Chapter 756: The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop

Enroth Continent, the imperial capital of the Enroth Empire, Iron Fist Castle.

It was already dusk, and after disposing of the affairs at hand, Catherine leaned against the window, staring at the sunset in the west.

At Roland's insistence, Catherine has now begun to formally intervene in the political affairs of the Enlos Empire, and she has formulated many new policies that she thinks can be implemented in the Enroth Empire based on a series of policies implemented by Jian Chen in the Entagree Empire.

Roland was a wise emperor who loved and believed in his wife, and he wanted to use his wife's extraordinary talent to make his empire stronger and more durable.

He was well aware of how Catherine's new policies would help his empire, and he spared no effort to implement them all over Enroth, but not everyone had the same vision as Roland, and many important ministers of the Enroth Empire were very resistant to these new policies that obviously touched on some of the inherent interests of the aristocracy.

Roland's practice of letting Catherine interfere in politics also made these imperial ministers worried, they didn't think Catherine was outstanding before, but when Catherine returned to her parents' house because of her father's death, and unexpectedly became the empress of the Erathian Empire, showing amazing political and military talents, they regarded Catherine as a thorn in the side.

"The Queen's ambition is too great, and what's worse is that she has the ability to match that ambition"

The courtiers of the Enlos Empire commented on their Highness the Empress, they were worried about this powerful Empress, and they thought that Roland, the personality of His Majesty the Emperor, was too gentle and kind, which was the greatest weakness of His Majesty the Emperor.

At the beginning, it was because of this personality that Archibald was able to successfully frame him, and now that Catherine is so strong, who can guarantee that she will not become another Archibald and let the old things happen again?

A few people even think that the union between Roland and Catherine may be a conspiracy orchestrated by the Erathia Empire in order to annex the Enroth Empire, and they even secretly suspect that Prince Nicholas is Roland's biological flesh and blood.

All of this makes Catherine's position in the Enroth Empire quite embarrassing, Catherine has the heart to avoid suspicion, does not ask about political affairs, and is at ease to be a good wife and mother, just a husband and a child, but she can't resist Roland's repeated begging, and now Roland really needs her help.

Roland's absence from the reign is too long, Catherine is not there, Nikolai is still young, and Humphrey, who is temporarily in charge of political affairs, is not competent as the regent, which makes the hearts of today's Enroth Empire fluctuate, in fact, if it were not for the timely return of Roland and Catherine, it is difficult to say whether Humphrey can still control the situation, some big lords rely on their vast land, self-respect, and divide one side, and there are hidden signs of instability.

After Roland came back, although he immediately took a series of measures to suppress these big lords and stabilize the situation again, but after all, this is only a palliative method to cure the root cause, at this time Roland has realized the disadvantages of the lord system, he wants to change the status quo, but he is not good at it, so he can only turn to his wife for help.

The Erathian Empire has always had a lot of experience with centralized power, Catherine herself has a wealth of experience in governance, and she knows a lot about the Erathian Empire, and more importantly, through the study of the miraculous rise of the Entagri Empire, Catherine has learned even more.

These are what Roland urgently needs today.

In this case, how could Catherine, who loved her husband deeply, refuse Roland's request, watching this man who loved her deeply in political affairs anxious, but she sat back and ignored it, indifferent.

Catherine also thought about hiding behind the scenes and secretly giving advice to Roland, but Roland's words made her give up this idea with a wry smile.

"Do you think those rambling guys won't point fingers at you? No, it will only make the situation worse, they will say that you are secretly bewitching me, they will say that you are planning all the plots in the dark, and when the time comes, your position will only be more embarrassing than this, it is better for me to give the order, and then you stand in the front desk openly, those guys want to talk about it, let them talk about it, one day, I will let them know that in this matter, they made a mistake that they shouldn't have made, but now, I still need the help of these guys, so you can bear with it for the time being, this is for me, and also for our Nikolai, we want to leave him a strong and stable empire"

But in any case, being suspicious all the time was never a pleasant thing, and Catherine was tired now, and she felt as if she was back in the form she had been in the Erathian Empire.

"No matter how hard I try, I always don't get the approval of some people, this is the case in Erathia, and it is also the same in Enlos, it seems that I am destined to be a character who is not popular."

Sighing helplessly, Catherine withdrew her eyes from the view of the window, and she walked back to her desk, and sorted out the papers on it a little, and prepared to leave for dinner with her dear husband and son.

At that moment, a specially marked document fell into her eyes, causing her to be distraught again.

It was a letter from the Erathian Empire.

A letter from the so-called Catherines imploring her to return to the reign of the Erathian Empire.

