Douglas, Justin and Count Roderick looked at each other and muttered for a long time, but they couldn't reply.

Because the role of the Strey family in the line of defense is irreplaceable.

Although the Strey family has an oath not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Byron Union without permission.

But just listen to it, don't take it seriously.

If Archduke Cedric is really angry, no matter which family has to weigh it.

After all, the Byron alliance is rooted in the line of defense against broken pulses.

The broken line of defense is there, and there is still a possibility that the Byron Union will continue.

If the line of defense is lost, the Byron alliance will fall apart.

Earl Douglas is also a human spirit, and said: "The Marquis misunderstood what we meant, when did we say that we were going to attack Her Royal Highness?" We just said that some of the ruling concepts of the royal capital must be changed, and we are not here to discuss this today, mainly to ask what do you think about the marriage between Princess Sophia and Earl Sean, and what kind of attitude should we take?"

The Marquis of Monrod asked rhetorically: "What do we think, does it matter? As long as Her Royal Highness the Princess agrees, can we still stop this matter?"

Can you still have a pleasant discussion?

Earl Douglas roared in his heart, and he regretted inviting the Marquis de Monrod to such a party.

He has the ability, but his temperament is a bit too straight, the typical kind that can talk to death when he opens his mouth, if it weren't for their newly established small group, which needs the deterrence and support of force, the ghost will form an alliance with him.

Count Roderick also looked displeased and said: "According to the meaning of the Marquis, we don't have to do anything, just watch like this? If that's the case, what's the point of us sitting here? It's better to go back to the territory and continue to watch them do their best, I heard that the Marquis of Monrod was brave, but now it seems that it is the story of his youth." ”

There is a clear smack of cynicism at the end.

The Marquis of Monrod did not react to this: "We are sitting here for better development, not for your revenge, Princess Sophilia has stepped down from the position of regent as agreed, as long as she hands over the royal power in her hands as scheduled, who do you care who she marries?"

If she is annoyed by this, and the matter of letting His Royal Highness the Prince ascend the throne go back and forth, won't the gains outweigh the losses? Don't take the other party's forbearance as cowardice, some of your small actions in private have already crossed the line, and there is no practical meaning except for disgusting and even angering the other party. ”

The small conference room fell silent again.

Although the Marquis of Monrod did not nominate a surname, they all knew in their hearts who they were referring to.

Now think about it calmly, what the royalist faction under their leadership has done in the recent period is indeed mixed with too many personal emotions.

Because many of them have the same experience.

In the past ten years, it has been too miserable to be suppressed by Princess Sophia.

Now that I have the opportunity to turn over, I naturally vent my past dissatisfaction frantically.

Looking back, the princess faction has retreated everywhere, looking like she is focusing on the overall situation.

Over time, the two sides became starkly contrasted.

If they continue in this way, more and more people will sympathize with Princess Sophia's misfortune.

After all, Princess Sophia's reputation has been polarized in the past ten years of her reign.

Disgusted, repulsed, and eager for her to step down immediately, most of them were the lords and nobles who held real power, including most of the royal branches, as well as some devout followers of the Holy Aether Holy See.

But in the minds of ordinary people, Princess Sophia is definitely a rare virtuous lord in the history of the royal family, and she is regarded as the pearl of the royal family, and she will be given a thumbs up when she is mentioned.

The reason for this situation is naturally related to the main policies implemented during the regency of Princess Sophilia.

Princess Sophilia believes that the Lancelot royal family is declining day by day, in addition to the growing size of the Holy Aether Holy See and sharing too many interests that originally belonged to the royal family, but also because over the years, there have been too many large and small nobles derived from the royal family, and they are also the main culprits in the dilution of the royal family's power.

Therefore, the opening of the Holy See is only the first step, and the second step is to try to centralize power, and collect all the military power and financial power in the hands of lords and nobles into the name of the royal family.

When the Holy Aether Holy See was opened, although there were lords and nobles who were in cahoots with the Holy See, they were not happy.

But that was only a small part, and most of the lords and nobles were still actively supportive.

After all, many people are also suffering from the land annexation of the Holy See, but in the past, people were weak and dared not speak out, and at that time, with the lead of the princess regent, they naturally wanted to take the opportunity to recover their encroached land.

When it came time to take the lord and nobles under the knife, it was a public anger, and they were boycotted, and in the end, they did not do it, and only started experiments in their own territory.

