"My dear, I'm going to build you a palace."

Men are probably like this, they always feel that divorce is a debt to women, Zhou Chenggong has always known that his wife Connie has some loving and vain character, but she can only live with him in a civilian manor. So before deciding to divorce, Zhou Chenggong planned to compensate his wife in this way.

Connie was delighted, "Yes, dear. Can I make some suggestions? ”

Zhou Chenggong smiled: "Of course, this is your palace, what do you want?" ”

Connie thought for a moment and said, "Palazzo Florence! Follow her to decorate, I love the Roman columns. In addition, there should be a square in front of the palace, and there should be a statue in the square, so use your military costume, my dear, your military costume must be mighty......"

Zhou Chenggong smiled and nodded continuously, approving every request of his wife.

Only finally did he bring up the topic of disappointment: "Honey. I'm afraid I won't be able to live in the palace with you! ”

Connie was on her head, puzzled, "Why? ”

Zhou Chenggong said: "Because I need-"

Zhou Chenggong thought for a long time, and it was a good reason that he needed an heir, because Connie had been with him for five years, and gave birth to two daughters for him in the first two years, and then he was not pregnant, and he had no male heir.

But Zhou Chenggong knew that this was all an excuse, so he suddenly stopped.

To put it bluntly: "I need you to make a sacrifice!" ”

Connie felt panic: "What do you want me to do?" ”

Zhou Chenggong said: "Divorce me!" ”

"No!"

Connie suddenly felt her world crumble.

"Am I doing something wrong? My dear, please don't do this to me! ”

Zhou Chenggong didn't know how to face his wife, in the previous years, he completely controlled his wife's every move, he thought that this was his ability as a man, but when it came to a critical time, he found that he was not such a man, he thought that he could easily persuade his wife to divorce him, but now he feels that it is difficult.

"Listen to Connie. We have to get a divorce. ”

Zhou Chenggong continued, and he felt himself swing the knife again.

Connie burst into tears, shaking her head vigorously.

Zhou Chenggong sighed and left the room silently, but asked Charlotte, the maid who came with him from England, to help him take care of the queen.

From morning to evening, Zhou Chenggong came to the harem again to visit his wife.

Connie's eyes were red, but her spirit had stabilized.

Zhou Chenggong didn't speak, took her hand, and sat silently on the side.

"Do you have to get a divorce?"

After a long time, Connie asked.

Zhou Chenggong nodded, he was also a little frustrated.

Connie added, "Okay, dear. I promise you! ”

Zhou Chenggong's body was shocked, but he didn't feel relieved as he imagined, but felt a big mountain pressing down, making him breathless.

He forcibly made his heart cold: "Whatever you want, I can satisfy you." ”

Connie laughed, "I want a palace, the design of the Florence Palace, with a few Roman columns, frescoes and a hall of five hundred people." I also want a square, with your costume like ......"

The official Greek newspaper suddenly published the startling news that the Greek royal family would build a palace named after Queen Connie. At the end of this message, a few simple lines tell the outside world that King Victor and Queen Connie, under the auspices of the Patriarch, announced their divorce. After the divorce, both the king and the queen will retain their respective titles, and they will continue to rule Greece. All official documents must have the titles of both the king and the queen in order to be legal.

The news caused a huge earthquake throughout Greece, and everyone did not understand why the two co-presidents of the king and queen were suddenly going to divorce, and the official did not give any explanation, only that everything was for Greece.

Only a month later, Greek officials announced that the king would marry Mary, the princess of the Orleans dynasty in France.

The Greeks were outraged, and this was not an outside instigation, it was completely spontaneous, and the local opposition took the opportunity to incite it, and for the time being the outside world could not penetrate it.

It can only be said that under the direction of Zhou Chenggong, Connie's character design in recent years has been too close to the people, young hot-blooded young people and nationalists worship their tough king, but ordinary people at the bottom love their queen. The Queen's concern for the poor has always been so sincere that she will personally go to the slums to comfort the poor, and distribute food and medicine to the lowest people all year round. A school was established to admit children from poor families free of charge.

Although it is impossible to benefit every poor person by giving food and medicine, the news can reach the ears of every poor person, so that everyone knows that they are in the eyes of the highest level. Desperate people are more likely to tie their emotions to a powerful person, and they need such a person as spiritual comfort.

So when the king and the queen announced their divorce, they didn't understand at first, and when the king announced that he would marry a French princess, they were angry. They thought that their benevolent queen had been abandoned by a ruthless king. Their poor Connie would have suffered this grief, just as it often happened with the irresponsible men around them who abandoned their wives.

A large number of Athenians gathered in front of the palace to meet the queen, and the agitated crowd began to confront the king's army.

Zhou Chenggong really didn't expect this situation, he thought that divorcing Connie would definitely attract criticism, but he didn't expect it to cause such a big emotion among the people. Allowing Connie to show an image of a mother in the world is the result of what he has been promoting. He made himself a powerful king, and his wife was a benevolent queen, who was strong and soft, yin and yang, and it was easier for society to stabilize society.

