Ladislaus, the regent of Vienna, was more concerned about the situation in the port of Tripoli than the emperor of Madrid.

As soon as the debris had completely landed, he summoned Jones.

"Is it really the Knights Hospitaller's branch in North Africa that dominates a dimensional absorption?" Secrecy Director Jones still felt a little incredulous, "I've been to the D-class plane fragment, although my teammates are equal to none, but I was already a core-level warrior at that time, and even so, I haven't been able to absorb that plane fragment completely." ”

"Frentsberg did just that, with the old emperor." Ladislaus shrugged, "He seemed to be just a mid-level warrior at that time, and the old emperor was at least a core-level warlock at that time, but you know, the old emperor wouldn't do anything desperate." ”

The "old emperor" in Ladislaus's mouth refers to the grandfather of the contemporary emperor, Maximilian I.

The son of the old emperor and the father of the current emperor, the handsome Philip died before his own father, so he was not an emperor.

"Ah, he's just saying that, who knows if it's true." Jones said this, but he actually knew that Frentsberg was not the kind of person who would boast about himself, "Recently he has been in a hurry in Alba Iulia, asking for all kinds of supplies and manpower, and asking me to eliminate all the spies that the Ottomans have arranged in Central Hungary. ”

Alba Iulia was the capital of Eastern Hungary, and most of Central Hungary, including the capital Buda, had fallen into Ottoman hands, and the only land link between Eastern Hungary and Vienna was a narrow land bridge on the north bank of the Danube.

Although Pest was still in the hands of the Austrians, it was too close to Buda to serve as a command center.

"Frentzberg relied on an extremely unstable supply line, and was holding out against the Ottomans there." Ladislaus was very trusting of Jones and allowed him to have various side hustles. But he was not allowed to denigrate Frenzberg.

Jones wisely changed the subject to the one that could never be wrong, touting the leader: "When the satellite is captured, it is still up to your wise leadership, Your Highness the Regent." ”

"It's up to Her Majesty." Ladislaus waved her hand, and the queen was referring to Juana, the wife of the handsome Philip. The Emperor's Mother.

Austria's possession of one satellite was captured only recently, compared to Spain's two that were underdeveloped.

"I'm fairly sure that the piece that was just absorbed was channeled by the Knights Hospitaller." Ladislaus is a little less powerful than the Emperor, but he is more attentive, he has already done some investigation, "I have just spoken to His Highness Misrila, and she said that he once wrote a letter to His Highness Sazastan, in which she recalled the good old days, and then asked His Highness Sazastan to support my emissary. Sell us grain, not to the Republic of Venice, although those Venetians bid higher. ”

Speaking of this, Ladislaus reminded Jones again: "Oh, by the way, Her Royal Highness Mithrela has been unwell for the last few days, you know, she is Zhenguo. But she is not a reincarnation, and absorbing fragments will make her feel bad. You don't want her to be in charge of deep interrogation and creating dream worlds lately. ”

Jones nodded hurriedly, Mithrila is the red-robed master of the illusion department. Mage, this is a spell series that is very suitable for torture to extract confessions.

Of course, you can also call it an "in-depth interrogation".

"Dream World" is the name of a hallucinogen, and the establishment of drug networks in foreign countries through intelligence agencies is a recent source of revenue for Austria, and Ladislaus has always believed that state drug trafficking is wrong. But mounting financial pressures forced him to make some difficult choices.

He eventually convinced himself that the British Empire had done it anyway, or would have done so, and that there was no reason for him to have a higher moral standard than the parliamentarians who ruled the world, and who had not been really blamed for it. He is still considered to be a remarkable figure who has led LinkedIn to great glory and power.

Ethical standards are never the key, the key is to win.

As in the British Empire, hallucinogens that can detract from the mind were still illegal in Austria.

Moreover, the "dream world" is an advanced craft, which is not very addictive, and the pleasure is great, and the world without magic can never be developed.

However, this potion is very cumbersome to make, and even the "Zhenguo" illusion mage often wastes a lot of raw materials in a well-developed laboratory.

