February 25, 1429, inside the Château de Château chinon.

Château de Chinon, a castle behind the Loire River, was moved by Henry II and later built into an impregnable fortress. During the Anglo-French War, the crown prince lived here and gave orders from the castle.

In a sense, the castle is already the political center of the whole of France, although it ...... The whole of France was in jeopardy.

Only a few dozen miles away from Chinon is Orleans, and it is also the forefront of the wrestling between Britain and France at the moment, and France at this moment can be said to be completely relying on the Loire River and the city of Orleans to build a defense line to support, as the actual center of France, Chinon is less than 100 miles away from the front line, and it is really France has reached the most difficult moment.

Once Orleans is lost, the Loire can no longer be held, and the English army will cross the Loire directly, and France will have no chance to fight from the north and south. And the eight-year-old King Henry VI of England will also enter France, with two crowns of England and France, and will become the most powerful monarch in the whole of Europe.

Therefore, even if Sino was only a few dozen miles away from the front line? Where could France retreat at this moment? With enemies everywhere and successive defeats, there was no way to retreat.

And on this day, in the castle of Chinon, there was a rare sound of singing and dancing. Numerous aristocratic men and women were invited to the banquet here, clowns, magicians, musicians, not grand but complete enough.

"Oh......"

Laughter and exclamations between men and women rang out from time to time, but Charlie, the crown prince, as the host of the banquet, was not happy, he was still thinking about the war on the front.

Orleans had been besieged for four months, with no food supplies, no foreign aid, and no one knew when Orleans would fall.

The minister on the side noticed his complicated emotions and said to the crown prince in front of him.

"Your Highness, why don't you use meals?"

Charlie shook his head and sighed.

"How can I eat in this situation? ”

The minister in front of him looked at the depressed crown prince in front of him, and quietly ordered the guards to stop the banquet and let the crown prince be quiet for a while.

And Charlie, the crown prince next to him, looked at the food in front of him in a daze, there is no doubt that he is a crown prince who is extremely embarrassed.

His father was mentally ill, and because the defeat at the Battle of Akuquin cost the kingdom nearly half of its nobles, and was forced to agree to inherit the throne to King Henry V of England after his death. The Hundred Years' War between England and France had already been divided by Henry V, but who would have thought that the two kings would die almost at the same time, which made the French aristocracy find an excuse to refuse to recognize the kingship of the current King Henry VI of England.

And the mother Isab, who didn't like him, openly declared that he was not Charles VI's biological child, but that she was born to her lover, although Charlie directly denied it, claiming that his mother was coerced by the British, but even he didn't know the truth.

As the crown prince, he is even more in debt.

The Queen of Sicily, the Keeper of the Crown, and even his cooks were his creditors, and many merchants borrowed a lot of usury from him, and even the fish he ate were pond fish raised by the local priests of Boer, so those priests were his creditors as a matter of course, and he did not have the intention of hiding from debts in the castle of Chinon......

No matter how you look at it, it seems that there is no hope for the country, so that a thought suddenly pops into Charlie's heart.

"Perhaps...... Would it be better for me to retire?"

Wouldn't it be better to give up this birthright throne?

He was the crown prince of France, but he was also the Count of Anjou, and he had a large number of in-laws in England and France, and even if he gave up the throne, his in-laws would be able to protect him. Even if Henry VI really dared to ignore the opposition of the nobles and have to cut down the roots, he would have to hide back in his Anjou territory.

The thought was so strong that Charlie's heart was stirring, but at this moment......

......

"The Holy Maiden of Lorraine?"

Dumbfounded and listening to the messenger's words, Charlie did not answer directly, but first looked at the minister beside him, the confusion in his eyes can only be understood by the minister, but the minister looked at the crown prince's eyes, and said directly.

"It wasn't my arrangement. ”

There is a prophecy that has been circulating for a long time in the Lorraine region, "one woman will destroy the kingdom of France, and another woman will revive the kingdom of France".

For the Crown Prince's courtiers, the first woman was the Crown Prince's mother, who was a big trouble, and the second woman was unknown. In order to capitalize on this prophecy, the Dauphin concocted several Lorraine saints in the hope of boosting the morale of the masses, but none of them worked......

Therefore, when he heard that there was another Lorraine saint, the crown prince almost thought that this was another minister's doing.

"What kind of girl is that?"

The crown prince then asked about the messenger, and the messenger did not dare to slack off, and spoke in detail.

"It was a commoner girl from the village of Donrémi, in the Lorraine region, who claimed to have listened to the voice of God since she was thirteen years old, and God had ordered her to help the Dauphin ascend to the throne of France...... Now, the girl was outside the castle, waiting for His Highness to summon her. ”

After questioning the messenger in detail, the crown prince pondered, this Lorraine saint was different from several Lorraine saints he had concocted before, and her fame had now begun to spread through the regions she passed through with her bold and courageous deeds.

However, the crown prince was still hesitant, he did not know what this young girl who claimed to listen to God's voice meant.

"Maybe ......"

A thought flashed through his mind that he couldn't even believe.

Two days later, the Crown Prince's advisers discussed it several times, and there was a great deal of disagreement as to whether or not to receive the girl, with some suspecting her as an Assassin and others believing that the situation was so good that it would be okay to receive her.

But in the end, the hesitant crown prince still gritted his teeth, tried his best to disagree with the public, and directly decided on the case.

"Whether it's true or not, if I don't even dare to see a woman, what else will I be a crown prince. ”

However, the crown prince was not entirely reckless, and inside the castle, he said to the courtiers in front of him.

"However, in order to prevent her from being an assassin, and to test her truth, I decided to do a little test......"

......

So, after two days of waiting outside the castle, the girl from Lorraine, who claimed to have received the apocalypse, was finally able to enter the castle.

"Come in. ”

The guard, who had always guarded the gate of the castle, carefully looked at the woman in the burqa in front of him, and after making sure that she was not armed, he said.

The woman in the burqa nodded, then lifted the hood on her head to protect herself from the cold, revealing a full head of blonde hair and a pair of bright eyes, and looked at the inside of the castle in front of her with some curiosity, and the girl immediately stepped into the castle.