Chapter 196: Beating a child
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The expression on Duke William's face was a little embarrassed, he looked at King Arthur and said, "This is something I will consider in the future, the emperor I am talking about is not the Greek emperor, but the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire." ”
Duke Wilhelm was not prepared to sacrifice himself and traveled thousands of miles to Constantineburg to save the Eastern Roman Empire.
There were actually two imperial crowns in the Roman Empire, one was the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, and the other was the Holy Roman Empire.
It is no secret that Duke William wanted to become emperor, but as the emperor of the Byzantine Empire needed to face the Ottomans, and the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire only needed to settle the electors in the empire.
"My monarch wants the title of emperor more than anyone else, and as his vassal lacks enough righteousness to compete with him, and if I want to get out of this embarrassing situation, I must first become a king myself."
Duke William did not shy away from saying that his title of Duke of Normandy came from the King of France, the Duchy of Normandy was part of France, and he was a vassal of the King of France, and he himself was a knight canonized by the King of France, although the power of the Duchy of Normandy was stronger than the French royal family since his ancestors forcibly "submitted" to the French King, but in any case, the French King is still his undisputed monarch.
At a young age, he had relied on the power of the French king to secure his throne, so this also brought a great consequence, that is, the French king, as his monarch, had the legal basis to intervene in the Duchy of Normandy, and the power of the monarchy and the righteousness of the monarchy made it impossible for him to ignore the edicts from the Paris court.
He was able to gather his nobles and knights on an expedition to Britain because he was the monarch, and his nobles and knights were obliged to serve him as vassals.
In the same way, if his monarch has a head cramp and wants to attack Italy or other countries, then once the French king is called, he can only take his army to serve the French king in military service.
Therefore, if he wants to be free from others, he can only stand up to his own monarch and the king if he himself becomes a king.
The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire is not hereditary, but is elected by the three archbishops and four great nobles of the Roman Empire, and these seven people who are qualified to elect the emperor are called electors, and usually as long as the seven electors are willing, they can elect the subjects of the empire, the nobility of other countries, and even the Byzantine emperor to serve as the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
In the history of the Roman Empire, foreign monarchs such as the King of France and the King of Spain also served as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, although the electors preferred to elect emperors from their own people.
Just as the pope in Rome was elected by cardinals, in theory every clergy and lay person could be elected pope, in practice the pope was never born only among cardinals, but unlike the pope, the Holy Roman Empire's election of the emperor could be elected as the Duke of Normandy and the king of England as long as he was properly used in diplomacy.
King Arthur sneered, "Once you can be elected emperor, I'm afraid you will be able to use the title of emperor to suppress your monarch in turn." ”
Before the rise of the nation-state and the dissolution of the idea of divine monarchy, the emperor, as God's chosen people, had a higher status than any king, and even the Roman Empire unified the world, with territories spanning Europe, Asia and Africa, and almost all countries were part of the Roman Empire, so both Eastern Rome (Byzantine Empire) and Western Rome (Holy Roman Empire) had unlimited claims to the countries where their fallen territories were located.
This is the reason why the title of king is only the fourth order, and the title of the Roman emperor is the fifth order, as long as the strength can keep up, then the emperor is the real lord of the world, the king of kings.
Duke William understood King Arthur's resentment from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't go back to the past, and he had to become king and then emperor no matter what.
"Yes, that's right, once I become emperor, even if I only have this one title, I will be enough to suppress the king of France in France." Duke William did not hesitate to express his ambition, the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor came from his territory, but since the throne of this huge empire was vacant, the Roman Emperor was more like a title in name, as the Emperor of Holy Rome, his identity was first the Elector of Holy Rome, and then the Emperor of Holy Rome.
Successive emperors were not so much trying to govern the empire with peace of mind as they wanted to fight the autumn winds of Italy, and only by collecting the wealth from Italy could they suppress the ambitious princes of the empire.
"The three gold coins of fate, the past represents death, the future is illusory, only reality connects the past and the future, the gold coin that symbolizes reality is the most powerful of the three gold coins of destiny, it is the core of fate, so even if that country boy gets two gold coins of destiny and becomes a king, it will not help."
The gold coin of fate, symbolizing the power of the current gold coin is the most powerful, the patron saint of Ireland Patrick is invincible to the patron saint of England, King Edward, his martial arts and strategy, as the king of the ability to govern the country are all taught by King Arthur, Duke William He has extraordinary information about his strength, wisdom and courage, how can he care about the other party.
Duke William was proud, suddenly there was a commotion in the camp, a cavalryman with a letter in his hand rushed towards Duke William, Duke William saw the cavalry stop, handed him the letter in his hand, he tore open the letter, Juan Xiu's words made his face ugly.
"Snow White's letter, how can this be?" Duke William looked at the words on the envelope, and the urgency made him want to leave here quickly, but the big war was imminent, and he absolutely could not leave Britain without his army.
Snow White, the daughter of the contemporary Earl of Hanover and the heir of the Earl of Hanover, is an integral part of his ambitions.
Snow White's father was the Earl of Hanover of Holy Rome, one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire, because of his beautiful appearance and suffered from his ruthless stepmother sent hunters to chase and kill, all the way to the forest, it was he who saved Snow White who was down and down at that time, so just like a fairy tale, the prince saved the princess, and the beautiful princess fell in love with the prince.
The marriage between Duke William and Snow White led to a political alliance between his Duchy of Normandy and Snow White's Electoral State of Hanover, which was why he was confident that he would run for the throne of Rome as long as he could become King of England.
"You have offended her mother, Snow White, by saving Snow White, a friend of a friend may not be a friend, but the enemy of an enemy is largely a friend."
King Arthur analyzed the information for Duke William and said, "Queen Snow is a powerful witch whose magic power is above that of my sister Morgan Le Fay, and now she is tantamount to an alliance with us. ”
"So what, I know what you think, I know you, just as you know me, I have the same red dragon blood flowing in my body as you, and we both have the arrogance of the dragon clan, but this doesn't mean that I have to let go of the danger, I can't bear it anymore, I want to deal with that guy myself."
Duke William clenched his fists as if he had made up his mind, "There is a saying that adults beat up children, and my gold coins of fate can guide me to find him and kill him." ”