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Chapter 153 The status has been upgraded

Wessen Daily, Wessenburg City, May 5 News His Royal Highness Rudolf Otto, Prince of the Rhine Union, signed the Treaty of Wessen with Duke Frederick von Wessen in Wessenburg on the morning of the 8th. Grand Duke Dahl of Mainz Burg von Mainz, Archbishop Ludwig Wittelsbach of Bavaria, Mayor of the Free City of Nuremberg Max Merkel, and Plenipotentiary Envoy Archbishop Victor of the Illuminati witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Wessen .

The main contents of the Wesson Treaty are as follows:
[-]. The Otto family and the Wesson family, the royal family of the Rhineland Union, belonged to one family. Duke Frederick von Wesson recognized and firmly supported the authority of his elder brother, King William Otto, and the Wesson family was loyal to the Otto family.

[-]. King William Otto canonized Frederick von Wessen as the Duke of Wessen, and the fiefdom was the state of Wessen, including the former Wessen, Ries, Eichstedt, Ansbach, and Philippine Walter Land, Roth Land, and the Free City of Nuremberg.

[-]. The false accusations imposed on Count St. Henri von Wessen shall be annulled immediately, and the false accusers, Counts Reese, Eichstaedt, Ansbach, Fürth, and Roth, shall be deprived of all titles, and the family The property is fully compensated to the Wesson family.Crown Prince Rudolf Otto presided over the condolence ceremony at the Weissenburg Castle Church.

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Wessen Daily, Wessenburg City, May 5th - Duke Friedrich von Wessen held a grand canonization and award ceremony at the Wessenburg City Square at noon on the 8th.At the ceremony, Duke Wesson canonized more than 8 people who performed outstandingly during the war as knights and awarded medals for meritorious persons.A grand military parade was held after the ceremony.

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"Aren't you happy?" Maria asked Frederick curiously.

The direct promotion of Baron Wesson to Duke Wesson is a major event that will change the strategic structure of the region. The Grand Duke of Mainz will naturally come to see it in person. In addition to his heir and other officials, he also brought Maria along.

Frederick folded the newspaper and put it on the dining table, and said helplessly, "It's nothing, it's the reporters and editors of the newspaper who didn't do a good enough job."

Many of the reporters in the newspaper office were women brought back from Constantbul by Richard Nall. They had a high level of education, and some of them went to work in the Wessen Daily after learning the Rhine language.

It’s just that these people who have lived in deep boudoirs for many years only chatted about political topics in salons. When they wrote current affairs news, they didn’t have enough understanding of the political and ideological nature of the news. They didn’t even mention the funeral of the fallen soldiers.

Frederick couldn't do anything about it, new things couldn't reach the perfect level all at once, so he could only write more commentator articles.

At this time, lunch was served, and he asked Maria while eating, "Where else do you want to go?"

Maria replied: "I'll play with Lixiao first, and we'll play together after you're done."

Frederick could only nod.

There are many things to be busy after the war, the first is to conduct in-depth negotiations with Rudolph.

Rudolph knew nothing about political negotiations, so he could only let Baron Christian, who had come to send the letter of war, return to Cologne to report to King William. This guy had been in Ansbach during the war and finally survived.

King William fainted on the spot after learning that the Confederate army was wiped out and the prince was captured. He lay on the hospital bed for three days, and the left corner of his mouth was a little crooked when he woke up.

Frederick gave the royal family some superficial face in exchange for the territory and the property of five other families.

No matter which era, face is secondary, and interests are the most important.

The two parties also reached an agreement in private. Except for Mrs. Roth and Earl Reese's silly son, all the families of the Allied Army were brought back to Cologne by Rudolph, and Frederick allowed them to take away a little gold and silver.

Among the nobles in this day and age, they pay attention to being a human being and keeping a line so that they can meet each other in the future. It is also in line with the tradition for him to do so.

Then there is the digestion of the territory. This matter involves the reform of Wessen state government agencies. There is no detailed charter yet, and a meeting needs to be discussed.

