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"I want to see Your Highness!"

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency Prime Minister, Your Highness is resting."

"The French ambassador has an urgent matter to find His Highness, I order you to ......"

"I'm sorry Mr. Prime Minister, I am a Nord Praetorian Guard, directly subordinate to the Grand Duke, and I can refuse your order."

"I ......"

If he could, Kress would have liked to say something about me, but his status did not allow him to do so, so he could only stand outside Joseph's door and wait.

Fortunately, the arrival of James solved the embarrassment for him in time, although Joseph had been appointed as the foreign minister of the Duchy of Nord, but his status as the butler of the Grand Duke's Mansion had not been relieved, so he continued to live here, just to add some diplomatic information to the matter.

"Morning, Your Excellency Prime Minister."

"Early James, I have an urgent matter for His Highness, the French ambassador will be here at noon today, I hope His Highness can meet ......"

The reception is just a nice word, but it actually wants Joseph to greet him, so before Kress finished speaking, James couldn't help but frown slightly and interrupted: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, this is not in accordance with the rules, His Highness is the ruler of Nord, there is no reason to welcome the ambassador of another country, you can let him wait first, His Highness will naturally receive him if he has time." ”

James made it clear that there was no reason to greet the ambassador of another country, which made Kress blush slightly, and he must have realized that his behavior was somewhat inappropriate, but Nord was only a small country, and his status was really not as high as that of a French ambassador, so it was reasonable to do so.

This kind of thing is the wisdom of the wise, and from James's eyes, Kress saw resoluteness, so he did not continue to entangle, and confessed and prepared to leave.

"Is it Cress? Come on in! ”

When he woke up early in the morning, he heard the noise outside, and he was stunned for a moment, and Joseph remembered that he was no longer the college student Zhang Jun, but the Grand Covenant of the Principality of Nord, Joseph Ragnar III.

Joseph didn't know what was said outside, but the main purpose of letting the other party in was to clean up the northern city of Suno, which had long been uninhabited, so Joseph was going to use it as the location of the new city.

Outside the door, Kress glanced at James as he straightened his suit and walked into the bedroom, and then James walked in with concern in his eyes, worried that Joseph would rashly agree to meet the French ambassador's request.

However, his worries did not come in handy in the end, and Joseph was not stupid, especially since his mental age was not the age of the eight-year-old boy on the surface, so he was the first to say before he could say anything before Kress could enter the door: "I need someone to help me level out the North Town." ”

Looking at Joseph, who was getting dressed, Kress only said one sentence: "Reason, my Highness!" ”

This question made Joseph pause, it was obvious that he did not expect Kress to refuse so bluntly, but it was only a meal, and it was only an instantaneous return to normal.

Just as Kress was thinking about how Joseph had explained how he had shirked it, a muffled word reached his ears, and at the same time, the corners of James's mouth, who was about to come in, lifted slightly.

"There is no reason, Prime Minister, I am the Grand Duke of Nord."

There is no so-called domineering outer building, there is no aura oppressive, there is just a deep voice of an eight-year-old boy, but it is this low sentence that Kress stood in place for a long time.

"Do your bidding, my Highness."

Cress suddenly felt a little blocked in his heart, and he found that things were beginning to go beyond his expectations, and he didn't say anything more about the French ambassador until he left.

Why didn't he change so much in a day? Could it be that the coronation still has such an effect, the little guy does not look like an eight-year-old boy at all, everything about himself seems to be exposed to his eyes.

After Kress left, Joseph pointed to the map of the Duchy of Nord on the table, and said silently: "Everything will start here!" ”

Half an hour later

Joseph looked at the little boy in a small black suit in the mirror, with a delicate face, blonde hair and black eyes, and nodded with satisfaction, everyone said that mixed-race children are more beautiful, and they really don't deceive me. Although the self in the mirror is not as good as some princes in the Middle East who look against the sky, the term Xiao Zhengtai is also suitable for himself.

Walking out of the door, the two Praetorian Guards at the door hurriedly approached, one of them wanted to speak, but looking at the ruddy face of Joseph, he finally did not speak.

"Your Highness, where are we going?"

The Nord Royal Praetorian Guard is now the only army in the Nord Principality, but when it comes to the army, in fact, there are only 30 people at full capacity, and even the commander of the Janissary is temporarily served by James, which shows the embarrassment of the Nord Principality.

