Vol 7 Chapter 79: Caesar's splendor

Alexander VI stared at the person in front of him. If he did not know the priest from Saint-Pierre Cathedral in Montpellier, he would think that this person was sent by his enemy to create rumors and try to disturb his mind. spy.
"The French are selling Ladia?"
In recent years, the pope's cheeks have shrunk slightly because of his aging. He looked at the respectful priest who bowed his head and stood not far away. He watched his tired face because of the rush, Alexander Although VI still had some unbelief, he already knew vaguely in his heart that this person was telling the truth.
"Yes, Your Majesty," the priest said hurriedly. "The Archbishop asked me to report this to you, because the Archbishop in France is issuing Ladia gold coins through your orders. Now the situation in France is very bad, and this The news will soon reach Rome, and the archbishop thinks that it should be reported to you immediately. "
"Yes, it should indeed be reported to me immediately, which proves the kindness of Archbishop Montpellier to me."
Alexander VI spoke in a more perfunctory tone, and then he stood up as if to leave, and then remembered that there was still someone in front of him, so he had to force himself to calm down, but waved his hand to signal the priest from France After retreating, before the figure disappeared completely, the pope immediately hurried out of a small door and came to the office of Nomelo next door.
"Have you heard?" Seeing the private secretary dragging his chin against the table, Alexander VI couldn't wait to say, "How could this happen, why did the French suddenly lose faith in Ladia?"
"Your Majesty, I think this is related to the war between Caesar and the Duke of Rome Theseia. After all, you know that Ladia can be carried out in various regions so quickly, and even can become a currency with credit as Florin, precisely because of the Duke Supported by the trade union, but now, "Nomelo waved his hand and shook his head with his chin." Nearly many people think that we have split with the trade union. "
Alexander VI looked at his secretary speechlessly. He knew that Nomelo was indeed speaking. Although it seemed that this was only a political war, the person with a little brain knew that he and Alexander were the pair. " "Weng son-in-law" will come to this step, in fact, it is basically because of the greed caused by the amazing wealth brought by the issuance of Ladia gold coins.
Relying on the powerful promotion of the trade union, the Ladia gold coin can be said to be in a state of unprecedented momentum, and it has never been disadvantageous. Among them, the huge return at any time and any place can not help but be shocked even by the well-known Alexander VI.
And in order to ensure that the market will not expand due to rapid expansion, and prices have skyrocketed, Alexander has always insisted that all cities and ports participating in the trade union must agree to use Ladia as the main currency of circulation. The purpose of this is naturally to be effective The use of Ladia to offset the shrinking profits caused by the excessively rapid expansion and the cost of squeezing the market.
Alexander VI did not understand these things, but he was clear about the benefits that the currency could bring, and he did fulfill his promise to the cardinals to change the poor financial situation of the Holy See. This gave Alexander VI a clearer understanding of the huge profits brought by Ladia and a stronger possessiveness.
But Alexander ’s insistence on using Ladia to pay for the cost of the trade union gradually made the Pope uncomfortable. Although the son-in-law did bring him too many surprises, when the interests of the two Alexanders conflicted Soon, the fine tradition of the Borgia family who liked the son-in-law of the pit eventually prevailed.
Alexander VI hoped that Caesar would solve this difficult problem that plagued him. For this reason, he did not hesitate to use the Vatican ’s reserve bank so that Caesar could organize an army as soon as possible, and to Pope La said that the conflict between him and Alexander was completely It can be interpreted as "noisy housework". As for the trade alliance countries that joined the anti-French alliance, Alexander VI thought that maybe they could deal with the French together, but they would not be involved in this matter.
This kind of speculation by the Pope was also Caesar's idea, and it was precisely because of this that he dared to retreat in front of the Naples battle in the Rocca di Pas.
The movement of the Naples Army not to pursue the victory proved the suspicion of the Pope's father and son.
Even the Queen of Naples, as her sister, did not face the Pope himself, other countries of the trade union will naturally choose to be bystanders in this conflict.
This made Alexander VI bold. He took a large sum of money from the vault and began to arm his army.
