Eagle Byzantium

Hearing this question, Henry was stunned for a moment. He was still young after all. After some hesitation, he replied to his aunt: Of course he is willing to join forces with the Kingdom of Sicily to jointly protect the Holy See in Rome.

But Matilda sneered, "But this is impossible. Today, not only is the difference between Germany and Italy getting bigger and bigger, people's hearts have also naturally divided the Holy See and the Emperor of Germany. For the two camps, your father has done too many things. It is like building an extremely strong wall into the originally integrated room, making it solid. Divided in two. My child, I did ask you to turn away from your father, but my wish was for you and your father's souls to be saved at the same time, and I didn't want it to be a private transaction. If the purpose of my trip is the latter, then I can promise you to give you some of the fertile fiefdoms I still have in Upper Lorraine as a legacy."

The implication is that you can never even dream of getting Tuscany.

These words made Henry V angry, but he still humbly asked his aunt, "For the sake of the interests of the entire empire, you should not donate all Tuscany to the Lateran Palace. You have a husband." "

What Henry was referring to was precisely to impress Matilda's husband Welf.

As a result, after hearing his hard pleas, Welf indeed had a sad look on his face.

But Matilda was as stone-hearted as she was indeed the most devout and die-hard Catholic believer. She immediately replied to Henry, "My country is only in heaven. Giving Tuscany to the Holy Church was a promise I made when I was young. wish, and I also feel that only by uniting the land and power of Tuscany and the Holy See to form a powerful 'State of St. Peter' can the Holy See survive in the gap between the two Roman empires in the future!"

It turned out that Matilda was well aware of Gawain's ambitions in recent years. She keenly felt that in the past, Gawain used the Holy See's Eastern Expedition to strengthen his own power. In the future, once Gawain took charge of Constantine The castle will surely become the Holy See's most difficult opponent. She herself was in Tuscany and donated many estates after the completion of the Seleucia Hospital, but now she vaguely felt that her path was different from Gawain's.

The time when she, Odar Urban, Gawain, and the hermit Peter shook hands and laughed generously in the Papal Palace have long since faded away and turned into eternal memories: Odar has passed away, and so has the hermit Peter. In the Arahant monastery, Gawain has no interest in worldly affairs. He has already aspired to become the Greek emperor of Constantinople, and he is wavering between the ethics of a woman and the warrior warrior.

After regaining consciousness, Henry was still persuading her in front of her, talking about family, offspring, inherited wealth and other topics.

Finally, Matilda became furious. She held her chair and declared to Henry with a stern face: "Okay. I am waiting for your visit in the castle of Canosha. The purpose is to hope that you will not make the same mistake as your father." Now I am here to express my opinion - I, Matilda, will from now on enter a complete monastic life, separated from the female sex, and of course I will no longer need a man as my husband. Supplementary documents to divorce Welf."

"Divorce..." Welf was frightened, and even the female companion Placidice next to him turned pale.

The young husband was paralyzed, half-kneeling beside his wife, holding her hand, and asking miserably why the other party was so cruel.

"Forgive me Welf, this is the only thing I've ever done wrong to you in my life. But I will still give you a wealthy vineyard and five workshops and mills as compensation for the loss of your youth over the years." After saying that, Matilda took off her marriage ring decisively and put it into Welf's palm.

"I didn't do anything wrong at all, no! I didn't even seduce a maid." Welf was still unwilling and cried bitterly.

"What I need is a strong man who can unite all the cities and villages in Tuscany, but after marrying you, Welf, I found that it is better to count on you than on myself! Or now you can put on a horse and compete with all major Imperial battle to protect the city of Rome and the Lateran Palace? No, you can't, you hear the war horse? "When you see the blood flowing out of the soldier's armor, you will immediately collapse in fear. Your previous mediocrity in participating in the Eastern Expedition is the best explanation. Just listen to me and break up with me." Matilda. After saying that, he stood up, gave Henry a brief farewell, and then walked into the hall at the back.

A few days later, in Henry V's camp outside Sutri, the young king, angry at the humiliation he suffered during his trip to Canosha, rode a black Saxon horse back and forth in the stream. , water splashed onto his saddle and armor, making a little crackling sound.

Sometimes he would look at the vassals and bishops who were whispering in small groups on the grassland on the shore, and he would feel afraid - what on earth were they discussing? His eyes were sneaky, casting a cold light at him from time to time.

"Your Majesty, they are secretly discussing how to rebel against you." At this time, the palace secretary who was also riding beside him, Eckhard, who had previously been on an envoy to Tarsus, seemed to have seen through his mind and spoke bluntly. Not shy.

"If I tell them the true results I got in the Sutri Palace before the coronation, I'm afraid they will kill me violently here." Henry was extremely distressed.

Eckhard is a "German supremacist" at heart, but he disguises himself more deeply than others. He took the opportunity to instigate, "This is not surprising, because everyone sees you as the German emperor, not a poor puppet suppressed and ordered around by the Holy See in Rome."

"This is a ridiculous paradox. I have to go to the Lateran Palace to be crowned and anointed, and I have to win the hearts of the Germans."

"In fact, it is not difficult to take a risk and have the best of both worlds, my majesty."

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"Are you really going to follow the secret agreement we made with Gawain?"

"Yes, I think the current situation is actually very good. Tarsus swore not to betray us, Tuscany has officially broken with us, Welf was abandoned by his wife, and his father (the Duke of Bavaria) will definitely hate Matilda and stand on our side, and we also have support within the cardinals of the Lateran Palace - as for deposing and enthroning the Pope, it is not the first time that the Empire has done such a thing. Since it has already been divided, then for the sake of the sacred cause of eternal constancy, Your Majesty, you can accept the instigation of your subordinates, or you can instigate your subordinates..." Eckhard's proposal was nakedly full of the breath of swords and weapons.