Although Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu's impression of Emperor Randy is very good, whether it is appearance or talent, etiquette or behavior, as His Majesty the Emperor, she can get a high score, if there is anything that drags His Majesty the Emperor back, it can only be his woman, Lilianu's bad impression of Empress Artoria also affects her perception of Randy.

But a good impression is a good impression, but it doesn't mean that Lilianu is obsessed with Randy, Lilianu just wants to take advantage of this time to make friends with Randy, understand the character of the emperor of the northern power of Rome, how to deal with people and other things, so that she can better deal with this emperor in the future, Lilianu is not the kind of simple-minded Greek noblewoman, she will feel proud because she has slept with a man of what status, and even show off.

Lilianu exclaimed, and immediately understood that these boring damned nobles must have misunderstood the matter between the palace and the Norman Emperor and the Norman Empress. But understanding is understanding, but Lilianu can't explain it, the more this kind of thing is explained, the more unclear it becomes, or the more it is explained, the worse it gets, so Her Royal Highness gritted her teeth and made a very wrong decision, took Randy's hand and quickly separated the crowd and ran out of the banquet hall.

After the Norman Empress, the Norman Emperor and the Greek princess ran hand in hand again, and the hall was lively for a while, and people stopped dancing and began to talk about it.

"You say...... Will the Norman Emperor marry the Empress and later marry Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu? After all, they have been married for five years and have not had children. ”

"Hmmm! It's not impossible, but the current intelligence is a little less, and based on this information alone, it is impossible to deduce the correct answer. Another Greek nobleman frowned and said to his companion.

"My God, you saw that too, saw that, right? The Norman Empress ran away alone in anger, and then Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu confronted the Norman Emperor like this, and then they also left, so can't it be proven? ”

"Please! Personal feelings belong to personal feelings, national politics belong to national politics, the marriage of the king of a country can not only be influenced by personal feelings, and the queen of a country is even more unlikely to change so easily, according to my research and intelligence, in addition to being the Norman queen, she is also the queen of Britain, another barbarian country, and the Norman emperor marries her, which is to obtain a solid ally, as well as the tens of thousands of British troops that can be driven by him, which is much more important than personal feelings. ”

"Look at what you said, is our great Roman Empire not as good as a barbarian country?" The Greek nobles who spoke at first were somewhat dissatisfied.

"Of course, of course! The great Roman Empire, naturally, is not a barbarian country, it can be compared, but if you think about it again, the other party is the queen, and Lilianu is just a princess, this identity is different, the queen can give the entire country as a dowry to the Norman Empire, and our princess can do this? ”

"But Her Royal Highness the Princess can also become a queen in the future!"

"If that's the case, it's even less likely that they'll come together, can you imagine? A foreigner became the emperor of the empire? ”

Indeed, many Romans like to blame the turmoil of the late empire on the onslaught of barbarian mercenaries who joined the empire at that time, and whether this is true or not, if the electoral power of the Roman emperor was in the hands of a single barbarian, as was the case at the time, the Greeks would have been turned upside down.

"What you said makes a lot of sense, maybe it's just an affair!" The nobleman who had spoken at the beginning would have been persuaded to echo his companions in this way.

"But not necessarily, if things turn out like that, maybe ......"

"What does that look like?" The young Greek nobleman asked.

"Nope! It's nothing, I'm afraid I'm worried. The Greek nobleman, who seemed to have a lot of wisdom, shook his head and steered the conversation elsewhere.

Meanwhile, Randy and Lilianu, the focus of the group's conversation, unaware of how much trouble they had caused their actions, were confronting each other in the darker courtyard outside the palace in the moonlight.

Unlike the previous apology, he was pulled out of the palace with free wine for no reason, and Randy's mood was not very good, plus a merry person like Randy was naturally more aware of the problems caused by Lilianu's approach, so Randy's attitude was no longer so friendly.

