Conquer the Dawn of Heaven

Balenti stood on a tall tower and looked at the busy crowd below. Some of the snow in the distance had not yet melted. The dark ground and the light gray snow were already against each other. It seems that there is no beauty at all, only a cold and lonely feel uncomfortable.

Just as Machiavelli knew that Alexandria had returned to Pisa, Barrondi's news was also very well informed. As the road between Pisa and Montina was clear, exchanges were becoming more and more convenient. It can be said that if there is someone over Pisa A sneeze can't take Montina to know the next day.

In this regard, Barendi actually despise Lucrezia very much. In her view, Lucrezia is a fool without a brain except for a beautiful face and a good figure that can seduce a man.

At least Lucrezia did not see the real intention of Alexander at all costs to build the road from Montina to Pisa, and the Arno River from Pisa to Florence has a long history of roads along the river. Tightly connected with Florence.

Barendi knew that there was a plan for the road from Montina to Florence in the vault. It was drawn before Alexandria had gone to the Balkans, but it was only a rough sketch at the time. It looks like, and now the picture is handed over to the master named Da Vinci, who will redraw it after some investigation.

Barendi is very clear what kind of changes will be brought to the whole area after the construction of this road, then Montina will form a nearly whole territory with the two cities, and then it may really be A country called the "Principality of Romagna-Tuscany" appeared.

Balenti sighed secretly. She thought of Estelles, which made her a little anxious. No heir's worry always made people feel as if they were stepping on the soft clouds. Although the appearance was bright, they could not be down to earth.

The fact that Alexander was stuck in pizza for a few days after returning home made Barendi feel bored.

The desire to get a child's mood made her more and more uneasy. She heard of the painting "The Baptism of Estrelice" by the painter Raphael, who is now famous in Rome. This made her deeply Feel Alexander's love for her daughter, but also feel a deep sense of crisis.

Barendi believes that she has her own pride. In her eyes, Lucrezia is a beautiful but mindless rag doll. Maybe men will like such rag dolls, but it is not true that they can help Alexander rule the future principality. she was.

But even this rag doll has a proud cost. In addition to being enchanted by men, Lucrezia ’s biggest reliance should be her daughter. At this point, Barendi knows that she is at least so far disadvantaged.

"God bless me, give me a son." Balenti prayed silently, she was not worried about her status being threatened, but the other two women had already given birth to a daughter, and the other was about to welcome her. Child, this made Barendi start to feel uneasy.

A maid walked down the steps to the tower, and many people did not understand why the countess always likes to run to such a high place to stay alone for a long time. After all, standing in this cold weather is not so good. .

"Madam, that Da Vinci master is here." The maid reported.

"Okay, here I come." Barendi nodded indifferently, even in front of her maid, she was so indifferent and inaccessible. This was the result of her father's many years of education over the years. Luo Weilei told her clearly that a master without majesty will be despised by his servants, so even the most trustworthy servants should not make them feel special in front of their masters.

When Barendi appeared, Da Vinci had been waiting in the vault for a while, but this did not make him feel impatient. On the contrary, many new things in the vault aroused his strong interest, and even Barron When Di entered the vault, he didn't notice at first.

"You need to pay more money," it's just that when it comes to money and rewards, Leonardo is not more open-minded than his counterpart Michelangelo. He handed a very detailed bill to In front of Barrondi, ask the countess to pay for his labor accordingly. “It ’s like this, we found that if we were to build a road from Montina to Florence, there would be a lot of trouble, but it was necessary to build at this distance. There are at least four bridges. In addition, if it is constructed according to the method shown in this picture, we must cut a passage in some hills, so the cost will be much higher than expected, and this does not include the way. Some areas have to be leveled because of the terrain, in short this is a huge sum of money, ma'am. "

Balenti looked at the Zou Baba's paper, which was roughly the amount of money to be used. Looking at the figure up to nearly one hundred thousand Ducat, Balenti frowned slightly.

Da Vinci will be paid 140 Ducats, which is his reward as the designer of this huge project, which includes the design of the four bridges and the need to dig a passage on those hills, in addition There is also the cost of their investigation from Montina to Florence.

This is not a small sum of money, but it is completely insignificant compared to more than a hundred thousand Ducat.

Although it was clear that the opening of this road was of great significance to Alexander, Barendi was somewhat surprised by the huge amount of this budget.

In this era, nobles either spent money on building a castle and an armed army, or they spent a lot of money on art, and no one wanted to do such a road repair, not to mention such a large amount of money.

Balenti couldn't help rubbing her aching forehead. She wondered whether she would borrow money from the friendly gentleman. After all, as far as she knew, Naples was really rich and oily.

