Chapter 58: Trivial Countermeasures
Koroman, with his mouth long and his throat full of phlegm, looked at Almosh, at Archbishop Shmara Goth, and at his own son standing on the edge of the couch with a panicked face, and he kept begging his father, "Be clear-headed, and don't be fooled." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Your Excellency, I think ......," Koroman turned his head again, and looked at Shmara Goeth with a pitiful expression and demeanor.
"Don't even think about it! Coroman, my child, I have been an archbishop for so many years, and I am clear about your sins. Now you must give up your throne to atone for your sins, or your soul will go to hell. The archbishop looked agitated and resolute, constantly drawing a cross on his chest.
Coroman closed his eyes, and then the Barrows and the Archbishop approached, making loud and noisy noises threatening the old king.
"Koroman, my majesty, you are about to die, people are dead, is this palace and this power still yours? No, you are faced with such a choice now, go to heaven or go to hell, please hurry up and arrange the aftermath. Shmaragoth tilted his lips and gesticulated as the pendant of the cross danced before Koroman's eyes, as if to represent some kind of judgment.
The old king gave in, and in the midst of his son's sobs, he told the seal-keeper of the palace to fetch a few things from the treasury.
One is the red and white armor burqa worn by St. Stephen, the patriarch of the royal family;
One is a royal seal engraved with the letters "St. Stephen";
One is the golden crown that Coroman made when he first ascended to the throne;
The last was the blood oath of the original alliance of the Magyars seven tribes, on which the new king could place his fingerprints to represent the legitimacy of the regime.
When these things were placed on the long table beside the couch, Koroman struggled to half-sit up, his hand trembling and touching the top of Almosh's head, "You will be loyal to the Kingdom of Hungary, will you?" ”
"Yes, brother, of course I will guide this country to rejuvenate and become strong."
"You'll hold this sacred red and white flag made of St. Stephen's burqa in your hand to resist invaders from all sides, won't you?"
"Yes, brother, I will keep all the existing territories of Hungary."
"You'll improve your relations with the two great empires of Germany and Greece, and deepen your friendship with the archbishops, Poland, Bohemia, and other venerables, won't you?"
"Of course, brother." Almosh didn't think twice.
"Finally, are you willing and able to take my throne on behalf of all the Barrows present?"
Almosh waited for this sentence for twelve years, and this throne should have been his, but it was only taken back from the arrogance brother, but the ostensible work of Zen had to be done, so Almosh stretched out his finger and pointed to the "Al-Magyar Blood Oath Chapter" and shouted, "I will bear the holy crown!" ”
So in front of everyone, Coroman turned around and pulled the dagger hanging from the bedside from its sheath, and the cold light flashed.
He cut the finger of his son Istevani.
Then Coroman suddenly regained his strength, cocked his beard, and his eyes were shining, and he grabbed his son's bloodied fingers, and pressed the bloody fingerprints on the blank page of the Magyars' Blood Oath.
"What do you mean, brother? You're not sick at all! Almosh was furious and stood up.
"Fuck off Almosh, you don't have the right to inherit this kingdom." Coroman's face was treacherous, dangling a dagger.
The archbishop was even more annoyed, but before he could utter a word of condemnation, Coroman sat down on the couch and said to him: "You have been expelled from Shmaragothe, you silverfish. Bastard, who endangers the power and order of the kingdom, even if you have to take out three silver coins to save the country now, the clergy of the church you have planted will not be able to find three people. ”
"You bastard! Who would dare to take over my position? The archbishop's face was distorted.
As soon as he finished speaking, the secret door in the wall of the royal palace suddenly twisted open: a monk in a vestment suddenly appeared, and replied loudly, "You can do it, forget to introduce it, the contempt is the 'Holy See' Danus, the orthodox Holy See from the city of Bari." After the monk declared his identity, many samurai armed with swords suddenly poured out of the secret door and doorway, and the Tonu Zoba who had been "driven away" also came out, and instantly collected all the weapons of the Barrows who were stunned.
It turned out that Tonuzoba had secretly agreed with the king on the script a long time ago.
Everyone had a chill down their backs, originally thinking that the archbishop and Armosh, including the archbishop, had a large army with private soldiers outside, and this palace was under their own control at all, but who would have thought that the treacherous king would have secret doors and ambushes!
Almosh suddenly fell to his knees on the floor and begged his brother, "I will hand over all the estates." ”
"You, since you returned to Hungary at the age of eighteen, you have rebelled or murdered me and Istvani seventeen times, and you are truly a skilled but lame rebel." Coroman jumped off the bed and paced lame like an old ape, and looked at his brother and mocked, "It's ridiculous that you are still alive until now, to the age of thirty-eight,"
"That's because of my brother's forgiveness!" Almosh immediately curried.
"You don't feel tired, but I feel that for seventeen years, almost every year of rebellion, with the false drama of warm reconciliation between brothers after the rebellion, I am really tired of it!" Coroman's bearded halberd was furious, and he raised his finger, "As soon as you returned from adulthood, you contacted Poland to try to overthrow me, and I forgive you, and give you a third of the royal estate, and give you all of Lower Pannonia to rule; Your reward is that three years later, you have conspired with the Archduke of Bohemia and the German Emperor Henry IV to use troops against me to remove me from the throne, and I have forgiven you again by giving you half of the newly conquered Horvat; As a result, you rebelled in the backyard while I was on my way, and held the Tiwa River to prevent me from returning, and finally let me go back to the palace under the conciliation and arbitration of the Barrows; After the Holy See launched a crusade, Godfrey passed through the kingdom with his army, and you seemed to see hope, and colluded with the German Emperor and Godfrey to expel me or take my life - but Godfrey was a decent man, rejected you, and made my throne secure for a few years, and then I thought you could stop, but you quickly bought off my servants and attendants, and began to poison me......"
At this point of rage, Coroman became more and more agitated, and he changed the subject, and said coldly to his brother, the archbishop, and the rebel Barrow, "You may wonder why I am so well-informed. That's because I had already made a settlement with Constantinople, and it was a trivial countermeasure. Your return route and general schedule, Gawain and his wife have already sent lightning-fast spies to the palace. ”
"Brother, I am willing to hand over all the fiefs and enter the monastery for the rest of my life." Almosh knew that everything was over.
"You'd better be castrated, so that I can rest assured that begging for mercy will pay a price." Coroman replied coldly.