Chapter 251: The True Romans (Two in One, Ask for Subscription!! )
"Does the Wisdom Cult know about our merfolk catch?"
"Just now, we arranged news from the inside line within the Wisdom God Cult, saying that the Holy Silver Cross Knights sent a team of men to Mermaid Island late last night, and it is likely that they went to investigate the mermaid incident!"
The mermaids, that is, the sirens, have a strong revenge mentality, and are very grudge-bearing races, and their companions are captured, they will definitely try their best to retaliate against humans, and the local church will definitely send people to investigate when they learn that the merfolk are restless and continue to attack the ships, and it is not difficult to find the head of the fleet of the Windsor Kingdom.
"Expose it, expose it, anyway, the mermaid has already been sent to London, even if they know it, they can't do anything to us, at most they will denounce it." Ma Wei said: "The most important thing at the moment is the talks, as long as the talks are successful and the potions market of various countries is opened, the Wisdom God Cult will not care about a few mermaids." ”
"That's just as well."
The second prince nodded, no longer bothering about the mermaid's affairs: "The meeting place is at Notre Dame Cathedral, although it is very close to the mansion, but we have to rush over in advance, breakfast is ready, hurry down and eat." ”
"Hmm."
After the second prince left, Ma Wei couldn't sleep, washed up, put on his coat, and came to the restaurant on the first floor, where Archbishop Brandon and the others had already woken up and were eating the breakfast prepared for them in the mansion.
The delegations of Frederick's kingdom and the Roman Republic sat not far away, Bismarck had smoked a cigar in the morning, and his breakfast was a glass of brandy with ham and eggs.
If he hadn't been woken up by the second prince, Ma Wei would have been asleep at this time, the talks that started at 9 o'clock were already early enough since 8 o'clock, and Levine and Daniel, who lived with him, also developed similar habits, especially Daniel, when he first came to the Romanov Kingdom, he got up before dawn every morning, and then developed the same biological clock as Ma Wei.
Yawning, Ma Wei ordered breakfast from the maid, he asked for a bowl of white porridge, a bacon omelette and a cup of plain black tea without milk and sugar, the breakfast of the second prince and others was similar to his, but the white porridge was replaced by bread.
"Nicholas, is Sleepy Toast ready?" Archbishop Brandon cut off a piece of ham and stuffed it into his mouth, and asked: "We want to show the strength of the Manstein Company to the representatives of various countries today, and the sleeping toast, as the main commodity, must be taken out." ”
I think you want to eat it yourself.
On the way to Paris, there was no oven on the ship, which caused Archbishop Brandon not to eat sleeping toast for several days, in fact, ordinary bread can also replace toast, but Archbishop Brandon, as the head of the church for this trip, can not indulge in the fantasy world of toast every day, so Ma Wei discussed with the second prince and decided not to provide him with sleeping toast for the time being, so as not to drop the chain at a critical moment.
"I've commissioned the kitchen to bake the toast, and it will be baked in half an hour, so it's just in time."
"That's good, that's good." Archbishop Brandon licked his lips, faintly moved.
Can't eat sleeping toast, Archbishop Brandon's body has not shown a withdrawal reaction, hallucinogenic Asanti potions are not drugs, even so, Archbishop Brandon is still a little uncontrollable, and needs the sustenance of sleeping toast at the spiritual level.
After a while, Yunia in pajamas went downstairs with the bear in her arms, she did not appear from the accommodation area, but walked out of the kitchen, followed by a helpless maid, only to know, she smelled the fragrance and quietly slipped into the kitchen, with her height, successfully walked under the chef's nose, and stole several desserts.
Stewart, who had been lying in bed for a day due to seasickness, finally recovered, his face was a little more bloody, and his head still hurt a little, but there was no strong vomiting anymore, and he was eating like he hadn't eaten for a few days, which attracted everyone's constant sideways.
Feeling a little embarrassed, the second prince hurriedly finished breakfast and left, and as soon as he walked on his front foot, Levin and Daniel walked into the dining room on his back foot.
