Jisha looked at the back of Nomelo who disappeared outside the door, and moved her neck slightly, saying that the top of her head, which she had been wearing a helmet, had been pressed to pain, and her neck was even more sore, and she had to raise her hand to press it several times.

However, in order to maintain the queen's majesty, she had to endure not allowing herself to make such a dishonorable move.

So as soon as Nomelo left, Jossa couldn't wait to take off the helmet with the crown, and unload the cloud shoulders that hung from her shoulders, and after feeling a moment of comfort, she couldn't help but curse in a low voice the bohemian woman who seemed to be born with a strange strength, as if she had the impression that only the wild girl could run up and down the stairs like a monkey in heavy armor.

Nomelo had come to act as a lobbyist for Alexander VI, which was not at all surprising to him, and Nomelo took the opportunity to reveal his intentions to him.

Obviously, the private secretary already felt that the big tree of Alexander VI seemed to be unreliable, but although the two sides had negotiated the terms before, this time Nomelo made a more detailed request.

"Isn't it whimsical that he wants to be the tribune of Rome?" Elliott looked at Nexa and saw that she didn't seem to be stirred up by his words, and he couldn't help but ask with a little worry, "Are you going to agree to this condition?" ”

Instead of answering Elliott immediately, she seemed to be pondering something, sometimes she twitched her eyebrows slightly, and sometimes she gently curled the corners of her mouth, which was both cute and somewhat mischievous, which made Elliot a little stunned, but soon she looked at Elliot with a straight look.

"So who do you think is suitable to run the city for us?"

Elliott was stunned for a moment and then fell silent, he suddenly realized that it seemed that as Josha said, there was really no one suitable for this matter, although the commander of the city defense army, Skop, seemed to be more suitable for this position, but for some reason, Elliott felt as if Josha had never intended to give this position to that person in the first place.

Neither the Neapolitans nor the Taranto were fit to be the direct administrators of Rome.

What they needed was a surrogate that would be acceptable to the Romans, so that they would not provoke the Romans and would not allow other countries to find an excuse to make trouble.

"It's a city that's hard to get in, but it's even harder to get out." Remembering what had been said before, she stood up and walked slowly to the window to look out at the city of Rome shrouded in night, looking at the hazy outline of the hills in the moonlight, she looked back at Elliott, "Don't you think that we are actually walking into a huge cage, but this cage can only hold the weak prey, and in front of the real opponent, this cage will only end up being the jewel of the winner's crown." ”

Elliott's heart fluttered at Nexa's words, and it was only then that he felt that he had truly realized the queen's ambitions, which made him feel a wave of ecstatic excitement in his heart.

If she could be her husband, maybe ......

The thought made Elliot instantly excited, and he felt that he had come to the right time to be sent by his father to fight in the Trade Alliance, and maybe there would be an unexpected gain from this expedition that he had never thought of before.

Alexander VI's meeting with Jossa was not in the Vatican's Audience Hall, but in a makeshift tent at the end of the Tiber Bridge, not far from Castel Sant'Angelo.

The tent was cleverly built on the midline between the stone slab that extends from the bridge and the Vatican floor, so that the two parties could sit down and have a good conversation without setting foot on each other's territory.

This move of Alexander VI is undoubtedly the acquiescence of the Naples army to take over the city of Rome, which makes the cardinals very dissatisfied, but thinking of the messy situation in the city of Rome now, no one dares to stand up and accuse him of this "loss of power and humiliation of the country", after all, after the papal army and the city defense army have successively expressed neutrality, the cardinals have nothing to compete with the queen of Naples except for the condemnation from God.

Constantine had already rushed back to Rome overnight, and in fact he did not stay in the barracks after writing the letter to his father asking for help, but quickly left the Papal barracks on the outskirts with his guards, as he found that someone seemed to have begun to become restless after discovering the arrival of his new Papal commander.

This reminded him of Caesar, who didn't want to end up being beaten into a sieve, so Konstantin quickly left with his guards and built a makeshift fortress in a nearby village.

It's just that just like his father, Constantine never expected that Jossa would be so bold as to order her army to directly pass through the Papal army's defenses and march towards the city of Rome.

Upon seeing the Papal army give way to the Neapolitans in an almost tacit manner, Constantine could not help but rejoice in his foresight.

He could imagine what would have happened if he had stayed in the barracks, and his already bad reputation would only get worse if he had been forced to agree to withdraw his troops or given as a gift to the Neapolitans by the greedy mercenaries.

