Canaan may seem peaceful and prosperous, but there is an undercurrent surging in the palace that is difficult for the public to see, and a political storm is brewing: the royal family of Zion, led by Prince Colossa, and the Rosenthal family, led by Queen Judy, are not as harmonious as they seem, and the contradictions between the two aristocratic camps cast a shadow over the country's prospects.

Weinberg admired Corofa's talents and was convinced of His Royal Highness's ability to lead Canaan to one of the top powers in Vares. But he had to admit that the crown prince, who had lived abroad since childhood, had little roots in Bethlehem, and in addition to the support of His Majesty Joshua himself, he had to try to win the favor of his stepmother, Lady Judy. Unfortunately, this was not easy, especially after Grofa refused to marry his stepmother, and the atmosphere in Masada's court became treacherous. The young Zhuang of the Zion family spontaneously gathered under the banner of His Royal Highness the Prince, forming a so-called resistance to the "interference of foreign relatives in politics"; It is not difficult for the dignitaries from the Rosenthal family to imagine the prince's own situation after he succeeds to the throne, and the panic prompts them to rally around the queen naturally, and many of them are careerists who want to abolish the status of the prince of Colossa.

Weinberg was in the game, and he was repeatedly wooed by the "Crown Prince's Party" and the "Queen's Party" many times. It takes a little political wisdom to deal with such a situation, and Weinberg takes it in stride, both privately and publicly, with one position: not to take sides, not to take sides, and to remain loyal to His Majesty personally.

Weinberg has seen a lot of the so-called "palace struggles". He knew very well how to maintain balance on this "scale", and he also knew that His Majesty himself was the chess player who controlled the overall situation, and that the prince and queen were not qualified to play against him, and that the others were just clever pawns of their own. Joshua VIII turned a blind eye to the struggle under his nose, and some thought that the former "Lion of the East" had lost his former wisdom and had become lazy and lazy as he grew older. In Weinberg's view, this is nothing more than a lion's pretense of sleeping—squinting, watching the "storm in a teacup" with a cat-and-mouse mentality, seeing the current crisis as a test. As for whether the test is a prince or a queen, or both, the king's heart is like the sea, and Weinberg does not dare to speculate.

Weinberg was more concerned with the international situation than with the power struggles at court. The outbreak of the Far Eastern War of Independence in 1620 shattered the international pattern that Vares had maintained for a hundred years, and the successful independence of the Far Easterners reflected the decline of the Holy Assanian Empire.

The discovery of the Crystal Mine in the Jotunheim region of the New World provided the perfect trigger for the conflict between the old and new powers, but few people know the inside story: the original discoverer of the Crystal Mine was a person close to the Canaanite royal family. Long before the Empire, Hailan, and Fizhen colonial companies were aware, the Marquis of Joshua learned about the wealth buried underground in Jotunheim through some channel, and immediately sent Weinberg to assemble a team to investigate the mine. Until the exploration team returned to Bethlehem and submitted a detailed exploration report, nothing was known about it.

It is good to discover great wealth, but what to do with it is a difficult problem, if it is not handled properly, good things turn bad, and wealth can bring disaster.

The Marquis of Joshua had to face a real dilemma: the Canaanite colonies in the New World were too weak to compete with the colonial armed groups of the Empire, Fizhen, and Hailan. If you dig the magic crystal mine by yourself, it is like a fat sheep exposed to the eyes of three greedy hungry wolves, and it will inevitably be besieged, and the gains outweigh the losses. After careful consideration, the Marquis of Joshua accepted Weinberg's suggestion and created some "coincidences" to leak the news of the Jotunheim Magic Crystal Mine, leading the three hungry wolves to fight over the mineral deposits, while the Canaanite side watched the fire from the other side, taking advantage of this favorable situation to carry out a diplomatic offensive from the left and right, and strive for the interests that he could fully digest.

Things were going well at first, but the conflict in the Jotunheim area intensified, like a huge millstone constantly strangling the three garrisons. The conflict exacerbated the hatred of the Phigen-Sea Blue Alliance against the Assanian Empire, and the casualties and lost supplies turned into a huge sunk cost, forcing the three kingdoms to invest more wealth, resources, and troops in the war.

The national power of rivals was constantly being depleted in the colonial wars, and the international status of Canaan was constantly improved. However, the good times did not last long, the conflict on the Far Eastern border dragged the Canaanites into the storm circle of war, and the hardcore ally of the Kingdom of Kolas was now at risk of becoming an enemy, which was not the situation that the Marquis of Joshua wanted, and as the prime minister who assisted the king in controlling the overall situation, Weinberg hated the Medesian governor Mayer Rosenthal, who caused this unexpected conflict and ruined the good situation, and secretly did not know how many swear words he swore for.

It was an accident that Meyer sent troops to the Far East without authorization, but what the Zion government and the opposition, including Weinberg, were even more unexpected was the resolute and resolute response of the Far East. From Mount Mochizuki to the Crescent River, the vast territory of more than 400,000 square miles in the Far Southeast has been in a state of semi-independence since the outbreak of the revolution in 1620, and the independence of the new kingdom of Kolas has only been two years so far, and it stands to reason that there is not enough force to exert influence on southern Xinjiang. If the pros and cons are weighed in full, this military adventure is undoubtedly based on the wrong strategic approach, and the loss of this important ally of the Kingdom of Kolas is not worth the loss, but from a tactical point of view, Weinberg feels that the chances of successfully annexing the southern frontier are very good.

If things develop normally, now Meyer should lead the Medes army into Mochizuki City, make it a given fact to occupy the capital of southern Xinjiang, and dump the blame on his colleagues in the cabinet and foreign affairs. And Samuel Weinberg, as the Prime Minister of Canaan, should have received countless fiercely worded and angry protest letters from Krasburg, and he could use his long-sleeved skills to calmly deal with the aftermath of military adventures, and the most conservative result did not care about exchanging benefits with the Krasburg court, and then ordered the Mayer army to evacuate Mochizuki City, peacefully resolved the border crisis, and at the same time showed the muscles of the old power to the "young neighbors" who had just escaped the status of heretics and exiles, and dispelled the naïve illusions of the other party- Don't think you're qualified to be an equal to Big Brother.