Hong Tao didn't make Hong Tao feel good, and Hong Tao wouldn't make the little girl comfortable, even if it was his own daughter, he couldn't bear it. In the early hours of the next morning, his biological clock rang, and then no one slept, and all of them went out to exercise with him. If you dare not get up, then he really dares to take a basin of cold water and splash it with his face. What about exercising? Running is obviously unrealistic, the stone pavement is not very smooth, and it is not safe to run. Just ride a horse, just let Jiang Zhuyi get familiar with it, it seems that the days to come will have to ride a horse, the roads of the imperial city are all such virtues, and it is really unreliable to take a car.

"Hey, hey, hey...... I guess you're going to get up early and go horseback riding? "Before I reached the hall on the first floor, a human head suddenly appeared next to me, with a red hair and a yellow beard!

"I said your cousin is having a tight day this day, can't he light more candles? Why don't you go to the boat and get him some jars of whale oil, and get some more oil lamps. Otherwise, a living ghost like you will pop up from time to time, and it won't frighten me and my daughter! "Actually, Hong Tao has seen this guy a long time ago, but it is too dark on the stairs of the castle to see who it is.

"My cousin is not as rich as you, didn't I tell you, he doesn't have much money of his own, he doesn't have as much money as the Duke of Germany, and he has to run such a big country, and there are expenses everywhere. In the past few years, there has been a war in the north...... "Carl had a pair of panda eyes, and at a glance, he knew that he didn't sleep well last night, and it was a problem whether he slept or not. After listening to Hong Tao's complaints, he told Hong Tao about his cousin's difficulties with a bitter face and his fingers, as if he had been watching here all along.

"Gotta get it...... If you don't light the lamp, don't light the lamp, don't cry poor with me, the landlord's family has no surplus food. I don't think your cousin is poor. Yesterday I showed him so many opportunities to make money. He couldn't even look at it. Also. Emperor, how can you look at our three melons and two dates. In a few days I will sail to Venice, set up a stall on the pier, cry and bleed, and go home when I have sold out enough money to pay for the journey! You just stay here and enjoy the blessings......" and Hong Tao crying poor? This is a class with an axe, he can say that he is called Hanako at any time, and he can also say that the Jinhe is made of straw.

"It's not that my cousin doesn't want to work with you, he has a lot of difficulties. Let's take Venice. I'm afraid they won't allow you to set up a stall to sell these things, and my cousin doesn't have a good relationship with the Pope, and if he touches the interests of the Venetian city-state, he will have another enemy out of thin air. The Venetian merchants were rich enough to rival the nation, and my cousin would rather fight the Papal States than provoke them. Karl and Hong Tao knew everything, and poured out all the hardships of the emperor and him. In fact, the emperor is also for this purpose, and it is most suitable for him to be the middleman, and it is good to have a serious conversation by exploring the bottom line of the two sides, otherwise once we can't talk together, it will be easy to have contradictions.

"Then I'll take the boat over. Blow Venice to the ground? Isn't it a water city, I don't think it's thorough enough. How about just going all underwater? Hong Tao rolled his eyes and began to talk nonsense, he didn't know what Carl's cousin was talking to Carl, and he didn't know what the current situation of the Holy Roman Empire was, and no one came to tell him, this job had to be handed over to Carl.

"I can't blow it up until I'm done!" When the little Hong Salamander heard that there was a city built on the water, he immediately became not sleepy, and raised his head from Jiang Zhuyi's shoulder to stop Hong Tao's brutal behavior.

"Yes, yes, draw first, finish painting and then blow up! Don't keep letting Mother Jiang hold you, come down and go by yourself. "Hong Tao's requirements for children are very lenient in some places, but strict in others. For example, it is not allowed to let adults hold this rule, which is a death rule, after the age of three, you must walk by yourself, and you can rest when you are tired of walking, but you are not allowed to hug it.

"Then my cousin should cry, you have become the enemy of the whole Christendom, will he stand with you against all, or will he stand on the side of the Christians and organize the crusade against you? I talked to my cousin all night last night and didn't close my eyes, and he is not in a good situation right now. The Lombard city-states in the north had always refused to give in, and the Papal States secretly supported his enemies, not only against him on the Lombard question, but also on the part of the German principality. Can you think of a good way to help him, even if I beg you, how about I be a servant for you for another ten years? Think about it...... "With Carl with them, several people quickly arrived at the royal stables behind the castle, Carl one, Hong Tao and Jiang Zhuyi rode one horse, along yesterday's stone road, slowly walked to the outside of the castle. Karl rode his horse to the left of Hong Tao, clenching his fists and shaking his fists, desperately pleading for his cousin.

