Chapter 228: Peace Plan

"Call him Daddy too, why is your speech so effective. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žfo”

"My daughter is the intimate little padded jacket of her parents, if he doesn't spoil me, who will be intimate with him!" Roy shook off his smooth silver hair and said a little arrogantly, "Don't go back yet, come to my room, it's not that simple." ”

"Good. ”

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Knowing something, Rod felt relaxed, and the whole person jumped a little excited...... Follow Roy briskly to her room.

It was still as clean and tidy as he had remembered, and there was a smell in the air that smelled similar to that of his mother's, but slightly different, and he sat down casually, looking at Roy and waiting for the next step.

"I just helped you get the opportunity to be sent to Antelli with power and official status, but what about the rest. You must be naΓ―ve enough to think that as long as you return to Anteli with the documents signed by the commander of the Imperial Army and the Emperor himself, all problems will be solved, right?" the girl sat down beside him and glanced at her younger brother with an excited face: "In two days at most, His Majesty the Emperor's order to appoint you as a special envoy for negotiations will be formalized, and then you will go north to Anteli again as soon as possible to try to end this war, what are your plans for what to do?" Don't tell me that if you think you have some friendship with a few Resistance officers, they will obediently lay down their arms and surrender when you arrive, willingly making peace with or even becoming a member of the Imperial army with whom they were not so long ago. ”

Rod put away his relaxed expression, and then realized that things didn't seem to be so simple.

"Didn't think about it at all?" Roy showed a really like this, and she knew that this brother must not have half a point in his stomach: "No matter how many reasons and excuses there are, this is a war of aggression...... The Resistance would certainly want the Imperial forces to withdraw and return their territory and sovereignty to them, while the Empire, or His Majesty, the Emperor, would demand that the Resistance surrender so that he could smoothly annex Anteli as one of the provinces or vassals of the Empire, and the interests of the two sides would be fundamentally conflicting, and the contradictions between them would be difficult to reconcile. If you want Antelli to make peace again, you really have to settle the dispute and come up with a mutually acceptable solution. ”

Rod lowered his head and thought for a while, admitting that Roy was right, and was about to start looking for an entry point to try to solve the problem she raised, but a flash of inspiration: since she called herself over, she must already have some ideas, and instead of racking her brains to think of a bunch of ways to be rejected one by one, it is better to ask directly.

Standing up and walking behind the other party, the young man smiled and rubbed the girl's shoulders: "Roy, good sister, you have always been smart, you must have an idea, right?"

This trick Rhodes tried and tested against his own mother, and his mother would often laugh and scold him for being courteous and stealing, but at the same time happily satisfying his requests. Luo Yi was rubbed comfortably by his younger brother, squinted and enjoyed it for a while, and finally couldn't help but shrink his shoulders and dodge: "Okay, sit down and don't make trouble, let's discuss a proper solution today." ”

"Hey, okay. ”

Luo Yi waited for the boy to sit down again before he spoke unhurriedly: "His Majesty the Emperor's purge of the military and political leaders has just ended after the Imperial Capital Mutiny, and at this juncture, he will definitely send reliable generals from the reform faction to accompany you on this trip...... So, theoretically, no one should secretly stumble on you or disobey you. Since you have friends in the Resistance Army, you certainly don't want to use force to solve the problem, but if you want to create peace without using force, you must make concessions. ”

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"The question we need to solve now is: how much of a concession can be made to get the Resistance to accept the terms of the truce, and so that the Reich does not suffer to the point of gossip?"

Rod nodded, Roy had summed it up very clearly, almost this reason.

"Since it was my father who agreed, then you must have real power in your hands this time, and maybe even the commander of the garrison will be dispatched by you. Speaking of concessions, the most extreme case scenario is that you directly order the entire army to withdraw and return Anteli to the little girl queen...... But that would seriously damage the interests of the Empire, not only will there be private rumors that you are colluding with the Antellians, but my father will also be angry that you have made him lose face, so first of all, we must establish a core bottom line: that is, the Empire must not lose control, or at least influence, of the Antelli. ”

"Well, I see, so what we need to do now is to find a way to satisfy the demands of the Resistance Army for the sovereignty and territory of their own country, and not let the Empire fight this war in vain. ”

"You're quick to get the hang of it, and since the Resistance is resisting, it's impossible to agree to the option of annexing Antelli to Midland in the first place, and given that the Empire has just swallowed one of its former vassals, Narig, the concept of a 'Midland vassal state' will soon become synonymous with conspiracy and trap. Although the two of us knew that it was indeed King Narieg who planned a rebellion, outsiders would not believe our words. Roy nodded, "Then the question is, how do you make sure that a country is on the side of the empire without having an independent status and no puppet government?"

"O Alliance, Elaine said that as long as she remains the ruler of Anteli, Anteli will not be an enemy of Midland. ”

"A verbal promise has no legal effect. And a teenage girl, do you really believe that everything in the Antaili Kingdom is in charge of her? Not to mention that even if it is a formal alliance, it may fall apart at any time because of the issue of interests, and there is no long-term friendship between countries, only eternal interests...... And now, after a long confrontation between the two countries, there is practically no friendship at all. ”

Roy paused, and finally waved his hand at Rhodes: "I thought about it, and in the end I only wanted to come up with a solution that would perfectly deal with the conflict of interest between the two parties. That is, let Queen Elaine marry Emperor Kyle and realize the marriage between the two countries. ”

"What?" Rod opened his mouth, stunned.

"Emperor Kyle has never had a wife, and he has no heirs, and these two conditions make this marriage quite sincere and does not cause too much suspicion. After Queen Antelli married him, she directly had a dual identity - the queen of the Midland Empire, and the queen of the original Antelli Kingdom. In this case, His Majesty the Emperor would be able to gain de facto control of Anteli without replacing any of the latter's officials, and for the Anteli people, in the future, Queen Elaine's children would be born with the inheritance of the Midland Empire...... Even if it's just psychological comfort, it's already quite tempting. ”

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