Pope Innocent III is now in his seventies. In the Middle Ages, when medical treatment was very tragic, he could not afford to be sick at this age, so there was basically no possibility of getting up.

Innocent III himself knew this.

In the extremely gorgeous and luxurious dormitory, the old pope, who looked old and seemed to be about to fall, repelled the doctor's advice to continue treatment, leaving only his confidant Hildebrand alone. It seemed that he was preparing to instruct the funeral.

"It's over, it's all over." Innocent III lay on the sick, holding his hand in Hildebrand's belly, sighing: "I originally thought that God could give me a few more years. But now it seems that it's no longer possible. I guess the time for my Lord to summon me is close.

After that, it will depend on you."

"Don't say such things, rest assurance and everything will be fine." Hildebrand said with a little emotion.

"It's not good." Innocent III shook his head: "No matter whether it's my body or the Papal State, the matter between the Norman State and Norman, it's not good. After I die, the Pope will inevitably be in chaos. At that time, whether the Norman Empire takes the opportunity to march into Rome or recuperate, it will be very dangerous for the Pope. Before, I was thinking that my body could support it for a while, work hard for the Holy See once in the last time, and create a fleet that can match the Normans... Unfortunately, I'm afraid I won't see that day..."

As Innocent III said this, he breathed desperately, as if this old body could no longer feel the existence of oxygen.

"Holy See, take a break quickly. Don't say anything more." Looking at him like this, Bishop Hilde's heart beat suddenly two or three times faster. He was afraid that the old pope would die without breathing.

However, after struggling for a while, Innocent III insisted on shaking his head: "No, I want to continue to say anything. If I don't say anything, I probably won't have a chance to refute it." So the Pope continued: "Now, we can't fight anymore. And the Normans don't seem to want to fight. After all, they have just obtained the huge territory of Eastern Europe, and it will take several years, or even decades to digest it. But at this time, both sides have already started. So, we all need a step down. A decent step down, not embarrassing..."

"Holy See, have you already decided to retreat?" Hilde asked in a little surprise: "Before nothing happened?"

"That's right." When Heard said this, Innocent III smiled a little proudly: "It was just that Jerusalem fell a month ago."

"Jeru retreated and fell?!" Hildebrand was a little surprised when he heard the news.

But then he thought about falling and falling. The special code was not his own family. There were many sisters between the Kingdom of Leng and the Pope. Originally, the relationship between the two countries was still acceptable. The Kingdom of Leng started with the crusades launched by the Pope. There was such a relationship that the Royal Family of Leng was more respectful to the Holy See than the general Christian country.

The differences between the two sides finally could not escape the dispute between the power of the church and the king. After Baldwin III's death, he had no heir and supported his nephew Baldwin IV as the king. However, Baldwin IV was already infected with leprosy at that time. The Holy See that leprosy was a lowly person despised by God. But at this moment, when he saw Jelu withdrawing the Kingdom of Leng, he actually wanted to make a lowly person who was despised by God as the king of the holy land. He suddenly became anxious. After all, he had no effect. In the end, Baldwin IV ascended the throne successfully. In anger, the Pope gave up his support for Jelu withdrawing the Kingdom of Leng.

Originally, Jerusalem was surrounded by tigers and wolves, Ottoman Turkey to the north and Egypt to the south. These two pagan countries were strong and strong, and were eyeing the holy city of Jerusalem, which also belonged to Islam. Originally, Jerusalem was able to survive in such a harsh situation because of the support of the Pope, and the Pope often launched the crusaders to rescue.

However, this time, in order to prevent the state affairs from being intervened by the Holy Seek, the vested interests of Jerusalem, who were almost crazy and reincarnated, elected this leprosy, who was not long and extremely young, so as to control the country's affairs. The Holy Seek was thinking that in such a situation, Jerusalem would definitely not last long, and wait until these guys were beaten to death by the pagans. Then come and ask them again, and the benefits they could get were more, and this was the so-called starting price.

