October 4, 1318.

Bran's army enters Fort North, which is also Simon's domain.

After Simon was made a lord, he hurried to Fort North overnight.

He had the ruling papers, and the fifty guards that Bran had allocated to him.

Call all the servants in the castle and establish a new ruling system.

When you become a nobleman, you have to have a family crest, and Simon hasn't figured out what to use.

By the time Bran stepped outside the castle, Simon had taken off his military uniform and changed into a baron's regular attire, wearing a crown with rubies.

Before Blanzema was about to enter, Simon came out to lead the horse for Bran.

He could have avoided this, but now that Bran was in the limelight, Simon meant to show that he would always be Bran's servant.

When Bran entered the castle to untie his horse, Simon's maid came up to change his clothes and wipe Bran's body, and he stood beside him, reporting as he could.

"Your Highness, three letters have come, one from Venice and two from Florence."

"Read."

Simon opened the letter from Venice and read, "The Holy See said that it is winter, and the church in Venice is financially tight, so please ask the lords from all over the world to donate some." ”

Bran shouted out to the maid, and then said to the mirror, "How much?"

"Three hundred gold rubles."

"Give it to Yicheng, get some old clothes and send it over, and donate it in the name of the republic."

The so-called lords of various places are actually the north-central part of the peninsula, as well as the island of Venice.

When Aschucle established the Venetian papostolic throne, no one recognized it, and only the territory he controlled was nominally obeyed.

But he himself believed in Eastern Roman Orthodoxy, and it was only for the sake of dominating the other princes of light that he wanted to establish this apostle.

He did not attach much importance to this papostolic position, and Venice was swept away by Aschuclay with a lot of wealth to enrich the navy, and the originally rich maritime merchant state suddenly retreated to the back of several years.

Bran had also heard that the priests of Venice were now a little bitter.

After all, that place is not your own territory, and it is already good to be willing to give it. ”

"The second is for Nefer, and it's from the Aegean Sea."

"Who?"

"Ashclay camp, this letter should be Nefer's request for them to send someone to mediate, it was sent before we sent our troops."

"Write what?"

"Let Nefer pay the money, and after sending the money, they will send a letter to my country (Florence) to intervene."

"What about the third one?"

Simon opened it, "From Dandoro, he said that he was inquiring about the currents near the fjord at your order, and collected more, but the 'Blue Dragon' has not yet been followed. By the way, it also says that the Junbao spies he sent out reported back to him that Aschu Clay might strive to become the 'Co-Emperor'!"

"Bring the letter!"

Bran took the letter and read the information about Byzantium, which read, "Your Highness, this time Ashurclay returned to China to fight for power, maybe he will not be satisfied with the position of regent of the empire, and the people I sent to Junbao have heard a lot of rumors that people say that Aschuclay is meritorious and should be promoted to another ......"

Simon looked at Bran and didn't move, "Your Highness?"

"Do you know what Dandoro is trying to say? He wanted to tell me that Byzantium might be in civil strife. “

Although Byzantium was the primogeniture of the purple blood, when the military town was strong, the military princes would interfere in the selection of the emperor.

Born in the Purple Chamber, everyone knows that this bloodline has the right to claim the throne and the right to inherit.

And the 'Co-ruling Emperor' is the designated successor of the Purple Emperor. ”

"Your Highness, I don't understand, Ashcrazi's parents are not emperors, his purple blood is just a little related, he is accused of being the heir, and he should also violate the inheritance law?

And those princes of Junzhen won't sit idly by and watch him become the Purple Emperor, right?

He was so powerful that he was allowed to come to power, and the nobles were afraid that they would not be able to sleep well. ”

"According to the information we have found out about the merchant ships in and out of Junbao many times, there are two candidates for the Purple Emperor this time, right?" Bran looked at Simon.

"It's the emperor's third son and sixth son, the third son has no purple blood, but he is older and smarter. He once led troops into battle.

The sixth son heard that even the horse and the dog could not be distinguished, and there was purple blood, but he was a little younger, only a few years old. Simon replied.

"When my grandfather went to the Aegean Sea to welcome his relatives, he also found out something. The giant supports the sixth, but how can a fool give birth?

Therefore, if there is no purple-blooded third child, there will be some noble support who are loyal to the emperor.

But he didn't have purple blood, Aschu Klay was very opposed to the third son's accession to the throne, and the emperor was also opposed by the nobles, so he couldn't let the sixth son enter the monastery and give up the title.

