"I roughly understand the story...but what I want to ask about is actually the part after that."
Dmitri leaned forward slightly and asked Annan: "How did you get Her Highness Elizabeth to give up participating in the king's election? The news I heard here is that she finally gave up the candidacy voluntarily..."
The previous state visit of Archduke Annan to the Kingdom of Noah has completely ended.
Shortly after Annan and his party safely returned to the Principality of Winter.
Elizabeth, the eldest princess of the Kingdom of Noah, suddenly announced that she was unable to succeed the king due to physical discomfort, inability to marry and have children, etc. Considering the continuation of the Kingdom of Noah, she will officially withdraw from the king's election and spend the rest of her life serving in the field of reemployment of retired soldiers.
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And now that Prince Philip has been assassinated.
Kafni and Elizabeth are already the last two heirs of Noah's kingdom - no matter who wins the final victory, Noah's next generation ruler will be a queen.
The difference is that one of the two queens is fourteen years old, and the other is in her forties...
——Forty-nine years old and I don’t know how many months, so I can be considered over forty years old. This is very reasonable.
Generally speaking, people tend to gravitate towards younger rulers. This often means opportunities... because during the king selection stage, rulers will always gradually accumulate a team of people under them.
They need to promise how much glory and wealth they can give to anyone after they ascend the throne.
Otherwise, how could so many talents come from and be able to be used by him?
It is indeed very important to take sides. But in most cases, there will not be the kind of "no promises and someone will come to vote", which can defeat a large number of wise kings in the same period.
——If it is true, then the current king will be uneasy.
This also leads to a strange situation.
That is, the older the heir is and the more powerful he is, the less benefits he can give out. The more people who defect to him later, the more they want to "stand in line" and not be liquidated...
In other words, the earlier the time for seeking refuge with the heir is, the more likely it is that he is tempted by interests, and the further later the time is, the more he is threatened by his "possible success".
For a young successor with a rich background like Kafeni, when she suddenly won, she had made almost no promises to others - which meant a lot of ownerless benefits.
As long as you can win the favor of the little queen, you can easily overcome the barriers that have been difficult to climb for decades. And because of the protection of the Silver Lord Church, it is impossible for anyone to turn against her and force Kaifni to give up some of her rights.
The most important thing is that she has no offspring yet - and the only heir who can compete for the throne is the eldest princess who gave up voluntarily. If they want to go against Kafni, they can only go to the eldest princess.
but……
"It may be a little different from what you know."
Annan shook his head, placed the symbol of power that had become a "two-color scepter" on the edge of the table, and leaned back slightly.
He hugged the hot brown sugar cookie that Zoya made for him with both hands, took a bite, turned to explain to Dmitri: "Elizabeth did not 'voluntarily withdraw from the election of the king', but completely
The ultimate loser.”
"loser?"
"Yes, the Crow Family has found and reported to her the specific location of Nicholas II, the murderer of Prince Philip. He is planning to massacre a village to fill his own experimental materials."
Annan took a breath and his expression became serious: "Therefore, Old Crow personally reported this matter to Princess Elizabeth. I hope she can report it to the Silver Lord Church and apply to Silver Lord to capture the target."
"……Then what?"
Dmitri felt that Count Geraint's response method was quite good.
I'm even very envious - why don't I have such a capable and decisive leader of the intelligence agency...
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Oh, there used to be some. Then they defected.
"Then she rejected the matter and immediately placed Count Geraint under house arrest. At the same time, she excluded the army and prepared to handle the matter personally."
Annan said slowly.
He could actually understand Princess Elizabeth's strategy.
From her standpoint, this is actually a plan that achieves multiple goals with one stone.
In Elizabeth's view, the Silver Lord Church's erosion of Noah's royal power has been too serious. The church originally controlled the economic lifeline of the kingdom, and this generation of popes began to engage in large-scale charity and control the newspaper industry... This means that the bottom class
I also began to be shaken by it.
As an orthodox heir to the royal power, she must find a way to regain the power that was quietly taken away by the church for the royal family of Noah.
If Philip is assassinated and the church finally resolves the matter - then the church's prestige will be further enhanced. The sense of security being protected by the church, coupled with the economic prosperity of the foreign trade agreement with the Principality of Winter, may lead to a large number of
Retirement of active soldiers.
