Soon, under the deliberate arrangement of Tim, everything that happened in Lisbon was quickly spread to the Republic of Venice and the Byzantine Empire. Of course, the details of Ferrero's assassination of the Byzantine envoy to blame the Venetian envoy. In short, it was emphasized to the outside world that the Byzantine envoy died in the room of the Venetian envoy, and the deceased had conflicts with the Venetian envoy during his lifetime.

In addition, somehow, the news that the Venetian messenger collected a lot of gold and silver in Portugal was also spread. For a moment, everyone was extremely envious and wanted the person who collected gold and silver to be himself.

As these news came out from the Iberian Peninsula like a tornado, the entire Mediterranean countries were shocked and disbelief, because the Mediterranean countries knew that Byzantine and Venice were the relationship between the sovereign states and the vassal states. Even though the Republic of Venice is now strong and the Byzantine Empire is defeated, many people still psychologically believe that the Republic of Venice does not dare to go against Byzantium. At least in many trade disputes between the two countries, the Republic of Venice chose to retreat and compete with Byzantium, so everyone was skeptical about the authenticity of the news.

But soon, many other countries who were traveling with us came forward to confirm the reliability of the news. The whole hall was in an uproar. All eyes returned from the Iberian Peninsula to the Byzantine Empire. Everyone wanted to see how the Byzantine Empire would clean up this scene.

The news also came with the wind and soon reached Constantinople. After hearing this news, John VIII was extremely furious: "Tell me, what should I do now? The messenger I sent died so unknown. And you have seen it now. Not only the small Western European country Portugal dared to show off his power in the Mediterranean, but even Venice dared to be arrogant and dared to be presumptuous in front of us. This time, we will send troops to Venice no matter what."

It is very normal for John VIII to be so angry. It is fine if Portugal is not enough. Now Venice dares to slap in the face. After all, Venice has always been attached to the Byzantine Empire a long time ago. In other words, Venice is a dog he raised before, but he did not pay attention to it and let the dog break free from the reins. Now that the dog has grown up and become fierce, he actually bit his previous owner in turn. John VIII does not want to tolerate such humiliation.

The Byzantine nobles looked at me and I looked at you, and they all said nothing. These people also knew that this was extraordinary. According to the Byzantine thinking, Ottoman Turkey could attack Byzantium, the Portuguese could also seize the interests of Byzantines in the Mediterranean, or other countries could also get a share of the Byzantine ports, but the only thing was the Republic of Venice.

"We obey Your Majesty's arrangements, Venice is too arrogant." said a nobleman gritted his teeth.

"Yes, your Majesty, even the little Venice dares to be presumptuous. I think it's time to teach Venice some lessons and to show our muscles to other countries. Don't think that we can ignore our existence after we have developed slowly in recent years." I found that I was about to say the name Ottoman, the noble paused for a moment and quickly whipped a new word.

"Yes, Venice was our vassal state before, and I couldn't stand it."

This was what the nobles originally planned to tolerate, but their poor self-esteem was causing trouble. They all felt that Venice had trampled on their dignity and glory, so they supported John VIII together.

Soon John VIII issued an order, and Byzantine troops and ships quickly began to gather near Constantinople, preparing to enter the Mediterranean and invade Venice.

After learning that his messenger had killed the Byzantine messenger, the CEO of the Venetian Republic was shocked and angry. He immediately captured the messenger, and then quickly gathered the Venetian nobles and several Venetian merchants to discuss countermeasures.

Logically speaking, in this era when there was great importance to bloodline, it was impossible for some great merchants to sit with the nobles. However, since Venice broke away from the Byzantine rule, it established a republic. The country had no emperor, and the executive power was controlled by the elected highest executive officer, and the other powers belonged to the nobles.

Since Venetian merchants do business overseas, they brought a lot of wealth to the country, and these great merchants cooperated and supported each other with the nobles, these early bourgeois great merchants had a high status in the Republic of Venice. Whenever the country had any important meetings, they would be invited to attend and even expressed certain opinions.

"What do you think about this?" The consul looked at the nobles and the great merchants and spoke slowly: "I sent him to Portugal to put pressure on the Portuguese so that we could get back the ships we had taken away by the Portuguese. Now he can kill the Byzantine messengers."

"No, sir, I don't think he killed the Byzantine messenger. I had asked him just now. He told me in person that he had been resting that night and slept very hard. When he woke up the next morning, he found that the body of the Byzantine messenger had appeared in his room. It was obvious that someone was framed." An old man with a white beard twisted his snow-white beard, and his eyes were shining with a wise light.

"It is obvious that it was arranged by the Portuguese to use this to provoke conflicts between us and Byzantium."

While he was speaking, the messenger was brought over. At this moment, he was escorted by several people, and his whole mental state was very bad.

"Sir, Lord Consul, Lord Earls." After bowing slightly, he stood aside and lowered his head and stopped talking.

"Ono, do you know that you have caused great trouble for the country?" The executive stared at him with a serious expression: "Do you know that if you hadn't thought about your brother's life for the country, you would have died long ago."

Ono's mouth moved and said firmly: "Sir, although I had a conflict with him in Lisbon, I really didn't kill him. This is a crime."
Chapter completed!