"Guarded by God, surrounded by light, free from pain and war, free ......"

To the east of the Alps, near the Ina Mountains, the second highest in Central Europe.

The junction of two mountains.

At the foot of the mountain, several children sang the ballad of the country, and their bodies were covered in mud, so unhappy.

It belongs to the Grand Duchy of Slovenia.

February 1319.

Just after the New Year, the winter snow melts in the mountains, leaving the alluvial plains and rivers of the country from the heights, and there is an abundance of water.

This is the happiest time of the year for the peasants and aristocrats.

Byzantine traders from the south would pass through and bring the necessities of life to Eastern Europe in exchange for furs and timber from Hungary, Austria, and even Rus' from the north.

To the east is the Italian peninsula.

At this time, small merchants from many commercial cities also come here to trade.

On this day, from the junction of the two mountains.

A caravan entered, with men and horses.

This caravan carried the Black Eagle Banner, and each of them carried goods with them, and came here to trade on the one hand, and on the other hand to ask to see the Grand Duke.

The caravan was allowed to sell the paper and textiles it had brought, and they were received as they crossed the roads of the Duchy, and after ten days, entered the main city of the Duchy, Ljuble.

Above the palace of Lüble, there is a red-rimmed coat of arms, the shield is blue.

There are three yellow seven-pointed stars on it.

Symbolizes the seven virtues of knighthood.

In the middle are two white peaks, the Alps and the Dina Mountains.

The three blue wavy stripes under the mountain peaks are the three main rivers in the country.

There are mountains, seas, and stars.

It implies that this place is rich and the people live in peace.

After the caravan entered the court, it sent some Italian gifts to the Grand Duke, and then tactfully took out a list of debts.

"Your Highness, I have come this time, on the orders of the city governor, and I want to ask you to adjudicate so that our country can recover the arrears."

"What is in arrears, Hugh wants to talk nonsense."

A knight of the court made a fierce gesture of drawing his sword.

"It is clearly written that the previous consul in the name of the republic, the goods sold to your country are settled in half a year, and then after the war, our country has not received the payment for the goods in three installments, and the interest can be ignored, but the principal is ......."

The owner of the duchy, Grand Duke Karemia, was old and frail, and his eyelids drooped when he listened to the Teutonic merchants.

After listening, he said, "Call Meghan (to collect debts), you can go down first." ”

"Your Highness!"

The group of Teutonic merchants was asked out.

And when they were about to return home, they were told that they had not filed their taxes honestly, and when they were about to return to Italy, they were all fined for their belongings.

More than a dozen people were driven back to the peninsula like beggars.

When they returned to the base camp, they immediately went to the lord Angbu to complain.

"My lord, those bastards not only seized our belongings, but also burned our Teutonic Eagle Banner as paper, insulting the Chaman family and insulting Your Highness......"

When Ambu heard these words, he scolded, "You waste, not only did you not collect the arrears, but you also lost the goods you brought with you? And the debt letter has also been taken, so what is the use of raising you?"

Scolding and scolding, it was all his own subordinates, and Ambu then said, "Follow me to Simon, and let him find a way to stand up for you." ”

When he saw Simon, Ambu added to his heart.

Simon didn't like to hear it, and when they searched Mrs. Meghan's property, Simon and Ambu found some letters of private loans and debts, signed by nobles from Slovenia.

The proximity of Venice and the Italian peninsula allowed Florence to sell its goods overland to Eastern Europe.

Therefore, these debt bills collected by Mrs. Meghan do not actually take interest, but are used in exchange for the passage of goods.

But after Simon and Ambu got these letters, they didn't care how much.

Now that the north is unified, and he still gets the territory, he needs a lot of money to settle in the territory, and he must collect the money if he has it.

This is the only way to explain to His Highness Bran.

This time he folded face, Simon made up his mind and went to meet Howard first to cry and beg.

"Your Highness, you have to stand up for us, those dishonest people, insult me Chaman, burn my eagle flag, and don't repay the loan......"

Knowing that Howard values family honor more, Simon's words are mostly focused on insulting me Chaman.

Later, when Simon paid tribute to Bran, he added a white slip from the Slovenian nobles to show that he was trying his best to collect the debt, but he was humiliated and the goods he had brought with him for trade were robbed.

The play is to be played to the full, and when the people who were discharged by Angbu came back, Angbu beat them up.

When he met Bran, one of Ambu's knights, who had been beaten into a pig's head, said, "Your Highness, they are sincere in their debts, and they say that they do not recognize the warrant of our new ruler, and that they want their gold and silver rubles, and let the Meghan family ask for them." ”

"Who is in charge of Slovenia now?" Bran asked.

"It's the daughter of the Grand Duke, Remilia, Scarlet."

Simon has been in charge of the Chamber of Commerce for many years, and he can immediately name the monarchs and nobles with whom they have trade dealings.

"It's the noble lady who is known as the rose of the Balkans." Simon added.

The Balkan Peninsula is a historical and geographical term that spans nearly 600,000 square kilometers from east to west.

The peninsula is known as the three major peninsulas of the Bright World together with the Iberian Peninsula and the Italian Peninsula.

There are many conflicts in the region, ranging from religious conflicts to territorial disputes.

Both men and women have cultivated a unique cultural spirit that is different from the people of Venice and even the Italian peninsula across the sea - courage and perseverance.

The roses are gorgeous, but Simon's words don't mean that Remilia is outstanding, but that she has thorns.

"It is rumored that she has a sharp mind, and her perception is far better than his father's, and our goods can not go to Eastern Europe, but if I seal the interface between the Alps and the Dina Mountains, they will suffer?"

Bran's words are also a test of his subordinates, don't make enemies at will.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing.

