Kalman IV was no longer young, and years of war and intrigue had greatly damaged his health and energy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At his age, he feels the loss of his life force, and he can even use the days as a unit.

Every day, he felt a part of his life go away from him.

Every day, he feels like he's aged a little bit more.

Every day, he felt that he was closer, closer to death.

Because of this, Kalman IV sincerely envied, jealous, and hated those young people, jealous that they still had decades to live, jealous that they could squander their time unscrupulously, and jealous that they could still live happily after their own death.

It is also a matter of course that the better the young man, the more he will be jealous of Kalman IV, and at present, the best young man known to Kalman IV in the world is William.

Kalman IV even suspected that if William stood in front of him now, he would hysterically strangle him by the neck and strangle him alive.

"So...... Future...... The future of the empire......" Kalman IV sighed, but there was nothing good to do.

He is already old, and the ruler of a powerful empire on the verge of old age pursues nothing more than two things, one of which is to find a way to live forever...... Of course, Kalman IV was not yet deaf to that extent.

He's after something that takes a step back.

Before and after the birth of the name, there is also the alternation of power in the empire.

The former is the reason why he went outward, attacking Visigoth, or Briton.

He wanted to leave his name in history. If you want to surpass those Ming Emperors in history, you must at least be on a par with them. And to do this, there are two possibilities.

The first is to expand the territory, and the second is to regain lost territory.

In the former, Kalman IV originally set his sights on the Tartarya Khanate, and this scheming emperor also saw the nature of the Khanate's strong and middle-class cadres.

He had intended to lead a large army as a liberator and savior, as he had done in the last Great Frontier War. It's just a pity that William's birth and the strong rise of the Hereford family disrupted his plans. Today, the Great Frontier has become the preserve of the Hereford family, the first princes of the Ostrogothic Empire. It's hard for him to intervene.

After that, there are no too good goals.

Whether it is the Visigothic kingdom or the Ottoman Empire of the dark elves, it is a strong and rich opponent. If you want to defeat the Ottomans, recover Constantinople or completely annex Visigoth, complete the unification of the Gothic nation or something......

This kind of fantasy thing is better left to young people to do.

Therefore, Kalman IV had not many options. Or from beginning to end, there is only one most reliable enemy.

That's the Britons.

Yes, the Bretons are wealthy, and the Bretons are able to pull up a vote of mercenaries at any time and place. The system of the Britons is advanced, and the Britons have the best navy in the world today. The Britons are the most powerful country in the world.

But Briton's army was average.

As Victoria had said before, it is impossible for a country to develop a world-class navy and an army at the same time. So Briton's army has always been a problem.

The idea of Kalman IV cannot be said to be incorrect. Briton is the most powerful country in the world, but what does it matter to him? He wants to take back Frisia, he wants to take back the northwestern region of Loterania. He's going to fight a land war with the Britons.

Unless the Bretons could pull their main battleships on the way, the united Ostrogothic Empire needed not be afraid of them.

In addition to this, Kalman IV had high expectations and brought the Visigoths with him. After all, the Visigoths also had a large amount of land occupied by the Britons. As long as diplomacy is in place, it is not impossible for the two Gothic states to form an alliance.

At least the two sides will reach a tacit understanding.

If the Visigoths do it, then Asturias will naturally do it. These two countries joined, plus the already united Ostrogothic. The Britons are at war with the entire human world.

Kalman IV had a big chance of winning. He was sure that he would sweep the Britons into the sea in one fell swoop, making them lose all their continental territories. With this achievement, he is also famous enough in history.

Unfortunately, it was still Hereford.

Although William's alliance with Victoria took a circuitous, company-to-company cooperative system, no discerning person would be fooled by their tricks.

The War in the New World not only brought William great fame and a large number of overseas colonies, but also cast the shadow of the Briton-Russia alliance.

The Bretons had a weaker army that could be compensated for by the world's first-class generals of the Hereford family. At the same time, as the most marginal country in the human world, the Hereford family, which has the advantage of the last bet, can threaten the Ostrogothic from the flank.

