If you want to restore relations with William, you naturally have to do what you like, what William wants, what his goals and ambitions are, this is something that Nicholas II must be clear.

Does William want the glory of the family?

Perhaps, William had asked for the canonization of his family members, but was not approved by the pope at the time, and William had always been resentful of this.

It is still relatively easy to canonize William's father at this time, more than 1,000 years after the founding of Christianity, hundreds of people have been canonized, some are Roman martyrs, some are people who have made outstanding contributions to Christianity, some have shown some miracles during his lifetime, and some are of high moral character and recognized by the world, so is William's father Robert enough to get the above points?

As far as Nicholas II knew, Robert had not performed miracles during his lifetime and was a man of bad morals, as evidenced by his robbery of William's mother, Arlett, and the only thing he could say was his devotion on the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

The canonization of William's father, Robert, was permissible, but it was too thin to use it as a condition for negotiation, and Nicholas II did not believe that William would give up the opportunity to suppress the Holy See for the sake of this alone.

In addition to the glory of the family, the rest is naturally land wealth and faith.

As far as Nicholas II knew, William was an out-and-out shallow believer, not devout to the Lord, and even implemented a policy of religious tolerance in the Norman kingdom, so that many heretics and heretics ran rampant in the Norman kingdom.

As for giving William more religious power and giving him complete control over the Kingdom Church, even Nicholas II, who was close to him, was unwilling to give him.

After the glory and faith of the family, it became clear that William wanted land and wealth, which the Normans had been tirelessly pursuing.

Both the abundance of land and the inexhaustible wealth were the main reasons why William waged war after war, through which William rose from a prince far from France to the most powerful monarch in the world, and his country spanned Britain and France, from the Arctic Circle in the north, the Rhine Plain in the east, and the Pyrenees in the south, and his military power was the highest in Europe.

In the face of such a king, there are very few things that can satisfy his desires, and the only thing that can satisfy him is to support him to conquer more realms and a crown.

Supporting William's conquest of more territories and giving him the name of invading other countries was something Nicholas II did not want to see, and if the Norman kingdom continued to expand, wouldn't it be Charlemagne's Frankish empire again?

The Holy See was already feeling quite tricky in the face of a Holy Roman Empire, and adding an even more powerful counterpoint was something that Nicholas II did not want to see in any case.

As for crowning William as emperor, this is also something that Nikolai is unwilling to do, because the emperor is already equal to the pope in status, legally speaking, only the emperor appoints the clergy, and no pope confirms the emperor, that is, after the Kashano castle incident, the emperor needs to be coronated and confirmed, which is slightly inferior to the pope in status.

Of course, if he had a tougher emperor, perhaps the position of the emperor and the pope should have been dropped, and Gregory VII, who had forced him to submit in the later years of Henry IV, had been expelled from Rome, and Frederick I the Redbeard had made the pope tremble several times south of Rome.

All of this shows that the title of emperor is not inferior to that of the pope, and that the religious power of the emperor is also a major obstacle to the Roman Church's attempts to control the Catholic Church.

Thinking about it, it seems that William wants to get it, and Nicholas II doesn't want to give any of them, and what he gives to William, the other party doesn't need it, which is a rather tricky problem.

But at this time, it was urgent to restore relations with William, because in recent days from the north came the news of the Normans' victory over Sweden and Denmark in the Kingdom of Norway, and Nicholas II was already convinced that the day when William would occupy the entire Kingdom of Norway was not far off, and without the Norwegian battlefield to attract the attention of the other side, how could he stabilize the Normans and prevent them from pointing the finger at him?

"Your Majesty, I beg your permission to go to Oslo to negotiate with the Norman King William, and I will do everything in my power to restore relations between the Holy See and the Normans." Seeing that Nicholas II was worried, Hildebrand took the initiative to ask for help.

"Your Excellency, I don't know what your strategy is?" Nicholas II looked at Hildebrand and asked.

"I don't have a strategy in mind, just a piece of sincerity." Hildebrand replied with a bow.

"Your Excellency, you are my right-hand man, now that the Holy See is in an eventful season, I still need to rely on you a lot, how can I be willing to let you leave?" Nicholas II shook his head and rejected the other party's proposal.

"Your Majesty, time is running out for us, and we must restore relations with William and the Holy See as he points the finger at him.

Looking at the entire Holy See, I am the only one who can successfully accomplish this mission! Hildebrand insisted.

"Then I grant your request and entrust you with the task of restoring relations between the Holy See and the Normans." Since Hildebrand insisted, it was inconvenient for Nicholas II to force it, as long as the matter was granted.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I can't thank you enough." Hildebrand bowed slightly.

"Your Excellency, as the Pope's assistant, your work is extremely important, I wonder if you have the right person to do this job?"

As the leader of the Clunes and the Pope's deputy, Hildebrand traveled north to Oslo to meet William, and naturally needed someone to be trusted to take over his work.

This man could not be appointed by Nicholas II himself, because it would be seen by others as a usurpation of power by taking advantage of others, and since his relationship with Hildebrand was still very harmonious at this time, it was not appropriate to turn against him.

"Your Majesty, do you remember Anselmo of Bishop Baggio of Lucca?" Hildebrand spoke.

"Naturally, Bishop Luca Anselmo was one of the two people I assigned to settle the dispute over the Church of Milan, and he was so meritorious in this matter that I was about to reward him and elevate him to the rank of Archbishop of Ravenna." When Nicholas II heard Hildebrand mention him, he immediately recalled his joy: "Do you mean to let Bishop Lucca take over your job?" ”

"That's right, Your Majesty, Bishop Luca is a very talented priest, a man of trust and trust, not only for his outstanding performance in the last religious conflict in Milan, but also for playing an important role in your papal elections." Hildebrand nodded in reply.

"Well, then, I agreed to let Bishop Luca promote him to cardinal, and order him to take over the duties and responsibilities of the Grand Deputy." Nicholas II nodded in agreement.

With all that had been arranged, Hildebrand set out on his journey to Paris again, where he would meet Queen Urraka and Prime Minister Rudolf before heading to Oslo, Norway, to meet William.