Ever since the news that Charlie was detained in "Nightsong Manor" reached the palace, the depressing atmosphere was like the gathering clouds in the sky before a summer rainstorm. It was hot and dull, making people want to yell and dance desperately.
.But the servants here and some of the royal family members living here can only wait silently, endure, wait for the huge thunder to resound throughout the world, and wait for the final judgment. Only in this way can they usher in short-term relaxation.
This is an atmosphere that has not existed since the news of Prince Edsac's suicide.
At that time, the New Year was approaching, and as the royal family, they were not allowed to appear in public with sadness and tears, which would lose the dignity of the royal family.
Of course, those who have a better relationship with His Highness the Prince have to endure their grief, but for others, that naturally doesn't matter.
But now, another prince has a problem.
Without the New Year as a shield, the pervasive depressive atmosphere can no longer be concealed.
After finishing today's training course, Princess Delina went to the residence of her mother, Queen Renate, holding her notes.
As a princess of the Augustus family, she had already received complete education in relevant etiquette training when she was young. But now that she is going to marry far away to Marsi and into another royal family, she naturally has to learn from the Gonzalez family.
some etiquette rules.
Theoretically, after these etiquette and rules are officially announced, the Kingdom of Marsi will send relevant personnel to contact them, but out of the dignity of the Augustus family, she must undergo relevant training in advance.
"What's the matter, Delina, do you have any questions about Ma Xi's etiquette?"
Queen Renate sat on the sofa with complicated patterns and waved to her daughter. She had a calm expression on her face and a smile on her lips, as if the rainstorm had passed and a rainbow had appeared.
This expression was all too familiar to Delina. When the news of Edsac came and she and her sister Caroline went to find her mother, she had this look on her mother's face.
"No, although Ma Xi's etiquette was inherited from Fenebaud, it was also influenced by Loen, so it's not difficult for me."
"That's good." Queen Renate looked at her daughter who was hesitant to speak. Her dark green eyes showed relief, and she motioned her maid to leave with her eyes.
After seeing her mother's maid leave, Delina put the notes in her hand on the coffee table, her eyes turned red and she came to Queen Renate and hugged her:
"Mother, Charlie..."
Queen Renate didn't speak, she just stroked Delina's back and slowly closed her eyes, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes no longer hidden.
As a mother, how could she not have any feelings for her son, but her status as Queen of Loen did not allow her to express it directly. Her husband, George III, would not allow her to plead for mercy either.
The Augustus family's belief in the Storm Lord may be questionable, but their attitude towards women is no different from that of true Storm believers, who only need to obey.
"Give up, everything will be decided by your father. You just need to prepare for your wedding with peace of mind. Your father said that this will be a major event for Augustus and Roen..." Queen Renate squeezed out a look on her face.
Smile, but the bitterness in it seems to overflow.
Delina's body trembled, she sat up and asked in disbelief:
"Father wants to use his marriage with Ma Xi to bring Charlie..."
A prince committed suicide two years ago. Although the news was released that he died of an illness due to the heavy smog, it has only been two months since another prince had problems, which will definitely arouse a lot of speculation.
Therefore, in order to avoid this kind of thing from happening, it is the best choice to use a happy event to outweigh the corresponding negative impact.
For Luen and Augustus, the latest news that can play such a role is the news that Princess Delina is about to get married.
Seeing her daughter's tearful eyes, Queen Renate also felt sore at the corners of her eyes, hugged her and said:
"I'm not sure, but I heard that the cabinet and the nobles are very tight. If your father doesn't give in, the parliament in early March will not be convened on time, and everything will be delayed..."
"Why is this happening?" Delina's voice, lying in Queen Renate's arms, was a little dull. She raised her head and looked at her mother, "Is it related to the defeat in the war at Balam last year?"
Although she could not leave Thordrak Palace during this period, she also had no way to obtain information from the outside world. She could only restore the truth of the matter step by step from the information obtained before.
