The Pope's picture is not small...... Everyone here, including Sinan Pei, felt this way.

Si Nanpei suddenly felt that the energy and strength contained in the old man in front of him were far less weak than he appeared on the surface. That decaying appearance is just a façade. If the Pope wanted to, he could tear everyone present to shreds.

He has this wisdom, and he has the power corresponding to wisdom. Every time he talks to the Pope, Sinampei always feels that he is telling a lie, but every time he says it, it makes people feel like a spring breeze, even if it is a lie, when it comes out of his mouth, people have to believe it.

Sinampei didn't know if it was a kind of magic or magic or something like that, because he wasn't an expert in it, but the Pope really couldn't afford to let him have the slightest thought of disobedience.

Such a figure, if it were the monarch of a secular country, would have gone down in history a long time ago -- no, just by virtue of the speech just now, Sinampei thinks that His Majesty the Pope is also qualified to go down in history -- and his skill can be seen in the fact that he can maintain the authority and image of the Church at a time when the Church is becoming more and more corrupt.

However, Sinampei still doesn't know, what does the Pope want? Does he want the prosperity of the Litian Sect? Or to recover the territory that has been invaded by the Hajdists, or to let the Church override the royal power and let the Church rule the continent?!

Sinan Pei couldn't understand that there was no longer the slightest emotional fluctuation in the Pope's eyes that could be interpreted-Si Nanpei thought, if the Pope cried out in tears one day. That must be a false feeling.

The old man has much more life experience than the young man, not to mention that the pope was also a strongman who had armed himself to the East to fight holy wars when he was young. Even Henry. It's a cut short of this pope.

Alas, Sinampei looked at the people in the hall who were instigated by the pope's speech, and sighed secretly, he felt that these people had become meat on the pope's board. Maybe it's disrespectful to both sides to say this, but that's how Sinampei feels.

Perhaps the Pope had no ill intentions, and he did want to expel the Selman Empire from the Saranyi region, but he was also playing chess. This feeling of treating everyone as a pawn Si Nanpei didn't like it at all.

"Papapa" applause rang out in the venue, and I don't know who took the lead, and after a while, everyone applauded.

The Pope waved for the crowd to be quiet.

"You may think that my ship-building plan may be too ideal. But what I want to tell you is that this is the cure, and that we can only use our existing fleet to pursue the Selman privateers around Saranyi. It's just useless. ”

"Your Majesty. We are willing to fund your plan. A familiar voice sounded in Sinampe's ears.

"Angus!" he turned his head in surprise, only to find someone who surprised him.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or intention, Angus also happened to turn his head at this time, and nodded at Sinan Pei with a smile.

Sinampei felt a chill from the bottom of his heart.

What bad idea is he playing again?

Si Nanpei knows this guy very well, although he hasn't been together for a long time, but during these times, he and Angus have fought a lot of times openly and secretly, and Si Nanpei is very familiar with his laughter.

How did he end up here?

Since the mighty Duchy of Boulogne has made a statement, or a country outside the Saranil region, it has expressed its willingness to support the Pope's holy war plan. So as a member of the Saranyi region, it is a matter of life and death for oneself. Naturally, there is no reason for the city-states of Saranyi to stay out of it. At the moment, the rulers or special representatives of these city-states gritted their teeth and expressed their support.

Sinampei shook his head, just now the Pope said that he would be responsible for the funds for recruiting soldiers - that is, the debt problem of those who are in debt, and the city-states are quite happy, because they are all veritable creditors, and now they are happy to have someone to help them replace those bad debts, but ...... Having saved that money, now they have to spend money on the project of building a fleet, they are in pain!

The point is that with Angus, a foreign aid who said he was going to bleed, they had no reason to refuse to support jihad, otherwise the church, which completely controlled the direction of public opinion, would have 10,000 ways to rectify them. Excommunication alone is enough for them! Who in this day and age can afford to be accused of heresy? Moreover, there will be no problem with the Pope giving such an order, for jihad is in a sense the duty of every believer. It's okay if everyone is unanimously against it, but the Boulogne, I don't know why the Boulognes came here for some reason, agreed to this!

Everyone has the urge to scold their mother, but no matter how they scold their mother in their hearts, they still have to respectfully show their share of funds on the surface...... It must also be given with a smile!

This grievance...... However, they did not have the courage to vent their anger on the pope, and could only cast resentful glances at Angus and a few innocent bishops present.

The prestige accumulated by the pope over the years in office is quite high, and the intangible asset called credibility can be called the first in the whole continent, and no one can say anything bad about the seemingly righteous behavior of the pope.

Sinan Pei thought, it seems that the Pope wants to start squandering this kind of asset of his own? Thinking about it, Sinan Pei felt that this was very likely. After all, the Pope is already an old man in his twilight years, and he can do nothing but make himself more lofty in the eyes of future generations by taking these so-called reputations into the grave.

Sinampei thinks that the Pope is such a person. There was no reason, his instincts were like this.

Sinampei shook his head. The main purpose of this meeting was not to discuss how to deal with the rampant privateers of the Selman Empire, but to raise money for the Pope's shipbuilding plan!

No wonder the Pope assured him that he didn't need to think about money, it turned out that he naturally had the means to raise money.

But just with the rich people of the Saranyi region, is there enough money? The navy is a gold-sucking beast with a huge appetite.

"Your Majesty, we at Odesia are also happy to share your worries. "It's Ferdinand's voice!

If Boulogne and Salany's money is still not enough, then counting the emperor's money, it should be enough, right?

No wonder...... Sinampei looked at the Pope with complicated eyes. Since both the emperor and the Boulognes participated, Capetian ...... (To be continued......)