Warlock Royal Family

Chapter 170 Ambition

Ladislaus, despite his loud tone, is going straight to Paris.

In fact, they are very worried about the war situation in the Netherlands. There are many nobles in the Netherlands who escaped the last punishment. Charles V can only punish a part of the open rebellion. In fact, the Du Li of the Netherlands is the majority of the Netherlands. A wish shared by nobles and even all local residents.

No one likes tax collectors, this is the simplest human emotion.

The German-speaking Dutch not only disliked but hated the Spanish-speaking tax collectors, the cornerstone of the nationalism that would sweep the world.

Those wealthy Earls of the Netherlands built many of the strongest fortresses of this era, all of which can be held for months and are difficult to attack by force.

Behind the direction of the Netherlands is the threat of the French army. This situation is even more dangerous than when the French army occupied Milan.

But the real danger came from the sea, because there was still a powerful England in this area. After the death of Charles V, his alliance and marriage plans were naturally stranded.

The ambitions of King Henry VIII, combined with the fact that the Kingdom of England had a navy superior to the Republic of Venice, made this potential danger more likely to cause disaster than an open enemy.

Once Britain, the sea power second only to Spain, forms an alliance with France, it will greatly threaten the relationship between Spain and the Netherlands.

Although in Li Di's history, the Habsburg family in the Netherlands should still be in control for many years, but who can guarantee that the death of Charles V will give the enemy an opportunity.

Ladislaus called Prime Minister Sazastan and Frundsberg successively to discuss this worrying situation, but they could not think of any solution.

Austria is far away from the Netherlands, and without the position of the emperor, there is no right of passage for the army, and it is impossible to support it.

So Ladislaus realized that his key task was to secure the throne. Faced with this situation, he had to admit that the throne was indeed of great value to the scattered Habsburg family.

He decided to abandon plans to seize a religious electorate, although it would have been easier to arrange for his illegitimate son to be an archbishop.

But after all, neither the female shipowner nor the Marquise Facchetti and Mrs. Reinhardt were pregnant, so it was not urgent to benefit their offspring.

However, Ladislaus finally adjusted his mentality, but the situation changed dramatically.

On the second day of arriving in Frankfurt, Ladislaus first met with an important ally of the Habsburg family and an envoy of the King of Hungary.

King Louis II of Hungary did not come to Frankfurt this time either. He sent two generals who had made great contributions to the war against Venice, Szabo Rai and Federtale, as principal and deputy envoys to Frankfurt. He was the elector of Bohemia. power.

The two parties first confirmed the election, and Szapolaoyi promised to choose His Majesty Ferdinand, who can best protect world peace, as the next Holy Roman Emperor, and congratulated Ladislaus on becoming a distinguished cardinal.

Ladislaus also sent a long blessing to Louis II on behalf of Ferdinand.

After the above diplomatic etiquette or nonsense, they had a slightly meaningful conversation.

Ladislaus and Szapolai congratulated each other on the new territory gained from the recent war, which did help the relationship between the countries.

However, when Ladislaus tried to further maintain the alliance with the Republic of Venice with the other party, there was no response.

Szapolai avoided the temptation of Ladislaus to Dalmatia, Venice's most important territory on the east coast of the Adriatic.

He stated that his diplomat authority was limited to the election of the Holy Roman Empire.

But this is also normal, Ladislaus did not report much hope.

Ladislaus and Deputy Envoy Feldtaler also greeted each other. The general had just attacked the Republic of Venice with Ladislaus.

However, his weight is not enough in diplomacy. Szabo Rai's status in Hungary is much more important.

In the second half of this seemingly meaningless diplomatic meeting, unexpected things happened.

Before dinner, while washing his hands in the bathroom, the Deputy Envoy of the Hungarian Mission Feldtaler grabbed a small gap and suddenly whispered something in Ladislaus' ear.

After listening, Ladislaus glanced at the maid behind him, and responded with a big smile, "Haha, it's easy to say, but when I go to Buda or Pest, you have to arrange a Hungarian beauty for me. "

"As long as His Majesty Anri doesn't object, that's fine, haha."

After the party, Feldtaler took away a maid serving Ladislaus.

The maid's father was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament, and it was fine to serve the ruler of Austria, but it was not appropriate for Ladislaus to send her to the Hungarian general.

However, Ladislas' effective appeasement policy avoided diplomatic conflicts.

On behalf of Ladislaus, Shylock purchased oats and soybeans worth [-] talers from her father, but rejected the original supplier's offer of [-] talers.

But Ladislaus didn't waste his money for a little bit of dispensable diplomatic favorability, because Feldtaler didn't have any interest in that maid at all.

"His Majesty the King is hesitating whether to accept the proposal of the Elector of Brandenburg and elect as soon as possible. The last instruction we received was to elect His Majesty Ferdinand."

When Shylock was discussing the bride price with the father, Ladislaus relayed Feldtaler's words to Prime Minister Sazastan and Frenzberg.

This news made the three people ants on the hot pot, because as Ladislaus analyzed the Marquise Facchetti, the attitude of the Elector of Brandenburg, Joachim Hohenzollern It is very critical in this election.

