"Leonardo, what are your thoughts on leaving your hometown and embarking on a journey? Do you feel reluctant? ”

Hearing Lu Xiao's inquiry, a head poked out of the carriage, which was Leonardo da Vinci, who was busy researching in the Florentine studio not long ago.

"Quite the opposite." After sorting out the items in the carriage, Leonardo da Vinci sat next to Lu Xiao, who was driving, and said to him excitedly: "Leaving Florence gives me a sense of liberation, and if you want to know more about the world, you must first take the first step bravely." ”

Lu Xiao had already expected Leonardo da Vinci's answer, smiled noncommittally, and concentrated on manipulating the carriage to move at a uniform speed on the avenue.

Leonardo da Vinci lived up to the name of the almighty genius given to him by later generations, and after a period of analysis and research, he finally fully understood the mechanism principle of the boot blade, and experienced some of the concepts of oriental mechanism from it.

Lu Xiao speculated that the manufacturing concept of the boot blade should be passed down from the descendants of the Mo family.

From the records about the East left by the Brotherhood in the Middle East, it can be known that almost all the Mojiamen who were hidden in the people joined the Oriental Brotherhood.

Not only the Mohists, but also the suppressed schools of thought such as the Mohists, the Yin-Yang Sects, and the Zongheng Sects, due to the ideological imprisonment policy of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty who overthrew the Hundred Schools of Confucianism, the Mohists, the Yin-Yang Schools, and the Zongheng Sects quietly disappeared into the shadows.

They fought for thousands of years against the Confucians, known as the Templars, who revered royal power and order, and their ideas clashed throughout Chinese history.

Wang Mang, who was complained of as a time-traveler, is the new king fully supported by the Eastern Brotherhood, and with the Golden Apple of Eden in his hand, he has gained a huge knowledge that transcends his time.

Unfortunately, he took too many steps to take into account the acceptance of his policies by the people at the time, and he was unlucky enough to encounter another opponent with a powerful artifact of Eden, Liu Xiu, who was supported by the Templars.

Wang Mang, who was eager to promote social change, was defeated by Liu Xiu with the help of the Eden artifact to trigger the heavenly phenomena and earthly veins, and under the successive meteorite rains, heavenly thunder and **** blows, Wang Mang finally collapsed, and finally ushered in the Guangwu Zhongxing recorded in history.

When he saw this part of the record, Lu Xiao's expression was very strange, he didn't expect that the Guangwu Zhongxing created by Liu Xiu, the "Son of Destiny", would be this kind of explanation in this world...... And it's quite in line with the worldview.

Leonardo da Vinci comprehended part of the philosophy of the Mo family through the study of the Mo family's trick of scales and claws, and genius is so unreasonable.

In the early years, Leonardo da Vinci became very interested in the vast world through Lu Xiao's description of the unique culture of the East.

Knowing that Lu Xiao planned to leave Florence and go to Venice, a water city in northern Italy, Leonardo da Vinci proposed on the spot that he wanted to accompany him all the way to Venice to see the world and find inspiration.

The Auditore family had no problem with this, and Maria promised to give Leonardo da Vinci sufficient financial support as always, and entrusted the members of the Venetian Brotherhood to prepare a new studio for Leonardo da Vinci in advance.

The wealthy bosses agreed, and Lu Xiao naturally had no reason to refute, and after completing the preparations for departure, he took a carriage with Leonardo da Vinci and left Florence under the farewell of the Auditore family.

Venice is the capital of the Veneto region, a well-known port city known as the pearl of the Adriatic Sea.

In this era, like most of Italy's city-states, Venice also established the Republic of Venice with itself at its center.

The easiest way to get to Venice is by boat, but Florence is unfortunately a landlocked city.

To reach Venice by boat, Lu Xiao and Leonardo da Vinci had to take a horse-drawn carriage to Romagna in the north of Tuscany and board a ship bound for Venice in the local port of Forlì.

The name Romagna is very unfamiliar to Lu Xiao, but when he mentions Franchis, he has an impression.

If Lu Xiao remembered correctly, there should have been an assassin's tomb in Forlì, but he couldn't remember exactly where it was.

"Leonardo, I'm going to look for an ancient tomb in Forlì, maybe we're going to stay in the Romagna area for a short time."

Da Vinci had no opinion on this, for him who had just left his hometown, everything in the outside world was new,

"No problem, you can fulfill Mr. Giovanni's commission to visit the Brotherhood's ally, the local lord's wife."

Forlì's lord's wife, Caterina Sforza, was the daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, a former Duke of Milan who was assassinated by the Templars.

Like her father, Caterina became inextricably linked to the Assassin Brotherhood at a young age.

It was with Giovanni's aid that Catalina escaped from the sudden assassination.

A few years before the assassination of the Duke of Milan, 10-year-old Caterina was engaged to Girolamo Lilao, the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV.

Before Lu Xiao and Leonardo da Vinci set out from Florence, they happened to hear the news of their marriage, and the Pope designated Forlì, the capital of Romagna, as Gironamo's fiefdom, and instructed him to guard against a possible invasion by the French.

The contemporary king of France was Louis XI, who had just defeated the last powerful enemy at home, Charles the Daring, and was now ambitiously preparing for foreign expansion.

The Papal States were not fools, and sensing Louis XI's intention to invade southward, Sixtus IV immediately arranged for Girolamo to be in Forlì, where the French army must pass through to invade the core territory of Italy.

Lu Xiao had no interest in the conflict between France and Italy, and Romagna and Forlì were just a stop on his journey.

As long as they were able to obtain the Assassin token and the possible local Codex of Altaïr, Lu Xiao and Leonardo da Vinci would board a ship bound for Venice.

Lu Xiao still has some impressions of the name Caterina Sforza, who appears in Assassin's Creed 2 and the sequel Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, as if she was one of Ezio's lovers.

However, the relationship between the two is more based on political considerations, and it is difficult to say whether there is affection between them.

Having quelled the internal crisis, the Florentine Republic, led by Lorenzo, turned its attention to the outside world, and in order to resist the next round of conspiracy that the Holy See might launch, Florence needed the support of more allies.

Giuliano Medici, with his brother's orders, personally sent an envoy to the Republic of Siena, hoping to convince them to stand on the same side as the interests of Tuscany.

On the other hand, the Republic of Venice, with its vast financial resources and considerable military might, was also an ally that both the Holy See and the private capitalists hoped to woo.

Of course, Romagna, which is stuck in the middle, has become a sweet tooth.

As the Pope's nephew, Girolamo's preference for the Templars was self-evident.

Fortunately, Caterina Sforza, who had just completed her political marriage to Girolamo, did not share the same position as her husband, preferring to work with emerging capitalists such as Florence.

Lu Xiao's trip to Venice was just right in time, and Giovanni sent him a commission on behalf of Lorenzo, hoping that Lu Xiao could hand over a letter from Lorenzo to Caterina "in his own hands".

'Do you have your own hands......'

Looking at Forlì Castle, which gradually appeared in the field of vision, the corners of Lu Xiao's mouth hooked up a sarcastic arc.

It seems that Caterina and her husband are not on good terms at all, and it is not known if Girolamo, who has a different bed, is guarding against his wife, who has a good relationship with the Assassin Brotherhood, every night. ’