After Sigel finished speaking, there was an eerie silence in the hall.
Suddenly, William felt someone looking at him, so he turned his head, and saw Auguste and Itansi, who were sitting next to him, both looking at William, who shook his head at the two of them, and then turned his head to look at the three Religious Electors opposite.
It stands to reason that after Sigel finished speaking, as the Elector of Mainz, who has the highest status among the seven electors since ancient times, Eltar should be the first to stand up and express his opinion, but at this moment, the old elector closed his eyes as if he was closing his eyes.
After being quiet for more than ten minutes, I heard Maximilian speak first: "Honorable Electors, before we elect the heir to the throne, I have a very important matter that requires the Electors to make a fair judgment!
The death of His Majesty Joseph II was sudden, and I have reason to believe that His Majesty's death was not accidental, and I suspect that some person or force played a very dishonorable role in it............"
"I protest!
Maximilian, you're a blood-spewing man!
” Although Maximilian did not say it explicitly, everyone sitting in the hall knew who he was alluding to.
So just as Maximilian had not finished speaking, someone suddenly stood up and interrupted him, and it was none other than Leopold's eldest son, Franz, who interrupted Maximilian.
Franz was Leopold's eldest son and Anna's eldest brother, who was later crowned Holy Roman Emperor in history.
But he also became the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
He is best known for his official proclamation of the Austrian Empire, and for being Napoleon's only son, the grandfather of the Roman king.
And the reason why Leopold took Franz to attend the electoral council this time was because Leopold felt that his son was full of many bad habits of aristocrats.
During this trip, he hoped to make Franz understand something through the intrigue at the Electoral Conference, which would be very beneficial to Franz's future development.
As soon as Franz's words landed, Maximilian said dissatisfiedly: "Franz, please pay attention to your identity, we are now holding a meeting of the Electors of the Reich, and only the seven Electors here have the right to speak, so here.
You don't have the right to speak!
Or maybe you dare to break the ancient, sacred rules under the pretense that Leopold is your father!
” Maximilian's reprimand made Franz's cheeks flush, and just as he was about to retort, Leopold, who was sitting in front of him, shouted: "That's enough, sit down for me!
Let the Elector of Cologne finish!
” Hearing his father's words, Franz had to sit down, although he did not want to, and after he sat down.
Kaunitz, who was sitting next to him, took his hand and motioned for him not to be impulsive.
Although the old rule allowed each of the seven Electors to bring two retinues to the Electoral's Council, this was mainly done to prevent accidents from happening to the Electors during their participation in the Electoral's Conference.
Therefore, the retinue of these electors had no right to speak, and even powerful ministers such as Kaunitz or Locks could not speak at the Holy Council of the Electors without the consent of all the electors.
Seeing Franz reluctantly sit down.
Maximilian had a smug look on his face, and he glanced at Leopold defiantly.
To his disappointment, however, Leopold looked at Maximilian coldly, as if he had not seen his provocation.
"Your Royal Highness, what I have said is not unfounded, and I have in my hands the evidence provided by several officers of the Imperial Guard in Vienna.
This evidence clearly points to the fact that the death of His Majesty Joseph II has a great deal to do with our Elector Leopold, and I hope that Elector Leopold will give all the Electors an account on this matter!
” After speaking.
Maximilian waved his hand behind him, and Richard, who had been sitting behind him, immediately stood up with a stack of materials in his arms and walked over to the tables of the Electors and Sigel, and stacked them on their tables. picked up the information and looked at it, even Leopold, who had already warned himself in his heart to be calm, couldn't stabilize it at the moment.
The document is divided into two parts, the first of which was written by a dozen Guards officers who guarded the Imperial Palace in Vienna, and at the end they were signed and signed.
The officers admitted that at the end of the previous year, the entire Imperial Palace Guard in Vienna had been ordered by Leopold to impose martial law in order to protect Joseph II from outsiders.
And from five months ago, Leopold personally ordered in his capacity as crown prince that the entire Vienna Imperial Palace should be immediately sealed off, and no one should enter or leave the Vienna Imperial Palace without Leopold's order.
