"Agnes, don't be afraid of her, I will take care of everything."
Alice spoke so solemnly, but Agnes felt a little confused.
"I'm not worried about her. There's no conflict between me and her, and she has no reason to target me..."
"Hey, it would be great if everyone in this world acted according to reason!" Alice shook her head, "It's a pity that many people act completely irrationally. You have already experienced it once... I don't want to see it.
Until you experience it again.”
Agnes was speechless for a moment. After all, she had just been belittled and ostracized by the Duchess of Berry for no reason, and suffered unreasonable suppression.
"Princess Teresa is not that kind of person, I don't think she would do this..." She could only answer reluctantly.
"I hope so." Alice could only sigh. "Of course we are willing to respect her, but the premise is that she should also respect us. It would be best if everyone gets along well. If she intends to do harm to you, then I will never stand idly by.
...Although she is our mistress, Your Majesty is a smart person after all, and he will know right from wrong."
"I'm not sure about that." Agnes shrugged. "That guy is not a kind person."
Alice just laughed at her sister's rebuttal.
She didn't know why, but after returning from Greece, Agnes would always sneer at her whenever she mentioned that young man.
Although she doesn't actually respect Aiglon that much, she has to bow her head under the roof of others. Now that her family has taken refuge in the Bonaparte family, and she also expects him to lead her family to success in the future, she must show enough
Come with respect.
Even Agnes may have to be like her in the future.
However, she also knows that Agnes has not corrected her mentality yet, so she does not argue with her sister. Anyway, there is still time, and this problem will eventually be solved. After all, His Majesty really appreciates her and will definitely treat her as well.
Take a high look.
In this way, after careful discussion, the two sisters finally decided to embark on a journey to Switzerland to meet Agron. It was not until the evening that Agnes reluctantly said goodbye to her sister and Xia Lu.
After Agnes left, Alice told her husband and father-in-law that her sister was willing to go to Switzerland with her.
Although the Treville father and son had long expected that Agnes, the nurse's eager sister, would do this, they still couldn't help but rejoice when they saw their expectations come true.
Their conspiracy is being realized step by step, and everything is almost under control.
However, now is not the time to celebrate. They know that there are still many variables ahead and there are too many things to do.
First of all, the most important thing is to complete the tasks assigned by His Majesty.
The Marquis of Treville and Edgar both spent some time with Aigron, and had a deep understanding of the young man's character. He was humble on the outside but proud on the inside, and practical. Although as a young man with vanity, he also liked to be loved by others.
Fools surround you and flatter you, but if you only flatter someone, you are destined to be unable to gain his true trust.
Only those who can make achievements and help him solve problems will gain his respect.
This is also the foundation of the Treville family and what His Majesty wants to do. They can do anything, and they can do more and better than others, making His Majesty feel that no one is more useful than them, and ultimately cannot do without them.
In this plan, Agnes is the tool to ensure the "special status" of the Treville family. After all, according to the principles of palace politics, if there is no close Austrian aid in the palace, then it is impossible for any favorite to maintain it.
their status.
Various plans, like grand blueprints, were executed with great ambition. After many years of dormancy, the suppressed hatred in Marquis Treville's heart turned into an extremely hot desire for power. He knew that only power could quell his years of stagnation.
Despite the humiliation of being suppressed, only power can restore one's family and prevent it from falling into obscurity.
As long as this goal can be achieved, all costs are negligible.
Under the supervision of his father, Edgar used the kind of concentration that ignored everything else for a long time. Based on the sketchbook sent by Aigron, he made a second creation and expanded these pencil drawings into pictures.
In the paintings, he has brought his usual delicate and gorgeous brushwork to the extreme. Almost every painting is lifelike and has extraordinary charm. Of course, under his deliberate rendering, Joan of Arc in the paintings becomes more and more harmonious.
Agnes looks like a god.
On the one hand, they thought they had figured out His Majesty's psychology, so they wanted to stand out more and more in order to "cater to the holy will." But on the other hand, and more importantly, they themselves also wanted to hold Agnes up high.
Use this as your own god.
After Edgar completed the paintings, the next step was printing and distributing them.
It is obviously not possible to directly find a printing house to print in large quantities. These paintings are filled with the unique symbols and slogans of the empire. If an ordinary printer sees it and reports it, it will be immediately seized by the police detectives. Next
Everything is out of the question.
Therefore, I can only print it myself.
But this is not a big problem for the Marquis of Treville. Among the supporters of the Bonaparte family he has recruited, there are people who know printing technology. He only needs to find a secret in the countryside outside Paris.
You can purchase equipment locally and gather the required labor to start work.
There is no doubt that this requires a large amount of money, and the Marquis of Treville cannot come up with it himself, so he asked the Count of Monte Cristo for a sum of money, and Edmond Dantès and Mr. Beauvin advanced the money.
The funds are used to do this.
Of course, with the printing technology of this era, printing these albums requires engraving, which requires a lot of time. In order to print in large quantities, it is necessary to save costs on materials, and it is very easy to distort the paintings. In order to control the quality, he had to
Take the time to supervise the process personally so that the printing quality can be controlled within an acceptable range.
For Edgar, these things were all his father's business, and he could put them aside, because now it was time for him to leave for Switzerland to see His Majesty.
While he was hard at work with his paintbrush, Alice was already busy preparing for the trip, so they could make the trip as soon as he was free.
After learning that her sister and brother-in-law were about to leave, Agnes naturally ran to her father to apply.
Following her usual habit, she knocked on the door of her father's study in a carefree manner.
"dad!"
"Agnes? Come in!" Hearing his daughter's voice, Duke Nordrian put down the documents in his hand and allowed his daughter to enter.