"Can Carl convince him?" If Hong Tao looked up at this time, he could see that a window on the north side of the third floor of the castle had quietly opened, and Friedrich II was also standing behind the window with a pair of panda eyes, staring at the four of them. The Empress Isabella, dressed in a looser robe, stood beside the Emperor with her arms around her waist, and looked up to ask her husband.

"Only God knows...... I don't know if God will favor me......" The emperor also took off his long coat, there was no crown on his head, and his long red hair was scattered over his shoulders, looking at the two of them from behind, it was really difficult to distinguish who was male and who was female, except for the different body shapes, the other characteristics were similar.

"Do you believe Carl? Both Herman and Peruzzi believed that Karl had been seduced by the infidels and exaggerated the abilities of the Duke of Ait. If his Eastern Empire is really so powerful, and it is just east of the A-La-Bo, why didn't he attack the A-La Bo first, and then come to us? The Empress did not agree with the Emperor's decision, she felt that the Emperor had taken Carl's word too seriously.

"You don't know much about Carl, he's been a straight guy since he was a kid, he never tells lies, and even if he kills my falcon, he'll run back and admit that it's his responsibility as soon as possible. Although he has been gone for ten years and many places have changed, his temper has not changed, and I think most of what he said was true. Don't forget, he's still a knight of the Empire, and he's never forgotten his knightly oath. I asked Giogio if he and Carl were on that big ship. Judging by the details he had come back to describe to me, the ship must have been very strong, its side was at least a cubit and a half thick, the wood was very hard, and it was very fast, as Karl had said. The fact that he was able to build such a big ship and come here from the far east shows that he is very powerful. Whether or not he was as miraculous as Karl had said, it was worth trying, and if we could really take a share of the commerce from the Venetians, then we would have room to negotiate terms with the Germanic principalities, and the Lombards would break themselves. Gregory IX was nothing more than a fanatical religious, and without the Venetians and Lombards to support him, the Papal States would sooner or later be imperial. I want to restore the empire that my grandfather founded, not a collection of filthy kingdoms made up of the Pope and a bunch of forgetful people! ”

Friedrich II watched as Hong Tao and his party rode around to the left side of the castle before closing the window. Although it was on the northern shore of the Mediterranean, the morning breeze was still a little cool, making his already shorter figure than Carl set off by a wide burqa, making him look even thinner. However, on this thin shoulder, he carried a huge empire with the largest number in the world, and this was not enough, he also wanted to surpass his grandfather, the founder of the Hohensteffen family, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, known as Freet the Redbeard. Barbarossa, restoring the Roman Empire.

The struggle between the Pope and the Emperor begins with the generation of Friedrich II's father. His father, Henry VI, intended to turn the Papal States in the middle of the Italian peninsula into the territory of the King of Italy, leaving only the Pope a Roman city, and it was not for nothing, but rent, which was to be deducted annually from the tithes of all the churches in Italy. The pope refused, and before Henry VI could find a way to force the pope to accede to his request, the short-lived emperor died of illness after only seven years on the throne, leaving a huge empire to four-year-old Friedrich II.

The Emperor was not an inheritance, but Henry VI had been pushing for it, and had made private agreements with many princes in the Germanic principalities and even the Kingdom of England to support his son, Friedrich II, the Germanic king, after his death. He also made concessions to the pope in exchange for the pope's support for his son's ascension to the throne as emperor in the future. However, there is an ancient Chinese saying that when people leave the tea, it will be cold, and this sentence is really a universal truth all over the world, which is applicable in China and the same in Europe.

Henry VI died on the front foot, and on the back foot, the feud of the Hohensteffen family, the son of the Duke of Saxony, and the nephew of King Charles I of England, Otto IV clamed for the re-election of the Germanic king. Henry VI's wife, that is, Friedrich II's mother, Empress Constance, looked at it, yes, our orphans and widows can't beat you in the Germanic territory, and we don't want the Germanic king, and after announcing the abdication of the throne, she directly returned to her homeland of Sicily with little Friedrich II in her arms. Why go back to Sicily? Because this queen mother was not given for nothing, she was the queen of Sicily before marrying Henry VI, and her son had the right to inherit the Kingdom of Sicily, so little Friedrich II became the king of the Kingdom of Sicily before he was four years old.

One more thing to say here, or not that the royal family in Europe is very chaotic, in total, there are just a few branches of nobles coming and going intermarriage, and various inheritance rights coming and going. It doesn't take until later generations, before the end of the Middle Ages, almost all the major families in Europe were already connected by blood. If you really want to talk about seniority, all of them are a big family, and I'm afraid they won't even be able to come out of the five suits. (To be continued.) )