The first snow fell, and it took only one morning to turn the whole city of Sewell white.

Count Satsuma stared at the snowflakes falling outside the window, his expression unusually solemn.

Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny has been back in the Kingdom of Lampari for a month.

In the beginning, a qiē was normal.

Upon her return to the city of Anvimar, Her Royal Highness Sevigny attended the funeral of His Majesty King Eric very calmly, but did not reveal any other information from beginning to end.

Originally, according to everyone's expectations, since Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny resolutely gave up the opportunity to compete for the throne with King Eric, she should now continue to support King Eric's son, His Royal Highness Prince William, to inherit the throne.

However, Her Royal Highness the Queen of Severny surprisingly did not reveal this meaning, and even questioned it implicitly.

At that time, the Count of Satsuma was alarmed.

This time, I am afraid that Her Royal Highness Queen Severny will probably make a choice that will surprise everyone.

Sure enough, half a month later, after attending King Eric's funeral and leading the personal guard back to her private territory, Her Royal Highness Queen Severny suddenly announced that King Eric did not die normally, but was poisoned and killed!

This news immediately shocked the entire Lampari Kingdom.

When Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny announced this news, she actually pointed the finger directly at Duke Stark!

Her Royal Highness Princess Sevinny claimed that she had enough evidence to prove that the Duke of Stark had instructed someone to poison King Eric, and that she was the first de jure heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Lampari in her capacity as Her Royal Highness. It was announced that the Duke of Starr had poisoned the king. Commit the greatest rebellion of all!

This time. The kingdom of Lampari is boiling over the whole country.

The Stark family has controlled almost everything in the entire Lampari Kingdom in the past two years, and the Duke of Stark is even more powerful, and now Her Royal Highness Queen Severny has made such an accusation against him, making it clear that she wants to be inseparable from the Stark family.

The Duke of Stark's reaction to the accusation of Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny was to veil her vehement, claiming that Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny clearly saw King Eric's sudden death and wanted to compete for the throne, which was the reason for making such accusations, with the intention of denying Prince William's legal right to inherit the throne. Trying to ascend to the throne yourself.

This refutation was also supported by many in the Lampari Kingdom, as the timing chosen by Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny was too clever to be doubted.

For a time, the side in the Kingdom of Lampari that supported Her Royal Highness the Queen of Sevigny and the side that supported the Duke of Stark were sharply opposed, and the whole kingdom fell into chaos.

However, for the Earl of Satsuma, there was no point in fighting only on the lip service, and he knew very well that the final outcome would be determined by the strength of each side.

The Earl of Satsuma is most faithful to the interests of the entire Lampari Kingdom, according to his original intentions. Of course, it is best for the kingdom of Lampari to always be stable and peaceful, so when Her Royal Highness Sevigny gave up fighting for the throne with Eric. Although he was a little disappointed, he was quite relieved in his heart.

However, now Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny suddenly announced this astonishing news and put on a posture of competing for the throne, which pushed the Lampari Kingdom to the most dangerous situation.

However, the Count of Satsuma could not blame Sevigny, because according to the information he had obtained from secret sources, there was indeed a great suspicion that King Eric had died violently.

While it is not surprising that Eric's will designated Prince William to take over the throne, it is very strange that Duke Stark was appointed as the regent.

Not only the Earl of Satsuma, but also many nobles in the kingdom actually knew very well that although King Eric relied on Duke Stark very much in the early stage, and could even obey Duke Stark's words, but since the first half of this year, King Eric and Duke Stark have had a lot of differences, and later it can even be said that they are completely contrary, and in many respects they have clearly opposed Duke Starr's proposal.

In this form, how could he appoint Duke Starr as regent on his deathbed to lead the kingdom?

Regardless of the analysis from which point of view, the Earl of Satsuma is more in agreement with the accusations of Her Royal Highness Queen Severny.

That's right, it must be the Duke of Stark who saw that King Eric wanted to get rid of his control, so he conspired to poison King Eric, and then supported Prince William, a child who was only five years old, to sit on the throne, intending to truly control the entire Lampari Kingdom.

Count Satsuma suddenly felt a trace of regret in his heart.

If he had been able to unite with the nobles who supported Her Royal Highness Sevigny, tested pressure on Her Royal Highness Sevigny, and even forced her to compete with Her Royal Highness Prince Eric for the throne, then Her Royal Highness Sevigny ascended the throne, and how could the Kingdom of Lampari become what it is now.

Moreover, if Her Royal Highness Queen Severny ascends to the throne, she will definitely support the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, how could the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce be forced to withdraw from the Lampari Kingdom, and as a result, the originally thriving magic industry in the Lampari Kingdom was tossed and scattered by those guys led by the Stark family, and there was no improvement.

In the current Lampari Kingdom, only in the city of Thurwell still retains part of the property of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

This was retained by the Earl of Satsuma by virtue of his tough attitude.

Although the Duke of Starr repeatedly questioned this and tried to seize the estates, he was forcefully rejected by the Count of Satsuma.

Among them, the decisive role was actually played by Lampari XIII, who was sent to the city of Sewell before his death, and designated the Third Army of the Kingdom Garrison, which must be under the command of the Count of Satsuma.

"Lord of the City, Lord Caroline has arrived. The City Lord's Mansion Affairs Officer walked in and reported.

Count Satsuma turned around and nodded slightly: "Please let her in." ”

A moment later, Lord Caroline, dressed in a crisp white fur coat and like a white flower that blooms in winter, walked in with brisk steps.

