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Chapter 532: War Begins Again
The Court of Nobles was the first to fall, followed closely by the Court of Commerce.

What businessmen lack the least is manpower. Many people are willing to do things like go to the toilet for pay, and the cubicles in the Commercial Court are not enough for them.

Ordinary people have almost no means to oppose bureaucracy. Now there is a method that can make those big masters lose face and they can't do anything about it, so how can they not follow suit?

The bathroom occupation movement quickly spread throughout the Kingdom of Gaul, and local governments were suffering for a time.

The news reached the southwest fortress of Toulus.

Last summer, the two heirs to the throne in the Kingdom of Tarragona, Archduke Suarez and Duke Aransati, officially fell out with each other. Then the Gallic Kingdom's army, which supported Duke Aransati, crossed the Snow Bull Mountains under the command of Prince Moritz and entered the northeast of the Kingdom of Tarragona.

The coalition forces consisting of Duke Alansati and the vanguard of the Gallic army fought a small-scale battle with the guard troops of Archduke Suarez in the south of Magritte, the capital of the Kingdom of Tarraco. The coalition forces defeated Archduke Suarez, who retreated calmly with the crown stolen from the palace. Everyone thought they had won.

Now that the weather is starting to warm up and the new year's military operations are about to begin, we didn't expect that chaos would arise in the country.

At the state meeting, Louis the Younger said to Louis the Elder, "Father, I suggest sending a special envoy back to Paris to deal with this matter."

Old Louis just lowered his head and looked at the documents in his hands without answering.

In his opinion, those bureaucrats have been eating too much for so many years, and it's time to give them a beating.

He turned to the next page, which was a leaflet. He read the contents in a low voice: "Taxation is not an obligation, but a contract between taxpayers and tax collectors. Taxpayers pay taxes to tax collectors, and tax collectors provide taxpayers with fair protection..."

Old Louis glanced at the author, then turned and ordered: "Invite this Guillaume here. Please note that this is a sincere invitation, and don't cause me any other trouble."

The secretary beside him understood the king's intention, but still wanted to confirm it, and asked, "Your Majesty, how about the etiquette of inviting the knight into the palace?"

For people who do things, there is no standard for "sincerity", so it is better to measure it with examples that have clear standards.

Old Louis nodded and said, "Okay."

Little Louis asked curiously: "Father, does this person have any special talents?"

Old Louis replied: "I don't know yet, we'll see when he comes."

"Now I have a mission for you. Visit the Principality of Wessen and try to buy more medicine."

During the summer and autumn of last year, an army in Gaul suffered an outbreak of enteritis due to water problems. In the past, 20 to 30 percent of the people would have died. In the end, they were cured by using allicin capsules and no one died.

Little Louis looked a little unhappy. As the crown prince, he should have followed the vanguard troops to gain merit last year, but he was left in the country to manage logistics. Now that a new military operation was about to begin, he had to go to the Duchy of Wessen again.

Military merit was the most valuable these days, but little Louis had only gained a tiny bit since the war began. Even if he became king, he would speak in a much lower voice in front of those military leaders.

More importantly, during the war, he could win over the military leaders and make them his supporters.

Now, there is nothing.

Young Louis envied Frederick because his troops all obeyed him, so it was easy for him to do anything he wanted in the country.

"A-choo, a-choo, a-choo!!!"

Frederick sneezed three times in a row, making the officials in Hanma City very nervous. It was common to lose one's life due to catching a cold these days. "It's okay." Frederick waved his hand, "It's just that my nose is a little itchy."

He turned to the officials and asked, "Is there enough food?"

Frederick went to the north, and when he came back, the Kingdom of Sverria officially launched an attack on the Kingdom of Danmar. At the same time, it sent a large number of looting fleets to the south to plunder the areas east of the Elbe River and the northern coastal areas of the Kingdom of Piast.

The Kingdom of Danma is located to the north of Hanma City. It is mainly composed of the Cimbrica Peninsula and a large number of islands to the east. It is across the sea from the Kingdom of Sverriae to the north of the ocean. The two countries can also geographically block the eastern part of the North Sea.

King Kosdorf of the Kingdom of Sverriere has announced that he will make the eastern part of the North Sea his inland sea.

In just a few days, Lanxi Island, the largest island in the east of the Danma Kingdom, was occupied. At the same time, a large number of refugees from the southern coast of the North Sea crossed the Elbe River and flocked to the city of Hamma.

On the Rhine Alliance side, Rudolf responded quickly. He sent his Minister of Military Affairs, Count Pistor, to Hammarby to get an on-site overview of the situation. He also asked the lords in the country to prepare to assemble their troops and rebuild the Elbe River defense line depending on the situation.

As soon as Frederick got off the ship in Hammer, he met Count Pisto.

When Count Pisto saw him, he felt like he had seen a life-saving straw. He wanted to give him his special envoy status immediately, and went straight to the telegraph office to send a message to Cologne.

After Frederick settled Catherine, he came to the city wall. Outside the city there was a large area of ​​messy tents, all of which were refugees who had fled.

The officials of Hammer City could have ignored Frederick, but Frederick's fist was more powerful, so they had to take it seriously.

An official immediately replied: "It is still some days before the harvest season, and food in the city is a bit tight."

Frederick nodded. Hamma was a city mainly engaged in maritime trade and shipbuilding. There were many merchants and workers, and the food consumption was very high, so there was indeed not much surplus food.

The group of Hanma city officials looked at each other, and the unlucky guy who had just been chosen by drawing lots came over and asked cautiously: "Grand Duke Weishen, I heard that the Duchy of Weishen is in great need of workers now, why not..."

These refugees are a destabilizing factor here. God knows when the bomb will explode, so it is better to send them away.

It just so happened that the Duchy of Wessen had a tradition of accepting refugees, so the officials of the city of Hammer came up with a decision that seemed to be a win-win situation.

Frederick just sneered, causing those smart-assed guys to break out in cold sweats, and some of them even shivered.

Taking in refugees is not a problem. There is a large amount of land to be reclaimed in the principality and new factories are recruiting workers. But we can't agree to these guys so easily. We have to pay them.

This sudden war disrupted his plans and made him unhappy, but he had no place to vent his anger.

At this time, Count Pisto sent someone to invite Frederick.

The telegraph station in Hammar can directly contact the telegraph station in Cologne. Now the conference rooms of the two telegraph stations have been requisitioned. Frederick and Count Pistoire are in Hammar, while Rudolf and important court officials are in the telegraph station in Cologne, holding the first national telegraph conference in history.

As soon as Count Pisto left Cologne, the envoys from the Kingdom of Danma asking for help arrived. The two sides held many negotiations over the past few days, but failed to reach an agreement.

The court needed more detailed intelligence from the front line to make judgments, and it also needed to listen to Frederick's opinions.

(End of this chapter)