I have to say that Duke Otto has fulfilled the ultimate duty of a courtier, and has also kept the oath he made when he was loyal to Henry VII, otherwise if he were any one else, it is estimated that this army would not be King Qin, but would have replaced him.

But this time Duke Otto's rescue did not mean that he completely saved the French Empire, because according to the news that the storm spies got from Prince Harry, it is said that Duke Otto gave Henry VII a letter, and Henry VII was silent for a long time after seeing this letter, and even locked himself in the study for a day when the battlefield was at its most critical.

Prince Harry looked at the letters on the desk through the servant who delivered the meal, and he roughly knew what was in his heart. In the front, Duke Otto said that he fought with Henry VII in the north and south, and in the middle is an expression of Henry VII's methods over the years, and the final content is that Duke Otto has completely broken up, and he has no longer positioned himself as the duke of the French Empire, but as the lord of the Duchy of Berry.

This sentence seems to mean the same, but the meaning is completely different, which means that the Duchy of Berry will be de facto independent in the future. The presence of Imperial troops is no longer allowed, and it will no longer even be at the disposal of the French royal family, except for a nominal French vassal, who has no contact, and the Duchy of Berry of Duke Otto is considered independent.

And this is not just the independence of the Duchy of Berry, as long as the news is delivered, or if the other lords know that the imperial army can no longer enter the territory of the Duchy of Berry, then it will cause a violent reaction in the French Empire, and the other lords will also throw away the superficial obedience and learn the de facto independence of the Duchy of Berry.

In this way, the French Empire is completely finished, and in the future, except for the territories directly under the central government, all other territories will be considered to be gone. Even the collars of his two sons, such as Prince Edward and the Prince of Andorra, will have problems.

Just like the previous barbarian attack, because it was attacked from the north, there was not much danger in Edward's kingdom, so he chose to stay put. And this time, it was because the Milan Empire first attacked the territory of Prince Edward's kingdom that Prince Edward had to fight so actively. As for the thoughts of the Prince of Andorra, he thought that he would almost announce the world directly, and basically if something happened to the French Empire in the future, he would not want the Prince of Andorra's army to help.

Of course, if Henry VII now announces that Prince Edward will be made the crown prince and promises to hand over the empire to him in the future, it is estimated that Prince Edward will still be able to win over. But Prince Edward will still be vigilant and his own strength, after all, now is not the time for Henry VII to say, the Prince of Andorra has grown, and even his youngest son, Prince Harry, has grown up.

What's more important is that there is still a territory of Princess Jina, but compared to those sons, basically Princess Jina is no threat now. This is not only in terms of strength, but because of the identity of a woman, it is not that when there is no heir, basically the major lords will not accept an empire led by a woman.

And in the military, Princess Jina lost several battles before, even if she regained some dignity in the northern defense line behind, but she did it with the help of Duke, so Princess Jina's reputation in the military is actually not very good, so it is impossible for the military bosses to support Princess Jina to take the throne.

So all kinds of factors are combined, Princess Gina basically has no hope, and according to the current strength of the French Empire, it is unrealistic to want to build another Prince Harry Kingdom, which is simply asking Henry VII to directly give his family wealth to Prince Harry. Prince Edward's biggest opponent at present is the Prince of Andorra, who did not think much of his younger brother before, but has quietly developed such a scale.

After the end of a war, the time has entered the end of March, the thick snow of Storm Castle is basically gone, and the residents who have stayed in the house for a winter have also come out to prepare for spring ploughing, and this time the cultivated area is not only Storm Castle, but also the newly occupied Alpine City territory.

In a sense, Duke was also carrying out land reform, taking land from the hands of the previous lords for farming production, and at the same time giving them high revenge in order to increase the motivation of the peasants. Moreover, Duke understood that the scale of agriculture was limited after all, and that if the population was trapped in the land, there would inevitably be land annexation, resulting in the peasants at the lowest level being unable to live because they had no land or reduced production, which is also a scene that occurs in every dynasty.

At present, there is no way to achieve such a reform as the public ownership of land, because it almost touches on the social fundamentals of the Middle Ages. And there are only two ways to want this kind of reform, one is to buy it with money, and the other is to fight the landlords and divide the land.

There is no way to do these two kinds of Duke, the first answer is very obvious, that is, Storm Castle has no money, and the second answer is actually obvious, even if Storm Castle has money, it can't do this, doing so is equivalent to standing on the opposite side of this world, all the aristocratic class will oppose the rule of Storm Castle, and even the peasants of this world probably won't understand this practice, after all, the era has not yet reached the point of capital revolution.

Therefore, the only thing Duke can do is to increase food production and increase farmers through the influence of Storm Castle, so that in a sense, he can maintain the income of farmers and ensure the living space of the lowest level of society.

Of course, this is only a palliative but not a cure, the landlords are still exploiting the grassroots, and the peasants rely on the soil to dig food, and the output is only so much. So Duke vigorously developed the handicraft industry, and now whether it is Storm Castle or Alpine City, the textile industry has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the textile industry has led to the cultivation of various high-cash crops, and also made many landlords turn their attention to business instead of competing with farmers for profit.

At the same time, Duke also gave up the dream of building hundreds of tons of ships or even warships directly, he communicated with Old Watt, and tried to build about 100 tons, or even dozens of tons of small boats and fishing boats as quickly as possible, because with more than a month of preparation, a battle finally started between the Storm Fish-Man Army and the fish-men of the Shark Tribe. And this time the Storm Fish-Man Army finally took a big advantage in the defense, according to the battle report from Fasqi, this battle wiped out more than 10,000 Shark Tribe Fish-Man Warriors, and the casualties of the Storm Sea Clan Army were less than 2,000 people, and from then on, a hundred nautical miles near the Storm Fort was an absolutely safe area!