Interests are eternal pursuits. Whether it is a person, a country, a dynasty or a religion, no matter which one, they hope to maximize their interests.

This is an irrefutable fact. Gregory VII did not expect that he would have a conflict with the Song Empire far away in the east, and he did not expect that the Pope's guards in Rome would be so vulnerable.

More than a thousand people kept the team of more than a hundred. What's even more terrifying was that they were defeated. Half of the casualties and injured were also a large number of stampedes, so that only dozens of people were not injured in the end.

After the Song army left, the city of Rome fell into a silence like death. The tragic situation at the scene made it difficult to end. People who appeared on the street were disgusted when they saw the scene in front of them.

The blood and corpses were covered with minced meat from time to time, and I don’t know which organ it is in the human body.

Although the Song Dynasty mission left, it left a deep memory and fear for the city of Rome. As the location of the Catholic Church and the capital of the Pope, it has never suffered such a "brutal" massacre.

In fact, there are many times here that are awesome. The Roman city in the minds of the world seems to be bathed in the holy light, under the love of God.

But now it is full of blood and corpses. Under the statue of the bronze female wolf, on the streets of Rome, people cannot believe what is happening in front of them.

The Pope Guard, which had a thousand people, was actually defeated by the Song Dynasty mission of a hundred people, and the Song Dynasty mission did not suffer much loss.

While the delegation left, they took away the bodies of the dead soldiers, and also plundered the bodies of the guards, and took away all the valuable things and left calmly.

Even with the departure of the Song Dynasty mission, the Pope Guards in Rome did not send troops to stop them again. At this time, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and this devil-like army finally left.

At this time, Gregory VII thought of the first thing he wanted was how to calm the anger. He wanted to make those who saw it shut up, to make the Song Dynasty mission "forget" this matter, and to make the Song Dynasty emperor "forgot" this matter.

In this way, the easiest way is to buy the Song Dynasty mission, buy everyone in the mission, and shift the blame to the unlucky guard captain.

This depends on the attitude of the Song Dynasty mission, otherwise everything will be empty talk……………

Gregory VII paid for the mistakes he made, and at the same time he acted very quickly. He sent a red-clothed waiter to the Great Song Dynasty mission as fast as possible, with only one goal asking Yan Shu to condescend and wait.

Gregory VII was a very smart politician. What he was best at was using various political means to play games. In the Chinese language, he was a master of unity and alliance.

The envoys he sent largely retained the Great Song Dynasty delegation that had arrived at the port. This was actually a test and a request. After Yan Shu arrived at the port, he immediately asked the delegation to board the ship and allowed a large number of merchant groups to guard the port.

Although the mission only had more than one hundred people, there were dozens of sea ships following the mission, and these huge merchant ships had already covered the port of Civitavecchia.

This is an ancient port town, right next to the city of Rome, once an important port of the Roman Empire, and now it is an important port of the city of Rome and the Papal Kingdom.

The ships of the Song Dynasty landed here every year and transported large quantities of goods to this Western empire.

The fleet that accompanied Yan Shu had already turned this port into a fortress. In fact, there was already a fortress and a powerful fortress here, but now this fortress has been taken over by the Song people.

Before setting off, Yan Shu had sent people to send signals to the fleet that almost all powerful warships were equipped with artillery, and some even equipped with mortars on the deck as a means of attack.

Before Yan Shu's mission arrived at the port, it was taken down by the Song Dynasty mission. To be precise, it should have been taken down by the Song Dynasty merchant delegation.

John did not expect Yan Shu to move so quickly, nor did he expect him to have such foresight.

The harbor fortress in Civitavecchia was actually built by the Song people. After the first arrival of the Song Dynasty merchant ships, they helped the officials here build a fortress. The condition was to ask the officials of Civitavecchia town to take care of the Song Dynasty's fleet and protect their safety.

Of course there is no reason to refuse such a good thing. The officials of Civitavecchia immediately turned the merchant group of Song Dynasty into the most honorable guests. The merchants of Song Dynasty always brought benefits to the officials of Civitavecchia, and the two sides sometimes became a kind of excellent partner.

Once merchants and officials get mixed up, it will probably become the dirtiest deal in the world.

Yan Shu didn't want to know that in the Song Dynasty, there was no such thing as collusion between officials and merchants, and officials and merchants should not have too much contact, let alone exchanges in money.

Here, on the contrary, merchants and officials are often in a collusion. Merchants influence officials to obtain favorable policies, while officials obtain money through merchants.

Looking at the quiet port and the merchant group standing in front of the port waiting, Yan Shu knew that they had already controlled the port.

In the outer court, the Song Dynasty merchant regiment was quite powerful. They had their own guards and would get weapons eliminated from the Song Dynasty army every year, and they were strictly reviewed.

They can recruit retired veterans from the army as guards. These veterans are not only skillful in methods and rich in experience, but also because of the instinct they cultivate on the battlefield, and you can see whether there is danger and ambush at a glance.

Of course, recruiting these people and equiping them with weapons and equipment is not an easy task. It requires reporting layer by layer and cannot appear in the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the expenses are amazing.

Therefore, a single caravan cannot afford these people, but the merchant groups are different. They are composed of several caravans, and some large-scale merchant groups are even composed of more than a dozen caravans.

In this way, they have more types of goods and lower transportation costs, and they can also hire powerful guards.

The merchant group that could follow the Song Dynasty mission was naturally not weak. They were also the merchant group that sponsored officials of the town of Civitavecchia to build a fortress in the harbor.

So when the messenger in red arrived at the port of Civitavecchia and saw that the entire city defense and fortress were taken over by the Song Dynasty, he immediately understood the reason, but he still conveyed the Pope's request to Yan Shu.

The Pope is naturally a country, but the identity of this country is a bit special. It is a country among the country, but there are many such countries in the Holy Roman Empire.

Several vassal states formed a country that was loyal to the pope, and thus a papal state was found. Since the pope was not only a religious leader, but also a secular emperor, Yan Shu would naturally give him the respect and face he deserved.
Chapter completed!