Seeing Daniel, smoking a cigar and drinking a glass of brandy for almost an hour, Bismarck immediately sat up straight, stared at the other party motionlessly, from above to down, and from bottom to up, and after being sure that the other party was safe and sound, and his face was ruddy and healthy, he withdrew his gaze with satisfaction, took his wine glass and drank it all.
Daniel and Wilhelm V often wrote letters to communicate, but what the letter said was not necessarily accurate, and the specific life was only known by meeting in person, and Bismarck came to Paris in person, a large part of the reason was to visit Daniel on behalf of Wilhelm V.
Seeing that the other party is doing well, he is relieved.
Daniel also spotted Bismarck, and after greeting him, he sat down next to Mavi and ordered a breakfast, arguing with Levin while eating, and using rather rude words.
Bismarck could only understand some Windsor, which was still quite different from the authentic Windsor, but he could understand a few curses, and he also knew that Daniel greeted Levin's family three times in one sentence, which was very 'polite'.
His eyelids twitched slightly, his gaze became subtle, Bismarck looked at Daniel, who was full of dirty words, and then at Mavi, who had a calm face, his throat squirming, as if he had something to say.
"Let's go."
Snuffing out the cigar, Bismarck didn't want to stay in the restaurant any longer, he didn't know what went wrong, but there was no doubt that Daniel had indeed changed a lot and became.
Too down-to-earth.
Ma Wei is a little wronged, Levine is also wronged, Daniel has nothing to do with them like this but not much, at least Ma Wei has never taught him to swear, swear words are all learned at Eton College, not long ago Daniel was still a good boy who knows how to reason!
At 8:30, the church carriage stopped downstairs, picked up the delegations of the three countries, and arrived at Notre-Dame Cathedral, located on the Île de la Île de la Seine.
Notre-Dame Cathedral is the central papacy of the Church of Wisdom in the same way as St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where Pope Gallis IX lives as well as Anatole.
Speaking of Anatol, everyone was a little nervous, Anatole is the closest god to believers in the Apocalypse God System, he often goes out, even ordinary people have the opportunity to see him, this is a good thing, but for now, it is safest not to meet Anatole.
Notre-Dame Cathedral is more magnificent than St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and this is not because the Windsor people were worse architects than the Gauls, but because the old Notre-Dame Cathedral was rebuilt after a fire more than a century ago.
It is obviously unfair to compare the height and magnificence of pure ancient buildings with modern buildings, and as long as the people of Windsor want to, they can build a more imposing church at any time.
Speaking of the fire a century ago, Mavi remembered something and asked Archbishop Brandon: "As the center of the Holy See, the underground seal of St. Paul's Cathedral is sealed with ancient demons, what about Notre-Dame Cathedral?" ”
"Of course, there are also demon seals." Archbishop Brandon replied: "To be precise, these demons were not sealed under the church from the beginning, they were brought by the founder of the church, for example, some demons were sealed in clay pots, and some demons were sealed in gold ornaments, and once the seals were broken, they were released. ”
"In that case, will there be a demon who escapes from the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which had a fire a century ago?"
"This"
Archbishop Brandon frowned and said: "I haven't heard of any demons escaping, it is very difficult for demons to escape the seal, the last demon who escaped was named Jinna, it was able to escape because the seal was loose, and every once in a while, the church will check the seal and strengthen the loose seal."
"The fire a century ago did not completely burn down the Notre-Dame Cathedral, but only burned the spire, the demons are sealed underground, the fire above should not affect the underground, if there are demons escaping, the Cult of Wisdom God will definitely notify other churches."
Speaking of this, Archbishop Brandon smiled: "A century ago, the seal of the Demon Gate had not been loosened, and even if a demon escaped, he could not do evil, so he could only hide in the artifact and survive. ”
Ma Wei nodded and led you, he just asked casually, he didn't think that there would be a demon who broke free from the seal a century ago, if that was the case, the Supreme Four Pillars would not need to wait for the Doomsday Party to help, let alone promise them three wishes.
Bhaji also said something similar, the demons, that is, the ancient gods, they were created by the three supreme gods, and the person was engraved on the back of the demon's door, and when the demon's door was closed and the seal was indestructible, the demon would be limited, and its power would decline rapidly, and in the long run, even an ordinary human child could kill them.
