Seeing Ballas this time, there is nothing else to talk about, but Gunevere is a topic that cannot be bypassed. Weiss and Gunnevere are only old friends and have no deep friendship, but she is the teacher of her sister Bella and the sister of the "good brother" Octavier.

In times of peace, Ballas and Gunevere's romance sparked heated discussions in both countries, with some seeing it as a romantic fairy tale across countries and classes, while others felt it was a doomed fate. Later, the two finally won the approval of both families and held an engagement ceremony, but they suffered an assassination incident, which caused an uproar and caused the marriage contract to be postponed again and again. About five months before the outbreak of the war, after repeated negotiations between two countries and two families, they finally came together and held a dreamlike wedding. Sadly, the newlywed, Ballas went back to the battlefield and once again became the enemy of his beloved wife's country, and what is even more ironic is that this war was led by him and the Norman officer corps - and no matter what role Albert really played in this series of events, there is no doubt that without the acquiescence and cooperation of the royal family, the military and the government would not have risked the world to create such a shocking deception!

"No matter how bad my end is, the Hohenstaufens will take care of her, and no outsiders need to worry about this." Speaking of Gunivale, Barras's tone became a little cold.

"I'm friends with her, as you know. At the same time, my sister is very concerned about her teacher, and my best friend is her sister, and they are both eager to know how she is doing......" Weiss said.

Barras showed his inherent arrogance, as if he was still on top of him at the moment: "She's fine, except that I can't be there for her, everything is fine. Now, you can leave satisfied, I have not been crushed by fate, and even if you make a disgusting verdict, I will accept it with my head held high! ”

"Aren't you worried about the outcome of the trial?"

Barras smiled coldly: "I don't need to be reminded, someone has already warned me - this war violates the peace treaty of the previous war, and it also goes against the will of many people, allowing millions of lives to fall on the battlefield, there will always be someone who will stand up and take responsibility, and there will always be someone who will be responsible for all this...... That person, maybe it's me! ”

Before leaving, Weiss asked one last question, about the origin of the Star Source Stone, and he didn't expect the other party to answer seriously, but Barras said seriously: "You imaginative people are full of curiosity and anticipation for the vast starry sky. I can responsibly say that most of the source stone minerals we have found are produced on this planet and have nothing to do with the so-called extraterrestrial spacecraft. However, this does not mean that all speculation about extraterrestrial life is unfounded. Judging by some of the marvelous ruins, it was true that civilizations from outside the planet had visited, but that was many, many years ago. They left something unbelievable, and judging by the initial cracking, they came here for refuge, perhaps their arrival brought life to the planet. Unfortunately, for some reason that we can't crack yet, their civilization hasn't survived to this day. As for what devastating changes have taken place over the long years, it is up to you imaginary people to crack it! We, the realistic people, only care about what happens today and tomorrow. ”

Weiss nodded and left.

After much consideration, at the final public trial, he described to the court in the most objective and neutral manner possible the conduct of the commanders of the army and the rank and file during the occupation of Lorraine by the Norman army. Despite the high call for the hanging of war criminals, the Joint Tribunal ultimately sentenced only 20 Norman officers to death for the crimes of torture and abuse of prisoners of war and civilians, while the vast majority of Norman soldiers, including Barras, were sentenced to life or term labor, which meant that they would spend the next few years and the rest of their lives in forced labor. It was a great disgrace for a man of noble birth like Barras to be sentenced to hard labor, yet when the sentence was pronounced, he smiled as if he were very pleased with the result. Correspondingly, the officers who were tried with them, including Field Marshal Sedlintz, who was also of noble birth, also seemed very calm and calm, as if all this did not exceed their expectations, and even gave the illusion that they could escape from prison at any time and make waves again.

After the deliberations of the joint tribunal and the agreement of the various governments, the Norman war criminals were to be subjected to labor in the fortress of Mira, and their main job was to mine, and the excavated coal was transported to the ironworks for production.

At the end of the war, the regions and towns that had been baptized by the war were in ruins, and people threw themselves into their work with great enthusiasm, and they were happy to make some innocuous jokes in addition to the fatigue of labor. Perhaps a mockery of the situation of the Norman officer corps, "mining" quickly became a buzzword in the newspapers and in everyday jokes. What could be more gratifying than the high Norman military commander, the heroic Highness Ballas, and his formidable generals and commanders who were punished for mining?

