If Meyer's military adventure had been successful, it would have been a good move for the Krasbourg authorities to realize the strength of Canaan and to put themselves in front of the "big brother."
Unfortunately, the course of events went completely off the rails, and Meyer's military adventure ended in a fiasco.
After the first battle on the border, the four major sand bandits employed by the Rosenthal family were almost wiped out, and the elite troops of the Medes, the Wind Knights and the Sand Knights, were greatly damaged, and the most laughable thing was that Meyer, the governor, was also captured by the Far Easterners and became a prisoner of Prince Roland, and was thrown home.
Mayer, who was born into the Rosenthal family and was a brother of Queen Judy, was a young man in a high position, which inevitably fostered arrogance and conceit, and the young man ventured into war for fame and fortune, which Weinberg disagreed, but could understand.
He was deeply amazed at how the Prince of Roland in the Far East dared to make a for tat counterattack, and he was not afraid of angering the king of Bethlehem because of this, and how he arranged his troops to defeat the four major sand bandit groups and the Medoan alliance army that were far stronger than his own forces in just one night Whether this young man, who had risen like a comet, had won a reckless and narrow victory with extraordinary courage and good fortune, or had already calculated his next move before facing the battle, Samuel Weinberg was very curious.
Gloreux and Roland, the two trendsetters of the new era, acted unexpectedly, so that the sophisticated Prime Minister had to feel that the years were urging people to grow old, and he was becoming more and more unable to see the current situation.
With a sigh, Samuel Weinberg retracted his thoughts, turned and hurried out the door.
Joshua VIII used to receive his ministers in his study, and this ornate garden was the real center of power in Bethlehem.
At the front of the corridor leading to the imperial study was the waiting room, and when Samuel Weinberg entered, there were already four people waiting to be summoned, and they all stood up to salute the Prime Minister.
Weinberg glanced at it, recognized everyone present as high-ranking figures, returned the salute with a smile on his face, and quietly observed the other party's expressions, speculating on his state of mind.
The youngest of the four was Foreign Secretary Robin Schulte, whose beard made the aristocratic young man appear more mature and stable than his real age.
The Schulte family is as old as the Weinberg family, and has been quite influential in both military and political terms, and the young Rubin is an elite that the family has cultivated and placed high hopes on, and he is also a classmate and friend of Prince Colossa, and is naturally respected as the number one cadre by the "Crown Prince's Party".
Opposite Ruben Schulte sat an old man dressed in a yellow robe with a gray beard, and the white gold emblem on his chest indicated that the priesthood with a solemn expression was none other than the cardinal of the Pero Church in Canaan.
The four great powers of the world of Vares, the Assanian Empire, Fijgen, Hailan, and Canaan, all nominally adopted the Church of Pero as their state religion, and formed the "League of Light" based on a common faith.
The central papacy of the empire has the right to appoint and dismiss cardinals of various countries, but after 16 centuries of changes, the imperial papacy is now unable to exercise its legal powers, and the churches of various countries have long been indigenized, from doctrine to church organization, they have gone their own way, and have divided into different denominations under the common faith, and the cardinals, the leaders of the churches of various countries, no longer accept the assignment of the holy city of Asan, but are appointed and dismissed by the secular monarch.
The cardinal is also the Minister of Religion in the Cabinet and is accountable to the monarch, who overrides the clergy and becomes the de facto head of the Church.
The clergy system, in parallel with the bureaucracy, underpins the country's administrative apparatus and plays an important role in areas ranging from education to health care to rural governance.
The contemporary Cardinal of Canaan, Orlando, is a quasi-legendary Reverend Pero, and Weinberg respectfully addresses this venerable old man as "the throne."
Even this old gentleman, who rarely cares about secular government affairs, was shocked, which shows the seriousness of the situation.
The Archbishop of Orlando was not factional, but Weinberg heard that he was very dismissive of His Royal Highness's affection for Miss Maria, who believed in the "Queen of Cause and Effect", and if the archbishop of the old-fashioned temperament refused to accept a heretic as the future queen of the country, Weinberg had to worry that the power of the church in Canaan would fall to the "foreign relatives".
Weinberg exchanged a few words with the Archbishop of Orlando and turned his gaze diagonally to the opposite side.
There was a figure in the corners on the left and right sides of the waiting hall, and their bodies exuded a cold aura that was not close to anyone.
Neither of these two can be counted as "humans" to be exact, but at first glance they appear to be humanoid monsters.
Dressed in a wet purple-black leather coat and hooded over the grotesque tentacles of his head, Yitzhak Floyd occasionally glanced up, a breathtaking psionic glow flashing deep within his eyes.
The legendary Mind Flayer is known as a cabinet security adviser, and few people know that he is also the director of the Canaan Intelligence Service, the immediate boss of all agents and secret police.
Yitzhak Freud is a mystery, Weinberg doesn't know where he came from and why he served in the court of Bethlehem, only that there is such a mysterious group of Mind Flayers living in Canaan, making an oath with the Zion family, and serving as the heir to assist the Zion family for generations to sit on the Canaanite throne, as for what the Zion family has paid for this, Weinberg can't guess, and he doesn't dare to ask.
The Mind Flayer Society's intervention in Bethlehem's politics is low-key, and the Canaan Intelligence Service, codenamed "Hagner", is said to have been created by the Mind Flayers with the help of the Zion royal family, and with the help of this secret service, Yitzhak and his former director have done many shady things for the Zion family.
Weinberg took a deep look at the Mind Flayer's lowered head, the slender shadow wriggling slightly under the hood.
The noble lords in Canaan who despised the king, no matter how brilliant they were, could not escape the mysterious disappearance in the end, and perhaps Mr.
Freud remembered what it was like to have their brains In the corner diagonally opposite Floyd was a thin figure, curled up in an armchair with his hands on his knees, black tights, a pullover mask, and the dark magic emanating from his body all together, like a thick mud, covering him from head to toe, as he was called, "The Night Bringer".
Groom, the "Night Bringer", was nominally Freud's deputy, but in fact his power was no less than that of the director.
Weinberg had long heard that the two looked like they were separated, and judging from the deliberate estrangement between the two sides, the two eccentrics probably could not even maintain a superficial harmony, which shows that there is no shortage of power struggles within "Hagner"
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