Today's three watches, I hope that with the support of friends who still have monthly passes, Sula is grateful

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"I don't have much of an opinion, as long as the Holy See thinks Bohemond can be trusted, after all, his father Guiscart has committed atrocities against the city of Rome." Matilda replied.

When the former Pope Gregory VII took refuge in her castle Canossa, he invited the Norman Duke of Apuria, Robert Gregory VII. Guiscut's army came to the rescue, and Guiscart did retake the city of Rome from the hands of the German Lancaesar, but his Normans also burned and looted the city, and the former eternal capital of Rome, under the slaughter knife and arson of the victors, now has no empty shelves.

Thinking of this, even Urban held his ring, and looked preoccupied, and all the cardinals around him were silent when they remembered the tragic situation many years ago.

At this moment, Owen Seth, abbot of the Abbey of Monte Cassino, entered the hall respectfully, and stood in His Majesty the Pope, looking politely at the golden silk blanket spread under the papal seat.

"Dear Owen Seth, I hope you can bring me good news." Urban coughed lightly twice and put his hand together, indicating that the other party could speak.

"My mutual friend of His Majesty, the hermit Peter, heard of the battle in the city of Bari, and came from the camp at Lake Léman, and he had prepared to go to the East with all the pilgrims, but he came here with great concern for His Majesty, may I introduce him? Or keep him out for the time being? ”

"No, of course I would like to see him, the great and amiable hermit Peter, whose thirteen letters I have read. He was a true saint. The Pope agreed.

Dressed in rough black and with an ugly shaved hair, the skinny Peter soon walked through the front porch to the Pope's Holy See, and he was genuinely terrified. Kneeling up two steps, he took Urban's hand and kissed the fingertips and the ring of the place.

"The selfish Normans cannot be trusted, they are by no means a reliable cornerstone under the Holy See." These were Peter's first words, "If it were possible, Bohemond would have gone to the Byzantine emperor to seek a state in the East, and would not be afraid to be an enemy of anyone present." ”

"Thank you for teaching me - but can you tell who I should trust?"

"I believe in this loyal and selfless princess." With that, Peter bowed to Matilda, and the Duchess smiled and got up to return the salute. Then the monk knelt before the Pope's knee again, "And believe my brother, Stephen. Gawain is the general of the Greek Empire who is now guarding the city of Bari. ”

This sentence stunned the Pope, the hermit actually asked him to trust a barbarian enemy general, and in the same half year, this Gawain expelled almost the entire Catholic monks of southern Italy, and turned the city of Bari into a nail in the road to the East.

"Holy See, please bear with me. My righteous brother Gao Wen was also a believer in the north, and later went to the Holy Land to perform Hajj. Captured by the Turkic pagans in Anatolia and subjected to much suffering, it was St. George and St. Mikhail who appeared to him and gave him an invincible sword against the infidels, so he escorted me all the way until I was safely transported from Constantinople to the ships. And the despicable had come ashore in the city of Bari. There he dreamed of the apparition of St. Nicholas, in which he said that he had given Gawain a cable and an arrow, and that in the future Gawain would be able to pull East and West Rome to the same ship, and that he could use that arrow to pierce the evil pagan kingdom. This is true, Your Majesty. ”

The more Peter spoke, the more agitated he became. The more he spoke, the more he spoke, the more he wore his ugly face, there were a pair of shining eyes, which were almost the most striking organs in his entire body, and which could shoot out the power of invigoration and demagogy in his speeches, even the Pope and the Duchess of Tuscany, and Urban himself leaned down and touched the crimson silk burqa draped over his body: no matter how true Peter's words were, he really needed a mythical figure to paint the banner of the Crusades now.

All the cardinals in the halls around the Holy See were also captivated, and Peter's surroundings radiated with dazzling brilliance because of his words.

"Your Excellency, my brother Gawain has only accepted the edict of the Emperor of Greece against the atrocities of the Normans, and is not an enemy of the city of Rome. In this glorious hall, there are all tigers and wolves, including Caesar of Germany, Philip the wicked of France, and naturally the Normans who are not willing to lie dormant, and the Emperor of Constantinople with an ambiguous attitude, of course, these should not be clouds that obscure your wise eyes, in order to restore the tomb of the Son, I have traveled half the world, and there are loyal and courageous men everywhere, which is the most solid foundation of your Holy See, and Gawain is the same - as long as you allow me to go to the city of Bari as an envoy, I guarantee that this warrior will belong to Your Crown, as well as to Bouyoongofrey, who was sent by Deutschlandcaesar."

"That true knight, Godfrey of Bouillon, has a spirit far greater than his sword." Urban, excited, took Peter's withered hand, "That is to say, Gawain is the divine revelation given to us by the Lord. ”

"That's right, Divine Messenger and Divine Revelation." Peter also took the Pope's hand in return, and soon the careful and foolproof plan quickly formed in the hearts of the Pope and Matilda.

But the Duchess suddenly asked Peter, "Dear hermit, I have heard that you were a nobleman and had a wife. ”

"That's right." Peter was blunt.

"Then why did you leave your wife? Please tell me the real reason. Matilda's aging eyes were suddenly fixed on Peter, and Welf, beside her, felt a chill down her spine and lowered her head, while Placydes looked at Peter with suspicious and swaying eyes, as if she wanted to see how different his answer was.

"I had hoped to visit the Holy Sepulchre with my wife, and I had hoped to settle with her in the Holy City, to provide convenience and services to pilgrims all over the world, to fight against the tyranny of the infidels. But my wife didn't understand me, she laughed at my presumptuousness, I didn't care about her looks and personality, I just felt that the world was different from her. When Peter said this, Matilda sighed, then smiled with satisfaction, and said to the monk, "I also agree with the Holy See, and I would even like to see your righteous brother, and if he is really as you say, I am willing to give him the most fertile land of the two thousand Hu Fu in the inheritance of the realm, as the capital of his expedition." (To be continued......)