Vol 4 Chapter 146: Morning Star

Swearing allegiance to someone is indeed the best way to prove your position.
Especially at this time the oath of loyalty seems easy to the pizza, but it is not easy.
Tomno still sits steadily on the throne of the Duke of Pisa, although everyone thinks his throne is still not so reliable, but smart people know that Tomno is still a long time away from resignation. .
And just because he had announced that the descendants of Alexander would become heir to the Duke of Pisa, at least until he gave up the title, his position was very stable.
Even for his daughter, Alexander could not watch him in the future, and even if someone were to be against Tomnio, he must protect the Duke of Pisa from harm.
Because of this, some people are now more willing to deal with Tomnio, and some of them are businessmen.
These businessmen know what pizza is like today, so they can also guess what Tomnio thinks.
The decision to abandon the Duke ’s throne requires a lot of determination, and the Tomnio family is not without other side branches, but even then Tomnio still agreed to inherit the title from the descendants of Count Montina, of course, because of great pressure Another reason for coercion is that Alexander ’s generous annuity touched Tomnio.
Tomno knew that if he stubbornly guarded the throne of the Duke, he might bring himself and even the whole family danger. The Montina's power in Pisa was clear to him, especially after the last carnival parade. After cleaning the entire Pisa aristocracy and parliament, he clearly realized that not only was there no longer any support for him in the entire Pisa parliament, even the Pisa army had completely abandoned him.
Because of this, Tomno made the decision to accept the Duke's throne in exchange for the annuity provided by Alexander.
At least a reliable amount of money can guarantee a future life, and stubbornly guarding the throne that has no meaning may bring even worse results to yourself.
And it was precisely through Alexander's thoughts that he wanted to defend the status of the Duke of Pisa for his daughter, and Tomnio began to unscrupulously accumulate wealth during this time.
"Sir, you must let Miss Estres be baptized as soon as possible before you can rule Pisa as the guardian of the future heir of Pisa."
An aristocratic expression was excited. By this time, all the pretense was no longer there, and some people even saw something clearly disturbing from the expression of others.
Alexander held Estelles in his arms and looked at the people in front of him.
These people are now closely connected with him, and listening to the constant advice of some of them, Alexander's eyes swept across the people in front of him.
"If I take over the city as a guardian of Estres, can you guarantee that everything will be completed successfully?"
Alexander's inquiry made these people's faces quickly excited, they looked at each other, and some saw the fierceness of other people's expressions.
Everyone understands that no one can quit at this time.
"Sir, I can guarantee that the City Defense Army will obey your orders." Dad said in a deep voice.
Alexander nodded, knowing that these people, like him, needed a pizza that had not suffered any turbulence, not a city that had fallen into chaos by overthrowing Tomnio.
"The Duke's safety must be guaranteed." Alexander glanced at his father. He believed that if this person might not arrange a fatal accident for Tomnio, this is not what people want to see.
Tomno has to stay on the throne of the Duke of Pisa for a long time. Alexander did not want him to step down soon.
Two days later, a news that shocked Pisa suddenly spread everywhere. When people unexpectedly heard that Alexander was going to perform a baptism ceremony for his eldest daughter, many people could not help secretly guessing what happened unexpectedly. .
Tomnio was one of the first to hear the news.
At first, Tomnio made a surprise and then laughed hard to hide his inner joy.
According to the custom, a baby usually only holds a baptism ceremony after a month, and Alexander is so anxious to baptize Estrel, which makes many people, including Tomnio, believe that This is because the child's health may have been unexpected.
Because of the fear that the child might die at any time, Alexander had to disregard the customs and rush to baptize his daughter.
Otherwise, once the child died early without baptizing, the baby ’s soul would not be able to enter heaven.
Thinking of this possible Tomnio, because of joy, he even had difficulty in controlling the Pizzeria's special quick step dance in his hall, but soon he realized that this was wrong, and he immediately ordered the servant to go outside carefully Inquire about the truth of the news.
It was only at night that a new message that sent Tomnio from overjoyed to worrying reached his ears.
Estelles did not appear to be as healthy as many people suspected. On the contrary, it is said that the count also received some important people from Pisa with his children. Although he does not know what Alexander said to those people, Tomnio I still feel something bad.
He wants to know more things, but he can only ask the servant to give this matter to some people he thinks can still be trusted. As for these people who are not close to him because of their close relationship, can they inquire about anything, He couldn't count on it.
But Tomnio finally got some useful news.
To his surprise, the assistant priest Giovanni de Medici, who has been in Pisa Cathedral since he arrived in Pisa, actually offered to baptize Estrelice, while another Tomnio, who has also made many pizza people pay attention to the upcoming guests, has also caused speculation.
The new dean of the Abbey of Saint Mark in Florence, Mahimo, will also participate in the baptism ceremony of Estrez.
When the news spread, the Pisa's shock was no less than the accident brought by Giovanni de Medici's previous ceremony.
