Chapter 56: The Conspiracy Behind the Expedition

Early the next morning, Lisa heard Caroline rushing into the yard with her swelling head in her arms, and Lisa, who was worried about Caroline's physical condition, jumped up the moment she heard the movement, put on a cloak and hurriedly picked up the clay pot of water in her room to see how Caroline was doing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well,,, Lisa, I'm fine, you hurry up and rest again, I have to go back and sleep again, you don't have to worry about me." After retching for a while, Carolan also noticed that Lisa had walked to her side, and after taking a few sips of the jug handed by Lisa, Carolan waved her hand to indicate that she was okay. Yesterday, in the end, Carolan still didn't escape the fate of being drunk, Elise's alcohol consumption was simply five scum, Otto easily took away Elise and Rudolph directly and took a double kill, and then Otto, who couldn't find an opponent, naturally stared at Carolan who had been wandering off the sidelines. Not wanting to listen to what Carolan has to say, Otto had ten drinks with Carolan when they met, and then Carolan didn't know what was going on anymore.

"Master Carolan, if the water is not enough, I will let the servants burn it now." Hearing Carolan's words, Lisa didn't leave immediately, still looking at Caroline with a worried face. Since Caroline crossed over, she brought a lot of living habits that made the people of Klose Manor extremely uncomfortable at first, drinking water is the most typical point: Caroline only drinks boiled well water, and resolutely forced everyone in the manor to do the same as him, with Carolan's continuous words and deeds, the people in the manor finally slowly accepted the habit of boiling water.

"That's enough, I don't want to wait for the toilet to go all the time." Caroline smiled and returned the jug to Lisa, then turned and walked towards her room. "By the way, Lisa, you called me earlier today, I have to go to the Mirror Lake."

Carolan who walked back to the room found that she was not sleepy at all, in the morning light, Caroline looked at the pair of hands that became more and more familiar with her with time and sighed, although it was not like some fantasy novels, the body after crossing did not show any superpowers, but the quality of this body simply surprised Caroline, and as time passed, Caroline could feel that this body was still getting stronger.

"Well, yesterday Herman and Michael said a lot of things." Anyway, she couldn't sleep left and right, and Carolan began to sort out the information she got yesterday one by one. Hermann said that he was ready to give up his fiefdom at Fort Quetta in exchange for Henry's support of the Klose family at Blaneybel, and then Henry was also preparing to promote a new duke in Blaneybell, and then Michael said that Tobias was not involved in the expedition and that Diana was actually the only daughter of Uncle Michael。。。。。 Hehe, Henry wants to use this crusade to kill four birds with one stone, it's really calculated, but Michael and Herman are not simple guys. ”

In fact, yesterday's events may be foggy for others, but the superiority of being a traverser is fully reflected at this time, and Carolan has preliminarily figured out the game behind this matter according to her own insight and the information she has obtained so far.

First of all, Henry's current actions are actually one purpose, that is, to strengthen the authority of the royal family, and the most direct means of enhancing the authority of the royal family is to weaken the other families in the kingdom. In addition to the families of the tribal dukes, I am afraid that in Henry's heart, even the loyal Saxon nobles should be weakened. It's not about morality or betrayal, it's just something you should do as a king.

It has been said before that Henry relied on the power of the Saxon nobles to maintain his position in the early days of his ascension, and at that time, in order to secure his throne, Henry actually gave many privileges to the Saxon nobles who followed him to strengthen their strength in order to resist the malice from other parts of the East Frankish kingdom. And now the stable Henry has also begun to worry about the growing power of the Saxon aristocracy, especially after Hedwig gathered a group of Saxon nobles to impeach Otto at the kingdom parliament last time, Henry has begun to look at the familiar faces of his old friends who have been following him with a kind of scrutiny.

However, it is not advisable to suppress the Saxon aristocracy by forceful means, which will completely collapse the foundation of the royal family's rule of the kingdom, so Henry chose a softer way, that is, land exchange. By exchanging the Saxon nobles' territories in the heart of the kingdom with several times the land of Blannie Bell, and by tempting the nobles with a new duke's position, and by some political means, Henry was able to easily get the Saxon nobles who had recently made him sleepless to hand over their lands in Saxony. And the Klose family, as a family that almost relies on Herman's position in Henry's heart to maintain its top aristocratic glory, is naturally the best object in Henry's heart, because Henry knows that as long as it does not involve some of Herman's bottom lines, Herman will definitely agree to Henry's request.

