"Your Majesty the Emperor, you only need to make me a dispensable knight, I don't need you to reward the knight collar specifically, I can become your pawn, why not?"

"I can give His Majesty a hundred thousand dollars a year in lord's taxes, which will not be handed over to the treasury, but will become your personal property."

100,000 dollars? You can talk about this Massimiliano I, but you have a lot of energy.

The political situation in Europe is now unstable, and every day kings are being pushed to the beheading table, and many kings have begun to sell cheap titles that are not hereditary.

There are even those who even sell hereditary titles in the name of marriage.

With 100,000 US dollars a year, you can buy a hereditary title in Europe, and you can even marry the second daughter of the duke!

What a beautiful hillbilly who was carried away by the title, and a small knighthood actually intended to pay 100,000 dollars a year?

Don't talk about knights, you can be given the title of Barbarian Duke of the Americas.

Massimiliano I still tried his best to maintain the reserve that a thousand-year-old European aristocracy should have, but the unnatural upright of his body still revealed his inner turmoil.

"Your Majesty, this is my war plan."

"Uh-huh!"

"This is what I consider to be a strategic location."

"Uh-huh!"

"When the time comes, I will send 100,000 elites to take only this place."

"Uh-huh!"

Looking at the deposit of half a million dollars taken out by Tom's entourage, Massimiliano I could no longer hold on to it, and kept nodding "uh-huh" to indicate "you are right".

This is not to blame for the greed of Massimiliano I.

Where was Massimiliano I born?

One of Europe's largest families, the Habsburg Lorraine family.

What is the place of birth - Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.

What is the status of the elder brother - Emperor of the Austrian Empire.

And what is Massimiliano's situation now?

The palace where I live now is not as good as the toilet in Schönbrunn Palace.

All the funds were relied on the handouts of the Second French Empire, and they were completely hollowed out.

If it weren't for the loss of face, Massimiliano I would have run back to Europe.

The real amount of $500,000 was too tempting for Massimiliano I, who now had no real power.

Of course, Tom's participation in the war is not something that a puppet emperor can say.

Also look at whether the Second French Empire behind him agrees or disagrees.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, this 500,000 yuan is a gift money, even if it doesn't work out, I don't become the knightly vanguard of the supreme Habsburg family, I am willing to dedicate it to the Habsburg family, which is as dazzling as the sun."

"Is that true?"

"Even if I am not a nobleman, I have no blood dignity to speak of, and I am willing to swear in the name of my grandfather, and there will be no jokes!"

"Then what are you waiting for, quickly send the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Second French Empire, Minister Henri René de Talleyrand, to the conference room to talk in detail!"

Several heralds walked out of the conference room to find Minister Henri René de Talleyrand, Permanent Ambassador of the Second French Empire to the Second Mexican Empire and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Second French Empire

Minister Henri René de Talleyrand, the great-grandfather of Prince Bennivanto, the current Foreign Minister of the Second French Empire, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, walked into the room.

Here we have to mention the current state of affairs in the Second French Empire.

The rulers of the Second French Empire were undoubtedly the nephews of Napoleon I - Napoleon III, Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.

In the current Second French Empire, Napoleon III is reforming the imperial system, and he wants to limit the imperial power in the constitution, appropriately delegate power to the parliament, and reduce the monarch's own power in exchange for the support of the bourgeoisie.

Ideas are undoubtedly advanced in this era, but they are troublesome to implement.

The biggest opposition to reform in France was the Empress faction led by Napoleon III's wife, Empress Eugenie, commonly known as Empress Eugénie de Montijo.

(Full name of the Queen: María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Parafosse-Portocarrero de Guzmann-Kirkpatrick)

It is not that the Empress faction does not support Napoleon III's position as emperor, they are the faction that supports Napoleon III to strengthen the centralization of power, they hope that Napoleon III will centralize power, centralize power and then centralize power, and they are the number one vanguard in opposing Napoleon III's delegation of power to Parliament, and they are the most resistant to decentralization.

Most of the queens were the new nobles divided between Napoleon I and Napoleon III, and they knew that the weakening of the monarchy would inevitably affect their status, and they all wanted a stronger monarchy, so that they could have more power and live a more luxurious life.

This is the common interest of the Queen's faction, and their interests are based on the royal power of Napoleon.

At the same time, until World War II, there were a large number of royalists in France who supported the Bourbons.

The royalists don't even recognize you, the emperor of the Bonaparte family, and you still want to put the monarchy that shouldn't belong to you?

Henri René de Talleyrand, the great-grandson of Prince Bennivanto, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the son of a millennia-old family, was undoubtedly a royalist and had recently been associated with the Queen.

The vast majority of royalists believed that it would be an insult to the monarchy, a threat to feudal power, and an assault on the legal legitimacy of the ruling foundation of these thousand-year-old aristocracy, from ancient times to the present.

Most of the current royalists and the empresses have colluded with the empresses for the common good, joining forces to protest against Napoleon III's "decentralization".

Henri René de Talleyrand was the full name of the French foreign minister. He did not have his great-grandfather's vast fiefdom called Perigor, and he did not have Perigor as a suffix in his surname.

"Hello, Minister René, first meeting!"

"Hello, I wonder what you, Mr. Tom, are you doing here? I didn't receive the message you wanted to access before? ”

"Didn't His Majesty Emperor Massimiliano I tell you that I was coming? I had made many enemies at home, and I was afraid that the descendants of the Yankees' group of English sissies would assassinate me at sea, so I didn't publicize it. ”

"The English sissies are indeed capable of doing this kind of thing, those sissies have never dared to compete with my big France on land, they only know to stand behind others and secretly do evil!"

"I'm also forced to be helpless! I also want to visit the royal family of the supreme Habsburgs, and I even want to go to France to make offerings to the long-standing Bourbon royal family and ask for a knighthood, but the Yankee sissies will be as bad as their ancestors, the English sissies! ”

Since the Hundred Years' War, France and England have fought hundreds of battles, large and small, and there is no need to say much about their contempt for each other.

See Tom so viscerally "adoring" the Bourbons and Habsburgs and brainlessly disparaging the English sissies.

Minister René chose to forgive Tom, an "American royalist", and forgave Tom's "secret visit" that did not conform to aristocratic etiquette.

"Unlike those barbaric Yankees who do not respect the monarchy, I visited His Majesty Emperor Massimiliano I to become a knight who leads the way, and I want to spread the monarchical feudal system to every corner of the Americas and the world."

"Knights? Are you? ”

"Of course, as long as I can become a knight of His Majesty Massimiliano I, I will definitely be able to make a conquest for His Majesty Emperor Massimiliano I, like every traditional European noble, like the twelve Templars who followed Charlemagne in his struggles!"

"And my friend, Mr. Tom, what do you want?"

"What did you say, Minister René? I just want to be a knight of glory! ”

"It's not a good thing to be dishonest between friends, Mr. Tom."

"I'm honest, for my efforts, the return I ask for is simply minimal, you know it, and I also know how to give benefits to my seniors."

Tom and René's "pork smile" on each other's expressions betrayed the consensus of their inner interests.

Seeing the other party's "pork smile" like himself, Tom also knew that this thing was done.

Massimiliano I also believed what Tom said, and the reward sought was a small one.

100,000 dollars a year, 500,000 dollars as a greeting gift, placed in Europe is a duke and earl.

Now that I only bought a knight's position that I still need to fight for my own territory, isn't it a small return?

Massimiliano I looked at Chancellor René with a similar expression to Tom, and secretly admired Chancellor René for being worthy of being the Foreign Minister of the Second French Empire, and learned the etiquette of this kind of wilderness in Texas.