However, both the powerful people who had withdrawn from Jerusalem, the Holy See, and even the Islamic pagans, have misread this young king who was only sixteen years old.

Baldwin IV is a talented man, and he is very familiar with military affairs, politics and diplomacy.

Externally, Sara won several battles against this powerful enemy and forced the Egyptian Sultan to sign a truce treaty. Internally, he reconciled the conflicts between the two major knights of the Temple and the Hospital, as well as many noble lords under his command.

Consolidate and strengthen the imperial power. In this way, the Kingdom of Jerusalem could continue to exist and live a good life after losing the support of the Holy See.

The slap in the face is the slap in the face of Hong Guoguo. The person who God was propaganda who was abandoned by the Holy See was such a powerful king. Nothing more embarrassing than such a thing. One day, the rule established by the Lord's Church was on their tongues, and they always said empty lies to deceive. Now Europe's literacy rate is low and people are stupid. Therefore, they deceived them.

And what are the liars most afraid of?

Of course, the lies were exposed.

The church said that lepers were despised by God. However, there was such a leper.

Not only did he not feel despised by God, he became a king, not only he did it well, but he did it well, but he looked like he was a wise lord of the ages. From Pope Innocent III to a new priest who had just received baptism, he felt his face was hot, as if he had been slapped dozens or hundreds of times.

Therefore, the Holy See had no choice but to adopt a shameless and shameless method for such a situation.

Pretend to be invisible and choose to ignore it.

Stop all connections with Jerusalem.

It's this beech.

Because he hated Baldwin IV, he hated the Kingdom of Jerusalem and hated everything about Jerusalem. He had no feeling about Jerusalem's end in the hands of the pagans.

"The holy land has fallen, and we, the secular people, are still fighting for power and profit... It's really ugly." Innocent III shook his head and said afterwards.

"You mean" Hildebrand is not a fool. After hearing Innocent III's words, I immediately understood that the steps in Innocent III were the excuse of this incident, which set off another wave of crusaders, using this as an excuse to adjust the policies towards the Norman Empire.

It is indeed a good excuse. Even if the planning is done properly, it can weaken the strength of the Norman Empire and kill two birds with one stone.

Cardinal Heard was so impressed by the old pope that he admired him. However, he heard the old pope pause for a while and then said, "No, these seem to be not enough..." Then the old pope closed his eyes, thought for a while, and then opened his eyes to Cardinal Heard: "Just say, I was angry to death because of Jerusalem's fall. This would be enough."

Bishop Hilde was stunned, but he didn't expect the old pope to say such words. He couldn't help but admire him even more, planning... the enemy, planning allies, and finally even himself joined the plan. Pope Innocent III is worthy of being one of the few politicians in the world. If he had changed his time and space, in a world without the rise of the Normans, he might have achieved much greater achievements than he has now.

What a pity.

"I understand. The Holy See." Bishop Hilde nodded, secretly remembered all the old pope's instructions, and planned to discuss and implement it with other cardinals after this.

However, after this, the old pope seemed to guess his mind. He didn't know where this guy got his strength, and in an instant, he actually hurt Hilde's hand.

"Holy See?" Hilde was a little surprised and thought to himself: This is not the strength of a dying person anyway.

"I tell you not to discuss anything with other cardinals, among them, they must be unreliable who were bribed by the Normans." Innocent III seemed to be staring out at Hild, staring at Hild, and said: "When I die, you, Hild, you don't have to worry about the joint meeting of the Cardinals. You have military power in your hands, and you can be the pope if you have military power! Others can't stop you!"

Hearing such thrilling things the old pope said, although Hilder has done a lot of great things over the years, he still feels frightened that he has not been in his cardinal order for a long time, and he is only in his forties and is too rude. In addition, Innocent III looked at him with a high look, which aroused jealousy. Therefore, he has always been very excluded in the order. If he followed the normal election of the pope, it would definitely not be his turn.
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