My British Empire

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The news that the Duke of Guise controls Paris and controls His Majesty the King and Queen Catherine, the regent, swept across France like the wind, and spread to England, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany. People have different opinions on this news.

As the ambassador of the Kingdom of Britain to France, His Excellency the Ambassador formally issued a statement to the Duke of Guise, strongly condemning this move to seize power by force and control the king, and also issued a warning.

Afterwards, the German princes such as Württemberg, as well as the Swiss state, all issued letters of condemnation, strongly urging the Duke of Guise to withdraw his troops.

Of course, apart from this, the powerful Kingdom of Spain did not issue a letter of condemnation, but just made a statement that was not salty or not, and then fell silent.

In this way, European countries immediately read the message: Spain supports the Catholic League headed by the Duke of Guise.

The United Kingdom and some Protestant countries supported the Huguenots.

Afterwards, the Huguenot leader Prince Condé and Admiral Coligny issued a statement of condemnation together, demanding that the Duke of Guise release His Majesty the King and the Queen Mother.

In this regard, the Duke of Guise ignored it, and together with the royal steward Montmorency and Marshal Saint-André, he did a great thing.

In the palace, the maids were busy with their own affairs in a panic, and even the guards did not change, as if nothing happened last night.

But in the palace, there was an air of uneasiness.

The young Charles IX tremblingly hid in the arms of Queen Catherine, secretly watching the powerful ministers ahead.

He was only twelve years old, and he was too frightened to make a sound or cry.

Instead, he could only curl up in his mother's arms, secretly looking at these familiar and unfamiliar ministers.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for my reckless behavior last night. The situation is really pressing. We are also doing this for the royal family!"

The royal steward, Montmorency, has always been a moderate and has the closest relationship with the royal family, so he will speak this time.

Seeing Montmorency's hypocrisy, Queen Catherine felt disgusted, but at this time the situation was beyond her control, so she could only hold back her temper.

"Hmph! Your Excellency, you raided Paris in the middle of the night and broke into the palace. This is the so-called for the royal family? Why haven't I heard that there is such a thing in the noble rules!"

Seeing the few of them convincing each other so kindly, Queen Caitlin slowly calmed down. She knew in her heart that she and her son must be fine, and this group of nobles did not have the guts to commit regicide.

In this way, she became more courageous, her upper and lower lips moved lightly, and she became sarcastic.

A few words made several people look embarrassed, their expressions were awkward, and they didn't know what to say.

They are really wronged. Their behavior last night was very immoral for the nobles and insulted the noble demeanor.

As a result, Montmorency and Saint-André cast their blame on the Duke of Guise.

Seeing this, the Duke took a breath, turned a blind eye to the gazes of the two, stood up and explained softly:

"Your Majesty! You don't know anything!"

He bent down, looked straight at the cold-faced queen, and said neither humble nor humble:

"Since you connived at various acts of Huguenot heresy and issued the so-called Romorantin decree the year before last, the situation in France has been in turmoil!"

"Catholics throughout France are very dissatisfied with the royal family, and if this continues, an unimaginable situation may happen.

And you know that there are 16 million French Catholics and only 2 million Huguenots.

Your irrational behavior has actually hurt the authority of the royal family! "

"For France, for the royal family, we have to take action! We must not let France fall into the hands of those heretics!"

At the end, the Duke of Guise held his palm fiercely and said sharply, his eyes seemed to be eating people.

The Duke of Guise's words hit Queen Catherine's heart hard.

In fact, her lenient treatment of Protestants was just because she wanted to strengthen the strength of the Huguenots, balance the Catholic League and the Huguenots, and allow the royal family to override them and act as an arbiter.

At this time, she realized that the population gap cannot be made up, but the royal family is on this crater.

However, if they support the Catholic League, the Duke of Guise and others will definitely control the power of the whole of France, and the royal family will be even more dangerous.

For a moment, the Queen Mother was in a daze.

"Your Majesty, this is a joint signature of the French nobles. Please abandon heresy. Catholicism is the only orthodoxy the kingdom needs!"

The three of them took a step forward, persuading them in a persuasive way.

With such a powerful power, the Empress Dowager Catherine's heart suddenly felt heavy, no matter what, let these Catholics fight!

"Okay! I agree to your request!" After saying these words, Queen Catherine felt a little exhausted.

The three giants of the Catholic Church couldn't help but looked at each other, with extraordinarily bright smiles on their faces.

The next day, in the name of the King of France, the Queen Mother made a treaty with the Pope, the Principality of Savoy, and Spain to form a Catholic covenant.

But Queen Catherine did not declare the Huguenots rebels.

Because of this, the Huguenots will be completely forced to the opposite of the royal family. For her, both Catholics and Huguenots are subjects of the royal family.

Subsequently, in Tours, Anjou, Sens and other places, the Huguenots were massacred by the Catholic Church, and the whole of France began a hate war between Catholics and Huguenots.

The blood has already begun to be shed, and the winner of this war must be determined.

Meanwhile, the Huguenots here.

King Antoine of Navarre, Admiral Coligny, Prince Condé and others also learned the bad news.

"The queen mother has always held a lenient policy towards us. This time, she suddenly turned to the Catholic League. I am afraid she was persecuted!"

Prince Kong Dai looked at the received letter, shook his head helplessly, and sighed.

"Having said that, at present, we are at a disadvantage. All over the country, especially in the central region, Catholics massacred and besieged us Huguenots. The congregants are very disturbed!"

Colini said unhappily, at this time, the Queen Mother's position is not important anymore, it's time to talk about our situation.

"First of all, we must call on all the congregants to form a Protestant Army to protect their lives!"

"Second, we need to send envoys to Germany and England to ask for military support! We also need money from the Netherlands!"

As the king of the Navarre Kingdom, Antoine was very familiar with these, and said immediately.

The Kingdom of Navarre is generally held concurrently by a French count.

"Your Majesty the King is right, this is what we should do, and the task of forming the Protestant Army is entrusted to you, Your Excellency the Prince!"

Hearing this, Admiral Colini couldn't help but nodded and said.