Isabella sat in the corner of the salon, shaking her glass absent-mindedly.

Most of the sons of the British aristocracy noticed that the queen was in a bad mood, and they avoided the queen far away - according to the queen's age, she was about to choose a concubine, oh not to choose a spare tire, at this time, regardless of whether it would leave a good impression on the queen, first of all, to avoid being hated by the queen.

After all, Isabella's spare tire has a good chance of becoming the king of England in the future and reigning with Isabella in the British Empire.

The reason why it is said that there is a great chance because there are precedents in history where queens have married princes of other countries due to sudden diplomatic needs, such as the time when the Elector of Hanover entered the royal family of England. However, now the European royal family has either lost its crown and retired in the countryside, or it is impossible to become one of the European heroes by guarding the narrow and biased territory, and at this time Lin You has been dragged into the Rausch Human Innovation Alliance, and the queen of the British Empire will definitely not marry the prince of such a small country.

The only people who could threaten the path to the top of the spare tire are only two people, one is the prince of Tsar Nicholas III, but it is estimated that Her Majesty the Queen herself does not want to have a relationship with Iron Ji, and the other is the man who has now strongly condemned the de facto ruler of Germany, the spiritual leader of the NERV organization, and the self-proclaimed savior of Europe, whom the British government has strongly condemned countless times. Isabella lived in the man's palace for a long time when she visited Germany, so the streets of London were full of legends that the queen was no longer a virgin.

However, what reassures the aristocratic young masters who are staring at the position of the spare tire is that now Britain and Germany are basically in a state of hostility, before Britain supported the Arabs to harass Lin Youde's industry in the Persian Gulf, and now Britain openly supports the French government and suppresses the revolutionary army supported by Lin Youde, it seems that Her Majesty the Queen and Lin Youde have no chance to continue their relationship.

may be precisely because they feel that the coming day is long, so the sons chose to temporarily avoid the time period when Isabella was unhappy and think about it in the long run.

Anyway, Isabella's deadline for choosing a spare tire is twenty-five years old, and there is still some time.

But in the salon were not only the British nobles, but also several wealthy American businessmen, who were looking at the beautiful Queen Isabella with little interest.

Finally, one of them straightened his hair and stood up and walked in the direction of Isabella.

The British watched the Americans walk towards Isabella with a "look at how the New World people died" expressions on their faces.

The American sat down in front of Isabella, and the queen only raised her eyes, and immediately after glancing at him, she showed a look of disinterest.

"Your Majesty, you look a little sullen."

"I'm not looking depressed, I'm just depressed." Isabella replied coldly.

So the Englishmen who pricked up their ears to listen to the conversation all looked at each other and laughed, and continued to look in the direction of Isabella with a little interest, waiting for the Americans to continue to be deflated.

"Your Majesty, if you don't mind, would you like to reveal to me the reason for your sullenness, maybe I can think of a way." America said and grinned at Isabella.

Isabella raised her head again and looked at the American's face, and after a few seconds she smiled and nodded, "Okay, I don't know who the name is." ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm ......"

"It doesn't matter who you are," Isabella interrupted the American, "but I just want to whine to whomever I want." It doesn't make a difference whether it's a self-righteous New Worlder, a courteous waiter over there, or a dog. ”

The face of the Americans is a little ugly.

Isabella stood up, looked around the salon, took a step forward, and said in a stern voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the British Empire is now facing an unprecedented grim situation. Since the founding of the British Isles, we have avoided the formation of an overly powerful power on the mainland, and most of the time we have done well, but sometimes we have failed. More than a hundred years ago, there was the first consul Napoleon on the continent? Bonaparte's France, we had colonies all over the world, our Redcoats had the best weapons and the best infantry tactics in the world, and we had a fleet like no other. In the end we had a brilliant victory, and although it cost us dearly, we did win. ”

Isabella looked around the salon once more.

"Now, this has happened again, a new continental power has been formed, half of France has fallen, and soon Lin Youde will drink the English Channel, while you are still sitting here enjoying the salon!"

"Uh, Your Majesty, the sea water is salty, and horses won't drink it." Someone said so.

This immediately elicited a small laugh - it was mainly the girls who laughed, and the men forcibly drove the smile off their faces.

