Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

(Major revision of the previous chapter)
"I believe in you. You will definitely be able to gain the other party's trust. Remember to be obedient to the other party and never show any aristocratic airs. You must be extremely humble." Kalman patted Carlodes' shoulder and said meaningfully.

This is just a casual move on your part. If the other party can successfully gain your trust, then that would be the best. If not, it doesn't matter.

After the war in the Northern Russia region is over, he will find a reason to personally go and meet the commander of the Western Expedition Army named Zhang Dingguan, the eldest son of Zhang Yong, to see who the powerful person in the north is.

"Don't worry, Grand Duke Kalman, I will never let you down." Carlodes knelt on one knee, put his fist on his chest, held the sword in front of him, and said seriously.

"Well! You take a day off and set off in two days." Kalman said.

Queen Maria was also informed that the envoy troops had already set out.

"Mother! The one leading the army this time is my brother. I thought it would be my father." The young king came to his mother and said innocently.

"Your father is the monarch of the East, ruling a huge Eastern Empire. Now he has no time to leave his country." Queen Maria touched the back of her son's head and said with a smile.

"My eldest brother! Will he come to Hungary to see me? Maybe he will tell me what kind of person my father is."

"That may be difficult. According to his letter, after conquering Northern Russia, his army will retreat back to the East." Queen Maria said with some sadness.

You finally launched another Western Expedition, but this time, the leader was not you, but your son.

I really want to see you again, my love!
But unfortunately, his son is still very young and has not even completely taken control of Hungary, so he must help him.

Over the years, Hungary has been implementing centralization under her promotion, but it has never been smooth. The nobles are her biggest obstacle. She now understands why Bellas hated the nobles so much back then.

They occupied fertile land and were even unwilling to pay taxes to the king or obey the king's orders. They were like little kings in their own territory.

"Mother, will Uncle Kalman come this time? He used to bring me a lot of gifts when he came, but he has never come here since my brother died." asked the young king.

When he was young, his elder brother was the King of Hungary. Archduke Kalman was very kind to him. He often brought him gifts and even came to the Hungarian royal city in person.

At that time, his identity was just a grand duke, but since his brother died unexpectedly a few years ago.

The situation changed. His uncle never came to the royal city of Hungary again and never brought him gifts again.

"How many times do I have to tell you? He is your brother's uncle, but not yours. You and he have no blood relationship. Don't you understand?" Queen Maria's face changed and she spoke.

To be honest, she felt sorry for her husband, Bella IV, and Kalman.

His eldest son is the eldest son of Bela IV and possesses a noble status. It is natural for him to inherit the throne. All Hungarian nobles and ministers will submit to him.

When Zhang Yong left, he kept his promise and made his eldest son the king and his youngest son the Grand Duke of Hungary, to which Kalman gladly accepted.

But all this changed a few years ago. His eldest son accidentally fell seriously ill. Countless doctors came to treat him, but in the end, his twelve-year-old son died unexpectedly.

This made her sad for a long time, according to Hungarian tradition.

If the old king has no heirs, then someone must be chosen from the side line to inherit the throne.

The most suitable candidate at that time was not his youngest son, but the Grand Duke Kalman of Croatia.

Even if Kálmán did not succeed to the throne, one of Kálmán's sons should be chosen to be adopted by Bela IV, and then raised by him to become the King of Hungary.

But mothers are selfish, and she wanted to leave the throne to her son, not Kalman or Kalman's descendants.

So he forcibly used the power and army in his hands to intimidate many nobles and made them support the descendants of his youngest son King John to become the King of Hungary.

This made Kalman very dissatisfied, and he even wrote to her face to ask if his brother's son was killed by someone sent by King John. Maria rejected this.

Her eldest son had indeed died of illness, and no one had harmed him. As a mother, how could she harm her own child?
But it was obvious that Kalman could not believe his reply and his words at all.

The other party was even very stubborn and believed that she had an affair with her lover and conspired to murder her brother's son.

I really like Zhang Yong, but I wouldn't do such a thing. Besides, there is no need for me to do so because they are my children.

"Mother, I can see that Uncle Kalman really likes my brother. After my brother dies, he should be the one to inherit the throne!" The young king gritted his teeth and spoke.

