Vol 6 Chapter 149: Father and son

Alexander VI had high expectations for Caesar. In fact, he was looking forward to his woman. In addition to the bear child of Jeffrey, he had formulated a rigorous and thoughtful future for Giovanni and Caesar. Plan, according to that plan, Giovanni can become the military commander of the future Papal State, and Caesar can one day become the third Pope of the Bogey family.
In this way, the Borgia family will continue to flourish. At least for the next 100 years, their family will be one of the most prominent families in Rome and Iberia.
But Giovanni died suddenly, and the blow was arguably fatal to Alexander VI. Even though Caesar tried to prove to him later that even without Giovanni, he could accomplish the dream that Alexander VI had longed for, but Alexander VI But in the heart of the world, it was impossible to erase the sadness that was hard to control.
And there was a vague feeling in Alexander VI ’s heart, that if Giovanni was alive, maybe their relationship with Alexander would become more harmonious, because although Giovanni did not show much intimate relationship with Alexander, But he seemed to be more kind to Alexander than Caesar.
This probably starts with the first Romagna War. Since that time, Giovanni ’s attitude towards Alexandria has changed significantly. He even acquiesced to a certain extent between Alexander and Lucrezia. It is not an ambiguous relationship between outsiders, which once made the pope think it is a good opportunity to improve the relationship with that young man.
It's just that everything destroyed the accidental death of Giovanni, and Caesar is obviously not a great uncle who can get along well with any brother-in-law. The main source of tension with Alexander.
"Do you think Gumbre threatened us?" The pope looked at his son silently, and Caesar apparently drank a lot of wine, so that he forgot to put on his face that was destroyed by syphilis, watching him keep With a handkerchief, wipe the thick water overflowing from the dark scars that have been slightly ulcerated on the face. The pope instigated a few times to drive away the unpleasant smell in the air. Wealth, you just have to look at the recent earnings to know how much we have made over the past year. The most important thing is that you should know that this allows me to directly interfere in the Holy See ’s finances.

Although the Pope claims to be the agent of God walking on earth, it does have the supreme power of the entire Christ world, but this does not mean that the Pope can really do whatever he wants.
Maybe it was a few centuries ago, or in the era of Urban II and Innocent III, but now, after several centuries of competition, the cardinals have finally pried loose from the power of the pope. The corner of the block, except that some parishes with special influences are almost completely under the jurisdiction of the cardinals, the finances of the Vatican have gradually been formed by a special financial committee, and the pope cannot easily intervene in this. A series of changes in transactions.
And now, through the issuance of the Ladia gold coin, Alexander VI once again extended his hand to the Holy See finances. He used the Ladia gold coin as a guarantee for the credibility of the Holy See, and he himself is in the name of this guarantee to openly demand that the Finance Committee must He must report to him every month. At the same time, he also appointed his personal secretary Nomelo to organize a working group called the "Problem Review Committee". While identifying himself as the team leader, he asked Nomelo Act as a liaison between him and the Finance Committee to keep abreast of the Vatican ’s financial situation.
These measures caused many people to exclaim that Alexander VI was trying to restore the situation where the Pope was the sole power, but the obvious financial situation brought about by the issuance of Ladia gold coins to the Holy See has turned the cardinals unable to refuse for a time. .
But now, Caesar suddenly offered to be an enemy of Alexander, which made the pope very upset.
"Father, of course I know that person has done a lot for you. I also know that when the two of you conspired to rob the nobles and rich merchants, they didn't tell me in advance, making me a fool!"
"I did n’t tell you because I knew you would definitely destroy it, and I even thought it might be a good opportunity to kill Alexander," the pope said angrily. "In fact, we did a good job, and you almost made it Oops. "
"Then you think he is more useful than me, so you gave him Lucrezia and asked her to be the mistress of Gombré and have children for him, and never asked her if she was willing?"
"Shut up, don't think I don't know why you hate Alexander so much, or that you hate all men related to Lucrezia, even your brother Giovanni! Just know that if he is alive, he will not make such a stupid idea. Because he knows how to fight for the greatest benefits for the Borgia family, not to frame his family for reasons that cannot be declared in the heart, "he said, and the face of the pope shouted at his son. "Red" and remember that I am your father, I gave you life, and I am God's spokesperson in this world, I do not allow you to speak to me like this, you are offending the world second only God's people! "
"You think so, I hate Giovanni?" Caesar showed an incredible look on his face. "Do you still suspect that I murdered him, and listen to your name for that person, 'Alexander' , How intimate the title is, maybe in your mind he and Giovanni are more competent to be your son, so what am I ?! "
Caesar questioned loudly, and he walked back and forth in the room, because he was so angry that he overturned the marble globe in front of him. As the globe hit the ground with a dull sound, several attendants rushed in.
