344 – Peter Yeager Supports Love (1)
After capturing Venetian Castle and receiving surrender from each of the countries belonging to the Venetian Union, I hurried to Philolence Castle. I started preparing to go back.
There were two reasons: one was to receive a thank you from Duke Philolence for rooting out the Venetian allied forces, and the other was to get revenge on the regent who had stabbed me in the back.
I request that the Empire dispatch the minimum number of troops to defend the newly acquired territory, including Castle Veneta, and at the same time, I inform Your Majesty that the duke’s uncle is collaborating with the Duchy of Milan to seek the title of Duke Philorence. I reported it to
I am currently unfolding and re-reading the royal decree containing the answers to the issues I requested.
“It is full of the long, hesitating sentences that are characteristic of edicts, but in short, this is what His Majesty said. We will send 60,000 additional reinforcements, so leave the heavily damaged units at Veneta Castle and take the newly sent reinforcements. “Also, dispose of Philolence’s regent according to the cause.”
The fact that we were able to replace 60,000 troops clearly means that even if I take a little drastic action and a full-scale war with Milan breaks out, His Majesty will treat it as if he had implicitly given permission.
I think he conveyed the message that the heads of Giuseppe and Regent Andrea must be blown off to establish the dignity of the empire…
I rolled up the letter containing His Majesty’s secret message, tied it with a leather string, and muttered.
“If I use the card of the Duke at a young age, the pure love that overcomes the difference in social status, the fear and hidden hatred of my uncle, and the evidence I have secured. As long as we don’t start an all-out war with the Duchy of Milan, I think we can just cut off the heads of Giuseppe and the regent. Besides, I think I can do some good things in the process. “Until now, like Giuseppe, I couldn’t do anything because of public affairs such as a welcome ceremony and banquet…”
While I was lost in thought, I heard someone urgently knocking on the door outside.
“Who are you?”
“This is Andrea von Medici, regent of His Majesty the Duke of Philorence. “Please open the door.”
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I burst out laughing.
Things aren’t going according to his plan, so now he’s on fire. I think he came here to overcome the crisis facing him.
I wanted to kick him out right away without letting him into the room, but since we are close allies, I can’t just kick him out until I reveal that I know of his atrocities…
I personally got up, opened the door, greeted her, then roughly took out some tea leaves and offered her a cup of tea.
Regent Andrea spoke while savoring the tea I had roughly brewed as if it were some kind of high-quality tea exclusively for the imperial family, worth 1 gold per teaspoon of tea leaves.
“As expected, you have a deep knowledge of cars. “I can’t believe you gave me such a nice car.”
“Is that so? “My wife Louise often drinks it.”
“Louise. No, Her Highness Louise, isn’t she the younger sister of His Majesty the Emperor? “As expected, because it is the tea that such a person drinks, the taste and aroma give off a sense of class.”
Actually, in my family, Charlotte, Anya, and I have not enjoyed tea since we were young, so we don’t know what kind of car is a good car and we don’t enjoy it that much.
Therefore, the car I roughly drove is a mid-price product that ordinary people who live a little in the empire can buy without much burden.
But there is no way that the duke’s family, especially the duke who rules the commercial country called Philolence, would not be able to distinguish between the highest quality tea and the black tea that you just drink.
Have you lost your sense of taste and smell of black tea because your stomach is so burned?
When I think about how he’s in pain, I feel better knowing that he’s already taking revenge on the kid who stabbed me, albeit indirectly.
Still, it is true that it feels quite unpleasant to meet face to face with that guy, so I should end my meeting with that guy as short as possible.
“I would like to have a deep conversation with the regent, but it is a bit difficult because I have a lot of official affairs to handle. So, can you get to the point quickly?”
The official diplomatic status between the Count and I, who is currently the regent, is that Regent Andrea is slightly higher than me, but in diplomacy, the more urgent person is always at the bottom.
Andrea lowered her head without showing any sign of displeasure after hearing my slightly rude remark.
