PS: I just saw that it was blocked, so I resent it

Inside an old castle on the outskirts of Prague:

Jessica lay in Ernst's arms, and since she had been in Prague for some time, the Jewish girl who was her mistress had become accustomed to life, and Ernst would spend most of the evenings with her because of Archduchess Maria's presence in Siberia.

In the face of her current life, to be honest, Jessica is not dissatisfied, although she has not interacted with anyone else, but her widowhood is an indisputable fact. It is very rare for Ernst to be by his side as a monarch, and Jessica no longer thinks about love at this age.

Even if Archduchess Maria is no longer in Prague, the royal palace in Prague is also her forbidden place, and Ernst must ensure Maria's dignity and status, which is his guilt for Maria. I don't want to admit it, but the truth is there, and Ernst does show signs of using Maria in many places.

Officials from the Czech principalities held the power of the new Russian Empire, and even the military power was almost in the hands of the Czech-born generals as it slowly depleted. Although the army under Schellner's control was quite numerous, the Soviet government kept him firmly anchored to the border.

Empress Maria was not a puppet, but she was not far removed from a puppet, and the new Russian Imperial Cabinet was mostly self-conscious or asked the Czech principalities very rarely for her advice. That is, if Mary had been replaced by someone else, she would have already figured out a way to regain power.

Castle Riehnster put his arm around Jessica a little tiredly, and what he didn't notice was Jessica's hesitant expression. What to hesitate about? Jessica is a smart person, she knows that there is only one way to keep her position all the time, and now that she has succeeded most of the time, the only thing hesitating is not knowing what to tell Ernst.

"You have something you want to tell me?"

Ernst is not blind, how can he not see Jessica's hesitation all the time, of course, this is also Jessica's deliberate, there are some things that are very different from passively asking and actively speaking.

"I ...... I'm pregnant. ”

After a pause in the hand that was stroking up and down, Ernst looked at Jessica with a complicated expression. At this time, it was not only his face but also his heart that was complicated, after all, this was also an unexpected but expected thing. It was expected that it was normal for Jessica to be pregnant after being together for so long, but unexpectedly he didn't expect Jessica to have no measures prepared.

"You, what do you want to do with this?"

Ernst is also in his twenties, his status proves the importance of an heir, but the identity of this heir is very important, at this time it is not a good thing to have an illegitimate child, it is very likely to change the overall layout of Ernst, how to deal with it is Ernst is a little contradictory.

Jessica doesn't necessarily understand the same reasoning, but she knows the struggle between the children of wealthy families, she doesn't want her children to go down such a path, and she was ready to choose to quit from the beginning.

Ernst breathed a sigh of relief to express himself, Ernst was fair, otherwise he would not hesitate to do so. The heir in his eyes doesn't have any lineage or non-lineage, but now that things are in front of him, he can't think about it too much, but fortunately, Jessie is reasonable.

Really reasonable? Not so, but she has self-knowledge, whether it is a man or a woman, whether Ensri will support it, whether the identity of an illegitimate child can be recognized, not to say, Maria's identity alone is enough to make Jessica shy away from competition. At the same time, these uncertainties also prove the size of the probability.

"After a while, I will ask Bert to help you inherit the title and inheritance of a Czech count, but I hope you don't have thoughts that don't belong to you, the Czech principality needs stability at this time."

Ernst has always been very tough on Jessica, and he is more possessive than affectionate towards her. Actually, it's not just him, it's Jessica, isn't it? Even more than her husband, Jessica loves her husband a little more.

Knock knock knock......

The bell rang, and Ernst remembered that he had something to do tonight, and in Jessica's somewhat surprised gaze, Ernst put on his clothes and walked straight outside.

Ernst has always been very mysterious in Jessica's eyes, he seems to have too many secrets, and these secrets are naturally not known to her. That's why she doesn't care about many of Ernst's actions, such as tonight's, and this is not the first time.

In the underground cellar of the castle, Ernst followed a secret passage to an open area, a secret scientific institute arranged in the hollowed out half of the mountain, which was perhaps the center of science and technology in the Czech principality compared to the Royal Academy of Sciences outside. It's a very secret place, and even spies from various countries wouldn't have thought that Ernst would have placed the core under his mistress's castle!

Seeing Ernst's arrival, several sturdy soldiers first expressed their respect, and then a middle-aged lieutenant general with glasses appeared in front of Ernst, who was the main person in charge here.

"Most of the progress on the new fighter has been completed, but there are still no breakthroughs in several core technologies, and the project leader said that if it goes well, there will be progress in March next year."

This was not the only thing to report, but it was not important to Ernst, because he had come not to urge them to do anything, but to make them take a break from their work and devote themselves to research on projects that could improve Czech industry.

"Industrial? Why ......"

"The war is coming to an end."

Come to an end? The lieutenant general had a big greeting in his mind, he had only gone out some time ago, and the war was still raging at that time, and even Germany had the advantage, why did things change so much in just a few months? The lieutenant general in charge was a little unconvinced, but the words came from Ernst's mouth, so he couldn't believe it.

"The war has cost countries a lot, this is an opportunity for us, there will be too many vacancies in the market after the war, and all we have to do is let the Czech principality fill it!"

It's a pity that the most lucrative business of the First World War, the Czech principality, was not in its hands, otherwise there would be no worries about how to build the occupied Polish region, which is not something that can be solved by a few hundred or ten million pounds. The appetite of the Czech principality was so great that he swallowed almost two-thirds of his territory in one gulp, and Ernst deserved his own worries.

Fortunately, a large number of former Russian aristocrats came with their wealth, and on the other hand, Ernst did not want them to invest too much in the local area, as that would increase their influence in the region. The Czech principality had only one voice, and Ernst did not want the Austro-Hungarian situation to arise.