Chapter 387: Another Way

Author: Poison Devil

"And now you're pulling the people from the east in again?"

Demar was like a balloon about to explode, and his short legs like fat lotus roots stomped the ground, as if they might bounce away at any moment, and I stood there puzzled, unsure of why he was angry.

"There are many diehards from the east in the city, but those are all based on the people from the east, and they will not interfere in Rome's own internal affairs, and if they really control the city, they will encounter no less resistance and resistance than you!"

Demar's strange-smelling mouth opened and closed so quickly that he didn't even nibble on his favorite ribs.

"And the Vatican, the contradictions between the two sides are an open secret, your purpose in wooing them to suppress the Orthodox Church is too obvious, Lord Duke, this will make you erect more enemies, please listen to the heartfelt words of old friends!"

"That's right, we're old friends, old friends should understand and help each other, look at me, Demar, I came here to see you in person, regardless of the danger, who cares more about friendship than me under the sacred vault?"

I pressed the old speculator's shoulder, as if to stuff his full anger back: "I can bring you much more than I have lost, not to mention your estates outside the city, after so many years in Rome, your family is still just the object of ridicule and the hen that lays golden eggs, the clown who comes and goes when he is summoned, they never really look at you, and you don't even have the right to sit down when you sit in the council hall, right?" ”

Demar muttered angrily: "At least I entered the council hall, and I was the only foreigner in Rome who entered the old Demar......"

"That's right, Council Hall, everyone knows that it's just a group of fat people who have eaten enough to do nothing, and consumed excess fat, according to the words of the former Emperor Otto III, a cheap Colosseum, you and I both understand what that place is like, a trick to deceive children, are you really going to make people laugh at it all your life, and you can't wash the smell of seafood and earth all over your body?"

"There are many kinds of smugglers, some of them drive a broken boat the size of a palm to pull onions and sea fish, and they are worried about dealing with the anti-smuggling officers and customs, and they have to worry about the danger of the broken ship leaking and capsizing, and when they make money, they will linger under the skirts of the prostitutes standing in front of the lowest taverns, and if you don't make it, you will get an unspeakable rotten disease, that is your past life, Demar, the unbearable past, if you don't agree, I don't mind helping you remember the bittersweet and bitter."

"But I now have the finest mansions of Rome, and countless servants and servants, and eat delicious food, and dress in fine silk robes, and if I nod my head, the most glamorous lady of Rome will fall to me."

He proudly lifted his belt, which was studded with pearls and rubies the size of a bull's eye: "This is my life, and it will always be so, I don't need anything anymore." ”

"I thought your ambition was to wear a red robe, enter the house in a bright and bright manner, and when you encounter an enemy with political disagreement, you will proudly spit on his face."

I shook my head in disappointment: "This is the second type of smuggler, they smuggle ** and wealth, and the whole country. ”

Demar smiled disdainfully: "I am a businessman, my ancestors are even bums who can't even eat shit, I have never held a sword in my hands and I am not worthy of it, I have never even killed anyone and have never been stained with blood, that thing is unpleasant, the struggle for power and profit is the business of your big nobles, I am just a little smuggler, just like you said that the big nobles used to make fun of the object and the hen that laid golden eggs, the clown who came and went when he was summoned, I don't expect a political life that echoes every call, that is the beginning of a sound person digging his own grave, I'm sorry you're looking for the wrong person, Lord Duke, and we'll be friends again, but I haven't seen you today, and you haven't seen me, that's all. ”

Is he really a cunning businessman, still waiting for the price to be sold and waiting for me to shout first?

Rome was asleep, the whole city was lying on its backs and snoring, the lights were less and less, even the torches in the tavern at the end of the alley were extinguished, and the distant gates were falling silent, and it seemed that the enemy had set up their trebuchets, and there would be a fierce battle to the death tomorrow, but if I had persuaded Demar, none of this would have happened.