Of course, there are also rumors that His Royal Highness Mithrela has smoked too much, but Ladislaus decided that it is better not to investigate deeply, it is rare to be confused.

"That unlucky place in the port of Tripoli? We ask them to buy food??? Jones is also a reincarnation, so Alpha didn't modify his memory, he quickly figured out what the situation was about, he wanted to mention Wu Xin, but he thought for a while before finding the name, "Oh, it seems, it seems that His Royal Highness Cesare Cibbo is doing a good job, he shouldn't sell grain to the Venetians, right?" It took a lot of effort for the Venetians to be unable to store enough food. ”

"I hope he won't, but you know, those damn Venetians have a full vault, and we were so short in time that we only captured one big vault, but we didn't scour the others." Ladislaus's words caused Jones to get down on one knee at once.

"Please atone for your sins, this is all the incompetence of the ministers." He was the head of the intelligence agency, so he naturally had to plead guilty for not finding the secret vault. "Compared to His Excellency Xibo, I am really incompetent, he must have conquered a plane with fertile land."

"The secret vault of the Bank of Venice is not so easy to find, you have done a good job, and besides, the real wealth of Venice is their credit and fleet, both of which we have not dealt enough blows, and the Venetians are naturally not convinced." Jones had a good attitude, and Ladislaus forgave him for calling the place ruled by Wu Xin "unlucky".

Ladislaus could not tolerate the bad comments of others, but he tried to be modest: "And he has only conquered a fragment of the plane, and even if the port of Tripoli is thus expanded into a first-class city on the southern shore of the Mediterranean, the Libyan region is still too barren to be compared to Egypt and Tunisia." ”

Jones has never been a likable, and he has always been unjust about Frentsberg's hard hold in the East, but this time. He's looking for the wrong person.

Jones has also recognized this: "The growth of the port of Tripoli is a good thing for us, the Republic of Venice is so entrenched in the Eastern Mediterranean, and despite my many efforts, I have not been able to disrupt their trade routes, and they have even reconciled with the Ottoman Empire, in recent times." Venetian merchant ships were unimpeded in both Constantinople and the port of Beirut, cooperating with pagans for money! The port of Tripoli is completely open for trade, and I am sure that our Austrian merchant ships will be given preferential treatment. ”

"Ahaha, haha." Ladislaus knew in his heart that this was nonsense. After the port of Trieste was heavily damaged by Barbary pirates more than ten years ago, Austria did not even have a decent commercial port, nor did it have a large officially organized merchant fleet, and it was not able to trade with the port of Tripoli at all, "I would of course urge him not to trade with the Venetians." ”

"I still don't think that little Goriti will really attack us with the Ottoman League, openly with the infidels. Who would dare to do that but France? Not to mention the fact that the Cretan side had long submitted to the Ottoman Empire, and was he not afraid of losing the position of consul? Jones's words also make sense, as Grieti the Younger was the current consul of Venice, and his seizure of consulship was not very legitimate, and Crete, the eastern capital of the Republic of Venice, refused to recognize his authority and submitted to the protection of the Ottoman Empire.

"They do want to take back the Continental Territory, Treviso. Friuli must have had some bandits, too, who were against the trend. Ladislaus didn't have any definite information, but this year he raised taxes in northern Italy significantly. So it's almost certain.

Northern Italy was one of the richest regions in the world since the Roman Empire, and Austria benefited from this region, allowing Ladislaus to build and maintain a large Danube River Fleet, which prevented the Siege of Vienna from happening on the Wuxin plane, but also greatly worsened relations between Austria and Venice.

Austria was in the provinces of Verona, Friuli, Treviso that it had seized from Venice. In the past ten years, it has adopted a low-tax and low-pressure policy.

This policy was abolished with the fall of Buda, and the exemptions were gradually restored, which allowed Austria to stabilize the situation in Hungary and give the Venetian remnants a new supporter.