If there are popular searches in this era, then mining will presumably be in a very prominent position for a long time.

Not only in the civilian sector, but also in the military and political circles of various countries are happy to use mining to ridicule the Norman officer team who did not encounter complete defeat on the battlefield but were stabbed by their own people. Jokes aside, as long as this group of people remained, no one dared to take them lightly, and their place of detention was closely monitored by more than 10,000 allied officers and soldiers, who belonged to three regiments and five battalions, and three complete regiments were stationed on the periphery of the fortress, relying on the terrain to build a fortress-like defensive position; Five battalions are deployed in the inner ring and are responsible for constant patrols day and night.

More than 10,000 people are watching over more than 200 people, and this is probably the most bizarre sight ever. For most of the six months after the trial, the Norman soldiers in custody were surprisingly calm, as if the barricades were not holding a group of highly intelligent soldiers, but a group of docile sheep, but people also knew that the calmer the surface, the more terrible the crisis was hidden inside.

During this period, in accordance with the terms of the armistice, the federal forces entering the Norman Empire were gradually withdrawn, and the Normans fulfilled their obligations by reducing the size of the army to an unprecedented low and dismantling the equipment related to military production and military research and development. All this is going according to the ideal situation and schedule, so that even the demanding inspectors can't find any fault. The last Union troops withdrew to the border that winter, leaving only a handful of observers and observers to continue to monitor the Normans.

After completing the first phase of the armistice, the Norman Empire unexpectedly began to push forward with constitutional reform. In essence, constitutionalism can be an extension of autocracy or a variant of democracy, and the key lies in the form and rules of constitutionalism. The Normans' top-down approach to constitutionalism naturally tended to be an extension of autocracy, but the populace cheered and felt that it was a remarkable change. The constitution, parliament, voting, and all kinds of democratic things and rules were also many under the constitutional system of the Norman Empire, and taking the opportunity of constitutional reform, the top of the Norman Empire carried out reforms covering government affairs, education, medical care, science and technology, and finally military with great momentum.

At first, Weiss admired the crown prince Albert and felt that his ability to implement constitutional reform in the position of ruler was a great attempt and breakthrough, whether it was to move towards democracy or maintain autocracy. In the course of this magnificent reform, the regent also enjoyed the support of the majority of the Normans, and was even named the "Enlightened King".

While the reform of the Norman Empire was in full swing, the federal government convened experts in military, political, educational, scientific and technological fields to meet in Austria to study the actions of the Normans and their subsequent effects. At this conference, Weiss saw the texts of the Norman reforms, and he was supposed to come to the conference as an expert in administration, but when he saw the Normans' military reform plans, it was like seeing another familiar script in time and space: a defeated country only kept 100,000 troops, which seemed insignificant, but cast them into a special teaching team, and when the country was given the opportunity to rearm, the 100,000 soldiers became the backbone and soul of the newly formed army. Today's Normans seem to have followed this path.

Shocked, Weiss looked through the Normans' reforms in the industrial economy overnight, and found that many of the reforms and deployments were hidden under the cloak of peace with a determination to rearm. From this point of view, Albert is indeed better than Ballas. Not only does he have an iron will and determination, but he also has a terrifying wisdom that ordinary people can't fathom through, and will he be willing to be coerced by the army during the brewing and outbreak of the last war? Is his frail illness a fact or an illusion? What kind of relationship did he have with Ballas?

These questions made Weiss think about it very scary. At the end of the meeting, he compiled his analysis into a complete report, entitled "The New Clothes of the War Demon", which aroused enthusiastic responses from the participants. Through various analyses, exchanges, and discussions, it is widely believed that the Normans remain the greatest threat to peace, and that the shadow of war lingers. Although these are only inferences and cannot be used as strong evidence against the Norman Empire's violation of the peace agreement, they have aroused the vigilance of many people of insight, and made the top level of the Confederation decide to take some preventive measures: externally, strengthen the surveillance of the Norman royal family and the military and political leaders, rationally use the peace clause to probe their armaments, and suppress the transgression; Within, the research and development of military science and technology will be fully restored, the army's innovation plan will be launched in advance, and a preventive war against the Norman Empire will be planned; In the shadows, it provided strong financial assistance to the radical revolutionaries, anti-government factions, anti-emperor factions and other organizational forces within the Norman Empire, and promised to give political and diplomatic support at the appropriate time.