Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

"Is there finally news?" Alexander's lips twitched slightly, and he whispered.

"Alright, you can step back first." Grand Duke Alexander took the original message and codebook and said.

"Yes!"

After the other party closed the door, Alexander opened the original message and began to translate, this is a matter between him and the [Northern] mercenaries, and only he knows about it, so it must be kept top secret.

"I didn't expect it to be done!" After reading the contents of the translated message, the man finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the thing that Alexander entrusted them to protect the Grand Patriarch of Isder was completed!

After all, this was an extremely important weight, and Alexander did not want to lose it, nor did he want to become a threat to himself in the hands of Grand Duke Vladimir.

"Phew—I hope the rest will go well." Alexander let out a tired sigh, a little helpless.

Despite being the Grand Duke of Novgorod, he was in a very difficult situation, and in addition to the open and secret battles of the surrounding principalities and the toughness of the Livonian faction of the Teutonic Knights in the west, the noble council in the city was itself a great threat to him. Long after he had defeated the Swedish invasion, his prestige had increased, and the people of the noble council had been quick to get rid of him!

Novgorod is different from the rest of Rus' in that its cultural system is more Western-oriented due to its long-term foreign exchanges, especially after the establishment of the Rhine Confederation, where the idea of a free city has become deeply rooted. And this idea was precisely in line with the interests of the Novgorod nobility, so for them the so-called duke was just a lintel, and it did not matter. Because of this, the Grand Dukes of Novgorod were far inferior to the families in charge of the aristocratic parliament in order to facilitate their control.

But Alexander Neussky changed all that. The miraculous victory in the Battle of the Neva increased the prestige of Alexander Neussky, who was only the heir to the duke at the time, and he was hated by the Novgorod nobles, who forced him to flee for a time, but were eventually forced to leave the mountain by the threat of the Teutonic Knights.

But even then, now Alexander did not fully receive all the power in the city. Those nobles simply wanted to use his military talents, which he could not tolerate.

"How did you come to this place to be a duke! Now it seems, what a stupidity! "Obviously, he was only in his early twenties, although it was said that he was a well-known nobleman in the east, but he came to this place to be angry.

"But now that I think about it, those guys actually want me to be a puppet! After all, a duke in his twenties is much easier to control! But. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be so controlled. Alexander said with a slight sneer.

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"How's it going?"

"What else? The Pskov principality has fallen, it seems that the Livonian faction of the Teutonic Order has gained the upper hand, and war is inevitable. We have no choice but to prepare! ”

"At the end of the day, do you still have to rely on that kid? What an unwillingness! ”

In the council of nobles, the old men gathered together and whispered like poisonous snakes spitting letters.

"There is no way for us to have to bear the price since we chose him in the first place, as the Western sages said, to wear the crown. It will bear its weight. An obedient good hound is only a hound after all, and it is impossible for him to help us hunt this world. And Alexander, as long as we throw enough benefits, he is a lion who can help us! ”

"But, Solzhenitsyn, he is a lion after all, and he is not yet fully grown, but one day he will become a greedy male lion that you can't feed, and if he will be eaten back, then in my opinion there is no need to raise it. This kind of ambitious guy. Once he was given the opportunity, it meant that the chains that controlled it were given to him. ”

"Since Patriarch Ivelomo has said so, I have nothing to refute. But I just want to emphasize that now the whole of Novgorod can count on who else besides Alexander? "Obviously, there was also a serious disagreement among the noble councils.

Basically, there were three factions, with a small group of people, led by the mayor of Solzhenitsyn, who felt that Alexander could be entrusted with a heavy task, and a small group, led by Patriarch Ivalomo, who insisted on the complete expulsion of the growing Alexandre Newski. And many more are watching from the sidelines.

They weren't at ease with the man. They would not be surprised if Alexander plotted to become the absolute ruler of Novgorod, after all, who could refuse the temptation of power. But there was one fact they had to accept, and that was that they had to tolerate the man's growing transgression, and that no one in the city was willing or able to stop the menacing Teutonic Knights.

In particular, after the hard-line and radical Livonian faction replaced the originally stable Prussian faction, the whole North once again fell into a major crisis of melee.

"Obviously, that man should be banished immediately!" Patriarch Ivelomo said loudly.

"Patriarch, if I'm not mistaken, you invited our Duke back in the first place, and if you want the Duke to leave now, I think it's up to you to do it!" Solzhenitsyn's sarcastic sarcasm made the Patriarch's face suddenly hang.

"Hmph, if you leave him behind, then wait for the day when you regret it!" The Patriarch, who couldn't get off the stage, could only say this.

"I suppose you are mistaken, Patriarch, that our greatest enemy is not Alexander but the Teutonic Knights, and if you feel humiliated by asking Alexander out of the mountain, I don't think you have to do so. As long as we are good at mastering, anything can become a sword in our hands, and we can't abandon it because of the sharpness of the sword! Isn't it, Your Excellency? Solzhenitsyn spoke eloquently, and the people in parliament frequently shouted yes, and his rhetoric gradually prevailed.

"I'm curious how you can be so confident, Alexander is uncontrollable, and I hope you adults can keep this in mind, once we lose control, our chess pieces can also turn the whole game upside down, or even bury the player. What do you say, Lord Likalov? The Patriarch had no choice but to put his hope on that man, and the people of the noble council could not help but look away.

The man sitting at the top!

Likarov!

Unexpectedly, he actually appeared here, the most respected existence in the whole of Novgorod, the only speaker of the entire noble parliament.

At the age of seventy, he attended this meeting, and all the nobles paid their most sincere respects.

"Ahem, I didn't expect that I haven't attended a conference for almost ten years, and many of you here are new faces, so I salute your elders on my behalf." The old man stood up from his chair tremblingly, greeted everyone with a smile, and the kind old man did not have the domineering of a powerful man at all, but seemed approachable.

"Lord Lykalov, I hope you will be able to decide!" Solzhenitsyn and Patriarch Ivalomo said at the same time that only Lykalov, who has the heaviest words, can now influence the situation and draw the neutrals of third parties into their camp.

PS.5.15 "Starting Point" is raining red envelopes! Starting at 12 noon, grab a round every hour, and a large wave of 515 red envelopes depends on luck. You all go and grab it, and the starting coins you grabbed continue to subscribe to my chapters! (To be continued.) )