Not many people really understand the status of Naples in the trade union, nor do they know the true brother-in-law of this city, although it is famous for its wealth, but actually has much control over its wealth.

But Barendi is one of them. She is well aware that the wealth held by Naples has definitely reached an alarming level. If it is not surprising that the relationship between Russa and Alexander is good, Barendi would have been a trade union for Alexander. It was dissatisfied that such a large power was given to Ruosha.

"Maybe I can borrow this money, or even tens of thousands of Ducat," Barrondi looked out the window. Now the construction of Montina Castle is in full swing, since the castle was completed The largest construction project.

After all, this is a new style of castle. When Leonardo saw the sketch of the castle, he amazed the designer's almost genius ideas, and at the same time he wondered in his heart how to deal with such a fortress.

What surprised Leonardo was that he could not find this abandoned traditional one-piece fortified wall for a while, but he used many polygonal buildings as the weaknesses of the fortifications inlaid. It can be said that this castle It almost eliminates all the dead corners of the defense, while protecting the guardian of the castle to the greatest extent.

Even the designer has considered the possibility that the anti-proximity bastion built outside the castle will be used once it is occupied by the enemy, so all the bastions are open to the side of the wall, so that even if the bastion falls In the hands of the enemy, the entire interior of the bastion has no barrier at all because of the side facing the city wall, which makes the enemy unable to use the bastion to attack at all.

This design was exchanged for Leonardo ’s excitement and admiration. When he learned that the castle was designed by famous architects Bramont and Alexander, Leonardo could n’t help but develop the design style of the castle. A strong interest.

It's just that Barondi thought he wouldn't see the completion of the castle construction in his lifetime. According to Leonardo's estimates after reading the construction drawings, it took at least 30 to 50 years for the complete construction of the New Montina Fort.

Perhaps by that time his son was already old, and Barenti thought about it in his heart, and then fell into trouble for a while.

Barendi knew that she wanted a child too much. She must have a child and heir to stabilize her position, otherwise she would not want to see Alexander one day bring a illegitimate child born to him by a woman to her. In front, then asked her to recognize the illegitimate child as the adopted child.

Thinking about this, Barendi was a little irritable. She put down the letter she had just written to the young aunt. While she stared blankly at the corner of the dome, a giant kite made of balsa wood fascinated her. With the sound of rapid footsteps outside the door, the door of the vault was forcibly opened.

The cold wind blew in from the hallway at once, blowing up a few sheets of paper placed on the table, and also messed up Barenti's originally neatly combed hair.

Alexander was wearing a thick robe, and the hood that had just been lifted off his head was casually held behind his head. The cold in his body made Balenti shudder, and then she uttered an unexpected whisper.

"God, is it you Alexander?"

"Yes, it's me, see who's back!"

Alexander stood at the door and laughed haha. In addition to seeing accidents and inexplicable joy from Barendi's eyes, the last time he saw him came back from the Balkans.

Barendi seemed to want to be reserved and calm, but when she walked around the table steadily, the pace under her feet accelerated significantly, and before she could take a few steps, Alexander had strode to her Going, in another whisper of Barendi, Alexander had hugged her tightly, and then the whole person embraced him sideways.

"Sher, look at the door." Alexander said to the guard standing at the door without looking back. When he heard the sound of the door closing behind him, he watched Balendi's eyes full of meaning. "I I think you look a little cold now. "

"It's a bit cold," feeling the coldness still felt in Alexander, and Barenti said it was cold, but his face looked red. "Then hurry up and warm me up."

Looking at Barendi's narrowed eyes, Alexander couldn't help but smile.

Sher stood staring blankly at the empty corridor outside the door. The door of the vault was thick and stern, so there was no need to worry about strange sounds coming out.

But what made Sheer strange was that after returning to Montina, Uliu suddenly disappeared.

At this time, Uliu was on the second floor of a quiet house on the side of the town not far from the castle.

Looking at Da Vinci staring obsessively at the sketch on the table across the face, Uliou had a gentle smile on his face.

"This is a miracle." Finally, Da Vinci, who broke the silence, finally raised his head and looked at the Moors with a surprised look. "This is a very complete picture of the human anatomy. The internal organs can be clearly seen. The bones, and even the direction of each physical texture, tell me where it came from. Can you imagine how much such a picture can avoid failures caused by mistakes for a person who is obsessed with shaping reality? ? "

Uliu smiled at the excited Da Vinci. He knew before that this picture should make the master ecstatic, but Da Vinci's overly excited emotion still made Uliu feel a little funny.

But these anatomical pictures from the Pavia School of Medicine not only made Da Vinci quite excited, but also made the master somewhat interested in another proposal by Alexander.

