The first to rush out from behind the King of France was a group of nobles dressed in purple robes, they were very excited and even insane, facing the cuirassiers who opened the way, they seemed convinced that the sharp saber would not cut off their heads: "Your Majesty, have you abandoned us?" Are you no longer wearing a purple robe? ”

Po Xiu was a little dumbfounded, but fortunately, Cao Jixiang stepped forward immediately under Ding Yi's instructions, signaling that Bo Xiu could retreat.

"It's terrible to be uneducated." Cao Jixiang looked at Po Xiu's eyes, obviously telling such a meaning, he never thought that after joining Ding Yimen, Cao Da Eunuch also didn't know a single big word. However, this obviously did not prevent Cao from expressing his disdain.

Cao Jixiang rode his horse to the purple-robed nobles and said to them, "The Senate has not yet been formed, so His Majesty has not used the title of first citizen for the time being. "The first citizen is also "Princeps", this is what Ding Yi told Cao Jixiang just now, which is the title of the emperor of ancient Rome. Ding Yi and Cao Jixiang were deliberate, as the title was later replaced by a Roman emperor, Diocletian, with "dominus", which means "master".

However, aren't these purple-robed people obviously here to find fault? They protested that Po Xiu did not use the customary titles of the rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire during the roll call, such as Commander-in-Chief, King of the Greeks, Caesar, Augustus, and so on. Then, Ding Yi will give them an even more ancient title.

"I don't believe you Western illiterate people can't play." Ding Yi was quite proud in the carriage, stroking his short beard and chuckling, "How can we say that it is also a great Ming Tanhua!" Of course, this has little to do with him in the Ming Dynasty, mainly a lot of things in the Roman Empire, which Ding Yi collected in the era of information explosion.

Obviously, Cao Jixiang's words made those purple-robed nobles stunned.

The title of first citizen was replaced by "master" around 200 A.D., and it has been more than 1,000 years now.

Of course, some of them had heard of it, but they didn't know how to answer it for a while.

At this time, the cuirassiers were separated from the left and right, and Ding Yi, who was dressed in a snow-white Confucian shirt, wore a purple cloak, and walked with a smile, he nodded to these purple-robed nobles, with an amiable demeanor: "What you said, I have asked the clerk to write it down, do you have any other demands?" ”

Ding Yi's attitude made the nobles on Louis XI's side and the spies from various countries couldn't help but sneer, it seems that Poseidon is completely out of character! This made another group of people who were also shouting and protesting just now, but they became interested, who doesn't like to do things like to slap their faces in public? So the bishop in red robe also jumped out: "The Pope has canonized His Majesty as a saint, why is there no mention of it on the honorific title?" ”

The same Ding Yi also accepted the accusation with a smile: "I'm sorry, I haven't received this meaning yet." But if what you say is true, it is indeed my negligence, please forgive me. There was a lot of booing, although the nobles around Louis XI did not boo, but their faces were full of sarcastic smiles.

Originally, everyone thought that at least Ding Yi would stand up in the face of the criticism of the purple-robed nobles and tell them that he was the emperor, which was the embodiment of his will; In the face of the people of the Holy See, Ding Yi can use the fact that he will not necessarily accept the canonization of the Holy See as an excuse to refute the other party's rudeness.

But no, Ding Yi seems to be a kind to cowardly monarch, completely incommensurate with his prestige.

"Do you have any other demands?" Ding Yi asked those purple-robed nobles again very gently.

Whether it was a red-robed bishop or a purple-robed nobleman, the excuse they originally wanted to use to make trouble could not be attacked.

For if Ding Yi said that he would not necessarily accept the canonization of the Holy See, then he would be against the whole of Western Christian countries;

If Ding Yi said that the use of the Roman customary honorific title was the embodiment of the emperor's will, then the purple-robed nobles would begin to question the legitimacy of his inheritance of the Eastern Roman Empire - don't underestimate this, the people of Smyrna, the people of Athens, did not break out into a large-scale revolt, because Ding Yi had this legitimacy, and when he inherited the inheritance of Constantine XI, then for the Greeks, he was the king of Greece.

"Forget it, he's a coward." Those purple-robed nobles who were preparing to attack looked at Ding Yi like this; And those cardinals hinted that the companions who jumped out retreated, because Ding Yi confessed, and then he lost the excuse of persecution, although they did not believe in Pius II, but after all, Pius II was still alive, he was still the Pope, and he couldn't openly persecute Ding Yi, who had just been canonized as a saint by Pius, right?

So the priests chuckled and said, "This majesty is really a saint. "It's just that the saints here have a disdain that anyone can detect.