“Last time, I was somewhat rude to the Reich Empire because I was attaching importance to the union with the Duchy of Milan, with which we had been allies for hundreds of years. I sincerely apologize. As regent of Philolence, the support of the Reich Empire is essential to stabilize the rule of the duchy. So, how about forming a strong alliance for the prosperity of the relationship between our two countries?”
“Isn’t His Majesty’s daughter, the former Duke, already your empress? How on earth do you plan to further strengthen our alliance here?”
The regent must have expected me to say this, as he smiled and gently placed the canvas wrapped in cloth he had brought with him on his desk.
Then he removed the cloth and showed it to me.
“Filone is the prettiest daughter my wife gave birth to. I just turned 20 this year. I will give this girl as a concubine to the next Marshal of the Imperial Army, Captain Jaeger, Your Majesty’s sire. Please know my sincerity and sincerity.”
The woman in the portrait Andrea showed me may have been somewhat exaggerated by the artist, but she was so pretty that she wouldn’t look ugly like a squid even if she were placed next to my wives.
So, if I had gotten tired of her relationship with Laura and her other wives, or had not gotten along well with her wife, I think I would have been offended for a moment…
Without any exaggeration, my women have maintained the beauty they had when they were just married, perhaps because of the slow aging unique to this world.
In order to take care of four wives, I take sick leave once every two months due to back pain, so you’re adding one more? I’d rather just go after it.
Furthermore, there is another thing to consider: my position will not be uprooted if I suddenly enter into a political marriage with the daughter of a foreign regent, but in return, I will have to be summoned to the Imperial Diet for about a year to explain and face all kinds of disciplinary action. You will have to endure it.
But now he is my enemy, and he has offered to give me his favorite daughter as a concubine. If I take advantage of this situation, I think I can make the regent and Giuseppe fight each other, making it easier to achieve my goal.
Let’s pretend to listen to that guy’s suggestion as much as possible and then stab him in the back.
“Okay, then let’s disguise her inevitable accident and accept her. “I think you’ll know how to do it, just set it a month later.”
The regent’s face began to brighten.
“Yes! “When the Captain happened to ask me to send a maid for the night about a month later, some idiot sent my daughter by mistake, so I had no choice but to take responsibility.”
I won’t be hugging the regent’s daughter in a month.
By that time, Giuseppe and that regent will have become corpses with their heads blown off.
But that idiot seems to think that by now I will take his daughter as a concubine and have no choice but to support him becoming Duke Philorence.
“Then, may I ask one favor of you, my future ally and father-in-law?”
“……. Please just tell me anything.”
“Please keep Giuseppe in check. Please use the power of the ‘Regent’ to eliminate as much of the influence of the Milan Alliance as possible. And could you please weed out the more serious members of the pro-Milania faction?”
“… They are also like my vassals.”
I whispered quietly into his ear.
“Even if, by an unavoidable coincidence, I became a close friend of my father-in-law through a secret pact, wouldn’t I need to have a basis and track record to ask the empire to support my father-in-law?”
“I understand. Then I’ll just go into it. “Future son-in-law.”
“Please enter comfortably, father-in-law.”
In that way, I succeeded in making Regent Andrea keep Giuseppe in check so that the two men would not have time to come to their senses.
The last key to the plan to bring the Duchy of Philolence under the influence of the empire, the Duke set out to persuade His Highness.
I felt dirty when I met the damn regent or Giuseppe, but when I went to meet that fresh future couple, I personally felt really good.
“Besides, it is in the national interest of the empire to get them married rather than separating them. “At this point, heaven is cheering for their love.”
So I met the duke in secret and, according to etiquette, got down on one knee and spoke to him.
“Peter Jaeger, Commander of the Reich Army, meets His Royal Highness Duke Philorence. “Today, I have a special report to make to Your Majesty and I have some facts and suggestions I would like to make, so I have asked to meet with you in private.”