"Your Highness, don't worry, we've ruled there for more than ten years. Under your merciful rule, Your Highness, those Italians are doing well. Jones was telling the truth, the little Archon of the Republic of Venice, Friti, had been unjust, and the infighting had been fierce.

"Don't lose on the main battlefield, their loyalty is reliable." Ladislaus is sober about this.

"Although most of Italy's grain-producing areas are now in the hands of the emperor, the Venetians still buy grain and armaments everywhere, looking for powerful mercenaries." One of Jones's most important tasks was to obstruct the restoration of the Republic of Venice and to plant spies, but this did not go well, "we could not completely stop this, we could devote too few resources in this direction." ”

Ladislaus frowned and nodded: "The direction of Buda is still the primary issue, although I don't believe that Poland will be allied with the Ottomans, but the necessary penetration and investment in Poland is also necessary, even if there is only a limited tacit understanding between Poland and the Ottomans, it is a great threat to us." ”

Austria was under increasing pressure on the Eastern Front, and the Ottoman Tatar cavalry pulled from the Caucasus constantly moved along the Danube, threatening the link between Vienna and Alba Iulia.

Based in Buda, they efficiently plundered the supply convoy that Ladislaus had managed to put together.

Austria and Poland were also unable to come to an agreement, and although the various princes of the Holy Roman Empire offered some help, with the exception of the Duke of Bavaria, who feared the loss of Vienna the most, and the Religious Electors of Trier and Mainz, who had always had excellent relations with Austria, the other powerful vassals demanded "religious self-determination" as a condition for further support.

This "self-determination" is not just "self-determination", but "their self-determination", not only for the Protestant Bann to replace the old Shirek as God, but also for the destruction of the religious princes who profess Shirek, the confiscation of monasteries that support Shirek, and the forcible execution of the most devout Shirek.

And this is something that Ladislaus could hardly agree to, which would lead to great chaos within his camp, and the emperor of Spain and the true chosen pope of Rome were the basis of his struggle against the Ottoman Empire.

Ladislaus seriously considered converting to Banne, reconciling with the princes of North Germany, and relying on the strength of the German nation against the Ottoman Empire, but he ultimately decided that it would be unwise.

He could only be content with the Electors of Brandenburg and Saxony not to cooperate with the Ottomans, and then received such symbolic support as dozens of horses and a few tons of grain.

"Ah, don't talk about this, you can arrange a meeting with Queen Juana, although she is powerful, but after all, she is isolated, and she should not know the changes in the main plane." Ladislaus said as he felt a migraine attack, "I should have met her in person to make sure things didn't go wrong with the gardener, Cesare had proven himself to be worth investing in." ”

…………………

Wu Xin finally came to the door of the Knight Cassano, but he didn't knock for a long time.

The road to this room was too long, and too much faith power was consumed in that battle.

Although it is by no means unnecessary, without the "Extreme Fireball Technique", Wu Xin simply can't kill those two enemies who are also the strongest in the "elite".

Napoleon was an enemy whose strength, agility, and charisma were close to perfection.

Nelson is an enemy with the ability to fly.

It is not easy to deal with any of them, not to mention that there are two strongest countries in the world at the beginning of the nineteenth century behind them, even if Wu Xin has those treasures excavated from the royal tombs, it is only possible to complete the main task and "break away after contact".

To kill these two heroes, courage and talent alone are not enough, but also opportunity and sacrifice.

Wu Xin and Delia have courage and talent, but they can't get an enemy like Bursha every time, although they grow quickly, but if it weren't for the input of those faith powers, Wu Xin and they would inevitably have to face even greater sacrifices.

If it weren't for the "Extreme Fireball Technique" that made Napoleon always lack the confidence to fight head-on, then it would not only be Cormona who would have died, but also Wu Xin and Delia.

But Wu Xin really can't give up Cassano.

"Your Highness, are you outside?"

When Wu Xin hesitated, Cassano also felt that there was someone outside the door.

"It's me, Knight Cassano."

Wu Xin finally pushed the door open. (To be continued.) )