468 The Empress's Choice, Father's Sacrifice

In the middle of July 1736, the hot spring breeze made people's hearts fluctuate. Elena Theresia officially announced her renunciation of the throne www.biquge.info the HRE Empire, all debts were written off, and the Habsburg royal family, which had lasted for 600 years, finally stepped down from the glorious stage and disappeared behind the scenes of history.

Since then, the last feudal dynasty has completely disappeared from the secluded continent, and the prestige of the Brahma Holy See has deteriorated. It can be seen that the religious reform and enlightenment trend set off by Fran the Great finally destroyed the ancient old system of the secluded continent, not only destroyed the imperial system and theocracy beyond recognition, but also spread scientific ideas and money worship to the world.

But Fran the Great wasn't the only winner.

The Empress herself exposed the inside story of the Habsburg Central Bank's collusion with the Parisian leadership, and these crimes were inhumane and heinous. The central bank used the declaration of war to stimulate domestic demand, the destruction to lower prices, the war to make huge profits, and finally colluded with Paris to sign the "Hall of Mirrors Treaty", so that the HRE Empire was reduced from a "hegemonic competitor" to a "lamb under the Hall of Mirrors system". In the process of selling out the interests of the country, Breschroeder's central bank speculated and reaped the windfall profits of the rich and rivaled the country.

Because the Empress has already abdicated after announcing the completion of the elected government, there is no need for the Empress to lie, which has raised her credibility to an unprecedented level. So the truth she revealed sparked public outrage, and the 200,000 citizens of Wiener were eager to skin and tear Breschroeder apart.

The group of people who betrayed the interests of the state and led to the reparations for the cession of land by the state, with Braeschroeder as the first offender, were unanimously called the "November sinners". In order to bring the initiators of these wars to justice, the slogan "Capture the Imperial Palace" resounded throughout the Imperial City.

On the other hand, Elena cleverly threw all the blame on Breschroeder, even if she abdicated, she monopolized the imported elf technology as the executive officer of "Elf Heavy Industries", regained the love of the people, and maintained a transcendent and noble status. According to historians, Elena's abdication was so thrilling that it was as sinister as a fairy falling off a cliff, and although it flew down three thousand feet, it landed lightly like a butterfly.

Elena was so foolish in borrowing so much that the empire was saddled with a huge debt that could never be paid, and she was so enlightened to end the empire and hand over a thriving country to a new presidential palace. The contrast between mediocrity and wisdom makes Elena's image confusing. However, it is generally believed that the abdication of the last empress was the great realization of a deceased monarch. There is another theory that the empress knew that the fall of the empire was inevitable, so she took the opportunity to plan a sophisticated fraud and complete the clever revenge on the "November sinner".

In any case, Empress Elena completed the primitive capital accumulation necessary for the revival of Germany, a fact that later historians agree.

Under the enlightened impetus of the last emperor, the HRE Empire collapsed so suddenly, the Habsburg Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Paribas had just bloodied the economy of the HRE Empire, and they were full of loot: the HRE bonds, short-term loans, and bargain agreements valued at up to 200 million marks, which began to depreciate rapidly after the fall of the empire - if the new government refused to inherit the debts of the HRE Empire, then these huge contracts would all be reduced to waste paper.

As a result, the huge amount of money lent to the HRE Empire by the three major central banks has all gone and never returned. Thousands of tons of gold were imported into the HRE Empire in exchange for a pile of scrap paper that could not be exchanged for cash.

This is a huge debt that is completely unrecoverable, because the borrower is a new empire, and the debt has no law to follow and no debtor to claim. The only way to recoup the damage is to force the elected presidential administration to take full responsibility for its debts, and the only way to threaten it is war is to do so.

As long as the newly established presidential palace dares to pay its debts, a major war is imminent.

However, the armed retaliation of the West has not yet been pressurized, and the civil war in Wiener has already been tense.

Two artillery brigades have openly assembled in Heroes' Square, where bronze guns of 117 mm caliber are deployed with teeth and claws, and countless artillery pieces are busy loading and unloading in front of the saddle.

Vickers saw the military headquarters deploying artillery from the watchtower, and then he trembled and asked Breschroeder, who was beside him: "They are going to bombard the palace...... Will we really be able to hold on until the day the reinforcements arrive?"

The tired banker sat down on the ground with his back against the cold wall tiles, and muttered exhaustedly: "Why did you let the emperor out of the palace?

"I thought the emperor was out of the palace to surrender - and we are royalists, shouldn't we follow the edict......" Before Vickers could finish muttering, the old man jumped up, opened his round eyes and scolded: "Royalists! You also know that we are royalists! The emperors are gone, you still have a fart!"

Vickers was so angry that he couldn't refute it. He asked rhetorically: "The last emperor has abdicated, the republican military flag has been planted all over the city, and we are trapped and killed in the palace, do we want to surrender?"

Braischroeder glared at Vickers for a moment with tears in his eyes, and wondered what else he could do, this gorgeous palace that everyone admired had become a hopeless island. The original intention of this fortress was to allow the royal guards to hold out until the arrival of the princes, but now that the royalists are embattled, the beautiful fortress is nothing more than a huge tomb.

He remembered the fragment of the "Eye of Truth" that he had swallowed, and remembered the distant admonition of the old god in his dream:

"The Eye of Truth that you swallow is made up of the terminals of countless nano-scale law field generators, and although it tastes good, it dissolves in the blood, and when you die, it mines the life that escapes from you, and sends this 'life' to your son as a 'four-dimensional energy', giving him the power to modify the laws of the universe, which is the principle of human sacrifice. And your sacrifice will create the most powerful demigod in history - when your corpse is cold, it will be the day your son becomes a god. Be a brave father, for your offspring will win in the midst of great powers, regardless of your victory. ”

Tears hung on Braeschroed's crumpled face. The reason why he dared to lead the royalists to fight to the death was only because Isaac was no longer in the imperial capital.

"Let hatred give Isaac infinite energy, for my death will give him infinite strength. Braischroeder gritted his teeth and thought to himself, looking at death as if he were home.

Braischroeder was out of the way. He hunched over and clenched his fists, like an angry monkey, he had to be angry and shouted hoarsely: "Surrender? We have defined the War Department as a rebel, and if we fall into the hands of the War Department, we will also be framed as a traitor and will be sent to the gallows indiscriminately! We will not have a chance to defend ourselves, because history is written by the victors, and there is no fairness in the slightest! Do you want to fight to the end in exchange for the opportunity to reign in the world? Or do you want to surrender on your knees and die in prison without dignity?"

Vickers was frightened by the roaring banker, and after a moment of hesitation with a straight face, he ordered the chamberlain: "Defend the Hofburg fortress, and those who surrender will cut down the walls!"

"Yes!" the attendant galloped down to give the order.