Even if you see the beaten subordinates, the genuine arrears bill is a conclusive complaint.

Bran decided to send someone more anyway.

This time the selection was more important, and Bran asked Carol and Desley to choose two reliable trainee knights from the Knights, and then an old knight to take them, and the three of them went there in person.

In the time of Shange's great-grandfather, the Scarlet family was also under the patronage of Grand Duke Shange.

Bran handwrote a letter of goodwill and asked the knights to take it to the Remilia family to reminisce.

But this time, as soon as the three entered Slovenia, they were immediately arrested and beaten.

It was the eldest duke who gave the order.

It turned out that according to the understanding of the Slovenians, Florence was not kind.

Those white slips of arrears were fake bills made by Mrs. Meghan when she said that she needed to give an account to the aristocratic council to transfer the city's funds.

In the past few years, she has not received any of these Slovenian lords, and the lords have also cooperated with Mrs. Meghan to send troops to protect and exempt them from customs duties.

Everyone was happy.

But they don't care, this is a genuine debt, and they have to get it back.

The people who sent it had been drunk and troublesome in the country.

The last time these people returned to the mountain, the nobles in the country originally thought about this way.

But when they came out of the outpost, these Teutonic merchants spoke disrespectfully to Her Royal Highness Remilia, the first heir of the principality, and laughed at the next time when the knights sent a large army to ask for it, if they did not pay it, Her Royal Highness would have to pay off the debt with her body.

Trouble came from the mouth, this outspoken knight, accustomed to following Ambu's domineering, and because he was angry in his heart, he actually said nonsense.

There has been a storm of being driven away and confiscated property.

On the run, the Teutons also killed six Slovenian civilians.

The Teutons did not say a word about this, and it was only then that the three knights who later went to the Duchy of Slovenia suffered greatly.

The three knights were directly locked up in the dungeon to greet them, beaten half to death, and thrown out like wild dogs.

The two young knights died on the road, and the old knights even drank their own urine, dragging their breath, and finally on the way back to the mountains, they were found by the mountain patrol guards.

It was early May when this news reached Bran's ears.

"Your Highness, when they saw us being directly imprisoned, they forced a knight to eat the letter......"

The old knight who lost one eye, the two young knights who were killed, Bran ordered the old knight to recover from his injuries.

Then let Simon start the draft.

issued the first commercial ban in his life, closing the mountains and rivers.

The mountain is the junction of two mountains, and the river is from northern Europe to central and southern Europe, and flows through the Rhine River in many countries.

He took all the goods himself, and he was not allowed to go here.

Neither side can afford to send troops over, but Bran has the advantage of geography and population, and I will earn one less Duka, and you will earn four.

Look who's ruthless!

Seven days after the ban, Bran ordered the mountain lord Bergman to listen to him, and if he caught smuggling Slovenians, he would not be allowed to redeem them, and all of them would be imprisoned.

At the end of May, when the Treaty from Austria was successfully concluded and Her Royal Highness returned to the country, when she learned of this, she immediately called a meeting of the court.

The aristocrats present at the meeting were indignant.

"Your Highness, it's not that we want to make enemies, but Flo is too rampant, not only in debt, but also insulting His Highness, killing our civilians at will, and now we are still closing mountains and rivers, we have to pay back!"

"Teach these Italians a lesson!"

"Yes, yes."

Calm and rational can enable weak countries to survive from the cracks.

She was not satisfied with the handling of this matter in her heart, or she would have killed all three knights and would not admit whether she was alive or dead.

But the nobleman actually let the old knight go back because he wrote a confession letter in pain, confessing that it was all Florentine's fault, and didn't he get into trouble?

Looking at these old and weak nobles, although the princess was dissatisfied, she did not doubt their loyalty.

Slovenia was also a powerful power, but it experienced civil strife and resistance to the Byzantine invasion.

In thirty years, six out of ten people have been retained.

It is not easy to fight again.

And she said to her ministers and to her father,

"The internal strife and the external enemy caused all my three brothers to die in battle, made one of my women the heir of the Grand Duke, and made a large number of families in the country lose their blood relatives.

When the enemy is strong, we retreat one point from him, let him take two steps, and avoid him for three miles.

No matter how wild the Teutonic Knights are, no matter how high the Black Hawk flies, and now they are also at the mercy of giants, we avoid them and go to Venice to meet Ashclay. ”

"Isn't that surrendering to a heretic?"

Sects of the same origin are called heretical beliefs.

Different sects, called heretics.

For some religious fanatics, heresy is more hateful than heresy.

"No, isn't there another pope in Venice, so to speak, a pilgrimage. It will not affect the relationship we have established with Austria.

When I establish contact with the giants, I will find a way to divide the commercial power of Florence, and the Teutonic Knights will expand so quickly, the giants will definitely guard against it.

Rest assured, I will repay the enmity of the people and the humiliation of the nobles. ”

When she said this, Remilia was full of confidence.

She loves red clothes and has a beautiful face.

The upper can make the sword drive the horse, and the lower can paint and compose poetry.

Speaking passionately always boosts morale.

Balkan rose, these five words are not enough.

The Queen of the Balkans is her grand goal.

June 2.

The Duchy of Slovenia sent a letter that it would send someone to Venice.

This time, the candidates were all selected, and Her Royal Highness took them on the trip in person.

The princess carries two boats, one to protect herself and one full of gifts to pay tribute to the giants.

With the confidence of Willingness, she went out of the southern port of the country, followed the wind and the current, and approached Venice in less than four days.

Here, she met the principalities, the heroic knights of the kingdom, summoned by the giants.

I also saw a group of burly and stout warriors, from the lord to his subordinates, full of dialects, and white and yellow complexions.

Sanhe people, this term is still very rusty to her now.