"Well, Your Highness Princess, what exactly do you want to do? If nothing else, I want to go back. ”

"Before that, please answer my previous question." Lilianu said unrelentingly.

Randy seems to have figured out why this woman is failing.

After more than ten years of preparation, she has accumulated such a rich strength, but in the end, a failure put her in such a difficult situation, her father disintegrated her power system with almost no effort, and the character flaws of Her Royal Highness the princess are too obvious and emotional.

Too impulsive and doesn't know how to care about gains and losses, although it is said that an impassioned leader can be inspiring, but on the other hand, this guy will not make too correct judgments.

"Alright! All right! Because your previous questioning of Artoria was related to interests, and you thought that my queen harmed my national interests, so I naturally wanted to refute you from the aspect of gains and losses, but I didn't expect that Your Royal Highness would turn around and blame me for marrying Her Majesty the Queen because of interests, how could this reason be all taken by you, Your Highness! ”

Hearing Randy say this, Lilianu felt a little ashamed, this was the second time she had suffered Randy's loss in terms of tongue.

"Then Your Majesty, let's talk about it from the emotional aspect? Emotionally, do you really love your queen? Randy asked, unwillingly.

"Of course! I've been in love with Artoria since the day I met her, and nothing is more important to me than Artoria, not even the Norman Empire, not even the sum of everything I have. ”

After hearing Randy's answer, Lilianu, whose neural circuits were half a beat slower than Randy, realized that this kind of question was not what she should ask at all, and at that time, Her Royal Highness, the princess of the world's most powerful empire, felt that her face was hot.

"What exactly am I doing? It's like I'm jealous of that woman, and, and because ......" Lilianu's brain was in a mess at the moment, and she instinctively wanted to escape, but reason told her that even if she escaped here, she wouldn't be able to solve anything, and what she should do was to force her composure, make a ladylike courtesy to the Norman Emperor, apologize, and then treat it as if it hadn't happened, just do it!

"I'm very sorry, it looks like Hongu was a little ...... just now Forgive me for my recklessness, honorable Norman Emperor. ”

Seeing that the other party finally calmed down, Randy finally breathed a sigh of relief and replied calmly: "Where, I am also a little excited." ”

Immediately after the young, well-looking man and woman summed it up, Lilianu said, "We should go back to the banquet as soon as possible, and now that we have been away from the banquet for almost half an hour, the longer it drags on, the greater the misunderstanding will be." ”

Although Lilianu didn't say exactly what the misunderstanding was, Randy quickly understood what it was.

Although what Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu said is not unreasonable, but Randy doesn't think so, although human beings have endless imagination, but in fact, most of human imagination is bound and confined to a range, that is, the erotic aspect, even if they return to the banquet hall quickly, there will definitely be many people who think that something has happened between them, and the transience of time will only be understood as a lack of Randy's ability, which is unacceptable to any man with self-esteem.

"So we'd better slow down a little bit and have a chat, in fact, it's a bit awkward to go back." Randy said to Her Royal Highness.

Looking at Randy's more embarrassed appearance, Lilianu nodded subconsciously, and soon felt that something was wrong, but if she wanted to refuse at this time, it was a little too rude, and Her Royal Highness finally reluctantly agreed to Emperor Randy's proposal, took a walk in the courtyard, chatted, and then disbanded and went home.

Although it was already winter in November, Constantinople had a Mediterranean climate and the seasons were like spring, so Randy and Lilianu found a secluded place to sit down and start chatting.

Speaking of which, Randy is also a talkative person, and the third life is a human being, and he has experienced too much more than Lilianu, so soon this chat was dominated by Randy, Lilianu sat next to him and listened quietly, hoping to get some knowledge from Randy that he couldn't usually learn in books.

"So the whole world is actually a very big concept, but what we know only occupies a very small part of this world, this world has too many undiscovered territories and countries that are very far away from us, such a huge world is too small compared to the whole universe, thousands of stars, and sometimes I will feel that the intrigue between the nations nowadays, attacking each other, just for those small, worthless territories, such behavior is extremely ridiculous."

