"Your Excellency Cardinal Salzburg, please be at ease." Cardinal Ravenna tried to reassure: "Your Majesty, Your Excellency Cardinal, King William has promised that the doctrines and scriptures used by the Church in his kingdom will be exactly the same as those used by the Holy See, and that every year the Holy See may send priests to Paris to check whether there are any discrepancies in the doctrine.

In my opinion, King William wanted to completely break away from the control of the Holy See over the Church in England and the Kingdom of France, but did not want to change it to a heretical sect. ”

"This is acceptable, but King William must also be sincere, and the price he paid is not enough, and Cardinal Hildebrand cannot agree to it." Cardinal Salzburg nodded slowly after listening to this.

"I agree with Cardinal Salzburg that His Majesty King Wilhelm should show his sincerity by removing the encirclement of the Apal troops and releasing them to Rome." Leo IX nodded in agreement.

Cardinal Ravenna shook his head, frustrated by the insistence of the two, now was not the time to hold a shelf.

"The Normans had already defeated France, Norway, Denmark, and the Holy Roman Empire, and they were free to move south against the Holy See after their victory.

This time, the Normans besieged our army but did not annihilate it, which was a warning and deterrent to us, proving that they were also capable of marching into Rome. You won't forget the story of Gregory VI. Cardinal Ravenna did not give up and was reluctant to persuade.

"He wants to depose the pope like Kaiser Henry III? This is absolutely not possible, the authority of the Church has only been restored for a short time, and it must not suffer another heavy blow, and any conditions he puts forward are negotiable. When Leo IX heard this, he immediately changed his tune.

When it comes to their own vital interests, from the pope, the king and the emperor, down to the peddlers and pawns, their reaction is the same.

"Your Majesty, do not forget that the Normans of Sicily were equally eyeing Rome, and that Caesar, King of Sicily, seemed to want to emulate the story of Henry III.

Now that Kaiser Henry III has just been defeated, it is simply impossible for him to send troops to help the Church, everything can only be relied on ourselves.

Therefore we must quickly reach a peace agreement with the Normans, and even borrow troops from William or hire soldiers to settle down against Caesar in Sicily. Cardinal Ravenna stepped up his persuasion.

"Well, just do it, I will generally agree to William's conditions, and I will also transfer Hildebrand to him, but remember to stick to the bottom line." Leo IX instructed: "Your Excellency Cardinal Ravenna, the negotiations with the Normans will be entrusted to you. ”

"Your Majesty, I will live up to my trust." Cardinal Ravenna bowed and retired.

The negotiator sent by William's side was the one who was named Walter. Sir Giffard led several people, of course, this was only on the surface, but in addition to this, he also sent a large number of spies to Rome, responsible for bribing the clergy and their families, spreading rumors and panic, assassinations, etc., in order to facilitate this negotiation and achieve William's goals.

At the same time, William also knew that some things could only be obtained at the negotiating table, but only on the battlefield, so he immediately ordered Duke Hubert to concentrate his forces on the weaker castle of Narbonne first, so that the Holy See in Rome was also nervous.

The Château de Narbonne, located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Toulouse, near the shores of the Mediterranean, is only closely connected to the Count of Toulouse, and the port outside the castle is also a very important commercial port, where the Genoese control the maritime commerce.

At this time, at the point of the siege of William's soldiers at the Castle of Narbonne, there was a fierce dispute between the nobles and knights under the command of Ponsgishome, Duke of Toulouse, and the inviolable Holy See on the other.

The clergy and generals of Rome claimed that the Normans in the Roman forehand bag were a threat and they had to return to Rome with their troops, while the noble generals of the Duchy of Toulouse demanded that the Roman army work together to tide over the difficulties.

One with the primary goal of rescuing Rome, while the other was to defend against the huge Norman army and longbowmen, and the two sides were already at odds, and the lack of a fight was considered a disciplined house, thankfully.

The defenders of Narbonne were at loggerheads, and it was naturally impossible for the two sides to work together, which gave the Duke of Hubert, a great opportunity. He immediately ordered his eighteen counterweight trebuchets to fully deploy in front of him and begin a fierce assault on them.

Although William instructed Duke Hubert not to kill the Pope's troops, it was enough to teach them some lessons, that is, to break through the city gates, as long as the degree was well controlled, it would not deal a fatal blow to the Pope's army.

Under the bombardment of counterweight trebuchets, the counterweight trebuchets, ladders, engineering vehicles and other siege equipment in several fronts came one after another, and in the blink of an eye, they broke through the defense of the outer city wall of Nanana.

After entering the city, there is also a fortified inner city in the city, in which the elite soldiers and families of the city are stationed, in order to protect their families, the alliance of the two sides seems to have made Duke Hubert temporarily stop his progress and wait for follow-up contact.

The seizure of cities and fortresses was supposed to be the specialty of the Normans, but in order to keep the agreement between Hubert and William, they persecuted the Holy See.

Duke Hubert's battle was directly directed by Walter, the envoy to Rome. In the negotiations between Giffard and the papal envoys, the two sides first cut out the words in the peace treaty

It is necessary to start a barony and a barony to discuss the discussion board.

It was with Duke Hubert's attack on the castle of Narbonnechen that the Church reluctantly hastened the pace of peace talks.

A few days later, William and Alternation finally signed a contract that was extremely beneficial to them.

Under this contract, William had free control over the personnel and assets of the Church, was free from interference in internal affairs and religion, and became de jure and de facto a de facto Protestant denomination in England and France.

At the same time, William's request to Cardinal Hildebrand was also met by Pope Leo IX, who forcibly transferred Hildebrand to him against Cardinal Hildebrand's wishes.

A number of other treaties of commerce, education, and trade were still being negotiated intensively, but after several preconditions were met, Leo IX's papal army finally set sail on ships and returned to Paris.

At this time, Caesar of Sicily marched north with a large army to Rome, and William, in order to prevent the other party from taking Rome, agreed to the other party's request and sent the Papal army to return to Rome to hold on.