"Get out!"
The pope roared to the astonished attendants. He coughed violently. After drinking the wine poured by the personal servant, the pope came back a little bit.
When there were only two people in the room, looking at Caesar sitting in a chair with his hands clasped, Alexander VI walked over and looked down at his son, then raised his hand and patted his shoulder gently: "Listen, I I do n’t want to hear your words anymore. You know that we now have more powerful power than any pope in the past two centuries. I will use this power to pave a new one for you. The road ahead, but you have to give up those bad thoughts and do n’t forget everything we have now,
said the pope who turned and walked to the table to pick up a beautiful Ladia gold coin and shook it to Caesar. Yes, and it is Alexander who can make all this work. "
Caesar slowly raised his head, his eyes looking at the gold coin with a charming golden luster shining in the sunlight through his fingers, and nodded slowly after a while.
Caesar left in frustration. When he came to the corridor, he met Nomelo, who was standing not far from the door. Looking at Nomelo's smiling expression, Caesar snorted vaguely. Then he walked sideways to the end of the corridor.
Nomelo looked at Caesar's distant figure and groaned slightly before turning back and pushing the door open into the Pope's office.
In the room, Alexander VI was sitting alone in his chair, his gaze gazing at the globe that was pushed down, because he was so fascinated that the secretary came to him without even noticing.
"Are I too harsh on him," Alexander VI looked up at Nomello somewhat blankly. "Since Giovanni's death, I have pinned all hope on him, and I indulged him to do everything, I did n’t even see his unreasonable affection for Lucretia, but my connivance with him made me realize that he was increasingly disappointing me. "
Nomelo listened silently, he knew that the pope just wanted to express his inner displeasure, not to get any advice from him, because obviously the pope knew clearly what to do.
"He is hostile to Alexander, which makes me very worried," seeing Nomelo silent, the pope waved to him. "You can persuade him, although this seems useless, at least it will make him do less stupid things. . "
"Caesar is an excellent nobleman, and he is your son, he is not stupid." Nomelo said quietly.
"But sometimes jealousy makes him blind." The pope did not hide anything in front of Nomelo. For him sometimes Nomelo was even more reliable than his children. "I don't want to see him ruined by this. Myself. "
Nomelo nodded and saw the pope exhale. He knew the topic had ended, so he put a heavy leather bag he carried with him on the table next to it.
"Have those ledgers been brought?" Sure enough, Alexander VI suddenly felt refreshed after sighing for a while. He took the closed and strict ledgers from Nomelo's hands and ripped off the wax seal. , And then frowned slightly. "Is this month's entry?"
"Your Majesty, it is a little less than last month." Nomelo said unhurriedly.
"But this is already the second month. Before that, our monthly income is increasing month by month, but what is going on during this time, are we going downhill?" Pope Zhou frowned. Asked.
"In fact, the Finance Committee has already noticed this, and here is another account of the recent purchase of various materials in the Vatican. You can take a look," Nomelo looked at after handing another account book to the Pope. Alexander VI, who stared at the ledger and became more and more gloomy, said, "At this time, we are actually more of the gold coins issued before the return. You know that especially the Earl of Montina put the gold brought back from Hungary After that, we should have earned more, but now it seems that this is not the case. "
"Is it because we only issue gold coins, but haven't bought other commodities in large quantities?" Alexander VI knocked on the ledger with his hand. The last increase in revenue was because I ordered the expansion of St. Peter's Basilica, and ... "The Pope looked Look at the income and expenditure accounts for the next two months. "It says that apart from the money from marble, we have very little other business after this. "
"It's your majesty. Speaking of it, the gold you said before in the warehouse has no effect other than dazzling. Obviously, it is very correct, so maybe you should let the money become active."
Alexander VI was tempted by Nomelo. Before, he didn't know much about the financial situation of the Vatican, and through Pope Nomelo gradually learned that he might not be the person with the most gold in the world, but he gradually realized that he was very Probably the person who has the most opportunity to make more gold in the entire European market through continuous buying and selling.
