The first heavy snow fell, and it only took one morning to dye the entire city of Sewell white.
Earl Satsuma stared at the falling snowflakes outside the window with an unusually solemn expression.
Her Royal Highness Princess Sevini has returned to the Lampali Kingdom for a month.
In the beginning, everything was normal.
After Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny returned to Anvilmar City, she attended the funeral of His Majesty King Eric very calmly, but did not reveal any other information from beginning to end.
According to everyone's expectations, since Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny resolutely gave up the opportunity to compete with King Eric for the throne, she should continue to support King Eric's son, His Royal Highness Prince William, to inherit the throne.
However, Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny unexpectedly did not reveal this meaning, and even vaguely questioned it.
At that time, Earl Satsuma was alert.
This time, I am afraid that Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny will make a choice that surprises everyone.
Sure enough, half a month later, after Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny attended King Eric's funeral and led her private guards back to her private territory, she suddenly announced that King Eric did not die normally, but was killed. Killed by poison! This piece of news immediately shocked the entire Lampali Kingdom.
When Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny announced the news, she pointed the finger directly at Duke Stark!
Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny claimed that she has obtained enough evidence to prove that Duke Stark ordered others to poison King Eric. As Her Royal Highness the Princess, she is also the de jure first heir to the throne of Lampali Kingdom. identity. It was announced that Duke Starr had poisoned the king. Committing the most heinous crime of rebellion!
This time. The whole country of Lampali Kingdom was in an uproar.
The Stark family has controlled almost everything in the entire Lampali Kingdom in the past two years, and Duke Stark is even more powerful. Now Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny actually made such an accusation against him. It is clear that he wants to be at odds with the Stark family.
Duke Stark's reaction to the accusations made by Princess Sevigny was to firmly deny it, claiming that Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny clearly saw the sudden death of King Eric and wanted to fight for the throne, so she made such accusations with the intention of denying Prince William. Legal inheritance to the throne. Trying to take the throne himself.
This rebuttal has also been supported by many people in the Lampali Kingdom, because the timing chosen by Her Royal Highness Queen Sevini is too clever and cannot help but make people suspicious. For a time, the party supporting Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny and the party supporting Duke Stark in the Lampali Kingdom were in clear opposition, and the entire kingdom fell into chaos.
However, for Earl Satsuma, a verbal battle is meaningless. He knows very well that what determines the final outcome is the strength of both parties.
Earl Satsuma is most loyal to the interests of the entire Lampali Kingdom, according to his original intention. Of course, it is best for the Kingdom of Lampali to always be stable and peaceful, so Her Royal Highness Princess Sevini gave up her fight for the throne with Eric. Although he was a little disappointed, he was quite relieved.
However, now Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny suddenly announced this shocking news and pretended to compete for the throne, which pushed the Lampali Kingdom into the most dangerous situation.
However, Count Satsuma could not blame Sevigny, because according to the information he obtained from secret channels, there was indeed a lot of doubt about King Eric's sudden death.
Although it is not surprising that Eric's will designated Prince William to take over the throne, it is very strange to designate Duke Stark as regent.
Not only Earl Satsuma, but also many nobles in the kingdom know very well that although King Eric relied heavily on Duke Stark in the early stage and could even obey Duke Stark's words, starting from the first half of this year, King Eric and Stan There were many differences between Duke Tucker, and later it could even be said that they were completely contradictory. In many aspects, they clearly opposed Duke Starr's proposals.
Under such circumstances, how could he designate Duke Starr as regent before his death and command the power of the kingdom
No matter which aspect of the analysis, Earl Satsuma agrees more with the accusations of Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny.
Yes, Duke Stark must have plotted to poison King Eric when he saw that King Eric wanted to get rid of his control, and then supported Prince William, a child of only five years old, to sit on the throne with the intention of truly controlling the entire world. Kingdom of Lampali.
Earl Satsuma suddenly felt a trace of regret in his heart.
If he had been able to unite the nobles in the kingdom who supported Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny, put pressure on Her Highness Princess Sevigny, and even forced her to compete for the throne with His Royal Highness Prince Eric, then Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny would ascend the throne, and Lampa How could the Li Kingdom become what it is now
Moreover, if Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny ascends the throne, she will definitely give strong support to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. How can the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce be forced to withdraw from the Lampali Kingdom? As a result, the originally prosperous magic industry in the Lampali Kingdom will be destroyed. Those guys headed by the Stark family were in disarray, without any improvement.
In the current Lampali Kingdom, only part of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's properties are still preserved in Sewell City.
This was something that Earl Satsuma had preserved with his tough attitude.
Although Duke Starr questioned this many times and tried to seize these properties, he was strongly refuted by Count Satsuma.
The decisive factor in this was actually the Third Army of the Kingdom's Guards, which Lampari XIII sent to Sewell City before his death and designated to be commanded by Count Satsuma.
"Lord City Lord, Princess Carolyn has arrived." The affairs officer of the City Lord's Mansion came in and reported.
Earl Satsuma turned around and nodded slightly: "Invite her in."
A moment later, Princess Caroline, wearing a pure white fur that looked like a white flower blooming in winter, walked in with brisk steps.
