The Rise of Iceland - Vol 3 Chapter 435

The Louvre in Paris AD

Since the red-clothed Prime Minister Richelieu and King Louis XIII passed away one after another, the rights of the French king have fallen to the Queen Mother Anne, and the queen, who had a very tense relationship with Louis XIII, finally made it out. As an Austrian A noble woman from aristocratic background, who controls the entire kingdom of France.

The successor to Prime Minister Richelieu is Cardinal Mazarin. This elegant and witty middle-aged man is handsome and rich. He became a close partner with Queen Anna three years ago. The best ally in politics and a good partner in private life.

The new monarch, Louis XIV, who was only eight years old, was busy studying every day with the studies arranged by Mazarin and his mother. The new Sun King had not shown the demeanor that a hero should have.

Mazarin walked into the palace with a cute and agile girl in a red robe, and a moment later met the Queen Mother Anna in the Rose Hall.

Although Anna is forty-five years old, her figure is graceful, her skin is white, and she is still very charming. She glanced at the girl behind Mazaran and asked, “Is she your niece?”

The girl behind Mazarin hurriedly saluted and said, “Olympe Messini sees Her Majesty the Queen Mother, may the Lord be with you.”

Anna said lightly, “Come and let me see.”

Olympe shyly walked in front of Anna, nervously pinching the corner of his shirt and didn’t dare to look up. After a long time, he heard Anna sigh, “She looks pretty good, let’s stay.”

As soon as Olympe was relieved, she heard the Queen Mother continue to say, “Annie, take her to change her clothes, teach her the rules, and accompany Her Majesty to study in the future.”

A maid agreed and took Olympe down. Mazaran stepped forward when there was no one in the hall and smiled, “Thank you, my Anna.”

The queen dowager also changed her previous indifference, glanced at Mazaran resentfully, and said, “Do you still know to come to see me? If it wasn’t for your niece to serve your majesty in the palace, would you have forgotten me? You dislike me? Are you old?”

Mazaran and Anna were about the same age, but looked more mature. He walked quickly to the throne and hugged Anna. The two kissed affectionately, and then parted reluctantly after a while.

“My Anna, I miss you deeply every day, I can swear to you in the name of God, but you must know that the uncles of Louis and the nobles of Paris do not want you to be regent, let alone no longer. There is a prime minister in red like Richelieu, and even though I treat them mildly and friendly, they still want to take their power away from you and me, so I…”

Anna frowned and interrupted Mazarin’s explanation, saying, “Who did what?”

“Brussels and Prince Condé, they seem to be conspiring something. They have recently started to spread in Paris that you and I have an affair. It seems that they are preparing to smear our reputation and then rush to seize power! I’m worried about what they really caught. There are clues, so I can only temporarily come less, so as to avoid danger…”

As soon as Mazaran finished speaking, Anna stood up with a livid face and snorted coldly: “Don’t they want to seize power? I’ll let them know who is in charge of France.”

Soon Anna issued a royal decree to raise taxes in the name of the French regent, and Mazarin also passed the royal decree with the power of the prime minister, and suppressed the traditional aristocratic private land – the court, by means of but not only “salary reduction”, “Salary suspension”, “demotion”, etc., made the nobles in Paris resentful for a while, but they did not dare to resist directly. They could only quietly contact Prince Condé, who was in control of the army, hoping to force Mazarin by force. step down.

The French rulers focused their energy on infighting, but Cromwell, the protector of the British Republic, arrived in Stockholm with his heir, Cromwell, and started his first trip.

As the Swedish Empire became stronger and stronger under the leadership of Olaf, it even became the first existence in the West to establish diplomatic relations with the ancient civilization of the Far East, which made the prestige of Sweden and Olaf continue to rise.

Cromwell had already completely agreed to the island of Great Britain at this time, and at the same time launched an expedition to defeat Oren Ormore, the great commander of the Irish commanding state, so that Ireland lost its autonomy and became a vassal state again.

As the political controller of the British army, Cromwell has the authority to surpass the previous kings but is not ready to become king and hegemony. He knows that he is nearly fifty years old, and the task of leading the English Republic to world hegemony can only be left to his successor. Therefore, he must maintain a good friendly relationship with the Swedish Empire, the first power in Europe at present.

From the perspective of personal relationship, Cromwell and Olaf are long-term friends. In terms of identity, one is a noble rebel, and the other is a noble from Fanbang. Although they are the controllers of a powerful country, they still have to face the old forces of their country. .

Similar experiences and situations have made the relationship between Cromwell and Olaf become more and more intimate in recent years, and the two who are also killing the king have also been with old-fashioned kingdoms such as France and Habsburg for various reasons. The relationship was very bad, so Cromwell wanted to create better diplomatic conditions for the British Republic, and also to pave the way for his successor Richard Cromwell, so he couldn’t wait after learning that the Swedish Empire and the Ming Empire built a transportation business. came.

Olaf and Christina met the Cromwells at the palace. After the tedious social etiquette was over, it was a joyful banquet.

The bearded Olaf raised his glass at Cromwell with a smile, and said, “His Royal Highness the Protector of England, you haven’t seen each other for two years, and you still look as good as ever!”

Cromwell laughed and said, “Olav, you are really getting more and more beautiful, doesn’t it mean that there are envoys from the Ming Kingdom coming? Why didn’t I see it?”

Olaf understands

^0^ said with a smile: “You are also interested in the interests of the Far East? You need to increase the construction and expansion of Indian colonies, otherwise I am afraid that you will not have the strength to get a share in the Far East.”

Cromwell didn’t hear the rejection, and he was in a good mood. He said, “That’s true. Now that America has become your manor territory, we can only develop in East India with peace of mind.”

Olaf smiled complacently~www.mtlnovel.com~ and said in his heart: “Without the British colonies, the future United States of America would not be possible, and maybe the world pattern will evolve in a way that I can’t imagine in one or two hundred years. …”

While chatting in the sound of the dulcimer, an old man wearing a beaverskin hat walked in quickly from the door. He was tall and had a long scar on his face. He looked very terrifying. Governor Hudick.

Hu Dike was nearly sixty years old. The gunshot wound he suffered as a mercenary in his early years began to break out in recent years. If it wasn’t for the nurses trained by Qinghe Academy, he would have been paralyzed and waited to die.

Even so, Hudik lived in the warm house all year round and never went out, let alone crossed the sea to Stockholm.

Only a person of Hudik’s status can break into the banquet. Olaf saw that Hudik’s face was pale and weathered, and he ordered someone to warm him up with a glass of mulled wine before asking, “Uncle Hudik braved the autumn wind. Come on, are the Russians doing something?”

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