Section 68 Edward (II)
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Edward's second wife was not a big nobleman, and after Edward became a legend, he also gave up the idea of using his marriage only to consolidate power, and the unhappiness of his first marriage taught him a lesson, and left him a daughter.
By the way, it must be mentioned that the end of the first queen and her family was not very good, and the former queen soon ended up depressed after the divorce, because although she successfully divorced, she returned home not with comfort, but with cold eyes and reproach.
And that family actually suffered heavy losses, because it seemed to be fooled by the instigation and exploitation of the secret, if it was the three wealthy families, then the other party obviously did not fulfill some promises.
And the church is just using this family to achieve its goals, only to protect this family from being liquidated by the thunderous wrath from Edward, but they did not get any more benefits, but lost a daughter who once became the queen, and was forced to hug the thigh of the Church of Light even more, and became a pro-church family.
Having learned the lesson of the first one, Edward's second wife was not a big nobleman, at most she could only be regarded as coming from a small noble family, strictly speaking, not even a small noble family.
In fact, the woman's background is that only her grandfather and father became knights of the kingdom, the lowest nobles, and they are less than three generations, and her father did not even inherit her grandfather's knightly name, but regained his identity by his own military exploits.
The second wife's name is very ordinary, named Angelina, who was originally a lady-in-waiting brought into the palace by the previous queen.
As mentioned earlier, the former queen was born into a middle-to-upper aristocratic family, and when she was a noble lady, the low-ranking nobles who were related to the family would often send their children to the homes of the higher nobles as playmates or maids-in-waiting.
This is not a shame for the low-level nobles, just like in ancient China on the earth, the ministers would also send their children to accompany the prince to study, nothing more than to establish a more intimate connection with the superiors, not only to maintain the relationship for the family, intimate goodwill, but also for that child to integrate into the noble children's circle, starting from a small foundation.
Angelina was brought into the palace by the previous queen, and Edward actually had no real love for his wife at the time, although the former queen was also a beautiful woman, but after a long time, Edward of ** would naturally have the idea of other women.
In addition to other ** that even Regina may not know everything, it is certain that Angelina at that time, the second queen later, was undoubtedly acquired by Edward.
After his marriage to the first queen broke down, Edward simply decided to marry this woman from a small aristocratic family, who was only slightly better than the commoners, as his second queen.
In his mind, this woman's family was not a threat to the three wealthy families at all, and he avoided the influence of power on his marriage.
From this point of view, Edward may still have some genuine love for the second queen, at least at the time.
However, he still underestimated the church, which did not want Edward's marriage to be free of threats and royal power, but hoped that Asturias would better be subservient and obedient to the Church of Light like the Saxons.
If not, let the royal family remain in awe of the Church.
In short, the Asturian royal family's insistence on refusing to enshrine the Church of Light as the only orthodox religion in the country made the Church of Light very angry, even more so than Titania.
Although the royal power in Titania is so strong that it suppresses the clergy to the upper hand, the Church of Light is still the only orthodox church in Titania in name, which is why although the royal family has the upper hand, it is still impossible to completely suppress the clergy.
This time, however, the Church's intervention was not as direct as the last one, in order to agree to the queen's divorce request and become the opposite of the royal family to directly interfere with Edward.
Because at this time, Edward had been king for five or six years, and he had basically inherited the political and military legacy left by Bruce, and most importantly, his own strength had reached a level that the church had to fear, and he was promoted to a legend.
Reginer's method was not entirely clear to Edward, for the whole thing was a second disgrace to Edward, no less than the successful divorce of the first queen.
To put it simply, it was proved that the second queen had been seduced by other men to betray the king.
And from what Regina knew, it shouldn't be a dirty.
But it doesn't seem entirely fair to blame all the queen, because Edward has always been the best.
The first queen filed for divorce because she couldn't stand the king's **, but at that time, without showing very conclusive evidence, the church declared the queen's marriage invalid in the name of protecting the faithful in order to fight Asturias.
And Angelina, after being liked by the king and tired of the old, was lonely and lonely, and would leave the palace from time to time and return to her father's and brother's territory to visit.
This situation was taken advantage of, and it is still a mystery how she had it, but the church cleverly used the nobles close to them to accuse the queen of immorality, and came up with clear evidence.
This kind of cuckold thing has happened, even if it is a legend, it is useless.
Even though Edward was so angry that he announced Angelina's death sentence and charged her with treason, adultery, and many other crimes, this did not change the result.
His second queen was thus finished, leaving him with a daughter.
The fate of this daughter can be regarded as a twist and turn, when she was born, because her mother became the second queen, and she was in the time of Edward's favorite, and Edward had no son at that time, so this daughter temporarily overtook her half-sister to become the first in line of succession.