"Lord Satsuma, it's been more than half a month since we last met. How have you been lately?" Princess Carolyn chuckled.
Earl Satsuma shook his head slightly: "As you can see, his life is not very good."
Princess Caroline was obviously a little surprised by Earl Satsuma's answer. After a slight pause. He looked Earl Satsuma up and down. He smiled, glanced out the window and said, "The snow has begun to fall. You don't need to worry that the Sark Kingdom will choose to invade during this time."
"Snow can't stop anything." Earl Satsuma shook his head: "If necessary, our city defense army in Sewell City and the Third Army of the Kingdom's Defense Force both have the ability to conduct a snowy raid. But I'm not worried about this. Even if the Sark Kingdom wanted to invade, they would not choose this time period.”
"Yes, they will definitely choose the most vulnerable moment of your Lampali Kingdom." Princess Caroline nodded lightly. "If nothing else, next year will be a good time."
Earl Satsuma smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, you can see this. The Sak Kingdom has no reason not to understand. Yes, our Lampali Kingdom has actually reached a very critical moment. If you are not careful, this inheritance The kingdom that has existed for hundreds of years may be about to die.”
Princess Caroline blinked and shook her head slowly: "No, Lord Earl, I don't think so."
"Oh?" Earl Satsuma glanced at Princess Caroline in surprise.
"My lord, with all due respect, your concern about the fate of the Lampali Kingdom is probably because you are worried that the kingdom will fall into civil war and be taken advantage of by the Sark Kingdom, right?"
Earl Satsuma frowned slightly and nodded.
"Then, Lord Earl. Have you ever thought that if the civil war lasts for a short time and Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny quickly stabilizes the situation in the entire kingdom, will the Sac Kingdom still dare to invade?"...
Earl Sack was stunned: "How is this possible? Your Highness, you don't understand the situation in our kingdom. Your Highness's prospects... are not optimistic."
"Really?" Princess Carolyn still smiled like a flower. "My Lord Earl, I think you may have forgotten a very important factor. Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny has a very important supporter, which no one can compare with."
"Which supporter is so important?" Earl Satsuma frowned and shook his head. "This is impossible."
"No, of course this is possible. Because... this supporter is Xu Yi and his New Flying Chamber of Commerce." Princess Carolyn smiled.
Earl Satsuma frowned a little deeper, thought for a while, and shook his head again: "You think too highly of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Although I admit that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will definitely provide strong help to Her Royal Highness, it is not enough to influence the entire kingdom. situation.”
"That's not necessarily true." Princess Carolyn glanced at Earl Satsuma, thought for a while, but chose to give up and continue the topic.
She came to Sewell City this time mainly to discuss continued cooperation with Count Satsuma.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce left these industries in Sewell City, and in addition to providing the products to Sewell City and several surrounding cities in the Lampali Kingdom, a large number of them entered the Principality of Drake.
In the current Principality of Drake, various household magic machines of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce have become extremely popular, and through the Principality of Drake, the products of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce are also sold to the other two principalities adjacent to the Principality of Drake. It is currently extremely popular in those two principalities.
This time Princess Carolyn came here mainly to discuss with Earl Satsuma to relocate some of the skilled workers in the New Flying Chamber of Commerce factory from Sewell City to the Duke of Drake, and to build a brand new one in the Duke of Drake. Production base.
"My Lord Earl, as you are worried, the Lampali Kingdom will almost certainly fall into civil strife. Amid the civil strife, these technical personnel who are extremely important to Sewell City and even the entire Lampali Kingdom must do their best to preserve them. , do you agree with my point of view?"
"Well, I very much agree with this. But... sending them to your Drake Principality is not the only option. I can choose other ways to send them out of the Lampali Kingdom, or even directly back to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. At the beginning Xu Yi has entrusted their safety into my hands, and I cannot break my trust with Xu Yi," Earl Satsuma said sternly.
"But doing this won't make the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce give more support to Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny, right?" Princess Carolyn smiled.
Earl Satsuma was startled for a moment, then his eyes lit up: "Your Highness, what do you mean..."
Princess Caroline smiled slightly and extended her hand to Earl Satsuma: "Your Majesty, on behalf of the Duke of Drake, I propose a cooperation agreement to you. If you are willing to fully assist us, the Duke of Drake, to establish a brand new magic machinery industry in the principality. base, then we, the Principality of Drake, will cooperate with you to the greatest extent possible and provide the greatest support to Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny.”
Earl Satsuma looked at Princess Caroline in astonishment.
Are the magical machines of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce so attractive to the Principality of Drake? It can even make them abandon their usual neutral attitude and clearly express their support for a certain party.
However, this is not the end.
Princess Carolyn continued: "If you agree to transfer part of the technology related to military magic machinery to our principality, then our principality will fully cooperate with Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny, and in the future, we will cooperate with the Kingdom of Sac and the Kingdom of Lampali. How about siding with the Lampali Kingdom in this conflict? My lord, are you tempted by this proposal?"
Earl Satsuma looked at Princess Caroline's flower-like smile and felt his heart skip a beat.