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Chapter 1693 The Queen of Sweden
Queen Christina was escorted by the iron-clad ship General Fubo to Whitehall Palace in England, where she met the heads of the Holy Alliance.

"Is this the queen of the Kingdom of Sweden?" King Christian IV of Denmark saw the young Swedish queen. The two sides were feuds. Denmark and Sweden were constantly at odds. Seeing that the coalition forces captured the Swedish queen, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Christina has no suitable heir yet, which is an important bargaining chip used to threaten the Kingdom of Sweden, and perhaps allow Sweden to return the Danish lands acquired in the war.

Chu Yun looked at the queen who was not yet 20 years old. In fact, she was already the queen of Sweden in name at the age of six, which also meant that her father died very early.

Chu Yun probably knew about her father, Gustav II, the most famous general in the Thirty Years War, who led the Swedish army to repeatedly defeat the Holy Roman Emperor, making Sweden the overlord of Northern Europe.It is a pity that he died in the Battle of Lutzen more than ten years ago, and his army still defeated the Imperial Army after his death.

The daughter of Gustav II seems to want to imitate her father, always wearing men's clothes instead of long skirts.

"Are you the consul from the east?" Christina asked Chu Yun in German.

"..." Chu Yun couldn't understand German at all.

Probably seeing that Chu Yun was a little confused, Christina switched to English and asked the question again.

"That's right, this is the consul of the East, my husband." Princess Sophia, the owner of the Whitehall Palace, suddenly spoke, declaring her sovereignty to Christina in words.

There are quite a few women around Chu Yun, but she is the only one in Europe. If there is another younger Swedish queen, Sophia thinks that if Chu Yun comes to Europe in the future, won't she have to focus on two things?
"There has never been a marriage between the European royal family and the East, but between the European royal family and the nobles...you..." Christina was a little surprised that Sofia broke the tradition.

Marriages between European royal families involved territorial annexation, and nobles in order to strengthen alliances, but almost no marriages were carried out with countries outside Europe.

"What's so strange about this." Sophia looked indifferent.

"Okay, we are discussing serious matters now." Seeing that the King of Denmark and the King of Portugal were present, Chu Yun stopped Sophia from continuing.

"Christina, Sweden has taken Harland, Gotland, Jämtland, and Heljedalen from Denmark. You are now a prisoner. You should return the above areas to us." The Danish king was eager to claim back his lost land.

"No." Christina stubbornly refused the Danish king's request.

"Mr. Chu, they broke into our Denmark in the previous war and occupied a large amount of our land. Now their commander Thor Stenson is also leading the Swedish army to besiege the fortress in our Danish territory. As the leader of our alliance, I hope You can claim for Denmark the land that originally belonged to our Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of Norway." The King of Denmark turned to Chu Yun for help.

The Danish king was really a wimp in his old age.He is obviously ambitious, and he did something when he was young, but Denmark was defeated by the Swedish king one after another, and the Swedish king also had a Gustav II, who trained a group of outstanding field marshals such as Tors Stenson. The King of Denmark pales in comparison.

There can only be one Nordic overlord, Denmark was the previous overlord, and Sweden is the current overlord.

Therefore, the King of Denmark can only place his hope on Chu Yun, the leader of the Holy Alliance.

Of course, Chu Yun wanted to help the King of Denmark's request. After all, it was not in his interest to help a powerful country, and there was a place in Denmark that Chu Yun coveted—the strait leading into and out of the Baltic Sea.

If Chinese merchants want to enter the Baltic Sea and then the Nordic market in the future, it would be better to get help from Denmark.

Otherwise, Chu Yun would rather be teammates with Sweden than the weak Denmark now.

In this war on the European continent, the role of the Kingdom of Denmark was to use its strong fortresses in the north to attract part of the forces of Sweden and Poland.

"Christina, I know that even if we catch you, we won't be able to get you Sweden out of this war. It is estimated that at your age you don't have much prestige, and the Kingdom of Sweden may not necessarily give up its vested interests because of you. The interests of the Kingdom override Above the royal family, for the nobles of the Kingdom of Sweden, electing a new king is nothing. And they know that we will not hurt you, and they can continue to govern the kingdom on your behalf through the Privy Council." Chu Yun said.

After hearing Chu Yun's words, both the King of Denmark and Christina became silent for a while.

Even the old Danish king did not continue to insist on the lost lands of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of Norway.

There are two choices before the Privy Council of the Kingdom of Sweden. One is to exchange the lost land for their queen, and the other is to continue to occupy part of Denmark's territory. Letting the queen stay in London does not seem to affect their management of the kingdom.No matter how you think, the Privy Council will choose to temporarily give up the queen's land holdings, wait until the truce with England, and then try to bring the queen back.

"However, you are not completely useless. If we use other conditions to negotiate, you are also a valuable bargaining chip." Chu Yun said bluntly.

That's right, the territory may be more important to the Kingdom of Sweden than the queen who has no prestige. The Kingdom of Sweden may not agree to it only on the condition of exchanging prisoners, but if the queen is used as a bargaining chip to negotiate on the premise of defeating the main force of the Swedish army, both There are steps down.

The Swedish army can claim to the people of the kingdom that it returned the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark in order to let the Holy Alliance return the queen...

Of course, the premise is to defeat the first-class European army of this era-the Swedish Army.

"Hearing what you said, I don't know whether to be happy or sad." Seeing that Chu Yun was not shy at all, Christina regarded her as a negotiating chip up for sale, and stared at this figure who still maintained a good shape. people.

Chu Yun himself was born as a military officer in Ming Dynasty. He planned to establish a war and trade supply line from the east to the west. He has always had the temperament of fighting on the battlefield, even in peacetime.

"Please stay in London for a while, Queen Sophia will take care of your diet, right, Queen Sophia?" Chu Yun looked at Sophia.

"That... of course." Sophia muttered.

"Do you really think that just a few of you, especially small fish like Denmark and Portugal, can really make Europe surrender?" Christina asked hastily.

"Not now, there is still a long time in the future, let's take our time." Chu Yun replied.

(End of this chapter)