After Elena took off the crown at the abdication ceremony presided over by the Grand Priest of Victoria, everyone began to discuss how to attack the palace, so Elena had no palace to return to, so she had to place the queen and the accompanying female officers in the cathedral, and she herself stayed in the Holy Light Chapel to rest, and the priest Lu himself made tea for her. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"I have the impression that human beings have the instinct to fight for power and profit in their bones, and they are obsessed with power like ants who are attached to sugar. When Priest Lu roasted flower tea for Elena, his eyebrows fluttered and he chattered: "Elena, you grew up in the elven kingdom since you were a child, although you will be born, old, sick and die like a human being, but in the spiritual realm, you are reserved like an elf. There is actually a monarch who voluntarily gave up the crown, you are really the first person in the past and the present. ”

Lu Shenguan smiled and couldn't hold back his good impression of Elena. Although he keeps dividing humans and elves, he treats Elena as his own.

Because Elena conforms to the values of the elves, she can take charge of the elf heavy industry, introduce the elf technology, and monopolize this important advanced industry.

Elena picked up her teacup to drink, and the distant cannon rang out, like thunder, shaking the window glass.

The tea Elena held trembled as she waited for the cannon to cease before she lowered her head to sip.

"The shelling of the palace has begun. Lu covered her pointed ears and tiptoed around the window.

The delicate last emperor shook his head self-deprecatingly, lowered his eyelids with a wry smile, and her long eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, revealing her turbulent mood at the moment: "That was my home, and it was also the most expensive, sacred, solemn and honorable place in the imperial city. The mansion, which was once admired by everyone, turned into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye, and the once invincible emperor went so far as to destroy the palace with his army. If my father knew, he was afraid that I would not be able to hold down his coffin board. ”

Lu looked back dumbfounded, thinking that I would only make tea and fight, and that I had little experience in dealing with the emotional trauma of the fall of the empire, and that it would not be good to answer nonsense. So she wrung her fingers crampedly for a while, and suddenly tilted her head and smiled brightly: "Someone is waiting to see you." Can't you see him?"

Lu's blonde hair is full of elasticity and ripples next to her cheeks, youthful and lively, cute and innocent.

Elena put down her glass, said "um", and clenched her knees, bowing her head and pulling at her skirt.

As she sat down, she heard the clanging of her armor, and then Frederick pushed the door in with his helmet in his hand, looked at Elena and asked, "Are you alright?"

Lu naughtily provoked trouble, she crossed her waist to Frederick, blocked his words with a stack of "eh", and snatched him bloodily: "The cat is crying and the mouse is fake! You dragged people to the dust, and came to shout with people to ask for warmth, you are so cheeky." ”

Frederick held the helmet of the eagle's beak, his eyes widened, he could not answer, and he shook his hand indiscriminately and shouted: "The finances are controlled by the bad guys, and it is only a matter of time before the destruction of the Shinra is overcome, and she and I both know - why did you suddenly catch me and ask her for the guilt?" He opened his mouth to look at Elena in a hurry, and asked her in a low voice as if begging for mercy: "Are you not happy? ”

Detective Lu was surprised, "Didn't you break up? How can Frederick be as docile as a well-trained dog?"

Elena stood up, her round chest rose and fell, she couldn't restrain the emotion and excitement that came one after another, she lowered her head and rubbed her tears, and shook her long hair timidly: "I didn't sulk, nor was I unhappy. It's just that the thought of never having to press on your feelings again makes me want to cry like being saved from drowning. ”

Dumbfounded, she saw Frederick hurrying up, dropping his helmet to hug the weak Elena. He used the pair of cold snow steel arm armor to carefully surround the empress, and the helmet was thrown on the ground with a "clang", and he ignored it.

Elena threw herself into the armor, her face pressed against the shiny heart guard, and she sobbed. Frederick embraced her with a little bit of water, tilting his head against her purple bun, his chainmail gauntlet gently caressing her long hair, and he could imagine the softness and warmth of her body even through the 25 mm thick steel plate.

"I can finally take you for a walk. Frederick sighed softly in her ear: "In the past six months, you have pretended not to share the sky with me, and even deceived yourself, and you have been hot and cold to me, so anxious that I can't sit still." If you don't end this scene sooner, I'm afraid you'll fake it and really hate me to the core. ”

The girl threw herself into his arms and sobbed, and suddenly struck him so hard that the armor "buzzed" and reverberate, and then Elena raised her head and wiped her face, and lost her temper pitifully, and the tears on her eyelashes sparkled: "I hate you, I hate you to death! Every time I pass by you without squinting, I have to spur myself to hold back; whenever I mercilessly alienate you and turn you away, I am itching to fidget, wishing you to guess my mood, and then waiting for you to secretly look for me at night!" But love is not fair at all, I have been tormented for years, but you are still performing peacefully, as if you can still live without me!"

Elena threw herself into her arms shyly, repeating "I am not angry", but she began to cry in his arms, and in the middle of crying she willfully beat his armor, because she liked it so much that she hated it to the bone marrow. Frederick was afraid that she would get a fist headache, so he quickly grabbed her wrist and begged her to calm her anger: "I have no peace. It made me sad to be separated in order to hide people's eyes and ears, but I am good at covering up, and it's not that I don't love you. ”

Hearing this, Officer Lu was dumbfounded, blinking his eyes wide, and standing there dumbfounded, feeling that his brain was not enough for the first time.