If the sixth son becomes the Purple Emperor, the giant is estimated to be the king, and the emperor will be ruled together with the prince, and when the stupid emperor dies, the entire imperial bloodline will be transferred to him.

As you said, he is so powerful that there are many military princes in Asia Minor and Eastern Europe who oppose him.

Dandoro wants to remind us to be alert to the Purple Chamber War and prepare early. ”

"That's a great thing for us!" Simon was overjoyed.

"Don't die early, don't die late, it's good to die! Let's make Byzantium even more chaotic. Bran's heart was burning again.

Bran was relieved to receive the good news, and he ate some food and met with the Earl of North Carolina.

The Earl of North Carolina, as a monarch, was not despised and had a room for him to recuperate.

He was invited to Bran, who gave him a low seat, and if he sat down, he would surrender to Bran in a high position.

"Your Highness Bran, I already know my fault, I shouldn't support Never, please let me go back, I will collect the ransom."

The pitiful tone is like that of an earl.

even deliberately admitted that he was a reinforcement, so he deserved to be caught.

"Your Excellency, is this place comfortable?"

"It's very comfortable."

"Do you like it?"

"Satisfied."

"Then you can stay a few more days, you don't have to go back right away."

"This ...... Your Highness, you still let me go back, it's useless for me to stay here, and I have to bother you to take care of me. ”

There are two monarch behaviors that Bran is not satisfied with

One is like Nefer, the big picture has been decided, and he still has to hold on.

One is that the Earl of North Carolina is like this, everything is good.

The first is to waste one's time and mislead others and oneself.

If the second type is released, ten percent will retaliate.

Bran looked at the Earl of North Carolina again, who was a little weak-hearted.

"Your Excellency, you want to contact His Highness Aschucle for the ruling, right, I'll write it for you."

"What a thing! I don't know anything about Greek. ”

"Don't worry, the ransom is definitely for you, hundreds of your subordinates and you, I have already issued a number, let your subjects make it up, and you can get free.

Bran decided to wait a few more days, and every once in a while, according to his orders to Dandoro, he would receive information from Dandoro.

By the time Dandoro's letter was delivered to him, it had been many days since it was sent.

Maybe this will be the Purple Emperor dead, and the empire is fighting among themselves?

As long as he is sure that Ashu Clayteng will not make a move, he will dare to swallow Beiyi!

If you have fast hands, you have to be bold, and you have to be careful in your heart, and you can get things done.

After appeasing the Earl of North Carolina, Bran asked his men to send two more women, "Your Excellency, let them be your companions, and of course, the expenses will be included in your ransom." ”

The corners of Bran's mouth raised slightly, seeing this smile, if the Earl of North Carolina had a sword in his hand now, he really wanted to behead Bran!

He continues to be held in custody.

Staying in Fort North, Bran regrouped his forces.

He came to the chairman of the mountain and said, "The winter snow has arrived, you let the wounded soldiers go back, leave the strong, I have other uses." ”

Then he found Bergman and looked him in the eye, until the mountain lord bowed his head to Bran again in fear, and Bran walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "You have also made a lot of efforts this time, and I have also left you a piece of territory." ”

"Your Highness!" Bergman first suspected that he had misheard, and then wondered if it was the help of his eldest sister.

"The location of this territory has not yet been determined, but when the situation is clear, you will know, and I will give you that place.

In addition, I want you to listen well, and strive for more than half of the mountain lords to come to your side to fight against Sibein, and if you mobilize the Suli soldier regiment in the future, you must say the same, and no one can stop you. ”

After saying this, Bran changed his face again, "You also know that your sister is with me, then our relationship must be closer than others, don't let me down." ”

"Definitely, Your Highness, I will do my best this time for whatever you say."

After Bergman left, Bran switched back to his indifferent expression.

In the afternoon of the same day, he received another letter, which was completely unexpected.

It was also transferred from Florence, and the place of departure was in "Rome"!

Written by Chai Su, the god of love.

In the castle lord's study, Simon Branbush took it and asked, "Has anyone opened it?"

"Don't dare, Your Highness, this letter Chai Su directly used twenty horsemen to escort, and when he arrived at the border, he directly passed the legend that it was a secret letter, and he came all the way, very secretive.

In order that it would not be harmful to us if the twenty horsemen remained in the territory, we took the trust and drove them away.

The letter was addressed to the city consul, but Chaisu's intelligence network also inquired, and the city was now ruled by the Teutonic Knights.

