"Your Highness, we are all guests today, and I will visit you again at a certain time."

Dandoro kept his cultivation and went back to his seat, and his eyes also looked at Bran beside Howard, as rumored, his eyes were attentive and his facial features were handsome.

Bran felt Dandoro's scrutiny, and smiled back without losing his grace.

My grandfather once made a list of must-remove people after the restoration of the country, and this person was ranked fifteenth.

Carol sat among Bran's grandchildren and whispered to Bran about Dandoro's origins.

After hearing this, Bran said, "If we return to the kingdom one day, will grandfather be able to forgive Dandoro?"

Carol shook her head in confusion.

Now in Venice, under the leadership of the Council of Nobles, he made every effort to develop the navy, appointing Reece Owen as "Admiral" for life.

Reece Owen is also the Speaker.

This man had to be eliminated, but Bran didn't feel that much hatred on the list of several traitors under him.

Dandoro's gaze focused on Howard before turning to the other guests.

Now in Venice, power has fallen into the hands of Reece Owen.

After he joined Reece Owen, there was a period of reuse, but later due to a disagreement in philosophy, he was transferred from customs affairs to foreign affairs.

Four years ago, in the naval battle with Byzantium, Venice was victorious.

Byzantium proposed secret peace talks, and was himself sent as a deputy envoy.

Unexpectedly, this was a vicious plan by Reece Owen and his cronies.

In this missionary group, Rees sent many old nobles to talk to the officials and talk to the Byzantines.

First let Byzantium take it lightly, on the other hand, Rees organized another offensive to attack the Byzantine navy.

Ships sunk or captured by Venice, more than forty!

Because of this, Byzantium lost more than 2,000 sailors for more than two years, and its forces could not get out of the Aegean Sea.

And Dandoro and many other secret envoys were directly arrested.

Dandoro was arrested with the envoys for a while,

When Reece Owen later issued an announcement that the Byzantines had attacked the legations, Venice fought back.

Since Venice had no intention of ransacking the envoys, all the envoys were subjected to severe torture and then pressed back to the castle like slaves.

By the time they passed through the Golden Gate, half of the envoys had been wounded and disabled.

CONSTANTINOPLE – Since the Dark Ages, it has been one of the centers of civilization and economy on the continent for the entire fifth century.

The Cathedral, the Grand Palace, the Grand Hippodrome, the Golden City Gate. These magnificent buildings made it praised by the poet as the city of ten thousand cities.

But they were imprisoned in a fortified prison in Junbao, where they lived without seeing the light of day.

Dandoro lasted for half a year, skinny, one leg crippled by torture, and one eye degraded to the point that he couldn't see clearly, as if it was covered with a layer of fog.

He thought he was going to die like this, but Dandoro's wife, who spent the family fortune, went to Byzantium to redeem her husband.

Dandolo returned to Venice, limp and blind, still a noble councilor, and in order to avoid attracting tongues, and because he was caught on the mission, he was injured on official business, and still got a business position.

But with his posture, he didn't feel that he could hold any important position. In recent years, he has changed his position, and now he has been assigned to come to Florence to negotiate some small business, and he must meet the former Grand Duke and be humiliated by him......

The anger in Dandoro's heart could not be stopped, he watched the young consul of Florence about to come to power, and fantasized that it would be good if it were him, and that he could take revenge by mastering the power.

But even if he overthrew Rees and became the joint lord of the Venetian nobility, the tens of thousands of troops who defended the castle still had no possibility of revenge.

Inside, guests from the Peninsula, the Franks, and even Castile conversed in a variety of languages.

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Dandoro thought of a Venetian proverb, "Borrow someone else's sword and get rid of your enemies." ”

The princes gathered, the crusaders attacked Byzantium!

It's crazy and bold!

When he came back to his senses, he saw the Archon appear.

Albert's shaved hair had not yet fully grown, so he appeared in a golden wig, with a beard sticky, a crown and a hat, and a scepter in his hand, and became an archon.

He had already ascended to the top of the Grand Commercial Hall first, and signaled to the crowd and nobles below.

Now he was the supreme head of the city, and every day he began to have countless parchments and rolls of paper delivered to the table for him to correct.

When he travels, there are no less than ten people to escort him, and there is no privacy at all.

He felt as if his shoulders were being pressed against something, and he couldn't move.

Albert wanted to refuse such protection, but his family elders, close servants, all sincerely wanted him to come to power. Even his uncle's safety depended on this ruling position to protect him.

The criticism of the nobles was already suppressed by Mrs. Meghan's coin in her mouth, and the commoners shouted that he had taken office correctly under the decree of the "grain price reduction" signed by Albert.

Albert's ears buzzed when he began to speak, but he forced himself to finish, and then thundered applause.

At this moment, he was like the sun, and the nobles were clouds surrounding him, which he had never felt before.

Albert paused for a moment......

"I will be the greatest consul in the history of Floronza."

"Great Consul!"

Mrs. Meghan smiled with satisfaction.

To celebrate the succession, she even sponsored a popular "martial arts competition".

Two months ago, the news was first released, and it is scheduled to be held two days after the succession ceremony.

A forest meadow south of Meath City will be used as a venue for a spear jousting tournament.

There was no such tournament in Florence for nearly a decade, and the Pavi family, the former consuls, did not like this kind of rude sport, but held many tea parties for the nobility of the upper class.

The tournament became the talk of the town, and the other nobles in the city agreed to fund a part, including Howard, who also threw in five hundred silver rubles to join the prize pool and pay for the food and lodging of the servants.

On the day of the competition, the weather was a little gloomy, but it did not reduce the enthusiasm of the people. In the pastures, falconers brought by other nobles can be seen, holding poles with meat on them, or releasing a rabbit to run, directing the eagle to kill and take meat.

The nobles watched with interest, and this was also a form of entertainment among the nobles.

The best viewing spots to avoid the sun are fenced off for the nobles and their families to enjoy.

On the outer side are the families of knights, merchants, wealthy people, etc., and further out, there are commoners or children who can't be squeezed in.

The Quake Chamber of Commerce provided rum and wine to the nobles, and for others who wanted to have a good drink, a few hundred paces away, vendors sold some miscellaneous rye wine and roasted meat with their prey.