It's just that what Konstantin didn't expect was that for his almost second escape, old Rovere did not reprimand him as he gave up Milan before, on the contrary, after seeing him come back safely, old Rovere drank a little more wine that night to express his relief.

Alexander VI's carriage slowly walked towards the mouth of the Tiber Bridge, unlike the other carriages, the Pope's carriage was low, and the pack horses of the Puller were also the local ones who were not tall and looked more like dwarf-like ponies.

The carriage came to a slow stop, and Alexander VI slowly stepped out of the carriage with the help of the servant, who looked around with some curiosity, and then let out a monophonic laugh of "heh", and then slowly walked into the tent with the help of the servant.

Jisha had already arrived.

In the silence of the Papal Army and the city guards, the Neapolitan army had taken over important areas of the city, the town hall had been taken over, and some of the places where the mob had gathered had been cleared.

So as she walked along the road, she didn't see a mob in the street as she had done the day before, but when she walked up the Tiber Bridge, she encountered some minor troubles.

The statue of Alexander VI who had been pushed to it was strewn across the bridge, and to make matters worse, the stench of feces spilled everywhere on it was that of this season.

The guards had to bring in some local residents on the fly, and with great difficulty, under the threat of muskets and gold coins, they cleared the dirty and disgusting obstacles.

So when they walked up to the Tiber Bridge, the grenadiers, who had been nervous because of their vigilance, looked somewhat sluggish, and some of the soldiers who were inevitably covered with feces and dirt were simply left on the other side of the bridge.

Now, in the air with a faint stench, she sat solemnly waiting for the Pope to come, and when she saw Alexander VI, she bowed to the Pope, then took his hand and bowed her head to kiss him.

When she looked up, she noticed that Alexander VI was looking at her with a strange gaze.

"Today I let a murderer of my son kiss my hand, and this may be God's punishment for me," Alexander VI whispered, he looked at Josha carefully, raised his hand and gently ran his fingers over her smooth and sweet cheeks, some rough fingers gently slid over the snow-like skin, Alexander VI let out a soft sigh "What an angelic face, I now finally understand why Alexander used your image to cast Radia, Your beauty is the most memorable masterpiece of God I have ever seen. ”

As she straightened up, she noticed that the Pope seemed to be hunched over, and that Alexander VI had the impression that he was not very strong, but he had always been in good spirits.

"Your Majesty, I regret Caesar's death, but it was all God's arrangement." Tsusha replied quietly.

"God's arrangement?" Alexander VI smiled a slightly mocking smile: "It has long been believed that the bishop of Rome is the closest to the will of God and Jesus Christ, and that great crusades have been waged on the basis of this will, and many times, and that people have willingly given a portion of their harvest to the Church according to this will, and this has been done for centuries, and even when a mistake was made, a powerful monarch had to kneel naked outside the Pope's door for days begging for forgiveness. But now, even a woman can speak openly about God's will. ”

"Your Majesty, allow me to remind you that this woman is the regent of Naples and the conqueror of Rome." There was a hint of coldness on her face, she looked at the Pope's slightly tired eyes, and her originally slightly restrained chin was raised proudly upward, "And I think you know very well that the problem you are facing now is only I can solve for you, so now I think you should show me enough respect." ”

Alexander VI was not angry at the almost unreasonable attitude towards Josa, and although the attendants next to him were stunned by the queen's words, the pope himself only sighed softly.

"It's ironic that the last person to speak to me like that was Gonzalo, and your brother Alexander was on my side at the time." Alexander VI said in a peculiar tone, his eyes fixed on Josha's expression, and seeing that she seemed to be moved by these words, the Pope shook his head slowly.

"He's still on your side, as long as you're willing to make a decision that satisfies us all." She sat down and looked at the Pope, "We can solve the problem for you, but you need to transfer the coinage, and you should also know that because the credit of the gold coins of Radia has deteriorated to the point where it is now, it is impossible for us to receive the actual amount of gold coins that the Holy See has now, I think you should know this." ”

The Pope listened quietly, and the attendants standing beside him quickly recorded Josha's words, glancing at the Pope from time to time, as if trying to see some reaction in his face.

