Chapter 780 The Man Chased by the Bull

As always, if there is something you don't understand, go to the library.

Pomona's favorite is to eat while reading a book. Of course, she must eat ice cream in Italy. After all, I don't know when the next time I can eat ice cream so heartily.

The Golden House waives tickets for students of all European schools of architecture and fine arts, except for the United Kingdom. It is modeled after the Doge's Palace in Venice. It was built in 1440. The Pope at that time was Eugene IV who burned Joan of Arc. He was born in Venice. , He tried to take advantage of the invasion of the Ottoman Empire and convened the Ferrara Conference to unify the Latin and Greek sects. In the end, he failed and Constantinople fell into the hands of the Communists.

But because of Cecilia Venere, Venice did not decline before the 1670s. After Cecilia was assassinated, the Sultan's foreign policy favoring Venice ended, and Venice began to lose its eastern trade routes.

In 1605, the Vatican held two elections. Pope Leo XI ascended the throne from April 1st to April 27th. He was the ninth shortest pope in the history of Catholicism, reigning for only 27 days.

During this time, the situation in Britain was turbulent, and someone planned to blow up the parliament. What is interesting is that his successor, Paul V, was the one who quarreled with Leonardo Donato, the 90th governor of Venice, over the subject matter of paintings. Cardinal, who excommunicated the Republic of Venice.

Venice has to hand over 1 million gold coins to the Holy See every year. Without this important source of income, where will the church receive funds?

At that time, the New World had been discovered. In 1581, the Netherlands got rid of the rule of Spain and won national independence. From 1596 to 1598, a famous man named Barents, a captain of the Netherlands, tried to find a route to Asia from the north. . He passed Sanwenya, on a Russian island, but they were trapped by the frozen sea.

Sanya is located within the Arctic Circle, where Captain Barents and 17 Dutch sailors spent eight months of long winter. They removed the decks of the boats for fuel to maintain their body temperature in the freezing cold of minus 40 degrees; they hunted for clothing and food to survive.

In such a harsh and dangerous situation, 8 people died, but the Dutch merchants did an unimaginable thing. They did not touch the goods entrusted to them by others, and among these goods were the goods that could save their lives. clothing and medicines.

From winter to spring, the surviving merchants finally brought the goods back to the destination almost intact, and delivered them to the consignor. They used their lives as the price, kept their faith, and created the business rules passed down to future generations. At that time, such an approach also brought obvious benefits to Dutch merchants, that is, they won the world market for seaborne trade.

The westward movement of the trade center began, and the "Sea Coachman" became the first Protestant country in the world where the bourgeoisie came to power.

At that time, the "enemy" of the Holy See was Venice, and it was arguing about women's clothes, saying how much women wore was more important than national interests?

Leo XI died of illness. He was born in the Medici family in Florence. The Medici family was an important member of the Renaissance. It is estimated that Leo XI will not excommunicate Venice.

On March 14, 1605, eleven days after the death of Pope Clement VIII, sixty-two cardinals entered into a conclave. King Henry IV of France spent a total of 300,000 francs to lobby the College of Cardinals to choose him.

Well, how did the King of France become so rich all of a sudden?

Perhaps, the wealth of the Knights Templar was used by the French king to "persuade" the cardinals to choose a French pope, as Alexander VI of the Polia family did.

Real estate such as castles, the Templars can't transfer them, Venice sold 13 Renaissance palaces and earned 4.5 billion euros, and the King of France should have made a lot of money.

During the Hundred Years' War, 30 million people died, and I don't know if historians are in the mood to write history. During this period, Nicholas was refined into the Philosopher's Stone.

Alchemy is often associated with money. Where did Nico get the money for his experiments?

Paul V is famous for his trial of Galileo, who taught at the University of Padua.

In the Venetian Priest, Paolo Sarpi stated: Venice's right to self-determination comes from God and not from after Rome. Paul Fifty withdrew the edict, Venice is the owner of the long-term sea route, and the southwestern region of Spain produces cotton, which can supply Venice’s textile industry. Columbus did not bring more wealth to Spain after discovering a large amount of gold and silver in the New World. Silver coins depreciated.

