William agreed to send a certain number of Normans to southern Italy, but did not agree to the Normans' private adventures, in order to prevent the Normans from being divided and disintegrated by Caesar and becoming the nourishment for his strength.

At least in William's view, the unified and organized Normans would not have been so easily divided and disintegrated by Caesar.

In the ensuing negotiations, Caesar made many more demands to William, and the amount of money and food he asked for aid was also very large, but he could give William very little, nothing more than some public support and a few ports and a few small pieces of land, which could not afford all of Caesar's demands.

Since William had sensed Caesar's ambition and knew that the other party had different ambitions, it was naturally impossible for him to support the other party with the same power as before, so William pushed three or four or five, pushed most of Caesar's demands clean, and only allowed the other party's support request for a small amount of money and food.

William's treatment of Caesar like this naturally made him very unhappy, originally he expected William to support himself willingly through his former feelings and rhetoric, but he miscalculated, William was not so easily deceived, and the benefits given were pitiful, and there were a lot of vain things, but in the eyes of outsiders, he couldn't point out anything wrong.

In particular, William also deliberately canonized Caesar as the Duke of Apulia, Cazabria and Sicily, granting him these three domains, and William took this as an opportunity to divide the originally huge Duchy of Apulia into three dukedoms of different sizes.

According to the common law of male preferential and equal inheritance, the three dukedoms would be divided between Caesar's three different descendants or his male relatives, so that the former behemoth of Apulia would no longer be a princely power in southern Italy, but just one of many princes in Italy, and it would no longer be a threat, which was what William wanted to achieve.

Dissatisfied, Caesar did not speak to William for the next few days, and when the coronation was over, he returned to southern Italy with the procession in a huff.

Anyway, when William had already thrown the three titles of Duke of Apulia, Duke of Cazabria and Duke of Sicily to Caesar, everyone else was envious of Caesar's grace, but he was the only one who looked sullen, and he knew William's plan to divide and disintegrate the Duchy of Apulia at this time.

However, in the face of the expectations of his vassals, he could not refuse, if he refused or destroyed these two extra duke titles, he would be against many Norman nobles, and the nobles under his command would no longer obey his rule, so he had to accept the canonization of William, an unprecedented duke with three duke titles.

Caesar left in a bad mood, but William was not worried, he had already gotten what he wanted from Caesar, and his need was not urgent, but Caesar still needed the help of the Norman kingdom and William, he couldn't do without William, so he had the confidence to tie Caesar and not let him go alone.

After the coronation was over, everything was calm again, but William gathered many of his important ministers to discuss with him the strategy of getting Ireland and Wales right.

As mentioned above, the closest and most convenient direction of William's expansion was Ireland and Wales, and the rest of the world, such as France, England, Holland, and Germany, were not suitable places for expansion.

After emphasizing the importance of the conquest of Ireland and Wales, William asked Steward Osborne to brief you on the history and situation of Ireland.

"Your Majesty, my Excellency, allow me to brief you on some of Ireland's affairs."

Osborne was in charge of intelligence gathering for internal and external affairs, and his authority was above that of Emma, the head of the spy, so he was in control of the situation in Ireland and Wales.

Irish history began around 6600 BC, with the end of the last glacial period beginning to settle on the island of Ireland, and the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age around 300 BC. Probably at the same time as the Celts migrated to Ireland, the Celtic language came to Ireland, and later the Celtic language was mixed with the native language to form the Irish language.

Around 300 BC the Celts brought iron tools to Ireland, and Ireland entered the Iron Age, and the Celts came to Ireland from the 8th to the 1st century BC in many migrations.

Around 150 BC, the Celtic culture was already dominant in Ireland, dividing Ireland into at least five kingdoms. Although these kingdoms were constantly at war with each other, they still reached a fairly high level of civilization. The most powerful of these kingdoms were the Druidic monks, who concentrated the roles of teachers, doctors, poets, representatives of the gods, and chroniclers of law and history.

After the Roman Empire took LinkedIn Glen, the nobles of Ireland sometimes attacked England to carry out looting. The Romans called Ireland Hibernia. Ptolemy accurately described the geography and tribes of Ireland in 100 AD, which was never part of the Roman Empire, but whose Roman influence often extended beyond its borders.

Tradition says that St. Patrick arrived in Ireland in 432 and that his Christianization of Ireland (c. 450 to 500) ended the period of Celtic culture, preserving the tribal and social structures that characterize Ireland, recording the original laws and changing them only if they were contrary to Christian teachings.

Legend has it that he also introduced the Latin alphabet, which was used by Irish monks to preserve part of the oral literature of the Celts, after which Ireland entered a period of written history.

As the new faith became popular, the traditional Druidism collapsed, and Irish scholars studied Latin and Christian theology in the monasteries, which flourished in Ireland. Missionaries from Ireland to England and continental Europe preached the Irish style of learning, attracting scholars from all over Europe to Ireland.

These monasteries are excellent, and their isolation from the rest of the world has contributed greatly to the preservation of much of the knowledge of Latin. The art of illustration for paintings and calligraphy, metalworking, and engraving developed enormously in Ireland.

But political disunity and Viking invasions (from 795 onwards) put an end to this period. The Vikings came to Ireland after colonizing the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and after the initial raids they began to establish permanent settlements in Ireland. These settlements later became the starting point of Ireland's earliest cities. That's how cities like Dublin, Wexford, Watford and others started.

The first Viking to establish his own kingdom in Ireland was Thorgest, whose kingdom was located in the present-day counties of Oster, Connaught and Mees, which lasted from 831 to 845, when Thorest was killed by King Malach of Meate.