043. Woe to the Holy City
"I've always worn white in my underwear, just to cover up this feather coat, which was taken from the white dragon." Howard continued, "You've read the 'Book of the White Dragon,' do you remember what was written on the last page?"
The Book of the White Dragon is a book of all the research records conducted on the White Dragon after the Grand Duke Shange captured the White Dragon, and there is no second book in the world.
Also placed in the treasure house, the last page mentions that the scales on the dragon's body will fall off every few decades, if it is a red dragon, it will eat the belly as food, and the white dragon will swallow and chew in the mouth, stay in the gastric juice to corrode, and then spit out, and the cycle repeats, this pure white snow-like feather coat, there is a strong dragon pressure, after wearing it, the general creatures in nature, will be afraid.
In other words, let Howard now face a tiger, and that tiger may even be scared away.
"But grandfather, didn't this garment accompany the Fifth Grand Duke to the tomb?"
"No, I've been wearing it all the time."
Howard took off his clothes, and Bran took them carefully, which was very cold to the touch and smelled strange.
"Why is this smell a little ...... I ......"
"Doesn't it remind you of a woman?" Howard said seriously, "This fragrance is called ambergris, the saliva after the white dragon spits out and the gastric juice is mixed, but for ordinary people, it is impossible to resist the toxins in it, Shange's grandfather used a large amount of light stone to remove the miscellaneous elements in it, so that it can be worn on the body, grandfather wears it, my father also wears it, but my father is like me, he is very attracted by this dress, so he is particularly unable to restrain women, so people outside say that I am a master of seduction." ”
Although Howard's statement is a bit of a dump, there is still some truth.
"Did we Chaman family ever have so many light stones?"
"Yes, in the eastern part of the island of Venice, off the coast of Venice, a little island a mile away, there is a mine of lightstone, but at the time of my reign it has been excavated."
The coat is very elastic, and when Bran puts it on, it gently stretches it to become a very good fit, and it doesn't feel any weight at all.
"This feather cloak is as strong as steel, and after wearing it, it has a huge advantage to take the seven-star sword and fight alone, but as rulers, we don't need to be in the line of fire. You go back to Rome first, because you stay alone in the Knights, to avoid the loss of the seven-star sword, and in the future, when you have our castle territory, you will order at least a thousand people, and then bring this sword with you...... One day, you will be clothed in dragon armor and armed with a seven-star sword, and the entire people of Venice will kneel at your feet!"
"I see, grandfather." Bran was overjoyed to receive a treasure garment.
Bran then discussed some secrets with Howard until midnight, and then went back to their rooms to rest.
When he returned to the Order, Bran took a few bodyguards and returned to Rome on a lightly armed horse.
When you see the towering "St. Vancioni" bridge from the hillside, Rome is not far away.
Bran didn't clear the game overnight and chose to spend the night in a small hotel.
This is the outer city of Rome, and almost all the people who enter and leave are subjects of the Holy See.
Almost all of them have symbolic cross-patterned ornaments that represent the Holy See of Light.
Bran asked the boss for a bedroom where he could rest, and the two servants followed him to make a bunk.
The next morning, as Bran was about to settle the bill, he heard two young grocers in the next room talking.
"I heard that there was a lot of cholera in the holy city (Jerusalem), and that a large number of soldiers were sick and could not get out of bed, and even died, as well as many civilians.
"So what, once you go to the East, the road is long, in case you get sick halfway, but there is nothing left, your fiancée will also be married by other merchants."
"Phew, while we are young, we should go and fight, didn't the Holy Father (the Pope) order before that merchants who voluntarily go to the Holy City to serve will be given tax reductions, and we can also go to the Holy City to worship, and after selling the goods in our hands, we can import some heretical slaves back, and we can save a few years of income in one trip, you know the price of a pound of meat there now, how much a bag of wheat is worth, if it succeeds, maybe we can open a shop and become a member of the guild shopkeepers."
The two merchants talked about the future, Bran did not intervene in this topic, he was in the Knights, and he also knew some inside information, but he didn't want to spread it so quickly, across the ocean, even ordinary merchants now know so clearly.
Two months ago, the Knights carried out personnel transfers and escorted the "Future Queen" operation, and Bran was also among the personnel who went to the Holy City, and it took a little "heart" to turn it in before he pushed it off.
The term future queen refers to a Roman noblewoman whom Pope Luyo II counted on to give the "lion psychological check".
By doing so, the Holy See intended to take control of the Holy City.
After Richard came to the peninsula last time, he contacted the Holy See and agreed to the marriage privately, and after several twists and turns, he finally got the opposition nobles of the kingdom to agree to the marriage.
This Roman noblewoman was not good-looking, she broke a front tooth when she was a child, but the last thing she considered in a political marriage was her looks.
She was the niece of Luyo II and could have children, and that was enough.
Luio II prepared a rich dowry for this niece, painted a fertile fief for her in the papal possessions in the East, almost equivalent to half a county, and forced her status to be accepted as a righteous daughter by the Austrian Archduke Herti Day James.
Luyo II was a commoner, and later his relatives became knights due to his status, and began to marry some small and medium-sized nobles.
But this generation of aristocrats is very despised.
And the act of transferring the territories of the Holy See naturally caused dissatisfaction among the bishops, and it caused controversy at the Roman Synod.
Due to the information of cholera in the East early in the morning, Bran did not want to take risks to become a bodyguard, and because of this, he heard the name of the lion heart many times, and even saw the portrait of the lionheart.
Due to the imprecision of the drawings and the different types of beards, Bran did not think of the knight who had fought fiercely with Zamuhe in the first jousting competition.
Because of this delay, Bran still has a long time before he meets the future king of the East.
After entering Rome, in less than a day, the palace suddenly issued a warning order, and the whole city was on alert!
The elite knights who guarded the Holy Father, all the absent were recruited back and patrolled day and night, with murderous faces on their faces, which made the prices of Rome rise by one percent for two consecutive days.
Pretending to be still in pain, he rubbed some white powder on his face, looking a little painful, and then Bran returned to the Knights' headquarters.
Captain Florelle was not there, and as a high-ranking person, he entered the papal palace - St. Benburg.
This is the expansion of the fortress castle, which has the smell of military strictness, and adds paintings, statues, fountains, crosses and other obvious patterns or scenery to the newly built building group, and the top pointed arch has various styles, and the glass is mostly painted.
Builders call this the "Gothic technique".