There is another reason why Hill is relieved to go to the banquet, and that is that the venue of the banquet is his own restaurant.

"Big Fat Sheep Shabu Shabu Restaurant", this is a special restaurant that Hill introduced from Port Mousse, and it is said that this way of eating shabu shabu comes from the Kingdom of Light.

Hill doesn't care who invented the way to eat it, as long as it's delicious! Ever since he had eaten the shabu-shabu made by Jacques and others in the Misty Forest, he had never forgotten the aroma of shabu-shabu. There is also a vast grassland in the north of Saxony, and there is no shortage of high-quality lamb raw materials, and after Hill opened the first Mousse shabu restaurant in Cologne, a trend of shabu shabu spread in Cologne.

Pushing open the door of the private room, Hill recognized the two people in the room at a glance.

"Mentor Lily!Jacques! It's you! Welcome, welcome! Claudia told me about you some time ago, but I didn't expect you to come to Cologne. ”

Lily thought he was laughing at his relationship with Jacques, but her interest suddenly disappeared, and she replied lightly, "Long time no see!"

"Ciel, you're finally here, I can't wait to shake the meat!" Jacques said to Ciel, not noticing Lily's emotion, pointing to the table full of slices of meat and the boiling copper pot.

Hill glanced at the table, waved his hand and said, "You didn't tell me earlier when you came, don't eat the meat first, I'll go and let the cook change it to the mutton of the alien beast." ”

"Lily, we're here to eat, haha......"

“......”

"This is the shop I opened, you deliberately picked this place. ”

"Really, we didn't really know that you opened it, I asked the innkeeper about it, and someone recommended it. ”

With that, Jacques pushed a small wooden box forward on the table, and the box slid in front of Ciel.

"What is this?" asked Ciel, confused.

"Our thanks," Jacques said with a smile, "I would have never thought of saving Lily thanks to your letter of reminder." ”

Lily's mind immediately returned to the town of Bronco, when Jacques mistakenly thought that the killing of Lucien had been exposed, and came to ask for his help, only to meet Robert assassinating the then Shousuke. Thinking of Jacques when he desperately rescued him, his heart warmed, and he peeked at the man next to him and put on a warm smile.

Hill picks up the wooden box and lifts the lid to find that inside the box is a vermilion fruit.

This is from the treasury of the Mirror Group Skull Island, the best chicken blood fruit, the main material of a variety of high-grade secret medicines, has always been priceless, and the legend of many adventurers who became rich overnight comes from accidentally discovering a chicken blood fruit. When Jacques came out this time, there were many people who needed to be taken care of, so he brought some good things, and when he saw Ciel, he gave him a more valuable one.

Even if Hill is the son of the richest man in Saxony, he has never seen a fist-sized chicken blood fruit, and he immediately calculated how much it can be worth, a million silver coins? I don't know if others can take it, at least let him exchange it for a million, he is willing.

However, he closed the lid and pushed the box back in front of Jacques, "It's too expensive! I can't take it, you ...... You're so polite that you don't treat me as a friend!"

Jacques smiled and pushed the box back again: "If you don't take it, we'll turn around and leave." ”

The two sides shirked for a while, and in the end Hill accepted the thank-you gift.

Boiling pot shabu-shabu, guests and hosts are happy.

Jacques also took the opportunity to offer Hill to send a message to Claudia, telling her that they had arrived in Cologne. Jacques was sure that once Claudia knew they were in Cologne, she would make arrangements for them to attend the engagement ceremony.

Sure enough, they were contacted the next day with two invitations for tomorrow's engagement ceremony, as well as a dress for the ceremony, a wig and a mustache for makeup, and so on.

......

"Lord Lupin and his wife!"

"Greetings to Lord Lupin!

Jacques with a mustache and Lily with a red wig walked into the palace of the Duke of Saxony holding hands.

They are now the lord and wife of Lupin from the southern part of the New World.

These two men may not have been actual figures, but few Saxons had ever been to the southern part of the New World, and even if they did, they did not necessarily recognize the thousands of "lords". But even if the lord is only the lowest noble, he is also a nobleman, and he is eligible to participate in the engagement ceremony.

From the forged identity, Jacques judged that the second prince might have been involved in the matter.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the main hall, a young man dressed as an attendant greeted him, "Mr. Jacques, Miss Lily, please come with me, the big boss wants to see the two." ”

When he came, Jacques just didn't expect that before the engagement ceremony was over, François couldn't wait to see him.

