Chapter six hundred and twenty seventh funeral and awakening
On July 2, 1794, just as William and Vivien were traveling together in Cologne, Brandenburg received news of Leopold II's death. The news was sent back by the Prussian diplomatic ambassador to Vienna through emergency information channels. The news immediately attracted Hans' attention, and the information was then sent to Locks and Queen Mother Louise.
Because William personally conquered the Austrian Netherlands, only Locks and Queen Mother Louise could make the decision in Prussia. When he learned the news, Louise was immediately stunned, but Locks' reaction was completely opposite to Louise.
The reason why Louise was stunned was because of Anna. Logically speaking, Leopold II had passed away. As Leopold II's daughter, Anna was necessary to go to Vienna to attend her father's funeral. But although Pu'O has ceased to fight, the number of people hating Prussia in Austria has not only decreased or even more. In this way, Louise naturally did not want Anna to return to Vienna.
But Anna is the daughter of Leopold II after all. If Louise tried her best to stop Anna from going to Vienna, it would be a bit unreasonable.
But for Locks, what he thought of was completely different from Louise.
Karina has expressed her attitude of competing with Anna for a long time, and Locks also promised to give all the rights of the family to help Karina. After all, he only has a granddaughter like Karina, and this family business needs Karina to inherit a hundred years later.
And now the death of Leopold II is an opportunity for Locks, an opportunity for God to send him to him.
"Locks, do you think you shouldn't tell Anna about this news for the time being, so that she can't be sad?"
Louise, who was sitting in the chair, asked Locks with a frown and hurried over. Hearing Louise's words, Locks thought for a moment and said:
"His Highness, if you don't tell the Queen now, then His Highness will know one day in the future. If His Highness knows that it is his subordinates who deliberately conceal it, I cannot afford this guilt!"
Locks neatly rejected Louise's proposal.
Just kidding, the reason why Locks rushed to the palace after learning about Leopold II's death was because she was afraid that Queen Mother Louise would make up her mind to block the news in the palace. In that case, Anna would definitely not get the news of Leopold II's death.
Of course, the reason why Locks told Anna about this information was not because he said anything. To be honest, Locks never took Anna seriously. An Austrian woman entered the Brandenburg Palace. If it were not for the purpose of the Holy Roman Empire to be acquired by Prussia, then Locks would not agree to anything.
"But now, Anna has just given birth to the heir of the Kingdom of Prussia! Now she suddenly tells her the bad news if it is a bit inappropriate!"
Louise bit the word heir very seriously!
It is obviously impossible to say that Louise has no objection to Locks, although Louise does not pay much attention to the fluctuations in Prussia outside the palace. However, some time ago, countless Prussian officials asked to see Locks in search of Locks' attitude towards Anna and the new prince still came into Louise's ears.
It was precisely because of this incident that Louise felt dissatisfied with Locks. In Louise's view, Anna gave birth to William's first child, and she was a well-deserved hero in Prussia! What made Louise even more dissatisfied was that after Anna left her children, Louise specially sent someone to create public opinion in China to make Anna's child the crown prince of Prussia that everyone expected.
However, all of these people who were sent out by Louise to create public opinion were arrested by the government departments without exception. If Louise had not taken action in time, I'm afraid these people would have become useless people.
In Louise's opinion, this was a complete provocation to her. Moreover, the craze for supporting the crown prince that had risen in the previous government was suppressed by Locks alone, which made the topic of the Prussian crown prince's rumor that the eyes of Anna was rumored to be the topic of Prussia's crown prince a taboo.
It has to be said that in this matter, Locks played the most negative role. If otherwise, who would have the courage to arrest those who Louis sent out to create momentum for Anna!
Even Louise noticed that around Anna, a huge net that had been formed, and the target of this net was neither others nor Anna and her children!
"His Highness the Queen, I think that this matter should be known to you no matter what. This is not only His Highness Anna's own affairs, but also the entire Prussian Kingdom. After receiving the news of Leopold II's death, the government has already planned to send a mourning mission, and this news cannot be concealed!"
