The four hundred and fortieth eight chapters are all foxes
In fact, the inappropriate scene in William's mind was completely overthinking. Although in this era, men and women get married quite early, as a noble, preparations before marriage are essential. Currently, Clementine is only thirteen years old. Judging from the current situation, she will only marry into the Sabatière family in at least three years. Previously, Clementine and Sabatière were only engaged, so the story of the eldest brother and the little loli will not be staged at all.
Seeing William's unmoved behavior, cold sweat broke out on Konitz's forehead.
As he had thought before, the Prussians were not easy to pass. Leopold thought that his face could make the Prussians compromise, even if Leopold would become William's father-in-law soon!
"His Excellency Konitz, I want to know how much benefit the Sabatière family has paid to you to ask?"
William looked at Konitz with interest and asked. Of course, he would not think that Konitz was eager to get to William just because the Sabatière family was about to marry the Habsburg family. If Konitz was such a person, he would not have been awarded the title of Austrian Fox.
After hearing William's words, even Konitz's old face couldn't help but flushed slightly
"His Majesty William, next, always regards being willing to help others as the criterion for one's own actions, and hasn't God taught us to do good in life? As a loyal believer, next, he will naturally regard God's will as his creed in life!"
If it weren't for the fact that Konitz's expression had been slightly out of control, William would probably immediately award Konitz a "Oscar for Best Performance", of course, the premise is that this award is required.
Politicians do have thousands of faces. William believes that the righteous Konnitz in front of him is definitely one of the thousands of faces of Konnitz.
"Okay, Lord Konitz. We are all wise men. My loyal officer of the Kingdom of Prussia was insulted in Frankfurt. I do not think it is wrong to arrest a sheriff, and I agree to punish this sheriff with severe punishment according to Prussian law! Otherwise, wouldn't it make my Prussia's international reputation plummet!"
He speaks people and talks nonsense when he sees ghosts. William now has become quite proficient in this skill. At least William now shows righteous words, just like the incarnation of justice.
Of course, if William is the embodiment of justice, then many people will probably spit on him. I believe that this must include the current Konitz.
"His Majesty William, can't you put Sawyer on the face of your sister Clementine?"
"His Excellency Konitz. Not to mention that Clementine and Sabatière are not married yet, even if they are married, in our Prussia, we believe that the prince violates the law and the common people. I am sorry that I cannot be compatible!"
Looking at William who could not penetrate the needle and pour water into it, Coinitz sighed in his heart. He knew that it was time for his turn to get some benefits, otherwise this matter might have really been ruined.
"I admire His Majesty William's integrity very much!"
When William heard Konitz mention moral integrity, he immediately shuddered, but then he thought that it was now in the 18th century Europe, and no one would extend moral integrity to certain things. However, when he thought that the word moral integrity might be a sequelae of his previous life, William immediately felt that his butt seemed to be a little unsitting.
"Last time I mentioned the issue of the ownership of the Main River Basin with your country. After communicating with my colleagues at home, I felt that the Kingdom of Prussia, as an important prince within the empire, should assume its own responsibilities. There are currently as many as eight electorals in the empire, although the one from Hannover did not perform his duties within the empire. Therefore, our country thinks that the electorals can be reduced to six, and the electorals in Mainz can be completely abolished. After the abolished Mainz region, I think Prussia should play its important role as a major power in Mainz!"
Konitz's words surprised William first, and then he was delighted.
Although before, Austria represented by Prussia and Konitz had initially reached the decision to divide the Main River Basin after Leopold ascended the throne. However, the Electoral State of Mainz located in the region was a great obstacle. If the Electoral State was not abolished, then Prussia's march to the Main River Basin would definitely be opposed by the Catholic world. After all, the three major religious Electoral State and the Roman Catholic Church will be closely related.
As mentioned earlier, the problems between Protestant and Catholic sects have become important issues for the entire Holy Roman Empire and even for Europe. Prussia can attack a Catholic country, but once it takes action against the electorate state, the significance of this will be greatly improved.
If it ranks in the hearts of the pope in Rome, it is estimated that in addition to the Kingdom of France, the three religious electoral states of the Holy Roman Empire are the most important in his heart. After all, although the three electoral states are subject to the restraint of the imperial emperors, the tributes transported from the three electoral states to Rome every year are definitely astronomical figures. In addition, each of the controllers of these three electoral states is the cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, which is the familiar cardinal.
