Rome, Vatican.

As the envoy of King Gundobad of Burgundy, the Catholic Bishop of Venice, Jon, after being commissioned by Gondobad, rushed to the Holy See to meet Pope Leo I.

This Leo I was not the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, but the Pope of the Holy See, and although they had the same name and were about the same age, they were not the same person.

Pope Leo I's Christian name is "Liang", Latin means "lion", known as the Great Sage Liang, he is also a very remarkable figure, he is the first papal to proclaim himself pope, in his previous heads of the papacy have only called themselves the pope, from he was called the pope.

Leo I, who had been pope for twenty years now, was trying to strengthen his authority during his time as pope, emphasizing that the power of the pope came from St. Peter, the apostolic prefect, and that he had the supreme authority over the church. He claimed to be the heir of St. Peter and was happy to solve all problems according to his instructions and instructions.

Fifteen years ago, that is, in 445 AD, he received an edict from the then Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, elevating the Roman Church to the highest position of the Western Church, which is tantamount to using political power to vigorously support the divine power, the edict declares that the laws formulated by the Bishops of Rome should be implemented by the whole Christian Church, the Bishops of Rome summon the bishops of other dioceses, and the bishops of Rome are recruited and cannot resist, and the violators are escorted to Rome by the governor of the region by coercive means, and Leo I has since been called the Pope.

Pope Leo I, this guy is a super commissar in modern terms. He was extremely good at diplomatic lobbying and ideological work, which was best demonstrated by Attila's troops under Rome in 452 AD and the sacking of Rome by King Gaiseric of Vandal in 455 AD. He used his incorruptible tongue to persuade Attila to withdraw his army, saving the city from the ravages of the Huns, and the second time, three years later, when King Gaiseric of Vandal sacked the city of Rome, he also intervened with Gaiseric to minimize the loss of Rome. Otherwise, the city of Rome would have been even worse.

He began to carry out a wide range of activities as a defender of Rome, greatly increasing the influence of the Holy See among the people, the nobility, and the government.

At present, the prestige and power of the Holy See are not enough to influence the political pattern of the European continent, but compared to before, one is underground and the other is in heaven.

Jon when he meets Pope Leo I. Leo I was already dying, and for the last two years he had been sick and bad, sometimes for better and for worse, and his face was very pale. The face is covered with old age wrinkles.

"His Holiness the Pope. Are you feeling better? Jon bowed.

"Ahem, ahem!" Leo I coughed twice and smiled, "Thank you for your concern, Jon!" I've gotten better, this sickness, sometimes good and sometimes bad, it's not a big deal, by the way, I heard that you have something urgent to see me this time? ”

"Yes. His Holiness the Pope! Jon nodded, and then explained the purpose of his visit to Rome.

At last. Jon said: "Eight years ago, Attila's troops came to the city of Rome, five years ago the Vandals sacked the city of Rome, these nightmares often wake up in our sleep, although Attila is dead, but now there is another Qin Dong, I think this Qin Dong forced Attila to be more aggressive, the means are more clever than Attila, I have received the news, on the one hand, the Hu Empire sent people to befriend some barbarian tribes, on the other hand, and sent troops to attack the Burgundians, and the Franks are also likely to be the target of their attack, Between our country and the Hu Empire, the place where these barbarians are located is a buffer zone, if there is no buffer area, I believe that the Hu people in the north will definitely fight under the city of Rome again, Your Majesty, Rome can no longer suffer from war, I think that if our Holy See can promote the alliance of countries to fight against the Hu people, it will raise the prestige of our Holy See to a new height, which is very beneficial to our mission, and those who have the ability and prestige to do this, Only His Majesty the Pope is gone."

"Well, let's do it, let me think about this matter, you stay here first!" Leo I thought for a moment and said.

Jon also knew that Leo I needed to weigh the pros and cons, so he bent down and saluted, "Yes, Your Majesty, I'll step back first!" ”

As an intermediary to lobby countries to form an alliance against the Hu Empire, this matter is not trivial, and the danger is also very high, once the coalition is defeated, I am afraid that not only the countries will suffer, but also the life of Leo I will not be guaranteed, Qin Dong will definitely not let go of the person who threads the needle in the alliance, that is Leo I.

