Douglas, Justin and Earl Roderick looked at each other in shock, and remained silent for a long time, but could not reply.
Because the Stray family's role in the broken line of defense is irreplaceable.
Although the Stray family has an oath not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Byron Alliance without authorization.
But just listen and don’t take it seriously.
If Archduke Cedric is really angry, every family will have to think about it.
After all, the Byron Alliance is rooted in the broken line of defense.
With the broken line of defense still there, there is still a possibility for the Byron Alliance to continue.
If the broken line of defense is lost, the Byron Alliance will fall apart.
Earl Douglas was also a human being and smoothed things over: "The Marquis misunderstood us. When did we say we were going to attack Her Royal Highness the Princess? We just said that some of the ruling concepts of the royal capital must be changed. Today we are not here to discuss this. The main thing is
I want to ask you what you think about the marriage between Princess Sophia and Earl Sean, and what kind of attitude should we adopt?"
Marquis Menrod asked stiffly: "What do we think, does it matter? As long as Her Royal Highness the Princess agrees, can we still stop this matter?"
Can we still have a pleasant discussion?
Earl Douglas roared in his heart and regretted inviting Marquis Menrod to such a party.
He has abilities, but his temperament is a little too straightforward, and he is the typical type who can chat to death. If it weren't for their newly formed small group, which needed the intimidation and support of force, no one would have formed an alliance with him.
Earl Roderick also said with an unhappy expression: "According to what the Marquis means, we don't have to do anything and just watch helplessly? If that's the case, what's the point of sitting here? We might as well go back to our respective territories.
Continue to watch them show their dominance. I used to hear that Marquis Menrod was extremely brave, but now it seems that those are all stories from his youth."
There was clearly a sense of cynicism at the end.
Marquis Menrod had no reaction to this and said: "We are sitting here to seek better development, not to seek revenge from you. Princess Sophia has resigned from the position of regent as agreed. As long as she continues
After handing over the royal power as scheduled, you don’t care who she marries and what she does?
If this offends her and His Royal Highness the Prince ascends the throne again, wouldn't it be worth the loss? Don't regard the other party's tolerance as cowardice. Some of your small actions in private have crossed the line. Apart from disgusting or even irritating the other party, they have nothing to do with it.
Practical meaning.”
The small conference room fell into silence again.
Although the Marquis of Monrod did not name anyone, they all knew who he was referring to.
Now think about it calmly, the recent actions of the royalists under their leadership are indeed mixed with too many personal emotions.
Because many of them have the same experience.
In the past ten years, it was really miserable to be suppressed by Princess Sophia.
Now that I have a chance to turn over, I naturally vent my past dissatisfaction like crazy.
Looking back, the Princess Faction has given in at every turn, appearing to put the overall situation first.
Over time, the two sides formed a sharp contrast.
If they continue in this pattern, it will only make more and more people sympathize with Princess Sophia's unfortunate experience.
After all, Princess Sophia's reputation has been extremely polarizing during her reign over the past ten years.
Those who hate, reject, and want her to step down immediately are mostly the lords and nobles who hold real power, including most of the royal family branches, as well as some devout believers of the Holy Ether Church.
But in the minds of ordinary citizens, Princess Sophia is definitely one of the rare wise masters in the history of the royal family. They regard her as the jewel of the royal family, and everyone will give her a thumbs up when they mention her.
The reason for this situation is naturally related to the main policies implemented by Princess Sophia during her regency.
Princess Sophia believes that the Lancelot royal family is declining day by day. In addition to the growing power of the Holy Ether Church, which has shared too many interests that originally belonged to the royal family, it is also because over the years, there have been too many nobles, big and small, derived from the royal family.
It is also the main culprit in diluting the power of the royal family.
Therefore, taking action against the Holy Ether Church is only the first step. The second step is to try to centralize power and gather all the military and financial power in the hands of the nobles and nobles under the name of the royal family.
When the Saint Ether Holy See was attacked, although some nobles and nobles who colluded with the Holy See were not happy.
But that is only a small part, and most nobles and nobles still actively support it.
After all, many people have also suffered from the annexation of land by the Holy See. However, in the past, they were weak and dared not speak out. With the regent princess taking the lead, they naturally took the opportunity to take back the occupied land.
When the Lords and nobles were attacked, they were outraged by the public, and were boycotted. In the end, nothing was done, and they only conducted experiments in their own territories.
