Vol 7 Chapter 221: Daily life of lombardy

At the turn of spring and summer, the water of the Po River was surging and turbulent.
There are several rivers converging upstream, and the river that finally injected into the Adriatic Sea is one of the largest water systems in the Lombardy region.
The Po River is not long, but it is very wide. The widest part of the river is almost half a mile, which makes a river that flows from Mantua and eventually flows into the Adriatic Sea into a natural line of defense.
The main defense against Roma in Tuscany was the Venetians.
Given the wavering role that the Venetians have played in the Italian wars over the years, Alexander really has no idea which side the Venetians will choose to take.
The old Barbara has died more than a year ago. This old fox, who is also known as a longevity in the Governor of Venice, which is famous for its long life, did not resist the severe beating of the years.
The current governor of Venice is Leonardo Rollette, an equally very cunning businessman.
When he was elected governor, the man stood on the large balcony of the governor's mansion to assure the nobles and soldiers below that he would "do everything in his power to guarantee Venice's status and the interests of its citizens."
This purely politician's promise is a cautious welcome, because Venice is facing unprecedented pressure from Ottoman.
Just less than a week after Lloret took office, as the Venetians' last colony in the Mediterranean was captured by the Ottomans, Venice completely lost all their overseas sites.
Not only that, the Ottoman fleet once forced the Adriatic Sea into the Mediterranean Sea, which means that the Venetians are likely to be blocked in the Adriatic Sea.
This can be imagined for the blow to Venice.
With the rise of maritime trade, Venice is facing the danger of being trapped alive.
This made Leonardo Lloret, who faced a crisis as soon as he took office, at the beginning unable to help himself.
He had to cope with the panic caused by the unfavorable situation in your country, while quickly adjusting foreign relations, trying to find a way to overcome this difficulty.
For this reason, the Venetians have to lay down their dignity and frequently send goodwill to the former old opponents. Whether they are French or Austria, or even the Vatican, which has always had a bad relationship with Venice, they have tried their best to try to improve the relationship.
It was at this time that something happened in northern Italy, causing a lot of attention to change.
The army of Count Graz, the front-line commander of Austria in Lombardy, and the northern army of Rome Thesia had an unexpected encounter near Parma.
At least for the Austrians, this is an unexpected battle.
The Austrian forward unit with about 1,100 men commanded by the Earl himself was caught off guard and was violently attacked by the northern left wing of the Roman Thesia Army.
Under the situation that the enemy's weapons and power are completely overwhelming, the Earl of Graz's army collapsed across the board in less than two hours.
What the Earl did not expect was that this was obviously not what he thought was an unexpected encounter.
Because when he was forced to retreat with the remnant army, he found that he had been cut off the retreat, and even the squadrons that were far behind although they had entered the battlefield were already halfway by the enemy cavalry. Intercepted on the road.
It was only then that the count finally realized that he was actually hitting the enemy's main force, and responded quickly from the other side, and then quickly entered the battle. The goal of the Roman Thesias was obviously him.
This made Count Graz angry and wanted to send someone to find the opposite commander of Roman Thesia.
After all, he thought that although the two sides had already taken a very strict diplomatic posture, and even heard that the Duchess had declared war, the Roman Thesia army launched without any greeting from the two forces on the battlefield. Offensive, it is tantamount to fighting without declaration.
The count’s anger was conceivable, but the enemy clearly did not give him the chance to discover the anger.
According to a few reports of the defeated soldiers who first fled to Piacenza and then fled to Milan under the pursuit of the Roman Thesia, the last time I saw the brave Earl Graz was when he was trying to break out of the encirclement with his guard Look.
Then the count lost contact with his troops, and after the Austrian remnants surrounded by the Roman Thesia finally escaped the encirclement, they had no time to find their count, and had to run north all the way until they reached Piacenza.
This day is April 12, 1503, which happens to be the new governor of Venice, Leonardo Rollette, who took office for the entire 18 months.
A few days later, the news reached Venice, and immediately caused a stir among the Venetians.
For a time, the aristocratic parliament in Venice was divided into two distinct groups with very different opinions.
The faction headed by Barbarrigg’s former Secretary of State Nikolai Fengxia, believed that he should continue to have a good relationship with the Duke of Thesia in Rome. At the same time, he took the opportunity to follow the trade union, which has already exhibited fangs and claws. The emergence of a new European order power circle is taking advantage.
After all, the relationship between Venice Resources and the trade union was quite harmonious before, but for various reasons, it was always out of the trade union circle.
It now appears that this is obviously not worth the gains, so it would be better if at this time, with the support of the Principality of Rome Theseia, to make up for the subtle rift with the trade union.
The other faction is dominated by a group of upstarts who gained power after Leonardo Rollette took over as governor.