To say that Leo I was not afraid of death is false, think about how a person who is passionate about chasing power and enjoying life would not be afraid of death? When Leo I went out of the city alone to meet Attila and persuade him to withdraw from the army, wasn't he afraid that Attila would cut off his head? Isn't he afraid of death when he goes to meet Gaceric and stops the Vandals from continuing to kill in the city of Rome? Afraid, in fact, he was scared to death, but in the face of gaining great prestige and consolidating his power, this desire of his. Hope triems fear, which is like a person who asks for money and does not want to die.

Leo I has been gambling all his life, and he has gambled his life and future several times, so he is fortunate that he has won every time he has gambled, which is not that he has good luck every time, in fact, he really has this strength and ability, and it is not entirely by luck, is it easy to convince Attila of a tyrannical and moody person? He did it, and that's ability.

After a day of deliberation, Leo I decided to personally go out and lobby the countries to form an alliance again to form an alliance against the Hu Empire, once this was done, he Leo I's prestige was probably unmatched in the world.

The next day, Leo I sent Jon to tell him that he was going to go out in person, and invited Jon to assist him as his assistant, Jon was very happy to hear this, and readily agreed, and the two went to the palace to meet Emperor Majorion.

After Majorian pacified the chaos in Gaul, suppressed the barbarian rebellion, won the battle with the Visigothic kingdom, and forced Theodoric II to sign a peace treaty, his popularity soared, and the warlords and barbarians everywhere had to put away their minions and become honest, and Majorian used this time to start a drastic reform.

Majorian decided that after completing the initial reforms, he would start dealing with the Vandal Kingdom, he believed that now for the Western Roman Empire, the greatest threat was not the Hu Empire, after all, between the Western Roman Empire and the Hu Empire there was still an Alps and various barbarians living near the Alps, with them as a buffer between the Western Roman Empire and the Hu Empire, the Western Roman Empire could not be threatened by the Hu Empire for the time being, but the Vandal Kingdom was different, Although there is a Mediterranean Sea in the middle, the Vandals have a strong naval fleet, and they also occupy most of the islands in the Mediterranean, and the entire Mediterranean Sea is like the inner lakes of the Vandals, and they can attack Italy whenever they want, so he believes that the Vandal Kingdom is the greatest threat to the Western Empire.

For the Pope, Majorian was still more face-saving, and when he heard the guards say that Leo I was asking to see him outside the palace gate, he immediately asked the guards to lead the way for Leo I.

Although Leo I had always regarded himself as the defender of Rome, he was not so arrogant that he did not have to salute the emperor, and he bowed down in a proper manner, as did Jon behind him.

"Haha, okay, what's the matter with the Pope's coming to see me today?" Majorian smiled and raised his hand to signal them to excuse themselves.

Leo I pretended to be surprised and said, "Your Majesty, don't you know that the army of the Hu Empire has reached the hinterland of the Burgundian Kingdom?" That's what I'm here for."

Majorian was very surprised, "There has been news from the border gate, and I only found out about this matter a few days ago, but I don't know what this matter has to do with the Pope?" What does it have to do with my empire, does it need the Pope to intervene in person? ”

Majorian has always avoided calling Leo I the Pope, in his opinion, there can only be one emperor in the entire Western Empire, so he only calls Leo I the Pope every time, and Leo I doesn't care what the emperor calls him, whether it's the pope or the pope, he doesn't care about this title, he cares as long as he can get the same rights and prestige as the emperor in the Holy See.

He said: "Of course, this matter has something to do with the empire, of course it has something to do with me and the Holy See, the Kingdom of Burgundy is a vassal state of the empire, this is an unchangeable fact, unless the empire takes the initiative to dissolve the vassal relationship with the Kingdom of Burgundy, before this relationship is dissolved, the empire is like a mother, and the Kingdom of Burgundy is a child, and now the Hu Empire in the north has bullied the child's family, as a mother, shouldn't it be justice for it?" Whether in Rome or in Lyon, or elsewhere, all people were created by God, and they are all God's people, and now God's people in the Kingdom of Burgundy are suffering, and this pope, as God's great spokesman on earth, naturally wants to comfort his people on behalf of God! ”

It was not the first time that Majorian and Leo I had met, but this time he still had to admit that Leo I's eloquence was really good, and he was indefensible in just a few words, and every word Leo I said was from the moral high ground, and he couldn't say anything against it at all.

As a last resort, Majorian had no choice but to say, "Well, what does the Pope want to do?" (To be continued......)