The Righteous Player(s)

"I probably know the story... but what I want to ask is actually the part after that."

　　 Dmitry leaned forward slightly and asked Annan: "How did you make Her Royal Highness Elizabeth quit participating in the election? The news I heard from here was that she finally voluntarily gave up the election..."

　　 The previous state visit of Grand Duke Annan to the Kingdom of Noah has completely ended.

　　 Soon after Annan and his party returned safely to the Duchy of Winter.

　　 Elizabeth, the eldest princess of the Kingdom of Noah, suddenly announced that she could not succeed as the king due to reasons such as physical discomfort and inability to marry and raise. Taking into account the continuation of Noah's kingdom, she will officially withdraw from the election of the king and serve the rest of her life in the field of reemployment of veterans.

　　 Now when Prince Philip was assassinated.

　　Cafeni and Elizabeth are the last two heirs of Noah's kingdom-no matter who wins the final victory, Noah's next ruler will be a queen.

　　The difference is that one of the two queens is fourteen years old this year, and the other is over 40 years old this year...

　　——Forty-nine years old and I don’t know for a few months. It can also be considered to be more than 40 years old, which is very reasonable.

　　 Generally speaking, people tend to prefer younger rulers. This often means opportunities...because the ruler will gradually accumulate some team under his hand during the king election stage.

　　 They need to promise how much glory and wealth they can give to whom they have ascended the throne.

　　 Otherwise, how come so many talents can be used by him?

　　 Standing in line is indeed very important. But in most cases, there will be no such thing as "no promises will be made to someone to vote" in order to sling a lot of virtuous kings in the same period.

　　——If there is, then the current king will be upset.

　　 This also led to a strange situation.

　　 That is, the older the heir, the stronger the strength, the less the benefits he can give out. The more people who defected to him behind, the more they wanted to "stand in line" and not to be liquidated...

　　In other words, the earlier the time to seek refuge in the heirs, the more they are tempted by interests, and the later, the more they are threatened by their “may succeed”.

　　Like a young and well-founded successor like Kafni, when he suddenly won, he had hardly promised others-which meant a lot of unowned benefits.

　　 As long as he can win the favor of the little queen, he can easily overcome barriers that have been difficult to overcome for decades. And because of the asylum of the Silver Lord Church, it is impossible for someone to turn his face and force Kafni to give up some of his rights.

　　 The most important thing is that she has no descendants yet-and the heirs who can compete for the throne are the eldest princesses who voluntarily give up. If they want to fight against Kafani, they can only go to the eldest princess.

　　 But...

　　 "It may be a little different from what you have learned."

　　 Annan shook his head, and placed the power symbol that had become a "two-color scepter" on the edge of the table, with his body tilted back slightly.

He hugged Zhuo Ya’s hot brown sugar cookie with both hands, took a bite, turned his head and explained to Dmitry: “Elizabeth did not voluntarily withdraw from the king’s election, but completely. The loser at the end."

"loser?"

　　 "Yes, the crow family has found and reported to her the specific location of Nicholas II, the murderer who assassinated Prince Philip. He is going to slaughter a village to fill his own experimental materials."

　　Annan took a breath, and his expression became serious: "Therefore, the old crow personally reported the incident to Princess Elizabeth. I hope she can report to the Silver Lord Church in order to apply for the Silver Lord to capture the target."

"……and then?"

　　 Dmitry thinks Earl Gerland's response method is very good.

　　 is even very envious-why doesn't my family have such a capable, decisive intelligence agency leader...

　　 Oh, there used to be. Later he defected.

　　 "Then she rejected the matter and immediately placed Earl Gerante under house arrest. At the same time, she excluded the army and prepared to deal with the matter herself."

　　 Annan said slowly.

　　 Princess Elizabeth's strategy, he can actually understand.

　　From her standpoint, this is actually a multi-purpose strategy.

　　In Elizabeth's view, the erosion of Noah's kingship by the Silver Lord Church has been too serious. The church originally controlled the economic lifeline of the kingdom, and the pope of this generation began to do charity and control the newspaper industry on a large scale... This means that the bottom is also beginning to be shaken by it.

　　 As an orthodox heir to the royal power, she must find a way to recapture the power that was quietly taken away by the church for the Noah royal family.

　　If Philip was assassinated and the church finally resolved the matter-then the church's reputation would be further enhanced. The security of being sheltered by the church, coupled with the economic prosperity of a foreign trade agreement with the Principality of Winter, may lead to the retirement of a large number of active soldiers.