"You are still too young to understand these things. In the future, stay away from your Kalman." Queen Maria said.

Don't think I don't know what you've been plotting lately, Kalman. I've seen all your little moves.

Queen Maria followed Zhang Yong for three years and learned some experience from him, and the two of them kept exchanging letters.

Zhang Yong would also give Maria some advice on some Western situations, such as how to deal with some nobles and how to divide and suppress them.

All the nobles cannot be attacked at the same time, because if you attack them all, they will all unite together.

At that time, your situation will be passive, so the method Zhang Yong taught her is to suppress a group, win over a group, and then eliminate a group.

Queen Maria won over some newly promoted aristocratic officers, many of whom were Hungarian officers who had fought with the Mongol army in the westward expedition and made military achievements.

These people are very incompatible with the local old-established nobles, and she aims to win over the emerging aristocratic forces.

Those old conservative aristocrats were the targets of Queen Maria. She attacked them in terms of economy, politics, and even power in the military.

But even so, these old nobles still controlled half of the entire Hungarian army, and the other half was in their own hands.

"I understand, mother!" the young king nodded and said.

"You are a good child, go out and play! Remember, stay away from those young maids. You can't get close to them now. Play more with those young noble boys." Queen Maria said.

His son is only thirteen years old this year, but he looks very tall. He is even half a head taller than him now, with a handsome look that is a mixture of Eastern and Western styles.

In addition to his status as a king, some of the maids who served him began to set their sights on the little king.

Many young maids would deliberately expose some of their body parts to seduce the young king, and of course he saw all of this, so in the past year or so.

She forbad her son to contact those young maids, and even the young maids who originally served him were all replaced by older ladies.

"I know, mother, I won't hang out with them." The little king curled his lips and said.

I really miss the warm embrace of those lovely big sisters! But the way they look at me is really not right, just like a hungry wolf looking at a little lamb.

After sending her son away, Maria went to the window and looked at the scenery outside the palace.

She always felt a little uneasy. She didn't know why, but she felt that something was going to happen.

"Someone come! Someone come!" Queen Maria suddenly turned around and shouted.

"Queen! What do you want me to do for you?" a court attendant stood in front of Queen Maria and asked.

"What happened today? What's going on outside?" Queen Maria asked. "Queen! Today is a sunny day. The maids outside are watering the flowers, the gardeners are pruning the plants, the grooms are tending the horses, and the cooks are preparing lunch." The palace attendant said very respectfully.

"Where are the messengers I sent out? Have they set off now?" Maria asked.

"They should probably ride on their horses and set off at daybreak, but!" the servant seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"But what? Tell me!" Queen Maria turned her head and asked.

"Queen Maria, these messengers should have gone out in the morning, but the people in charge of escorting them said that for some reason these messengers were more than an hour late." said the attendant.

"They are more than an hour late. That's impossible! They dare not disobey my orders or neglect them in the slightest.

I told them to leave this morning, and they will leave at daybreak, and there is absolutely no way they will delay." Queen Maria said, sitting in her chair, stroking her chin.

Zhang Yong once told her that there must be something wrong when things are abnormal, and sometimes you have to choose to trust your intuition.

And her intuition now was giving her a crazy warning.

"That is to say, they should have just set out not long ago?
Send out the army immediately, led by my captain of the guards, to chase them down, and tell them that I have something to tell them, and bring them all back." Queen Maria said.

"Queen Maria, do you have anything to say? Do you need to call back all the messengers?" asked the court attendant.

"Just do as I say. If they are unwilling to come back, then order my captain of the palace guards to chop off the messenger's head for me." Queen Maria said with a cold face.

There must be something wrong with these messengers.

"Yes, Queen, I will send someone to notify your captain of the guard and have him leave immediately."

Soon, the captain of the palace guards of Queen Maria was called to her. This captain of the palace guards was a young man personally selected by Zhang Yong, and he was absolutely loyal to Queen Maria.

"Sandro, I now order you to lead your guards to personally pursue these messengers. Remember! Don't let anyone discover your traces, especially those old nobles in the city of Pest." Queen Maria said.

"I understand, Queen Maria. Don't worry. All the messengers have just set out. The carriages they are riding in will not move very fast. I will lead the cavalry to pursue them and will catch up with them soon." Sandro said.

