"What's going on?" Bran was puzzled.

The team leader came out and said that he had asked Tom to go to the police station yesterday.

I thought that Tom would retreat from the difficulty, or be harassed at the police station, but I didn't expect that neither of these things happened.

When asked what happened, many people were amazed that Tom had come such a long way.

And Tom himself didn't feel the surrounding discussions, as soon as his feet touched the ground, his body gradually lost strength, and he slowly lay on the ground, fainting from exhaustion.

Bran had Tom carried him down. It is not uncommon for mercenary groups to get injured in training, so there are also a few people here who are good at bandaging.

After sleeping all day, Tom woke up unhindered, but his feet seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't lift them heavily.

When Tom woke up, he found himself in his father's room, and when he cried out of thirst, his father pushed open the door and entered.

"Punish me however you want, but give me a glass of water, I'm dying of thirst."

Raymond unexpectedly agrees to this condition and whispers to his wife to fetch water.

Tom finished it in one gulp, and his brother stood behind his father, congratulating himself.

"Brother, you will leave with Your Highness."

"Where to go!"

"Wherever your Highness goes, you can go, I heard that it is the city of Rome!"

Rome!

It worked...... Tom couldn't stop laughing.

"Silly boy, do a good job in the mercenary group, I don't want to hear you being ...... with a sword one day"

For Raymond, he didn't expect the difference between following Bran and staying in the mercenary group, after all, he was his own child, and he was still afraid that he would become cannon fodder.

Bran spent about three days in the village of Rabi, brushing his face to let the newcomers know, occasionally practicing martial arts with the mercenaries, and then returning to the monastery.

Tom waited for the next time Bran went to Rome, and then went with the escort from the village of Rabi.

Before that, he learned to take care of the foals, and his position was determined, and the mercenary group officially hired the "horse breeder".

Cleaning manure, mending the saddle, brushing the bristles, and learning to give the horse a soldering iron...... On days of hope, Tom became more and more energetic, humming songs every day.

He was also allowed to ride horses, although he could only ride the smallest horses, and the larger ones had to be stepped on by stools.

Tom's name is rotten and not suitable for reuse, because the mercenary group has another Tom.

A lump of tolerates two Toms.

Since he was not given a name, he asked one of the clerks in the Order, who was a good man, and gave him a copy of the "Monarch's Encyclopedia" with a shabby cover, and asked him to select the characters in it and combine them.

There were some words he didn't recognize, but he just thought the font was beautiful, and in the end he chose three names, one for each.

From then on he was not Tom, and an Italian dwarf named "Hilde" was born.

……

A.E. Early in the morning of May 12, 1314, Monde Monastery.

The monks prayed and chanted, and the hymns drifted in the wind, solemn and solemn.

Four years had passed, and it was supposed to end early, but Dean Franklin insisted on leaving Brando for a while.

On this day, before the fourteen-year-old Bran left, he was summoned by Franklin alone.

Franklin comforted Bran for the last time in his theological progress, even allowing him to become a student of a cardinal.

If this is the case, the best outcome is to win the throne, but it will be decades later, and there will be no clear legitimate heir, Bran declined.

So in the end, Franklin handed him another letter of recommendation, which indicated that his four years of study in the convent had been extraordinary, recommending him to enter the Knights Templar in Rome, starting as a knight's apprenticeship.

This is the future leadership position, and if you become a member of the Order in the future, you must start with a squadron leader of at least 50 people.

At present, the two major orders have a five-level system. It's basically the same as the Teutonic mercenary group, but between the brigade and the regiment, they also have a "square team".

The knight apprenticeship has to pay a fee for the installation, which is not cheap, and Franklin also noted in it that Bran is worth being a member of the regiment, please reduce it appropriately.

Not counting logistics, there are currently 5,000 members of the Knights Hospitaller and 6,000 members of the Knights Templar.

It is customary to say that when the two knights merge, it is the moment when a large-scale war is launched.

The Knights Templar were mainly deployed for military operations in the East, mainly on land, in the Jerusalem region, as well as in the Sinai Peninsula (the region of Egypt).

The Knights Hospitaller, on the other hand, paid attention to the Mediterranean perimeter and also escorted merchant ships, so some members also repaired the navy. There are many islands in the Mediterranean, and the Knights Hospitaller also do business privately, and it is even rumored that they have been engaged in piracy......

The letter of recommendation that Bran received was for the head of the Knights Templar, and the old abbot had served as the chief priest of the order, so Bran had a better chance of developing there.

Before leaving, Bran entered the worship chamber and bathed and fasted, hoping that the old priest would be in good health.

Ten years ago, the head of the Knights Templar had been in Rome from December to January, and had been in Rome to report to the Pope, so it was enough to leave in November.

His good friend Albert graduated in June, and his grandmother did not plan to let him go to Rome, but to stay in Meath.

At the age of fifteen, Albert became the youngest consul since the founding of Florence.

Bran and his grandfather were invited to attend.

July 2nd.

Inside the stately Meath City Cathedral.

Under the lead of Archbishop Torrean Egger, the Holy See shook hands with Mrs. Meghan, so the grand transfer of power was held.

Bran met many nobles from all regions of Italy, and even the envoys of the Republic of Venice.

The envoy's name was "Dandoro", and he was only forty years old, but his hair was gray, but he did not grow a beard, which made his face look much fresher and more youthful.

But his eyes and legs have lost their effect.

Since his grandfather, he had been the Maritime Magistrate of the Duchy, a position held by his father, and Dandoro inherited the mantle at the age of sixteen and entered the High Court Palace. So he also served Archduke Howard for six years.

When Dandoro got married, Howard also helped him officiate, but the kid was quick to betray himself, and he also led the rebels and looted his treasured jewelry......

Dandoro came with a trade group of ten people to discuss some small trade issues in the Italian inland sea with Mrs. Meghan.

In recent years, the former Grand Duke has relied on Florence and has improved a little.

It also made the Venetian nouveau riche feel uneasy, afraid that Mrs. Meghan would go crazy and pull up a team to restore Howard, so Dandoro will also "visit" the former lord this time to ease the relationship.

Before the church witnesses crowned Albert, Howard greeted Dandoro, but did not get up, and unceremoniously stretched out his foot in his chair, indicating that Dandoro knelt down and kissed him.

The kiss was humiliating, and Howard admitted that he had accepted it, but the guards who protected Dandoro were angry and wanted to do it, but Dandoro stopped it in time.