533. Chapter 533 West **** Negotiations
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Although it was not very beautiful in the course of the war, there were too many losses, and a lot of national strength, funds, and resources were consumed. Even in the final round-up of His Majesty the Emperor, let this guy commit suicide.
In this case, quite a few people throughout the empire, whether nobles, commoners, clergy, merchants, were dissatisfied.
However, still, as the sun is shining.
Briton, who led the Protestant League to victory in this war, was on the rise.
The continental interests who led Briton to victory in the war are in full swing.
Victoria de Normandy, who led the Continental faction to victory in this war, was in full swing.
The title of "Another Queen", which was originally circulated in a few small circles, has now become almost an open secret. Everyone was talking about this girl, regardless of her age, her achievements, her appearance, figure, marriage and love status, everything about her.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria has become synonymous with the best young people in the human world. In a very short period of time, he surpassed Wilhelm von Hereford, who had been in the limelight until then.
Of course, William didn't care about that.
In a few years, he conquered almost the entire large border area with his bare hands, controlling 13 million people, or in two years, relying on the strongest country in the world to defeat the world's largest population, at least 30 million people, which is greater, this William can't tell.
"Whatever, just think she's greater, there's nothing to care about. William thought to himself.
Prestige, fame, or prestige, William is not very lacking now. Now that his prestige is enough for him to manipulate everything within his empire, that's enough. And on this basis, extending outward, it can unite many small states of Carpathia and Lombardy, and even Asturias can unite a little, which makes William feel very satisfied.
At least at this stage, William had no intention of competing with the Bretons, the Continentals, Victoria, and Normandy.
The Archduke of Jutland and the Archduke of Bern have become her pet dogs. The whole of Lotternia had been decided to form a confederation with Briton, and Franconia in the south had been divided into more than two dozen states.
Moravia, the largest state in the empire, was split into two parts, just as William had guessed, Bohemia in the north and Austria in the south would become two independent kingdoms, the former preparing to form a co-confederation with Briton, or the second, sending a member from the House of Windsor to serve as the king and form a family alliance to rule. Austria to the south, on the other hand, was given some autonomy in order to fill the gap and maintain the balance of power in the southeast.
It was Victoria who chose a lucky family, the Habsburgs, who were theoretically slightly related to the Swabian family, to be King of Austria.
This is what Her Majesty has planned for the Empire, a bright future. Two kingdoms were either directly annexed or indirectly annexed. At the same time, a kingdom was dismembered and fragmented, and a grand duchy and a duchy became vassals, or puppets, who had to hire large numbers of Britons into their government and army to take control of these vital government institutions in the name of advisers.
Under these circumstances, it will be very difficult for these two countries to gain independence and get rid of the Britons.
"They didn't make it to king, they didn't make it to the electors. Neither the promises of the Britons nor the emperors were fulfilled. Wilhelm secretly sighed - yes, that's it, the emperor is dead, and the hopes of the Bernese are dashed. The plan to support the expansion of Jutland's territory as a breakwater to prevent the westward advance of the Russian-Gothic Empire was weakened by the Emperor's massacre on the peninsula.
Today, the Duchy of Jutland, despite its efforts to recruit displaced people and resume production, has not yet reached 200,000 people.
A country with a population of one million can expand it to two million and then arm it as an ally.
But a country with a population of only 200,000...... It's better to be a vassal puppet.
That's it. The whole empire has become her own. In Normandy, the Visigothic kingdom, Brittany, Aquitaine and other important territories were also occupied by the Britonsians. With Asturias languishing, the Lomba in disarray, declining and decadent, and the new empire not having enough strength to confront them, the Bretons have become the rightful overlords of humanity. It dominates the fate of the entire human world, and arguably the entire world.
In other words, in a sense, Victoria de Normandy has become the king of the world.
The West**** meeting she held, although it was very high-profile, was for the peace of the world, the fate of mankind, the future of the universe or something. But to the opposition, including everyone but her, it was merely a proclamation.
Declare her the king of the world.
All were her foils, ornaments at her coronation. All the kings, dukes, nobles were like that.