He overlooks the fact that people in southwestern Europe tend to be very emotional. This kind of thing is put in China, and the common people will not care. Even after the emperor was deposed, he would not let the common people evaluate it. In Britain, the common people are not so strong in action, and no one will want to take to the streets to protest for the marriage of the monarch. But it appeared in Greece.

This kind of unexpected thing makes Zhou Chenggong quite passive, but in fact, it is easy to solve, either Huairou or suppressed. Zhou Chenggong dared to marry France because he already firmly controlled the area around Athens, although he now has the nickname of the mayor of Athens in Europe, and ironically can only rule the area around the ancient city of Athens. But in this core region, his rule is absolutely powerful, and no force can challenge his majesty.

So it's easy to suppress, but that has too much impact on his personal image, and it's not difficult for Huairou, these people are there to complain for the queen, let them see the queen, let Kang comfort them, and the matter will be resolved. But Zhou Chenggong suddenly became stubborn, and he was unwilling to beg Connie.

He has changed, five years ago, he was patient and patient, but now he has begun to go his own way. It was hard to bear the mental compromises at first.

He didn't ask Connie, Connie stepped in on his own. If Zhou Chenggong was to manipulate it, he would let a few civilian leaders into the palace and let these people bring the queen's attitude back, and at the same time turn to religion and let the patriarch come forward to appease him. But Connie walked out of the palace and into the crowd, telling the agitated people that she and the king were peacefully divorced, that they loved each other, but they both loved Greece more, and that everything they did was for Greece. As for the reason, what Zhou Chenggong did not say, Connie said, she told the people that Greece needs a strong male heir, and she may not be able to have children anymore.

Connie's attitude quickly calmed the crowd.

But at this time, foreign infiltration began to exert force, and a large number of newspapers attacked the king, telling the people that the reason why Zhou Chenggong, who was born in the Chinese royal family, married Queen Connie was a conspiracy from the beginning, and that the assassination of President Capodiscolyas and King Otto I was a conspiracy of Zhou Chenggong.

Moreover, the report also suggested that France also participated in the conspiracy, and they used the example of the first French proposal that Zhou Cheng Cheng to come to Greece as king. The seizure of power in Greece was a conspiracy of the French and Chinese from the very beginning. All the Greeks were fooled and made a careerist and conspirator their king.

Zhou Chenggong has no way to spread these rumors, and these rumors are actually no threat to him. Because all the rumours were reported in the local newspapers, there was no such report in the Athens district, where the newspapers were heavily censored by the central government.

Zhou Chenggong could not suppress the local powerful faction, and therefore could not eliminate these newspapers. Over the years, instead of trying to eliminate the local powerful factions, Zhou Chenggong has blindly connived at them.

There have been calls in society for the equal distribution of state-owned land to civilians for cultivation, but Zhou Chenggong has not taken action because most of the state-owned land has been seized by local tyrants. Some of these state-owned lands are those that belong to the public according to custom, and this land ownership system is widespread in Europe, which is the reason for the enclosure movement, which is essentially not the aristocracy enclosing the land of the peasants, but the aristocracy enclosing the ownerless land and privatizing the public land. Other state lands were confiscated by Ottoman-era officials and armies.

Greece is a country of poor land, and if you don't count the maritime conditions, Greece is almost the most barren place in the whole of Europe.

The country is largely mountainous, with a very small amount of arable land located in mountainous valleys. This kind of mountain country can really develop a developed economic base, which is very rare in human history, and the Persian Empire is almost an exception. The ancient Persians built an underground river irrigation system to reduce evaporation and save water, and developed a developed agricultural civilization on the mountainous plateau. The Greeks did not develop such technology, so the ancient Greeks could only form city-states in valleys that were cut off from the surrounding area. As a result, from ancient Greece to modern Greece, there was never enough population and hinterland, and could only survive on the coast and rely on trade.

Don't look at the fact that the population of Greece is less than one million now, arable land resources are already very tight, a large number of civilians have no land, but the local tyrants occupy the best land resources. The unfair distribution has caused all kinds of dissatisfaction, and Zhou Chenggong has not taken any measures to solve this hidden danger, because he hopes that this hidden danger can be used by him to crack down on local powerful factions when it erupts.

He did not wait for these crises to strike at the local powers, but instead married into France, and his rule encountered one crisis after another. The invasion of civilians into the palace was one crisis, and the public opinion smear incident was another, but neither of them could shake his rule over Athens. However, the third crisis challenged his authority, and the leader of the Greek diaspora, Augustine Antonios Kapodistias, proclaimed the establishment of a Greek government-in-exile in London, rejecting the legitimacy of the conspiratorial Greek king Zhou Chengcheng.

Obviously, the British made a move, and seeing Zhou Chenggong's marriage with France, the British couldn't sit still, and they began to fight back.

Official Greece was indignant at this, lodged a diplomatic protest against Britain, declared Augustine a traitor, and demanded that Britain expel Augustine. But Britain turned a deaf ear.

Greece announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom. The British began to preach the question of the legitimacy of the rule of the Greek kings. Due to the strong international influence of the United Kingdom, the legitimacy of Zhou's success has really begun to be discussed by various experts and scholars. A crisis of political legitimacy triggered by marriage erupted.