"Did that guy Kendall make this a mess?" Catherine picked up the letter, hesitated for a moment, and then put it down again.

Since helping Roland govern, although Catherine still pays attention to everything on the Erathia continent from time to time, she has never used all kinds of intelligence to deduce the situation on the Erathia continent as before, and she has not been to the room with the huge sand table of the Erathia continent for a long time.

Her whole body and mind have now been placed on the side of the Enlos Empire, on her husband and son, and the Erathia Empire is a thing of the past for her.

Therefore, even if she still had an interest in the continent of Erathia, she focused on the Entagre Empire out of her own needs, and she learned a lot from various aspects of this emerging empire, which she then applied to the Enloth Empire.

So for the current situation of the Erathia Empire, Catherine only knows a general idea, but she doesn't know the specific situation, she only knows that the Erathia Empire has just experienced a fiasco at the hands of the Entagri Empire, but she doesn't know that it is precisely because of this fiasco that Kendall's regent is already shaky, and she doesn't know that the current Erathia Empire has been under Kendall's willful will, and it is shaky.

However, even if she knew, Catherine had no intention of returning to Erathia, as she had written in her letter in reply to the Catherine faction, and she had already made up her mind not to intervene in any affairs of the Erathian Empire.

Looking at the letter, standing at the table for a moment, Catherine walked to a cabinet behind her.

She took out several more letters of the same mark, and threw them into the fireplace of the room, along with the one on the table, and then took a candlestick that had been lit by the maid because the light in the room had begun to dim, and lit them one by one.

"It's all in the past" Catherine muttered quietly as she watched the letters quickly turn into ashes in the flames, and then strode out of the room without looking back, thinking about whether to dispose of the magic letter teleportation array sent by the other party, although Roland didn't mind these things, but if these things were known by those who were bent on catching her, it would inevitably be a trouble.

She didn't want that to happen, and she didn't want Roland to worry about it, Roland was tired enough.

But the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop.

Within a few steps of Catherine walking out of the room, one of the castle guards hurried over to stop her, and brought her the news that had made her mood worse again, which had just improved her mood from having to dine with her family.

"Your Highness, there is a man outside the castle who wants to see you, he calls himself Craggs, and he says that there is something important that must be told to you personally, and that you should not take the time to see him."

"Craggs? Why is he here again? ”

Catherine's brow furrowed deeply.

Craggs was a former admiral she had appointed when she was still in the Erathian Empire, and she was impressed with his former subordinates, as she considered them a good talent.

However, Kraggs's current identity is not a naval officer of the Erathia Empire, before the outbreak of the naval war between the Entagre Empire and the Erathia Empire, he was sober-minded in order to avoid fearless casualties, and took nearly one-third of the Erathia naval fleet to carry out an unprecedented defection, and then took his subordinates to change their careers and become maritime merchants.

Catherine only knew that this important criminal, who was now being compiled by the Erathian Empire, was a member of the so-called Catherine faction.

Previously, it was Craggs who brought her the magical letter teleportation array used to communicate with the Catherinees.

Now this Craggs is here again, and at such a strange time.

Did something happen? Catherine had the heart not to see each other, but she couldn't let go of it in her heart.

After thinking about it, Catherine decided to meet each other.

"Maybe I couldn't make the other party die by writing a letter before, so I made it clear to them in person, and by the way, I also returned the magic letter teleportation array to them, so that they should always understand that I will never go back, right?"

With this in mind, she had Clagus led into a side hall in the castle, but she returned to the room she had just left, ready to take out the letter teleportation array and return it to the other party.

Craggs, who had been taken to the side hall, was very nervous.

He knew that he shouldn't be able to get out of this Iron Fist Castle today.

The crime of kidnapping the Empress of the Enroth Empire is enough to put him on the gallows, or squat in the dungeon in the deepest part of the castle for the rest of his life, and if Catherine does not say anything to save him afterwards, this will be his final end.

However, despite his nervousness, Kraggs was not afraid at all, he was nervous because he was afraid that he would not be able to successfully send his Empress away with the magic scroll he had hidden in his arms, not because he was afraid of what might happen to him in the future.

Craggs has no regrets about the dangerous mission he is about to carry out, this seemingly calm and composed, quite a general's former Imperial Navy officer is actually very enthusiastic, otherwise he would not have resolutely launched the largest defection operation in the history of the Erathian Empire with like-minded partners.

After defecting, he was dragged into the Catherine faction by a friend who kept in touch, and now he was single-minded, only thinking about doing something for the Elasia Empire, which he loved so much, so when he was sent by the superiors to send this dangerous mission, he agreed without hesitation.