In the middle of the 16th century, the business of the old sea route gradually flourished again. At that time, it was the war between the Ottoman Empire and the Portuguese and the Genoese. The Venetians got preferential treatment because of Cecilia Venier. The relationship between Venice and France was at least not like that between France and Rome. as bad.

The Church of Rome has been fighting to keep itself at the center of Christianity. The best way is that cardinals of other nationalities do not stand for election, but this is undoubtedly a dream. Before the 139th Pope Gregory V, most of the successive popes were Romans and Italians.

Paul V resolved the conflict between Spain and France on the new route, and the intermediary was Venetian, the owner of the old route.

This "Papa" does not stick to dogma, he is nepotism, and his family is rich. He especially favors his nephew Marcantonio Borgheso, and makes him the Grand Duke of Verova, which happens to be the territory of the Republic of Venice. Open conflict with Protestantism left him no time for Britain, and he encouraged missionary work abroad, especially in Latin America, which meant he did not take Britain seriously at all.

From the middle of the 17th century, Britain and the Netherlands fought for supremacy at sea in various oceans. Britain developed rapidly in a few decades. Later, France also participated. In the end, the Netherlands never recovered.

There are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests. For money, Britain can turn against any country in the world, or it can be as close as a brother.

Francesco Morosini was the commander of the Venetian fleet. In 1667, he was sent to Crete to organize and strengthen the defense of Gandia. However, in 1669, Gandia was captured by the Turks, and Venice lost control of Crete. control of the islands and the Aegean Sea.

During the Wei-Turkish War from 1684 to 1688, he commanded the fleet to capture the Peloponnese and Athens, and served as the Governor of the Republic of Venice in 1688.

In his second year as governor, the ammunition depot at San Angelo was struck by lightning.

He was not a victorious general like Napoleon. Why was Britain so afraid of him at the time?

"What are you looking at?" Pomona asked Severus.

"Marcandonio Justinian." Severus said, "The account books left by the predecessor will definitely be checked by the successor."

"You suspect him of corruption?"

"Army is a big expense. Once the fire is lit, no one knows exactly how much is in it, so there is no proof."

"No way." She said in surprise.

"No what?" he asked back.

"Misappropriation of military expenses."

"Why not, he doesn't love this country anyway." Severus said coldly, "As a Governor, but leave nothing behind, what a fucking piece of shit."

If you have nothing shady to hide, you don't need to be afraid.

Pomona couldn't help shaking her head, it would be too sad if the ammunition depot was really set on fire for this reason.

The governor usually stays until death, but his son will not succeed him, and she can almost feel someone's heart beating.

"I don't believe it. There must be something left," Pomona said. "Keep checking."

"When he was governor in 1683, who was the Pope?"

"Innocent XI." Pomona sighed, "He reformed the tax system, practiced strict savings, and won economic support from various Catholic countries to avoid collapse. He tolerated Protestants in order to maintain peace. The French embassy in the Holy See abused political asylum. , so that criminals are hiding around the embassy..."

Severus closed the book he was reading.

"Donating money to the church in order to obtain political asylum, and then embezzling at home, and setting ammunition depots on fire in order to annihilate the evidence, which one do you think is more likely to send spies from Britain to destroy the alliance between Venice and France?"

"What day was the exact time of the explosion?"

"August 29, 1689."

"Innocent XI resigned on August 12, 1689. Check the weather on August 29. If the sky is clear, there will be no thunder." Pomona said.

Although the weather at sea changes a lot, is it so coincidental that there happened to be a rare thunderbolt that day?

No wonder the armory on Lazzareto Island wanted to demolish the bell tower of the church. It turned out that there was a precedent.

If that person is really as Severus said, unable to cooperate with this kind of person, and his mind is not clear enough to this point, he is not as good as Justinian's Queen Theodora, a woman, she is still a prostitute, a The Governor was worse than a whore, and she could only hope that assumption wasn't true.