He followed the waiter through several doorways, and then to the third floor of the palace, and after a circle, he came to the door of a room.

The two stout guards outside the door searched Jacques all over his body before he was allowed to enter the room, while Lily was stopped at the door and had to wait for Jacques in the next room.

Entering the door and bypassing the screen, Jacques found that it was not François who was waiting for him, but a middle-aged man he had never met, and Odoka, the director of the Bureau of Investigation with whom he had a relationship, was standing respectfully behind him at this time.

Seeing Odoka's respectful expression, Jacques guessed the identity of this person, but he didn't dare to ask, so he had to stand still.

"You're Jacques?" said the middle-aged man.

"Hello, I'm Jacques Renaud and I'm from Port Mousse. Jacques bowed.

"Jacques, don't kneel down and salute when you see His Majesty the Emperor!" said Odoka with a straight face.

If you don't say, how do I know he's the emperor?

I believe you say, well, I do!

Jacques hurriedly knelt down on one knee, supported his chest with his left hand, took off his hat with his right hand, bowed his head and said, "Jacques Reynaud, I have seen Your Majesty!"

"I heard you're only twenty years old, a year younger than Claudia, you don't look like that. ”

Jacques looked up and tore off his mustache, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this doesn't look like this." ”

The Emperor smiled and said, "Interesting, I have heard your name several times, and I heard that you were coming to the engagement, so I asked you to come and meet you." ”

Jacques felt that the emperor's attitude was very kind, so he said tentatively: "Trouble Your Majesty, when you heard my name before, it was probably good words, but I guess I don't have a good reputation recently." "Love the Book House

"Interesting, you're a little self-aware. The Emperor played with the staff in his hand and said, "Tell me, are you still my subject?"

There is a hole in this statement!

Jacques was still kneeling on one knee, the emperor didn't let him get up, according to etiquette, he still had to kneel and answer: "Actually, I don't know, originally I was just passing through Cologne, this time my destination is to go to the imperial capital, if I get there, I think I will apply to see you as an envoy of the Bright God Kingdom."

But today I have come to attend a friend's engagement ceremony, and I am doing a private matter, and since my hometown, Port Moussey, is His Majesty's territory, then I should be considered a subject of His Majesty. ”

The so-called envoy is a diplomatic mission given to him by the black master Heishuo when Jacques left Tavaret, anyway, Jacques will definitely meet with Robert on this trip, and the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, by the way, to express the goodwill of the kingdom of God to Robert, and to promote the cooperation between the two sides. It will take some time for the Kingdom of Light to digest the colonies, and if it can be achieved diplomatically during this time, it should not be dismissed for war.

But after killing Ovilla, he and Robert may not be able to continue to cooperate, so Fat Orange temporarily decided to turn to the imperial capital and try to contact the royal family, and the Kingdom of Light snatched Stuart's colony, which made the royal family both happy and worried, and the joy was naturally to greatly weaken Stuart's national strength and curb the ambitions of Duke Amun, and he was naturally worried that the Kingdom of Light would continue to expand in the New World and invade the royal colony northward.

This is not impossible, not long ago the Emperor had just received a report that the whereabouts of a small army of the Kingdom of Light had been discovered near Medis.

Therefore, at this time, both parties urgently need to contact each other and speculate on the other party's true intentions.

Otherwise, even if Jacques had saved the lives of the second prince and the future princess, the emperor would not have specially summoned him.

You must know that the emperor came to Cologne this time, and the entire itinerary was completely confidential, and only a few people knew about it.

The emperor came to Cologne on the grounds of the second prince's engagement, in fact, he lowered his profile and asked for an alliance with the Duchy of Saxony, and as for the purpose and conditions of the alliance, it is not known to outsiders.

"Special envoy, so you really have an official position in the Bright God Kingdom?" the emperor's tone made people feel quite majestic.

Jacques nodded and replied: "I won't tell you the truth, I do have a mixed position, which belongs to the first line of the School Palace of the Bright Divine Kingdom, belongs to the Honglu Temple, and the official position is a bachelor, and it is a diplomatic job, and it can be regarded as winning glory for my hometown." ”

Jacques has no psychological obstacles to lowering his profile to achieve his goals, and to put it bluntly, he is thick-skinned. Hei Ye had already seen it when he was in contact with him in Ugin City, and he was a suitable diplomat. At that time, he didn't know about the relationship between Jacques and Fat Orange, the god of light.