Just as Locks finished speaking, the door of the room was immediately pulled open, Anna's eyes were red, and her feet were walking into the room in a mess. Seeing Louise, Anna finally managed to hold back tears flowing down again.
"His Royal Highness, My Father is dead! What's going on, do you know?"
After saying it intermittently, Anna started to sob again. Seeing this scene, Louise hurriedly looked at Locks. It seemed that she noticed the angry look on Louise's face. Locks immediately turned his head aside and refused to look at Louise.
When Anna walked into the door, Louise knew that the news must have been leaked, and there were only a few people who could leak the news, either Hans or Locks. After all, only these two people could convey the information that only a few people in Prussia knew to Anna's ears.
Louise asked softly while comforting Anna:
"Anna, how did you know this news?"
"I just walked in the garden with Fox and happened to meet several maids talking. They said that the Prussian government had already drawn people to form a mourning mission to Vienna!"
Before Louise could explain, Anna asked Locks again:
"Prime Minister, are you really going to send a mourning mission in the government?"
Louise's eyes fell on Locks' head, and her eyes were a little cold. Before Locks could speak, Louise said:
"Look at those gossiping maids, Anna, this matter is fake. How could your father die? Those people are talking nonsense!"
After saying that, Louise looked at Locks again. Her expression and words had clearly expressed her attitude, that is, Anna must not know the news of Leopold II's death. But what Louis did not expect was that Locks, who had not had a conflict with him in a positive situation, seemed to have changed his body. Locks, who had originally bent down, straightened up and looked at Louise and Anna with bright eyes and said:
"His Highness, the Empress Dowager is comforting you. The Grand Duke of Austria Leopold II is indeed dead, and the government is indeed drawing people to form a mourning mission to go to Vienna to express their condolences!"
"Locks, I see if you don't want to be your Prime Minister!"
Seeing that Locks dared to openly go against her own wishes, Louise was immediately furious. She didn't bother to comfort Locks and pointed at Locks and said furiously. But when he heard Louise's words, Locks seemed quite calm.
"His Royal Highness. I am the Prime Minister of the Kingdom. During the period when His Majesty William personally led the expedition, I dealt with the government affairs of the Kingdom. I send a delegation to Vienna to express my condolences under the jurisdiction of the government, so this matter should be decided by me.
Furthermore, Your Highness, you are the Queen Mother, after all, not the King. Even if His Majesty wants to remove my position, you still need to vote in the Secret Court! Please remember this! Of course, unless I reach the retirement age, you may not be able to remove my position as Prime Minister!"
The result of Locks's words meant that there was no room for relief between him and Louise. Anna stared at the unusual performance of Locks and Louise in a daze. After a while, Anna felt cold. After all, she was not a fool, and she could still understand some inside information after thinking about it carefully.
Louise was almost angry. Her hand pointed at Locks and trembled slightly. Obviously, the Queen Mother of the King was eager to dispel this Locks who was openly sing against her!
But as Locks said, she had no right to remove Locks from the position of Prime Minister.
After William implemented reforms to the army and the government, the retirement system and the skull system have been implemented in Prussia. This skull can also be called the skull, but all of them can enter the skull are members of the Prussian cabinet after retirement at the age of 65, generals who have the rank of general before retirement, and of course, those with ranks of Count or above.
After the establishment of the Secret Court, in order to make the powerful people in Secret Court who had to retire early due to the situation, William granted Secret Court extraordinary rights.
William reformed the appointment system of the Prussian government. Whenever there is a vacant in the Prussian government's cabinet, William will nominate it and then hand it over to the Soushi Court for election. Those who have been elected and supported by the majority of people in the Soushi Court will replace the vacant in the Cabinet. The same is true in the army. The ranks of lieutenant general and above, including lieutenant general, are nominated by William and must be granted with the consent of everyone in the Soushi Court.