"Lord Satsuma, it's been more than half a month since we last met, how are you doing?" said Lord Carolyn chuckled.

Count Satsuma shook his head slightly: "As you can see, it's not very good. ”

Lord Caroline was apparently a little surprised by Count Satsuma's answer. After being slightly stunned. He looked Count Satsuma up and down. smiled, glanced out the window and said, "The snow has already started, you don't need to worry about the Sark Kingdom choosing to invade during this time period." ”

"Snow doesn't stop anything. Count Satsuma shook his head: "If necessary, the city defense army of our city of Thurwell and the third army of the kingdom garrison have the ability to raid in the snow. But I'm not worried about this, even if the Kingdom of Sark wants to attack, it won't choose this time period. ”

"Yes, they will definitely choose the most vulnerable moment of your Lampari Kingdom. Lord Caroline nodded slightly. "If nothing else, next year is a great time. ”

Count Satsuma smiled bitterly: "Your Royal Highness, you can see this. There is even more no reason why the kingdom of Sark should not understand. Yes, our kingdom of Lampari has actually reached a very critical moment, and if we are not careful, this kingdom that has been inherited for hundreds of years may be about to die. ”

Lord Caroline blinked and shook her head slowly, "No, Lord Earl, I don't think so. ”

"Oh?" said Count Satsuma with a surprised glance at Lord Caroline.

"Lord Earl, with all due respect, your concern for the fate of the Kingdom of Lampari should be due to the fear that the Kingdom will fall into a civil war. Thus being taken advantage of by the Kingdom of Sark, right?"

Count Satsuma frowned slightly and nodded.

"Then Lord Count. Have you ever thought that if the civil war lasted for a short time, and Her Royal Highness the Princess of Severny quickly stabilized the situation in the entire kingdom, would the Kingdom of Sark still dare to attack?"

Count Sax was stunned: "How is this possible." Your Highness, you don't know much about the situation in our kingdom, and the prospects of Your Highness the princess ...... Not optimistic. ”

"Really?" said Lord Carolyn, still smiling. "Lord Count, I think you have forgotten a very important factor. Her Royal Highness Severny has a very important supporter, which no one can compare. ”

"Which supporter is so important?" said Count Satsuma frowned and shook his head. "It can't be. ”

"No, it's certainly possible. Because...... This supporter is Xu Yi and his Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Lord Caroline smiled.

Count Satsuma frowned a little deeper, thought about it, and shook his head again: "You look up to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce too much." Although I admit that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will definitely provide strong help to Her Royal Highness, it is not enough to affect the situation in the entire kingdom. ”

"Not necessarily. Lord Caroline glanced at Count Satsuma and thought about it, but chose to give up on continuing the topic.

She came to Sewell City this time mainly to discuss with the Earl of Satsuma about continuing to cooperate.

In addition to supplying the products produced by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce to Thurwell City and several surrounding cities of the Lampari Kingdom, a large number of them have entered the Duchy of Drake.

In the current Duchy of Drac, all kinds of household magic machines of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have become extremely popular, and through the channel of the Duchy of Guò Drac, the goods of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are also sold to the other two principalities adjacent to the Duchy of Dedraco, and they are currently extremely popular in those two principalities.

This time, the Lord of Caroline came here mainly to discuss with the Earl of Satsuma to relocate some of the skilled workers in the factory of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce from Thurwell City to the Duchy of Delaco and establish a new production base in the Duchy of Delaco.

"Lord Earl, as you feared, the kingdom of Lampari is almost certain to descend into civil strife. Do you agree with me that these technicians, who are extremely important to the city of Sewell and the entire kingdom of Lampari, must do their best to preserve them in the midst of civil strife?"

"Well, I couldn't agree more. But...... Sending them to your Duchy of Draco is not the only option, I could have chosen other ways to send them out of the Lampari Kingdom, or even directly back to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. At the beginning, Xu Yi put their safety in my hands, and I can't break my trust with Xu Yi. "Count Satsuma is colorful.

"But doing so doesn't make the New Flying Chamber of Commerce give Her Royal Highness the support of Her Royal Highness Severny, does it?" said Lord Carolyn with a smile.

Count Satsuma was slightly stunned, and then his eyes lit up: "Your Royal Highness, what do you mean......"

Lord Caroline smiled slightly and stretched out his hand to Count Satsuma: "Lord Earl, on behalf of the Duchy of Draco, I propose to you a cooperation agreement. If you are willing to fully assist our Duchy of Draco in establishing a new industrial base of magical machinery in the Duchy, then we in the Duchy of Dedraco will cooperate with you to the greatest extent possible and give our best support to Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny. ”

The Earl of Satsuma looked at Lord Caroline in astonishment.

Is the magic machine of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce so attractive to the Duchy of Drake? It can even make them abandon their usual neutrality and make it clear that they support one side or the other.

But that's not all.

Lord Caroline continued: "If you agree to transfer some of the technology related to military magic machinery to our Duchy, then our Duchy will fully cooperate with Her Royal Highness the Queen of Sevigny, and will completely side with the Lampari Kingdom in the future conflict between the Kingdom of Sark and the Kingdom of Lampari. How's it going, Lord Earl, are you tempted by this mentions?"

Count Satsuma looked at Lord Caroline's flower-like smile, and only felt a pound in his heart. (To be continued......)