In the early morning of the Marquis of Lorraine's mansion, Charles slept all night, but was woken up by the little girl Olive "bang bang" knock on the door.

"Charles, Viscount Leo is coming to visit us this afternoon, aren't you going to get up yet?"

Charles straightened up from the bed, and let out a sigh of depression in his heart, "He's coming to visit me? How don't I know? Even if he's coming to visit me this afternoon, am I going to stand at the door at eight o'clock in the morning to greet him?"

Charles looked at Olive in a beautiful dress, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Can you be a girl a little reserved, what are you stinky about the guests yet?" ”

"His Royal Highness Leo just sent someone to send the news of the visit, and I knocked on the door first, I could have entered your room casually before!" Olive pouted, aggrieved and unconvinced.

“...........”

"Okay, remember to knock on the door first, and ...... Your dress doesn't look as good as that yellow one!"

Bear children are just difficult, especially bear children with self-esteem, they can't be scolded if they can't fight, and they still grab chicken feathers and fly into the sky after a little coaxing, Charles can only have a headache and patiently comfort her.

"Is the yellow one prettier than this one?"

Olive immediately stopped pursing, ran to the big mirror by the wall, turned slightly, nodded her little head, and said, "It's not as good as that yellow one." ”

As Olive swirled and fluttered, Charles seemed to see a small flower about to grow, and his heart was filled with joy and sorrow.

The good news is that Olive can finally understand how a girl should show her beauty, and no longer be obsessed with those muscular men and women knights all day long, but worry that when these little flowers are fully blooming, it will be time to be picked.

Although Charles no longer needs a sister to dress and tie his shoes, he still has a little reluctance and loss in his heart.

"Olive Live, I feel like that Leo....... It seems to like Cousin Linal. Charles put on his own clothes and burst out of nowhere.

"Well, I think so too. ”

Charles looked up in surprise and said, "You think so too, how do you see that?"

"Do you need to see it, Cousin Linar's face wrinkled like this when she pulled you to dance last night?" Olive cupped her pink cheeks with her small hands, and squeezed out an exaggerated expression.

"That'....... What kind of expression does Sister Fani have?" Charles's mouth twitched, and he felt a little panicked.

"That's right!"

Olive excitedly jumped forward in front of Charles, her forehead slightly lowered and her eyebrows raised, her eyes slanted upward, and there was a chill on her cold face.

"Fani was angry?" Charles asked the little girl uncertainly.

"If you are angry, you can ask Sister Fani in person, but I want to remind you that since you have chosen Sister Fani, you should stay away from Cousin Linaer, which will be good for Sister Fani and His Royal Highness Leo, and will reduce some trouble. ”

Charles thought back to every time he met Linar, as if he would cause trouble for himself, so he said with deep sympathy: "Okay! I will definitely stay away from her when I see Cousin Linar in the future!"

So, when Léo Hohenzollern and Linard arrived at the Marquis de Lorraine that afternoon, Linar found herself sitting strangely far from the main seat of Charles.

However, Linar was accompanying Leo today in her capacity as military attache to the Legation of Prussia, Lena Ramle, and it would not be embarrassing to arrange her in the farthest seat if she were to be assigned in that capacity.

Linar, however, apparently did not feel that she was an outsider, and when Roy, the butler, went out, she got up and walked to the seat closest to Charles.

Charles's super eyesight immediately caught a hint of annoyance in Leo's eyes, and he didn't know whether to annoy Linar or annoy himself as an innocent person.

"Charles, we are not visiting you today as some crown prince and military attaché of Prussia, my mother has asked us to talk to you about something. ”

Linar didn't talk nonsense, and when she came up, she explained to Charles straight to the point that she was not here to visit relatives, but had business to discuss.

"Aunt Adèle asked the Crown Prince Leo to come and talk to me about something?"

Charles muttered softly, and his face became serious, the identity of Leo Hohenzollern determined that this conversation would not be trivial.

"Actually, I can talk to you about this matter myself, but His Royal Highness Leo feels that he should come over to show his respect for you, in fact, you don't have to care about what he says, just listen to me. ”

“.........”

Leo Hohenzollern's face suddenly became as bad as constipation, even if he was well-cultivated, he had to take care of his identity and face, a crown prince being ignored like this was a major event that could cause a duel or even a war.

But his face changed, and then he lowered his head to drink his tea, and sat in his chair as if he hadn't heard anything.

"So what are you going to talk to me about? You should know that I don't have control over all of Lorraine right now. Charles spread his hands and reluctantly said that he didn't count what he said now.

"I know that my mother is very worried about your situation, but if she directly interferes with your succession, it will definitely arouse the opposition of the Noble House of Florens, although my mother does not care about the voices of these ants, but she still hopes to solve your problems by peaceful means. ”

"Can you elaborate on the peaceful approach?"

Linar nodded, then looked at Leo Hohenzollern, and the honorable Prince of Pruss began to explain like a personal secretary.

"Before the death of His Excellency Bourman, there was a lot of commercial contact between us and Lorraine, and most of the ore and coal in the Lorraine area would be dumped into the Ruhr city of Prussia, but since six months ago, this kind of commercial cooperation has become less and less........"

"Teacher Adele believes that we can strengthen commercial cooperation, and then the royal family of Pruss will protest to King Rousseff, the chaotic environment in the Lorraine region has harmed the interests of Prus, and the only way to quickly solve this chaos is to let you inherit the title as soon as possible and stabilize the hearts and minds of the people in Lorraine as soon as possible. ”

Charles shook his head and said with a calm face: "The way to quickly solve the chaos in the Lorraine region is not necessarily for me to inherit the title, Rousseff can also use the reason of stabilizing the relationship between the two countries to directly send troops into the Lorraine region and bring the entire Lorraine into the jurisdiction of the royal family, what should I do when the time comes?"

Wren Hohenzollern glanced at Linaer, who replied solemnly: "In that case, we will also send troops in Pruus, Your Majesty Rosseff has violated the Law of Nobility first, as long as you do not object, it will be difficult for the Council of Nobles of Florence to accuse us again, after all, the Marquis of Lorraine is your domain." ”

I have no objection to God!

Isn't this what the lighthouse country did in the world in the previous life? The whole world is its interests, and as long as its interests are damaged, the aircraft carrier group will sail over, and which of those regimes that ask for protection will have a good end?

What's the matter? "Your Excellency" has spread this rogue trick to the world? This should be my exclusive repertoire, okay?

However, Linar and Leo apparently did not know that Charles had exchanged views with Roself and reached a tentative consensus on certain issues, which gave Charles some room to maneuver.

If you want to cooperate, you can take the money, as long as you put the money in my territory, it will go into my stomach, and I don't want to take it back.

"Let's talk about business cooperation first! how do you increase the cooperation between us?" Charles looked at Leo and Linar with a blank face, thinking about what kind of price he should shout.

"We've invested technology and money in Lorraine to help you build a large steel plant, and for the sake of our close cooperation, the Charles will work with us on some alchemy techniques. ”

"Alchemy technology, what kind of alchemy technology?"

Xia Er was a little puzzled, if he said that he was looking for himself to study spiritual power potions, he could still say four, five or six, alchemy, he hadn't started yet.

"Water vapor engine, I'm sure you won't be unaware of this alchemy item, right?"

Linar stared at Charles tightly, not missing a hint of his gaze.

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