The cardinals had a very noble status in the Holy Roman Empire. Just like the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, each Pope screened out the people who had the most support from the other Cardinals to crown the pope. In 1586, Pope Sistuar V defined the number of cardinals as 70 elders set by Israel in the Old Testament era. These cardinals represented the Pope to guard one side and provided charitable services and material needs to the church.
If the three elected emperors lose, the pope will not only lose annual worship and international reputation, but also lose his own status. It can be said that the three elected emperors are the most powerful support for the Pope's throne.
So even though William and Konitz had agreed on some aspects in Prussia, William was still very worried about the follow-up treatment of Mainz's electoral state, and the conditions proposed by Konitz are now very in line with Prussia's interests.
Seeing William's face turned better, Konitz was also happy. In fact, this condition was not proposed for Sawyer. You should know that only Sawyer was not ashamed to let Leopold decide to abolish Mainz's status as an electoral state.
Just as William's desire for the Main River Basin, Leopold was also full of ambitions for the Main River Basin. However, some time ago, Leopold was concerned that Mainz's electorate had always been close to the Habsburg family, so Leopold still didn't want to turn against him if he could not turn against him.
However, the performance of the election of Mainz at the meeting of the electoral emperors these days made Leopold feel that it would be impossible not to turn against each other now.
Eltar actually gave him so no face and directly publicly supported Maximilian at the meeting. You must know that Leopold is the orthodox of the Habsburg family, and now Eltar abandoned him and ignored him and turned to support a rebellion. This made Leopold finally make up his mind.
In Leopold's plan, not only the Electoral State of Mainz, but also the Electoral State of Cologne is on Leopold's abolished list. However, although the Electoral State of Cologne has always been the traditional scope of the Habsburg family, if it is abolished and its land is included in Austria, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the region. This is not in the interests of the Habsburg family.
And unlike the Main River Basin, Leopold did not want the Prussians to reach out to the Rhine River Basin. Now, within the Holy Roman Empire, the strength comparison between Austria and Prussia has changed, and Austria has fallen behind in all directions, which forces Leopold to make changes.
Leopold is targeting the Rhine River Basin. In the Rhine River Basin, the Austrians have an advantage that the Prussians do not have, that is, most of the Rhine states worship the Habsburg family as the orthodox empire. Therefore, Leopold believes that as long as Austria unites the Rhine states to form an alliance, it can effectively help Austria restrain Prussia, thereby changing the current strength comparison between the two countries within the Holy Roman Empire.
Leopold's idea has only been revealed to Konitz for the time being, and this idea has also been strongly supported by Konitz.
Back to the topic
William's face smiled
"His Majesty Leopold is indeed a good monarch for his country and the people. I think the people in Mainz will be very grateful to His Majesty Leopold for driving away those lazy and greedy bishops for them!"
"Since His Majesty William has agreed, I think His Majesty should arrange for the Sabatière family to take Sawyer back on the next date."
Seeing that William had agreed, a relaxed smile appeared on Konitz's face.
What unexpectedly happened to Konitz was that William replied:
"Of course I agree with your conditions, but now Sawyer has been captured by my soldiers. If I put it back in this way, wouldn't it be a bit of a damaging my reputation? So, I think it's better. According to the tradition of the nobles, Sawyer treated it as a prisoner of war, and then the Sabatière family provided Sawyer with a redemption fee of 500,000 silver coins. When will he see the redemption fee, he will take Sawyer away."
After listening to William's words, Connitz wanted to bite his teeth.
I knew that the Prussians would not spit out bones if they had eaten people, but this was too much. Although the condition just now was decided by Leopold, it was also very valuable. Moreover, a Sawyer can be worth 500,000 silver coins, why don’t you grab it? (This is completely what Konitz thought).
But while Kaunitz thought so, he forgot that he had used Sawyer's case to extort a total of three million silver coins from the Sabatière family. If William knew that Kaunitz had such great benefits, he would have to change his surname to three million.
"Since your majesty said that, then you have to do so." Konitz left William's carriage with distress. But when Koonitz sent William's conditions to Old Sabatière, the rich man who was known for his shrewdness in Frankfurt almost vomited blood. Although the Sabatière family is rich, how could he withstand such blackmail? Eight.5 million silver coins are equivalent to 70% of the Sabatière family's wealth. In order to pay the money, the Sabatière family has to sell a lot of industries, which makes Old Sabatière just cry without tears and left with endless heartache and depression.