Chapter 327: My Time (1)
Legend has it that this most recent court celebrity was a nobleman from Trebizond in Asia Minor, whose family was involved in the rivalry between the puppet Emperor Varda Focca and Emperor Basil II, and was defeated by the Emperor Yi who won the civil war.
The officer in charge of the execution at that time had compassion for him at a young age, and he was castrated and sent to the court, which changed his life from then on.
is such a boy who has lost his dignity as a man, and he is crawling and rolling in the harem of deceit, and gradually gaining a firm foothold.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and he was exiled indefinitely for refusing to marry the barbarian Grand Duke of Kiev Vladimir I with Princess Anna, and later escaped surveillance and came to Otto III, where he became the object of curiosity and ridicule of the nobles.
But he persevered until he was appreciated by Empress Kunigund and gained his current status.
At the celebration banquet in Rome, I had a relationship with him, at that time I was still a fledgling viscount, he was just a clown who told meat jokes after tea and dinner to make the nobles happy, but no one would have thought that today, the identity and status of the two have undergone earth-shaking changes, one has become a local warlord who supports the army and respects himself, and the other is a powerful eunuch who causes chaos and chaos, like the bloody bridge of the Qing court drama.
Emperor Henry arranged an audience at his chamber to show his reliance on the Duke of Nijmegen, and I was guided by my attendants through the overlapping staircases and corridors, and unsurprisingly met Princess Figura of Poland in her room.
She is now the emperor's lover and favorite concubine, and half of the master of this harem.
I sniffed the smell of precious oriental spices in the room, but it didn't smell as good as the smell of blood on the battlefield, and His Majesty Henry was sitting behind his desk reviewing papers, and Figura was lying on the fur-decorated chaise longue beside him, with only a faint glance at my arrival.
"May God bless you, Your Majesty the Great Emperor!"
Since I haven't seen each other for a long time, I have to show enough humility at the beginning, even if I am already a powerful minister who has half the country in my hands and no longer has to look up to others.
"The war in Bavaria is over, and I have come to you to give you my life."
"Resurrection?"
His Majesty Henry raised his head slightly, glanced at me and quickly fell.
"Lord Duke, I didn't mobilize this war, so I can't talk about resuming my life, huh?"
He dodged away and asked the attendant to pour fire paint on the signed document, then took the Emperor's seal and covered it vigorously, gently blew the seal in the faint smoke that rose, and handed it to the attendant who had been waiting for a long time on the side.
"It's me who is abrupt!"
With a symbolic nod to Princess Figura, I walked over to the chair that the attendant had brought and sat down, and continued:
"The coffin of the Duke of Carinthia, in accordance with his last wishes, has been sent to Bishop William of Strasbourg, and now that the political situation in Bavaria and Carinthia is stable, and the nobles are all heartily embracing your rule, you can move forward without worry."
The emperor smiled and obviously understood the meaning of worry-free, and nodded with satisfaction, his current situation was extremely embarrassing, and there were speculations and misinterpretations with ulterior motives in every move, and the whole world knew that divorce and the civil war caused by it were already a certainty, and everyone with ghosts was waiting to see a good show.
"I haven't been to Rome for a long time, but I didn't expect His Majesty the Pope to still like to mess around so much, and he is willing to insert a lever anywhere."
His Majesty instructed his attendants to pour me a full glass of wine, and said leisurely with his glass:
"To be honest, I never thought that I would eventually become an ally to fight side by side with you, but since the day I met you, I knew that this person in front of me was absolutely vulgar and would definitely become a comrade-in-arms or enemy in the future, so I was always ready for this day to come, I may not change anything, but you can take what you want, as long as you help me defeat all the enemies, yes, those enemies that can be seen and invisible, the enemies of my empire!"
His Majesty Henry was a little agitated, and the syrup in the tilted glass was about to spill, and I returned the service with a proper smile, but I kept silent......
His Majesty, or the somewhat nervous Emperor, left me in the room for a long time, talking about some idle chat, paying attention to the rolling paper and glass produced in Nijmegen, and discussing with me how to install the castle in which I lived to make it look bright.
Later, it was getting late, His Majesty Henry arranged to have a light meal, under his kind invitation, in the face of a table full of chickens, ducks and fish, I didn't know what to do, so I could only play haha, while picking up some dried fruits and dried meat and other pads, awkwardly boiled to the end, and ran out as if I was escaping.
"Hehe, now you know how to woo me? Cut ......"
I walked in the long corridor of the castle, this deep corridor is damp and dark and does not see the sun all year round, even at noon, I must light torches to ward off the cold and illuminate, two attendants one holding a clay pot filled with grease, the other holding the rosin incense that ignites the fire, are busy adding oil to the lamp holder that is about to burn out, and when they see me coming, they immediately stop their work, and stand respectfully against the wall and bend down to salute, so that people can't find fault with it, and sure enough, they are the people who serve the emperor, and they have seen a lot in the world.
"Hmm!"