Instead of breaking free from the seal at an inopportune time, it is better to hide in the seal with peace of mind and wait for the times to change.
Humans don't dare to release them easily, when the seal is just opened, the demon still has power, but it can't be replenished, it will get weaker and weaker over time, during this period, the demon can kill many humans, there is no need to pay too many casualties for a demon.
The carriage stopped in front of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, and a bishop had been waiting for a long time, and under his leadership, the delegation of the three countries entered Notre-Dame Cathedral and came to the conference hall on the second floor, where they met with Archbishop Fai, who was the representative of the Cult of the God of Wisdom.
In addition to the Franco-Italian archbishop, the representative of the kingdom turned out to be Maria, and the reborn Napoleon had relatives, but did not choose an heir, and could only be represented by other nobles of status.
Although the Pope did not come forward in person, the Cult of Wisdom God sent an Archbishop of Fai, who was not reckless in etiquette, and Archbishop Fai was a red man in front of Anatole and had enough decision-making power.
"Everyone, please be seated."
The conference table was square to facilitate the division of delegations, and according to the nameplates on the table, everyone was seated one by one, and the nuns served hot tea and snacks, opened the windows to let the bright sunlight shine into the room, and when everything was ready, the Archbishop Fai took out a document for the monks to distribute to the people.
"This is the potions cooperation treaty drafted by the Wisdom God Cult, please take a look at it, if you have any objections, feel free to put it forward, after all, this is also the purpose of our gathering here today."
Delegations from all countries came prepared, and they had already thought of the terms that were beneficial to them, and the same was true of the Cult of Wisdom, which was densely packed with treaties written on the documents, which were fair and just at the beginning, and were made for various countries, but as time went on, the taste slowly became wrong.
"Article IX Treaty, the tax rate related to potions in all countries shall not be lower than the international standard and must be uniform"
A representative of the Roman Republic could not help but speak, gesturing in the air with his right hand: "This treaty is clearly beneficial to Bonaparte's First Empire!" You occupy the center of the pack and have the most checkpoints for potions shipping! Even if it's by sea, it has to go through your territorial waters! It's not fair! ”
After listening to the translation, Archbishop Fai smiled and said: "We are also for everyone's consideration, how can potions, like other walks of life, not have a fixed standard?" At the beginning, we also thought about implementing their own standards for each country, but what are the consequences of doing so? It's nothing more than a return to the old ways, where you raise taxes a little bit, and I raise them a little bit."
Archbishop Fai put his black tea in front of everyone, picked up the sugar jar and poured it down, and the sugar quickly flooded the teacup: "It turned out like this, the good potions business turned into a pot of porridge, how to drink it?" ”
"Standards are as they should be, but they are clearly biased in favor of Bonaparte's First Empire!"
"That's right! If you really want to sign a contract, show some sincerity! Don't make a fuss about this! ”
"Everyone, calm down, if you have something to say!"
At the beginning of the talks, there was an atmosphere of saber-rattling, you must know that this is not yet deeply involved in the detailed rules of the various treaties, and if it continues like this, there will be ghosts if there is no fight.
After a little silence, the delegates of each country took out the treaties they had prepared in advance, passed them on to the representatives of other countries, and carefully studied them.
Look at it
"Son of a bitch."
It was still the representative of the Roman Republic who spoke at the beginning, this time he directly burst into foul language, threw the document on the table, pointed at Archbishop Brandon's nose and cursed, because he spoke Sardinian, Mavi and the others could not understand it, but judging from his blushing face and thick neck and constantly changing gestures like flowers
I guess I'm scolding my mother like crazy.
The translator next to him was dumbfounded, not knowing whether to translate or which part
Ma Wei felt that he should have seen the treaty on the document about the benefit of the Kingdom of Windsor, and he had read all the contents of the document, and said impartially.
The conditions offered by the Kingdom of Windsor are indeed a bit excessive, obviously relying on the powerful purchase channels of the Manstein Potions Company to forcibly ask for benefits.
When he saw the document, Ma Wei expected that the representatives of various countries would start a controversy because of this, but who would have thought that the representatives of the Roman Republic would be so 'true temperament' that they would burst out on the spot!
(End of chapter)