The Righteous Player(s) - Chapter 958

[Chapter 1 Annan’s Bad Idea]

“I probably understand this story…but what I want to ask is actually the part after that.”

Dmitri leaned forward slightly and asked Annan: “How did you make Her Royal Highness Elizabeth give up participating in the election? The news I heard here is that she finally voluntarily gave up the campaign…” The

previous state visit of Grand Duke Annan to Noah’s Kingdom had completely ended.

Not long after Annan and his party returned to the Winter Principality safely.

Elizabeth, the eldest princess of Noah’s kingdom, suddenly announced that she could not succeed the king because of physical discomfort and inability to marry and have children.

Taking into account the continuation of Noah’s kingdom, she will officially withdraw from the king’s election and serve the rest of her life in the field of reemployment of veterans.

And now that Prince Philip was assassinated.

Kaphne and Elizabeth are already the last two heirs of Noah’s kingdom – no matter who wins the final victory, Noah’s next-generation ruler will be a queen.

The difference is that one of the two queens is fourteen this year, and the other is in her forties…

——Forty-nine years old and I don’t know how many months, it can be considered to be in her forties for the time being, which is very reasonable.

In general, people tend to gravitate towards younger rulers.

This often means opportunity…because when the ruler is in the king’s election stage, there will always be some teams gradually accumulated under his hands.

They need to promise who they will give after they ascend the throne.

Otherwise, where did so many talents come from, can they be used by him?

Standing is really important.

But in the vast majority of cases, there will not be the kind of “someone will vote even if you promise nothing”, so that you can hang a large number of wise kings in the same period.

– If there is, then the current king will be disturbed.

This also led to a bizarre situation.

That is, the older and stronger the heir, the less benefit he can share.

The more people who defected to him, the more they wanted to “stand in line” and not be liquidated…

That is to say, the earlier the time to seek refuge in the heir, the more tempted by interests, and the more later, the more threatened by his “possible success”.

A heir as young as Kafney with a deep background, when he suddenly wins, hardly promises anyone else – which means a lot of unclaimed benefits.

As long as you can win the favor of the little queen, you can easily cross the barriers that are difficult to overcome for decades.

And because of the protection of the Silver Lord Church, it is impossible for anyone to turn their backs and force Kaphne to give up some of her rights.

The most important thing is that she has no descendants – and the only heir who can compete for the throne is the eldest princess who voluntarily gave up.

If they wanted to fight against Kaphne, they had to go to the eldest princess.

But…

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

Annan shook his head and placed the symbol of power that had become a “two-color scepter” on the edge of the table, leaning back slightly.

He held the hot brown sugar cookie that Zoya made for him in 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 bottom.”

“The loser?”

“Yes, the Ravens have found and reported to her the exact location of the murderer of Prince Philip, Nicholas II.

He is going to slaughter a village to fill himself up .

The experimental materials.”

Annan took a light breath and his expression became serious: “Therefore, the old crow personally reported this matter to Princess Elizabeth. I hope she can report to the Church of the Silver Lord, so as to apply for the Silver Sir to capture the target. ”

…And then what?”

Dmitri felt that Count Geraint’s response was quite good.

I’m even envious–why don’t I have such a capable, decisive, and decisive intelligence agency leader…

Oh, there used to be.

Later defected.

“Then she refused this matter and immediately placed Earl Gerain under house arrest. At the same time, she excluded the army and prepared to handle this matter herself.”

Annan said slowly.

The strategy of Princess Elizabeth, he is actually understandable.

From her standpoint, this is actually a multi-pronged measure.

From Elizabeth’s point of view, the encroachment of Noah’s kingship by the Church of the Silver Lord has been too serious.

The church originally controlled the economic lifeline of the kingdom, and the popes of this generation have begun to conduct large-scale charities and control the newspaper industry… This means that the bottom is also beginning to be shaken by it.

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

If Philip was assassinated and the matter was finally resolved by the church – then the prestige of the church would be further enhanced.

The security of being sheltered by the Church, combined with the economic prosperity of a foreign trade deal 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 “contract” and a “deal”.

When they are discharged from the army, they either get a lot of pensions or get a stable job.

