At this time, the duke in the throne suddenly said to one of the princes:
"Mr. Charlie, what do you think?"
This Lord Charles is Charles II, the former Duke of Geders, and Charles I, the current Earl of Gelden...
When it comes to hatred for the Beihai Kingdom, Count Charlie is far more than the others here. It can even be said that the other people are coveting the agricultural secrets of the Beihai Kingdom, while Charlie is in order to retaliate against the Beihai Kingdom. Of course, he can also get benefits by the way.
After all, if the North Sea Kingdom had not sent troops to help Duke John II of Cliff, the Principality of Cliff would not have been able to defeat the powerful Principality of Gedes at that time.
At the beginning, the Duchy of Gedes was one of the few powerful countries in the German region that could bring out tens of thousands of elite troops, and even challenged the Habsburg family. Otherwise, the French would not have supported the Duchy of Gedes.
However, because of the intervention of Marin's North Sea Kingdom, Charlie lost the Sifriesland that he had already obtained. Later, he even lost the largest financial source and largest territory of the Principal of Gedes - the Xiagudes region. Moreover, he was demoted to an earl, only focusing on the small territory of hundreds of square kilometers in the Upper Gedes region.
You know, before, the dukes and counts present were far inferior to him. If they were together, they would definitely be allowed to attend the seat to give orders. However, now, because most of the fiefdoms were lost, they were even demoted to count. Therefore, when the party was gathered, the duke had to sit in the main seat. After all, he is just an earl now, and his fiefdom is small, so he has to bow his head.
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Moreover, the alliance between these countries was actually created by Earl Charles.
At that time, several countries were aware of the high yield of Beihai countries' grains because they were close to Beihai countries. Therefore, they all sent people to steal secrets, but they all suffered failures.
Later, Charlie's men discovered that several other troops were trying to steal the secrets of the Beihai Kingdom. After thinking about it, he decided to join forces with these people.
Therefore, the real planner of this small alliance of princes was Charles. As for the duke in the main position, he became the leader because he was the duke and now the strongest.
However, the princes here are actually not as capable as Charlie. After all, Charlie can restore the Guedes Principality from Maximilian I, which has been destroyed by the bold Charlie, and make the Guedes Principality a powerful country with Germany. He has a very strong ability. If he hadn't encountered the bug Marin... Well, it seems that he would have been finished later...
Because, in history, the one who killed the Duchy of Gedes was Charles V, who was rampant in Europe. The powerful force of the Spanish Empire and the Habsburg family, even France was defeated by the Duchy of Gedes. It was naturally no problem to deal with a Duchy of Gedes that depended on France...
So, whether there is Marin or not is actually the same. However, the appearance of Marin made the Principality of Gedes decades ahead of schedule...
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Charlie didn't know if there was Marin in the Principality of Guedes, but he knew that without Marin bullying him, he was still a powerful duke of the powerful Principality of Guedes. He even had already taken over Sifriesland.
Therefore, he wanted to retaliate. Not only did he want to seize the agricultural secrets of Beihai State, but he also wanted to seize the land of Beihai State...
In his opinion, without Malin, the decline of Beihai Kingdom was inevitable. However, he did not expect that Beihai Kingdom would start to get into chaos so soon...
His goal is also clear - to share the secrets of agriculture with several princes, and at the same time, to occupy the western part of the Ruhr area near the Shanggedes region, which is the territory that Marin and the Principality of Cliff. At least, the land area of ​​the Principality of Ggedes should be more than doubled. In this way, the possibility of being promoted back to the principality...
Moreover, he actually has greater ambitions in his heart...
The most important reason why Charlie wins over these princes is not only because they are planning the secrets of the North Sea State like Geldenbo, but they are not strong enough and need alliances.
In addition, there is another important reason Charlie didn't say - he felt that these allies were not strong enough, and joining forces with them would not be kicked out of the game...
Charlie was very worried if he cooperated with real big shots such as Frederick III. Because he was worried that the country of Geldenberg would not be able to get any spoils afterwards because of its weak strength. After all, the partner is too strong, and you must be mentally prepared to be kicked away.
That's why he chose these princes - each of them is not weak, but not strong... and together several families can reach a balance, so that no one can swallow whom...
When the land is divided after victory, even if the Kingdom of Geldenbo cannot get a big head, it is OK to get a small head. After all, the Kingdom of Beihai has tens of thousands of square kilometers of land. If it can get back several thousand square kilometers of land, it can be considered to make up for most of the previous losses...
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Even Count Charlie looked down on these allies in his heart. If possible, he even planned to annex these stupid allies in the future. At least, he would swallow one or two of them so that his territory could be expanded as much as possible...
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Hearing the question from the Duke in the main seat, Charlie Earl of Gelden concealed the disdain and ambition in his eyes, cleared his throat, and said:
"The civil strife in the North Sea Army is naturally a great thing for us. But don't forget that on the other side of the North Sea, there are two 10,000 troops of the North Sea Kingdom. If these two legions return to China to assist in the war, our coalition will still not be able to defeat... Therefore, we need to send a group of spies to England to inquire about the news and see what the two legions are doing."
"Only those two legions have escaped from Orich's control, we will have a chance of winning. Otherwise, we may still suffer a great loss..."
The princes present nodded, so the duke in the throne immediately ordered to send a group of spies to England to investigate the movements of the two legions...
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What made these princes very happy was that within a few days, news came from England that the two legions of the North Sea Kingdom in England changed to the British King Edward...
It turned out that while Marin arranged for the domestic army to pretend to be civil strife, he also specially arranged the Fourth and Fifth Legions to pretend to surrender to Edward.
Of course, in order not to let Edward really misunderstand, Marin specially wrote to Edward, explaining the reason...
When King Edward received the secret letter from Marin, he was sweating coldly...
He didn't know that Marin was still alive. If he knew, how could he dare to win over Marin's army?
You know, in his eyes, Marin was an absolute old Yinbi, who would cheat anyone who saw him. He almost scared Edward to death. You know, there are about 40,000 permanent troops in England now. Of these, 20,000 are Marin's. The 20,000 people he controls are not as good as Marin's two legions in terms of combat effectiveness.
So, in order to calm Marin's anger, he immediately replied, expressing his willingness to cooperate with the acting. Moreover, he reiterated the effectiveness of the engagement between his daughter Margaret and Caesar. The subtext is - in-laws, we are in-laws, can I forget what I have tried to win over your subordinates before?
Marin would not really turn against Edward, so he also wrote back - I will send a top pediatrician invited from the Ming Dynasty to live in London to protect Princess Margaret's health... Obviously, Marin has revealed this matter...
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Then, according to the script, King Edward publicly extended an olive branch to Sakara and Sivag...
Sakala and Sivag, who were signaled by Marin, also publicly stated that they were willing to fight for the British King...
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When the news reached Germany, several princes targeting the Beihai Kingdom were very happy and got together to have a good time. They all were happy to be drunk.
After sobering up, several princes returned to their country and officially began to prepare for war...
Chapter completed!