After inquiring again, it was the Howard who had seduced his mother. The power that Charman has built.

When the news of Chaman's control of the Florentine election reached Rome, Chaisu also said to the important minister Yi An, "I didn't expect that the people who lost the country really got a country." ”

Yi An replied, "They just helped His Highness watch it first, and waited for His Highness to get it." ”

After reading the letter, Bran took it to the candle and burned it.

"Simon, you and Hilde, from now on, find some safe places in the city that we can fully control, and let the merchants of Rome come."

"Your Highness, what is this?"

"In exchange, we can also expand our foothold in Rome and send an envoy to travel between the two places."

Knowing that Byzantium might be vying for power, Chaisu planned to contact Bran and restore the peninsula to a land where the cross flag was flying.

And Bran also knows that his grandfather Howard was assassinated by this god, and that he is still Desley's enemy!

An idea in the brain is slowly generated, whether you can "drive the wolf and devour the tiger"!

……

September 28, 1318.

Six days before Bran entered the northern fort, on this day, Askhclay set foot on Constantine.

His troop carriers, one after another, were powerful and morale-raising.

He wants to enter the Grand Palace, go to the Purple Emperor, and pay homage to the regent of the empire.

When the emperor died, he had to go one step further.

Thousands of ironclad warriors entered through the main gate of the castle, and the foreign merchants, envoys, and nobles who were in the castle poured into the wide streets to witness the first bow of the East China Sea.

Ashoclay rode on a horse, surrounded by Tae-yeon, a military advisor and a hypocrite, and his only son.

But the only son did not have the ambition of his giant father, and he was in the square, looking at a polo field in Junburg.

This is the favorite entertainment of the nobles of the purple room.

Riding on a horse, the breeze blowing, what a pleasure!

And poetry.

His Royal Highness liked it too.

He raised two bands, a group of poets.

Write poetry, polo, and women and wine all day long.

From Tianzhu to the northern luxury, he has it all.

The level of enjoyment is far greater than that of my father.

After the giant entered the palace, there was still the queen and his nobles.

He did not kneel, and even when the emperor discussed with him that he wanted to appoint him as "Sasa" and ask him to assist the third prince.

He still didn't agree.

Esar is an honorary title, second to the co-emperor, and although it will also increase his prestige, he wants more.

Two days later, the emperor died of a serious illness.

The two princes, the empress, the grand chamberlain (eunuch officials, positions unique to the empire), and the powerful lord who had been summoned by the emperor to the castle to discuss the ownership of the throne.

In the Imperial Hall.

"Your Majesty's last words are inherited by the third prince!"

"This violates the Purple Blood Priority Law, I am against it!"

The queen is the new queen, and neither of the two princes is hers, and she has reservations.

The great chamberlain who is in charge of the forbidden army in the country has long been bought by Tai Yuan.

And the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood of the Empire supported the Three Princes.

The atmosphere is tense.

However, on the second and third days, after thousands of more warriors set foot on the castle, Ashur Klein took the throne by absolute force.

The other lords only brought a few dozen people, but Aschu Clay actually dispatched 10,000 people to directly take the castle!

The bold take everything, and the timid look at the winner's back.

Aschu Clay doesn't even pretend to be now, he negotiated with the empress, the empress can go back to the fief that the emperor rewarded her, or stay in Junbao as a mascot, whatever she wants, as long as she doesn't care about military affairs.

On the day the emperor was elected, the third prince was forced to choose between castration or becoming an Orthodox monk.

The lion of the tiger and wolf of Ashklay held him up, and his troops were not of any use, so he wrote a document renouncing his title, and then ...... The giant castrated him anyway!

Since there were originally three ducal titles, plus the Venetian title.

The fourth duke was in the hands of Ashuclay, in addition to co-ruling the emperor, he also got the royal title.

The title of the Greek kingdom of the Aegean Sea was re-established on the day the Purple Emperor was elected.

After getting the Greek throne, Aschucle even held the "Duke of Constantinople" more!

This duke title has always been under the direct jurisdiction of the Purple Emperor.

Ashcraley's ambitions are not only blatant, but insolent.

Tae-yeon had advised him to be cautious.

But after the Battle of Tongxia, his fortune soared, the God Throne dared to be abolished, and even the Purple Emperor was selected by him, and he despised all the heroes and kings in the world.

On the first day of his reign as the new emperor, he said to everyone,

"Whoever dares to turn it out of the hands of this king, I will slaughter him with my own hands!"