Bargaining is my least favorite thing to do, to work with nobles is to bargain, to work with merchants to bargain, to work with armies, to work with the Holy See,

It seems that there is no justice and justice in this world at all, everyone only believes in the equivalent exchange in line with each other's interests, and takes what I lack in exchange for what you want, which is simple and child's play like a child's tick, but it is the only standard in the world.

"Piero's fleet is your biggest competitor, isn't it?"

I said coldly: "And Camorilles, who is always looking for trouble for you, there is no place for them in the future Rome." ”

"I'll contact the others and see if I can help you find the outlet for the drain, the guards there are available for a while during the shift change, and I can send someone to find out."

DeMar stretched out three chubby fingers, and then immediately retracted one: "Let you in more than thirty at most...... No! Twenty people, no more, just buying the guards on duty would take me a lot of time, that would be too much effort. ”

"Listen, idiot!"

I grabbed the dead fat man by the shoulder and slammed him against the wall, and before Demar could even call out, his guards were about to move, and Rollo's men immediately put their swords around their necks.

"I'm not in the mood to play hide and seek with you, my friend, I know that you have a lot of unknown smuggling channels in Rome, those hidden holes and tunnels, please be generous and let your friends use them too."

I stared distraughtly at the fat on his cheeks: "Since you don't want to be called a smuggler forever, don't make me angry, or you'll always be stuck in the mess of names like smugglers or smugglers." ”

You catfish and snail hybrid, you dare to provoke me to the limit again and again.

"Let me go...... Let go of ......"

Demar's two short arms scratched wildly, but he couldn't reach me, and he blushed and begged for mercy: "For God's sake, let me go...... I...... I just want a shipping franchise in Rome and that's it...... Please......"

I thought you were a ruthless character who didn't eat hard and soft, but it was so disappointing.

I spread my hand, and Demar threw himself into free fall, followed by a ghostly cry: "If you don't want to cause unnecessary trouble, shut up!" ”

I gently brushed his still trembling shoulders, "The shipping franchise is yours, I'll let Rollo stay, and I need to know where the entrance and exit of each secret passage into the city are before dawn." ”

Demar wept and nodded weakly, I told Rollo to lead the men to follow, and I beckoned Barberini and a few others to slip out of the city along the ropes, and when we returned to the camp, the eastern sky was showing a faint white, the torches at the sentry posts were still blazing, and the heavy shadows of many siege stairs were hidden in the shadows, and a dawn full of unknown and hope was about to fall.

The mansion, which smelled of pigsty and stinky fish, was quietly wrapped in a cloud of darkness where he could not see his fingers, and there was no light in the side room, and it seemed that Bishop Bendenik had not yet woken up, and Bills was guarding the door, and had begun to pack up the ingredients for breakfast.

"Your Excellency, are you back?"

Bills raised his head when he heard the noise, and immediately ran over when he saw that it was me: "I'm going to prepare hot water." ”

"No, I have something to talk about, don't let anyone else in."

I stroked Bills' mud-stained hair, "Go ahead with this pork leg, I'm really hungry." ”

After breathing in the cold air for half a night, I was not used to the cold when I returned to the stench room, but the reddish coals of the hearth warmed the room, and the tired eyelids kept fighting.

How nice it would be to have a soft bed with a feather mattress at this moment!

I was obsessed with something that was impossible at all, and I stretched my waist comfortably, motioning to Barberini, who had come in with me, to find a place to sit casually, and stumbling in the dark to find a cup.

"You say you're a native of Rome and know every street and alley in the city?" The children of my hometown will never forget the fragrance of the soil in front of my house, and I rummaged through the few water bladders on the table, most of which were empty, and only one half of the bag remained.

Barberini picked up a stick and stirred the charcoal fire in the hearth, and the sudden burst of flames illuminated his orange warm face: "Just as a seagull is familiar with the waves and the sand, Lord Duke, the experience of begging as a teenager has made me walk the streets and alleys, and know many paths that the old Romans did not necessarily know." ”

He threw the stick burning on his head into the fire, "You should let me stay in the city with Lord Rollo, so that I can remember every secret passage that the profiteer has offered." ”

"Obviously I need you more here than those things that don't matter." I leaned close to the rim of the cup and sniffed it, eventually choosing to put it down despite my thirst.

