ps: First of all, thank you for your support, and then explain the comments of the book review, first of all, the problem of entertainment and movie stars, in fact, fundamentally speaking, this is a modern novel, except for World War II, there is no difference between other places and the 80s, the Ewdeed brothers may be disappointed, but this is the outline is not good to change at all, please forgive me, and then there is the question of background, in fact, you can understand that Hong Kong in the West, Monaco, may be somewhat similar in geography! And yesterday there was a brother who said Calradia, that's right, it's Calradia, the main thing is that the name of the country is too lazy to afford, borrow it.

At the beginning of June 1980, the weather had begun to get hotter, but for James in the United States, the heat did not affect his mood.

The European Reconstruction Plan has been passed by the US Congress, and sixteen countries are among them, the most notable of which is the Duchy of Nord, a small country with a population of less than 2,000 and a land area of only a few tens of square kilometers.

When the President of the United States put the Duchy of Nord in his proposal, the members of Parliament were in an uproar, but when a document was placed in front of them, the members of parliament stopped talking and planned their own thoughts.

The aid received by the Principality of Nord in the initial proposal was $80 million, but over the next period of time, $80 million gradually increased to $250 million, and it was at this time that James received the news of the president's appointment.

In fact, James did not have much dialogue with the President of the United States, and the two sides expressed their feelings for the United States, followed by some trivial matters in life, and it was not until the end that he told him the news that Nord was also in the United States.

James obviously did not react to this sudden pie, after all, he never thought that the US Congress would pass Nord to become a member of the aid, but the result was the opposite, and the final result was that 80% of the members chose to support it.

While James was puzzled, the president of the United States was also engaged in a conversation with his aides, and the content of this conversation was why Congress received 250 million in aid through Nord.

"Are you sure?"

"Director Smith is still investigating, and the satellite footage is very vague, but it can be determined that the Duchy of Nord has a high degree of intelligent machinery, and the speed of building a new city in a month is indeed a bit ......."

"It's good to be sure, otherwise how will we explain these 250 million dollars to American citizens."

The last sentence Mr. President said was very serious, but the expression of the assistant on the side already explained everything, of course, 250 million US dollars is indeed not a small amount, and there should be an explanation.

When the president of the United States was talking to his assistant, the European revival plan passed by the House of Representatives had also been known by the outside media, and the five-star hotel where James lived instantly became the main gathering place for the media.

"May I ask Foreign Minister James why the Duchy of Nord is at the top of the European reconstruction aid, and as far as we know, this time the Kingdom of Spain has not received ......"

"Foreign Minister James, there is news that the new Grand Duke of Nord is a child under the age of ten, is this news true?"

"Foreign Minister James, most of the members of your cabinet are French officials, does this mean that the Nord Duchy will become a member of France in the future?"

"Foreign Minister James ......"

When James first arrived in the United States, he longed for the current situation, but when the media really came, he was a little tired of it, mainly because there were many problems that he himself did not know, such as why the Nord principality was in the European revival plan, and it still accounted for a considerable proportion.

Some answered selectively, and claimed that although the Duchy of Nord was a dual monarchy, their officials were not called foreign ministers but ministers, and the departments were not ministers but ministers.

Secretary James fled the United States in disarray, and Joseph was working on his next plan, when James's son, a young man in his twenties who had just graduated from the École Polytechnique de Paris, had left for France to make contact with the Chinese embassy there and meet the ambassador.

The news from the United States had reached the Atlantic side by telephone, and when the citizens of Nord received the news, they rushed to the streets excitedly, shouting the name of Ragnar III.

The New York Times, the London Daily, the Paris Times, the Washington Daily and other well-known media from all over the world also rushed to Nord for two purposes: first, to see what kind of country Nord was and why it ranked first in aid, and second, to see Joseph, who was only eight years old.

Joseph was also informed of these things, so a five-star hotel was built on the coast of the northern city, which was financed by the small remaining treasury of the Duchy of Nord.

Kress had already set his sights on the sudden appearance of the buildings, so when Joseph used the funds from the state treasury and arranged for someone to clear and level the land, his eyes were already on the spot all day and night. Unfortunately, the final result made Kress very dissatisfied, and the layers of steel plates in the construction blocked the eyes of the eyeliner, and he wanted to get close but was stopped by the Praetorian Guards, even if Kress went in person, he did not let him go.

At this time, there were more than eighty members of the Nord Praetorian Guard, and these new members were no worse than the old ones in terms of loyalty, and the only thing they lacked was probably high-intensity training.

A small military camp was built not far from the Nord Palace, and the brainwashing day and night made these loyal Nord young people die for Joseph, believing that even if Joseph asked them to die, these people would not hesitate at all.

When these effects are concentrated on these Janissaries, even if they still use the guns of the German defeat, the real strength is no worse than that of the American Navy seals and the elite of the Coast Guard. It was because of these people that Joseph became more and more casual in the Duchy of Nord.

As long as the Praetorian Guard is in Joseph's hands for a day, then Kress will not be able to overthrow Joseph's rule, no matter how much power he has.

The continued appointment of Kress is still because of his relationship with France, France is a big country, and I believe that through this time the United States will recognize that the matter against Nord will also end, Kress will have to leave sooner or later, and what Joseph has to do now is to borrow Kress's identity and try to get benefits from France.

The United States can find out the changes in the Duchy of Nord, and France, as a neighboring country, naturally has no reason to ignore it, especially there is Cress, so a large number of French intelligence elites came to Nord, and for cover, truckloads of materials were also sent to Nord by the French government, on the grounds that the Principality of Nord deserved the spoils of war from the victorious country.

Of course, this is not a reason, but a fact, as one of the victorious powers, although the Duchy of Nord fought with only 3,000 soldiers in World War II and fell in one day, this does not deny the position of the Duchy of Nord.

Three years ago, Germany was defeated in the war, and according to the rules of the time, the Duchy of Nord was supposed to receive more than 200 million marks in compensation, but these reparations have been withheld by the French government, and even now, only one-tenth of them have been sent.

King Nord's Palace:

"Your Highness, are you looking for me?"

"Two things, the first is the arrival of the media from various countries, which must be taken seriously, to make them see our poverty as much as possible, to try to get more aid for us, and the second is to arrange for people to go to France about the issue of compensation that belongs to us."

At the time of his arrival, there were only five people in the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and James went to the United States to take one assistant with him, and now only this deputy minister and two assistants remained, so he expressed great difficulty with Joseph's instructions to the deputy minister.

"Reparations, the French government is not already ......"

"I'm talking about the rest, the German economy is in a depression right now, and Germany is in the US aid, and what I need you to do is to use the rest of the reparations to get a stake in the German Automobile Union."

"German Automobile Union?"

Joseph's words puzzled Mr. Deputy Minister, not so much as to what the French had to do with Germany, but because they did not understand why Joseph wanted an automobile union.

Joseph did not explain, but waved his hand to let him go down, the matter has been ordered, what to do next is the matter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he only wants to see the final result.

With the confused back of the Nord Deputy Foreign Minister, Joseph muttered: "Audi, industry, Novartis joint venture......"