Although this action seems risky, in the Pope's view, as Caesar said, as long as the war is won, then all previous adventures will be compensated with enough rewards.
But now, the French suddenly started running against Ladia without warning!
"Why is France?" Alexander VI suddenly asked strangely, "What's going on in France, and do you think this will affect us?"
After hearing a series of questions from the Pope, Nomelo opened his hands helplessly. He was indeed a very good secretary and a good staff, but he was not a businessman and could not understand the various changes that had occurred.
"Maybe these dukes can give you an answer." Seeing the gloomy glance cast by the pope, Nomelo ended the topic with interest, but he continued, "But now you should be prepared, after all, maybe soon This may also happen in Rome. "
"Indeed, should I consider temporarily collecting the number of issuances of Ladia, to know that I do have some means to make ends meet." Alexander VI sat down and wondered. In order to re-block the Pope's army in a short time, he The gold spent in the vault of the Holy See is not a small amount. The money has now become soldiers, equipment, and a variety of things that have to be paid for, which makes the pope slightly uneasy.
"Perhaps you can send some officials to the parishes around to let the bishops suppress the changes that may happen for you."
Nomelo reminded in a low voice that he knew that the Pope actually sold the ladia coinage to the bishops of the diocese, and that this income alone made Alexander VI profitable.
This is why the bishop of Saint-Pierre Cathedral in Montpellier in France sent such anxious people to report to the Pope.
It ’s just that the amount of Ladia ’s circulation is a bit unclear, and think about the run that the priest described as a run from the west coast of France. When the news reaches Rome, then in What happened to France over these days is still unknown.
Thinking that Nomelo couldn't help but look at the pope with a slightly worried look, then he happened to see the same look in the eyes of Alexander VI.
Obviously, they all realize that the situation is not good.
"War, as long as Caesar won the war, everything won."
Alexander VI suddenly found that he now yearned for his son's victory more than ever, because as long as he could persecute Roman Thesia with the dharma king, he could take what Louis XII needed.
Perhaps Louis XII wanted to conquer this land, and Alexander VI only needed to seize the control of Ladia in the trade union.
And in the city of Rome, there was another person who followed the war like Alexander VI, and that was Rome's city defense officer Skop.
He had sent more than 10 people to inquire about the news. When he heard that Caesar had finally launched an attack on the Naples army, Skop sent his hands away, and then walked through the corridor to the door of his room. He tapped and walked in.
An old woman leaning against the head of the bed already had wrinkles on her face, but her bulging stomach showed that the old woman who was pregnant was looking up at Skop and smiling.
"How does it feel?" Skop walked to the bed and sat down, holding the woman's hand. "Do you know, Madam, you look beautiful now?"
"How can an old woman who has had six children and has the seventh child look good."
"But if you don't look good, how could I be so obsessed with you, to know that our family will soon have a new member."
The old woman paid tribute to Skop's turning and cared. She stretched out some thin hands and stroked her husband's face, which was much smaller than herself, then lowered her voice and asked, "Have you really decided to do that?" "
Skop's expression moved slightly, and then Nuo moved to lean against the head of the bed side by side with his wife, staring at the building far away from the opposite window.
"I am a little squire who was not of high background. If I was not a soldier, maybe I would still live in my family ’s estate. If my father is generous, maybe I wo n’t be sent to the monastery. Brother, that monastery is my only destination. "
"I know all these things, my dear. You have suffered a lot before, but you chose the right one when you marry me. Although I am much older than you, I still have children for you, and everything here after I die. It's yours, "said Mrs. Farne, leaning on her husband's shoulder.
"But that's not enough. I don't want to be a vassal of the Farne family forever. I want to have my own family, and one day a group of noble nobles will say that I am their ancestor."
Listening to her husband, the old Mrs. Farne sighed silently. In fact, after understanding her husband ’s plan, she knew that it was impossible to stop him. This Skop has a look under his seemingly careless appearance. More stubborn than everyone else.
"How is Caesar now?" Asked Mrs. Farne suddenly.
"He has fought against the Neapolitans," Skop took a breath. "I believe this will be the most brilliant battle of his life."