Florence and Pisa are a pair of enemies.
However, unlike Genoa and Venice, which have been evenly matched for many years, Pisa has been shrouded in the shadow of Florence. Now suddenly two people who are inseparable from Florence will appear in the baptism ceremony of the future pizza ruler. After people's surprise, there is constant speculation.
Although he couldn't understand the reason, Tomno still noticed some anomalies. He found that the nobles who didn't care about him in the parliament suddenly became very polite to him, even some businessmen. The accusation that he used the power of the Duke to seize the market was ignored by the parliament and the courts, which made Tomnio feel something strange. Although this seems like a good thing to him, he always feels that it seems not so simple.
According to Alexander ’s arrangement, the baptism ceremony will be held on Sunday, two days later. Although this seems a bit hasty, under the arrangement of some people who have already prepared, not only Giovanni de Meti who lives in Pisa Both Qi and Mahimo decided to participate, because they sent someone a letter to Rome, and then came back the news that Caesar would also participate in this first nephew baptism ceremony.
Lucrezia was overjoyed about Caesar's arrival, but Alexander wondered whether the big brother-in-law would play any other tricks.
Alexander did n’t know that he had almost tasted the unique flavor of the Borgia family, Cantrera, but even then he could guess that Caesar was definitely not for the ritual of baptism in Estelles, so he knew that Caesar was coming Immediately afterwards, he summoned Alfrej to "Luckrezia Palace".
Now the Pisa people are calling that house "Luckrezia Palace", so Alexander is also wondering whether this house should be renovated or simply rebuilt.
Ofrei came from Montina.
He came quickly, but besides him, this time there was a new army of 500 people in Montina.
According to the agreement, the first batch of 600 Genoese soldiers recruited from Genoa arrived in Montina as early as the days when Alexander rushed to Florence.
And the next 2400 people will also arrive in two months.
For the sudden increase of 600 soldiers, Compati is very happy. As for the next step, he has not fully thought about how to turn these disobedient soldiers into a qualified army.
However, this did not prevent him from immediately picking a group of relatively pleasing guys from the Agris who were being trained in Montina to enrich his artillery.
But just when he had just begun to train the Agri and Genoa as Alexander had ordered, Aufrei brought the order to immediately take the Montina army to Pisa.
The 500 new Montina troops were suddenly led by Aufrei to Pisa. At this time, no matter whether they were ordinary recruits or old Agry musketeers who had been promoted to officers, no one knew that they were marching this time. What is the purpose.
When Ofrei met Alexander in Lucrezia Palace, he saw that the count was cradling his daughter carefully.
As for the count's angry expression because of the footsteps of the coming person who awakened his daughter, Aufrei felt that this was purely self-confident.
"Caesar is coming to Rome."
After handing over the child to the maid, Alexander finally relaxed. He rubbed some sore shoulders and just about to complain, but he saw that the sweaty and dusty sweat on the face of Alfred, he stopped. action.
Although time is not short, speed has become one of the most valuable advantages of the Montina army. Even with the usual training, the speed of the Montina army is much faster than any army they know. .
And this pursuit of speed and discipline has gradually begun to have a profound impact on the veterans of the Montina army, and this influence is slowly taking root in the army with these veterans.
"I hope he doesn't play any tricks this time," Aufrei said disapprovingly. "Master, our new army has been arranged in the city of Pisa. They will work with the city defense army to defend Pisa without any accidents."
Hearing Aufrei's intentionally increased tone, Alexander took a look at him.
Satisfied with O'Leary Alexander, with the battle experience of a battlefield, this former masonry apprentice is gradually changing towards a qualified officer, and at a young age, he has vaguely shown calmness and grasp of the battle situation. , Making Alexander quite optimistic about his future.
Especially after the test of the battle of Livorno, Alexander placed great hope on him.
"Aufrei, I think you should seize the time to go to school," seeing the confusion on the face of Affrei, Alexander went on to say, "You are very talented, but talent is only part of success. A successful general except genius We must also have a wealth of knowledge, knowing that we may face enemies that have never been encountered before and wars that have never been seen before. At that time, even geniuses may encounter mistakes. Fiasco. "
"Adult, but who do I learn from?" Aufrei said a little helplessly. "I'm just a nephew of a stonemason. Those nobles may be willing to let the son of a painter who comes from a civilian background learn rhetoric with their children, but may not be willing to Let a stonemason nephew learn how to fight with them. "
Alexander nodded. He could not but admit that Aufrei was right. The nobles would not accept a large group of civilian officers like Aufrei studying military with them.
Moreover, in his conception, with the expansion of the army, military education mainly based on middle- and lower-level officers has become an urgent matter.
It seemed that a special military school had to be established, and the idea flashed in Alexander's mind, but the idea was quickly thrown aside by him again.
He doesn't have time to think about it for now. Caesar's arrival may cause some trouble. He must concentrate on coping with his first uncle first.
