My opening acknowledgment was indeed a surprise to many, and it also made the Earl Carinthia, who was holding back his strength to refute, find no excuse to question it.

His Holiness the Pope's envoy smiled and nodded, listening to me with great interest along with the Emperor's arbiters......

"Duke Otto is someone I have always respected, a true nobleman and a pious warrior of God, we have had the privilege of fighting side by side, facing the traitors of the empire and the enemies of the pagan religion together, squandering all his sincerity and blood on the road to heaven on earth, he is my spiritual mentor, and the benchmark of life's struggle, this time I had to fight with Duke Otto as an enemy, so I almost lost the courage to fight."

Lowering my eyes gloomily, I used near-perfect acting skills to interpret the inner entanglement and sadness of the characters.

"Because of the different positions, I must pick up the sword in my hand and protect the people I need to protect, but this does not mean that I have a lot of hatred with Duke Otto, on the contrary, this is the highest point of my glory, and I can compete with my idol!"

"At last I was fortunate enough to stand here to speak to you, while the Duke returned to the arms of God, and I have ordered my men to collect his body, decorate it with flowers and gold, and then send a special escort to escort him to the Bishop of Strasbourg, Mr. William, for burial, according to the Duke's wishes."

The corners of Earl Kärnden's mouth moved, but he still didn't speak, but the sharp eyes just now were obviously much softer, and it seemed that the warm tactics were still quite effective.

"His Holiness the Pope has given us an edict for the end of the war, strictly forbidding the two sides to continue fighting, Nijmegen immediately executed and obeyed this order, and tried every possible way to send people to communicate with Duke Otto but received no response, the Earl should not be able to deny this, right?"

I looked at Count Carinthia and asked, who bowed his head and said, "Later, Duke Otto not only took the initiative to attack the Upper Bavarian army, but even wanted to murder the mother and son of the little duke who were going to take refuge in Swabia. ”

I turned to the papal envoy, and he had a rare look of affirmation, his stiff poker face with some active muscle movements, but it could also be a convulsion of anger.

"In view of this, I would also like to say that although Duke Otto has violated the royal decree of His Majesty, this is still dwarfed by his devotion to God, so I ask the two special envoys of His Majesty to consider punishment as appropriate, and not to hold the dead and living accountable."

As I spoke, I leaned forward in a sincere tone, and the grasp of the scale of expressions and movements was just right, enough to move people with a heart of stone.

Sure enough, both envoys nodded with satisfaction, and the Earl of Carinten was also grateful, and the Earl of Henry looked at me in disbelief, but my sister, the Duchess, sat there calmly, shaking her arms and coaxing the little duke to sleep.

I coldly took everyone's performance into my field of vision, and thought to myself: as soon as this conclusive remark came out, if the two envoys did not understand what I meant, then their IQ would only be suitable for planting rice, but these fools tried their best to argue for a long time, but no one paid attention to why the Nijmegen army did not enter the city.

At my behest, the bull led the army straight to Carinthia, which was guarded against the emptiness, and when the meeting discussed a decent announcement, and then reported to the two Majesties for approval and circulation, the Wyvern Battle Banner would have been planted in the most remote city of Carinthia!

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The long rally finally came to an end with the sound of the horn to send off the coffin of the Duke of Carinthia.

In line with the law of the jungle of who has the biggest fist and who has the right to speak, the participants all recognized the fait accompli and guaranteed the inheritance of the legitimate royal line of Bavaria, but they also unanimously agreed not to hold the Count of Carinthia responsible, and the little Otto, as the only concubine of Duke Charles, inherited his father's title, because he was temporarily regent by his mother at a young age, and the Bavarian nobles, witnessed by the two envoys of His Majesty, re-swore allegiance to the little duke, and in a few words decided the meaning of the bloody battle of thousands of people, A war in which countless people have died has been exchanged for a happy ending.

Good things come in pairs, taking advantage of the presence of the papal envoy and the Archbishop of Regensburg, the wedding of the bull and Hannah, the daughter of Count Henry of Augsburg, was also held as scheduled, although the bull himself was not too enthusiastic, and even wanted to escape from marriage for a time, posing as a pioneer in the pursuit of free love, but when he really saw the girl who was about to become his future wife, all the unyielding ambitions turned into a wisp of green smoke and were released in minutes.

Henry's daughter really lived up to the reputation of the flower of Augsburg, with a noble and fresh temperament, exuding infinite feminine charm and vigorous youthful flavor all over her body, and the iron-blooded tough guy bull failed to hold on to a scene in front of her and surrendered, smirking to complete the whole process of the wedding, until they were sent into the cave room surrounded by young people attending the banquet, the bull was still stunned and muttered: "It's so beautiful, it's so beautiful......"