As the Prime Minister of the government, who is less than ten thousand people in Prussia, naturally changed the previous practice of being appointed and removed by the king. He was also nominated by the king and appointed and removed by the secret court.
In addition to these personnel of the Prussian government, William also granted the Secret Court a great right, that is, in addition to the Prussian government's regular inspection of officials from all over the country every year, government officials in various parts of Prussia need to report their duties at Secret Court every three years, and then summarize and score this according to the veterans in the Secret Court. Any officials who are recognized by most of the veterans will be given priority promotion.
The reason why the power of the Secret House was delegated was because William had to take back the rights from these people before. It seems that the Secret House has a lot of rights, but it should be known that the essence of these rights is still in the hands of William. After all, the Secret House voted can only be nominated by William, which means that if William nominated only one person, then the person will be appointed without any competitors.
Although Locks is now 62 years old, he has not reached the retirement age of 65 after all, which means that in the absence of special circumstances, Locks still has to stay as the Prime Minister of Prussia for three years!
After Locks left, Louise, who was furious, smashed a delicate teacup at hand.
"It's too arrogant, it's too arrogant! If it weren't for the grace of Hohenzollern's royal family, how could he have been in the position of Prime Minister for nearly twenty years! And now he actually talks to me with this attitude!"
"Your Highness, Queen Mother, please calm down!"
Seeing Louise Anna in furious, she didn't care about her own affairs, and quickly held Louise's arm and comforted her softly.
"Anna, if you want to go to Vienna, just go. I won't stop you. I'll send someone to the government to make arrangements later. But you have to remember that you are the queen of Prussia now, and safety is the most important thing!"
After hearing Louise's words, tears fell in Anna's eyes. Perhaps only Louise could make her feel the happiness of being cared for in the entire Brandenburg Palace.
The storm in Brandenburg City was surging. Although Louise didn't say it, how could Anna not know that if Louise hadn't watched, those Prussians could have teared her to pieces! Anna was grateful to Louise at this point.
After hearing Louise's words, Anna nodded in tears and said:
"Well, I'll pay attention!"
Louise waved her hand and asked Anna to leave. After Anna left the room, Louise immediately summoned several of her palace military officers, who were the royal guards officers who were currently staying in the Brandenburg Palace.
As mentioned above, the royal guards are different from other armies. This army is an army controlled by the Prussian royal family. Although the commander of this army is the royal chief, the opinions of the Hohenzollern royal family are often needed to be adopted on the appointment of the royal guards officers.
As the mother of the Queen Mother of Prussia, William, Louise also had a say in the issue of the royal guards. Except for one of the officers who were promoted by Louise, the other four were all related to Louise.
"Werner, this time Queen Anna goes to Vienna, you are responsible for the safety of His Highness. If there is any problem with His Highness, I will only ask!"
After hearing Louise's order, Warner immediately shouted loudly that Warner was the son of Louise's dowry maid. In fact, this situation is very common among the royal families of various countries. Any nobleman with a certain status would always equip his daughter with some servants. After arriving in a foreign country, these servants were the most trusted beings.
After these servants took root in the local area, once they had descendants, their descendants would continue to serve the Lord's family unless the Lord refused to accept these descendants for some reason.
Of course, this kind of attendant who is the same as the "family son" of the Eastern Heroes is undoubtedly free of loyalty, so Louise handed over this task to Warner.
The cruel struggle in the palace. Louise has heard and witnessed countless times. As for the current hostility of Locks towards Anna, Louise naturally felt that Anna has become a thorn in the eyes of some people. Louise believes that she needs to protect Anna, the child in her eyes.
After receiving Palaud's affirmative answer, Fereid showed a satisfied smile on his face. Although the Prussians have blocked the news at present, as a prince, Fereid still has his own source of information. The news of William's unconsciousness made Fereid quite ecstatic.
