On June 19, 313 in the imperial calendar, in the Grand Duke's Mansion of the Duchy of Lucerne, Avril, who was handling state affairs attentively, was facing a headache with a large number of documents.

Since Ouyang Yu was forced to leave the Duchy of Luxon, Avril's prestige plummeted, watching Ouyang Yu establish an empire in the south, and annexed the four northern countries in one go, and the construction of the huge former Gallic Kingdom became more and more prosperous day by day, the people of the Duchy of Lucerne looked very uncomfortable, because if Ouyang Yu did not leave, then the Duchy of Lucerne would become a kingdom, and the people's life of the Duchy would be better and better, but Ouyang Yu's departure made all this come to naught, so the people gave Avril the nickname of a blind girl, which was used to satirize her for not having a long-term vision。

In addition, the Marquis of Lusen, the uncle of the supervising minister Avril, and his henchmen annexed a large number of land and looted wealth, resulting in a large number of bankrupt peasants, and the peasants who lost their land could only wander around, or become serfs of the nobles, and the corruption and corruption were rampant, making the people's lives far worse than during Ouyang Yu's reign, so the public resentment of the Duchy of Lucerne is getting higher and higher, and more and more people hope that Ouyang Yu can come back, or simply let the Duchy of Lucerne be incorporated into the Chinese Federation.

Although Avril wanted to work hard, but unfortunately there were no reliable and trusted subordinates around her, the rights recovered from Ouyang Yu were completely divided by the Marquis of Lusen and his henchmen, and the Marquis of Lusen and his henchmen deceived and concealed them, disobeyed Avril's orders, and only cared about their own interests, completely ignoring the lives of the people, and there have been several tax resistance and other rebellions recently.

In order to loot wealth, the Marquis of Lucerne set up a lot of taxes, such as bandit tax, national defense tax, winter tax, summer tax and so on. The average person in the Principality of Luxon earns about three silver coins per month. But when the new taxes appeared, they had to pay a tax of two silver coins. In the past, only half a silver coin was needed, and many families fell into a difficult life, and the soft white bread they usually ate became the cheapest black bread, and the standard of living dropped sharply.

The Marquis of Lucerne and others maliciously reversed right and wrong, saying that the illegal tax collection was the malicious resistance of the people to taxes, so all the news came from Avril Lavril, who was the Marquis of Lucerne and others, and issued an order to send troops to suppress it, and the commander of the army had already been bought by the Marquis of Lucerne. At the behest of the Marquis de Lucerne, the people who fought against taxes were brutally suppressed, more than a dozen people were killed on the spot, and more than 200 were taken to prison.

The Marquis of Lucerne thought that no one would dare to resist taxes after killing the chickens and monkeys, but he did not expect that the repression would arouse greater public anger, and more people would join the ranks of tax resistance, and tax riots broke out in various parts of the principality, so the army was dispatched again to suppress the rebellion, causing greater casualties, although the suppression briefly quelled the riots, but a larger scale of public resentment was brewing.

During this period, all orders for the dispatch of troops were issued by Avril, and it was not the Marquis of Lucerne who could not mobilize the army. Rather, he did it on purpose, only to portray Avril as a tyrant. He can find a chance to ascend to the throne, this careerist has always been obsessed with the position of the Grand Duke, suppressing and raising taxes in the name of Avril, and doing everything possible to pull Avril from the position of the Grand Duke, and then he can ascend the throne to become a new generation of Grand Duke of Luxon.

In addition to wreaking havoc internally, the Marquis de Lucerne actively sought external help, and the Phoenix Empire was his first choice.

At the airport outside Lucerne, a Dragon bomber modified by the Imperial Army landed slowly, and after the bomber stopped, a beautiful lady with silver hair walked down first, and then a young man with black hair also stepped off the bomber, and the Marquis of Lucerne and a group of henchmen hurriedly walked over.

"Welcome, His Royal Highness William and Lord Bryce of the Duchy of Lucerne. The Marquis of Lucerne and his henchmen greeted the silver-haired royal sister, who did not have the arrogance of a nobleman at all, but seemed to be a pug who was pleasing his master.

The two people who got off the plane were William Moon Victor, the fifth prince of the Phoenix Empire, and his henchman, Selubellia Bryce, who had been captured by Ouyang Yu.

William and Selubellia came over this time to sign a secret agreement with the Marquis of Lucerne, and the Marquis of Lusen planned to give Avril to William as a side concubine, in exchange for William's support for him, support him to ascend the throne as the new Grand Duke, and support him to resist Ouyang Yu in the south, you must know that the stronger Ouyang Yu develops, the more worried the Marquis of Lusen is that she will one day move north and merge the Duchy of Lucerne into the Chinese Federation, so he took the initiative to find William, and after several months of secret negotiations, an agreement was finally reached, the Duchy of Lucerne gave up its independence and became a vassal state of the Phoenix Empire, set up a governor and garrison, and the Duchy of Lucerne was responsible for all the expenses of the garrison and opened all military bases, and so on, and the Phoenix Empire is responsible for protecting the Duchy of Lucerne from invasion by external forces, which are well known to everyone.

"Your Highness, my lord, please get in the car, I have prepared a grand welcome banquet, and there are many famous ladies who want to see His Highness's demeanor. ”

William smiled slightly and ignored the Marquis de Lucerne's sycophancy, got into the car and leaned on the seat of the car and closed his eyes, Selubellia sat down beside William, turned his head to the Marquis de Lucerne who didn't know how to be good, and said: "Your Highness is sleepy, I hope you can clean up the banquet and there is no need for it, tomorrow we will sign the agreement, and then hold a wedding for His Royal Highness and Grand Duke Avril as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, yes, I must do what His Highness instructs. ”

The Marquis of Lucerne, who looked like a dog's leg, bowed again and again, and personally closed the door for William.

The next day, the Grand Duke's Palace, William and the Marquis of Lucerne signed their names on the secret treaty, and the Duchy of Lucerne was incorporated into the Phoenix Empire as a subject country from now on, but Avril Lavigne, the owner of the Duchy, knew nothing, and Ren was immersed in a lot of official business, until the Marquis of Lucerne broke into her office with William.

"Your Highness, this is Her Royal Highness Avril, the Grand Duchess of our principality. "The Marquis de Lucerne introduced Avril to William like a pimp.

William looked at Avril with a critical gaze, and said with a slightly praising tone: "The foundation is good, and if you develop it well in a few years, you will be an excellent woman who will not lose me if you take it out." ”

Avril looked at the intruders and asked the Marquis de Lucerne, confused, "Who is he?" (To be continued.) )