Agnes opened the door and walked to her father.
She noticed that her father's face was not particularly good-looking, as if he was worried about something. Just when she wanted to ask, her father spoke first.
"What's the matter, Agnes?" the Duke asked in his characteristic thin voice.
"Dad, I haven't been in a good mood lately. I want to go on a trip to relax and come back after a while." Agnes put aside her doubts and told her the reason for her visit.
"Relax?" The Duke was a little surprised, but considering that his daughter had been having a hard time recently, he nodded, "Approximately how long will it take."
"I can't say for sure...about a month." Agnes replied casually.
"One month?! So long?" The Duke was shocked, and then looked at his daughter suspiciously, "Agnes, are you trying to do something weird again?"
"What do you mean by asking?" Agnes pretended to be stupid.
"What do you mean?" The Duke's eyes widened and he glared at his daughter, "It means bringing the Count of Monte Cristo to me! Even if he ran away without a trace, there was no news after a few months.
Just go home! You have caused me so much trouble, do you still want to ask me what I mean?"
Agnes knew that she was in the wrong, so she turned her head and did not dare to look at her father again.
"Dad~ I was wrong before, please forgive me!" In order to act coquettishly with her father, she deliberately made her voice softer than usual, "This time I really just want to relax...
"
Normally, when she acted like this, the Duke, who felt sorry for his young daughter, would immediately soften, but this time, he still had a straight face and asked his daughter, "You won't have anything to do with the Bonaparte family this time, will you?"
Agnes felt even more embarrassed when her father told her, but on the surface she still acted confidently.
"How could it be!" Agnes immediately shook her head, "You know, I have no interest in these things at all. Before... before, I only helped because I was entrusted by my sister, so I had no choice but to help..."
"Well, Alice!" As soon as he heard his youngest daughter mentioning his eldest daughter, veins popped out on the Duke's forehead. "It's not just that she was deceived herself, she also dragged you into the trap. I thought she was very smart, but she proved it
She is a fool. She has not only harmed herself but also our whole family... Listen, Agnes, don’t have anything to do with her anymore. She is now the person who rebelled against General Treville and has nothing to do with us.
!No matter what she asks you, you should refuse it for our own sake, otherwise we will all suffer!"
Seeing her father cursing her sister so viciously, Agnes tried to deal with it, but it was unbearable. So she raised her head and defended her sister forcefully. "How can you say that? Do you want your most beloved daughter?
, turning into a ruthless and unjust person, not even paying attention to one's closest relatives, indifferent? Dad, I can't do it... I love my sister, and she loves me too, no matter what stands between us
Whatever my position is, this cannot be changed. If my sister suffers a disaster in the future, I am willing to do my best to protect her.
But please don’t be jealous, because I treat you and my mother the same way. You gave me life and raised me and took care of me in the most difficult moments. I am also willing to protect you with my life. I am so passionate about my sister, so passionate about my sister.
How much I respect you, you are also one of the reasons why I live in this world! So I beg you, dad, don’t speak ill of my sister in front of me. You are tearing my heart apart.
My sister is in pain and you are in pain as well. If you let me destroy my kindness to my sister, wouldn’t that be retribution on you? Do you really want to see a ruthless and unjust me?"
Being retorted like this by his daughter, the Duke was furious for a moment, but seeing his daughter's true feelings revealed, he couldn't be angry anymore.
Just because he gets along with his daughter day and night, he knows that her daughter's words come from the bottom of her heart, so how can he bear to scold her?
"Hey, Agnes, you are such a stupid child." After a long time, he sighed, "These days, no one who cares about humanity can live long. Only ruthless people can live freely. It's not you who is wrong, it's
this era."
Then, he spread his hands and said, "Forget it, just do whatever you want. I can't stop you anyway, so I won't ask any more questions. Just don't let the outside world know."
"Thank you!" Seeing her father finally give in, Agnes breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, she couldn't help but comfort her father, "Dad, actually you don't have to be so uncomfortable. Think about it, although I am not interested in politics, even I can see that although the country is still barely peaceful, it is already peaceful.
There are signs of unrest, and God knows what will happen next... Since my sister has already sided with the Bonaparte family, we cannot change this, but correspondingly, in some cases, this is also a good thing, right?
? If...I mean if, the Bonaparte family suddenly gains power in the future, maybe my sister can help us too!"
Agnes's rhetoric of hedging her bets was copied from Edgar's usual words. Although she didn't really think so, she might as well use it to advise her father at this time.
"Childish." However, the Duke did not agree, and curled his lips disdainfully. "Agnes, we have received so much favor from the king, how can it be said that betrayal can be betrayed? Who will believe our sincerity?
And who is willing to give the same thing to buy us?
Even if we don’t mention repaying gratitude, we and the supporters of the Bonaparte family have already accumulated too much hatred and grudges. If they come back, just to settle the grudges in the years after 1815, we don’t know how much bloodshed they will cause.
!Can your sister resolve this kind of hatred with just a few words? It would be great if she could protect herself! I think if such a day comes, for the sake of her own home and her own children, she will probably have to be busy with it.
It’s too late for us to draw a clear line, so how can we be saved?”
Upon hearing her father's concerns, Agnes subconsciously refuted him.
"This shouldn't be the case... I don't think Duke Lechstadt is that entangled in historical hatred, and he has a good relationship with his sister. As long as she intercedes, everything will be easy to discuss... Yeah
!”
She covered her mouth.
She realized that she was not supposed to "understand" Duke Lechstadt in theory.
"Huh?" The Duke immediately glared at his daughter with wide eyes. "Agnes, you really... please explain it clearly to me!"