Upon hearing this, Queen Maria nodded with satisfaction.

At noon that day, a team of more than 200 cavalrymen secretly left the city of Buda, deliberately avoiding the eyes of some old nobles, and then chased after the envoy team.

One of the teams of soldiers quickly caught up with the carriage heading to the Kingdom of France.

"Dear knights, do you have anything to do?" The coachman in charge of driving the carriage asked tremblingly as he looked at the dozen or so knights who had gathered around him.

"Is the messenger inside?" asked the leading knight.

"Get in my carriage in the morning, and we are now heading to the Kingdom of France!" the coachman nodded and said.

"Very good, now the messenger inside will come out of the carriage immediately. Queen Maria has ordered that there is something he forgot to inform you of, so he wants you to go back immediately.

Tomorrow morning, you will set out again." The leading knight said.

Hearing this, the fake messenger in the carriage suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. How could it be possible? How could they return!

The truth was revealed after they returned. The envoys sent by the queen were all selected by herself, and they were all retainers of the old nobles.

"My dear Knight, I am following the Queen's orders. Without the Queen's personal order, I will not leave the carriage. I will go and complete my mission."

"Get out of the carriage immediately, otherwise my sword will pierce it." The leading knight drew out his sword and pointed it at the carriage.

"No! Don't! Honorable Knight, I, I didn't do anything wrong." The coachman in charge of driving the carriage was so scared that he peed his pants and knelt on the ground and spoke.

Today's situation is indeed very unusual. To be honest, the messenger he met last night and the one he met this morning are completely different people!

But as a groom, he didn't dare to say much, thinking that the messenger had just changed people temporarily.

Seeing that the messenger did not come out, the leading knight waved his sword, and two knights immediately rushed into the carriage and dragged out a middle-aged man.

"Let me ask you? Last night, Queen Maria selected the messenger and asked the messenger to meet with you coachmen. Is he the person you met last night?" asked the leading knight.

"This sir knight, he, he is not me. I thought it was a different person. He told me this." The groom said tremblingly.

"Very good! Your information is extremely important. Drive your carriage to the direction I specified for you and gather there. Your other colleagues will be there.

Soon, new messengers will ride in your carriage to France."

After the leading knight finished speaking, he grabbed the fake messenger, placed him on his horse's belly, then rode away, leaving the groom with a confused look on his face.

That afternoon, these knights put on black robes, dressed up as passing merchants, avoided the eyes of the old nobles, and secretly entered the palace.

Queen Maria has been fighting with these old nobles for many years, so she naturally knows who her opponents are. There is a secret passage in the palace that directly connects to the outside of the city.

The knights transported these fake messengers to the palace in the city through this secret passage.

Queen Maria's face turned pale. She didn't recognize any of the messengers in front of her. They were not the messengers she had chosen last night.

The knights also searched out the letters they were carrying, and found that the content on them was not a letter of mediation written by themselves, but a naked declaration of war.

It said that the Mongolian army asked the Kingdom of Hungary to send reinforcements to support Mongolia's westward expedition and launch a full-scale attack on Europe.

Queen Maria couldn't even imagine what terrible consequences would be if these envoys really went to the countries of those Western monarchs and handed over this letter.

"These damn guys, how dare they? How dare they do this? This is pushing Hungary into the fire pit." Queen Maria had realized what was happening and shouted in anger.

"Queen, what should we do now? How should we deal with these people?" Sandro asked.

"Execute all these people secretly, and then select a group of messengers.

You can send someone to escort him personally. I will rewrite some letters. Don't let the old nobles know. I suspect Kalman may have come here secretly." Queen Maria said.

"Queen! You mean he left his fiefdom?"

"Well! Go and inform the Mongolian envoy immediately, ask him to leave and return overnight, and tell Zhang Dingguan, the commander of the Western Expedition Army.

Tell him to send me his father's army of assassins, at least two hundred men.

And let him end the battle in the Northern Russia region as soon as possible, and then lead the army to Hungary immediately." Queen Maria said with a frown.

Zhang Yong's ace assassin army will help her find out what happened. She knows the strength of these people.

"I understand, Queen. I will go and inform the Mongolian envoy right away." The knight nodded and immediately turned around and left. (End of this chapter)