Tome of Blood

Chapter 318 -168- The Regent

After asking Lotte to take good care of Eleanor, Charlotte left the mission hospital.

The arrival of the envoys from the royal capital was like a clear signal, announcing the end of the war. After the peace talks with the Violet Principality, the peace talks with Bold were put on the agenda.

After leaving the church hospital, Charlotte went to the Earl of Tulip, completing the de facto handover of the territory.

There is no lord in the Earl of Tulip, only Earl Gaston is stationed. With the support of Earl Gaston, the handover of the territory went smoothly.

The Tulip nobles, who were often married to the Castel nobles and had many contacts in business, did not resist, but naturally accepted Charlotte's rule.

This is also easy to understand. Geographically speaking, the tulip collar is already part of the Northland, and economically and blood ties are also separated. The earldom has no capital to resist.

Boulder has long regarded it as a direct-controlled territory to strengthen the control of Castel, and has always avoided the appearance of large noble families here. In the end, it was cheaper for Castel who merged with the Earl of Tulip.

Charlotte received the local nobles in Tulip Fortress, a total of six barons.

Although the territorial treaty between Boulder and Castel had not been formally signed, and the tulip nobles had not formally sworn allegiance to Charlotte, they had expressed their submission to Castel in words and deeds.

After receiving the nobles, Charlotte talked with Earl Gaston alone for an hour.

No one knows exactly what Charlotte and Earl Gaston talked about.

After the conversation, Earl Gaston handed over all the standing control of the Tulip Territory to Castel, left Tulip alone, and returned to Boulder with the help of the ultra-long-distance teleportation circle provided by the Violet Principality.

It is very difficult to understand that one's own family has been running Chaofan for more than ten years.

Not only the tulip collar, but even the nobles of the Castel collar are hard to understand.

Some said it was a secret agreement between Earl Gaston and Castel; some said it was because Earl Castel abandoned his celibacy declaration and intended to marry the Gaston family; even more outrageous; there were rumors that This is because Earl Gaston fell in love with Charlotte of Castel, that's why he first helped Castel resist Boulder, and then handed over the extraordinary stock...

Even... Earl Gaston's age is enough to be a grandfather to Charlotte of Castel.

Not to mention, there are quite a few people who believe this most outrageous statement, even the nobles have many who believe it.

Especially those who have seen the little Count of Castel with their own eyes.

"That is indeed a beautiful lady, youthful, beautiful, and pure... just like an angel sent by God to the world!"

"Hi, let alone Earl Gaston, even I, who only glanced at her from afar, are about to fall in love with her."

A down-and-out nobleman who boasted that he had met Charlotte at a banquet in the Earl's Mansion was belching in the tavern while talking eloquently.

In short, the rumors about the Earls of Gaston and Castel were rampant for a while.

The affairs of nobles, especially great ones, are always interesting, even if they are fanciful.

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In any era, especially when entertainment is scarce, this is a welcome thing.

It wasn't until the City Hall of Beigang severely dealt with a group of mercenaries and down-and-out nobles who spread rumors that such outrageous rumors gradually weakened.

Of course, this weakening is limited to the demesne.

Similar topics still have a market in the vassal territories that Castel has weaker control over and around Castel, especially in those taverns and salons.

At the same time, rumors about how charming, stunning, and beautiful the little Earl of Castel was spread more and more widely, making the already famous "Pearl of Polder" and "Lord of Beauty" Charlotte, the reputation is getting wider and wider...

And the resulting chain reaction even affected Castel's diplomacy.

Charlotte was stunned to discover that there were many more nobles from all over the world who came to visit Castel, and many of them were even heirs to titles, or simply came from the lord himself.

However, what happened next in Boulder made this outrageous rumor gradually lose its market.

After Earl Gaston returned to the Principality of Boulder, he quickly took the lead in organizing a loose group of Boulder nobles in the name of Castel's allies and Boulder supporters, and established the Boulder Regent cabinet and start peace talks with Castel.

Among them, Earl Gaston, as the most influential Earl of Boulder, was unanimously elected as Regent by the Boulder Nobility Conference.

When the news came out, many aristocrats with keen minds came back to it.

"Earl Gaston should have reached a certain exchange of interests with Castel, and obtained Castel's support on the condition of supporting Castel's independence, merging the Tulip Territory, and mastering the Tulip Army..."

"Bolde was the defeated party. It is said that many nobles were captured because of this. No one is more suitable than Earl Gaston to represent Bolde in negotiating with Castel."

An experienced kingdom lord judged.

However, when this news reached Castel, some nobles in Castel were a little puzzled.

"Master Earl, are you...don't plan to fight for the position of Minister Regent?"

Viscount Leon Castel couldn't help asking.

Charlotte shook her head:

"Fight? Why should I fight? If I become the Regent, I will still be a vassal of Boulder. Even if I actually control Boulder, what can I do?"

"Master Viscount, take a long-term view. Our goal was not Bold from the beginning, and Bold is not the end we can reach."

Then, she chuckled again and said:

"Not to mention...Earl Gaston came to serve as the regent, it doesn't make any difference to us, and we can have one more helper to divert His Majesty's attention."

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Earl Gaston was very fast.

After serving as the Regent, he started "negotiations" with Castel intensively, and the treaty of the peace talks between the two parties was made public not long after.

The compensation aspect of the treaty is similar to that of the Violet Duchy.

The Principality of Boulder will pay the 6 million Quintana ransom for all the nobles and soldiers, including the Duchess Eleanor, as well as extraordinary materials with a price equivalent to 15 million Quintana. All ransoms must be paid within three months At the end, all the board and lodging expenses of the captives within three months shall be borne by the Principality of Boulder.

In addition to that, it is to recognize Castel's independence and sovereignty over the Tulip Territory.

By the way, after the signing of the treaty, Duchess Eleanor was not released immediately, but continued to recuperate in Castel.

So far, the Boulder-Castell War has come to a complete end. As the biggest winner, Charlotte not only unified the Northland, but also received a sky-high ransom and nearly 1,500 sets of kingdom-standard standing equipment.

However, despite the harvest, Charlotte felt as if she had forgotten something.

It wasn't until three days after the signing of the formal treaty that the news that the Isaac prisoner-of-war camp was attacked by Violet deserters came from the north, and Charlotte suddenly remembered that there were thousands of Isaacs who participated in the Castel rebellion. Hussar prisoners of war have not been dealt with yet.

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