Now the entire Wessen state government is as busy as a war from top to bottom. From the taxation department to the fire brigade, they all went to the new territory to investigate according to the master's request, and then held small meetings to collect statistics and hold mid-term meetings to analyze the data. prepare for.

In the end, the biggest headache for Frederick was the relationship with his two neighbors.

In the past, he was just a baron, so he could naturally hug his thighs, but now that he has become a duke, compared with the two grand dukes, he is only one administratively behind to form his own court, and everyone has already talked on an equal footing.

The earl has the earl's rules of survival, and the duke has the duke's rules of life.

For earls and barons, the main goal is the continuation of their own families.

At the level of the duke, in addition to his own family, he must consider the issues of the vassals' families internally, and make them feel that they have hope for the future; to carry out foreign affairs activities externally, they need to exert influence on their surroundings.

On the chessboard of intrigue, the Duke is already qualified to be a chess player, and the rules of survival are naturally different from those of chess pieces.

The problem now is that a ten-year-old kid is sitting on the edge of the chessboard. I am afraid that only the God of Light can know what he will do. Therefore, the Grand Duke of Mainz and the Grand Duke of Bayern felt that it was necessary to combine many things with him. Duke Wesson made it clear, lest the situation develop in an unpredictable direction.

Especially Archduke Byrne, they secretly supported a batch of poison gas bombs of the Allied Army in the previous Six-Day War. Now that Wesson's army is in full swing, I am a little afraid that they will fight over.

Frederick has no public plans to settle the score with Archduke Bain. Anyway, even if he finds it, he will at most launch a scapegoat, just like King William, who pushed the responsibility to the dead.

What I have to do now is to digest the territory, and to ease the relationship with the outside world.

So now, the three of them drink afternoon tea together every afternoon in the manor where Frederick cultivated the seeds, or walk and chat by the fields.

The three parties quickly settled diplomatic matters. The two archdukes instilled in Duke Wesson the principles of maintaining peace and solidarity and mutual assistance in the south for several days. Finally, Frederick promised that he would not use force against the territories of the two. I breathed a sigh of relief.

This afternoon, the three of them walked to the vegetable greenhouse, where the farmers were putting away the film.

It can be seen that the Grand Dukes are very interested in the new crops and vegetable greenhouses in Wessen State.

Especially Archduke Bain, who pretended that nothing had happened before, relied on the elders all day long and dragged Frederick to ask this and that, and coaxed the children from time to time. He really regarded himself as a grandfather.

Archduke Bain is over 70 years old this year. He was very handsome when he was young, and he was very artistic. He has supported many artists all the year round.

Compared with old soldiers like the Grand Duke of Mainz, people who study art in Frederick pay special attention, because you don't know where their upper limit is.

Grand Duke Byrne pointed to the rolled up greenhouse film and said, "Wesson, how about selling me these old transparent cloths?"

Frederick said nonchalantly: "If you want to sell, sell new ones, there is no reason to sell second-hand ones."

"If you want, I can also send people to teach how to build a greenhouse and how to grow vegetables in winter. Of course, you can't afford to lose their wages."

As far as he is concerned, he has no way to send vegetables to the Principality of Byrne for sale in winter, so he sells slime films. The more greenhouses are built over there, the more films he sells here. .

"Really?" Grand Duke Byrne was a little happy, "Don't worry, I won't lose you the price."

The corner of Frederick's mouth twitched slightly, and he said seriously: "You two princes, there are some things that you haven't said clearly. I am young and let me say it. If I say something wrong, I will treat it as childish speech."

The Grand Duke of Mainz said with a smile: "Then tell me, we won't spank you if you make a mistake."

Frederick curled his lips, and he could see that he was very upset at being treated like a child.

But this also has an advantage, as long as I don't make excessive demands, even if the other party disagrees, I won't be angry, so I just treat it as my ignorance, not any conspiracy.

So Frederick and the two archdukes sat down at the tables and chairs where the farmers were resting next to the shed, and talked to them about their thoughts, and since then determined the geopolitical pattern for many years.

(End of this chapter)