21. The birth of a behemoth
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Metternich looked wearily at the ornate canopy of the bed, the curtains and curtains around the bed keeping the sunlight out.
The Foreign Secretary's withered face smiled bitterly, and he knew very well that his smile must be terrifying—a wrinkled skeleton that would frighten anyone who saw it, not to mention the fact that the skeleton had a dead smile.
The face is like this, and the body under the green blanket is no better. For a few weeks, the body entrenched in the bed was barely human, and it was more convincing to be like a pile of dead tree roots.
He was born prematurely and was very weak, so he was disliked by the family that strengthened the high-level magicians, and Mana's sensing ability was not particularly outstanding among his peers, so he used his family connections to barely pass the Guò Quadrilateral Magician Exam and graduate from the National Academy of Magic.
In aristocratic circles where magical ability determined a certain level, such Metternich was for a long time, and later became a major minister of the state, and his political opponents used this to attack from time to time.
The Mother Goddess was fair, Metternich did not have the possibility of joining the army or studying magic, but the Mother Goddess gave him eloquence and a wise mind, relying on the grasp. He was rewarded by the king for his diplomatic prowess, and he was able to enter and leave the court. He then formed an alliance with Cardinal Richelieu, and under the leadership of this powerful and iron-fisted political ally, he eventually obtained the title of Minister of Foreign Affairs and the illustrious title of Count.
The ambitious Metternich and Richelieu did not stop there, and the acquisition of authority was only a stage in their life plans. The two also have an unknown ambition - to unify the kingdoms of humanity, defeat the United Rus' Duchy, and establish Charlemagne as a unified and powerful kingdom that surpasses Gilmania in history.
This is a huge and time-consuming project, and several heroes and sages have campaigned for it, but for various reasons, it has always failed......
Now, it's up to Richelieu and Metternich to challenge this.
A long time ago, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary began to plan an expansion strategy for Charlemagne, and both rational expansionists were well aware of the resistance to the country's attempt to change its plans - the United Duchy of Albion, Emile, and Rus.
Albion and Charlemagne are absolutely feuding, and although the war has long passed, the three provinces of Brittany, Normandie, Flanders, and the port city of Calais are still occupied by Albion, and the long-cherished wish of driving Albion out of the mainland is far from being realized, on the other side. Albion's ambitions to annex Charlemagne also failed to move forward. In this situation, neither side won a decisive victory, but the papal emissary was ushered in.
Eventually, the two sides signed an armistice with the Pope in the forest of Compiègne. This thin piece of paper looks more like a temporary truce agreement in terms of name and content, once the two sides come up that day, they feel that their fists are hard enough, and they can fight again anytime and anywhere.
Therefore, any inclination of Charlemagne to strengthen the country, expand its military power or territory will be watched and wary of the insidious island nation, and then use this as an excuse to escalate the situation, and finally join Castile to go to war again.
The United Principality of Rus' is quite honest at the moment. But it's also a constant movement. No one can guarantee that when Charlemagne, Albion and Castilla are in a scuffle, the fluffy bear men will still be willing to stay in the bear den honestly, but they are thinking about it day and night......
It is not entirely impossible to attack Claplan and storm Charlemagne with the power of the principality before the Three Kingdoms come to their senses. Therefore, the human nations have a tacit understanding in using Lapland as a meat shield against the orcs and ensuring the safety of the nations. But as an ally of Lapland, Charlemagne is also burdened with a heavy strategic baggage.
As a neighboring country, Charlemagne's share of the aid obligation is also the lion's share.
Whenever the orcs attack Lapland. Charlemagne always had the strategic obligation to invest money, resources, and soldiers in the north as quickly as possible, and spent everything that should have been used for the power in the icy forest......
Finally, Imir's papacy would not tolerate anything that might undermine his authority, let alone a state in which someone other than the pope was in charge. When things might go in that direction. He will definitely stop it.
The surrounding environment is so sinister that it is absolutely unrealistic to expect to rely on force to break the status quo and achieve extended hegemony. The only feasible thing is to rely on superior strategy and skill to achieve unexpected results.
Metternich and Richelieu developed a plan for the implementation of the expansion sought by the use of government and diplomacy.
Ease relations with Albion, win over Castile, lure the expansion of the United Rus' Duchy to the sea, and swap the strategic positions of Albion and Lapland...... By implementing the above means, Charlemagne will eventually lead the unification of mankind, and then launch an expedition to the East with a power superior to the United Duchy of Rus', burying the pagan nation in one fell swoop......
For this plan, they discussed together for many days and nights, planning how to deal with Castile, trying to send people to contact other orc races in Rus, inciting conflicts between them and the bear tribe, and provoking civil strife among the orcs. They even plotted to marry His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Louis to Elizabeth, the second princess of Albion, in exchange for temporarily paralyzing Albion and inducing them to adopt an appeased attitude towards Charlemagne......
They have made so many preparations, and the plan is about to enter the implementation stage, but the Mother Goddess and fate have played an extremely cruel joke on the country and them personally.
The epidemic crisis has erupted.
It swept the whole country in a very short period of time, and at the same time brought a wave of witch hunting, and the terrifying storm has been spreading to remote villages without hail epidemics, and everyone is in danger, and the situation is almost out of control for a time.
Just when everyone was anxious, as if in response to people's longing for disaster to pass, the man came into everyone's field of vision.
Relying on unique technology, VE has figured out the cause of the epidemic and the solution to the problem, and when the successful young president shows up in the prime minister's office with a complete set of solutions, Richelieu instinctively feels that trouble is coming.