As a prince, Charlie's goal is naturally to become the crown prince, and if he wants to become the crown prince, he must let the eldest prince Winton out.
After last year's defeat in the war between Balam Coast and Fusac, Govington has been silent for a long time, and it has not yet recovered from the blow. And considering that the other person involved in the accident with Charlie is Auston of the Levitt family, it can probably be solved
I guessed something.
Seeing her mother Renate's evasive gaze, Delina knew that what she had deduced was probably the truth of the matter.
"...but how could Charlie...how could he be so..."
He colluded with the enemy, resulting in the defeat of the war, just to win the throne. Once this matter was known to the outside world, not to mention Prince Charles, even Augustus would not be able to bear such a price.
The overwhelming demonstrations will put the royal family into a complete deadlock, and this time it will not be solved by just giving up part of the power to the nobles and parliament like before!
As a princess, Delina had also heard that there were some people in Loen who wanted to completely abolish the royal family like Inste and return all power to the hands of the parliament.
But what she didn't know was that for George III, if he hadn't been afraid of causing unrest and making the nobles and parliament suspicious, Charlie would have "committed suicide" after being escorted to Backlund for interrogation in Allston.
All the current reform measures in Loen are implemented by George III and the royal family, in order to complete the "Black Emperor"'s becoming a god ceremony. Before the ceremony is completed, everything must make way for this matter.
The nobility and parliament united to stop the convening of parliament, shut down the cabinet, and temporarily threaten the reform, which happened to hold the lifeline of George III and the Augustus family. Under this situation, every day that Charles existed would affect the transformation of the gods.
plan.
What's even more uncomfortable is that as Charlie's father, George III must also show that he values his son. After all, this is different from Edsac. There is a certain room for detours regarding Charlie's final life and death. It cannot be dealt with rashly.
Otherwise, the three major churches may really have doubts about the royal family.
Once March arrives, and when George III feels that he has done his best in this matter, he can be "forced" to let Charles face the fate of "suicide".
…
Prime Minister's Official Residence, No. 9 Hope Street, West District.
Agushed Nigen was sitting behind a large table with several stacks of official documents in front of him. He was holding a pen in his hand and was reviewing the official documents while listening to the discussion.
In the spacious office were not the ministers of the cabinet, but several nobles.
Duke Philip Negan, Earl Hall, Earl Aldrich Levitt, Earl Wolfe, in addition to these four great nobles, there are also Viscount Derrian Rawls Adrian, and the eldest son of Earl Hall,
Lord Hibbert Hall.
Among them, Earl Wolfe took the initiative to find Philip and Agushed after sensing something was wrong, and joined this group without paying much price. After all, in addition to allowing the royal family and the king to further shrink their power, this group also has certain internal
The conflict is the dispute between the New Party and the Conservative Party.
Earl Hall did not show any opinion on this. He just turned around and called his eldest son to participate in the meeting, which made Hibbert Hall, who had been worried about whether he could inherit the family property and title, excited for several days.
As for Rawls, as Philip's think tank, he has naturally followed him to participate in the meeting. It's just that now he is Edward Laito with the face of Rawls Adrian, and the dominant consciousness is also Rawls.
However, this kind of discussion has happened too many times, and even these nobles are a little tired of it, and they always get involved in other topics, such as the current discussion of the ongoing final interviews of government employees.
The speaker was Hibbert, who had a handsome face and brilliant blond hair. He held his head like a classical sculpture and was extremely confident:
"Although government employees have effectively solved the problem of low work efficiency for a period of time after the general election, for more outstanding talents, they are more willing to participate in elections and become city councilors and county councilors. In their view,
Most government employees are auxiliary personnel and do not have the right to make independent decisions, which is inconsistent with their status.
This can be seen from the first two rounds of examinations and ongoing interviews. Most participants often have problems with their own positioning, thinking that they will become decision-makers, ignoring our original intention of selecting government employees.