I put my hands behind my back to pass the brazier that had just been filled with oil and burned vigorously, and the faint rosin fragrance it emitted could not help but refresh, but the scorching flame was so hot that I could not stand it, just like His Majesty the Emperor was suddenly courteous, although flattered, but unfortunately it was too hot, and no one dared to lean over with all his heart.
The castle where His Majesty Henry lived was a garden built in the shape of a mountain, which was designed by the royal designers from Constantinople and carefully built by craftsmen from Rome and Venice.
The fragrance of birds and flowers everywhere, coupled with the vitality of the revival of everything in spring, is really fascinating.
I took advantage of the faint light before the sky was completely dark, strolling in the interesting garden, smelling the rich fragrance of the early blooming spring flowers, leisurely blurred, and unconsciously lingered for a long time.
Turning around a bush of neatly trimmed bushes, there was a person standing by the stone pavilion in front of him who couldn't see his face clearly, I slowed down in confusion and approached quietly, only to see that the other party was facing away from him, and he had a shaved bald head, and his short figure was wrapped in a fat robe that reached the ground, exuding a gloomy and gloomy temperament, as if he was happily walking on the street and suddenly caught a glimpse of a bubble **** in the corner of the roadside, and his good mood instantly fell to the bottom.
This bald head is all too familiar to me, and it is almost iconic in the court.
Recently, Lord Goldfinger Varys, a eunuch from Constantinople, who has recently become famous in aristocratic circles, has finally realized the dream of one man under ten thousand people in the German court, thousands of miles away from his hometown.
Of course, it refers to the status in the queen's family, and the nobles who tend to be powerful are rushing to make friends with him and give gifts, wishing that the whole person kneels on the ground and licks his toes, just begging this great eunuch with his hands and eyes to help him say a few kind words in front of his master.
It's strange to say that Lord Varys, who is red and purple next to the queen, is not hated by the emperor, but is also very treated by the invisible queen Figura, and can talk on both sides, which makes people have to admire his kung fu in serving women.
There are a lot of nobles who flattered him around the golden finger, but unfortunately I didn't buy his account, maybe because I had watched too many Qing court dramas since I was a child, and I was very disgusted with these rootless people who spoke yin and yang and played right and wrong, and even felt that I could smell the smell of urine that couldn't be covered by how much perfume he sprinkled on his body from a distance, and I was so disgusting that I almost vomited out the overnight meal, so I usually hid as far as I wanted, and I didn't have much interaction with him.
"Bad luck!"
I cursed in a low voice, tiptoeing to sneak away, but Varys suddenly turned around and greeted me coldly.
"Master Randy, long time no see!"
Goldfinger smiled at me familiarly, kind like your second uncle's little fat, but I was still in an escape posture and was slightly embarrassed and stunned in place, like a lewd stick caught and raped in bed, eager to find a crack to get into.
Fortunately, my wit was as fast as my brain, and I naturally leaned over in minutes, holding the warm yellow petals of the spring flowers, and muttered to myself as if I was playful: "What a miracle of God, such a beautiful flower can bloom in the cold, it is really pitiful." ”
"I can't imagine that the iron-blooded and sonorous Lord Randy has such a warm side, as the saying goes, the tenderness of an iron man has been extremely fulfilled in you."
Eunuch Varys put his two hands in his sleeves, and bowed slightly to me as a sign of politeness, his big white face wrinkled into a rotten chrysanthemum, and his smiling slender eyes were squeezed into a line, completely trapped in the middle of the cascading fat of his face, and others didn't know, anyway, I always had the urge to kick him in the face with a pair of spiked shoes, and then continue to twist twice, without him, just disgust.
Smell! I jerked my nose back, rolled my eyes, and my face was redder than a crab on the steamer, and Varys took a few steps forward to hug me, and asked with concern, "My lord, are you uncomfortable?" ”
And I'm already foaming at the mouth and can't take care of myself......
"It's okay, it's okay, maybe I just drank too much."
Even if you hate it, you still have to have etiquette, as the saying goes, it is better to lose the gentleman than the villain, God knows if this grandson will wear small shoes for you behind your back, or be careful, I smiled and saluted back:
"Yo, Lord Varys, what wind brought you here? Blame me for my clumsiness, I didn't recognize you in the first place, damn it! ”
"You are just proud of the spring breeze, how can you take a little person like me in your eyes?" Varys was joking, but it sounded so profound to me.
Little? The villain is pretty much the same!
I sneered in my heart, but on the surface, I had to pretend to be a nasty and joked about it:
"Where, where, how many people can't ask for an opportunity to get close to Lord Varys, how can I be so ignorant."
As soon as these words came out, even I felt that it was too flattering, and I was able to get rid of a ******** dog's legs, or the kind that couldn't be put on the table, or not, who called the open gun easy to dodge and the dark arrow is difficult to prevent, and then I told Leonardo to prepare some dry goods to send to his house, and clean it.
(End of chapter)
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