The City of Bauhinia, the main hall of the Grand Duke's Castle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It was originally a place for the Grand Duke of Florence to gather his vassals to discuss state affairs, but now it has become a place for diplomatic negotiations between the Holy Alliance and Cindelare.

In the past six months, the diplomats of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Kingdom of Sindlaire have quarreled with the ambassadors of the Holy Alliance here. Some things are more important, but in fact, there are not many, they quarrel with each other, more often because of some trivial things.

But this time it was different, they were talking about Count Ekra and the fir collar.

Pudri's ambassador to diplomacy, Simpson, after listening to the question "You Hindlaites can't think of any other reason, do you?" Don't you think such an excuse is ridiculous? ”

Sitting across from him was Alan, the ambassador of King Sindlaire's Foreign Office.

At the beginning, he made a contribution after persuading Count Waterman to surrender and split the Bull Territory from the Duchy of Florence into an independent princely state. Later, when the war subsided, he became the ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the City of Bauhinia, responsible for communicating with the diplomatic staff of the Holy Alliance.

In the past six months, he has dealt with the guy named Simpson in front of him, and he knows what kind of person he is. Therefore, it is not surprising to receive such an answer.

Keeping a smile on his face, Alan said: "This is no excuse, Ambassador Simpson, we have conclusive evidence that Count Ekra is indeed colluding with the Church of the Damned, and it is precisely because of this evidence that we refuse to support him to become the Grand Duke of Florence, and when he prepared a series of sabotage plans, we took the lead in trying to capture him, but in the end, he was rescued by his accomplices in the Church of the Damned." ”

Allen's words were true. Of course, part of this is true, and the other part is complete nonsense.

Hindlaire now does have evidence of Ekra's collusion with the Church of the Damned—as evidenced by the Mamen he met in Fir Collar and the Dark Wizards and Warlocks that Firmino had discovered. However, it would be pure nonsense to say that they knew this before, so they did not allow Ekra to inherit the title of duke and only started to arrest him.

But it didn't matter, after all, it had become a fact that the guy was in a gang with the Church of the Damned, and Alan didn't mind, and put the hat on Akra's head a little earlier.

There is no problem with the buttoning of the hat, but Simpson will not believe it like that. He said: "When you were negotiating in the Silver and White Capital half a year ago, you used the cursed church as an excuse to intimidate; Now, you're linking Count Ekra to the Church of the Damned, huh, are we all fools? Who can't see the plot of you Hindlaire? Don't allow Aike, who is against you, to get the inheritance he deserves, and instead support a fourteen-year-old girl, your idea of supporting a puppet is so obvious, what are you damning the church? ”

Alan said: "We do have evidence for this. General Paran's army has already fought the Cursed Army of Akra once on the Fir Territory's borders. Traces of demons have appeared in the enemy's army, and the fir realms, now under the corruption of the Church of the Damned, where a powerful dark wizard is poisoning the people of Florence. And your Holy Alliance, instead of working with us to maintain peace and stability in Florence as agreed in the Silver and White Pact, has instead aided in the abuse! ”

Simpson was furious: "Ridiculous! What a demon, what a dark wizard, it's pure nonsense! It is obviously you Sindelares who have violated the peace treaty and plotted against it! We, the Kingdom of Pudri, have reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Victoria, and fifteen thousand warriors are ready to arrive in the Fir Realm soon. I advise you that it is better to withdraw your careful thoughts, for the position of the Grand Duke of Florence should belong to the eldest son of the Grand Duke, the Count of Achra! ”

"You're sending your own soldiers to their deaths!"

"Ambassador Allen, you are wrong, you Sindelares are walking on the road of no return!"

……

An 'exchange' broke up unhappily.

The Pudri, as well as the Holy Alliance, apparently distrust Hindlaire's rhetoric. They decided that Schindlaire was lying—in fact, if you looked at it the other way, Alan himself would think he was talking nonsense.

But...... Hell, although there were some lies in his words, the situation of the fir collar had been basically told to the other party.

However, he still underestimated Simpson's stubbornness.

Leaving Bauhinia Castle, Alan immediately found Hindlaire's mage in the city.

"Immediately send a message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom, communication with the Holy Alliance has not been successful, and they insist on continuing to send troops."

"At the same time, immediately send a letter to Lieutenant General Paran, it is inevitable that the Holy Alliance's troops will be stationed in the fir territory, let him be careful."

After arranging this, he went to Brigadier General Chandler.

This Brigadier General Chandler is a general under Palan, and his personal strength is not bad, with fourteen warrior ranks. At the same time, he is also the general of Palan's remaining garrison corps of 20,000 in the city of Bauhinia that he left.

After communicating with Chandler, he took hundreds of soldiers with him and brought in Countess Parrott.

So, the next day, June 27, Parrot officially succeeded to the title of Grand Duke of Florence at Bauhinia Castle, becoming the country's first female Grand Duke.

At the first time, Parrot, or the Alan behind her, in the name of the Duke of Florence, released a message to the whole country, announcing the news of Parrott's succession, and branded Ekra as a traitor to Florence, a devil who colluded with the cursed church, and called on the nobles, knights and people of Florence to unite and defeat the rebel Ekra and the rebellious fir lords.

Allen's hand is playing the political card. Of course, he would not be naïve to think that as soon as Parrott succeeded to the throne, he would be able to have the appeal of the whole country. However, the position of the Grand Duke, as well as the nominal power of leadership, must be grasped in his hands.

Ekra has already claimed to have inherited the position of Grand Duke in the fir county, and Sindlaire must also make a move to launch a genuine Grand Duke to compete with Ekra politically.

It's okay if you can't win the support of the Florentines, but at least you can't let too many people fall over to Ekra's side.

As for the future direction of the situation in Florence, the most important thing is the outcome of the war.