This also led to the princess's fiefdom, many lords and nobles have changed from real power nobles to fictitious nobles, although Princess Sophia gave a relatively fair compensation policy at the beginning, and the wealth in their hands is not necessarily much less, but don't think that they say that Princess Sophia is half good.

After all, the land and army that made their family value the most were all taken away.

Their denigration further worsened Princess Sophia's reputation among the lords and nobles.

This can be seen from the serious power gap during the reign of Princess Sophia, and there are many important positions, all of which are vacant.

All that Princess Sophia could rely on was someone brought from the matrilineal Strelch family.

Earl Douglas said with great sincerity: "What the Marquis said is very right, some of what we are doing now has indeed crossed the line, except to vent the dissatisfaction in my heart, it doesn't make much sense, I will send someone to adjust it afterwards, so that the people below can restrain a little, but Princess Sophia's marriage is not as irrelevant as you said, and it will be involved in the future."

The Eternal Night Leader has risen rapidly, and in just ten years since its establishment, it has an army of nearly 100,000 to compete with the Kingsley family.

In recent years, it has been crazy to collect money from our royal capital, and those brainless women take a year's income from a town in exchange for a flashy dress, what a stupid thing?

No one knows what kind of strength the Eternal Night Warlord has now.

In the past, we could have excluded them on the grounds that they were aliens.

If he marries Her Royal Highness the Princess, the door of the entire alliance will be completely opened.

At that time, Her Royal Highness the princess will be the two major military leaders behind her, do you still think this matter really doesn't matter?"

The Strachage family, who guard the Broken Pulse Line, has the military strength to sweep the world.

In the past, the Byron Alliance's means of counterbalancing them was in the supply of materials.

As long as this point is firmly stuck in the hand, the hundreds of thousands of troops on the Broken Pulse Defense Line will not dare to act rashly.

But since last year, the Strey family has been hooked up with the Eternal Night Leader, and the border trade has flourished.

The finances of the Streich family suddenly improved several times, and in a short period of time, there was no need to look at the faces of the Lord of the Byron Alliance.

This is not the most important thing, after all, this border trade has now been forcibly interrupted by the Western Odin Empire.

Most importantly, because of Princess Sophia's thread, the Strachrich family is connected to everything by the Eternal Night Leader.

The Stre family has soldiers.

Princess Sophia has food.

The Eternal Night Commander has money.

What kind of horror monster will they be when they join forces?

Not to mention that they are just a group of royalists standing behind Prince Laurie, even those grand duke families have to weigh their lives.

Once Princess Sophia successfully married Earl Sean, the leader of the Eternal Night, her power was not weakened by resigning as regent of the Lancelot royal family, but became stronger.

Justin, Roderick, and Monrod had more or less speculation in this regard, but they were not as thorough as Count Douglas thought, and the clouds on their faces could not be dissolved at the moment.

Too much pressure.

"The question is, can we stop this matter?" said the Marquis of Monrod with a cold face, "The other party has even taken into account the opinions of those citizens at the lower levels, and it must be that all parties are fully prepared, and if we rashly show our heads, we will only become the target of the other party." ”

"What does the Marquis mean?" asked Count Roderick knowingly, in fact, he had already made up his mind in his heart, and he just wanted to say it with the help of the other party.

The Marquis of Monrod obviously didn't have so many calculations, and replied bluntly: "Doing nothing is the best thing to do, the impact of this matter is so great, and it is not us who will be the most uncomfortable at that time, after all, the relationship between His Royal Highness the Prince and His Royal Highness the Princess is obvious to all, as long as we don't wantonly interfere in the destruction, we should be able to maintain it for a long time, as for the future, we can only wait for later." ”

This is a no-compromise tactic.

Just whitewashed it with high-sounding reasons.

"At present, it can only be like this, we still give priority to ensuring the smooth transfer of power and helping His Royal Highness the Prince to stabilize his power. Earl Justin was the first to speak.

"At this time, it is indeed not easy to make extraneous branches. Earl Douglas finally clapped his head and said, "Everyone control their own people, don't be too persecutive to Her Royal Highness, no matter what, Her Royal Highness the Princess is also a credit to the royal family and has a deep relationship with Her Royal Highness, we can't make it difficult for Her Highness." ”

"That's exactly how it should be. Roderick nodded repeatedly.

The shamelessness peculiar to the aristocracy was vividly displayed in this small meeting.

At first, they were still indignant, wondering how to suppress Princess Sophilia and her close Eternal Night Warlord after the new king ascended the throne.

But when it is found that the strength of the two sides is not proportional, angering the other party will bring disastrous consequences for themselves.