The emperor seemed to be satisfied with Jacques's answer, you see that the diplomats of the Kingdom of Light are all graduates of the academy from our empire, and it is not possible to compare who is strong and who is weak.

If you want to comfort yourself, the prime minister of the Silver Dragon Divine Kingdom is still a wanted criminal of the Empire!

To put it another way, this is a mutiny, or better to hear it, a brain drain.

So the same thing, from another point of view, sounds very pleasant.

Fortunately, the Emperor was satisfied with Jacques's answer, and raised his hand to signal that he could get up.

"You, the envoy, are you here to pass the word or to negotiate?"

The Emperor's question was actually anchored to the specifications of this conversation, and in his opinion, only the God of Light was qualified to talk to him on an equal footing. You must know that Wang Qing'an and others go to the imperial capital every year to discuss the grain trade for the next year, and they can only see officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Imperial Affairs. The emperor and the envoys could only receive each other politely, and if they really wanted to negotiate, they still had to tear each other apart. If it's a message, he can still listen to it, and he doesn't need to express his position anyway, but if it's a negotiation, it's a change of person from the Foreign and Affairs Department to talk to Jacques.

Jacques replied, "Your Majesty, I am here to express to you the goodwill of peace between the two sides, on behalf of the will of the God of Light. ”

This is really not bragging, the god of light is wandering around the palace of the Duke of Saxony at this time.

As for peace, goodwill, anyway, it doesn't matter, and the Bright God Kingdom doesn't want to fight anymore at this time.

"I see, could it be that the God of Light intends to return the occupied colonies in the New World?"

Jacques really didn't expect the emperor to speak so freely, it was really difficult to answer.

Before Jacques set off, Hei Ye repeatedly told Jacques that diplomacy is no trivial matter, so Jacques should pay special attention.

The problem with Robert may be regarded as an accident or an accident, but if the words are not answered well and there is a problem again, then it will really be regarded as Jacques made a mistake.

So Jacques combined the analysis of the emperor's personality and the relationship between the countries, and Fat Tang briefly discussed it before he replied: "The war some time ago was because there was a huge food crisis in the Kingdom of Light, and when food was not self-sufficient, in order to survive, in order to survive, in order to survive, I had to look for land everywhere.

However, now that the central part of the New World is under the control of the Kingdom of God, if properly managed, it can ensure that food is worry-free. Therefore, even if it is returned, it is impossible to return the land now, and this is still the lifeline of the Kingdom of Light.

And even if it is returned. It should also be returned to the Duchy of Stuart, after all, the central region is their colony. ”

Jacques said this plainly, I will definitely not spit out what I eat, and I will not give it to you if I spit it out.

"But ......," Jacques continued, "if His Majesty wishes, we will compensate His Majesty for his losses by other means." ”

Can you afford to pay for it in other ways? Poor countries that can't get a single source stone can be satisfied in another way.

Now the emperor did not have any subordinates to negotiate, so he simply gritted his teeth and came to bargain on his own.

"Tell me what? ”

Jacques smiled slightly, waiting for your words, then bent down again, and replied, "Actually, our request is very simple. First, we need to sign a peace agreement and establish a channel of stable communication between the two countries. Second, open bilateral trade with the empire on an equal footing, and exchange what is available. ”

The emperor shook his head and said, "Hehe, it's easy to say, if I agree, I will be the only emperor among the emperors of all generations who has lost his territory." What do you think?"

Jacques also found that this kind of problem was communicated directly with the emperor, and it may not be possible to negotiate a result at all, but fortunately, he had already conveyed the attitude of the fat orange, in fact, the attitude of the black master to the emperor, and it was not a trip in vain.

We won't expand for a while, we want to restore peace.

"I will convey Your Majesty's attitude to the God of Light, but we will continue to maintain an attitude of active consultation and strive for a peaceful settlement of our disputes. ”

Jacques, on the contrary, was a high-sounding statement.

It doesn't matter if you can't talk about the results, as long as the attitude is reversed, it can reduce the misjudgment of both sides.

Odoka was still very eye-catching, and stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the ceremony is about to take place, do you still want to watch it?"

"Alright, let's go. By the way, young man, we haven't met today, and I look forward to you going to the imperial capital to talk to my foreign affairs department. ”

With that, the Emperor left the room under the protection of the four guards who had come out of nowhere.

Jacques wiped the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, rubbed his left knee, it didn't hurt to kneel, he just wasn't used to it!