This also caused many nobles and nobles in the princess fiefdom to change from real nobles to nominal nobles. Although Princess Sophia had given a relatively fair compensation policy, the wealth in their hands was not necessarily much less, but don't think about it.
They say Princess Sophia is half good.
After all, the land and army that their family valued most were all taken away.
Their slander further worsened Princess Sophia's reputation among the lords and nobles.
This can be seen from the serious power gap during Princess Sophia's reign. Many important positions were vacant.
The people Princess Sophia can rely on are all people brought over from her maternal side, the Strachey family.
Earl Douglas said extremely sincerely: "The Marquis is right. Some of what we are doing now has indeed crossed the line. Apart from venting our dissatisfaction, it does not have much meaning. I will send someone to make adjustments afterwards to make the people below restrain themselves.
, it’s just that Princess Sophia’s marriage is not as inconsequential as you said, it still involves the future.
The Yongye Army has risen rapidly. In just ten years since its establishment, it has nearly 100,000 troops, competing with the Kingsley family.
In recent years, our royal capital has been amassing money like crazy. How stupid is it for those brainless women to exchange a town's annual income for a flashy dress?
No one knows what kind of strength the Yongye Army leader has now.
In the past, we could exclude them on the grounds that they were aliens.
Once he marries Her Royal Highness, the door to the entire alliance will be completely opened for her.
When the time comes, there will be two military leaders behind Her Royal Highness, do you still think this matter is really irrelevant?"
The Strachey family, which guards the Broken Vein Defense Line, possesses military strength that sweeps the world.
In the past, the Byron Alliance's method of checking and balancing them was through material supply.
As long as this is firmly in hand, the hundreds of thousands of troops on the Duanmai Defense Line will not dare to act rashly.
But since last year, the Stray family has linked up with the leader of the Yongye Army, and has started a booming border trade.
The Strachey family's finances suddenly improved several times. In a short period of time, they no longer had to look at the faces of Lord Byron and the nobles of the Alliance.
This is not the most important, after all, this border trade has now been forcibly interrupted by the Theodin Empire.
The most important thing is that Princess Sophia is the thread that connects the Strachey family to the leader of the Evernight Army.
The Stray family has soldiers.
Princess Sophia has food.
The Yongye Army has money.
What kind of terrifying monster will they be when they join forces?
Not to mention that they are just a group of royalists standing behind Prince Laurie, even those grand ducal families have to think carefully.
Once Princess Sophia's marriage to Lord Sean, the leader of the Evernight Army, was successful, her power not only did not weaken due to her resignation as regent of the Lancelot royal family, but actually became stronger.
Justin, Roderick and Monroe had more or less conjectures in this regard, but they were not as thorough as Earl Douglas, and the clouds on their faces could not be cleared away at this moment.
Too much pressure.
"The question is, can we stop this matter?" Marquis Monroe said coldly, "The other party has even taken into account the opinions of the lower-level citizens. All parties must be fully prepared.
If we show up rashly, we will only become the target of the other party."
"What does the Marquis mean?" Earl Roderick asked knowingly. In fact, he already had a decision in his mind and just wanted to use the other person's mouth to express it.
Marquis Menrod obviously did not have so many calculations, and answered straightforwardly: "Doing nothing is the best way. The impact of this matter is so great, and we will not be the most uncomfortable ones at that time. After all, His Royal Highness the Prince and the Princess
His Highness's feelings are obvious to all. As long as we don't interfere and destroy them, they should be able to last for a long time. As for the future, we can only wait until later."
This is an out-and-out compromise tactic.
It was just whitewashed with high-sounding reasons.
"At present, this is all we can do. Our priority is to ensure the smooth transfer of power and help His Royal Highness stabilize the regime." Earl Justin was the first to express his position.
"At times like this, it's really not easy to create extraneous problems." Earl Douglas finally made the decision, "Everyone should control their own people and stop over-pressing Her Royal Highness. After all, Her Royal Highness has made contributions to the royal family and has a deep relationship with Her Highness.
, we can’t make it difficult for His Highness.”
"That's exactly what it should be." Roderick nodded repeatedly.
The unique shamelessness of nobles was vividly displayed in this small meeting.
At the beginning, they were still filled with righteous indignation and wanted to suppress Princess Sophilia and the leader of the Evernight Army who were closely related to her after the new king came to the throne.
But when it is discovered that the strengths of the two sides are not proportional, angering the other party will bring about catastrophic consequences for oneself.