"Excuse me, please wait." At this time, Ding Yi stopped those purple-robed nobles and the cardinal, still gentle, so gentle that they couldn't bear to refuse. Then Ding Yi said to the cardinal, "Can you please wait first?" I'm really sorry, please forgive me. Thank you. Then he asked the purple-robed nobles, "Excuse me, are you Roman nobles?" Or rather, the nobility of Byzantium? Since the Senate has not yet been established, I will try to find as many Roman nobles as possible in the near future to form a Senate. ”

The purple-robed nobles subconsciously glanced at Louis XI's side, but they did not get a signal from someone hiding in the crowd as they expected, so they did not make a decision immediately, but replied to Ding Yi: "Yes! We are Roman aristocrats. But if His Majesty wants us to join the Senate, then we need to think about it before we can answer! ”

"That's great." Ding Yi stroked his beard and nodded, smiling so much that he showed eight teeth, extremely sincere, a smile from the heart. Sincerity made many nobles on Louis XI's side once again sigh that Poseidon was really a "saint".

The purple-robed nobles sneered and nodded, and they felt that they had lost their share of words with Ding Yi, so they planned to leave. But before they could turn around, Ding Yi smiled and nodded at Cao Jixiang, and walked directly towards Louis XI.

And when Ding Yi and Louis XI hugged each other, more than a dozen soldiers who were not in armor and had military police insignia pinned to their military uniforms came out, stepped forward and couldn't help but say, and immediately cut off their hands and knelt on the ground.

"They have confessed to being Roman nobles, gentlemen." Cao Jixiang rolled his saddle and dismounted, arched his hand towards the aristocrats who were in turmoil on Louis XI's side, and said, "This is the law of Rome, this is the affairs of Rome. Then he used his long sheathed knife to randomly point at the purple-robed nobles, and said to the gendarmes, "Let's begin." ”

Ding Yi grabbed Louis XI's arm, still with that gentle smile: "Why did Constantine fall?" That's because of such people! They did not dare to face the attacks of the Ottomans, they did not dare to rush into the enemy line to save their monarch and commander, but they dared to roar in front of my carriage. It's funny, isn't it? ”

"My dear cousin, you're right." The smile on Louis XI's face stiffened.

Because the gendarmes were already enforcing the "tithe law", which was the military law of ancient Rome, one out of ten lots.

Of course, those purple-robed nobles also resisted or were unwilling to draw lots, but after the rebels were cut off from their knees and elbows on the spot, and those who did not want to draw lots were immediately cut off their throats, the other purple-robed nobles honestly drew lots. Cao Jixiang quickly walked up to the man who had drawn the death lot and slapped him in the face with a scabbard, which was the beginning of the ceremony.

Then among the gendarmerie, several sergeant majors who came out of the East Factory with Wen Fatzi began to show their skills in front of Louis XI and those nobles, who had not practiced for a long time. They lifted the chin of the purple-robed nobleman to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide; Then he stripped him naked in public, tied a fishing net to him, and cut off the genitals of the purple-robed nobleman with the first knife.

When he was doused with water, he began to cut his flesh out of the net.

The purple-robed nobleman who had his chin removed, the miserable hiss, taught the French nobles and knights present to shiver subconsciously.

"Kill him!" When about seventy or eighty slashes had been cut, one of the knights of the French nobility could not bear it anymore and cried out, "For God's sake, kill him!" ”

"Let God give Constantine back to Rome, shall we?" Ding Yi smiled and said to the knight, "If God wants me to go and retrieve Constantine occupied by the Ottomans, then render to Caesar what is God's and Caesar's is Caesar's." I have no offense intended, sir. "Ding Yi even owes himself, for the nobleman who is just a baron.

Then he instructed Cao Jixiang: "Well, after all, this is not on the territory of Rome, and I should take into account the feelings of the master." Let's take a quicker punishment. Then he apologized to Louis X, who even wiped off the powder on his face, but he was afraid that his face was very pale at this time, and he was relieved to hear Ding Yi's words.

In fact, many of the French aristocracy were already vomiting, and a few fainted. Watching Ling Chi is definitely not a pleasant thing. Cao Jixiang stopped Ling Chi according to Ding Yi's instructions, and the gendarmes adopted another ancient Roman punishment: using a mallet to hammer the prisoner to death.

This is relatively much faster than Ling Chi, it only took less than five minutes, but the purple-robed nobles who were tortured, almost every bone was a crushing fracture, and the sergeant major from Dongchang, even if he sped up, even if he hadn't done it for many years, they were still methodical and familiar with doing this kind of thing.

"You know Jacques. Morality. The Curse of Morai? Ding Yi asked the cardinal who had just been left behind by him.

Louis XI was able to connive at these people at the welcome ceremony, and Ding Yi certainly would not put on the other side of the face to beat people. This is not Ding Yi's temperament, whether he keeps a smile with eight teeth or not.

The cardinal was not too flustered, though he had been frightened by the execution, and his companions were soon to come out to his side.

Although Ding Yi showed his toughness, they did not think that Ding Yi dared to touch the people of the Holy See.

In fact, the duel between Ding Yi and Mehmed II began from the moment he set foot in Marseille.

These cardinals did not show weakness at all, and looked at him with a sneer: Just now he was slapped in the face, can Ding still pull it back? This is impossible, unless Ding Yi wants to be the enemy of the entire Western country. R1152