"It doesn't matter if Baron Hurd is a spy that the Canaanites deliberately sent to the south to go undercover, what matters is what the Canaanites think of this reservoir dog." Lyudmila didn't have the heart to count the gold bricks at this time, so she took Tonya's hand and walked over to join the discussion, "Do you suppose, will the Canaanite border guards in Medes use the incident in Mochizuki City as an excuse to take military action against southern Xinjiang?" ”

"Southern Xinjiang is the territory of our Far Eastern provinces, and our expulsion of Wilhelm von Hurd, the illegitimate governor and his allies, within our own borders, is an internal affair of the Far East, so why should the Canaanites interfere?" Tonya asked angrily.

Lyudmila and Veronica looked back at her with the same meaning in their eyes - you are so naïve!

"The kingdom of Kolas inherited the territory of the Far Eastern provinces of the empire, which is of course an established fact, but it has not been recognized by the Yasan Empire, in the eyes of the imperial authorities we are still a traitor, and the empire is the leader of the Holy Alliance, Canaan is also a member of this alliance, although the hegemony of the empire has been shaky, but the ruler of Canaan is still nominally a marquis canonized by the empire, or the nominal suzerainty of the empire, so far there is no public recognition of the legitimacy of the kingdom of Koras, On the day of the Far Eastern National Day ceremony, the royal family of Zion sent an 'unofficial envoy' to watch the ceremony, and when we went to Bethlehem to participate in the World Expo in July, we did not use the banner of 'Koras Kingdom Delegation', but jointly organized a delegation with the North Sea Federation, and gave it the vague name of 'North Sea Federation and the Far East'. Lyudmila asked with a wry smile.

Miss Druid was stunned for a second and muttered, "In other words, it is possible that Canaan denies that we are an independent country...... But haven't we already agreed with the Canaanites on the border? They don't want to openly send troops across the border, do they? ”

"If the other side does not recognize the Kingdom of Kolas as a legitimate regime, the memorandum signed before on the border issue is meaningless, and the 'memorandum' is not an informal agreement, and its legitimacy is very weak, and whether to recognize it or not is all up to the other party." Veronica said lightly, "What's more, the Far East and Canaan are currently using the Mochizuki Mountains as a natural border, and there are neither boundary monuments nor border walls, and the border itself is very vague. ”

Tonya was dumbfounded by her question, and after a long time, she weakly retorted: "Roland has a good relationship with Corofa Zion, the crown prince of Canaan, and can try to obtain an understanding with the Zion royal family through this channel, and ask the Medean garrison to deport Baron Hurd from the country." ”

"This matter is not so easy, the court of Bethlehem is very complicated, it is true that Glopha is the crown prince, but the position of the prince is not secure." Roland sighed softly, "Joshua VIII had two official marriages, Corophas is his son with his deceased wife, in addition to having a son and a daughter with the current princess Judy - Raymond and Audrey, because Queen Judy is the witch queen of the contemporary Rosenthal family, the relatives of the court of Bethlehem are very powerful, and several important ministers think that Prince Raymond, who inherited the blood of Zion and Rosenthal, is more suitable to be the prince than Corophas, and Meyer Rosenthal, the governor of Media, is precisely the general of the Canaanite relatives. It is not difficult to imagine the attitude of Queen Judy's brother towards Colossa, and it would be counterproductive if I asked Colossia to intervene in the matter. ”

Mayer...... I heard Mr. Joseph speak of this man's name. Lyudmila frowned, "This person is the governor of the Medes and the commander of the border guards, with 20,000 border guards and two elite knights, and the power in the Medes is very powerful, and Mr. Joseph also suspects that Baron Hurd has an extraordinary relationship with this person, and the animal tamer who trained the sphinx and the eagle-faced beast for Baron Hurd is from Medes, and has served as an instructor in the 'Wind Knights'." ”

"Baron Hurd has now fled to Medes, so the rumors about him and Meyer are likely to be true, and we must prepare for the worst as soon as possible." Veronica said solemnly.

The so-called "worst plan" is nothing more than the Canaanite border guards crossing the border and entering the southern Xinjiang region, interfering in the internal affairs of the Far East by force, re-establishing Baron Hurd as the governor of Mochizuki City, and possibly even using Baron Hurd as a puppet to plot the independence of southern Xinjiang and split this 400,000-square-mile territory from the Far East.

Of course, Roland could not accept such a situation, and the government and the opposition of Colasburg and even all the people of the Far East could not accept this situation of loss of power and humiliation of the country, but the threat of the Yassanian Empire in the West had not been eliminated, and the peaceful development of the Far East benefited from the harmonious relations with its powerful neighbors in the East.

The answer is not encouraging.

What can be done to defuse this crisis, which is about to come? Roland fell into deep thought.

"It's better to settle it peacefully, even if it costs something......" Tonya sighed under her breath.

"Peaceful settlement is our ultimate goal, but peace is not the same as compromise, and blind compromise will only be regarded as weak and incompetent, and will attract oppression." Roland's eyes suddenly became bright and sharp, "If you seek peace through struggle, you will live in peace, and if you seek peace through compromise, you will die peacefully, we love peace, but we must also be prepared for war, fight with one punch, lest a hundred punches come!" ”

Lyudmila, Veronica and Tonya were very aware of the temper of His Royal Highness the Prince, and seeing that he had made up his mind, they did not continue to discuss this topic, but put aside their happy affairs for the time being and continued to count the gold bricks, and finally confirmed that the total was 3,200 yuan, which was converted into about 8 million gold talers. Baron Hurd has accumulated most of his life here, and it is an exaggeration to say that he is rich enough to rival the country, but it is enough to equal the wealth of more than 200,000 residents in the southern Xinjiang region.

Roland ordered the vault to be sealed and shipped back to the National Mint in Colasbourg to be processed into gold coins at a later date. This money will be mainly used to build southern Xinjiang, revive the local cotton planting industry, improve the transportation situation, and can be regarded as taking it from the people for the people.

The large amount of gold found in the castle's underground vault further confirmed Joseph Davidovich's suspicion that Baron Hurd would never have amassed so much of his family by running a cotton plantation and mining lapis lazuli, and that the so-called "lapis lazuli" mine in the depths of Mount Mochizuki was very suspicious.