Their power was so great that they could threaten Moravia from the flank, to the Carpathian kingdom, and they were part of the Ostrogothic Empire, theoretically having the power to compete for the throne of the emperor. Their heir is a heinously capable little bastard.

At the same time, the Visigoths and Asturias were greatly weakened in this war. Whether it's the army, the finances, the colonies, the morale of the people, or whatever. It would be fine if it was a strong monarch with the means to rule these two countries, the problem is that both Kalman IV and King Alfonso are at a terrible level.

In this case, there is a high probability of civil strife in Visigoths with Asturias. Kalman IV's plan to co-opt this alliance as a pawn against the Britons fell through again.

"It's a headache. "Every time Kalman IV thinks about these things, he feels like his brain is racing. The first rise of the Hereford family has left no trace of surprises. The rest is nothing but worry, or worry.

The problem is that he didn't do anything good to the Hereford family, to be exact, William von Hereford.

He had seen William's father, twenty years ago, and still did. Otto is indeed good as a king, his energy, his talent is ranked first even among the monarchs of the entire human world.

But it's just the top of the list, it's just good.

Kalman IV did not feel that Otto was capable, and by virtue of his own ability, he rose from viscount to king. Nor did Kallman IV feel that King Otto would be a threat to him.

He obeyed feudal obligations, admired chivalry, and was a model of knighthood that could be framed for people to see. Kalman IV had a way of handling this king.

It was William who Kalman IV found incredible, and it was William that Kalman IV could not handle. Kalman IV knew that there could be no second person other than William who could make Hereford rise, and Kalman IV could not think of any flaws in the young prince.

He was more skeptical of his loyalty.

William von Hereford was not a knight.

He had no respect for the old dogmas, nor did he respect the authority of the emperor. Kalman IV knew history, and in history, a madman like William, who was close to self-made, or a genius, never willingly subservient to others.

Not a single one.

"What's worse is that I'm old, and what's worse is that if I want to make my wish happen, I have to have the support of the Hereford family. The bad thing can't be worse is that the Hereford family, the real mastery is not the easy-to-handle Otto, but the young and ambitious William. ”

Thinking of this, Kalman IV was in turmoil. Things were completely out of his control. Forward, backward, all kinds of stratagems, all kinds of calculations, all kinds of ...... Kalman IV had nothing to do with William.

"So to speak. ”

So Kalman IV decided to change his opponent. Change the opponent he won the fight. It's too unbalanced to let an out-of-spec player like Willian enter the game. So, he felt the need for him to do something good for the world.

Of course, the most important point is that it has to be subtly, slightly, and pleasantly...... Keep doing it.

At present, William, who is still in the New World, does not know that the emperor's conspiracy is coming at him, or rather, the entire Hereford family.

He was still in the joy of the victors. Victor, yes, victor, who has just easily and happily crushed the 50,000-strong armies of Visigoths and Asturias. The fame of the colonies in the New World can now be said to be skyrocketing. Aborigines, natives, merchants, and Bretons are all like their grandsons.

With such high prestige, William's will spread as quickly as possible to any place under his control, even to Florida, which he had not yet reached, and even to the colonies in the north, under the control of Briton.

Both the Floridians and the Bretons of the North seemed to have completely forgotten their present masters, and the fact that they were still not under William's control, and they rushed to Charleston like pugs, wagging their tails desperately at William.

This made William think it was funny...... Well, Florida he wanted, but he had no heart for the north, the Breton colony. For now, at least, he and Victoria are still more cooperative than antagonistic. For a short time, he did not want to go to war with the Britons.

So, without hesitation, he sold those people to Victoria.

"That's it, all the officials, landlords, and wealthy merchants of the northern colonies have all their letters of allegiance to me, as well as the information they have betrayed, are here. William smiled and said to Victoria, "What you do with it is your own business." I'm not going to meddle. ”