　　 In the Kingdom of Noah, joining the army is also a kind of "contract" and a kind of "deal."

　　 When they retired from the army, they either received a lot of money or a stable job. This was the promise made at the beginning of the conscription.

　　 But the problem is... The current economic situation of Noah does not allow them to do so.

　　 And if the army can handle this, it can at least postpone the wave of demobilization for a few years. In this way, in the next few years, Noah's economy will not suddenly collapse... As long as she establishes a sea trade company that can accommodate veterans, Noah's economic problems can gradually stabilize.

　　 "So Elizabeth chose to let the army handle this matter."

　　Annan slowly said: "If she wants to dispatch an army, she must be a blood-related avenger in order to have the most basic stand. We all know how Elizabeth is related to Philip, but ordinary people don't understand..."

　　 But there is another problem here.

　　 She is not the queen, but only the eldest princess.

　　 Sending out a large-scale army to ‘revenge one’s younger brother’, can this be regarded as a "willful act"?

　　Although this is still for Noah's good, but the people certainly don't think so. Their eyes cannot see such a long future.

　　 "So, she needs justice. That is to take revenge for the nameless village.

"For ordinary people, the timeline of the incident is actually like this: The eldest princess received information that there was a very vicious incident of the bandit gang in the'Natta County' slaughtering the village-of course, we know that there are no robbers, and Tower County has nothing to do. But for the Noahs who don’t understand the transcendent, this excuse is more reasonable.

　　"After that, the eldest princess immediately dispatched regular troops to encircle the bandit gang in Nata County, and eventually discovered that Philip's assassin was the mastermind behind the scenes and defined it as a'rebel army'.

"So she suppressed the church's chances to appear, delayed the unemployment wave caused by the demobilization wave, and had enough control over the army to start the ocean trading company she had been looking forward to for a long time. She even did it in name. Philip avenged his revenge and brightened his muscles with his army, so that the little nobles and merchants in various places did not jump so much...

"She still has an excuse to eradicate Nata County, which has accumulated a large number of fugitives and has various dark connections with the royal nobles. No matter what the connection is, whoever is behind, as long as it is physically eliminated— -The killing was clean, and their backstage would certainly not attack her because of'the princess smashes the rebels'.

"In order to complete this scene, all that is needed is'innocent people from Natta County' and designate certain forces as the'rebel army'... In order to survive and prosper, this kind of people can just be in Natta County. Grab a bunch."

　　 Annan looked at Dmitry who had suddenly realized it, and sighed helplessly: "You should also learn political common sense, Dmitry."

　　 "Hi, isn't there you..."

　　 Dmitry hesitated and changed the subject in an instant: "And then? How did she fail?"

　　 "Because I killed Nicholas II before the army arrived in'Natta County'."

　　Annan said lightly: "I have evidence in hand. Then Kafni also has evidence-the church is attacking the eldest princess.

"She'received the wrong information without verifying it', she hastily dispatched the army and must be held responsible for it. The house arrest of the nobles obviously cannot be let outsiders know. Because it will directly make people doubt it. The entire Noah royal family ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and even Kaphni's reputation will be damaged.

　　 "Finally, we asked her, do you want a fame or a fate?"

　　 "How do you say this?"

　　 Dmitry asked immediately, his expression as if Yu Qian was alive.

"If you want a name, let her be assassinated by the'rebel army' she made up. Then Kafni will act as the'heir' and finish what she has not done. People will only remember that this is Noah can also benefit from Elizabeth's deeds.

"If it's deadly... it is to admit that her actions were rash and give up the election. The church can save her face and temporarily not announce her many actions-including allowing Nicholas II to kill the village and imprisoning the three-eyed crow for no reason. The chief, Earl Gerante, and the charges of attempting to physically interfere with Nata County.

"But if she acts rashly, these evidences will jump out and immediately crush her to death-even make up for her. Put some unjustified things on her... Four of the ten things have definite truths. Evidence, six things cannot be falsified, people tend to believe that these ten things are all her doing.

　　 "As the price of keeping her alive, Elizabeth can no longer access any rights that involve the core. And she must be exposed to gather opponents to Kafney...that is, she must use herself to fish."

　　 And this is the contract she made with the Queen Kafni.

　　 Annan said leisurely, with a sly light in his eyes.

　　-There is no doubt that this is his idea.