These people think that the prince of Rome Theseia is too ambitious, which is enough to threaten the direct interests of Venice. If he is allowed to gain momentum in Lombardy, he will not necessarily cross the border between the two sides because of his ambition. The Po River in turn invades Veneto’s traditional sphere of influence.
So at this time they should be in close contact with the enemy of the duke, even if not standing publicly on the opposite of him, they should seize the opportunity to contain the Roman Thesias, and then watch the development of the situation and make a decision whether to completely break with the Roman Thesia. .
Leonardo Lorette certainly supported these people, because they were not only a strong supporter of the Governor, but also because he was one of those people who were very wary of the Duke.
It's just that the old forces of the former governor should not be underestimated.
It was Constantine de la Rovere, Duke of Ferrara, who finally made the Venetian decision.
Constantine declared himself the Duke of Milan, and the declaration authorizing the Roman Thesia army to enter the Milan area to expel the Austrians, so that the original Venetian Venetian finally knew what to do.
They may not have a good relationship with the Austrians, but they can not tolerate a Milanese Duke of Genoa dangling in front of them.
So the Venetians immediately declared support for the emperor's legal rule over Milan, and at the same time they once again warned the French who also heard the news. If they intervene in Milan's contention, then Venice must send troops to protect their interests in Lombardy.
War became the biggest topic in Italy at a time. Whether it was in Rome or Naples further south, although it was still far away from Lombardy, the shadow of war had quietly descended, and tensions were everywhere.
Mahimo walked slowly in the square with his hand against the hot sun above his head. This season is already very hot, especially when wearing a heavy and sacred holy robe, he will be sweaty if he moves a little.
Today happened to be Mahimo’s turn to preside over the holy priest’s day as a member of the Cardinal Regiment, he was the busiest one of the day,
Mahimo was followed by several of his cronies, among which, in addition to an auxiliary bishop who was ranked slightly lower, there were also two priests and several deacons.
These people made up his small staff in Rome. As for his presence in Bologna, there was another set of completed church organizations.
At the time Massimo made a proposal to revive the authority of the Pope when he met Alexander VI, now there are signs that it has been brought out again to promote it, but this time it is the old Rovere who is going to pull up this banner.
Therefore, this period of time can be said to be the honeymoon period of the two most powerful chief cardinals and the most promising young cardinals in the cardinal group. The two sides cooperated seamlessly and watched for help. For a time, they looked at the cardinal group and swept the Vatican. street.
"War lord, war!"
A young man who was closely following Mahimo couldn't stop nagging, and the sun was sweating on his head, but in spite of this, he kept nagging.
"I know that there will be war soon, and God really knows why so many stupid people always think about this kind of thing."
Mahimo said impatiently. When he saw the young man staring at him with weird eyes, Mahimo shrugged helplessly: "I'm not talking about the Duke, we all know that he always makes sense. Okay, what are you doing this time?"
"War..." The young man used to say it again, and then quickly said the topic under the watch of Mahimo. "I mean, don't you think this is an opportunity to get rich?"
Mahimo looked at the staff who were a little further behind, and waved his hand slightly to prevent them from getting too close, and then lowered his voice and said: "Listen, I know you have made a lot of money in the past two years, so don’t be too Greedy, remember that one cannot make all the money."
"The Duke said the same," the young man answered, but the expression on his face was obviously not heard. "But this is a rare opportunity. I mean we can make a fortune."
Mahimo stopped and watched the young man who refused to give up frowning: "Prato, you are too greedy. This is not a good sign. Did you earn money from the Grand Duke of Wallachia? Isn’t it enough? I heard that you have covered almost all orders for the new Wallachian army alone."
"Thanks to your good words, Master, it is indeed a good deal," Prato couldn't help but smile when he heard Mahimo mentioned his proud work, but then quickly whispered "but this time we can earn There are quite a few, you know, Marquis Gonzac Francisco of Mantua is worrying about his situation."
Prato's words moved Mahimo's heart.
Of course, he had heard of the name of the marquis. It is said that he was a great monarch, generous and generous and enthusiastic, and kind to the people in his territory. In short, it sounded like a wise monarch.
But it was not these characterless characters that made Mahimo remember the name of the marquis, but because the marquis's sister was Duke Alfonso Deste.
And this duke was one of the candidates for the successor husband who was looking for Lucrezia after Alexander VI died in Giovanni Sforza.
It was only after many considerations that the Pope finally chose the brother-in-law of Sang Xia, and Alfonso of Billy Shelley as the first choice.
Of course, Alexander told him that when he was in Rome, they were very close to all the husband candidates that the Pope had sought for Lucrezia.
Of course Mahimo didn’t know that if there was no change in history, Lucrezia would indeed marry Alfonso of Billy Shelley, and then, according to the tradition of the Pogia family, after two years of pitting his son-in-law again, Lucrezie Ya will become a widow again.
