking with Catholicism, especially when he heard that the Holy See had bad intentions and tried to meddle in the internal affairs of Eastern Europe, and even infiltrate the affairs of the entire Norman Empire.

Of course, it is not known what the Norman Emperor Randi meant, whether Basil II thought so.

At the same time, the Norman Empire, thousands of miles away......

Randy took a shower and changed his clothes, and then summoned Archbishop Peter, who had heard about the incident and seemed a little restless.

"Of course not! I am not a fool, and the authority of the Catholic Church, at least for this time, is unchallengeable. ”

At present, I only want to make some improvements within the framework of Catholicism, and obtain a position recognized by the Holy See as a new denomination, so as to control the faith of the entire empire.

Archbishop Peter was skeptical: "What is the exchange with the Eastern Roman Empire, the Orthodox Church, is ......"

"Hold yourself as a thief!"

Randy smiled wryly at this, pretending to be pitiful, leaving Archbishop Peter a little speechless.

"But Your Majesty, if you do this, you will be in complete opposition to the Holy See." Peter persuaded anyway.

"Do you mean after I did this? No! My friend, do you think that the royal and the clerical power of this world can stand side by side when in fact all kings, however pious, are already enemies of the Holy See from the moment he succeeds to the throne as king? Impossible, maybe it's the rotten vampires who lie on us and keep sucking blood, maybe we rise up and fight to overthrow it, and there will never be a third scenario. ”

"But Your Majesty, after all, it is the Holy See, the Holy See that represents Jesus Christ."

"The Holy See does not represent Jesus Christ from the beginning of the forgery of the so-called unjust consecration documents, Bishop, why do you still have unrealistic illusions about that rotten Holy See? Since the Norman Empire became stronger, everything the Holy See has done to you, they are threatening you, luring you to oppose me, I know that you are an honest and steady person, so you did not listen to their lies, and then what? They plan to assassinate you again and again, hoping that after your death, you will send back a clergy as corrupt and depraved as them to take over the authority of the Empire's bishop, and even after the Imperial intelligence agencies sabotage such assassinations several times, they still do not give up, slandering your reputation everywhere, hoping to ruin your reputation, and then forcibly appoint and dismiss you. Don't want revenge? ”

Archbishop Peter sighed, like a terminally ill patient asking a doctor: "Indeed! But...... Is it really incorrigible? ”

Randy shook his head firmly, and Archbishop Peter stood up and said, "In any case, I was originally just the leader of a small sect in the mountains, and Your Majesty promoted and appointed me as the Archbishop of the Empire, so trusted, so valued, I lived my life to help Your Majesty look at this one-third of an acre of land." ”

When Peter had finished speaking, he turned and left......

(End of chapter)