This was the promise at the very beginning of the conscription.

But the problem is… the current economic situation of Noah has not allowed them to do so.

And if the military can handle this, it can at least delay the wave of decommissioning for a few years.

In this way, in the next few years, Noah’s economy will not collapse suddenly… As long as she establishes a sea trading company that can accommodate veterans, Noah’s economic problems can be gradually stabilized.

“So Elizabeth chose to let the army handle this matter.”

Annan said slowly: “If she wants to dispatch the army, she must be an avenger of blood relatives to have a minimum position. We all know that Elizabeth and Philip What is the relationship between people, but ordinary people don’t understand…”

But there is another problem here.

She is not the queen, just the eldest princess.

Can the large-scale deployment of the army to ‘revenge for one’s younger brother’ be regarded as a “willful act”?

Although this is still for Noah’s good, the people certainly don’t think so.

Their eyes cannot see that far into the future.

“So, she needs righteousness. That is, revenge for that little nameless village.

“For ordinary people, the timeline of the incident is actually like this: the eldest princess received information, and there was a ‘Nata County’ bandit gang Tucun. The most horrific event happened – of course we know that there were no robbers and it had nothing to do with Nattashire.

But for Noahs who don’t know the superhuman, such an excuse is more reasonable.

“After that, the eldest princess immediately dispatched a regular army to surround and suppress the robber gang in Natta County, and finally found that Philip’s assassin was the mastermind behind it, and defined it as a ‘rebel army’.

“So she suppressed the church’s chance to appear .

, to delay the further wave of unemployment brought about by the occurrence of the demobilization wave, and to have enough control over the military to start the marine trading company she has long awaited.

She even avenged Philip in name, and used the army to lighten her muscles to make the little nobles and businessmen in various places not jump so much…

“She still has an excuse to accumulate a large number of fugitives, and the royal capital. The nobles have all kinds of dark connections to get rid of Nata County. No matter what the connection is, whose backstage is who, as long as they are wiped out on the physical level—the killing is clean, their backstage will definitely not be because of’ The eldest princess annihilated the rebels’ and attacked her.

“And to complete this scene, all that is needed is the ‘innocent people from Nata County’, identifying certain forces as ‘rebels’… In order to survive and be prosperous and rich , this kind of person can easily arrest a large number of people in Nata County.

Annan looked at Dmitri who suddenly realized, and sighed helplessly: “It’s time for you to study political common sense, Dmitry

.

”

Hey, isn’t there you…”

Dmitri hesitated and changed the subject instantly: “And then what?

How did she fail?

”

Because I killed Nicholas II before the army arrived in ‘Natashire’.

”

Annan said lightly: “I have the evidence in my hand. Then Kaphne has the evidence too – the church attacked the eldest princess.

“She hastily dispatched the army after receiving the wrong information without verifying it. , must be held responsible for it.

As for the house arrest of the great nobles, it is obviously impossible for outsiders to know.

Because that would directly make people suspect the entire Noah royal family, and even Kafney’s reputation would be damaged.

“Finally we asked her, do you want your name or your life?”

“How do you say that?”

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

“If you want a name, let her be assassinated by the ‘rebel army’ that he made up. Then Kaphne will be the ‘successor’ and finish what she hasn’t done yet. In the future, people will only remember that this is Elizabeth’s achievements, Noah can also benefit.

“If it’s terrible… it is to admit that my actions are sloppy and give up the king’s election.

The church can save her face and not announce her many actions for the time being – including letting Nicholas II slaughter the village, imprisoning Earl Geraint, the leader of the Three-Eyed Raven without any reason, and trying to physically interfere with Nata County, etc. charge.

“But if she acts rashly, the evidence will jump out and crush her to death immediately—and even make up some more for her. Put some dead and unproven things on her as well… Four of the ten things are conclusive. Evidence, six unfalsifiable, people tend to believe that she did these ten things.

“At the cost of her life, Elizabeth can no longer touch any rights that involve the core.

And she has to be revealed, used to gather opponents of Kaphne…that is, to fish with herself.

”

And this is the contract she made with Queen Kaphne.

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

no doubt that this is exactly what he came up with.