Chapter 296: The Collapse of the Empire (Thirty-two) The Little Nobleman Lul Initiator Has No Queen!
The first thing I did after I got this official position was to find myself a palatial mansion in Boris with a garden!
Originally, it was impossible for a person from a family like me to have such a large mansion in a place like Boris, but with the help of this coup d'état, ah no, it was the east wind brought about by the righteous overthrow move, and I was able to make a fortune when I ascended to the General Assembly Palace, and I could have such a large mansion.
Because after the coup d'état, some nobles were moving out of Boris, and they were in a hurry to sell their mansions, so I could get a mansion that I had never imagined before at a very low price.
And I also felt that because it was the righteous overthrow of the throne rather than the normal succession, there was always a sense of anxiety in the heart of His Excellency Andrei III, and the nobles who kept moving out of Boris made even more worried.
Therefore, the people he really trusted were those of us who coup with him, especially me and a few other members who were not from a deep family, so they promoted us very hard.
And after I became prosperous, at the urging of my family, I was also given an incentive to become the head of the family, and asked me to give him a hand, so I took the few men in the family to Boris and installed them in my department.
Although their business ability is basically zero because of the wrong major, after all, they can use it with confidence, and this one advantage can offset all the shortcomings.
After that, my life in Boris was quite merry, and the nobles kept giving me gifts, hoping that I would make some suggestions in their favor, and although I did receive gifts, I always grasped a degree, knowing which inconsequential things could be received and which riskier gifts could not be received.
For example, if someone who comes to give a gift claims to be a friend from the south and wants to give me a gift, this kind of gift must not be touched, no matter how high the value of the gift is.
Relying on the scale of receiving gifts, shallow foundations, and positions that do not involve military and political affairs, I not only belong to the inner circle of Andrei III, but also live a very nourishing life on the edge of the inner circle.
I know very well that a family as shallow as Gerk Gendi can get a position to enter the General Assembly Palace in my generation, which is an eye-opening and unavoidable thing for the sea god, and it is difficult to say whether the next generation can continue to hold a position like mine, so I must be fully prepared while I am alive.
In addition to receiving gifts on a financial scale, I try to be innocent in politics and not to make my own remarks lightly.
For example, His Excellency Andrei III would often summon us at his mansion for secret meetings within this small circle to decide the direction of Bourbon policy. In such an important meeting, my usual approach is to look at my nose and nose, and without saying a word, if I really want to say, I will say, "That adult said a wonderful thing" to fool the past.
Thanks to these actions, I enjoyed the first two years after the righteous overthrow of Lul VIII. And the secret negotiations between Lord Andrei III and Boris and Maisca went basically smoothly.
First of all, Boris, after some negotiations, Boris agreed to remove the trade privileges, so that only the cession of Dumo Liao, the formal recognition of the loss of the Incona market and the handover of the Maisica Concession, so that Lord Andrea III could be recognized by Boris.
After all, Boris is now interfering in the war of unification of Ingona, and for them, this is the first time they have intervened in the war like Bourbon, and many actions must refer to Bourbon's practice and then grope for a new routine suitable for Boris, and there is no interest in doing it against Bourbon for the time being.
After discussing the results, Lord Andre III and Boris signed the "Andre III's Secret Agreement of Boris", after paying the excessive fine, Poseidon agreed to extend the agreement for 5 years to all altars, which means that as long as the parties do not take the initiative to leak secrets, our Andrea group has an extra 5 years.
The second issue was the issue of Maisica, and the treacherous Wang Xiuge agreed to the proposal that there should be no more large-scale conflicts.
According to Andre III's judgment, the reason why Wang Xiuge agreed was that he wanted us to let go of our hands and fight with the Overseas Chinese Alliance, and then attack when the two of us were about to fight, which is called "Dead Dao Friends Do Not Die Poor Dao".
With these two things dealt with, His Holiness Andrei III was finally able to settle down and concentrate on carrying out his plan to attack the coast of Myramie. But now, as a civilian, I naturally don't need to personally manage this coastal attack plan, I just need to stay in Boris and do my own thing.
In the pleasant days that followed, in addition to the increasing amount of money in my pocket, one of the trivia things that I remembered was the conflict between Lord André III and his family.
Lord Andrei III was not the intended heir of the Gelmak family at first, although Lord Andrei III was a descendant of the Germak family, but he was not a direct descendant, and he was almost five generations old.
The Gelmak family had a better existence than André III, who was already a councillor of the General Palace before the coup d'état, and his son was the same Felison who had made the "infant advice" to Lure VIII, and he was the decent heir of the Germak family.
However, after the righteous overthrow of Lure VIII by Lord André III as the consul, he rose to prominence as the new head of the Germak family.
The cause of the incident was the former young child's advice, who is now in his twenties.
