The envoys of the Eternal City pretending to be the emperor sent a heavy gift, and after reading the specific content of the gift, Luo Yi, the great demon king who had decided to eat black, deeply felt that the modern traverser was not good at the mouth, and for this sugar-coated cannonball sent from thousands of miles away, he could only abandon the original intention of eating the sugar-coated cannonball and returning the cannonball, and insisted that unless he handed over two thousand pounds of gold, he would never hand over the liar who pretended to be the Pope, uh, the real Pope!

The envoys could only shrug their shoulders at this answer, of course they knew that if they had to get the other party to agree, it was still a gift of two thousand pounds of gold that would most likely achieve the goal, but it was two thousand pounds of gold! Two thousand pounds of gold! That's not a small amount! The current pope naturally had a lot of savings before he ascended the throne, but he had already made a lot of money in order to get this position, and it was impossible to pay such a sum of money in front of him. Besides, in order to deal with a mere Neustria, is it necessary to spend such a sum of money?

Neustria, which was not a first-class country in the Orthodox kingdoms, was sacked by the northerners for many years, causing many nobles and priests to stay away from their country in the name of cultivation and live in the eternal city, which is enough to see the decline of the country. Now it is not the orthodox royal family that has robbed the pope and sang against the Eternal City, but a group of monkeys who took advantage of the orthodox royal family's exile abroad to claim the title of king, and there are no supporters among the nations. Moreover, the orthodox royal family in exile in Neustria, who are recruiting troops, according to them, will soon be regained from Newsteria and the usurpers will be hanged, but everything is ready, and only a letter is owed to the Pope - the emissaries of the orthodox archbishop of Neustria, and the noble clergy who live in the Eternal City. All of them advised the Holy See in this way.

Therefore, the new pope sent a mission to see if Neuneutria was as vulnerable as the emissary of the exiled royal family had said, and that was the main purpose of the mission. In fact, before they set out on the road, the most discussed was how to try to correct "that liar who pretended to be the Pope" before the exiled orthodox royal family quickly recovered from Neutria - to send an army to take Neutria by force. It seems like a good idea, but the Eternal City doesn't have many troops, and sometimes the bandits and pirates make a lot of trouble. Or the nearby nobles disobeyed the pope, and had to ask the emperor himself to take the expedition himself to save the Holy See from fire and water. It really didn't have a lot of troops to send abroad, not to mention that Newsteria had an exiled royal family supported by the local nobility and a vicious northern pirate threat. Even if it's vulnerable. How did the Holy See occupy it? The army was sent all the way, but if it didn't work, the income was not enough to pay for the army's freight!

If the Holy See had such a surplus army and extra spare money, it would have long since cleaned up the pagan pirates who were wreaking havoc on the nearby Emerald Sea from time to time! The pope of Neustria could only fight for a while, but these pirates on the Emerald Sea had attacked the emperor's own fleet!

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and the limited number of troops is the weakness of the Holy See, who it wants to crusade against. It is inseparable from the cooperation with the local nobles and clergy, and it has no ability to fight alone.

So. The idea of sending troops on an expedition to Neustria was rejected at the beginning, and it was better to hunt down and hijack one of the Pope's ships off the coast, and to conquer distant Neustria? The Holy See's forces are not enough, and they are all sent out, even if they sweep Neustria, it is not clear that the banner of Shinrikyo is already flying over the Eternal City!

Since there was not enough gold and fists, the Holy See naturally turned its mind to the crooked ways, and a list of rituals was released, full of the favorites of noble ladies - they did not expect that Her Majesty, who was bold, unscrupulous, and did not seem to take religion seriously, would be allergic to this list.

However, although the list did not work as expected, and Her Majesty did not enter the Queen, the mission also received information that could not be obtained from the Neustrian expatriates in the Eternal City. First, they found that Neustria was now well organized, with abundant supplies and patrolling soldiers in the market, and secondly, the ruler did not spend all his days drinking and ...... Well, on top of the men, and finally, there are a lot of merchants who are busy doing business with the "evil liar pope", and some goods are rare even in the Eternal City. To sum it up, it looks like Neustria is now more of a great power than it was during the reign of the exiled royal family.

"It's not easy for the exiled royal family to crush the rebels in one fell swoop." The mission came to the conclusion that it was time to give some help to the orthodox royal family.

On the side of the new government in Neustria, because Her Majesty the Queen returned the sugar-coated shells in their entirety without leaving a sugar-coating, quite a few courtiers who had nothing to do with the money beat their chests for this: "These gifts are all luxuries!" Hedge! Value! Although it is not worth 2,000 pounds of gold, if it is well packaged, it is still possible to sell it for 180 pounds with the gimmick of 'Queen Neustria's original flavor...... How can you give it all back in person, it's okay to collect half of it, no, at least leave Uncle Black behind......"

"How did I find such a group of undisciplined guys as my subordinates!" Luo Yi Great Demon King was distressed that there was such a group of wealthy elites gathered in his court, "Is it still like saying that you have received these!" Besides, there is about to be a war, what should I do if I can't sell it! These can't be sold in China! ”

"Those who have discipline will not work for the devil~~~" The archbishop replied to her with a smile, looking very good, and the whole person seemed to be glowing.

I really don't know what he's happy about, is it because he missed another opportunity to make money and was besieged by the courtiers? Luo Yi decided not to speculate on the thoughts of his subordinates, well, what he said is right, those who have ideals and discipline are either serving the orthodox royal family in exile, or serving the Eternal City, and he is a time-traveling usurper who erects chimneys everywhere and has bad rules, does he still expect to have ideals and discipline to defect to him? Those who are close to Zhu are red, those who are close to ink are black, and those who are close to the devil are ...... They shouldn't be expected to be disciplined.

If you defect to yourself, it's enough to have reason and talent, and the big demon king decided not to count on it or something...... Horizontal and vertical discipline can neither be eaten as food, nor can it be used as a soldier, as long as you are talented and law-abiding, it is useless to come to the festival......

Thinking like this, she swept her eyes to the group of noisy courtiers below, well, it would be better if you had a face...... (To be continued......)

PS: The meow word in the text is not used to sell cuteness, it is the river crab word M