However, after the death of her mother on charges of dirt behind her back, the daughter was immediately declared stripped of her inheritance, and Edward did not even want to see the girl in the palace, because she would think of her mother when she saw her, so she was sent back to her mother's family.
The only thing to be thankful for is that Angelina's maternal family was not affected by the strictness of the previous family and had to completely turn to the church, because the family of the previous queen betrayed the royal family in a sense, and the marriage at that time represented the establishment of the relationship between the family and the royal family.
Angelina's maternal family is just a small aristocratic family that has not even been formed strictly speaking, and it poses no threat to the royal family at all.
Despite Angelina's ridiculous and dirty deeds, the woman managed to keep Edward from angry with her mother before she died.
It is said that she only made one request before she died, that is, to see Edward again, no one knows what she pleaded with Edward during that meeting, but in any case she died, but the mother family was not greatly affected, at most, her father and brother may only stop at the position of knight in this life, unless the niece can turn over.
Knowing all of the above, it is natural to understand why Edward said that he had had enough.
In a way, Edward personally may have hated the Church more than other forces that tried to challenge his authority.
When Regina wanted to know what Edward wanted to do, Edward didn't answer immediately.
Unexpectedly, he asked, "How is she now?"
"Who?" Regina was stunned for a moment, and then understood what Edward meant, he was asking the second queen Angelina to give birth to the daughter for him, who was supposed to be one of the princesses of the royal family, although there was no inheritance.
"She's fine now. Her mother didn't make it too difficult for her, and sent her to the Wizard's Academy, where she might become a good female magician in the future. Regina only had a secret concern for the princess who had no right to inherit, but she still knew a little about the general situation.
"Really?" Edward's eyes flashed with a complicated look, indescribable, but as if he had released something at once.
"That's good, that's good. It's not bad to let her live like this for the rest of her life. "Her mother's last hope was to beg me not to put hatred for her on her." A sorceress, although not as noble as a princess, will be relatively calm and allow her to avoid a lot of trouble. ”
"Yes, Your Majesty. Regina sighed deeply.
"Okay, now tell me what I'm going to do to the church. In the blink of an eye, Edward changed from his father's role back to king.
"This is a rare opportunity for Bourbon, Byron, and Medici to unite their voices, even if they are reluctant, but this incident has taught them a lesson, and they should also realize that they must respect the royal right to rule, otherwise not only now, but in the future, and in the future, they will need rule-makers and adjudicators, and to perpetuate this qiē, it is necessary to create an enemy for us and them together. ”
"The church?" Regina said in a slightly trembling voice, and hurriedly asked again, "But, Your Majesty, what can you do, do you want to completely break with the church, or even go to war?"
"I didn't intend to go to war directly. But I have a more clever idea, to issue my edict, to find the evidence of some of the priests of the church, and even the bishops of those filthy and filthy things, and to publish them, and then to drive them out of Asturia, and to put death on the spot those who dare to resist, and to collect their wealth into the treasury. ”
In Regina's surprised eyes, a sinister smile appeared on the corner of Edward's mouth, "Also, declare to all the lords of the kingdom that they are allowed to do so as long as they are guilty of the Church in their realm, and the property of the Church belongs to that lord." ”
Regina was shocked, although Edward's decision was not a war with the Church, but it was second only to a war, and the consequences were just as severe as it was enough to break Asturia with the Church.
It was difficult for him to predict who would emerge victorious in this head-to-head battle between the royal family and the church, but as a member of the royal power, he could only support the monarch's decision.
Fortunately, Edward was a cunning fellow, taking advantage of the current dissatisfaction of the Asturian nobles with the Church in Eugudral and Farusion, and also using the bait of allowing the nobles to take possession of the Church.
This bait is not small, and it is the church that has caused the loss of the interests of the Asturian nobility in the two planes of Yugudral.
It is conceivable that as long as some of the nobles close to the royal family could not resist swallowing this bait first, following the example of the royal family to expel the local bishops or priests, and then taking possession of the church property, it was impossible for the other nobles who remained neutral and attached to the three noble families to endure it all.
As long as this limelight is set off, it will not stop, and greed will make the nobles take the same position as the royal family on this issue, thus forming a united front against the church.
This is a few birds with one stone, in addition to collecting the nobles, the property collected from the treasury will also replenish Edward's losses in time, and become the military expenses of the follow-up reinforcements.
If it weren't for the fact that it would take time and preparation to expel and repossess, the goldsmith's trouble could have been solved with this, without the conversion of Solomon's bonds.
"However, this qiē will make the conflict between the royal family and the church so severe that it is irreconcilable. Reginer reminded him stiffly, fulfilling the responsibilities of an old courtier.
"Yes, but I have already decided, and I will also announce to the public that from the day of the operation, I will be the supreme religious leader in addition to being the ruler of the kingdom of Asturias!"