After gaining domestic support and becoming consul, Andrei III summoned our coup eyes in the courtyard of the Tagelmak family and held a secret meeting, and as a person who contributed a lot in the coup d'état, I was fortunate enough to be invited to this meeting and entered the inner circle of Andrei III.

"I have gathered everyone here this time to discuss three issues. First, how should the war against the Maischka and the Diaspora League end, second, to obtain foreign recognition of our position as governor, so that our righteous action to overthrow Luhr VIII should be more thoroughly recognized, and third, what should we do in the face of plummeting revenues. ”

Listening to Andrei III's eloquence on the throne, I twisted uneasily, and this was immediately noticed by Andrei III, who asked me what was wrong.

"Your Excellency Andrei III, shouldn't this kind of thing be discussed in the General Assembly Palace......? Isn't it inappropriate......"

Then Andrei III laughed, and the other participants laughed too, laughing so inexplicably and very embarrassed that I could.

"Oh, poor logistics officer Luer, you really don't understand how the politics of the Great Palace should work, as a promising governor, it is natural to discuss good ideas with your own faction before the meeting of the Great Palace. If he doesn't have the idea to convene a meeting of the General Assembly, it means that the weak governor does not want to take responsibility at all, and just blames the blame. ”

This passage seems to have touched the heartstrings of Andre III, yes, the first person who comes to mind when anyone hears this passage is not Lul VIII?

There is a saying in the divine realm, and I think this sentence is very appropriate here: collective responsibility is collective non-responsibility, and collective criticism is collective non-criticism.

Throw aside the executed King Luhr VIII, and now it is important to consult with His Excellency André on the future direction of Bourbon's policy.

"Speaking of the situation in the south, the emissaries we sent out have now brought back a message from them, and the asking price in the south is not low, they want us to cede the middle transit of Dumo Liao, to formally transfer the concession of Maisica to them, to transfer to them the special interests of the western core of Ingona and the Western Frontier Alliance, and to grant them trade privileges against Bourbon, and if we do this, they will consider acknowledging the result of this overthrow. ”

"Insatiable! Tian is shameless!" Although I had been mentally prepared in advance, knowing that I would be slashed by Boris, when I knew the real conditions, everyone including me was taken aback, and several grumpy people even greeted Governor Boris's family directly, and the venue was immediately excited.

However, His Excellency Andrei III seemed very calm, and he waited for the room to be quiet before continuing: "Although it sounds like we have lost a lot of things, but if you think about it, it may not be. ”

"The first is the Dumo Liao Central Channel, this area has been controlled by the south a few years ago, and now the south is just missing a name. ”

"The second is the concession, which was handed over to the south by Maisica more than ten years ago, and now the south is still only asking us for a name. ”

"Then there's the market in Ingana, where our influence has long since been lost over the years, and we have little to lose by giving Boris now. ”

"Don't forget, in 1432, the Incona, who had also become dishonest, launched a war of unification against the Western Frontier League and the Western Core. These two nuclei initially asked Lul VIII for help, but Lul VIII refused to ask for help, and finally the south began to support them, and in 1436 directly declared war on Ingona, which has been fighting for 5 years now. ”

"You say, are the two cores of Ingona closer to Bourbon, who can't help them, or to Boris, who is helping them? ”

"The only thing worth arguing about is the granting of trade privileges, and I think they are just a lion's mouth, and we should be able to negotiate with him. As long as the south is stabilized, the mutual defense treaty will still be in force, and the barbarian countries will not dare to invade us. ”

"However, if we had given the name, we would not have been able to declare war on them on this ground, and we would not have been able to account for it at home, knowing that we had overthrown the Fallen of Lul VIII," said one of the high-ranking participants.

Andrei III shook his head and sighed: "There is no way, the situation is like this, we must make a compromise, and the priority is to seize the remaining territory of Bourbon, instead of clinging to those territories that have been left of our hands." ”

"Therefore, when we negotiate with the South, we must remain silent, do not shout loudly for the inhabitants of the country to know, and sign a secret agreement with them first. ”

Seeing that Andrei III had made up his mind, what else could we say? It's said to be a discussion, but it's actually a word of Andrei III, and some of his hair will publish some of them, so forget it, I'm a halfway partner and a guy with shallow roots.

