Pope Eugene accepted the first two, but he rejected the third, saying that it was Matilda's personal wish and that he could not control it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

When the stalemate came, the Pope imposed a commanding tone, demanding that all the archbishops of Deutschland, Cologne, Bremen, Mainz, Trier, Magdeburg, and Milan - stand down, because they were all staunch nationalists and had always been at odds with the Holy See.

The papal cardinals then applied both hard and soft to Henry the Fifth, who was left alone, "according to the law of the will, then Matilda gave the whole of Tuscany to the holy city of Rome twenty-five years ago." Honey, we can give you the crown or not. And you have to remember that it is impossible to win us in a lawsuit, because everyone in the world knows that the Holy See can impose legal penalties on any secular king, but no secular person can sue the Holy See. ”

"That's it, give you a grand coronation, and at the same time retain your temporal rights in Germany, that's it, people can't ask for too much!"

"As the Bible says, both swords (spiritual and temporal) are in the hands of the Holy See, is it good that after he has unsheathed both swords, there will still be yours?"

In the whole hall, the cardinals in their robes were crowded, coming and going around Henry the Fifth, vying to speak first, and their voices were noisy, sometimes intimidating, sometimes inducing.

In the crowd, Anselm, who was bald, as the "palace deacon", did not come forward to theorize, but stayed quietly next to the Holy See, squinting at the Holy Seat sitting on the magnificent and noble armchair, and his heart was full of great desire.

He then looked at Henry Fifth, whose expression was mixed with submission and resentment, and thought in his heart about the good time to attack.

In the end, Henry the Fifth could not stand this "wheel war", he turned to the Pope and said that he could return the right of appointment of the Archbishops of all Germany to the city of Rome, and that the bishops of his empire would have to obey the canons of the city of Rome, and that the Holy See had the power to send "patriarchs" (similar to Anselm and Sambel) to administer the affairs of the country, and that Henry the Fifth had no right to interfere with each other.

However, he still refused to give up his claim to Tuscany.

The Holy See was also magnanimous, and he allowed the young man to "go back and have a good talk with your aunt." (Matilda's mother was a cousin of Henry III)

But that kind of understatement of arrogance floats above the water.

When Henry Fifth walked out of the hall in embarrassment, he could almost hear the inner "trumpet" of the cardinals behind him celebrating their victory, he stepped on his horse, and then looked at the bell tower that stood on a hill on the edge of Sutri, with its spire covered with a little beautiful snow, standing upright in the pure blue sky, and the young king felt a great annoyance and uneasiness in his chest.

He had to keep the secret pact he had just reached a secret from the bishop and his subordinates for the time being, because he knew that if he said it, it would inevitably provoke an extremely violent reaction, and even the group would not hesitate to go back to war with the Holy See - he finally understood that, regardless of his previous position, once he became the king of Germany, he would have to shoulder everything that this position entailed - he was torn between "sitting on the throne of Germany" and "being crowned by the Pope", and the ghost knew how these two two sides of the same body had evolved to the present day"Choose one of the two".

But Henry Fifth still obsessed with his aunt's territory.

He thought about it, and he had originally united the nobles to rebel against his father, but he had reached an agreement with his aunt, and Matilda promised him that "he would give you a good reward when the matter is completed".

Therefore, Henry the Fifth planned to leave at once to visit his aunt at the Château de Canossa, after all, he still had a great deal of hope that Tuscany would be able to settle the matter between him and Matilda in private: the nephew and aunt would sit down and enjoy a sumptuous and warm dinner, and a package agreement would be reached, after all, for the sake of the Holy Roman Empire, even if Welf inherited Tuscany in the future, as long as he could reintegrate into the Empire's vassal system.

The snow fell again, like the reeds of the Po Valley, and Henry the Fifth, dressed in fur and riding under the guard of a group of Imperial soldiers, headed for Canosha.

On the gray rocks are the gray castle, which is the symbol of the Kano Castle, and Henry the Fifth also sees the winding path and the stone walls built against the mountain.

In Germany, where such stone castles were still rare, and many lords still lived in wooden castles, and organizations such as guilds and chambers of commerce had just sprouted in the city, Henry couldn't help but feel that Italy was really a developed and fertile place, and how could the future empire lose control of it?

Henry the Fifth, who was stepping on the snow, suddenly thought of his father, who had come to the castle in a low voice, barefoot and wrapped in a tattered blanket, in the same snow, begging for reconciliation with his predecessor (Gregory VII).

At the sound of the trumpet, Henry suddenly found himself in front of the small gate of the castle, behind which there was an open two-story pavilion, and a thick curtain hung between the pillars, and the people inside could overlook it.

Henry the Fifth stretched out his hand and grabbed the knocker of the beast's head in pure brass, which he needed to report, and the knocker struck on the gate of the ironwood grille, and Henry the Fifth hallucinated again: as if he saw his father standing here in rags, and the wind was blowing his father's bony face, and he shaved his shaved bald head, and knocked on the same gate again and again in humiliation, and was mocked and begged by the gatekeepers to open the passage, while his aunt and the former pope were sitting in the pavilion, pleasantly holding their glasses and watching their father's embarrassment......

Sure enough, Matilda was waiting for him in the pavilion.

Henry walked the spiral staircase in the gate tower for the fifth and finally met his aunt.

Matilda was old, but her wrinkled face was still full of murder and majesty, she had been trained in riding and weapons at a young age, and ordinary men were no match for her. The duchess wore a royal blue gold-trimmed robe with a dark purple embroidered gold blouse and an off-white nun headscarf over her head.

Next to her, there was a seductive and beautiful brown-and-yellow haired woman, none other than his father's ex-wife, Plasidice, whose divorce and accusations had enabled the Pope to try his father for sexual insanity.

Another man, little Welf of Bavaria, stood next to his aunt in a low voice.

"You're here to ask me for Tuscany, aren't you?"

Henry the Fifth humbly bowed his head politely, not sure but not denying it.

"Your wife is Elisa, daughter of the Grand Count of Sicily, and if I give you Tuscany, will you be able to unite with Sicily against the Pope's present or future enemies?" This is Matilda's second question.