Because the Archbishop of Mainz is now also a member of the Hohenzollern family.

They have two-sevenths of the votes in the election for the throne.

"Could this be the conspiracy of that Federtaler, who wanted to provoke the relationship between Austria and Hungary." Frundsberg had doubts about the source of the news.

"It's possible that both Feldtaler and Zhengshi Zoporai participated in the war against the Republic of Venice, but as soon as the war ended, they were all sent to Frankfurt. It should be King Louis who wanted to prevent their family from gaining It is not surprising that they have resentment, the Feldtaler family is very influential in the Croatian region and has even threatened the rule of Buda."

Prime Minister Sarzastan also has this possibility for the time being.

Ladislas didn't think so.

The last time Ladislaus and Feldtaler attacked Venice together, they had established a certain personal relationship. This family, as their distinctly German names suggest, had once served Ladislaus' grandfather Laszlo V. served the Habsburg monarchs of the present and more distant past.

"This Feldtaler is indeed a dangerous person who cannot be trusted, but I don't think he is lying this time. First, this kind of lie is easy to expose. We have other sources of information in Hungary, and there will always be something that can be verified. According to the channel, if he lies and dares to stir up the relationship between the two big countries, King Louis will definitely let him die without a burial. Second, in the past few years, it has been rumored that the Elector of Brandenburg and the Elector of Saxony have converted to Ban Well, it is not surprising that he is disappointed that we have maintained our alliance with Cyric this time. Feldtaler probably wanted to get our support in the future contest with the King of Hungary, so he leaked this news to us."

"The foundation of the Feldtaler family is so shallow, why should he be? However, due to financial reasons and pressure from France in the past few years, we have been limited to verbal support for the Hohenzollern family's efforts to fight against Poland. Hohenzoller It is not surprising that the Lun family would want a different ally against Poland."

Prime Minister Sarzastan was ultimately inclined not to delude himself, backing Ladislaus' speculation.

During his reign in Spain, he received and rejected many requests for help from the Hohenzollern family.

Joachim I, the Elector of Brandenburg, has been urging Charles V to form an imperial coalition to attack Poland and save the Teutonic Knights who are on the verge of extinction.

His cousin, another member of the Hohenzollern family, is now Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.

The Teutonic Knights are essentially a military organization that opened up living space for the German nation in the Baltic Sea region, and more than [-]% of its middle and senior leaders are Germans.

For the last 50 years, the Teutonic Knights have been beaten helplessly against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Because of the hostile relationship with the true pope some time ago, the return of the Hohenzollern family for supporting the collection of a certain amount of imperial taxation has not been arranged for a long time.

None of the promised bishop positions were obtained. Although the tax rebate was high, a little was still handed over after all. Naturally, Joachim I was very dissatisfied.

"Then what are we going to do, are we going to have an election right away?" Ladislaus asked.

"This is impossible. According to the Imperial Edict, the elector has the right to delay voting for a period of time. It will not be troublesome for our opponents to re-election on July 7." Saza, who has held many elections Prime Minister Stan is very clear about the rules. "And if we urge it, it will only make other electors realize the danger of our situation and make them ask for sky-high prices."

"We have to make another thorough contact with all the electors." Ladislaus is very clear that he just hopes that one or at most two electors will oppose Ferdinand, and then find an excuse to attack him. It will take all-out war to capture those chosen empires.

In the case of endless wars with France, even the same elector was opposed by Prime Minister Sazastan and Frundsberg, not to mention wars with several electors and even the Kingdom of Hungary.

"However, we must not accept the loss of the throne. Let alone the inability of Austria and the Netherlands to support each other, the Habsburg family has also obtained more than a dozen trustee territories that have lost their legal heirs in the past few decades. The theory of these territories Most of them belonged to the emperor of the empire. Although most of them were small territories of tens of hundreds to at most nearly a thousand square kilometers, these territories were actually connected with the territory of the Habsburg family. If these territories were lost, it would be like The pain of tearing flesh from a human body is unbearable.” As an Austrian nobleman, Frundsberg knew better that most Austrian commoners and middle- and lower-level nobles actually couldn’t tell which territories belonged to the Habs Those territories of the Bao family are under the trusteeship of the empire.

Only what is lost is precious, and Ladislaus can't imagine how much damage the country has caused to the country if the territory that has ruled for several generations is returned to the elected emperor, and it is also a fatal blow to his personal prestige.

Although he still wanted to take the opportunity to operate on some unlucky guy yesterday, but the result of losing the throne is something that Ladislaus cannot bear.

Compared with Ferdinand, his prestige and legitimacy need the endorsement of the throne even more.

Although his rule over Austria was supported by the Knights of Great Aspirations, he was not a legal descendant of the Austrian Grand Dukes after all. He suffered such a heavy loss as soon as he took office, which would definitely make it more difficult for him to control the situation.

The upper nobles would not rebel against Ferdinand, the middle and lower nobles and commoners only saw that he lost a large territory as soon as he took office.

This impression will make it difficult for Ladislaus. (To be continued.