"It doesn't matter? Don't we want to find a way into the city? ”

Barberini's eyes widened in surprise: "The warriors of Nijmegen are willing to shed their blood for you, but our forces are not enough to storm the city walls head-on, not to mention that the enemy has also deployed trebuchets equipped with counterweights, it is a nightmare of flesh and blood!" ”

"Who says we don't want to go into town anymore?" My attitude changed greatly before and after, so that this Roman guy who called himself a little mouse, the second monk Zhang, was confused.

Barberini's astonishment contrasted with my smugness, the last piece of charcoal in the hearth burned up its energy and was reluctantly extinguished, but at this moment the sun was about to take over the sky, and the cracks in the room were shining with the white light of the pre-dawn, and a new day was coming.

Roasted pork leg is almost ready, right? I didn't expect such a thought to pop up in my mind, maybe it was that I was tired from the tossing and turning of the middle night.

"Aside from the entrances Demar mentioned, do you know where to enter Rome?" I looked at him with a smile on my face, expecting a satisfactory answer.

"No, my lord, there really isn't."

Barberini's reply instantly extinguished my joy: "The city has few weaknesses, the sewer drains and the gates of the Tiber are its only loopholes, but the guards have placed heavy guards in those places. To be honest, I don't approve of Master Demar's plan to use the time of the guard shift to smuggle the army, and in this extraordinary period, the guard's shift will definitely be adjusted! ”

"Of course, I know that Demar's plan is a desperate one, which is why I hope for you."

Is there really no way, little Roman?

"One of the very important reasons is that I don't trust Demar's men, since they can defend the old fat man for a high reward, they will also betray him for a few extra gold coins, just like Judas of the traitor, and we will send troops to meet them is equivalent to throwing ourselves into the net."

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about it." Barberini bowed his head reproachfully, feeling rather frustrated by telling his lord not to him.

I poured the sour tooth root mead into my mouth with the same chewing wax, and my heart was suddenly confused, and a simple trade-off was before me, either to continue with the original plan and sneak in through the sewer drain at the risk of being guarded by the enemy, or to concentrate on storming the city gates and breaking through the Roman defenses head-on.

Whichever method I chose, it would take determination and courage to move forward, as well as God's good fortune, and I licked my moist lips and thought to myself, apparently I didn't have any of them.

"Adults......" Barberini, who I had forgotten in the corner, said weakly.

"How?"

I heard the footsteps of the attendants outside the door packing up their meals, and the sound of the Bishop Bendinik getting up in the morning, and the whole camp woke up one after another, and perhaps some of them did not sleep at all, after all, they were about to face a fierce battle of death tomorrow, and their remaining time was too precious.

"I forgot about it in a hurry just now......"

His voice grew smaller and smaller, until at last it became a thin mosquito humming: "Remember the Salvia Dimen who went at night?" It was abandoned and filled in and gradually disappeared from public view, but when I was a child, I used to play with my friends at the base of the city wall, and the rain washed away over the years, which loosened the sand and gravel that closed the Salvia Dimen, and the hens that laid eggs and the homeless wild dogs often made nests underneath, and the soil was very loose, and there was a small hole for wild cats to get in and out......"

"Oh?"

I instantly came to my senses. More excited than a full charge: "Go on!" ”

"I wonder if we can send someone to expand that little hole, as long as it digs a little more on both sides, it will be enough for a person of normal stature to pass through effortlessly."

Barberini gestured to the size of the hole, and then showed his shoulder-width again: "It's not a lot of work, but it's already dawn, and our actions will definitely be discovered by the enemy, I know it's a bad idea, I'm sorry, Lord Duke." ”

"Slow ......"

I motioned for him to look up: "You said to send some men, how many people do you need?" ”

"There are only five people to work, but it's easy to get busy when there are more."

Barberini held out five fingers: "Bring the right tools." ”

He groaned before he said, "One hour, one hour is enough." ”

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