There are many speculations about why the new pope of the Eternal City and the pope of Neustria, who are so fierce in their rhetoric, extremely vicious, and unwilling to suffer in words, but in action they do not support the orthodox Neustria's royal family in exile (which should have been taken for granted), and the new Neustria's government and the orthodox royal family in exile are qualified to talk about it, but the truth of the matter does not fully correspond to the speculation of any of them.

The first to know the true cause of the matter were the members of the new government in Neustria, and they learned it not from anyone else, but from an emissary sent by the new pope of the Eternal City.

A few strange-behaved merchants arrived at Aronael on Humphrey's ships, and they were generously armed and entouraged, but they carried very little cargo, no more than the usual pilgrims carry, and their hair was as scarce as their cargo—in fact, if they had not been adamantly denied the identity of the pilgrims, the sailors would have almost taken them for priesthood. On the ship, everyone's curious eyes swept over them from time to time, and when they arrived at Aronael, this peculiarity taught the harbormaster to focus on them at a glance.

They weren't too secretive, probably because they were too much scanned by curious eyes on the ship, and they knew that they couldn't be qualified spies with their own skills, so when the portmaster targeted them, they turned to the portmaster.

Their request was that they wanted to be able to meet Her Majesty the Queen of Neustria, or "the one who really took care of things". Before the meeting, they refused to explain their intentions, but only vaguely mentioned that there was a great man behind them, and if the present master of Neustria agreed to their master's request, then the matter of the archbishop's shawl would be negotiable.

This information was immediately sent to the General Staff, and a copy was sent to the Archbishop.

"What kind of road is this?" Chief of Staff Jason and the Archbishop were the first to hear the news, and after a moment of thought, they decided to make the matter and the true identity of the person who came. Each made a report to the Queen. Luo Yi read the report. The two of them were brought together for a meeting to discuss whether this was a prank or serious. And what should be the next step.

The prank was immediately dismissed. The journey from Humphrey to Neustria is not short. Moreover, although the war of words between the two popes was vigorous, it did not involve the Archbishop of Neustria, because the sale of shawls could not be carried out by force, in this case in Neustria, because every letter of the orthodox pope was subjected to the most severe scrutiny before it was transmitted, that is. Each letter was carefully read by Chief of Staff Jason and the Archbishop himself before being sent out in the Eternal City...... They were also surprisingly never rebuke the matter, and remained astonishingly silent on the matter, to which some of the Queen's courtiers thought that the Holy See was trying to save their face, while others believed that the Holy See was still trying to get the two thousand pounds of gold.

These two opinions are not convincing enough in the opinion of Queen Luo Yi, the former pope did not admire the voluntary abdication of the saints but was robbed in front of everyone, although it damaged the face of the Holy See, but she really didn't think that the Holy See in this era had any face, besides, the Holy See has always eaten by mouth, packaging this matter, saying that the archbishop stole a stand-in or something, isn't it round, why endure it like this?

As for the idea that the Holy See is still greedy for two thousand pounds of gold, Luo Yi also thinks it is unlikely, the archbishop did not rob the pope because he was fun, but because he was too poor and did not have so much gold in his pocket. In the past, when I begged the Eternal City to give me a shawl, I was not willing to give two thousand pounds, but now the Pope has it in his hands, his face is completely torn, and several shawls are ready to be sold. It's not too late to wait for the Eternal City soldiers to say this—and besides, if they do, will they only ask for two thousand pounds?

Since the courtiers' speculation was not convincing enough, and they could not send reporters to the Eternal City to interview the new Pope himself, this question could only be pressed on the queen's heart for the time being, waiting for time to give the correct answer. However, time did not bring the right answer, but a different question.

Now that the shawl of the new Archbishop of Neustria has finally been mentioned, and that "the matter is negotiable", and the portmaster has reported that the party is a priest rather than a merchant, the answer is forthcoming—but the three men present at the conclave, though so intellectually judged, were emotionally unacceptable.

The other party was a man sent by the new pope of the Eternal City, and he had asked them for help in some secret matter, and for this reason he did not hesitate to recognize the new church in Neustria......

"I still think it's possible that they were assassins sent to assassinate them by taking advantage of the secret meeting." Chief of Staff Jason said he thought the secret meeting, attended by only a few people and named the real principals of Neustria, must have been a conspiraction.

The archbishop agrees with the conspiracy, but he does not think it is a murder, "the murder of the Church, it is not done that way," he said, and since he appointed himself Archbishop of Neustria, he has been trying to find time to read all kinds of church literature at his disposal, "They will generally choose a pious and capable assassin to accuse him of our heretical behavior, such as persecuting the bishop, burning the church, etc., and then he will assassinate him in a public ceremony, and afterwards the church will honor him as a saint and send a group of people, who are not in agreement, and some of them have faith." , some people are timid and prone to bad things. ”

"If it's not a chance to murder, it's here to make a deal, but they just want to sell, and we don't have the money to buy it." Chief of Staff Jason shook his head and said, unlike the church, which has a lot of money and often has extra income, he has to fight for every penny of the budget by himself, and there is no powerful role like Francis in his subordinates, not to mention how hard the budget war is, so he also knows better how embarrassed the queen's purse is—in fact, if the Holy See had sold the shawl happily, the queen's shoulders would have been burdened with heavy usury, because she did not have extra money to buy the shawl, So many departments and programs were still waiting for the rice to be cooked, and a little income immediately filled the black hole of the government, and at that time, she granted the archbishop only a credit certificate, trying to use the name of old Jacob to get some money to spend......

"Let's hear what they want to trade with us with the archbishop's shawl," Luo Yi said, raising her hand to suppress the objections of her men, "After all, they have always left room - I think it's better to hear first." (To be continued......)

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