What the **** happened to that Medici boy? Francesco put down the newspaper in his hand. His brows were furrowed.

In front of him was a provincial newspaper. They come from different newspapers, but on the same day they issued a "Notice on Seventeen Crimes including the Vice President of the Fourth Bank of Sardinia, the Chairman of the Audit Committee, and the Legal Representative Francesco de Pazzi. ", and issued a severe reprimand and wanted him nationwide.

To be honest, the commotion was a bit beyond Francesco's expectation.

Although he had already guessed that the person who stole the documents must be sent by the Medici family, he never thought that Lorenzo would tear himself apart in the first place. Could it be that he really wanted to Going to war with the Patsys?

Or is this what the Medici family thought?

But where did they get the courage? History of the Medici family. Less than a hundred years ago, it dates back to the Marquis of Lanno, the "Shield of the South" during the Holy Roman Empire.

And who are the Medici family?

Their ancestors were nothing but mud legs. Counting two hundred years ago, it was just an unknown soldier or native official who didn't even have a surname. Not even any officer who ever made his name in history.

The reason why he was able to become the Grand Duke of the Principality of Sardinia should actually be regarded as luck—the Principality of Sardinia at that time had not yet become independent, and it was only the three districts of Teutonic.

The territory of the Teutonic Kingdom spans from the south of the Danube to the north of Naples, west of Turin, east of Venice, plus Sardinia, a total of thirteen districts. And further south is the Kingdom of Sicily, but due to the plundering of pirates, high import taxes, and the private installation of armed forces in the forbidden port cities. The nobles of the seaside cities of the Teutonic Kingdom had strong dissatisfaction with the royal family. Soon after the war, with the appearance of textile machines and the civilianization of steam ships. The entire southern Teutonic region became even more strongly separated from the north. Either economically. Or culturally - they are closer to the Kingdom of Sicily in the south.

Later, the famous tyrant, Teutonic King Otto III, became the key opportunity for the split between the North and the South. He implemented the "Salt Water District Act", allowing businessmen in coastal cities whose economic income was three times higher than that of mainland businessmen to pay three times the tax for the construction of the interior. This was a very normal thing.

However, the implementation of this tax law is a little late and another thing is. Due to Teutonic's promotion of franchiseism, most of the people who can establish formal "companies" are wealthy and landed.

Before the heavy tax came down, the nobles on the coast had already sucked their blood from it. Become taller and more powerful. At the same time, the Southern Kingdom of Sicily also intervened at this time - they promised to send troops as mercenaries to help these southern nobles fight against "this unreasonable tyranny" and the general who led the mercenaries at that time was the Medici family. The first generation of Patriarch. He successfully won a beautiful victory and was promoted to general.

As rich enough. These nobles bought more mercenaries to fight against the suppression of the northern royal family. They subconsciously handed over these mercenary troops to the Medici general who had won the victory and was not one of them. After a three-year war of repression. They succeeded in capturing the victory they wanted - but just when the nobles thought it was over, the trusted Medici general led his troops to attack the weakened Kingdom of Sicily in turn. As early as three years ago, he consciously sent that part of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Sicily to die. And none of the middle-level generals who strictly controlled the core troops came from the Kingdom of Sicily.

As he imprisoned several high-level officials, the remaining Sicilians were rushed back to their homeland by Jia, and within half a year they defeated all the southern regions, including the island of Cili. And after that, he made another amazing move-he divided the land territory except Sicily. It was given to the Teutonic Kingdom and promised to pay tribute every year. And he was awarded the title of duke, fortunate enough to rule over the "Sardinian duchy", that is, from Bologna to Naples, and even all parts of Sanding and Sicily. The area of ​​this part of the leader is enough for them to call themselves the Kingdom of Sardinia. Even compared to the upper half of the Teutonic Kingdom, it is not much inferior.

But he would rather downgrade himself to a principality and what he got was a reasonable right to rule.

Xue controlled the army and won the hearts of the people because of successive victories. Now that he has even received a title, he naturally becomes a reasonable ruler. He immediately convened a town council to let the "standard bearer of justice"

That is, representatives of the citizens joined forces to formulate new bills. It is stipulated that people with titles cannot take up any government office. As a result, the nobles who kept sending money ended up with nothing and nothing. The freedom they imagined is still far away from them, they just changed from one master to another. And the agreed tribute was only paid for three years before the death of King Teutonic. The new king formed a tacit understanding with them. If the other party didn't mention the tribute, they should not have it at all. After all, the land south of Naples was given to Teutonic, and they couldn't refuse it. But if they want to effectively rule this piece of territory, they must go through Sardinia or start from the Venetian port and go around to South Teutonic via the Dria Sea. Not counting Sicily, which is weakly controlled, the land area of ​​the Principality of Sardinia is only one-third of the Teutonic Kingdom, but he has in turn restrained the Teutonic people who are bigger than himself.

And so the Medici family became a legend.

Just the old nobles. Still hate them. After all, it is also the Medici family, born from a grassroots general. took away their throne. But the Medici of today is not the Medici of the past after all.

It is impossible for them to fight against the old aristocratic power in Sardinia alone, the grand duke who always suffers from gout. Even government affairs can't be handled. Perhaps Lorenzo could become the new hope of the Medici family. But he has not ascended the throne after all. Even if he now has all the powers except the army.

With or without this title, the impact is actually very large.

Could it be that the Medici family was supported by other families?

Francesco murmured.

I have to send a letter to Mr. "Wedgeworm"

In other words, the "blood maker" of the Order of the Rose, the powerful spiritual teacher Mario da Florence.