Chapter 23: Step by step (3)
The negotiations ended unhappily.
Alfred's knights walked in shame on their way back, like a bunch of dogs that had lost their homes.
"This Duke of Aquitaine is really shameless!" A knight said angrily, "You should beat them hard on the battlefield!"
Alfred himself didn't look much, he walked his horse slowly and even hummed a song in his mouth.
"King King, why are you so happy?" a knight complained in a low voice, "If we had known, we wouldn't have come!"
"It is normal to be rejected. The Duke of Aquitaine has always been a militant person. This time, he has attracted the support of many lords with his xenophobic position. Now that he has become the consul, can he agree to form an alliance?" Alfred said leisurely, "As for marrying her daughter, it is even more impossible. Everyone knows that her daughter is now the first heir to the Duke of Aquitaine. If she is sent to marry me, wouldn't it be like giving such a large piece of territory as the Duke of Aquitaine to Britain for free?"
The knights on the side were all stunned.
"King King, you knew that the Duke of Aquitain would not agree? Then you made such a big noise when you let us enter the city? Now, everyone in the city knows that we are rejected when we propose marriage!"
"What I want is to let everyone in the city know. In this way, this matter will not be hidden by the Duke of Aquitaine. As for whether he himself agrees..."
Alfred shook his head with a smile:
"Since he chose to bow to the Abraham Church, he was just a dog in the Tianfang Empire. Can a dog choose his own destiny?"
The King of the British Knights came to form an alliance and the rejection of the proposal was known to everyone in the city as Alfred expected.
A few more days passed in a flash. The Duke of Aquitaine was standing in front of a mirror, trying his new custom dress comfortably. In another month, there will be a formal inauguration ceremony in the Palace of Versailles. At that time, most of the princes of the Federation of Almany will come to Paris to watch the ceremony.
"Alfred must be in a mess these days, right?" He asked his servant while trying his clothes, "After all, after all, after such a big disturbance, he was driven out like a dog."
"Yes," said the servant, "the whole city has been talking about this these days, laughing at Alfred."
"Say directly to Britain: No. How long has it been since the Allmany Federation not such a tough leader?"
The Duke of Aquitain nodded to himself in the mirror with satisfaction. Then, he took off his new clothes and handed them to the servant:
"Give me an inconspicuous casual outfit. I'm going to visit privately on a private tour to hear what the citizens of Paris are talking about me."
They chose a small but exquisite restaurant and ordered a few dishes casually. Although it was a small restaurant, its price was unacceptable to low-level people such as farmers and craftsmen. Those who traveled in the restaurant were all dressed neatly.
The Duke of Aquitaine wanted to raise the topic himself, but before he could speak, he heard someone talking about this in the seat next to him:
"Have you heard that? The King of British Knights came to propose marriage, hoping to maintain the alliance between the two sides, but was rejected by the newly appointed consul."
"That's not. That's how the Knight King's face sounded."
The Duke of Aquitaine listened with half-squinted eyes, and nodded slightly while listening, as if he was quite helpful.
But he heard the people at the table continue to discuss: "The Knight King is the same. He has been here in Paris for so long, and he has not inquired clearly. The Duke of Aquitaine only has one daughter in total, and he has already had a engagement with others. How can he marry someone else again?"
"Um?"
The Duke of Aquitaine opened his eyes suddenly.
"Speaking of this, I remember that the champion of the last martial arts competition seemed to be a pirate kingdom, right?"
"Your information is still not very good enough. What a pirate kingdom tells you, that is Hestein, the pirate king of the pirate kingdom himself!"
"What? In other words, the Duke of Aquitaine refused to form an alliance with Britain, but got involved with the pirates of the Pirate Kingdom?"
"That's right, the fist of the Pirate Kingdom is relatively big. These lords are all the same - bullying the weak and fearing the strong! When bullying us one by one, we are more powerful than the other. When we see the Pirate King, we are so scared that our legs and feet are weak. We kneel on the ground and obediently send our daughter..."
"nonsense!"
The Duke of Aquitaine raised the entire table in anger. He pointed at the table angrily and drank:
"I want to lock you all into the dungeon!"
He showed his identity, transferred guards, captured the criminals, drove away the onlookers, and after finishing all the things, it was already dark. He walked back to his room angrily, raised his foot, and jumped over a chair. The servant hurried over to help the chair up, but heard the Duke of Aquitaine yelling:
"When did I betrothed my daughter to the Pirate King? How did this rumor spread? Investigate it! You have to thoroughly investigate it! I want to give a hundred whip to the person who first released the rumor, and then chop it up and feed it to the pig! Go and do it for me!"
The servant shrank his head and slipped out in fear.
As the door slammed, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
Moreover, it is terrible.
When he realized that all the sound had disappeared, the Duke of Aquitaine twisted his head suddenly and suddenly saw Crodis standing in front of the door with a smile.
"When did you...you come?"
"Maybe it was just now," Crodis said, "or maybe, I've been standing here."
"Has I allowed you to preach freely in the Almani Federation?" The Duke of Aquitaine shivered, "What are you doing now?"
"I did say at the time that we just need to be able to preach freely. However, for this requirement, I added a very clear time limit - for the time being."
Crodis approached the Duke of Aquitaine step by step.
"I heard that Britain wanted to form an alliance with you, but you refused, right?"
"Yes... so what? This has nothing to do with you, right?"
"It was originally like this. But it was rumored that Britain wanted to convert to the Abrahamic Church, and that would be different." Crodis said slowly. "For the Abrahamic Church, as long as you have the same faith, no matter country, race, or culture, you will be brothers and sisters. And you reject a country that you are willing to convert and try to start a war with them. This will make the church very upset."
"This is the diplomatic affairs of the Almany Federation..."
Chapter completed!