Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 14 Her Majesty the Queen’s Support

Purficott's plan is almost whimsical, but it is also very feasible.

At least her plan is a truly feasible plan compared to the Crisis Response Committee, which has not even figured it out yet.

Princess Anne, who clearly realized this, did not waste time. Instead, she asked Perficott in detail about her entire plan and thoughts. After returning to Langton City, she went directly to find her mother, Victor. Her Majesty, the current Queen of the Asian Empire.

"Mother, I think Purficott's plan is very feasible and deserves the royal family's strong support!" After explaining Purficott's plan to the Queen, Princess Anne expressed her views to the Queen.

The Queen was noncommittal, but after thinking for a long time, she asked: "How is the work progress of the Crisis Response Committee?"

As the representative of the royal family on the crisis response committee, Princess Anne naturally knows the progress of their work.

"It's so bad that they are even forming the basic structure of the committee. The nobles are still quarreling with each other for their own interests. Although the Duke of Gloucester can suppress them, he cannot unite them." At this point, Anne said The princess did not add insult to injury or deliberately be biased, but the facts she knew still made her not optimistic about the crisis response committee.

The Queen herself was not surprised by the slow progress of the crisis response committee.

She picked up the teacup, took a sip of hot tea, and then smiled slightly and said: "This is how the empire works. No matter what you want to do, you must first balance the interests of all parties so that they will not give up. You make trouble.

The Duke of Gloucester really has no way to unite them, but he always has a way to balance the interests of all parties so that they can achieve a result that everyone can accept. This is why I reuse him, because he can maintain the empire. of stability.

Although this is indeed not the best solution, it is at least the one that is most acceptable to all parties, so that major contradictions and conflicts will not occur and completely affect the progress of this matter. "

Compared to Princess Anne, who is full of vigor in her behavior, Her Majesty the Queen, who has been in charge of the empire for decades, naturally understands better what is going on in such a huge empire.

There are so many nobles in the empire that she, the queen, has tried to reduce their number several times. You can imagine how difficult it is to balance the interests among them.

However, for a mature politician and empire controller, learning to balance the forces of all parties is a required course.

But it was obvious that Princess Anne was still lacking in this aspect. After hearing the Queen's words, she directly expressed her dissatisfaction: "Are they just allowed to waste the precious time that Little Perfectcourt bought for the empire? The life and death of the people of the empire?”

"Of course not." The Queen put down the tea cup and just smiled slightly at Princess Anne's dissatisfaction and emotion: "As the controller of the empire, in addition to learning to balance the interests of all parties to maintain the stability of the empire, you also need to learn to pass Use other means to achieve your goals."

Having said this, the Queen stood up and walked to her desk, spread out a piece of special alchemy paper for the royal family, wrote a document on the paper, stamped it with a seal, and sealed it with fire paint herself before handing it over. To Princess Anne. "Take it, give it to Baroness Brandlis, and then announce in my name that she will sponsor her Arctic scientific expedition plan." The Queen looked at Princess Anne and saw that she still didn't understand, so she smiled. Explained: "When you find that the entangled interests of all parties prevent you from achieving your goals, as a qualified queen you need to learn to bypass their entangled interests and use the method you think is right to achieve your goals."

Although Purficott is underage, since the Queen calls her Baroness, it means that she will officially inherit the title passed down by her grandfather, not just the heir to the title.

Having said this, the Queen couldn't help but smile playfully and winked at Princess Anne: "As the Queen of the Empire, you have to be prepared, right? But remember, this trick cannot be used often, otherwise they will think you are A willful queen’s.”

Although the Queen is now old and has lost her youth, the former Queen was also a beautiful girl with the same character as Princess Anne, but the years have worn away her edges and made her smooth. , and also made Her Majesty the Queen grow old.

But what is tactful is only her governance methods, and what is sophisticated is only her experience.

As a queen who single-handedly pushed the Victoria Empire to its peak and has been in charge of the empire for decades, she did not rely on compromise and concessions to secure the throne of the empire and make the empire the empire it is today on which the sun never sets.

After getting the document written by the Queen, Princess Anne roughly guessed what it was. An expression of surprise suddenly appeared on her face, and she expressed her gratitude to the Queen excitedly.

"Go ahead and let me see what surprises you and Baroness Brandlis can bring to me. You can use any resources under the royal family's name." The Queen generously gave Princess Anne a great favor. At the same time, she took out a badge from the drawer of her desk. After looking at it with some hesitation, she handed it to Princess Anne: "This is the badge of the Royal Guards Knights. With it You can mobilize the Royal Guard Knights...but if it is not necessary, do not mobilize them. Use the power you can mobilize as much as possible. This is just a trump card for you."

"Royal Guards Knights?" Princess Anne was a little startled. She knew that this was the strongest force in the hands of the royal family, an army composed entirely of extraordinary people with the rank of Grand Knight.

In the past era, the knights of the imperial guard were a powerful deterrent for the royal family to suppress the major dukes of the empire and maintain the rule of the empire.

On the battlefield, although the guard knights usually only guard the emperor himself, when the emperor goes to the battlefield in person, all the guard knights with the rank of grand knight or above are the most terrifying presence on the battlefield.

Although the empire's technology has advanced rapidly with the invention of the steam engine, and the large-scale application of artillery and muskets has completely changed the war situation, the knights of the guard still deterred careerists inside and outside the empire and existed as a tool for the emperor to implement his own will. .

In a sense, the knights of the guard are the emperor's strongest means to enforce his will when he is obstructed by the parliament.

Their appearance means that the supreme ruler of the empire is determined to achieve his goal at all costs, and it is also the most powerful support attitude that the queen can give to Perfectcott and Princess Anne.

(End of this chapter)