Most girls have dreams of being a princess, just as most boys have dreams of being a prince. When I grew up, some dreams faded away, gradually forgotten, or buried deep in my heart. Some dreams become obsessions, burdens, and even unrealistic delusions. These abound in past lives, in those around them, or in hearsay stories......

When it was daybreak, Prince Barras walked out of the Norman administration with Gunnevere in his arms. The former wore men's formal attire, while the latter wore women's long skirts. Their posture, expressions and movements are like a couple at the wedding scene, slowly walking towards the end of happiness under the witness of everyone.

Unfortunately, this is not a wedding scene, there are no flowers and applause, and there is no blessing from relatives and friends, and the solemn atmosphere makes onlookers feel depressed, and there is a dangerous atmosphere in the dark. Seeing Octavir standing not far away, Gunnevere did not show a surprised expression, but her expression was a little unnatural, and she lowered her head to avoid meeting her gaze.

The cordon built around the Norman-administered area was tightened by the addition of the Special Service. Prince Barras and Gunvael stopped in front of the cordon, turned around, stood opposite each other, and looked at each other in silence for two minutes before reluctantly letting go of their hands. Weiss let out a long sigh at the sight of Prince Barras, and walked towards the transport ship that had been parked there, while Gunnevere stood alone with his hands folded and watched him leave.

The entourage followed Ballas, and the Norman royal did not reappear.

At this time, in the distant sky, at the end of the line of sight, there were two Norman warships waiting there. Weiss had long been aware of their existence and knew that they were medium-sized ships of considerable strength. If they are going to come and forcibly seize people, he will notify the guards and special forces to act in advance and take control of the scene before the arrival of the Norman warships, so as to be invincible, but this also means an international conflict of a very bad nature, and the result may be to nullify all the efforts of both sides to promote the normalization of diplomatic relations!

The battleships stopped far away and did not enter the territory of the Federation, so Weiss just told everyone to be vigilant. Such a heart-wrenching confrontation is finally digested into nothingness, leaving Gunevere as a lonely witness. Octavir walked over and hugged her. In the eyes of everyone, the two did not say anything. They then returned to the federal administration and spent most of the day in a simple but comfortable lounge, only to come out of it until dusk approached. During this time, Weiss had food brought to the inside, but when they left, he found that the food had not decreased much.

"I will personally escort her back to Aocheng and back to her parents. Let's stop here! Thank you! After coming out, Octavier said to Weiss.

With that, she and her entourage of the Secret Service and Gunnivel boarded the military transport ship and left as quickly as they came.

What the hell is this...... After the departure of the Confederate transport, Weiss fell into a kind of confusion: Gunvael and Barras, two foreign men and women with incompatible status, really did such an outrageous thing because of their mutual attraction and inseparability? Or are they worshipped by all people, and their hearts are too empty, so they will find solace in each other, and will they take their deviant behavior as sincere?

In any case, Gunevere had settled down by the time she left, and it shouldn't have been a big deal to have her sister by her side, and the situation here didn't cause any accidents after all—Prince Barras's visit was not strictly a violation of the agreement or an offense to the dignity of the federal state, but rather a failure to "timely report" in the administration of international trade. Of course, rules are rules, facts are facts, and when this matter is reported to the top of the Federation, there are great variables as to what the bigwigs will think, but this is no longer something that Weiss can control.

After cleaning up the mess, Weiss returned to Mason. Not long after, it was another cold winter. After a year of operation and development, Lorraine has not said that it has undergone earth-shaking changes, but it has also made many positive progresses. On the industrial side, the second phase of the Canal Industrial Zone is advancing rapidly, and although many factories will not be commissioned until the following summer and autumn, as long as it runs smoothly, it can bring an increase of 3-5% in the industrial output value of Lorraine, which is already quite a good figure for a non-investment hot area. In terms of education, the preliminary preparations for the construction of the campus of Mason University Town have been completed, the road facilities are basically in place, and the teaching buildings have risen from the ground, and they will be put into use in batches and phases by the spring. In the areas of medical and health care, relief for the poor, some new measures have gradually played a positive role......