"Did the Earl decide to build a new university in Pisa?" Leonardo asked curiously. "It's important to know that true art is not mastered by study. Those who can peep into the truth are geniuses and mediocre people are doomed All his life must be prevented from being outside the art hall. "

Listening to Da Vinci's egotistical words, Uliou unceremoniously dropped his thick lips.

Speaking of which, Uliu's attitude towards the so-called great art and artists is the same, although he has seen the masterpiece of this master in Milan, but in his opinion, it may not be the same as those secretly hidden by Grand Vizier The naive spring paintings look better.

But the old man seemed to value the master very much, and was interested in the monks Pacioli and Zorro Astro, and the group who came to Montina with Leonardo.

So he had to do what he wanted to bring Da Vinci these things that clearly aroused his interest, and at the same time use his previous relationship with him to speak for the master.

"Master is really obsessed with art, but the artistic atmosphere of the University of Florence is already strong enough, so he hopes to establish a new discipline at the University of Pisa. This is why I am inviting you, and I believe you will also feel Interested. "

"A whole new discipline?" Da Vinci's face was a little surprised, and then he slowly shook his head. "Don't say any new disciplines easily, know that all the knowledge created by God so far has been almost completely mastered by people. In the future, the only thing people can do in the academic field is to tinker with these nearly perfect foundations. Just like this anatomical picture, it can help me grasp the structure of the human body more deeply, but this does not mean From this picture, I can find something that I did n’t know before, which may be beneficial for the treatment of disease, but it is just that. For example, in Montina I did see a lot of things that made me feel new, but these Something is not enough to prop up the overwhelming significance of the new discipline, because it means that what we have to face is something that has never been seen before, and now it seems that the word new is hard to appear again. "

Da Vinci shook his head slightly, revealing a pity between his expressions, and seemed to be sighing and helpless for the coming of this era of knowledge.

Uliu frowned slightly as he watched Da Vinci, but he didn't expect his words to cause the master to be so emotional, and more importantly, he seemed to be very indifferent to the establishment of a new professional discipline at the University of Pisa Pavia Of course, this made Uliu feel a little uncomfortable.

Uliu knew that Alexandria would not stay long in Montina. He had already learned through various channels about the subtle changes that were happening in Rome, and according to the people sent by Caesar, the Pope ’s birthday celebration would be in Held at the end of the month, this means that Alexander can spend a very little time in Montina.

This is why Alexander did n’t come to see Da Vinci in person. Instead of sending out an invitation but rushing to Rome without saying goodbye, it is better to have Uliu come from the beginning to convince these talented but often Geniuses who were so arrogant that they had no one in sight.

If Ludovico ’s housekeeper Giokonde was valued by artists as “gift distributors”, then Uliou was so trusted by Alexander that he could be his agent in some places. Get people's attention.

No one will be hostile to him because he is a Moor, nor will he despise him because he is the nominal servant of Alexander, the former official, the court chief, and the most trusted person next to the Earl of Montina, this is Wu Liu's image in the eyes of others, so Alexander is not worried that Uliu's appearance will make some people think that he has been despised and insulted.

It ’s just that Da Vinci ’s attitude makes Ulliu feel a little helpless, which makes him think that perhaps this proud master should be met with the strange woman named Gina Bridget, maybe that will really stimulate Although this man has amazing talent, but also has too many conceited geniuses ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ As for the use of this matter to disturb the master, Uliu immediately dismissed the idea just thinking about it.

Uliu could imagine that he could not easily see the shadow of the master in these few days, and because of this, he was so smart that he did not follow the master like Schell.

After all, as the head of the entire "Gombré family", he also needs to wear needles between Pisa, Florence, Montina, and Wallachia if possible in the future, so for those details that are too affectionate for the master and any woman, at least The less he knows in name, the better. Only in this way can he get rid of the old ladies.

As for Schell, think of the Balkans who seem to be savvy. Uliu just wanted to say: "It's a little bit younger."

"Are you going to move Pavia University to Pisa?"

Lying on a bearskin blanket near the hearth, Balenti wrapped tightly around his body looking at Alexander and asked.

When she heard the news from Alexander, Barendi was very dissatisfied, although she also knew that the cost of a university was staggering, and now she happened to be short of money, but as a man with a lot longer than many men She was keenly aware of the importance of a higher education institution in the future.

"Pizza is more suitable than Montina, and you have too much to do. I think you have more important things to do than distract from a university."

"What's more important?" Barendi became interested all at once. She felt that perhaps only by showing Alexander her role as a wife could Alexander make her more dependent on her.

"Birth an heir to the crown I'm about to get, best now." Alexander smiled playfully.

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