"Your Majesty, that's exactly what I'm worried about." Weinberg sighed, his face extremely serious, "In the final analysis, there is only one question - the Korath Kingdom or the Asshan Empire, who is the opponent you care about the most?" ”

"Rudolph Kolas is an ungrateful nouveau riche! But compared to this hateful nouveau riche, the expansion of the Assanian Empire was even more unbearable to me, and sending troops to the Far East was not the best option. The Marquis of Joshua made a rational decision with some reluctance.

"Your Majesty is wise, and peace talks are indeed a more secure option than waging war." Weinberg wasted no time in admonishing.

Joshua VIII changed to a more comfortable sitting position and asked wistfully, "What is the movement of the cabinet and the parliament?" ”

The Constitution of 1598 marked the transition of Canaan from a feudal monarchy to a constitutional monarchy, with the monarch as the leader of the state and the supreme commander of the army having the power to declare war on foreign countries, but the power to collect taxes was in the hands of parliament. If Parliament opposed war and refused to levy a special tax to cover military supplies, the monarch would not be able to afford to pay the military out of his own pocket.

The Canaanite Parliament, also known as the "Senate", consisted of 300 members of either aristocratic origin, high-ranking military officers, estate owners, industrialists, or large merchants, and served for life. Cabinet ministers are elected by parliamentarians, and three to five candidates are selected for each position, and finally the monarch selects and appoints them from a list of candidates, so Weinberg is also the prime minister of the parliament.

"There are many parliamentary parties, among which there are warlike warrior nobles and military hawk generals, who advocate foreign colonial expansion, but most parliamentarians believe that the war consumes far more wealth than gains, and prefers to maintain friendly relations with the kingdom of Kolas."

Weinberg glanced at Prince Coroman, intentionally or unconsciously. The people who can mix up with the status of parliamentarians are all people with good hands and eyes, who wouldn't see that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a close relationship with the royal family of Kolas? Supporting war in the Far East would be tantamount to standing against the crown prince and making a wedding dress for the old enemy, the Assanian Empire, and the vast majority of parliamentarians, except for a few parliamentarians attached to the Rosenthal family, were reluctant to wade into this troubled water, and it was their consensus to veto the imposition of a special war tax.

"War is certainly not a rational choice, but it is too much to pretend that nothing happened, and as a loser on the battlefield, can you still expect to maintain dignity at the negotiating table?" Mrs. Judy couldn't help but question. In the First Battle of the Medes, most of the elites who lost were from the Rosenthal family, and even her brother Meyer was taken prisoner, and she couldn't swallow this grievance.

"Whose dignity? Yours or mine? Rosenthal or Canaanite? Joshua suddenly raised his voice and looked at the queen with anger in his eyes, "Dear Judy, you are a good sister, a good patriarch, a good wife, and a good mother, but what I expect from you is more than that, my queen, we have to put the interests of the country above our personal gains and losses!" ”

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, and please forgive me for my short-sightedness." Madame Judy had tears in her eyes.

Marquis Joshua patted his wife's hand and turned to look at his eldest son, "Coropha, tell me what you think." ”

"Your Majesty, war is not an end, but a means, the purpose is to obtain benefits, if benefits can be obtained in other ways, why waste money and money to wage war?" Corofa handed a letter to his father, "This is a letter from Prince Roland, who proposes an official dialogue between the Far East and Canaan to strengthen economic cooperation, the initial idea is to build a railway from Krasbourg to Medes via Mochizuki City, as a link to strengthen friendly exchanges between the two countries, and to establish a trade port near the border by easy rail transportation, so that both countries can benefit from border trade." ”

The Marquis of Joshua took Roland's letter and hurriedly flipped through it, and looked at his son in surprise: "The letter only talked about commercial cooperation, and did not mention the border conflict?" ”

Corofa smiled, "Roland doesn't admit to having clashed with the Median border guards at all, just exterminating a group of sand bandits who have destroyed the border trade environment. ”

The Marquis of Joshua was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, it's Rudolph's son, cunning like a fox!" Fortunately, my son is not bad, Colossa, and if you are appointed to be in charge of negotiating with the authorities of Koras, where do you intend to begin this difficult work? ”

"Your Majesty, if I am in charge of negotiations, we must first strive to reach three consensuses with our neighbors, and establish transnational cooperation on the basis of consensus." Glova looked calm, and obviously had already considered this issue.

"Tell me more."

"The first consensus is to unify the propaganda and deny that there has been a military conflict between the two countries, and to appease the disturbed people in the border areas; The second is to strengthen diplomatic cooperation between Canaan and the Far East, the current kingdom of Kolas has not been officially accepted by the international community, in order not to cause accusations from the Yashan Empire, it is inconvenient for our country to set up an embassy or consulate in the Far East, but it may as well be ' Finally, in order to avoid a recurrence of border conflicts, Canaan and the Far East should establish the current border line in writing, and at the same time strengthen military cooperation between the two border fortresses of Medes and Mochizuki City, and hold regular joint military exercises to combat sand bandits roaming the border areas and create a safe environment for subsequent trade cooperation. ”

The Marquis paced slowly around the room with his hands in his hands, and did not stop until his son finished speaking, and looked at Corofa's eyes with a hint of hesitation: "Your consciousness is ...... Acknowledging that the Mochizukiyama Gold Mine belongs to the Kingdom of Koras? ”

Gorofa shrugged, "This is also something that can't be helped, who let the Far Easterners be lucky, the gold mine is buried at the northern foot of Mochizuki Mountain!" It is impossible to bring our neighbors to the negotiating table without acknowledging this, but then again, as long as they are willing to sit down and talk, we will have the opportunity to sell Canaanite goods to the Far East and exchange them for gold, so that we can also gain wealth without having to go down to the mines and suffer from the sin ourselves. ”

"Using the economy as a glue to bridge the border contradictions between our country and the Far East, to draw Far Easterners into our trade system, and to establish a common security system on the basis of the trade system, so that the Far East has security guarantees, and the royal family of Krasbourg can concentrate on resisting imperial pressure from the West, and our country has access to the security of the northern border, and through border trade, sufficient and cheap grain is imported from the Far East to make up for the food gap in the country, and food and security are guaranteed, and we can concentrate on expanding our power to the East, Gradually bring the entire Celestial Desert into Canaan's sphere of influence. Colossa concluded.