open sea

Chapter 1008
Margaret was undoubtedly a beautiful woman, proud, strong and dissolute.

It would be even better if she didn't like to drill into the barracks so much.

This made him every time he had to order someone to drive her to another courtyard outside the city in annoyance when his lover's frequent surprise attacks: "Margo, I have said many times that women are not allowed to enter the barracks, and you are not allowed to enter the barracks. With you... did you go back to Ah Rang after having lunch?"

In the other courtyard near the coast in Bilbao, Margaret covered her mouth and smiled like a little hen that only wanted to lay eggs. She turned around in a clear and soft voice, and shook her head in front of Chen Jiujing and said: " Didn't have lunch."

"The thought of not being able to see you would make me sleepless, so I asked the servant to drive the carriage back."

As Margaret spoke, she held the skirt and walked around beside Chen Jiujing, and finally lifted a corner of the skirt slightly towards the window on the sea.

"Why don't you show me your soldiers, I like them...are we?"

It's a pity that Chen Jiujing looked at the dazzling sunlight outside the window and didn't respond to her. He said with a stern face: "It's daytime, be more serious. There are two choices, either give me a class, or stay in the house, and wait for me to come from at night. Come back to camp."

As if realizing that his tone was a bit harsh and not suitable for dealing with Margaret who had been on the road for more than ten days, Chen Jiujing softened his tone and added: "The recruits have been training for four months, and the weather is cold. , All he can do in the future is run, so today needs to be tested. This is very important to the army, only learning is more important than this.”

The "learning" that Chen Jiujing refers to is to understand France and even Europe, which are intricately related, through Margot.

This kind of study has been done several times, and this is actually what Margo hates the most. When it comes to business, Margo puts away the love on her face and shows an inquiring look, as if she wants to find something on Chen Jiujing's face. He said, "My general, what makes you so eager to learn? We have studied several times, but you still can't clearly distinguish the four Henrys, let alone my more family members."

Chen Jiujing raised his chin proudly, walked slowly to the table and sat down, raised two fingers and said: "But I can already distinguish the two, one is your king with bad taste, who likes to wear women's clothes and eats both men and women." Elder brother, Henry of Valois; and the other, Henry of Navarre, husband of your king of Navarre, full of the potential of a sage monarch but with many lovers."

"The other two are... I remembered!"

Chen Jiujing frowned as if he was reciting a question, thinking hard, and kept clicking on the table to search his memory, and finally raised his eyebrows, and said: "Henry, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Guise and King Navarre's brother, Prince Condé Henry of Bourbon. "

Margaret watched Chen Jiujing think slowly and finally gave the answer. She was as relieved as a mother who sees a silly son who can finally call her mother. She applauded continuously, and finally shook her head with a smile: "Now, the general knows that these two Henrys Enough is enough, my brother is jealous of my peaceful life and he wants to ruin it to remove my influence."

"So he wrote to my husband to expose my infidelity by reporting on my affair with the Viscount Turenne, a vassal whom my husband trusted."

Margaret told one of her lovers about her affair with another lover as if she was talking about other people, and was accused by her brother. She turned around and sat on a chair, playing with the cigarettes and lighters that Chen Jiujing put on the lacquered wooden tray on the table. , turned on the fire and said: "This thing is really exquisite, designed by your adoptive father? It's really amazing."

"Navarre did not let him, he could forgive me, as I could forgive him; Sir Turenne did not admit it, thinking that it was the king who did not want to hand over my dowry to the kingdom - Cahors City Malicious slander."

"That's a good excuse for war, isn't it? My brother was mean to me, and he wanted to ruin my life, so I ruined his kingdom; Narva is the most lecherous, and one of my maids, Miss Forsyth, is His lover, she can persuade Navarre to go to war for me..."

Halfway through Margaret's speech, Chen Jiu already felt a headache and raised his hand to stop it.

"and many more!"

The amount of information was too much, and Chen Jiujing couldn't bear it, and asked: "You have a maid who is your husband Navarre's lover, and you use this maid to give your husband a pillow?"

Moreover, the pillow wind of a maid can make them go to war again?
Margaret took all this for granted, nodded without answering, and smiled instead: "On the way back to Agen, I met a servant who came from Agen to tell me the news, and immediately sent the carriage back. Of course, it doesn't matter whether we fight or not...the main thing is to miss you."

Chen Jiujing was noncommittal. He had been stationed in Europe for more than half a year and he knew that no one was telling the truth, especially Margaret.

But he didn't care about this trivial matter, he spread his hands and asked, "So, now France is at war again?"

"Yes, the war is on!"

Margaret was so excited that she didn't look like a Frenchman. She nodded her head a few times, stood up and raised her clean neck, walked on tiptoe and walked around behind Chen Jiujing, wrapping her arms around his neck. Pointing on the map on the desktop, he said: "Narva intends to agree that the Protestant regions will raise troops at the same time in April next year, but the leaders did not abide by the agreement."

While blowing in Chen Jiujing's ear, Margo took him by the hand and crossed most of the map, stopped at two hundred miles north of Paris, and drew a straight line to the east: "Navarre's cousin, Prince Condé Henry took the lead and led his troops to capture Raphael, a fortress in Picardy, which could be used as a passage for German mercenaries to enter France."

"Soon Condé went back to Germany to recruit troops. On Christmas Eve, General Melle boarded the city of Mount in Gervaudan and Montague in Lower Poitou surrendered to Pommier. They were all Protestants."

Margaret was very happy when talking about these things. It is difficult for Chen Jiujing to find that she has so much brilliance and desire for war in the eyes of a woman: "The latest news is that Navarra will attack Cahors next spring. ...By the way, that's your winter this year."

Raid in winter?

Although there will be some hardships, this can well offset the disadvantage of the lack of Protestant troops for Henry of Navarre.

If a few cities are pulled out before the royal family reacts, especially Cahors, who was Margot's dowry to the Kingdom of Navarre, it will be no harm to Henry of Navarre.

Seeing that Chen Jiujing's interest could not be aroused by the spoken news, Margaret moved her head closer, and whispered in a bewitching voice: "In this upcoming war, as long as you lead the army to appear in Bordeaux, no matter what If you don’t do it, everyone will spare no effort to win you over, and you can join any party depending on the commission they offer to increase your influence.”

Margot said sweetly: "France's vase is about to break, and everyone wants to pick up a few more pieces, and you should be no exception."

Chen Jiujing smiled lightly, spread his hands on the table, and said: "Just last month, a monk in Spain suggested that I marry you in order to obtain the inheritance of the King of France. Later I found out that he lied to me, although The king has no heir, but you have a brother of the Duke of Anjou; but that is of no importance."

"The important thing is that you are always so distressing to me: telling me veiled situations and making ridiculous suggestions to me in order to get your way."

"If I am a mercenary, no one in Europe can afford my commission; if I am a vassal, the Majesty I am loyal to is supreme and shines all over the world, who in Europe can match him? I just take what I want, Why ask for money for other people's favours—I hate Philip for doing this to me."

Margot's hand around Chen Jiujing's neck was gradually released stiffly. She did not expect that Chen Jiujing was very different from the lovers she had seen in the past. What made her feel even more humiliated was that Chen Jiujing didn't seem to care about the benefits of her status at all.

Every lover doesn't care, even if they don't say it, but power is the best aphrodisiac, who would never have dreamed of wishing to divorce and marry him, and become a French dignitary?
Everyone thinks so, why wouldn't you?

Chen Jiujing still had a face of asceticism, but raised his chin slightly half an inch: "If you want me to do something in this war, or want me to get something for you-please me."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)