Isabella glanced in the direction from which the complaint came, but she didn't dwell too much on who came out of the house, but continued: "This is a Chinese proverb, originally used for their inland rivers. All in all, in such a situation, you are still having fun, and I feel uncomfortable when I see it. ”

"陛xià." A well-dressed young gentleman stood up, "I have long been ready to fight for the Empire and for you, and I think everyone here is the same. But no matter how eager we are to serve our country, we have nothing else to do now, do we want to be like those pan-humanists, rushing to the battlefield with just a simple bag, to help a force that has nothing to do with us win the war? ”

"We are not 'without any relationship' with France, and once France becomes a pan-humanist country, we will directly face the entire human renewal alliance."

"The Royal Navy will protect us." The young gentleman saw that Isabella wanted to refute, so he preemptively said, "And if you want all of us here to contribute to preventing France from becoming a pan-humanist country, then you must first give us the channels to contribute, you issue war bonds, we will buy them, you conscript, we will put on military uniforms and go to the battlefield, we will do any instructions you have, but you must give instructions." ”

Isabella was silent.

She knew that the young gentleman in front of her, whom she couldn't name, had a point.

Since Christina's death, the British government has done nothing real than to provide aid to the French government and to engage in verbal exchanges with the German Foreign Office.

The reason for this is largely because Isabella herself is in a state of indecision, while Chamberlain and the ruling party behind him are preoccupied with the election to the House of Commons of the British Parliament, and they are busy going to the constituencies all day to canvass votes.

Winston Churchill, a "liberal conservative", wrote to Isabella one after another, frankly expressing his views on the current situation and putting forward various ideas, but his ideas were too radical and few were adopted by Isabella.

For example, when he learned that Lin Qianxun left the Netherlands for Denmark by ship, Churchill sent a submarine to sink Lin Qianhiro's cargo ship to demonstrate to Germany, and to make Germany lose face in front of the Nordic countries, so that the Nordic countries doubted Germany's strength.

Churchill believed that this would prevent, or at least delay, the establishment of the international organization planned by Lin Youde.

But the plan was basically tantamount to a war with Germany, which Isabella always felt was not good—though she didn't figure out what was wrong.

Fortunately, the Russian ambassador came to him and hinted that Russia could join forces with Britain to overthrow Germany, just as it had done in the last war. It was then that Isabella thought that she could prevaricate Winston Churchill on the grounds that she could not let ambitious Russia succeed.

All in all, in this short period of time, Isabella did not make any more proactive decisions on the situation in Europe, but only passively met the various demands put forward by the French government - except for the direct dispatch of troops.

Originally, Isabella still had some hope, hoping that the French spring offensive would achieve a relatively large effect, forcing Lin Youde to take measures to deal with it first, so that she could counter Lin Youde's measures - Isabella firmly believed that if Lin Youde made another big move, she would resolutely deal with it.

However, now, the spring offensive of the French government army has been going on for a week, and the result is that the situation has not been opened at all, and in the direction of the main attack, the front of the revolutionary army has only retreated about five or six kilometers, and just when the revolutionary army has been forced to retreat, the government army headquarters has also announced in a high-profile manner that a breakthrough has been opened, and a large number of troops will pour into the first line of defense that has broken the revolutionary army, but it did not expect that the revolutionary army has long prepared the second line of defense.

The attacking forces of the government army were bled in front of the revolutionary army that was waiting for them, and the regular troops suffered heavy losses, while the Zhanji troops did not suffer major damage, but the magic armor was generally worn out, and a large number of parts needed to be replaced and completely repaired.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the revolutionary army, in order to resist the offensive of the government army, also consumed a large amount of vital forces, and could not launch a counterattack when the government army was exhausted.

At this time, new cold air fell on eastern France and southern Germany, and both the revolutionary and government armies ran away to warm their houses.

But Isabella was very disappointed by this result, which is the main reason why she was so depressed today. The more secondary reason was the appearance of Chamberlain at the just-concluded Imperial Council, the prime minister and first chancellor of the exchequer did not seem to feel that the situation in Europe had become a worrying situation, but he was optimistic that the French civil war would become a war of attrition, and Britain could take advantage of this opportunity to improve the domestic economy through the arms business.

So Isabella was furious and decided to go to the salon tonight for a drink, as for which club's salon to go to, it was entirely up to her to decide by lot.

And then it turned out to be what it is now.

Isabella glanced at the salon for the third time, then sighed and said, "I'm sorry to affect you. ”

With that, she turned back to her original position, picked up the shoulder that had rested on the back of her chair, and looked like she was about to leave the salon.

At this moment, an explosion from a distance was heard through the closed window into the salon venue.