As she spoke, Randy suddenly said something like this, much to Lilianu's surprise.

"These are not the words of a conqueror!"

"Perhaps! Perhaps it would be strange for an emperor, an emperor who seemed to outsiders to be very enthusiastic about territorial conquest, to say such a thing, but in fact it was. Territory, wealth, power, status, it is true that they are all very attractive, but no amount of these things is meaningless to me, too large a territory is not easy to manage, too many people are the same, wealth is enough to meet one's own expenses, too much wealth is no longer of any use except to be coveted by others.

"So what exactly are you expanding your territory for? Or what is your purpose? ”

"My purpose...... It took me nearly six years to conquer the whole of Scandinavia, England, Eastern Europe, and some scattered lands, Normandy, Brittany, North Saxony, Malta, Cyprus, and I completed all of this in almost six years, and now it seems that nothing has gone wrong with my empire, which means that I can continue to expand outward, if I can live to be eighty years old, it will be sixteen years, and I can expand the territory of the empire ten times as much as it is now, Lilianu, you can imagine, What kind of pomp was that? ”

"Is it ten times bigger than it is now? This must be a bigger empire than the Roman Empire in its heyday! ”

Yes, that's what I want, but that's not enough, having a huge territory is only the first step, and more is needed, and the empire I want to build should have a strong army, a sound system, sound laws, creative arts and literature, and sophisticated technology and science, an empire that surpasses all other nations in human history. ”

Perhaps this empire will decline or even perish in the future, and in the off-season, after thousands of years, there will be people who will remember everything about it, and people will feel excited, feel their blood swelling, feel extremely yearning, and when they mention me, they will say this:

"That man named Randy von Hoffmann created the greatest empire of all time, not only the conquerors and emperors who wanted to make a difference, but also the literati, scholars, scientists, philosophers, and ordinary people would say so, this is my ambition, my unique heart."

Hearing Randy say this, Lilianu only felt fascinated, and her gaze at Randy became more eager.

"This man is different from others, he is different from the kings and lords who are only for power and land, he is greater, more intelligent, and his ambition is more perfect than theirs, if such a man is an enemy of Rome, Rome will not be able to resist its power in any way, a few years ago Rome managed to defeat him with all his might, and finally began to decline because of it, but now he is stronger, and Rome's power is gradually declining."

"I want to ask Your Majesty's heroism and ideals, which I admire very much, but I wonder what will happen to our Roman Empire when we are chasing this ideal underground?"

Randy's expression was stunned, just now he and Lilianu had a rather speculative conversation, and he could already call him by his name, but after Lilianu heard his words, he changed his address to Caesar again, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good, it seemed that he had just blown his head over the cowhide, which had aroused the other party's vigilance.

But Randy is Randy, this little mistake is not difficult at all, this super debater who can turn black and white upside down, hearing Lilianu's question, Randy smiled lightly: "Maybe you don't believe it, but that's the truth, I don't want to destroy Rome, because it will take too much time and energy, wealth and troops, more than my nascent empire can bear, so my plan will be more inclined to cooperate with the Roman Empire." ”

"Your Majesty doesn't want to attack Rome? So where do you get the land you need? ”

"I have already said that this world is very large, and the scope we know now is very small, but it is only around the Mediterranean Sea, occupying less than 1/10 of the whole world, maybe the Eastern Roman Empire thinks it is a big country, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the world we know, and the world we know is also not worth mentioning compared to the unknown world."

"With all due respect, Your Majesty, although what you said sounds reasonable, it is too broad and empty to dispel the doubts of the Palace, although what Your Majesty said is quite amazing, but if you want to accomplish all this, territory, population, and wealth are the most basic conditions, Your Majesty will eventually expand, and in this so-called known world, Rome is the richest, the most territorial, and the most densely populated country, how can you let the Palace not worry?"

(End of chapter)