The night before the baptism ceremony, two special guests came to the Lukrezija Palace.
The emergence of the Medici brothers caused a lot of commotion.
Julio de Medici walked ahead, his eyes flicking over the faces of the people who were gossiping in the yard, and then ignored them.
But when they walked into the hall under the leadership of a servant, looking at the guests in those houses, Giulio couldn't help but whispered to Giovanni de Medici who was behind him.
Compared with Giulio, Giovanni de Medici is obviously much more robust. He listened to his brother's low voice and walked into the door to nod to the pizza nobles who had stood up to meet their brother Tribute until Uliu appeared in front of them and invited their brother to a room upstairs to meet the count alone.
This is the first time Alexander has seen Giovanni de Medici.
It ’s just that although he knew that this man would not only succeed in restoring his family ’s in Florence in the future, but also used various means to eventually board the pope ’s throne, and even paved the way for his brother to become a pope in the future. What was special in Alexander's heart.
After all, he has seen too many popes. The current, future, at least two popes have or will soon become his elders. As for the pope in front of him, he seems to be thinking about becoming his relative ...
Even if all goes well, Alexander is considering how to support Mahimo to become a pope in the future.
"It's my pleasure to baptize your daughter, Earl," Giovanni de Medici's attitude is very easy-going, maybe it can be said that he is intentionally close, which makes Alexander can not help but glance at Julio. Obviously Julio ’s whimsical thoughts were not so unreliable to the people of the Medici family, and Giovanni continued to say,
If I remember correctly, the name you gave your daughter has a very Special meaning, right? "
"It can be said," Alexander said with a smile on his face as soon as he heard someone mentioning his daughter. "I hope my daughter is like a brightly lit morning star that brings darkness to the world. After the light, the auxiliary sacrifice I must say that the times our ancestors experienced before were not only savage and dark, but we ourselves are now standing just before the end of the darkness, and I believe in my Estrez ’s In the future, it will be truly bright. "
Giovanni de Medici stared at Alexandria, he did not expect that this young man would actually say this to him when he first met, but he couldn't find anything from these words. A handle that can be grasped.
What's more, Giovanni de Medici doesn't want to make articles because of these words of Alexander.
The harsh ruling era of the church has long been a matter of centuries ago. Nowadays, the Vatican has almost lost its prestige. As the pope, Alexander VI has become the target of being attacked by people.
But what is really important is that Giovanni heard his love for his daughter from Alexander's words, which made Giovanni glance at Julio who was standing with a smile on his side.
Giulio's suggestion came to Giovanni's heart again.
The idea of ​​being related to Pope Alexander VI with Earl Montina, or simply with Pope Alexander VI, moved Giovanni to heart.
Early morning on May 50, 1498.
A refreshing cool breeze blew in from the open window, and a teenager standing by the window rubbed his swollen head.
The morning light shone through the window, pulling the slightly slender figure of the boy on the floor for a long time.
A hurried footsteps came from the "dump-dump" under the stairs outside the door. This sound obviously interrupted the teenager's contemplating thoughts. He looked at the door angrily and helplessly until the door was pushed open. .
"I knew you hadn't slept all night, but let me see your work, you must have finished it, right?"
A strong young man rushed into the room and yelled around the easel, but then he was slightly stunned.
"Why haven't you painted the Holy Infant?" The youth asked a little unexpectedly. "Your work is very important. If you can't finish it as soon as possible, it may affect your acceptance of the fresco of the church of St. Francis."
"I know," the teenager glanced at his friend in annoyance. "But I don't know how to write. Prodo, do you know? I have a shadow in my heart. I know that if I catch that shadow, I can complete a real masterpiece." , But I just ca n’t catch it. "
"Maybe you need to order something else, such as a girl?" The young man named Prodo tentatively asked ~ EbookFREE.me ~ He shrugged his shoulders when he saw the angry eyes of the teenager staring over. "Maybe you just You need to go out and relax, and always let your eyes catch your shadow without leaving the canvas. "
Speaking of which, the youth suddenly remembered the reason why he came to find a friend so early.
"Let ’s go to the church. Today is the day of the baptism of the daughter of the Earl of Montina. I heard that many important people will come. The Medici Brothers will personally praise it, and the new dean of Saint Mark ’s Monastery in Florence will also come , I even heard that even the Borgia family is here. This is a really good opportunity. Maybe your good luck starts here. "
The words of the friend obviously moved the boy, but he hesitated to see the still blurred outline of the baby on the canvas.
Seeing that the teenager seemed to have moved, the young man named Prodo immediately grabbed the paintbrush from him.
"You should go out and see more, maybe you can still find some inspiration," said the young man, pulling the teenager out to the door. "Let's go and see what the big guys look like, maybe some of them will appreciate you. , Believe me, you will become a great master in the future, and everyone will know your name by then, Rafael Sandy. "