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There are only a hundred people in this knight group together, but these hundred people are all elites of the elite! These people are only directly responsible for the emperor who holds the Sakura Sword, not to mention that the others want to mobilize them, and it is difficult to find them.

Holding the Sakura Sword in his hand, the second prince's eyes swept back and forth on the sword, and suddenly, a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this, Grace hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Ferdinand shook his head and said with a smile: "I just think it's ridiculous! Over the years, Robert has always regarded me as his biggest opponent, and he has always thought that my father wanted me to be his heir! Originally, I always thought so, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I learned that the person my father really wanted to pass on to the throne was not the imperial brother, let alone me, but my imperial sister - Theresia!"

Grace looked at her husband in surprise, and it was the first time she had heard Ferdinand say these words: "Your Highness, why do you say that?"

Ferdinand looked at the cherry blossom sword in his hand and laughed at himself: "Do you see this sword in my hand? The sword that has been passed down from generation to generation in our Aldrich family, only the successor who really wants the emperor to inherit the throne will eventually get this sword!"

Hearing Ferdinand's words, Grace looked even more confused: "But Your Highness, isn't this sword in your hand now?"

"Hehe!" said Ferdinand, "in my hands, but it was not given to me by my father, but to me by my imperial sister Theresia before she left the country for Orlando to inherit the throne!"

"You said it was from the Imperial Sister?" asked Grace.

Ferdinand nodded: "That's right, Father, he gave this sword to the imperial sister, and the person he really wants to pass on the throne is the imperial sister!"

"This ......" Grace was stunned: "How is this possible? I heard that before marrying his mother, my father promised Orlando's previous emperor, Grand VII, that he would never merge the Yarrow Empire and the Orlando Empire into one country! Since the imperial sister has been designated as the heir to the throne of Orlando, wouldn't it be a violation of that agreement if my father let the imperial sister inherit the throne of the Yarrow Empire?"

"Hmph!" Ferdinand scoffed, "How can a mere agreement be more practical for my father than to expand the territory of the empire?"

Grace was stunned, for the thinking and methods of these heroes on the throne, she was not so easy to understand as an ordinary woman.

After a while, Grace asked, "But why did the imperial sister give this sword to your Highness?"

Ferdinand said: "If my father and queen didn't suddenly lose consciousness, of course the imperial sister would not have handed over this sword to me! Because her father paved the way for her, the throne would definitely be hers in the end! But my father suddenly had an accident, and the national politics were suddenly held in the hands of Robert, and the imperial sister didn't say that she wanted to inherit the throne of the Yarrow Empire, and even the throne of Orlando may not be able to inherit it smoothly!"

After a pause, Ferdinand continued: "The imperial sister knows that with Robert here, the throne of the Yarrow Empire will definitely not be hers, so before going to Orlando to inherit the throne, she handed me this sword and said to me, if there is a chance, let me not give up, and stand up and fight!"

After speaking, Ferdinand sighed: "Although due to the pressure of the military at that time, Robert sent a group of troops to escort the imperial sister back to Orlando to inherit the throne! But the opposition forces in Orlando have been resisting the imperial sister, and the imperial sister had also sent someone to the imperial capital to ask Robert for help, but Robert was worried that the imperial sister would split up to help me after controlling the overall situation in Orlando, so he wished that someone in Orlando would contradict the imperial sister, so how could he send troops to help the imperial sister?"

Speaking of this, Ferdinand's tone changed suddenly: "If Robert hadn't sent troops to help the royal sister, now the imperial sister is in control of the whole of Orlando, and the four small surrounding countries know that we and Orlando are kinship, how dare they attack us so unscrupulously? Originally, Robert had already succeeded to the throne, and I didn't want to come out to fight with him again, but he was too incompetent, and now, I had to stand up and fight!"

Grace nodded and said, "Your Highness, no matter what you do, I will stand behind you and firmly support you!"

Ferdinand nodded firmly, and suddenly handed the sword to Grace: "Grace, there is one thing now, I can only leave it to you to do!"

"Your Highness, what's the matter?" Grace's face flushed slightly, and she looked good in the night light.

Ferdinand said in a low voice: "In a moment, you take this sword and rush to a blacksmith shop in the northeast of the outskirts of the city, less than twenty miles from here, there is a blacksmith who is blind in one eye, and when you see him, you show him this cherry blossom sword, and tell him that the cherry blossoms will fly again!"

As Ferdinand spoke, Grace nodded repeatedly, and when Ferdinand finished speaking, Grace asked, "Your Highness, and then?"

"And then?" Ferdinand smiled, "and then he naturally understood, if he asked you where I am now, you can just tell him!"

"Okay!" Grace nodded solemnly: "Your Highness, I will definitely complete the task you gave me!"

......

Three days flew by.

This morning, the palace hall.

Emperor Robert sat firmly on the dragon chair, and below him, the civil and military ministers lined up left and right.

With his eyes swept down slightly, Robert spoke, "What about Osini, Secretary of State, why don't you see him come to the court?"

Ossini is the old emperor Aldrich.The 24th appointed the chief minister of state of the empire when he was young, after the death of the old emperor, Robert continued to appoint him as the chief minister of the empire, and now he is over seventy years old, which can be called the old minister of the two dynasties of the empire! Whether it is prestige or ability, Ossini is second to none among the ministers of the entire empire, although Ossini is old, but both the old emperor and Robert have great trust in this old minister.

However, during this time, Ossini has made Robert feel a little dissatisfied!

Why?

It turns out that the empire is losing and retreating in the war with the four small countries, and in recent days, Ossini has often advised Robert to try to end this war by diplomatic means, even if he suffers some losses temporarily, it is better than fighting like this!

But Robert didn't like to hear this, he felt that Ossini was asking him to take the initiative to bow his head to the four small countries with the size of a palm, which was really damaging to his identity, so in the past few days, every time Ossini opened his mouth, Robert called his words back.

But even if he was dissatisfied with Osini, Orsini was the chief minister of state of the empire after all, and in many ways, Robert also knew that he still had to rely on this old minister, and today he saw that Ossini did not attend the court meeting, of course Robert immediately noticed!