Chapter 200: Peeling Back the Thread
If the Emma Empire had a complete star map, did the Jupiters have?
"What did the Queen talk to you about?"
"I guess she won't think it's my Huaxia Empire's hands, but she didn't talk about this aspect, mainly asking me what kind of person you are."
"Oh?" Lynch was a little surprised.
"She said that anyone has a price, and she wants to know where the Führer is where your price floor is. I replied that it was impossible to judge, because our Führer was a rather emotional person. Norwich said calmly.
"Why did she come to you to talk about this?" Lynch wondered, "I mean, why would she trust you?" ”
"She doesn't trust me, even says she doesn't trust anyone."
"What do you mean?"
"She only came to me because I was from the Huaxia Empire, and I was just Emma's first star. She has her own judgment and can find the answer she wants from my answers. ”
"What do you mean by price?"
"Acquisitions, yes, are like mergers and acquisitions. She wanted to judge the possibility of incorporating the Huaxia Empire into Emma's navy. ”
Lynch sneered and said, "You didn't ask her where her price bottom line is?" ”
Norwich smiled bitterly: "The Führer may be able to, but how dare the lower officials ......"
Lynch threw the papers on the topics of the talks handed over by the Privy Council into Norwich's hands, "Look at these issues, what do you want to say?" ”
Norwich looked through it carefully, frowned slightly, and shook his head: "With all due respect, these issues are meaningless, and even a random Jima's subordinate can complete the negotiation." There were too many details, including a possible agreement on the mutual replenishment of the fleets, which was a detailed negotiation of the state of affairs after the alliance, and the lower officer did not think it was necessary for the Führer to participate in such talks. ”
Lynch didn't realize this, and also frowned, and asked, "What the hell do you think Emma is doing?" ”
After thinking for a long time, Norwich suddenly asked, "Xia Guan actually wants to know what the Führer wants from the Emma?" ”
"Why did I send you?" Lynch said dissatisfied.
"Ally with Emma and be hostile to all non-two powers."
"Then you're still asking me?"
"I'm sorry, the lower official didn't make it clear." Norwich said solemnly: "An alliance is a small matter, but the Führer's personal arrival is a big thing." ”
"I remember that I was tricked by you after reading your report, right?" Lynch's eyes became more and more unkind.
Norwich gasped twice, as if struggling with his ability to express himself. "Please believe that the Führer came to Emma in person to prove to the five families that we were not involved in the attack on the Queen, that this was an independent event! The queen summoned me alone, and this was a separate event! And after the arrival of the Führer, we are about to hold talks with the Privy Council, another separate event! ”
"Come on!" Lynch roared: "Lao Tzu doesn't have the energy to think about your nonsense that goes around and around, just tell Lao Tzu the conclusion!" ”
"Yes!" Norwich shook his body, straightened his sitting posture, and said seriously: "I mean, the Führer should confirm whether we are cooperating with Queen Emma, or with the military and political forces of the Emma Empire represented by the five major families!" ”
"Shhh The amount of information contained in this conclusion is really a bit large, so he can't find the problem to cut for a while. "Why do you say that?"
"The lower officials can't replicate the conversation with the queen." Norwich said bitterly: "A lot of things are my momentary judgments, which can be described as intuition. I don't know if the Führer can judge some clues based on such a post-mortem retelling by Xia Guan......"
"Okay, okay, it's okay, I won't scold you, you just say it."
"Xiaguan thanks the Führer for his understanding! Sasha, and even the Bloodraiders, were supported by the forces of the five major families to be exact. If the queen is on the same side as the five major families, she will definitely move north after capturing the territory of the Blood Raiders. Emma doesn't care about New Eden public opinion at all, anyway, she is an enemy in the end with the source, so why should she worry so much about stopping outside the source? No one thinks that the source is strong enough to confront Emma, so in this kind of acquiescence of the world, even if the source does have power, Emma's navy will still attack! Because of other details, the queen herself confirmed that she ordered the blood attackers, and that was enough for me! If there is a consensus of opinion, the battle will start a long time ago, and there can only be one reason why it has not started, that is, there is a contradiction between the monarch and the minister! ”
"Wait, you let me take a breath and think about it." Lynch's expression was very painful, Nima is too troublesome to engage in politics and conspiracy, can't he really do it? He struggled to keep up with Norwich's rhythm and wondered, "You mean, the queen herself has too many concerns, and she is not on the same line as the five major families; And the five families are actually a bunch of warmongers who play a clumsy conspiracy. What concerns do they not know or object to? ”
"The Führer summed it up very accurately!" Norwich slapped a sycophant, and then said: "If they agree on the same opinion, there is no need for a reason at all, and they will definitely declare war on our Chinese Empire directly because of the attack on the queen!" It is impossible for the Jupiters to appear in New Eden - of course, this is the default of the five families, so who else is the wanderer except you, the Führer? But they didn't declare war, and the five major families threw out some meaningless issues, then the lower officials can be sure of some conjectures, the queen strictly ordered not to deal with the Führer, and the five major families passively accepted it, but in fact they didn't want to cooperate with the Führer! ”
A cold sweat flowed down inexplicably, and Lynch remembered Eunice's words, chuckled in his heart, and said in a lost voice: "But I have already said about Jupiter's reopening of the Star Gate!" "At that time he was boasting about it, in order to overwhelm the little Minister of the Interior in momentum!
"It doesn't matter." Norwich shook his head and said, "The queen will not be kind to those who attack her, so in fact, she has confirmed that it was not you but the Jupiters who attacked her, and the news of the reopening of the stargate is nothing." ”
With Norwich's rhetoric, Lynch felt that Younis's words were becoming more and more interesting and scrutinized. "Isn't the queen also from the five major families? It seems that the five major families themselves don't necessarily have the same opinion, right? ”
"There is only one throne, and anyone who ascends the throne will naturally form a gap with the five major families, this is my conjecture." Norwich explained: "When the Führer says disagreement, is that Eunice of the Kadisapo family? With all due respect, it is common for a large interest group to have different opinions, but this does not affect the consistency of the final action, and there will always be a way to balance interests. And people like Younis can't make much difference at all. Yes, Younis is an avid admirer of the queen and is loyal to her alone. ”
Lynch nodded unconsciously, and finally came to a realization.
"Now, then, the Führer might as well think again, whether we are working with the Queen or with the five families."
"Since the five major families are not willing to cooperate with me at all, what else is there to consider?" Lynch wondered.
"Not really." Norwich spoke dryly, poured Lynch and himself a glass of red wine, and said: "Interests can be discussed, and politics is about compromise." He said fiercely, "That's why I asked the Führer again what he wanted from the Emma." ”