"Is this what Alexander told you to say?" The Pope suddenly asked, seeing that Jossa seemed to be slightly stunned, Alexander VI smiled, he seemed to have completely forgotten Caesar's death at this moment, and there was a little relief in his expression, "All this is a trap from the beginning, right, let me think about when it all started, was it when Alexander went to Wallachia, I remember that he once told me that I already owned the Hungarian copper mines, and this is also the reason why I am willing to issue gold coins with the Vatican's treasury, After all, there are Hungarian copper mines that can be used as support, so you don't have to worry about the trouble that may be caused by the lack of gold, everything started at that time, yes, and the Fugger family, I don't know what Alexander promised them, but now the family is probably making a lot of money, but I believe that the real winner is Alexander, or should I say your brothers and sisters, right? ”

The Pope said and stood up hard, he walked out of the tent and looked at the other side of the Tiber River under the scorching sun, a gust of wind blew, and the stench was stronger, the Pope frowned slightly and turned to look at Zhensha: "But I don't understand why, I gave him my daughter, and even let him give me a granddaughter, but he treated me like this, can you tell me why?" ”

Looking at the Pope's seemingly unwilling face, Jossa frowned lightly and endured the unpleasant smell, although she felt that there was no need to explain at this time, but she still spoke: "All this is because of your own majesty, probably you never realized that Alexander has given you and Caesar more than one chance, just because of his ridiculous obsession with your daughter, Caesar was able to escape safely after provoking him again and again, but you are still not satisfied, you are too obsessed with the Borgia family, And Alexander is not a Borgia, if you had changed earlier, maybe Caesar would not have died, and now you can still sit on your throne safely, but greed ruined the Borgia family, and when he was completely disappointed in you, it all inevitably happened. ”

With the words of Zhensha, Alexander VI's face gradually became difficult to see, and later his body even trembled slightly, which made the entourage on the side frightened to support him, but was pushed away by Alexander VI very roughly.

"Are you saying it's all my fault," Rodrigo Borgia let out a strange laugh, waving his hand disapprovingly, and then patting the back of the chair in front of him in a low voice, "It's greed, I can see that greed in Alexander's eyes, and I can see in yours that you are really alike, and if you weren't brother and sister I would even think you'd be more suited to be his wife, not Lucrezia, and not that Barendi." Alexander VI laughed as he spoke, as if he did not notice the strange expression that quickly appeared on his face when he heard him, but still said to himself, "And you said that Alexander was not a Borgia, but you are wrong, he is a real Borgia, and I can guarantee that no matter what he can achieve in the future, he will never get rid of the fact that he is a Borgia." ”

After saying that, Alexander VI sat down in his chair and said to him with a serious expression, "Then I think now I have the right to know what conditions you have made for me," and he smiled like a 'naughty' smile, "You must know that I paid a lot of money to buy the papal throne in the first place, so I must pay a good price." ”

Looking at the Pope's sly face, Zhisa sat down with a slight groan, leaning forward slightly and whispering a number.

The attendant who had been recording next to him shook his body when he heard this number, and the quill pen in his hand fell on the table.

On June 20, 1501, after four days of stalemate across the river from the Vatican, an agreement was reached between the Queen of Naples and the Cardinal of the Holy See.

In this agreement, the Queen of Naples declared that she would respect the high status of the Vatican and that she would be willing to provide adequate protection to the Holy See.

At the same time, the queen declared the city of Rome to be non-occupied, and the Neapolitan army would be jointly responsible for the security and defense of Rome with the Papal Army.

In order to prove that she had no Roman ambitions, the Queen of Naples rejected the title of Tribune of Naples and gave it to Nomerlo, the Pope's private secretary, who had been elected by the College of Cardinals to the post.

This decision obviously surprised and relieved many people, after all, just thinking about what kind of trouble the queen would bring if she was the tribune of Rome was enough to make many people secretly frightened, after all, it would inevitably mean that a battle around Rome was inevitable.

It was only at the same time that these agreements were announced, and some of these strange things were discovered, namely, that Skop, who had played a key role in the entry of the Neapolitan army into Rome, did not seem to have benefited in any way.

In addition, it is the unexpected rise of Nomerlo, the Pope's private secretary, that makes people seem to smell a certain stench of betrayal and betrayal in addition to surprise.

But these are not the most important things, the most notable of this agreement is about the whereabouts of Pope Alexander VI.

In the agreement, the fate of Rodrigo Borgia, the 214th Bishop of Rome, Alexander VI, was determined: "The Holy Bishop of Rome, sent by Jesus Christ to visit the dioceses and preach the Gospel as Christ walked in the body of Christ. ”

When this agreement was announced to the Romans, the people were surprised and then furious.

Many shouted for punishment for "that Vatican liar", while others shouted slogans such as "kill all Borgias, cut off Rodrigo's head".

It was at this time that the Queen of Naples made a formal offer to the College of Cardinals to buy the coinage of Ladia.

The price of this deal is 1.3 million florins!