I was in a cold sweat when I heard it: this unproductive goods......

By marriage, Nijmegen once again strengthened its authority in Bavaria.

The Count of Augsburg not only maintained his original fiefdom unchanged, but also acquired a long and narrow fertile land along the Pal River to Dasin, and his youngest son was accepted as a squire by the Duke of Nijmegen, and was expected to be canonized as a knight when he became an adult, and if he was lucky, he might even get a knighthood and a fief.

This living example of buying a horse's bones tells all the Bavarian nobles that as long as they cooperate with Nijmegen, the benefits are absolutely great, even the once renegade Count Henry is treated preferentially, not to mention honest people like them who have always been conscientious.

For a time, many nobles expressed their loyalty to me in various ways, both openly and secretly, and sent Luo Luo to be the illegitimate son and youngest son of the attendant, and the original acolyte of more than 20 people was crammed to the full, with a staff of more than 100, which made people laugh and cry.

Because many Carinthian lords and knights participated in Duke Otto's military campaign against Bavaria, most of them did not return alive, resulting in a large area of borderland, and many brothers, uncles, and wives who were in charge of staying behind in the temporary regent government affairs were corrected by us and became the real masters of the territory, so the bull's crusade to the east in just ten days was like an armed procession, and the Carinthian nobles who had gained the benefits turned against each other and sincerely supported the authority of the Duke of Nijmegen, except that the domain of the Count Carinthia, which was unharmed under my orders, Almost half of Carinthia changed color in an instant.

Duke Otto's son, Conrad, could only give orders within a 100-mile radius of Salzburg, and Carinthia was no longer as strong as it used to be, but a veritable island.

Through this battle, Nijmegen basically completed the pre-war plan, controlled two well-supplied principalities, obtained the allegiance of the local nobles, and also carried out a marriage by the way, cleared the rear and the road to Italy, and connected Nijmegen, Hanover, Saxony, Dresden, Bavaria and Carinthia, forming an encirclement against Franconia, Lorraine and Swabia, which not only firmly controlled the trade routes, but also threatened the Holy See.

After completing the disturbing things, I naturally have to go to Dresden, explain the ins and outs to His Majesty the Emperor in person, as a monarch and minister, some necessary procedures still have to be performed, and it is also necessary to penetrate each other before the civil war is on the verge of exploding, I don't want the war to start, the two sides will have any unpleasant things because of the problem of coordination and communication, and the more I have saved some bottles and cans at home, the more I am afraid of losing my old capital.

May 1......

After the celebration of the May Celebration, and the customary public praise of the chosen Queen of May, I led the group of Nijmegen to pack up and hit the road, of course, I won't tell you about the ridiculously bloated acolytes, passing by the crowd cheering more excitedly than the festival, apparently Nijmegen has become a garbage dump for bastards.

Dresden......

The location of the Emperor's Palace!

In contrast to its political and religious significance, Berlin became the de facto center of power in the German Empire for decades, with all three emperors controlling the country's operations here.

If Emperor Henry was also in control of the German Empire, the Archbishop of Dresden would at least gain more authority and opportunities than the Imperial Archbishop stationed in Berlin.

Referring to the martial traditions of the Franks, you can imagine why the emperors loved it, because in the north of the city along the valley of the Elbe, there is a flat grassland, which echoes the towering mountains to the southeast, forming a beautiful landscape idyll.

Although it is a palace, but its magnificence, no less than the Imperial Palace in Berlin, His Majesty Otto III's favorite thing, is that every time he returns from Italy, he always likes to knock off some exquisite sculptures or beautiful columns, and then after the stonemasons tinkling a renovation, these exotic foreign products, immediately have a strong Frankish style, perfectly integrated into the environment of Dresden, instantly enhance the cultural taste of the entire court, So much so that when the Eastern Roman envoys, who had visited back because of their courtship, visited the palace to witness the masterpiece of His Majesty Otto's riotous households, they immediately reported to their emperor after returning to China, and terminated this absurd marriage.

Emperor Henry and Empress Kunigund had actually been separated for a long time, and the two did not see each other on weekdays, except for occasional correspondence through their attendants.

It is said that the empress, who was once grief-stricken because the emperor was going to divorce, has been in a good mood recently, and her personality seems to have changed as if she is a different person, but she no longer rejects showing up and rumors of divorce.

All thanks to a certain eunuch from Constantinople, it was with his encouragement and companionship that the empress was able to regain her strength, secretly contacting the powerful to strengthen her background and power.

(End of chapter)

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