Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Undercurrent Surging (8)

The nobles of London did not know that this night His Majesty the King and his uncle Thomas. What Baron Seymour said, only the next day he was personally escorted by Baron Smith to the court in London.

In the regency council room, Duke Edward, who had not rested all night, sat on the main seat, with two dark circles under his eyes, looking at the ministers who were arriving one after another, and also paid a little more attention to the Earl of Warwick.

And what is surprising is that the people around the earl are talking and laughing, and they are very energetic.

Seeing the fourteen ministers present, Duke Edward sighed unconsciously, his younger brother really made a stupid move!

"That's it! Gentlemen, This time we're going to look at Thomas. Baron Seymour, also known as Lord of the Admiralty, Privy Counsellor Thomas. Your Excellency Seymour's solution! ”

The ministers present did not understand what Duke Edward meant, and basically all talked about it.

"Ladies and gentlemen! It was last night that Baron Seymour instructed some pirates to attack the noble district, and a fight broke out in front of the mansion of our consul, the Duke of Somerset, and almost hurt His Excellency! ”

"What an accident this was! It was an accident that cost England all face! ”

"Therefore, I think that he should be hanged, so that he can make amends for his honor, and can warn those who come after him that offending the nobles is the end!"

Although the Earl of Warwick was a soldier and looked rude, he was articulate and expressed his views very accurately.

And the tone was full of thoughts for the sake of Duke Edward, but in Duke Edward's ears, how could the taste of sarcasm be so strong.

And the Earl of Boswell, who has always been known as the first subordinate of the Duke of Somerset, couldn't help but look at his Duke Edward.

Seeing that Duke Edward nodded slightly, Earl Boswell relieved his heart and looked real.

"I think Your Excellency the Earl is right, Baron Seymour dared to offend the Duke this time, so what about next time? I'm afraid even the venerable Majesty Edward will be in danger! ”

"Therefore, we must nip this risk in the bud and completely dispel some people's bad intentions!"

"And the hanging has such a function, and I support the opinion of the Earl of Warwick! Your Excellency the Duke, please think about it! ”

The Earl of Boswell spoke quickly, and said in one breath without leaving time for the ministers to think.

"Isn't it too harsh! To deal with a nobleman, I think it is better to deprive him of his title! The dignity of the nobility still has to be maintained! ”

The old Duke Horton didn't want his niece to lose another husband, so he couldn't help but say it.

"Yes! It's just that a few guards died! You don't need a nobleman to accompany you! How can we nobles be so cheap! ”

William the Marquess of Northampton. Parr, as Catherine's younger brother, still has to defend his brother-in-law, otherwise he can't give his sister an explanation.

Both neutrals spoke out, and the other also spoke out in support of Duke Houghton's proposal.

At this time, Thomas, who had always been silently a bystander. Archbishop Kranmer suddenly opened his eyes, and the ministers knew that the bishop was about to speak.

"The Earls of Warwick and the Earls of Boswell are right, and the opinions of the Duke of Horton and the Marquess of Northampton are reasonable!"

"God loves the world, and everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and I think the Lord will forgive this lost lamb too!"

With that, the Bishop sat down and became a sculpture again.

After listening to Bishop Thomas's opinion, Duke Edward couldn't help but ponder, he didn't expect that he had never expressed his opinion very much, and he had to take care of the Bishop's feelings.

In Thomas. After Seymour left, he had only four supporters in the Regency Council, one less than the Earl of Warwick, and could no longer get rid of such an important supporter as Bishop Thomas.

Let's spare Thomas's life! Keep your good name and appease the centrists by the way!

"As for Bishop Thomas's opinion, I think it is still reasonable, Baron Seymour is not guilty of death! This time he was removed from the title of nobility and fined another five thousand pounds! ”

Duke Edward finally expressed his opinion, which was both unexpected and expected.

Eventually, the Regency Council passed the punishment against Baron Seymour, which reached Edward at Whitehall Palace.

None of this was Edward's expectation, and he knew that the most important person for Baron Seymour to survive was Bishop Thomas.

As long as he made a statement, coupled with Duke Houghton's group waving their flags and shouting, his uncle had to think carefully.

Sure enough, Edward's overnight work as a bishop was effective, and Baron Seymour survived, and he also reaped a lot of results.

First, the Neutrals, led by Duke Houghton, fell to themselves; Then he finally understood Bishop Thomas's intentions, and knew that he was more supportive of himself; Harvesting the power of Baron Seymour in the navy, if you add the surrender of the Rio Shesley family, he almost completely mastered the navy of England.

Edward was very pleased with the success of this day, which almost laid the foundation for his pro-government path, and as long as it was not wasted, it was unsurprising that after the coup d'Γ©tat of 1549, his pro-government was a certainty.

With a happy mood, Edward began to run around the garden, and now after several years of purposeful exercise, Edward is still a little thinner than the average child of his age.

In order to change his fate of early death, but also to realize his imperial dream, and even more so to make his desire to reproduce, he had to work hard.

Time is fleeting and difficult to go back, and the past can only be recalled! After Baron Seymour was demoted to commoners, Catherine gave birth to her daughter, Mary, on December 30, 1547, at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire. Seymour, who did not die of puerperal fever or postpartum sepsis as she did in history, survived without incident.

In February 1548, in Edinburgh, which had been in a standoff for nearly five months, the English army was preparing to withdraw.

"Lord Earl! Can't you just support it! Edinburgh will soon be breached by us! ”

The Earl of Wellington and a group of generals rode on the hill, looking at the ruined walls of Edinburgh not far away, and one of the generals couldn't help but say.

"My Excellency, I don't want to withdraw my troops! But we all know that there is only enough food left for us to go back, and if we face off for another day, our army will collapse automatically! ”

"But ......"

"It's nothing, I want to take Edinburgh more than you do, but we can't bury these English boys in the hands of this Scotsman!"

After saying this, the Earl of Wellington stopped talking and looked at the walls of Edinburgh in a daze.

Soon the English army withdrew from Edinburgh, and ironically, two months after the English withdrawal, in April 1548, the French army finally arrived in Edinburgh two months earlier than in history because of the captivity of Queen Mary.