Transformed into a change, and was ready to play the emotional card with Princess Sophia to maintain the relationship between the two parties, completely forgetting that he had a disgusting face before, and when the time came, they would lean their faces over, and it was still unknown whether Princess Sophia would be willing to deal with them!

The biggest obstacle to Princess Sophia's marriage to Sean is the old forces of the Lancelot royal family, led by the royalists, when they are silent about this matter.

The whole thing turned out to be more than expected, and Sean officially proposed to Princess Sophia at a pre-arranged banquet.

"Beautiful Princess Sophia, I would like to marry you and be my wife. I would like to promise you that from this day forward, in good times and bad, rich or poor, healthy or sick, I will always love and cherish you until the earth is long, and I promise that I will guard and accompany you until death, would you like to?" Sean knelt down on one knee and presented the huge diamond ring to Princess Sophia.

This should be a vulgar way to propose, and even the proposal has a bit of plagiarism.

Sean wanted to make a shocking ghost and god, but his emotional intelligence in this area was really a little insufficient, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with a better trick, so he could only follow what he knew best and the most cliché.

But whether it is cliché or not depends on the specific background.

If it is placed in Sean's previous life, this method is absolutely vulgar, whether it is a TV series, a movie, or reality, it has been used rottenly.

But in the Byron Alliance, it was a bit shocking, not to mention the guests, even Princess Sophia, who knew in advance, was a little shocked.

After all, this is a patriarchal society, although the status of women is somewhat loose, but the overall status is not very high, if it weren't for Princess Sophia catching up with the Lancelot royal family in a special period, she had to stand up, in the eyes of the royal family, she is just a marriage tool, just like most women from aristocratic families.

According to the normal process, the two held hands at this banquet to officially announce the relationship between the two couples, and then agreed on a time to officially get engaged.

The marriage proposal in front of him is purely a drama added by Sean himself.

After a brief silence, the entire meeting room was filled with a buzzing of discussion.

"What is he doing?"

"I should be proposing to Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

"Propose? Propose in this way? What do they think it is? This is a big matter related to the two families, how can it be such a child's play?"

This may or may not be a custom peculiar to the Andes. ”

"Barbarism, vulgarity, and only those uncivilized savages will use this method. ”

"It's ridiculous, it's so ridiculous, this kind of situation should only exist in the storybook, it's too messy, it's too messy, it's ruining our customs, if it spreads, won't it make countless boys who don't know what to do mess around?

Most of the people who reject this approach are traditional conservative men, who see it as a self-deprecating thing, even if the other party is a princess.

"It's so romantic, just like in the biographical story, the noble knight proposes to the beautiful princess, and I didn't expect to be able to witness it with my own eyes. ”

"What a beautiful ring, what is it made of? It seems to glow, you see, you see, that light doesn't look like a shield? It's amazing. How come I've never seen this ring before, is it a new product from the Eternal Night Commander?"

"If anyone does this to me, I will not hesitate to agree. ”

"Promise, hurry up and agree, what are you waiting for?"

Those aristocratic ladies and ladies, one by one, were fascinated and excited, eager to exchange their bodies.

Even if Sophia is not a princess, this moment will become the most dazzling existence in the audience, this is what many women dream of, many noble ladies secretly decided in their hearts at this moment that if their future groom did not do this to themselves, they would definitely not nod and agree to marry him.

"I disagree, what qualifications does a barbarian have to marry our esteemed princess...... What do you want to do? Hmm......"

Although these banquets are carefully arranged, there is still no way to completely prevent the stunned young people from coming out to make trouble.

It's just that this indignant young nobleman, before he could finish his speech, was thrown out by two guards dressed as attendants.

For this kind of person, neither Sean nor Sophia will be merciful, and they have already set up manpower, is it possible to really let that kind of thing challenging Sean in person happen?

Their marriage, where the wheel of a group of unrelated people pointed fingers.

"I do. I don't know if Princess Sophia was shocked by Sean's hand, or if she was enjoying the moment, she answered a little late, and stretched out her beautiful jade hand to Sean.

The happy smile on Xiumei's face that could not be concealed showed that she enjoyed the sudden surprise of this moment.

After Sean put the tailor-made diamond ring on her hand, she also took off the ring on her middle finger and put it on Sean's little finger as an engagement token.

At this point, Sean's relationship with Princess Sophia was formalized.

Sean is thirty years old this year, and Princess Sophia is thirty-three years old.

For them, life is just beginning.