"Walk around without notifying James."

One sentence interrupted the two Janissaries from looking for James, one of them continued to follow, while the other ran to drive, Joseph's car was not a Les-Royce Phantom, a Bentley RV, as a country where most of the cabinet members were French officials, from top to bottom, most of the vehicles here were Renault or Peugeot.

Joseph was no exception, when Joseph walked to the door of the first floor, the black sign had already stopped there, and he shook his head with some grievances in his heart Joseph got into the car under the attendant of the Praetorian Guard.

This can be said to be the first time Joseph has seen his own palace, although there are many related pictures in his memory, but the memory is a memory, which is completely different from facing it with his own eyes.

As a ruler with a territory of just over 20 square kilometers, his royal palace is naturally not comparable to Versailles and Buckingham Palace, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is also one of the best mansions. There are also thousands of square meters from south to north, vertical and horizontal east and west, of which the construction area is 600 square meters, and the rest is a small green square in front of the palace.

The Nord Palace does not only represent Joseph's residence, in fact, Kress's cabinet office also worked here, but they occupy the first floor.

The palace is located on the only mountain range in Nord, and the mountain building is only a royal palace, which is the first line between the east and the west to France, when Ragnar I built his palace here for the purpose of defending against the enemy, in the words of the East, the Son of Heaven guarding the country.

Riding down the hill to the main road of the central district of Nord, Joseph saw bleak streets, yellow-faced and thin passers-by, and civilians holding signs looking for jobs.

"Your Highness, it's not your fault, and this is not only the case in Nord, but even in France, and even in the east of France, some cities are not as good as our Nord......"

Joseph did not doubt the Praetorian Guard, after all, this is a remote area of war, compared to the east of France, where a large number of young people are mainly observed, and there is not much damage in terms of construction.

After a walk, Joseph's originally good mood disappeared, there were few shops in sight on the main road, and the industry was almost zero, and the Nord ...... at this time There is still a long way to go!

"Let Kress come over."

Before entering the study, Joseph asked the Praetorian Guards to call Kress, and during the time that Kress had not yet arrived, looking at everything in the study, he could imagine that the titular father was here to worry about the development of Nord, he could have been a carefree playboy, but the responsibility of the state completely crushed the good prince.

Turning over the work on the economic construction of the country, which Ragnar II had not finished reading at the time of his sudden death, Joseph fell into deep thought for a moment, and did not even know that Kress had come in.

"Sorry, a little distracted."

"Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, one of His Highness Ragnar II's favorite books."

"I heard that Kress and you are good friends with my father?"

"We have fled together, we have been captured together, and what I admire most about your father is that he can maintain an optimistic heart at all times, he is a good man."

"But it's ironic that such a man who is always optimistic should die suddenly in his study, isn't it, Uncle Cress?"

"Your Highness......"

"Today I went to the Central District and it gave me a bad feeling."

"I'm sorry!"

"No, it's not your fault, you've done your best to get to where you are, but I want to know how many people in our country still don't have jobs, how many people don't have a place to live, how many ...... Youngster. ”

Kress was silent for a long time when he heard Joseph's words, and just when Joseph was a little impatient, some decadent voices came: "Now most of our country are middle-aged and elderly people and children, and less than one-tenth of the young people live, and the place to live can be satisfied, after all, there are many people who have fled, and the vacant houses can fully meet the needs, as for the people who do not have jobs...... A lot. ”

Less than a tenth, a lot, such vague words can only say one thing, and it is so bad that Kress is reluctant to mention it, or even can't say it at all.

Taking a deep breath, Joseph didn't force Kress to tell the details, and said with a slight smile: "Everything will be fine, the war is over, isn't it?" My Mr. Prime Minister. ”

"That's right, the war is over, everything will be better."

"I'm talking about the Duchy of Nord."

"Yes, it's the Duchy of Nord."

"Go get busy! The matter in Beicheng District will be dealt with as soon as possible. ”

Hearing Joseph's words, Kress promised to leave, but just as he walked to the door and was about to close, a similar murmur reached his ears, and the content of the words made him stunned for a long time, and then he left in a hurry.

"I've dismissed the palace doctor, Uncle Cress, and I don't want the same thing to happen again."