May 2nd is the birthday of Angela, Countess of East Frisia. This birthday was unusual because it was Angela's 18th birthday.
Marin hadn't really eaten Angela before, because he was afraid that she would hurt her body due to her premature pregnancy. According to his idea, it would be better to do that after the age of 20. After all, Marin will have many children and grandchildren in the future, so he must have a long-term vision.
However, Angela was dissatisfied. In particular, Angela noticed Marin's hesitation when he was a matchmaker for Da Vinci and Lisa. Therefore, Angela was afraid that during the waiting period, Marin would empathize with another.
So, under Angela's repeated requests, Marin finally decided—after Angela turned 18, just that...
And before that, in order to make Angela healthier. Every morning, Marin would pull Angela up and run around the Aurich Palace a few times together to exercise and reduce the risk of pregnancy.
Because there is no garden, they run around the perimeter of the palace. For safety, when the Marin and his wife ran every morning, the streets beside the palace were full of guards to prevent someone from taking the opportunity to assassinate them.
Right now, under the leadership of Marin, Aurich City has begun to expand. However, the first expansion was the outer city wall of Aurich. The city wall is the most direct protective umbrella of a city, so it naturally needs to be taken seriously.
At the request of Marin, 3,000 craftsmen started the huge project of building the outer city wall. Because the spring plowing was over, Marin conscripted another 10,000 people to join in the construction of the city wall. Otherwise, relying on those 3,000 masons and stonemasons alone, God knows when it will be repaired.
As for the Palace of Aurich, Marin has also made plans, expanding the site by four or five times than before. As long as the city wall is completed, the construction of the new palace will start. The new palace is directly expanded around the old palace, without moving the old palace. However, the old palace is surrounded by residential buildings. Therefore, Marin needs to let the surrounding residents be demolished first.
In this day and age, there was no real estate, and houses were not worth much. As long as Marin compensates residents with new houses of the same size in other newly expanded urban areas, no one will be unhappy...
Soon, the time came to May 2. On this day, the city of Aurich became very lively. In order to make it more lively, Marin brought over the newly formed military band and played the famous "Birthday Song" at the gate of the palace. Then, a group of teenagers participating in the choir sang in Frisian and German, which are similar to English, in turn with immature voices.
There are a lot of guests here, after all, Angela is now the mistress of the Counties of East Frisia. The mistress celebrated her birthday, and it was a very significant 18th birthday, so naturally many people came to the banquet. To this end, Marin mobilized a large number of troops to maintain law and order throughout the process and prevent any danger from occurring.
What surprised Marin was that his father-in-law, the future Pope Julius II, also came over...
What Marin didn't know was that Archbishop Rovere was having a hard time right now. Because the attitude of his French backer has changed. During the period of Charles VIII, Charles VIII supported Bishop Rovere. However, after Louis XII came to power, he flirted with Pope Alexander VI, Bishop Rovere's enemy, and almost formed an alliance.
In this way, the situation of Archbishop Rovere is awkward, even dangerous. Because Alexander had proposed that Louis XII extradite Archbishop Rovere back to Rome for trial. If it weren't for a group of powerful old courtiers left behind by Charles VIII, Louis XII might have kidnapped him to Rome and gave it to Alexander VI.
Therefore, Archbishop Rovere felt that it was not safe to stay in Paris. Coincidentally, taking advantage of Angela's birthday, Louis XII was also far away in Italy. Archbishop Rovere simply took his men, put on makeup, left Paris, and headed straight for East Frisia.
When Marin saw the real father-in-law in the villa in the east of the city, he was also very surprised. However, he did know about the cooperation between Louis XII and Alexander VI. Even after Louis XII assured Alexander VI that he would support him in occupying the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples, he reciprocated by canonizing the illegitimate son of Alexander VI—Caesar Borgia, who had returned to secular life, as the Duke of Valentino.
The relationship between Louis XII and Alexander VI is so good, it is really possible to send Archbishop Rovere to Rome. Through the conversation, Marin also learned that Louis XII almost sent him to Rome to Alexander VI. If it weren't for the old courtiers of Charles VIII to help speak, Archbishop Rovere would be finished.
Archbishop Rovere told Marin that he would stay in East Frisia from now on until the matter in Rome (assassination of Alexander VI) was completed before leaving.
Although Marin welcomes this, he is also very afraid. Because, if Alexander VI waited until he hid Archbishop Rovere, he might excommunicate himself, and then call on everyone to beat him up...
Therefore, Marin decided to arrange Archbishop Rovere to the Frisian Islands, isolated from the world, but not to let outsiders know.
So, on May 1, after discussions, Archbishop Rovere agreed to go to a hidden village in the Frisian Islands to live temporarily after Angela's birthday. However, Marin also promised that he would send a boat to the island at any time to contact him and pass on the news. Even, all the expenses of Archbishop Rovere are covered by him. For example, buying assassins and intelligence and so on requires a lot of money...
In addition, Marin also told Archbishop Rovere the good news that Lucrezia and Felice's mother and daughter have been found, and Marin's men are arranging for the mother and daughter to come to East Frisia.
Previously, Felice was in the home of a rich man in the Genoa countryside, and she married a stupid son of the rich man. Felice's silly husband, his brain is not working well, and he can't take care of himself. In fact, Felice is just a lifelong nanny that the rich man finds for his stupid son.
However, in order to survive, and because she didn't bring much money when she fled, the young Felice had no choice but to marry a foolish husband...
Even Lucrezia, the mistress of Archbishop Rovere, had no choice but to become an old lady in the rich man's house, and was eaten a lot of tofu by the rich man...
When Marin's people found the mother and daughter, the mother and daughter heard that there was a chance to leave, and they agreed without saying a word. As for whether the rich man's family knew the identities of the mother and daughter, there was no such concern. With the character of a rich man, if he knew that the mother and daughter were wanted by the Pope, they would have tied them up and sent them to Rome in exchange for rewards...
Then, Marin's men took the mother and daughter and ran away secretly. At this time, the mother and daughter are still halfway, and it is estimated that they will not arrive in Aurich until June. However, the person in charge of the operation sent someone to hurry up and report the news to Marin first.
Archbishop Rovere was naturally very happy to be able to reunite his family, so he couldn't help but drink a few more glasses. Of course, he was just a shady father-in-law, unable to attend the big banquet in the palace. It was Old Nelson, the fake father-in-law, who attended the banquet instead of him. The real father-in-law, Archbishop Rovere, can only open a table and drink by himself in the villa in the east of the city...
In the evening, after the banquet, Angela and Marin quietly came to the villa in the east of the city and met Archbishop Rovere. Afterwards, it was naturally a tear-jerking scene of "deep love between father and daughter"...
That night, Marin fulfilled his promise, picked up Angela, who had turned 18, and peeled it into a little pig... Then, pressed it up... Next, there is a scene that needs harmony, and 10,000 words are omitted here...