However, one thing that made Ferreid a little dissatisfied was that his sweetheart, Princess Vivian, was also gunshot wounded. Of course, in Ferreid's view, this small accident was acceptable in order to kill William.
I have to say that the Schwarzburger action was perfect, and even the handling of clues later seemed quite professional, but what the Count didn't know was that it was because of his actions that Maximilian was almost crazy!
"Who is it? Who is so idiot! I actually assassinated the Prussian king in Cologne. My original plan was not like this. Which idiot destroyed my plan!"
Although the news of William's unconsciousness made Maximilian feel a little secretly happy, the only thing that casts his heart is that William is just unconscious rather than dead. You should know that the gap between unconsciousness and complete death can be said to be quite large!
If William dies because of this, then Maximilian may become happy immediately. But if William wakes up and does not die, then Maximilian will catch the damn murderer even if he kills Yi Qian by mistake. On the one hand, it is to dispel the suspicion on himself. At the same time, it is to catch that guy to vent his hatred!
"Your Majesty, there are only a few suspected families in the city. Judging from the actions of these assassins, they have definitely undergone systematic training, so all the powerful people in Cologne and those princes are suspected!"
A man in black robe standing behind Maximilian spoke, saying that the man in black robe was Maximilian's confidant, and even after Maximilian decided to take action against the Prussian king, it was the man in black who went to the princes to connect.
"You ask our people to investigate immediately, especially those princes. I think it is very likely that those princes did, especially those Sunigo and Ferede. I think they are the most suspicious!"
After Maximilian finished speaking, the man in black robe flashed and left Maximilian's room.
Carlo had been guarding William's room for a day. No one except him and the doctor were allowed to enter William's room. Even Maximilian was stopped by several Prussian soldiers outside the door.
Looking at William's face on the bed, Carlo sighed leisurely. Although he and William had not been in contact for many years, the friendship they formed from childhood was still remembered in their own minds. For Carlo, William was not only the king of Prussia, but also his brother-in-law and his only good friend.
Suddenly, William on the hospital bed seemed to move. Carlo's pupils shrank and then shook his head. He thought he was confused because of his fatigue, but when he looked at William again, he saw that William's eyelids had indeed moved a few times. This situation made Carlo immediately rushed to the door and shouted:
"Your Majesty is awake, go and let Your Excellency Hornder and the doctor come over! Hurry!"
After shouting, Carlo rushed to William as fast as possible and shouted softly:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
As if he heard Carlo's call in his ears, William's eyelids slowly raised. Although William's eyes were a little unconscious, this scene still made Carlo's heart, which had been raised in his heart, finally let go of some of it.
Then several doctors walked into William's room, and Carlo quickly made way for the doctors. After a while, several doctors recommended the most respected old doctor and walked to Carlo and said:
"Thank God for your blessing. His Majesty the King of your country has overcome the difficulties. As long as you have a good restoration, it will not be difficult to recover!"
Hearing the doctor's words, Carlo's heart suddenly turned gloomy and he seemed to feel relaxed.
After a while, Hornder rushed into the room. At this time, there were only two maids serving William who was sleeping again.
Seeing this scene, Hornd immediately slowed down and walked to Carlo and asked softly:
"How is your Majesty?"
Hearing Hornder's words, Carlo said with a smile:
"His Excellency Hornder, don't worry, the doctor has seen it just now, and Your Majesty is no longer in serious condition, but he still needs to continue to treat it!"
Carlo's words made Hornde breathe a sigh of relief.
"Then you keep staying here. I just found some clues there. Now, as long as I continue to follow up, I think I will definitely be able to find the murderer!"
Prussian soldiers searched throughout Cologne, and the bodies of the six people who had been secretly disposed of by the Schwarzburgers were also found in a dark ditch. Of course, the Prussians did not know the identities of the six people, but then buried weapons were found in the grass on the edge of the ditch.
This discovery immediately attracted the attention of Hornder. Before receiving the news that William woke up, Hornder took people to check it out at the edge of the ditch.
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