After the overthrow of justice, Felison often came to the General Palace to make some criticisms of André III's policies, especially the execution of Loure VIII, and Felison directly said what I wanted to say but did not dare to say, an idiom from the divine realm, "The initiator has no aftermath?"
He was then expelled from the Palace by Andre III, and a ban was issued against Felison from stepping on the floor of the Palace.
On one occasion at a meeting with us, Andrei III was angry at the incident, and he did not feel at all that he had done wrong, believing that Felison was only angry that his father had lost his position as head of the family, so he criticized him for no reason.
The happy times always flew by, and two years passed in the blink of an eye, and although the counterinsurgency against the Diaspora League in the past two years was very unsuccessful due to lack of funds, and the news of the siege of the city was repeated, this did not change my joy of making money, and my wealth increased day by day in these two years.
And with the growing fortune of the Bourbon people during these two years, and the will of the Bourbon people to call for peace.
At first, the Bourbons were so fanatical that they wanted to crush anyone who dared to offend the Bourbons. But by now, they're tired.
Bourbon has been fighting wars for more than forty years, winning or losing, ceding land, paying reparations, and has had enough. Let the men and children go home, stop fighting, end the war, end the harsh taxes!
This was a great rebellion in the past, but in the past two years, it has spread like a raging fire, and the momentum of the spread has been extremely violent, and even Boris has appeared with a crowd petitioning for peace.
But how could the war be stopped? Bourbon's current financial holes were mainly filled by looting the Dragon's colonial guards.
Not to mention, the looting also requires start-up funds, the maintenance of the fleet, and the salaries of the soldiers are all expensed, not to mention that there has been fought for many years, and the lamps that have been plundered for 2 years have also been squeezed, so that Andrei III has to put the areas that he did not plan to plunder on the list of plunder.
Even so, the fiscal hole is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no way, André III reverted to some of the tax policies that Luhr VIII had done a few months ago, barely enough to fill the fiscal hole, and maintained Bourbon for another 2 years, while continuing the war for 2 years.
After trying his best to maintain it for 2 years, it has reached its limit, and Andrei III, who was forced to be red-eyed, did not think about peace talks with the Diaspora Alliance, but this time the conditions of the peace talks of the Diaspora Alliance were extremely harsh, and they refused to continue to pay taxes to Bourbon after peace, which made the war only last.
What's worse is that a week ago, the Diaspora League poked out the news of our peace talks with him, and two days ago, Andrei III's secret agreement with Boris was stabbed out by whom, and for a time there was a dark tide in Boris, and the strange situation frightened me to hide in the mansion for a month.
Why did you hide for only a month? Because a month later, another coup d'état took place.
I remember that it was a dark and windy night, and I was sleeping in the warehouse where I had hidden my belongings—which made me feel like I had returned to my middle-aged Lorne, when suddenly the servant ran in and reported to me that there was a commotion outside the mansion, and one of the bold men went to see that there was another fight between the two sides, and he could only recognize one as Germark's personal guard.
When I heard the servant's report, I felt a thump in my heart, and my thoughts seemed to go back to that night two years ago, and I understood that something had happened.
I patiently took the second watch in the mansion, and when I heard from the servants that the Germark guards seemed to be defeated, and that I had no regard for any loyalty to Andrei III, I hastily gathered my relatives and ordered the servants to pack up their belongings and prepare to flee through the secret passages of my mansion.
But I had so many possessions that I was reluctant to abandon some of my valuables, and as a result, I was caught by a group of coups, and my whole family was captured.
Then I was thrown into prison, and I was in the same cell, some of the same henchmen of Andrei III, and we waited anxiously for the immediate imminent fate.
At noon, a person I didn't expect arrived in the cell, he was Boris, Andrei III's right and left hand, and when we saw him come to the cell with a high spirit, we all understood that this guy had been making trouble for the past few months, and he was the traitor!
Unfortunately, now we are all in prison, and he is the victor.
Boris stood outside the prison and told us with a smug face: "Obeying Bourbon's will for peace, I have justly overthrown Andrei's puppet governor, who was engaged in a useless war. ”
After listening to Boris's outrageous words, several henchmen who were more loyal to Andrei III immediately scolded him, while I did what I did in the past when Andrei III was in a meeting, and I watched my ears and nose and heart.
Three days later, Boris, no, now the 116th Consul of Bourbon, Boris VI, executed us defeated dogs: those die-hard André III loyalists, regardless of their origins, were executed in the same way as Luhr VIII, whom we executed two years ago.
As for me, I was fortunate to be brought back to prison, and was sentenced to 33 years in prison for the two charges of "using my power to install cronies and embezzlement and bribery", and deprived me of all the wealth I had made in the past two years, and my Gerk family was driven back to Xiben.
God, what's the point of these two years? I'm 61 years old now, and 33 years in prison means life imprisonment for me, and I don't think I'll live to be 94 years old.
Except for a life, I lost all power in this coup d'état, and my two-year career was like a dream.