Then, in the year 1503, she will experience a third marriage and marry the Duke of Alfonso Deste.
And the Marquis of Mantua, who would become his wife, became a relative of Lucrezia.
And her later lover.
These are certainly not what Mahimo knows now, but he will not forget the rather strange look on Alexander's face when referring to the Marquis of Mantua.
According to Mahimo's knowledge of Alexander, the expression seemed to say that he didn't like that person very much.
But now I heard news about the Marquis of Mantua, thinking of Mantua's position in the Lombardy region, and Mahimo couldn't help but get upset.
"What have you heard about?"
"It's a business man, a business," Prato immediately seemed excited when he saw Mahimo. "Someone was buying weapons for the Marquis Zhang Luo. He seemed to want to re-arm his territory."
"So what does he want?"
Mahimo immediately noticed what was worth noting in Prato's words. With his understanding of Prato's ability at hand and eyes, if it were just ordinary weapons, it would be impossible for him to come to find himself.
"Cannon, Marquis wants to buy the latest artillery to protect his territory."
Mahimo froze, looking at Prato with an accident in his eyes.
Massimo considers himself a devout, noble, and some elegant monk.
So he was not interested in weapons.
But even then he knew very well that the latest artillery that Prato said was not just the bulky "bronze".
If it is just a cannon, although cash is due to a variety of artillery of various calibers, in general, there is no obvious gap between these artillery because of any epoch-making changes.
Perhaps the artillery that is cast in some places is not easy to be bored because of its superb craftsmanship, and it is more durable, but this is not a new weapon.
Then if it is not the art of the artillery itself, but it is deliberately mentioned by Prato, there is only the shooting technology that complements the power of the artillery itself.
Mahimo didn’t know much about the shooting techniques of artillery in the army of Roman Thesia, and how different it was from other armies, but even then he had vaguely heard that in the battle of Siena and San Bucciano, the Union army Use artillery to let the so-called artillery powerful French army suspect the horror blow of life.
So looking at Prato now, Mahimo rarely looked serious.
"Tell me this bastard, what do you think, do you want to stop thinking about making money?"
"Adult, I'm not so ignorant," Prato said a bit angrily. "I still know who can make me a fortune, and I know what can cause trouble. Don't think I only know how to make money."
"I don't think you will be that stupid," Mahimo said, motioning Prato to follow him. "Tell me what you want to do."
"Sir, some businessmen are looking for people for Marquis Mantua in the Carolingian Palace. They want to hire a group of mercenaries who can use artillery proficiently..."
Listening to Prato's words while walking, Mahimo gradually fell into contemplation.
According to the agreement signed with the French and the Austrians at the time, the "Genoa-Parma-Po River Line" is considered by the Principality of Rome to guarantee its own safety.
If any warring party threatens this border, Roman Thesia will be regarded as a threat.
It was just that the sudden change of attitude with the French made many people already know that this temporarily established border line was actually only aimed at the Austrians.
On several occasions, because there was no need to worry about possible attacks on the flanks, the French army even departed from Genoa, along the border all the way east, almost detouring back to the east of Milan, cutting off the Austrians from their country.
And after April 12, this borderline was simply dead in name.
The Western Army of the Roman Thesia army set off from Palma and pursued the retreating Austrians all the way north.
A few days later, when they were finally willing to stop, it seemed that they not only had crossed the border and penetrated into Lombardy, even their striker had already passed Piacenza, who had been abandoned by the Austrians, and arrived at Pa in southern Milan. Waiia is out.
In Milan, the Count Graz took away most of the garrison and even the weak garrison suddenly became panicked.
They wanted to hold on to the city until the emperor sent reinforcements, but the Roman Thesia army's crazy attack made them realize that they might not be this enemy opponent who seemed to not fight at all.
But if you just abandon Milan, UU reads www. uukanshu. com waiting for them must be the emperor's anger and punishment.
This made it difficult for only a few hundred Austrian defenders for a while.
At this moment, the Austrians in Milan and Barenti who were in Montina had received diplomatic notices from Venice for about a long time.
Regarding the Austrians who were trapped in the sad city, Leonardo Rollette expressed concern and condolences.
As for the Barenti, the regent of the Principality of Romagna-Tuscany, the Governor of Venice made an unabashed warning.
"...His Royal Highness, as the traditional arbiter of Lombardy, I have to remind you that any attempt to make the situation in Lombardy more complicated will be regarded as a threat to Venice, so I I hope you will withdraw your troops into Milan as soon as possible, otherwise Venice will have to correct this obvious mistake..."
Seeing this completely undisguised threat, Barendi narrowed his eyes slightly before giving the order: "Tell Aufrei, according to plan, prepare for the Battle of Po!"
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