Since the Duke of Franconia has won over him and the drunkard is not interested in drinking, it is necessary for Otto to tell the Sieghard family about the situation.
"Well..." Count Ansbach pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head slowly.
"We do have some ideas about the land of Saxony, but now is not the right opportunity. The biggest enemy right now is the Duke of Nordgård, and we don't want to interfere with the affairs of the Principality of Saxony for the time being.
However, if you are interested, you might as well promise the Duke of Franconia that I will do my best to help you."
"No need." Otto also rejected Count Ansbach's kindness.
"I have just been granted the title of Earl of Nevers, and I still want to visit the territory. I don't want to get involved in the affairs of the Principality of Saxony."
"Are you going to Nahuel? Are you planning to move to Nahuel? I think you should find someone to manage the territory there, and the focus should be on the Allgau."
After hearing what Otto said, Count Ansbach began to persuade him.
This made Otto a little confused. Aargau is in the Swiss mountainous area. If Nahuel remembers correctly, it should be in Burgundy. In terms of the richness of the land, it must be directly under Nahuel. It would be better to manage Aargau remotely.
How can I persuade myself not to go to Nevers?
Could it be that Count Ansbach was worried that he would not care about the Principality of Swabia when he went to Navel?
This is impossible, Otto is still planning to keep in touch with the Duke of Swabia.
Obviously, Otto misunderstood Count Ansbach.
Because there was a slight deviation between Nahuel's position and the position in his impression.
As a fan of P Club games, Otto naturally remembered that Navel was the former territory of Burgundy. Burgundy is adjacent to Switzerland, so it shouldn't be too far away.
However, in fact, Navel's location is close to Bourbon, another famous city in France, and further west than Lyon.
This area is the territory of the Kingdom of West Francia. How come Otto, Count Nahuel and a vassal of the Kingdom of East Francia, was assigned such a territory.
Moreover, why did he just give it to himself?
When he saw the map that Count Ansbach took out and saw the straight-line distance between Navel and Allgäu on the map, Otto couldn't stand it even if it was just an inaccurate map.
Are you kidding me, after the disappearance of the Kingdom of Lotharingia, I will once again serve the two Frankish kingdoms and become a common vassal of the two kingdoms?
As for the reason why this situation occurs, Count Ansbach has already found out through his rich connections.
It turned out that after the signing of the Treaty of Molson, although a rough territory was divided, the nobles on both sides were not satisfied with the territory.
The nobles of the two parties, in response to each other's interests and needs, began a series of complex territorial exchanges.
The final result was that the original lowland area, which later became Belgium and the Netherlands, was almost shared by the two kingdoms. The nobles of the East and West Frankish kingdoms all had territories here, forming an intricate territorial relationship.
The territory of the former Kingdom of Lotharingia east of the Rhine River fell into the hands of the Kingdom of East Francia without any dispute.
The Duke of Bar, who originally belonged to the vassal of the East Frankish Kingdom in the central part, has also become a semi-independent principality, a vassal of both kingdoms at the same time, and the scope of the principality has been extended in both directions east and west.
At the same time, the scope of the Duchy of Upper Burgundy in the East Frankish Kingdom was not only limited to several neighboring counties on the west side of the Jura Mountains, but also expanded eastward to the Navel and Auxerre areas.
It can be said that with the current strength of the Principality of Burgundy, it is now the fifth largest principality in the Kingdom of East Francia.
Of course, this is only superficial strength. In fact, there is still a lot of land in the Principality of Burgundy that still belongs to the Kingdom of West Francia.
As for Otto's acquisition of the Count of Navel, it was because it became a new border area, and the surrounding areas were all the territories of the West Frankish nobles. No one wanted it, so it was Otto's turn.
Otherwise, the Duke of Franconia was not so generous as to favor a random earldom.
Since Otto had previously determined that he had no reward, he did not pay much attention to the latest situation. He only wanted to go home early, so he did not understand the latest changes at all. When Count Ansbach gave a general introduction to "Merl" based on the map,
Otto was stunned when he saw the changes after the signing of the Treaty of Forest.
Wait, it’s a mess.
Good guy, the territory of the Kingdom of East Francia has moved to central France, and the lowlands have been divided in half. Has such a scene really happened in history?
Otto was dumbfounded. Although he had expected that due to certain factors, many situations in this world would only be the same as the general trend and the details would change. However, the previous changes had little impact on Otto. Now it really affects Otto.
, Otto realized how bad it was to not know the overall situation.
So, according to the unchanging trend of history, it is estimated that the fiefdom of Nahuel will be lost sooner or later. This seemingly powerful Principality of Bar will also be short-lived, and the Kingdom of West Francia will also be driven out of the lowlands.
The question is, when will these things happen? In one or two years, or in ten or eight years?
The time is different, and the methods of handling it are completely different.
At this moment, Otto couldn't help but think of the notification sound that the system had sounded.
"History remembers your choice."
So, from that moment on, will the history of this world move in a new direction and no longer evolve as Otto is familiar with? And the death of King Lotharingia is just the last bit of historical inertia?
Otto didn't know which one it was: that the familiar historical trends would not change, or that history had changed beyond recognition.
But at this moment, he must be prepared for the worst, that is, starting from today, perhaps the history he knows will never happen again in this world.
No matter what, Nahuel is not a good territory. It is too far from the Allgäu Territory and needs to be dealt with in a way.
However, Otto still had a doubt. Isn't the lowland area very rich? Why were the nobles of the East Frankish Kingdom willing to exchange the rich lowland for French land?
"Rich?" Count Ansbach looked at Otto with a strange look.
"My Gods, what are you talking about, Otto? How can the land on the coast that is not suitable for farming be compared with the good farmland in the Principality of Upper Burgundy?"
Otto was stunned for a moment, a little confused.
"Then why are the nobles rushing to acquire land in the Netherlands?"
"Because this is the way to do business with those barbaric pagans in the north."
Count Ansbach smiled slightly.
"Speaking of which, the barbarians in the north also like the Lafite wine produced in your territory. In the future, I can help you sell it to those barbarians."