After a sudden change, he was ready to play the emotional card with Princess Sophia to maintain the relationship between the two parties. He completely forgot about his disgusting face before. When they come close to each other, it is still unknown whether Princess Sophia is willing to pay attention to them.
!
The biggest obstacle to the marriage between Princess Sophia and Sean is the old forces of the Lancelot royal family, led by the royalists, when they remain silent on this matter.
The whole thing went smoothly beyond imagination, and Sean officially proposed to Princess Sophia at a banquet arranged in advance.
"My beautiful Princess Sophia, I would like to marry you and be my wife. I would like to promise you that from today on, no matter good times or bad times, rich or poor, in health or sickness, I will always love you.
, I will cherish you until eternity, and I promise that I will protect and accompany you until death, are you willing?" Sean knelt down on one knee and presented the huge diamond ring to Princess Sophia.
This should be an extremely vulgar way of proposing. Even the proposal words have a bit of plagiarism.
Sean really wanted to do something shocking, but his emotional intelligence in this area was really lacking. After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with a better idea. He could only do what he knew best and the most cliche.
Already.
But whether it is cliché or not depends on the specific context.
If it were placed in Sean's previous life, this method would be absolutely vulgar. It has been used badly in TV series, movies, and in reality.
But in the Byron League, it was a bit shocking. Not to mention the guests, even Princess Sophia, who knew about it in advance, was a bit shocked.
After all, this is a male-dominated society. Although the status of women is somewhat loosened, the overall status is not that high. If Princess Sophia hadn't caught up with the Lancelot royal family in a special period and had to step forward,
In the eyes of the royal family, she is just a marriage tool, just like most women from noble families.
According to the normal procedure, the two people held hands at this banquet to officially announce their relationship, and then agreed on a time to officially get engaged.
The proposal in front of him was purely a drama created by Sean himself.
After a brief silence, the entire living room was filled with a buzz of discussion.
"What is he doing?"
"I should be proposing to Her Royal Highness the Princess."
"Proposal? Proposing in this way? What do they think this is? This is a big matter that affects two families. How can it be such a child's play?"
"This may or may not be a unique custom of the Andis people."
"Barbaric and vulgar, only uncivilized barbarians would use this method."
"Absurd, it is too absurd. This kind of situation should only exist in story books. It is too random, too random. This is corrupting our customs. If it is spread,
Wouldn’t it allow countless ignorant boys to mess around? Destroy our family tradition and rules!"
Most of the people who are strongly opposed to this method are traditional and conservative men. In their eyes, this is a self-deprecating thing, even if the other party is a princess.
"It's so romantic. It's just like the situation in the biography. The noble knight proposes to the beautiful princess. I didn't expect to be able to witness this scene with my own eyes."
"What a beautiful ring. What is it made of? It seems to be glowing. Look, do you think the light looks like a shield? It's really amazing. Why have I never seen such a ring before? Could it be?
Yongyejunling’s newly launched product?”
"If someone does this to me, I will agree without hesitation."
"Promise, promise quickly, what are you waiting for, Your Highness?"
The ladies and ladies of the noble family were all fascinated and excited, wishing they could exchange their bodies for him.
Even if Sophia Liya is not a princess, she will become the most dazzling presence in the audience at this moment. This is what many women dream of. Many noble ladies secretly make up their minds at this moment. If their future groom does not do this to them, they will never do it.
Will nod and agree to marry him.
"I don't agree. What qualifications does a barbarian have to marry our respected princess... What do you want to do? Well..."
Although these banquets are carefully arranged, there is still no way to completely prevent stupid people from causing trouble.
However, before the indignant young nobleman could finish his speech, he was held up and thrown out by two guards dressed as servants.
Neither Sean nor Sophia Liya would be merciful to this kind of person. They had already deployed their manpower. Is it possible that they would really let something like challenging Sean face to face happen?
Their marriage was left to a group of unrelated people to dictate.
"I do." I don't know whether Princess Sophia was shocked by Sean's hand, or she was enjoying the moment. She answered a little belatedly and stretched out her beautiful hand to Sean.
The happy smile that could not be concealed on her beautiful face showed that she was enjoying the sudden surprise of this moment.
After Sean put the tailor-made diamond ring on her hand, she also took off the ring on her middle finger and put it on Sean's little finger as a token of engagement.
At this point, the relationship between Sean and Princess Sophia has been officially confirmed.
Sean is thirty years old this year, and Princess Sophia is thirty-three years old.