And when more and more people realize this problem, they are likely to give up taking the exam, and the government employees eventually selected may not meet the needs of the cabinet."
When he expressed his opinions, he rarely paid attention to other people's eyes, but only focused on Philip.
As the eldest son of Earl Hall, Philip is the only one who can equal him in terms of status. However, in the past contests, in addition to being limited by the opponent's extraordinary status, there was also one shortcoming, that is, he was not the only Earl of Hall.
The son, the heir of the Hall family has not yet received a final decision.
But after he was confirmed as the heir, Philip had already inherited the title of duke.
He himself was not qualified to participate in a meeting like this. Even if he did, he would most likely only be able to use a pair of ears. Only for such small talk could he use his mouth.
After all, Philip, who inherited the title, matched his father, Earl Hall, in terms of identity.
His gaze and words did not receive a response from Philip. Count Wolfe, who was sitting diagonally across from him, touched his mustache, and a smile bloomed at the corners of his mouth and the wrinkles on his face:
"This is in line with the views of the education committee that participated in the assessment and interview. They do not have a very high evaluation of those who take the exam. They believe that they still need a certain period of training before they can enter the cabinet and help out as auxiliary personnel."
His words seemed to acknowledge that Hibbert's view was correct, causing a humble smile to appear on the other person's lips. But with the next sentence, the smile disappeared.
"However, looking at it this way, there is no need for government employees to show up. We should have voted against it at that time."
Earl Hall did not criticize Hibbert because of Earl Wolfe. He leaned back in his chair:
"The negative impact of losing the war is too great. The cabinet also needs to shift the focus of voters, otherwise..."
He shook his head and said no more.
In fact, those who took the initiative to promote the recruitment of government employees for the first time were a little disappointed. As Hibbert said, there were too few talents needed, and those who took the exam were often those who were better eloquent than members of Congress.
Guys, what they want are nails and screws.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu is available for Android and Apple.]
With black hair and blue eyes, but a severely receding hairline and a droopy mouth, Earl Levitt pushed the topic back to the government employee exam. Although the failure of the war was Charlie's fault, who allowed his brother to participate?
"Perhaps we should improve the treatment of government employees and give up some positions?"
This made Rawls, who was sitting behind Philip, frown slightly, which was just right for Earl Hall, Hibbert, and Earl Wolfe opposite to catch.
"Does Viscount Derian have any ideas?"
Count Wolfe is still relatively close to Rawls.
"In fact, I think government employees will have a great influence on the cabinet, parliament and even the entire Loon to a certain extent in the future."
"oh?"
His words aroused several curious glances, including Prime Minister Agushed who was reviewing official documents. After all, according to Rawls, the first person to be impacted was the cabinet.
"What's the reason?" Hibbert stared at Rawls, causing Earl Hall beside him to frown.
"As you just said, Lord Hibbert, government employees are often responsible for auxiliary tasks, such as sending and receiving documents, organizing information, and compiling plans according to the ideas of cabinet ministers. They do not have any decision-making ability..."
Rawls spread his hands, "like nails and screws on a machine."
"But once the machine adapts to nails and screws, it will be very difficult to pull out the nails. Maybe the whole machine will collapse completely."
Hibbert still didn't notice his father's displeasure just now, and continued:
"Then replace a new batch of nails and screws."
"But nails and screws are both made in the same factory."
Before Hibbert understood the meaning of this sentence, Rawls continued:
"After government employees are recruited, they are assigned to a position that will not change due to the replacement of cabinet members or the coming of a political party. This means that these people have a full understanding of their power and can do more than they can.
of many things.
We are discussing here now, and the Prime Minister also has to review official documents, which proves that the work of the cabinet is quite heavy. In fact, government employees fill the duties of secretaries. They can give you dozens of piles of less important official documents, and wait until you
When it becomes unbearable, part of the power will be handed over to auxiliary personnel like them."