"It's desperate to think about. William said in a relaxed tone. In front of him were the heads of the small states of Lombardy, the dukes of several duchies, the grand duchies, and the consuls of the two republics. Speaking of which, the Holy See had hoped to participate in the peace talks. But the name of the Holy See is not on the list of invitations at all.
This is not surprising. After all, the final winner of this war was the Protestant League. These guys have made their attitude clear from the very beginning, and they are ready to kick the Holy See away and let these rotten and depraved traditionalists play with them.
One can imagine how much the Holy See would regret it after learning of the outcome of the war. And how the small Lombard states regretted it - if they had known that this would be the case, they would not have been so concerned about money. Even if you smash the pot and sell iron, you must help Emperor Kalman IV.
But it's too late to say anything.
Although at present, the kingdoms of Asturias and Visigothic are still traditional. But Asturias was in great decline and could hardly do anything to help. And the successive kings of the Visigothic kingdom were very uninterested in the Holy See and the Pope. Tricking the Pope, even kidnapping the Pope and then imprisoning him, forcing the Pope to benefit himself, deposing the Pope, manipulating the Holy See and a series of other things should not be too slippery. Any bishop with a little brain knows that the Visigoths are unreliable.
And then there are the small Lombard states. These people are basically of the same mind as the Holy See - the problem is that these guys are too much to protect themselves, and now one or two, they all have their eyes on William, hoping that William will pull them along. Not to mention.
Originally, there were many people in the Holy See who hoped that William would continue to carry the banner of traditionalism as the next Kalman IV.
They were even willing to give the name of Guardian of the Holy See of William, as well as the Roman Priest. However, it is very embarrassing that William was also a heretic in an absolute sense. The secularization of religion that he pursued within the empire, as well as the policy of freedom of worship, pan-faith, etc., were heretics among heresies for the Holy See.
And, more importantly, William was not repentant at all. On more than one occasion he rejected the good intentions of the Holy See.
It is precisely for this reason that the Holy See has lost interest in the face of this scum who needs to go to Hell. There are even some extremists who hope to take advantage of William's visit to Lombardy to kill William, and then hope that William's father, King Otto the pious, will be restored.
It's just a pity that there is no Assassin's Creed or anything in this world. Although the Holy See likes to raise killers, there is nothing he can do about William, who has a knight mentor and even a legendary knight model, known as the paladin-level combat power. In this case, the Holy See has no other way but to continue to curse those bastards that they all go to hell when they die.
Well, but then again, if hell really exists, then almost one of these bishops in the Holy See is counted as one, and all of them have to go there and make out with those devils.
"Your Majesty, you can't say that. Seeing that William's expression was very relaxed, the dukes and consuls of the small states around him were a little anxious.
"Do you want me to be Emperor of the Ostrogothic Empire?" William chuckled as he looked at the nervous group of people, and then asked, "Or are you willing to form an alliance with me and oppose the Britons?"
Hearing William say this, the Duke of Xiaobang and the consuls looked at each other very awkwardly, and then continued to laugh awkwardly. They are not mentally retarded, how could they oppose the rule of the Britons when the Bretons are in full swing.
Their original plan was indeed to push William and the Russian-Gothic Empire to the front, and it was better to put him in opposition to the Britons. But at best, they could only give William some limited support, or even only mental support.
It's normal that in the previous sectarian wars, they only paid for it, and then sent mercenaries to help Kalman IV, and they didn't end up at all. Now that William and the Russian-Gothic Empire have changed, how can they change their attitude?
"That's all there is to it. William whispered, "First of all, I must be sure that the Empire will never come into conflict with the Britons. In fact, strictly speaking, the Empire and Briton remained allies. I'm still a member of the Protestant League, and the Empire is also a victorious nation, isn't it?"
Hearing William say this, the dukes and consuls of the small state looked at each other again, and they didn't know what to say.
Yes, indeed, strictly speaking, yes. The question is, what's the point? The world situation has reached this point, and whether the Bretons still recognize you as an ally or not......
Of course, what they think in their hearts is what they think in their hearts. Just like before, they couldn't say it at all, they could only laugh awkwardly.