"As long as His Majesty Catherine can return to the Erathia Empire, everything will change Your Majesty, the last and greatest hope of the Empire"

Thinking so, Craggs touched the magic scroll hidden in his bosom, and when the castle guards brought him in, they took away the conspicuous longsword he had deliberately brought with him and a dagger that was not very well hidden, but they did not realize that he was also hiding a magic scroll disguised as a letter.

Fearing that Catherine would not see him, Craggs chose such a strange time, believing that it would increase his chances of seeing Catherine, which was exactly what happened.

Now, there is only one last step left, as long as he can create an opportunity to be alone with Catherine, he is 100% sure that the whole plan of action will be successfully completed.

Footsteps rang out in the hallway, and Catherine finally arrived.

"Your Majesty is a great honor to see you again," Craggs humbly greeted his Empress.

"I'm not a majesty anymore, Craggs," Catherine felt unhappy and sour in her heart because of what the other party called her, "watch your wording, if you don't want to be kicked out of here"

"I understand, Your Highness" Craggs showed a wry smile on his face, and reluctantly changed his title to Catherine, "Your Highness, I came this time, ......"

He was about to say something, but Catherine interrupted him with a wave of her hand, and opened her mouth first.

"If it's the same thing last time, don't mention it again, there is no relationship between me and the Erathia Empire, I am now the queen of the Enlos Empire, I have made it very clear in the letter, and this, please take it with you"

Catherine beckoned, and one of her personal maids handed the letter teleportation array into the hands of Clargoth.

"Clargs, please understand that these actions of you and your companions will not change my mind, and that your efforts will be in vain, and will cause me a great deal of trouble, and if you still remember that I was your majesty, please do not disturb my life in the future, and please do not tell your companions about this, and that today is the last time I will see you, Craggs, and I will not see you or anyone else from the Elasia Empire again."

With that, Catherine turned to leave, and without avoiding the castle guards and attendants, or even taking a seat in the castle's owner's chair in the side hall, she walked in, and then stood and said a few words to Craggs, and then prepared to leave.

In this way, she wanted to cut off the other party's thoughts, and at the same time show a certain attitude to those in the Enloth Empire who were always doubting her.

However, she did not achieve her goal, the Catherines had already guessed that this would happen, and Clargs had already prepared accordingly.

It only took him one sentence to stop Catherine.

"Your Highness, you have misunderstood, I am not here for the last incident, I am here this time because I have received a message that may be unfavorable to Prince Nicholas"

"Nikolai?" Catherine Huo Ran turned around, "What's going on?" ”

If there is one thing that Catherine is most nervous about these days, it is undoubtedly the only son of her and Roland, Nikolai.

Hearing that there was bad news for Nikolai, Catherine couldn't help but ask.

Her attitude made Craggs understand that he was one step closer to success.

"Your Highness, the stakes are very high, I ......" He pretended to be speechless and stopped, and looked at the royal guards and attendants in the side hall, with a look of embarrassment.

Seeing this, Catherine did not doubt him, and immediately waved her hand and asked everyone to leave: "You guys retreat first"

Soon, there were only a few Liao Liao people left in the side hall, except for Catherine and Craggs, as long as a few royal female guards who were responsible for protecting Catherine's safety, but even if they were, they were far away from Catherine, and kept a considerable distance from Catherine.

"What's going on? Could it be that someone wants to be bad for Nikolai? Catherine's face was cold, and during this time she had vaguely heard such ridiculous rumors about the suspicion that Nikolai was not Roland's flesh and blood, and she mistakenly thought that Clargs had heard something about it, which made her not to take it lightly, she would not allow anyone to harm her lovely little Nikolai, and if necessary, she would do whatever it took to protect her child from harm.

Out of the corner of his eye, Craggs glanced at the female guards standing in the corner of the side hall, knowing that they could no longer stop their movements, and his heart couldn't help but be reassured.

"No, Your Majesty is not like that"

He reached into his arms, quickly took out the magic scroll that sealed the door of another dimension, and immediately unfolded it towards Catherine, who was very close to him.

"I beg your pardon for my rudeness, Your Majesty, I have come to see you back to the current empire of the Erathia Empire, and I really can't do without your guidance"

"Craggs, what are you doing?" Catherine was shocked, she had just sat down in her chair and hurriedly got up, trying to dodge the magic released by Craggs, but it was too late, Craggs's movements were beyond his expectations, she couldn't react at all, and when she stood up straight, the magic had been blessed on her.

In a burst of milky white magical light, Catherine, with a frightened expression, disappeared.