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Chapter 661 Sending Wonders

There is a branch of the Dawn Chamber of Commerce in Le Havre, which can provide intelligence support to Frederick.

After the banquet, there was a dance party. Long after the dance party ended, an intelligence officer from the Dawn Chamber of Commerce came to Frederick's residence in a carriage.

"Rudder?" Frederick was somewhat interested after hearing the other party's code name. "The rudder is the most important part of the ship. It seems that you are very good at it."

This intelligence officer, code-named "Rudder", is very young and appears to be a genius.

Frederick was looking for more talented people, so he planned to bring him into the intelligence system of the Duchy of Wessen.

Unexpectedly, the helmsman said somewhat embarrassedly: "Sir, our code name was decided by drawing lots."

Frederick was speechless.

The helm continued to report the latest intelligence: "The latest intelligence is that Prince Charles of the Kingdom of Anglan has formed an army mainly equipped with foreign trade weapons from the Duchy of Wessen. It has 5,000 officers and soldiers and 6,000 logistics personnel. They are currently gathering at the port, waiting for supplies. They are very likely to board a ship and sail away. The destination is unknown."

Frederick now understood why Armand reacted that way.

If the army of the Kingdom of Anglia lands in the city of Le Havre, it will not be difficult to capture it by joining forces from both inside and outside.

Next, the Rhine Alliance army from Hammar City landed in Le Havre by boat. Among them were main forces such as the Northern Front Corps of the Wesson Army, and they could fight all the way to Paris City.

Frederick thought for a moment and said, "Just strengthen the periphery to gather information, and notify us immediately if there is any news."

It doesn't matter where the army of the Kingdom of Anglia goes, as the reaction cannot reach the Duchy of Wessen.

The helmsman said he would report to his superiors, but then stopped talking.

Frederick asked him, "Anything else?"

The helm whispered, "It's a private matter."

Frederick frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"

The helm took out a necklace from his pocket, handed it to Frederick and asked, "My lord, this is what I just found on the carriage. How much do you think it is worth?"

Frederick took it, took a look at it, and handed it back, saying with a smile, "This glass necklace looks like it's worth dozens or hundreds of gold coins. It can be bought in Weissenberg for the price of three cans of duck. If you want to sell it, you might as well keep it to coax the girl."

The helm was a little disappointed, as he thought he had found a treasure just now.

Frederick did not take this matter to heart. After sending away the rudder, he began to think about the relationship between the Kingdom of Gaul and the Kingdom of Gaul.

Currently, the Duchy of Wessen and the Confederation of the Rhine are heading eastward, so it is not convenient for them to conflict with the Kingdom of Gaul in the west. They have to live in peace for a long time.

In the bedroom, Frederick asked Maria: "What do you think about us sending a gift to the Kingdom of Gaul?"

Maria knew the purpose of his gift. After thinking for a while, she said, "If you want to please the Gauls, according to their character, this gift needs to be unprecedented and particularly ostentatious, so as to show your sincerity."

"It's the kind of spectacle you mentioned."

"You know, because the friendship bond gave the Kingdom of Gaul the highest share, their merchants were proud of it because it was an unprecedented loan."

This was the first time Frederick had heard of this.

"A spectacle that can be shown off?" he began to ponder.

"First of all, let's rule out the palace. It's too expensive."

Maria nodded. The theme building of the palace didn't cost any money, but the decoration inside was simply a bottomless pit.

She added, "Even the church won't do." Maria was waiting to hold her wedding in the largest and tallest church in the world, and she would not give this honor to anyone else.

"A statue?" Frederick thought about it and then rejected it.

Back then, the people of Weissenburg went crazy and made a large number of bronze statues in a short period of time. Now they are famous attractions and spiritual symbols. Stamps and postcards with them as themes are only sold next to the corresponding bronze statues.

If a particularly large bronze statue is built for the Kingdom of Gaul, it will reduce the attractiveness of the related bronze statues in the city of Weissenburg.

Maria thought for a while and said, "Why not build a tall and large building so people can climb up and see the sights?"

Frederick thought for a moment and said, "We can't build them a lonely 'Emperor's Wonder'. It's useless except for physical exercise. It's better to climb scaffolding."

He thought of the scaffolding outside the cathedral. It was magnificent, but it seemed a little wrong to have just a scaffolding there.

Maria herself had climbed the scaffold several times and thought for a moment, “What if it was made of steel?”

Frederick was silent.

Building a tall scaffolding tower with steel looks very imposing, and it is not a technical problem to simply pile up materials.

With the current level of mechanics, it can be like a pyramid, with a large base and getting smaller as it goes up, so that the force can be shared layer by layer through the structure.

The problem is that the cost is definitely not cheap, and it will take at least four or five tons of gold to produce it.

But this time I'm going to the Southern Continent to get gold. If the harvest is huge, how will they know how powerful I am if I don't share some with my friends?
Giving them a spectacle can, firstly, deepen their friendship, secondly, deter certain people, and thirdly, promote themselves.

Frederick told Maria his thoughts.

Maria counted on her fingers and said, "That's a problem. If we only send wonders to the Kingdom of Gaul, your Mrs. Meyer will definitely be unhappy."

"If we only send these two, the Kingdom of Sardinia, Constantinople, and the Kingdom of Kush might also have some ideas."

"If we give the Kingdom of Kush away, then the Church will naturally have to consider it as well."

"You have such a big business in the Kingdom of Angla, it would be unreasonable not to send something."

Frederick agreed. Diplomacy is sometimes like the interactions between people. Even if we can't treat everyone equally, at least everyone should have a share.

He said to Maria, "While I am on a business trip to the south, you can take charge of studying this matter."

"If you encounter any technical problems, go find Teacher Psyche. She loves you very much, and it will be more convenient for you to order her around."

Maria covered her mouth and laughed, then made an expression that said, "I'll tell on you if you don't give me any benefits."

Frederick looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.

"Oh, right." Maria remembered something. "Have you ever offended Teacher Psyche before? I heard that she sometimes talks about revenge on you."

Frederick scratched his head and said, "I can't even offer her up to you, how dare I offend her."

"Maybe it was someone else. Four out of ten boys in elementary schools are named Frederick. Maybe she was bullied by other kids when she gave a lecture in a school."

Maria thought so too. Frederick was always very respectful to Psyche. It must be that some other child with the same name was being naughty.

Frederick brought Maria over, patted her on the back and said, "Go to bed early. Tomorrow we will go to Prince d'Avranche's brother's house for dinner. I wonder what delicious food will be there."

(End of this chapter)