Chapter 404: Meeting at Sea (Part I)
There was only one person on the deck of both ships, and the two stood on their respective sides of the ship, relatively silent.
Finally, the young man in white broke the silence: "Mr. Obilly, you invited me to the sea, not just to make sure that I am still alive. ”
Obilane, whose face was cold and arrogant in red military uniform, said bluntly: "Mr. Robert, Lord Duke hopes that you can advance our plan according to the previous agreement and start a war next month, is it okay?"
The young man in white was none other than Robert Baptiste, the prime minister of the Duchy of Castia, who still maintained a gentle smile at this time, and said slowly: "I don't think the reason for the suspension of the plan is not to be here." ”
As the commander-in-chief of the navy in Stuart, Obilane was not used to the way of communicating with politicians, and Robert's noncommittal answer made him quite annoyed, and he held back his anger and said: "I just came to confirm with you whether we can go to war next month, if you agree, we will proceed according to the plan, if you refuse, we will make corresponding adjustments, and all the previous agreements between you and the Duke will be null and void." ”
Hearing this, Robert's smiling and warm face suddenly changed, his eyes were round with anger, and he slammed the guardrail of the ship with both palms, and said angrily: "For the sake of your colonists being attacked by the Bright Dog, I delayed the time to advance the plan, is it wrong? I am all for your own good! Who would know that the Bright Dog launched an attack on the New World at that time?"
Is it wrong for me to give you time to deal with the troubles of the colonies?
What if the Duke of Amon's new army is defeated by the royal family?
That's why you're going to send someone to assassinate me? Do you think we can still cooperate?"
In the face of Robert, who was suddenly out of control, Obiline was still expressionless, and his deep eyes seemed to be able to see through the hysterical man in front of him.
"One of the main purposes of the Duke asking me to talk to you is to explain to you that the previous assassination was not the work of my **, and we suspect that another force has intervened to provoke conflicts between the two of us. ”
Robert was not satisfied with his explanation, "Stir up a joke, know how many of us are working together, and if I die, the army on the border will inevitably attack, and it is not what you want, and take the opportunity to drag the royal family into the war." ”
Obiline had no choice but to say: "It is not in Stuart's interest to kill you, if you die, although the war can start immediately, it will not develop according to our plan, let alone end with the expected result." ”
Robert scoffed: "Once I'm dead, you can support a guy who is easier to control by you to become Prime Minister of Castile, this battle is not how you want to fight, and you can end it whenever you want."
I'm dead, and the money you owe me, the royalties for gunpowder, the royalties for the warships under your feet, all of these are written off, and the Duke is not stealing the fun!
It's just a fake war show, who wouldn't know it?
Debating is not Obilllane's forte at all, but his strength is his determination and clarity of thought.
"You know that with the close cooperation between our two sides, it is impossible for us to betray our alliance, and I believe that you have left a counterweight to us. So, I'm here to ask you what price it takes to keep our plans going?"
The other party did not play his cards according to common sense, and Robert had to put away the content.
The cooperation with Stuart began more than five years ago, and at first it was just Stuart's spies who came to the door in the hope of cooperating with each other to do something mutually beneficial.
At that time, Robert had just mastered the knowledge hidden in his great-grandfather's books, but he suffered from a lack of equipment and materials to experiment, let alone mass production.
The appearance of Stuart's spies gave Robert the opportunity to "borrow chickens and lay eggs", and the strong industrial production capacity of the Duchy of Stuart finally turned gunpowder, muskets, artillery, and warships that remained on the drawings into reality, and in exchange for Stuart helping Robert build a train and rail production factory.
It can be said that without Stuart's support, Robert would not have been able to put trains and railways into service so quickly, and subsequently establish the railway company.
In fact, in the eyes of many "people of insight", Castile has the weakest military strength, and it is the closest to the Duchy of Stuart, which has become more and more powerful due to industrialization, and will definitely be the first to be annexed by Stuart in the future, so only many people secretly collude with Stuart.
The Duchy of Stuart also used the network of connections built up over the years of lurking and bribery to push Robert from the ordinary aristocratic second generation to the finance department of Castile, and later became the auxiliary minister in charge of finance.
If it weren't for the fact that he accidentally became the acting president of the Mithril Society, Robert would have been just one of the Castilian officials who had been bribed by Stuart's spies, and because he was optimistic about Stuart's strength, he handed over the "letter of nomination" early, and after Castile was annexed by Stuart in the future, he would still be rewarded and valued for his merits.
After becoming the acting president of the Mithril Society, Robert suddenly gained strong support, and not only began to cultivate his own power in Castile, but also took the opportunity to get rid of the then first assistant Eichendorf and become the ruler of Castile.
The fledgling Robert naturally broke off his cooperation with Stuart and switched to building Castile, starting to build his own factory to produce powerful gunpowder weapons and build a force like Stuart's new army.
Not only that, Robert also used the power of the Mithril Society to make trouble in Stuart, hoping to delay the expansion of the Stuart Archduke. The covert dissemination of revolutionary ideas and the funding of trade unions were all Robert's handiwork, and the Mithril Society was instigated by the Mithril Society that brought Martin to prison that year.
During Robert's reign, Castile's military strength grew rapidly, forcing Archduke Amon of Stuart to consider starting a war against Castile in advance.
Considering the attitude of the royal family and the Duchy of Saxony, Amon wanted Castile to start the war, and Stuart was forced to fight back, with the help of Nail, landing from the south and quickly occupying the richest southern coastal strip, creating a fait accompli before the royal family intervened, and destroying half of Castia's territory.
In this way, Stuart will be able to secure the strongest position among the three principalities, and will slowly encroach on Castile in the future until it is annexed.
Unfortunately, Amun's plan was informed to Robert by a member of the Mithril Society, and in the past two years, Robert has made a lot of arrangements that have disrupted Amon's plan.
First of all, he recruited a group of pirates in the New World, led by several powerful grandmasters in the Mithril Society, to raid the small northern city of Ilgar, and at the right time to find out their connection with the Duchy of Stuart, and set the Northern Regions and the royal family against Stuart.
Then he single-handedly planned the "Liaison Office Tragedy" in the imperial capital, which made the conflict between the royal family and Stuart public.
In the end, he took the opportunity to declare war and reported a posture of war with the Duchy of Stuart.
In this situation, the Duchy of Stuart did not dare to go to war at all, and once the war started, it would be the royal family and Castile against Stuart.
Stuart's response was to take the evidence of Robert's defection to Stuart, threaten Robert to deliberately rout after the war, give enough benefits to Stuart, and beg for a truce at the right time.
Of course, in addition to the threat, he also gave Robert a large piece of pie, such as that in the future, the five southern cities could become the fiefdom of the Baptiste family.
However, after learning of the unexpected variables that the colony of the Duchy of Stuart was occupied by the Kingdom of Light, Robert pretended to agree, while delaying the time to continue arranging, hoping to gain more opportunities for himself by delaying the outbreak of war.
Robert was suddenly assassinated a few years ago and almost died, so this meeting at sea took place.
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