"Then there is the situation in the east, and I think it is enough to secretly send an envoy to negotiate peace with King Maisica, so that our territory can remain as it is, and when I am in control of the domestic situation, I can sign a peace treaty with him. ”

"As for the traitors of the Diaspora Alliance, they must be severely punished! This is the goal of our main attack in the future! We must cut off their tentacles reaching out to the Tenglong Colonial Guard, so that they do not become bigger. This is my opinion on the situation in the East, do you have any opinions?"

Of course, no one had an opinion, so this resolution of Andrei III was adopted again.

Then the discussion was on the most troublesome issue of revenue, and this time His Excellency Andrei III did not have any clear opinions, and asked us with expectations, does anyone have a good way?

You know, although the tax measures of Lure VIII are bastard, they do enhance Bourbon's fiscal revenue to a certain extent, but as we who overthrew Lul VIII's throne, we must abolish some measures, and André will continue to give tax exemptions to the nobles in order to show his excellence, so what will be used to make up for the more terrible financial loopholes after such a back-and-forth?

After an awkward silence, several participants made a few unreliable suggestions, but because they were too unreliable, their voices were lowered first.

In fact, I have an idea that Bourbon's current financial predicament is the result of the loss of the colonies, the wealth of the citizens being squeezed out of the wealth of the citizens in decades of war, and the high level of the aristocracy, so the best course of action now should be to cancel some of the preferential treatment of the aristocracy.

But I would not have put forward this opinion, which was destined to be unpassable, and even though I was only a minor nobleman before, I clearly remembered that the reason why Luhr VIII provoked everyone's anger was that in the fifth tax increase order, taxes were levied on all the minor nobles, which caused everyone to be in danger.

So this discussion lasted another two hours in this nasty embarrassment, and it was only after all of us came up with a solution that was not a way - this time it was really discussed by everyone.

That was the Diaspora Alliance's looting scheme.

Even with the decline of the Bourbons, the power of the seas was not matched only by the expatriates, who were not at sea until they seized the Tenlong Colony in 1430.

Previously, Bourbon failed to control sea power because the main naval forces were controlled in the north, and there were only a handful of navies in the south. However, now that the navy has been assembled, this is different, we can control the sea supremacy of North Myramie Gulf, and easily attack the coast of the Diaspora Alliance.

The emergency plan negotiated by Andrea III was to attack these towns and fill the financial holes by imposing a harsh penalty tax on rebellion.

But there is still a problem with such a good plan, as mentioned earlier, the Diaspora League was not near the sea before the signing of the Treaty of Armada in 1430, and the towns on the coastline are all areas that were just taken away by the Diaspora League 11 years ago and once belonged to the jurisdiction of the Tenglong Colonial Guard.

You must know that the Diaspora has only been in rule for 11 years, and most of the inhabitants there are Bourbon hearts, and the attitude towards the Diaspora is that they are traitors, and after I entered the General Palace, I also found that the inhabitants there often conveyed information about the Diaspora to us.

However, now they are being sacrificed in order to fill the financial hole...... Not quite right?

Looking at the hesitant gazes of me and several other participants, Andrei III tried his best to explain: "The Diaspora Alliance is already very difficult to entangle, and it is impossible to solve this problem through a war, and this time to punish the Diaspora Alliance, my psychological expectation is only to take back part of the territory, so as long as we don't attack the territory we are going to take back, it's fine." ”

"What's more, the state affairs are difficult, and the citizens of the Overseas Chinese Alliance must also learn to endure each other for the country. ”

I couldn't help but shudder a little when Lord Andrei III said this, and this inexplicably familiar sentence made me feel a little strange and frightened, as if it meant that things were going to go out of their way, and it was a particularly bad unfolding.

"O god of the sea, I hope that you will bless our regime to overcome the difficulties of today and repeat the prosperity of the past. "I couldn't stop it, so I could only pray to the god of the sea, but prayer couldn't alleviate my inner turmoil.