In the Kingdom of Noah, joining the army was also a "contract" and a "transaction."
When they retire from the army, they will either receive a large amount of retirement pay or a stable job. This was the promise when the military was first recruited.
But the problem is... Noah's current economic situation no longer allows them to do this.
And if the military can handle this matter well, then it can at least postpone the wave of veterans for a few years. In this way, Noah's economy will not suddenly collapse in the next few years... As long as she establishes a sea trading company that can accommodate veterans,
It can gradually stabilize Noah's financial problems.
"So Elizabeth chose to let the army handle the matter."
Annan said slowly: "If she wants to send out the army, she must be a blood-related avenger to have the minimum position. We all know the relationship between Elizabeth and Philip, but ordinary people do not understand..."
But there is another problem here.
She is not a queen, just the eldest princess.
Can sending out large-scale troops to "avenge one's brother" be regarded as a "willful act"?
Although this is still for Noah's good, the people definitely don't think so. Their eyes cannot see such a long future.
"So, she needs righteousness. That is, revenge for that unknown little village.
"For ordinary people, the timeline of events is actually this: The eldest princess received intelligence that an extremely evil incident occurred in Nata County where a bandit gang massacred a village - of course we know that there were no bandits, and there were no bandits.
It has nothing to do with Nata County. But for the Noah people who don’t understand extraordinary beings, this excuse is more reasonable.
"After that, the eldest princess immediately sent regular troops to encircle and suppress the bandit gang in Nata County. Finally, it was discovered that Philip's assassin was the mastermind behind it and defined it as a 'rebel army'.
"So she suppressed the church's opportunities to play, delayed the further wave of unemployment caused by the wave of veterans, and was able to have enough control over the military to start the ocean trading company she had been looking forward to for a long time. She even nominally worked for
Philip took revenge and used his army to show off his muscles so that the small nobles and merchants in various places would not jump so much...
"She also has an excuse to eradicate Nata County, which has accumulated a large number of fugitives and has various dark connections with the royal capital's nobles. No matter what the connections are, who's behind them, as long as they are eliminated on the physical level -
-Killed her cleanly, and their backstage would definitely not attack her because of 'the eldest princess annihilated the rebels'.
"And to complete this scene, all that is needed is for 'innocent people from Nata County' to identify certain forces as 'rebels'... In order to survive and prosper, such people can do whatever they want in Nata County.
Grab a bunch of them."
Annan looked at the suddenly enlightened Dmitri and sighed helplessly: "It's time for you to brush up on your political knowledge, Dmitri."
"Hi, isn't it you..."
Dmitri hesitated and changed the subject instantly: "Then what? How did she fail?"
"Because I had already killed Nicholas II before the army arrived at Nata County."
Annan said lightly: "I have evidence on hand. Then Kafni also has evidence - the church launched an attack on the eldest princess.
"She must be held responsible for her hasty dispatch of troops after receiving wrong information without verifying it. And the house arrest of a noble is obviously not allowed to be known to outsiders, because it will directly make people suspicious.
The reputation of the entire Noah royal family and even Kaifuni will be damaged.
"Finally we asked her, do you want your name or your life?"
"How do you say that?"
Dmitri asked immediately, his expression as if Yu Qian was still alive.
"If you want a name, let her be assassinated by the 'rebels' she made up. Then Kaifni will serve as the 'successor' and finish what she has not finished. In the future, people will only remember that this is
Noah can also benefit from Elizabeth's achievements.
"The most serious thing...is to admit that her actions were hasty and give up on the king's election. The church can save her face and not announce many of her actions for the time being - including allowing Nicholas II to massacre the village and imprisoning the Three-Eyed Crow without any reason.
The leader, Count Geraint, and attempted physical interference in Nata County.
"But if she acts rashly, these evidences will jump out and crush her to death immediately - you can even make up some more for her. Put some unproven things on her... Four out of the ten things have definite facts.
The six pieces of evidence cannot be falsified, and people tend to believe that she did all these ten things.
"In exchange for keeping her alive, Elizabeth can no longer touch any core rights. And she must be visible to the outside world to gather opponents of Kaifuni...that is, to use herself to fish."
And this is the contract she made with Queen Kafni.
Annan said leisurely, with a cunning light in his eyes.
——There is no doubt that this is exactly what he came up with.