The Grand Duchess of Tuscany, as the former prince of the HRE border, was able to compete with the then Italian alliance lord Ezzo II, Duke of Lombardy, who was not only in charge of Tuscany, but also directly owned important cities such as Modena, Mantua, Brescia and Ferrara, and was very powerful.

As the only surviving daughter of the Marquis of Bonifacio III, and due to the early death of most of her family, Archduchess Matilda was carefully taught horseback riding and martial arts from an early age. She was known to the Italians as the Great Countess for her exploits in the Italian War of Independence.

This shows Matilda's high status and strong power.

However, even if Matilda's strength is strong, William is not worried that the other party will go against his intentions, after all, Matilda has another identity, that is, Richard's fiancée, at most two years of hard work, and when Richard becomes an adult, the two can get married, as the crown prince of the Norman royal family and the Prince of York. Morality. The Marquis of Normandy and Tuscany Matilda will be united, and William will also be able to strengthen his Norman influence in Tuscany through this political marriage, and Tuscany will be completely owned by the Norman royal family when they give birth to his grandson.

The only concern was whether being the Archbishop of Florence and the Grand Patriarch of Hildebrand would have any effect on Matilda, since if she had agreed with the Cluny faction, she would probably oppose her.

William was well aware that the Archduchess Matilda, who was now just coming of age, was a very assertive lord, and more than ten years later she was in the vanguard of Hildebrand's opposition to Henry IV, and it was in her castle that Cassano had taken place.

Fortunately, it seems that Matilda has not been influenced by Hildebrand at present, and has a mediocre view of the Clunytes, which also makes William Schuck angry.

Of course, Matilda was not influenced by the Clunes and also had William's credit, after all, he imprisoned Hildebrand, who was bishop of Florence and archdiocese for so many years, and when he returned to Rome, he was busy opposing the former Pope Sdwan IX, where did he have time to influence Archduchess Matilda?

By the time Hildebrand wanted to influence Matilda, he had already missed the opportunity, because William and the Normans cared more about Matilda and the Duchy of Tuscany than anyone believed, and you could even see Norman courtiers in the Florentine court.

The attack on Pisa was really just a small episode on the way south to Rome, and the Pisas found themselves besieged by an army of more than 80,000 men, including their old enemies, the Genoese, and one of Italy's strongest princes, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, surrounded on all sides.

The Pisas had long been willing to submit, after all, William had never treated the Genoese who had surrendered to them harshly, but perhaps they had the intention of bargaining, or perhaps they cared about the opinion of the Pope, and they had not made up their minds after discussing for a long time.

It wasn't until William himself led a large army to the city of Pisa that His Majesty's governor Dedis reluctantly surrendered to William on his knees surrounded by a group of Genoese city nobles, with the key to the city of Genoa.

However, they were reluctant to surrender before, and now they will surrender when he leads his troops to the city, and if they let each other go easily, wouldn't that encourage everyone to go against him? In the future, will anyone think that raising an army to resist him is a low-risk and high-return thing, if he succeeds, he can be promoted to the queen, and if he fails, he can go out of the city and surrender on his knees with the city gate key, and he can also retain his vested interests?

If everyone thinks so in the future, how can William's reign continue? Even while William was still alive, the nobles, clergy, and city nobles were too afraid of his might to rebel, but what about when his heir succeeded him? Then William can't say for sure.

Therefore, for the sake of the long-term rule of the Normandy royal family, William not only demanded that the Pisan people hand over the culprit Dedis, the governor of Pisa, cede the city-state of Piombino, that is, half of its core territory, to Matilda, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, hand over a ransom fee of 120,000 pounds of silver, provide 10,000 troops and 20,000 people for a year's supplies, and many other conditions.

William did not allow any of them to refuse, and threatened that if they refused to agree to any of them, he would attack the city of Pisa.

William's conditions undoubtedly made the Pisan people very painful, not to mention the payment of 120,000 pounds of silver ransom fee, not to mention the provision of troops and supplies, the Pisan family has a big business and can afford it, but if they hand over their governor Dedis, it will make them lose their majesty, and the cession of Piombino is equivalent to ceding their own general core territory, how can this be promised?

However, the situation is stronger than people, William has more than 80,000 mercenaries, and even if they are smashing pots and selling iron at this time, it is difficult for them to gather a mercenary army of 20,000 people.

At this moment, there are only more than 6,000 mercenaries in the city of Pisa, and less than 5,000 town militias, and the total has just exceeded 10,000.

"My brother Ugo, the Republic of Pisa is in your hands! Remember, you can't let the Genoese and the Florentine dog thieves get their way! Don't be an enemy of the Normans, but befriend His Majesty William! ”

Dedis knew very well who his enemies were, who they could rely on, and there was only one enemy who could threaten them, and that was the cities of the Italian city-states, one was their old enemy Genoa, and the other was the emerging Tuscan city of Florence, and if the development of these two cities could not be contained, the position of the Republic of Pisa would be greatly threatened.

"Got it, brother, I'll do what you told me to do." Ugo nodded solemnly in promise.

"My lords, my brother Ugo. Della. Graltiska is the new governor of Pisa and a consul for life! Ugo was only a middleman, but it was enough to follow his instructions to take charge of Pisa, and the Governor of Dedis announced the appointment to the crowd.

The castle of Genoa and other Italian states, which say that they are democratic elections, are in fact the main power is still manipulated by people like Della Die. In the hands of families like the Graltisca, neither Genoese nor Venetian.

William had expected Governor Dedis's compromise, but when he knelt before William to accept everything, William was still surprised by his decisiveness.

In fact, William asked the Pisians for the Governor of Dedis, not to harm him, but only to use him as a hostage, so when he surrendered to him, William treated him with great courtesy, walking side by side like a pair of brothers.