On the evening of July 1,

Royal Palace of the Second Mexican Empire.

In the center of the square is an ornate coffin.

Inside the coffin, lies the remains of His Majesty the Second Emperor of the Mexican Empire, Massimiliano I.

The body has been specially treated, so that there is no smell of decay.

Tom, dressed in knight's armor, walked into the square outside the palace in the midst of all the attention.

"Oh~Oh~Oh~"

Tom walked to the coffin step by step, and with each step, the iron boots slammed into the ground with a rhythmic sound.

"Jingle Bell~Ding Bell~Dang Ding Dong~"

The armor on his body also collided with each other as Tom moved, making an irregular crackling sound.

The entire audience was watching Lord Tom Knight, the current de facto ruler of the Second Mexican Empire.

The vast majority of the nobles of the Second Mexican Empire were executed by the government of the United Mexican States, along with their Emperor His Majesty, Massimiliano I.

Among the surviving nobles of the Second Mexican Empire, with the exception of Tom Smith, the Royal Chief Knight.

It was all the "capitulationists" who "reformed" and surrendered to the United States and the "runaways" who fled to Europe.

Minister Henri René de Talleyrand, the most prestigious foreign minister of the Second French Empire present, had just inherited his father's title as count a few years earlier.

But he is also a nobleman of the Second French Empire, and if you really want to talk about the nobles of the Second Mexican Empire present, Tom, the knight, is the highest.

Tom walked over to the coffin, took off the knight's helmet, tucked it between his waist and abdomen with his left hand, and pushed the coffin open with his right hand.

(In European and American tradition, pushing open the coffin to see the body is a sign of respect for the deceased, which is different from that of China.) ）

"Bang Dang~"

When the surrounding lights shone on the body of Massimiliano I again, Tom's knight's helmet on his left fell to the ground, and the sound silenced the audience.

"O my lord!"

"You died so miserably!"

"Woo woo woo~"

"Your Majesty~"

Tom knelt down beside the coffin and began to weep bitterly, crying so "earth-shattering that he almost cried Massimiliano I alive."

"It's because the minister is not strong, he can't save His Majesty from fire and water!"

"I am ashamed of God!"

Tom felt that he couldn't cry anymore, so he secretly found a little "chemical tear gas" prepared in advance.

put it in front of his nose and sniffed it gently, and began to "howl and cry" again.

Tom's snot was choked by the "tear-jerking chemical agent", and a lot of snot flowed out.

The audience around him were all diplomatic ambassadors of various countries that Tom had invited in advance, except for Minister Henri René de Talleyrand, who was meeting Tom for the first time.

Which of you present is not a small European nobleman, and witnessed the funeral of many nobles, large and small.

It was the first time I had seen a knight weeping so much in front of the body of the Lord.

Even Minister Henri René de Talleyrand couldn't believe that this "knight", who couldn't tell the difference between patron saints and only one patron saint half a year ago, would cry so earth-shatteringly.

"Knight Smith, don't cry, pay attention to your body"

"Minister René, my lord ......"

"Get up."

Chancellor René, as the nobleman with the highest title present and the only person present who knew Tom, took the initiative to step forward and help up the "chief knight of the royal family" with a snot and tears on his face.

Tom had just risen to his feet with the help of Chancellor René, and was a little relieved of his grief.

After walking a few steps, he broke free from the support of Minister René, shook off Minister René, turned his head and knelt down in front of the coffin again.

"It's a weak minister!"

"If I could have come a few months earlier, why would Your Majesty be here!"

"Why is this the case!"

Tom roared at the ground, his hands pounding heavily on the ground.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

While Tom pounded the ground, he secretly pulled the "mechanism" prepared in advance on the armor.

After a few blows, the armor near Tom's arms scattered and separated, as if the armor had been hammered by Tom to outsiders.

At the same time, "blood" flowed from the corners of Tom's mouth and both fists, and his legs kicked out, and he passed out due to "excessive grief and anger".

"Knight Smith!"

Minister René was shocked, Tom just fainted in front of him?

Hurriedly beckoned the attendants beside him to carry Tom down to rest.

Tom, who had been carried into the bedroom, lay on the bed, and John took all the attendants away from him.

Now, there are only Tom and John in the bedroom, and a few cronies at the door.

"Phew!"

"Next time, add some sugar to the fake blood, this taste is too strong."

"Isn't it like you have to put on a show like this?"

After only two people remained, Tom stopped pretending, sat up directly, drank water, and rinsed his mouth.

"You can't blame me, don't talk about it now, a hundred years from now, when the new superior comes to power, even if he doesn't belong to the same line, he will cry for the old superior who died, this is a human custom."

"The question is, aren't all our Northern Mexico fought by us? Is this also the same family? ”

"The vision is wrong, we are a hero company, we are a company, how can we openly own the territory? Those are the lands of His Majesty the Emperor. We're just helping His Majesty the Emperor expel the rebels who are not loyal to the Emperor! ”

John was a little unhappy to hear it, he didn't know what an emperor was or not an emperor, he only knew that the land was beaten down by the hero company, why should it be attributed to the dead man lying in the coffin?

John still has a poker face in front of outsiders, but he is also relaxed in front of Tom, and his displeasure is directly on his face.

Tom could also see that John was unhappy.

"John, don't get so excited, I'll sort it out for you."

"Tom, you say."

Who does the "security guard" of the earth listen to? ”

"Listen to our hero company."

"To whom does the factory belong to this earth?"

"Belong to our hero company."

"To whom do the mines belong in this land?"

"It's still our hero company."

"So, does it matter who owns this land?"

"This ......"

John was a little shackled to the traditional "land idea."

John followed Tom's logic and found out that Tom was right, in addition to the nominal land returned to the Austrian Habsburg royal family, the actual benefits all belonged to the hero company.

"If you can, give this land to all the Mexican people, and what's the harm in giving it to them in name?"

"Mining is our hero company."

"Road building is our hero company."

"Building a factory is our hero company."

"Even a gold antique from the Aztec period dug up on your main road will be handed over to the Mexican government controlled by our hero company."

"Does it really matter who owns this land?"

"And we are not rulers, these locals will go back and spit on the rulers we control as long as they are guided."

"Let a puppet government rule on the surface, but in fact, it will not be governed, and our hero company will not be governed."

"When the minerals are drained, they will leave directly, and they don't need to think about the maintenance of these unprofitable lands."

"In this way, our hero company can sit back and relax."

Tom admonished John as he began to take off his "showman's suit" - knight's armor.

"Remember, John, there is no point in owning land in name."

"The most important thing is whether you have access to the resources of this land."

"Nominally owning land will only be like this armor, tied to your hands and feet."