The succession ceremony, which had been prepared in a hurry, ended in a more hasty way, with more unspeakable panic and confusion.

The new emperor died during the succession ceremony, which is something that has never happened since the founding of the Soma Alliance, and the whole incident has a magical color.

But no matter how magical it is, it will eventually come back to reality, and the biggest practical question is: what to do next?

The country cannot be without a king for a day, the eldest prince is dead, who should inherit the throne next?

According to the law, it should be the heir of the eldest prince, but the eldest prince is good at everything, and the only bad thing is that he is not lustful.

The eldest prince is too keen on political scheming, and has always been working hard to do practical things and accumulate merits in order to earn political capital, which is not at all like the romantic nature of some princes in small kingdoms. As a result, he was thirty years old, with only one child, and a five-and-a-half-year-old girl.

Five-and-a-half-year-olds?And girls?!

It's almost a double negative.

At the age of five and a half, he is too young to support the great task of ruling the alliance, and the girl inheriting the throne and becoming the empress is too contrary to consensus.

In this way, the successor can only be chosen among the brothers of the eldest prince, and the second prince should be elected the most.

In addition to his age, the second prince is actually not weaker than the eldest prince in all aspects, and if he is really elected, it will not have any negative impact.

It's just that...... Considering that the eldest prince died in a strange way during the succession ceremony, and nine out of nine were murdered, from the perspective of the person who benefited the most, the second prince seemed to have become a suspect - in this way, the second prince inherited and could not completely obey the public.

That's the Third Prince.

But the third prince has always been sick and can't stand up, how can he inherit the throne?

Skipping the third prince, the fourth prince appeared in sight.

But if you think about it carefully, the suspicion of the fourth prince murdering the eldest prince is not small, after all, the eldest prince was murdered, and the second prince's benefit is too obvious, if he is smarter, he will not do this, so further inference, the fourth prince is even more suspicious.

And further, the fifth prince, the sixth prince, and even many members of the royal family have become suspects, and whoever is elected cannot really fully convince the public.

In fact, the Soma Union Law describes this situation, which belongs to the succession process, and there is a malicious assassination, then the sequential succession method should be suspended, and the province should let the potential suspect be elected.

After the suspension of the sequential succession method, a new successor should be elected by discussion in the palace council, according to the law.

It was only two years ago that the palace council was dissolved by the emperor of the Union, Pyotr Romanov, citing "tight funds in the treasury", and there is no so-called palace council in charge at the moment.

Because of the prestige of Pyotr Romanov, the palace council had always been a useless body, and its dissolution caused little protest, but now it has created a dead end - no one knows how to choose a successor.

And this can also be interpreted as: everyone has their own way of electing their successor, and they all want to use their own methods to elect themselves.

In the end, all the successors were not convinced by each other, and the private armies under their command fought fiercely, and their forces fell against each other, and Char became a battlefield.

The upper floor turned the sky upside down, and the lower floor was implicated, and the entire atmosphere of Char was extremely panicked. Prices skyrocketed, and bakers were the quickest to respond, and in just half a morning, the price of bread rose three times. After that, the panic spread from the baker to the craftsmen, merchants, coachmen, and everyone else, but after half a day, Char was already in chaos.

And this is far from over, the panic atmosphere spreads from Char to the surroundings, and the entire Soma alliance is gradually unstable.

In this process, it is worth mentioning that the Kingdom of Sika did not take the opportunity to make any small moves.

On the one hand, the kingdom of Sika has just lost the war and is in dire need of recuperation. On the other hand, the borders of the alliance and the troops in dozens of special garrison areas are not chaotic, and if the Sika Kingdom wants to make small moves, it may not be able to do it.

In the end, Sika is actually happy to see the Soma Alliance appear, after all, the Soma Alliance is in chaos, which helps to ignore them and let them develop. If they act rashly, it may make the Soma Alliance feel a sense of crisis and temporarily abandon the contradictions and unite, then it will not be beautiful.

In this environment, the southern capital of the Soma Alliance, Char, the chaotic day soon came to an end, and it was getting dark.

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Night.

Char's reception in the city, the courtyard of Richard's residence.

Richard was in his study, putting the finishing touches on the "Medium- and Long-Term Research Plan", occasionally stopping to look out the window and hear the faint sounds of fighting and explosions coming from the street.

Obviously, the darkness did not diminish the chaos, but greatly intensified it - as soon as the eldest prince died, the minister of ceremonies who presided over the succession ceremony was immediately convicted of murder and thrown into prison to extract a confession to death, followed by many people related to the succession ceremony, all of whom were purged, and the reception office was affected somewhat.

Speaking of which, whether it is the Minister of Ceremonies or the group of people who contributed the most in the succession ceremony, they are all considered the faction of the eldest prince, and it is impossible to murder the eldest prince. But for the rest of the princes, they don't think about this, they just find a reason to clear the obstacles.

After cleaning up the remnants of the eldest prince's forces, the rest of the prince's forces entered the stage of confrontation with each other, either attacking aggressively, or defending with all their might, or combining vertical and horizontal, or attacking from afar and closely, in short, trying their best to defeat all opponents and win the final victory.

Richard wasn't too concerned with these things, he was more concerned with the materials in the Royal Library.

In other words, there are only a few hours left before the deadline promised by the Emperor of the Union, Pyotr Romanov, and there will really be a breach of contract. In that case, perhaps he would consider going to the Royal Library to get it himself.

Thinking of this, Richard finished polishing the final content of the "Medium and Long-term Research Plan", put down the quill pen, and tapped on the table.

"Click, click......"

Or, notify Oscar and let the other party accompany him, indicating that he only wants to fulfill the contract and has no unnecessary malice?

"Tuk tuk. ”

There was a gentle knock on the door, and at this moment it sounded, and when I heard the voice, I knew that it was not Bibi, but a servant.

"Come in!" Richard exclaimed.

Sure enough, the next moment a servant pushed the door open and entered, and reported, "My lord, Lord Oscar is here, saying that he wants to visit you." ”

Here comes Oscar...... Visit...... Could it be that something was delivered, so it was saved to run by itself.

Looking at the servant, Richard spoke up and said simply, "Take me to Mr. Oscar." ”

"Yes, sir. The servant led the way and walked out quickly.

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