The old Mrs. Farne raised her light-browed eyebrows, but instead of continuing, she leaned her awkward body in her husband's arms, and she said in a slightly tired voice: "Then our children What will it be called in the future? "
"If it ’s a girl, it ’s Julia," Skop closed his eyes, listening quietly to his wife who seemed to be gradually breathing. "If it ’s a boy, call him Pierre, Pierre Luigi, this Is my grandfather's name. "
"Okay ..." The old Mrs. Farne echoed vaguely in her nose, and then gradually fell asleep.
Skop looked at his wife's sleep, lowered her head and kissed her forehead, and then his eyes turned to the window again.
"How is Caesar's side doing now?" He remembered the sentence his wife had asked before.
Caesar's over there is very good now, and it's not small, but great.
When the 3,700 pope troops charged the position of the Naples army, the Naples army, who initially believed that the pope army was still vulnerable, soon suffered.
Under the leadership of a group of experienced officers, the formation of the Pope is not only more rigorous than before, but also tends to be a whole instead of holding weapons and knowing how to fight, but just not knowing how to combine to play greater The mighty crowd.
And now they know what to do.
A Cosenza cavalry panted through the formation in front of him, and as soon as he came to the back of the team, he could not support sliding down from the horse. His armor was marked with marks. After strenuous efforts, he paid a great price to fight back the enemy.
"The Pope's army is about to attack again!"
Someone shouted in the distance, which caused a commotion in the team that had just retreated to the back.
A soldier who was supposed to help the cavalry had to say hello and walked forward with his companion. At the same time, he also angrily muttered the complaint of "Is there any more?"
This is the fourth time the Pope has launched an offensive. Although he was repulsed the first three times, it still made the Naples army surprised by the army that had been beaten a while ago.
"It seems that Caesar did find some useful people," Ruosha stood in the shade of a tree and looked at the smoke from time to time in the distant position, and then asked a little bit of choking sulfur to the side. People say, "Are they going to attack the central government now?"
"Your Majesty, they have tried to detour our flanks before," a sergeant servant immediately replied, he was a little nervous because this was only the second time he participated in a real battle, and when he was fighting in Roca di Pas before It ’s just a deputy flag officer in the Grenadier Company.
But after being defeated by us, Caesar ’s army is gathering towards the center.

"It seems that he has decided to fight me."
Ruo Sha ’s beautiful sea-blue eyes widened, and she picked up a small baton with patterns engraved on the map from the table she opened in front of her, and lit it on the map, although she was not very aware of how to command a larger army. Skilled, but for how to use her grenadier, Ruosha has a wealth of experience that is unmatched by others.
"Your Majesty, maybe you should retreat slightly back," the sergeant sergeant made a slightly nervous suggestion. "If the pope army really started to attack this position, your position is not safe."
The servant's words made Ruosha laugh, and she turned to look at the servant and saw that there was an excitement on his face immediately. Ruosha's expression slowly became serious.
"You know, I used to command the grenadiers to fight the Ottomans. At that time, we didn't even have a decent spearman who could help us in front of us, but we won, and you learn in school. Among the battles that came, there was my battle. "
The sergeant sergeant's face instantly turned red. He knew that he had angered the queen, but looking at the queen's amazing and beautiful appearance, the sergeant sergeant did not know the courage from there and said aloud, "Your Majesty, if you must stay here, please Allow me to lead the guards in front of you, otherwise I have the right to make recommendations to you three times in accordance with what I have learned in school. "
"Oh, you are really an excellent student. It seems that you are already familiar with how to be a sergeant," Ruosha smiled slightly, but after looking at her, she looked away and at the same time. There was also a trace of seriousness "It seems to have begun."
Ruosha's words made everyone around him unable to help but look at the position. At this time, with the bursts of intermittent horns, the pope's figure gradually appeared in front of the Naples army through the smoke of the battlefield.
Caesar's fourth attack started!
At this time, Caesar was riding on a rather powerful horse. Looking at the formation in front, although he was not very close, he still maintained a general formation of the army. He smiled with satisfaction on his face.
This is the fourth offensive, and the Pope ’s army has paid a considerable price, but despite this, his army can still maintain this fairly orderly posture, which is enough to allow any general to have such a support. The army is proud.