"This is our opportunity, Nomelo," Alexander VI looked at the secretary seriously. "Sometimes gold is more lethal than knives and guns. Knives and guns at most let you seize the enemy's territory and wealth, but gold can rule you. The world, so we have to do something. I mean we have to move the entire Vatican and Rome. For example, we can spend our money by rebuilding the urban drainage facilities of the Roman era, which seems like a waste, But we can also increase the tax on merchants by improving the current status of the city. Of course, this is just the beginning. Spending money to buy enough commodities and then using these commodities in exchange for more wealth is what we should do, not just look at A bunch of shiny metal drooling. "
Nomelo nodded slowly, he recorded all these words of the Pope, and then he would use his identity as the contact of the Pope and the Finance Committee to convey His Majesty ’s vision of the Vatican ’s economic planning and development to those stubborn. Cardinals, and then under the guidance of the Pope, launched a fierce economic construction.
Just as Alexander VI was racking his brain to pull domestic demand, the distraught Caesar returned to his home in Rome.
After driving away a few prostitutes who had been staying at home who would have waited for him, Caesar finally came back from anger.
Although it was annoying to hit the wall from my father, it was not a surprise to think about it carefully.
Caesar knew that the Pope's "favor" for Alexander was more due to the benefits he brought to the Borgia family, and once he was useless, Caesar did not think that Alexander VI would be because he was himself The granddaughter's father will look at each other.
"Or I should be more courageous, maybe a conspiracy that has become a fact can make things completely simple."
Caesar cheered himself up, and at the same time he had a glimmer of hope in Constantine.
Just as he did not believe that Alexander VI would really regard Alexander as a son, Caesar believed that Old Rovere also only added to the glory of Alexander because of the current situation. Since he felt that he might be able to renew Take the relationship and get the support of Old Rovere.
As a result, Caesar began to write to the French King a letter he thought was very insightful, and he also decided to contact more people who were obviously unlikely to be bought by Alexander, and these people will become important in the future anti-Montina alliance. The characters, among them the Farne family, the Rovere family who may lean on his side, and Nomelo, who obviously had a great influence on Alexander VI.
Caesar's plan was simple. He wanted to destroy the Principality of Romagna-Tuscany, which Alexander gradually built up, through a series of horizontal and vertical lines. He decided to use the most direct and effective method to deal with his enemies.
After obtaining Nomelo's consent, Caesar made a proposal to Alexander VI through his personal secretary, that is, to hold a grand birthday celebration for his father.
This celebration will invite many important people in Rome, and as the pope's daughter and granddaughter, Lucrezia and Estrel are obviously going to participate.
Caesar specially sent a messenger to Pisa, and he also sent someone to send a letter to Montina.
In the letter, Caesar, as a good friend of Constantine, instead of inviting Alexander and Barenti as the eldest son to go to Rome for the Pope ’s birthday celebration ~ EbookFREE.me ~ To prevent Alexander from returning from Lombardy He even deliberately did not specify the specific period of the celebration.
Caesar began to appear frequently in the noble families that he thought could be allies. This was the first time he had been so active since the last fiasco in Ferrara, when he pulled Julia Farner into his own After being in the Little League, Caesar knew that his plan had been more than half successful.
Julia Farne is undoubtedly one of the few people who can have a great influence on Alexander VI. Now that the pope is surrounded by anti-Montina elements, Caesar feels that he only needs to do things at this time. Clean and decisive, when everything is a fact, Alexander VI will naturally accept the facts.
What surprised Caesar was that the messenger who returned from Pisa brought him good news. Alexander was in Pisa!
When he heard this news, Caesar even felt that even God had decided to help him because he could not see Gombray.
Caesar felt more fortunate than that. After a long wait, the letter he sent to Louis XII finally returned.
In the reply, Louis XII did not explain, but the already obvious reply let Caesar see hope. He knew that he only needed to show Old Rovere again that he could regain the hope of Genoa, which was enough to impress the stubborn. And greedy cardinal again.
And when he soon received Constantine's goodwill response from Constantine, Caesar quickly set the date for the celebration of Alexander VI's birthday.
In his view, January 31 was a good day, because February, the next month, was the month that Rome traditionally executed prisoners.
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