It was a very successful year for Weiss personally, not only as governor of Lorraine, but also as the head of the Clumber-Heisen family, and the new projects invested in by financing all brought rich returns, especially the rebuilt military production and the new new material factory, which can be described as a great success and fame and fortune. Through incomplete calculations, the overall value of the Clumber-Haysom family has increased by more than 40% over the past year. If this momentum continues, in a few years, they will be able to double the wealth they have accumulated over the past century!

In this "quiet" winter, in addition to sorting out the relevant government affairs of the state government, Weiss mainly focused on the cooperation with the Star Group - after the successful development of aluminum alloy materials in the Lorraine New Materials Factory, the Star Group decided to build a new assembly line in Lorraine for the manufacture of long-range bombers. In fact, according to Weiss's thinking logic, the manufacture of long-range bombers in Lorraine can easily arouse the vigilance of the Normans, and may even trigger a vicious arms race between the two sides, but the advisers of the federal military and the Star Group are confident that if the fighter production line is placed here, the Normans will have resistance and hostility. Instead, they can cloak the production of long-range bombers in the guise of large transport aircraft. In the context of the increasing international trade, due to the lack of a railway line connecting the east and west, bulk cargo mainly relies on flying ships to transport, resulting in an increasing shortage of transportation capacity and an increasing backlog of goods. If you can use a long-range aircraft to absorb a part of the volume, it is reasonable and reasonable.

Such an insight made Weiss suddenly enlightened. The more the Normans are confused, the better the strategy.

The new aircraft production line invested in Lorraine, the corresponding model and the four-engine aircraft project that the Star Group had been developing during the war. It may seem very high-end, but in this transition period from the industrial revolution to the electric age, the reliability and stability of mechanical technology are not so high. More engines, more lines, more operations, means more risk. Therefore, this four-engine project was the only project that the Star Group was unable to produce a physical prototype during the war. It wasn't until more than a year after the war that they barely built two prototypes, but the results were not satisfactory. It was not until Weiss and Nicolas "tinkered" with the demand-based aluminum alloy materials in Lorraine that the Star Group's four-engine aircraft project was greatly accelerated and quickly entered the substantive stage. Over the past six months, especially at the turn of autumn and winter, the new prototype has successfully flown and performed even better than expected. After intensive flight testing and tuning, mass production is already technically possible. Therefore, the Star Group carried out the final demonstration and preparation in the winter, and only waited for the spring to be put into construction.

For the economic development of the region, it is a good thing to attract industrial giants such as Star Group to invest, they can bring capital and technology and considerable jobs, and can also bring related industries, but on the other hand, it also brings new hidden dangers in national defense and security - the project is still being discussed, and there are abnormal movements on the hidden front, ordinary people may not be aware of it, and the security supervision department and even the local police department can realize this, they have repeatedly intercepted suspicious wireless telegraphy, And using radio monitoring technology, he found out a lot of hostile elements lurking in Lorraine. In addition, at the airport port of Belakasur, there are constant attempts to enter the Federation using the identity of businessmen, only to be exposed to the scrutiny of the federal security services, and such persons are either deported or tried by the federal side, but this is likely to be a "cover-up" by the adversary. The road is simple, and the real infiltration will not take such reckless measures, and the infiltrator can climb the long border and cross the deserted snowfield to Lorraine, while the more reliable channel is to divert from neutral countries, such as the Kingdom of Wessex. After the end of the war, the eastern region of Wessex maintained relatively friendly relations with the Union, and trade and personnel exchanges between the two sides were more active than in other regions. Under such circumstances, it would not be difficult for those with bad intentions to enter the Federation through Wessex and then travel to the target area they wanted to explore.

Despite the increasing number of suspicious people and their increasing activity, Weiss did not stop his progress because of his choking. After reaching various cooperation intentions with Star Group, the next step is to select a site for the new production line. It is not as simple as choosing a piece of land to build a factory, it must take into account all conditions, avoid densely populated areas, not be close to valley outlets, preferably near military stations, but not too close. In addition, the convenience of transportation also needs to be considered. Considering all these factors, Weiss proposed three alternative locations for the Star Group, all of which were in the middle of nowhere, and the workers needed could be recruited from Mason, Somsonas, and Wallens to prepare for the big town of Ou Cong - so that the workers could bring their families to form a new settlement next to the factory. During the industrial age, many new towns were born from this.