Henry's game of chess has once again increased the strength of the royal family and solved some of the hidden dangers of Otto's succession; Second, the influx of powerful Saxon nobles into the Blaniber region will inevitably lead to the rapid development of that land, so that the royal family can save a lot of investment in the Blaniber region; After the emergence of the new duke of Browniebel, when most of the nobles in the region were born in Saxony, the new duke could not and would not always fall to the tribal nobility, so that the royal family could easily obtain a natural ally in the kingdom; Fourth, the appointment of a new duke by the royal family will undoubtedly make the prestige of the royal family to a higher level, and an additional duke will invisibly reduce the status of the tribal duke, after all, the position that can be appointed is not so sacrosanct. After figuring out this layer, Carolan had to admire that Henry was really calculating.

What the? You say the tribal dukes won't let the royal family appoint a new duke or something like that? If it was a few years ago that Henry the Bird Catcher was preparing to appoint a duke, such a big event would naturally not be accepted by other nobles, but now? Didn't you see that Paul, Duke of Franconia, visited Hermann's study with Henry yesterday? And Bavaria now wants to be the king of Lombardy, as long as Henry is willing to give Bavaria some support in this regard, Bavaria cares how Henry tosses it, you must know that now the Italian peninsula is hot (dish) noisy (chicken) non (mutual) mortal (peck), Arnulf feels that the Lombard Iron Crown is beckoning to him, so Bavaria at this juncture, as long as Henry does not harm the inherent interests of Bavaria, they are unwilling to conflict with Henry. As for Conrad I, Duke of Swabia,,, it was simply Henry's knight of the bodyguard. With only Giselbert, Duke of Lorraine, left alone, the Duke of Lorraine, the Duke of the Four Great Tribes, Henry could not stop Henry from passing the proposal to add a new duke to the kingdom council, after all, Henry also found a very high reason: to appoint a strong and powerful warrior to fight against the infidels on the east bank of the Elbe.

And Michael and Herman's final performance is actually very debatable, although they hide it in front of Caroline, they still reveal a lot of things to him. In short, Tobias and Klose actually reached an extremely secret and thorough alliance since yesterday, this alliance was established at the suggestion of Henry, after all, Henry can't let such a good horse boy of the Klose family abandon everything and run to Blaneybell to be the overlord of the land, isn't this the rhythm of letting his little brother go to the camp of the duke of the tribe, Henry naturally will not make such a low-level mistake, so he proposed to let Michael and Herman, who have always had a good relationship, form a marriage, Then leave the Tobias family, who are not so keen on land, in Memleben, and then contain the Klose family, who will be far from the emperor in the future.

Carolan knew with her ass that if the Klose family lost control one day, Henry would 100% use the marriage between Michael and Herman to directly participate in the Klose family's family affairs. The second son married and sat big, hehehehe, isn't this a reason for the separation sent to the door? As soon as Herman died, the royal family could easily dismantle the Klose family, which had the potential to become bigger. Henry had calculated everyone into this plan, and it was really a good calculation. However, Henry missed one point, that is, although Michael and Herman were very loyal to him, they also kept a hand for their respective families. Looking at the vague hints of Michael and himself, the identity of his eldest son Torres is problematic, that is, I don't know if he is biological or the identity is illegal, in this way, as soon as Michael dies, Diana, as his only heir, marries into the Klose family, and the Tobias family and the Klose family will be directly integrated, so that the combined strength of the two families is enough to make the nascent Klose family face any wind and rain!

"No wonder Henry looked at me like that with such a large group of men at the gate of the manor,,,, he wanted to think of me as someone who held the Klose family in check. "Carolan seemed to be smiling, but I don't know why there was no smile in his eyes.

"It seems that it is really underestimated." Carolan clenched her fists, at this moment Caroline's desire for a position of power reached a peak, the more she knew, the more pressure Caroline felt she felt, just because Caroline had a heart that wanted to protect her family.

"Lisa! Don't sleep! Gather the guards, let's go to Jinghu to inspect! The more she thought about it, the more time was pressing, and she was not in the mood to lie in bed and wait for dawn, so she simply jumped up and shouted loudly.

In any case, you have to be strong before you can participate in Game of Thrones, and sooner or later Carolan will be able to join the ranks of chess players, instead of being a pawn like she is now. Caroline got dressed and walked out the door with a sudden movement in her heart, and she didn't know why she glanced up at the chessboard on the desk in her room. Calming down, Caroline walked out of her room with her head held high.