"Wait...... Wait a minute," Shen Shen stretched out his hand and shouted, "You pretended to have political disagreements, but it turned out that they were colluding? In the past six months, all the powers thought that you had not shared the sky after you broke up, and not only estranged each other, but also engaged in all kinds of backstabs, and the plot was a bloody mess, and the powers watched it with relish--as a result, the whole world was deceived by the two of you?"

Frederick couldn't resist Elena's anger, and quickly looked up and replied: "Last November, Elena was very haggard because she encountered an unsolvable paradox: the empire was in financial distress and had to borrow to maintain it. To develop the present is to sacrifice the future, and to delay the present is to destroy the disaster. So when I couldn't choose, I gave her an idea at a suburban vineyard. ”

"How do you solve this paradox...... Priest Lu asked halfway, clapping his hands and shouting, "That's why you staged a bloody drama?"

When Frederick answered his questions, Elena also remembered that Frederick's original intention was to solve his own problems, and her heart floated gently, no longer self-willed, pouting and bowing her head to wipe away tears.

Frederick straightened his attitude and replied seriously: "Yes. If we want to rejuvenate the country, we must seize the moment and race against time to expand domestic demand, stimulate the economy, and develop infrastructure. Therefore, it is necessary not only to borrow debts, but also to borrow huge debts, and the amount must start at least 100 million. But greedy bankers will take advantage of the opportunity to lend usury, and in the long run, the state tax revenue will roll into the pockets of private individuals, and will no longer be able to promote social progress. In order to get the best of both worlds, I thought of a solution: first borrow heavily in the name of the HRE Empire and frantically absorb venture capital to complete the primitive capital accumulation of industrialization. Then suddenly overthrew the HRE Empire, replaced the new party in power, and let the astronomical debts go away with the bankrupt HRE Empire, and the new Germany was reborn from the ashes. ”

"Then you don't have to break up with Elena!" said Priest Lu, poking Frederick's cheekbone with his index finger. She complained to Elena.

"You underestimate the cold-blooded speculators. They have mastered the art of getting something for nothing, and have even compiled the financial experience accumulated over half a century into a broad and profound doctrine. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to cheat the Bank for International Settlements out of venture capital loans, because they have a mature risk assessment system and will send experienced risk management specialists to prevent the loan from becoming a bad debt. Frederick frowned and explained: "I deliberately stepped into Braeschroed's trap in order to give him the illusion of being in control, and when he was in good hands, he would relax his risk control, after all, the empire and the royal family have always been the most ideal targets for usury, because of good credit and stable returns." So I let him break us up, even though I secretly missed each other, but we turned a blind eye to each other, and suffered for more than half a year, just so that Elena could borrow more. ”

When Elena heard him say "secretly missing", she felt that her face was burning, and her tears had not dried, but her heart was tingling and itchy, and she immediately became obedient and went to pick up his helmet.

Officer Lu felt more and more incredulous, and stamped his foot and asked, "Then you are too desperate, aren't you?" What if the bank only lends you a little money and pulls back from the precipice?"

"No way. Although the bankers are full of means, and although they are as cold as a precise pocket watch, one thing remains constant: they chase profit. For profit, they will even sell the ropes that hang themselves to the enemy. It's as simple as that. Frederick made a categorical gamble: "Braischroed's ambition is so great that he dreams of becoming a hidden promoter of the enslavement of the entire empire and the establishment of the rule of the golden power." When his plans are on the rise, he will only expand his profits, and will never give up halfway. It turned out exactly as I expected, and Braitschroeder encircled the Bank of Paribas and the Bank of England. ”

He raised his head and smiled, rubbing his fingers intriguingly: "It was their greed that gave Germany the opportunity to fight on its own." Maybe one day, the German cavalry will spend the money borrowed from Paris and go to Paris with all their might. ”

There were still many questions that Officer Lu had not yet figured out, but he was frightened by Frederick's ambitions, and his beautiful eyes were blank, and he stared at him blankly and muttered, "You are so bad. ”

Elena held the heavy eagle beak snow steel helmet in both hands, and looked at the priest and nodded violently: "That's it, he's broken." I was blind as a child, and I thought he was the knight I was destined to be. ”

Frederick protested, "Hey, I've managed to make a fool of myself toward our grand goal, have you forgotten to compliment me?"

Elena tiptoed to put on his eagle helmet, pressed the cold heart armor with her little hand, raised her head and said seriously: "You said that you will recruit 20,000 knights for me and wipe off the national borders that are in the way." Although the fairy tales are unscrupulous, I remember them in my heart. I await your triumph. ”

Frederick looked down into her eyes. Elena's misty eyes were like water, and her thin lips like cherry blossoms were moist and seductive, making him can't help but get closer.

Priest Lu suddenly found himself standing here very redundant. She covered her lips as if she had just woken up from a dream, and let out with her eyes wide open.