"This is exactly what I need," Caesar said slightly excitedly to the cronies around him. "When we escaped from Elba, who could have thought that there would be such an army in such a short period of time. This is simply God. Reward our miracle. "
"It is a miracle that belongs to you, sir." A cron said obediently.
"Yes, it is indeed for me, but I will not forget each of you. When we escaped together, there were 63 people. Now we have 55, but I swear to God that I will never let any of you again. Sacrifice easily. "
Caesar's words made the guards around him cheer for a while. These guards who fled back to Rome with Caesar are now the most loyal group around him. This made them believe that they decided to venture out of the prisoner's island with the Duke. correct.
There were neat gunshots in front of him, and Caesar knew that the Naples were shooting without looking, which made him envious of the Queen of Naples who had such an elite force.
"If this army belongs to me as well as Naples, I almost became the king of that country."
Caesar's thought flashed through his mind. He remembered the past that he had proposed to Naples to propose, which made him suddenly want to marry the opposite woman as a wife in a short moment, but the thought disappeared in a flash. not see.
After all, he can now be close to Louis XII, largely because his wife is Louis' cousin.
"attack!"
Caesar issued an order, and the horn sounded through the battlefield, and the Pope began to fight back.
At the edge of the open field, which is not large in front of the vineyard, the body of the Pope has formed a boundary that is obvious but irregular, and it is clear that those who cross this boundary rarely escape alive.
The fighting had been carried out to the afternoon, and to the surprise of the Naples, despite the heavy price paid, the pope army was only in a low morale, but it did not collapse.
And just in the previous attack, the Pope ’s Musketeers actually launched a shooting against the Naples army.
Although the time was short, and because of the low wall as a defense, the pope army was immediately repelled with little threat to the Neapolitans, but this was enough to make the warring parties both excited and surprised.
At this time, no one realized that this was the first real firearm shooting after entering the age of firearms!
Caesar ran along the front on a horse, his silver mask gleamed in the sun, his black hair was blown up by the wind, and the cloak of hunting was like huge wings behind him.
Caesar was so excited. Although it was only a brief moment, he seemed to have seen his army's hope for glory.
Suddenly there was a burst of cheers on the Naples front, and Caesar looked at the reins carefully. Although he could not see anything, with the cheers he heard, he realized that Queen Naples Kesa Cosenza was just like him. To the front of the battlefield.
"That woman is very courageous," Caesar said to himself, and then suddenly pulled out his beloved bayonet. "Soldiers, you resisted the Naples. You let them know that they are not terrible. They are more terrible! "
Caesar shouted loudly to the Pope Army soldiers: "Have you heard, the Regent Queen of Naples has reached the front line, are you going to be intimidated by a woman in a skirt, I see you are brave in battle, then tell now Are you afraid of that woman? "
"Of course not. I'm going to ask myself if she really defeated the Ottomans in Bucharest." Kurash stood lazily, playing with a saber in his hand.
"Okay, so you guys, my guards, are you ready to go with me to visit the queen who dares to challenge the pope?"
"Willing to follow you everywhere!"
In response to a guard ’s cry, 53 people responded loudly,
"Then I will be at the forefront, and you just follow me and let us defeat the stupid woman!"
Caesar raised his bayonet high, and as the sword crossed an arc in the air ~ EbookFREE.me ~ he urged the warhorse to rush towards the position of the Naples army!
"Follow the Duke!"
The hoof of a warhorse roared like thunder from the back, and the originally small open area was only crossed in an instant, and the low wall in front was already in sight!
At this moment, Caesar saw a face that fascinated him in an instant, and looking at the goddess of war standing in front of the low wall, wearing armor, he quickly flashed Ladia gold coins in his mind. On the image.
The sword in Caesar's hand has been raised. He believes that with his own strength and the impact speed of the war horse, he can pierce the woman with a sword!
But at this moment, he heard the exclamation from behind!
Caesar couldn't help but hold the war horse back and looked back, then he was shocked to see that, except for him and his guards, the pope army that should have followed up behind remained intact!
Just when Caesar was stunned by this scene, he heard a crisp and sweet command: "Shoot!"