Until the death of Joseph II, the entire Imperial Palace in Vienna remained in this abnormal state of lockdown, and they had reason to believe that Leopold wanted to isolate the emperor from contact with the outside world in order to achieve his goal of murdering Joseph II.
The second part was written by the Imperial Catering Officer, who was in charge of the meals at the Imperial Palace in Vienna, who confessed that since the end of last year, Leopold had signaled that he would put some add-ons in the food of His Majesty Joseph II.
At that time, Leopold told the food officer that these unknown additions were some health products that could strengthen the body.
At first, the catering officer refused, but under Leopold's coercion and inducement, the catering officer had to do so, and Leopold also instructed the catering officer to keep it secret.
And the document is also followed by the signature of the catering officer.
These two things instantly surprised the major electors, and the most exaggerated of them was the Elector of Mainz, who glared at the boss with his eyes, and said indecent words such as wolf ambition, conspiracy, and so on while looking at it.
After reading it, William gave the object in his hand to Locks, who was sitting behind him, and at the same time, his eyes never took off Leopold's body.
Leopold looked at the so-called evidence in his hand with a grim face, and he admitted that what he said was true, and the first document naturally could not refute it, because the whole world knew the fact that he had sealed the Vienna Imperial Palace, even if he was carrying out the orders of Joseph II.
And the second document is the real thing!
You must know that Leopold did threaten the royal physician and ask him to add some medicine to Joseph II's food, because Joseph II did not want his illness to be disclosed in advance, but the emperor's illness must be treated, and the royal physician is the focus of attention of all the spies, so in order to keep it secret, some medicines can only be prepared by the royal physician and then handed over to Leopold, who will give Joseph II a covert measure.
But this kind of thing can't be said explicitly, so Leopold can only coerce and lure the catering officer to keep him from talking nonsense, but who knows that now these two confessions have become Leopold's biggest problem at present, especially the latter one, which is simply a life-threatening thing.
"Your Highness Leopold, I think you should give an explanation on this matter!"
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Eltar rubbed his eyes after reading it, and then stared at Leopold.
While Eltar was speaking, Karl Joseph, the Elector of Trier, was also looking at Leopold with a complicated expression.
Unlike Eltal, Carl Joseph has not yet made up his mind to support Maximilian, and Carl Joseph still has feelings for Leopold, and the friendship between the two dates back to more than twenty years ago, so Leopold can be regarded as a friend of Carl Joseph.
And Maximilian also had a lot of respect for Carl Joseph after he grew up and succeeded to the Elector of Cologne, so for these two brothers, Carl Joseph really didn't know how to choose for a while, but in his heart, Carl Joseph was already a little biased towards Maximilian.
"I would like to state at the outset that, although I do not know where Maximilian found this evidence, the first one is entirely correct, because last year I received a decree from His Majesty the Kaiser imposing martial law on the Imperial Palace in Vienna, which is well documented.
And the second document, I feel very angry, because this is completely a **naked slander or can also be said to be a false accusation!
As the crown prince of the empire and the elector of Bohemia, I disdain and cannot do such things, and if there are really people who are plotting against them, then I think that the people who are plotting against them should be those who have no chance of reaching the peak of power at all, because only these people can do such a desperate act!
” Leopold admitted the first document but did not admit what the second document said, because once he admitted, there were many reasons and restrictions, and it was impossible for him to have a complete showdown with everyone, so once he admitted it, he would undoubtedly put on a hat that he could never take off.
Even if he says that the additives are really good medicine, who cares, all people care about is whether he added something to the emperor's food and not whether the added thing is good or bad.
"Leopold, you still want to deny it, I tell you, there are some things that cannot be denied, and a mad person like you is not worthy of being the emperor of the empire!"
"Maximilian, you're enough!
This is the Imperial Parliament Hall, not a vegetable market, put away your set of nonsense, all the Electors are able to distinguish between right and wrong, and you don't need to stir up trouble here!
” .............................................
William watched the two Habsburg sons-in-law quarrel incessantly, and his head was a little bigger.