Chapter 150: Intimate Friends, Enemies on the Battlefield (Part )

"You want me to tell you a story?"

In a mansion in Paris, Voltaire, who was originally bent over the table writing furiously, raised his head and looked at Ritsuka who came in, somewhat puzzled by her request.

"What the hell? You still want to hear about an old man like me's life in prison?"

"Actually, it was Miss Mary's request. She said she had something to ask you." Matthew, who came in later, added.

"Okay, after all, it's the Queen's request, so how can I not go?"

Voltaire followed Li Xiang and the others downstairs. He saw the queen sorting out some letters, which must have been sent by Joseph II of Austria. After all, it was normal for a brother to love his sister.

"Excuse me, the Queen asked to see me. Is there something wrong?"

"That's right, Monsieur Francois."

After sorting out the letters, Marie Antoinette took one out and handed it to Voltaire.

"I think everything I want to ask is included here."

Is it really okay to let me read the letter? Voltaire had doubts in his heart. Only after Marie's assurance did he begin to read the letter between the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the Queen of France.

To be more precise, they are family letters from the Habsburg-Lorraine family.

Voltaire originally wanted to read it slowly line by line, but he gave up the idea after reading a few lines. Even though he was an emperor, there was nothing much to say about the content at the beginning of the family letter. It was just some ordinary things, so he began to read quickly.

"...After a few days of free time, I was finally able to sort out my mother's belongings. In her drawer, I found some letters of unknown origin. The length of time was from when my mother was 18 years old to a few months before her death. It's hard to believe that she had such a good pen pal."

"But unfortunately, my mother seemed to have crossed out the name of the pen pal, so I have no idea which European royal family member the letter was from. But I still made other discoveries."

"This gentleman, er, lady? He (she) seems to have a good relationship with Voltaire. Before the Seven Years' War began, he (she) specially sent a copy of On the Form and Spirit of the State signed by Voltaire. Judging from my mother's reply, she was probably very angry and sent the letter back seven years later. Of course, there were elements of war in it. If I remember correctly, my mother was pregnant with you at that time, or was it little Francis? I don't remember clearly."

"My mother is right. I was too rational before. I always wanted to completely solve the problems in the country. But when I tried to implement it myself, I found that every step was extremely difficult..."

"Forget it, little Mary. I have a mission for you now: find the people around Voltaire in France and ask them to identify the identity of this mysterious letter writer. If you find the person, please write back to me as soon as possible. Please, this is really important to me. I know you can do it, Mary!"

After reading this letter, Voltaire held the letter in one hand and held his forehead with the other, not knowing what to say.

"Well, Queen, your brother is really idealistic. I am still lying in the Duke of Champagne's house. It has been almost 22 years and I have not been buried yet. Not to mention those so-called related people, I really don't have many acquaintances in Paris."

"But now, you are sitting in front of me alive." Mary said playfully, which she inherited from her mother.

"So you mean you know who this person is?"

"Yes, that's true. Mashu, go to my study and take down the 22nd book from the left in the third row of the left bookcase. I want the 1756 edition."

"You want to hear a story? Very good. I will tell you a story about my youth."

"First question, everyone in Chaldea, do you know the Holy Roman Empire?"

"I know! It's the Holy Roman Empire that is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire!"

Faced with this question, our classmate Fujimaru Ritsuka thought he answered it the fastest in his life, but all he got was a slap in the face from Ophelia.

"Stupid Ritsuka! Didn't you see that Mr. Voltaire's face has turned black?"

"Ritsuka, I am the princess you called 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor Imperial'."

Mary said this with a kind expression, but no one knew what was hidden behind this kind expression.

"No, Queen, this is my fault in every sense." Voltaire waved his hand, looking as if he couldn't bear to look back. "It was all because I didn't explain it clearly in the book."

"To put it simply, this guy was taught a lesson after he ascended to Valhalla." Montesquieu, who appeared out of nowhere, said. "The legitimacy of this sentence almost caused the Third World War, and that was the Valhalla version."

"Will the Heroic Spirit still carry the memories of the throne? I thought it only contained knowledge related to the Holy Grail and the knowledge of the present world."

The saint in white also leaned over unconsciously. This was a new experience in bed that she had never had before.

"It wasn't originally like that, but because it's an extraordinary period and the big boss is obsessed with the pole vaulting teenager, he lifted the restrictions on us. Since Voltaire doesn't want to talk about this, let me tell you about it."

"Don't think that just because you're better than me you can use your seniority to suppress me, Uncle Montesquieu!"

"But this kind of thing must be shared to make it more interesting. After all, I was the one who brought you in in the first place."

"Indeed, I almost rushed in at first, but luckily Talleyrand pulled me back. People who are engaged in diplomacy really have clear minds."

After Napoleon, one of the bystanders, appeared, Voltaire completely abandoned Montesquieu's idea. Since it cannot be changed, just lie down and enjoy it.

"If I remember correctly, the first person who ran out excitedly was Augustus of the Capet family. He boasted about Voltaire's behavior in front of Barbarossa of Hohenstaufen and was almost about to confer a title on this guy."

"Then, of course, the two leaders of the Third Crusade started fighting. It's worth mentioning that one of the two people who tried to stop the fight was Philip's mortal enemy, Richard the Lionheart of the Plantagenet Dynasty, and the other was the target of the Third Crusade, Saladin of the Ayyubid Dynasty."

"Then the war spread and expanded, and almost all the electors of the Holy Roman Empire and the Capetian family were involved in the battle, but the King of Hearts and Otto were the only ones missing."

"And then, what is Mr. Voltaire, the first party, doing?"

"He was dragged away by a man who was a good friend of Voltaire and one of the people who were associated with the phrase 'Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor Imperial'."

At this point, Montesquieu tactfully turned the topic over to Voltaire, who took the book from Matthew and told him his name.

"Friedrich of the Hohenzollern family, the Frederick the Great who died two years ago, was the pen pal of your mother Maria Theresa, Queen Marie."

PS1: Augustus of the Capetian family - Philip II, the "Great" and the "Fox"

Barbarossa the Red Beard - Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I of the Hohenstaufen

Heart King——Xalulu, also known as Rika Kamishiro, Charlemagne

Otto - Otto I, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Ever since a certain archbishop of destiny came out, the name Otto has a sense of humor.

PS2: Hello everyone, to prove that I am still alive, I posted this chapter

I recently tried to get my driver's license, but the vehicle management office failed to live up to expectations, and the second subject is so far away...

Chapter 151: Intimate Friends, Enemies on the Battlefield (Part )

"what?"

As expected, this explosive news was too shocking for young people like Lixiang who grew up in the new era.

"Isn't this a very normal thing? Ritsuka, you should have heard the story of Yang Lu's friendship, aren't these two also enemies?"

"No, if I remember correctly, Ms. Maria Theresa is a member of the 'Three Skirts Alliance'. If it wasn't for Peter III..."

Ritsuka still remembered some of the events of the Seven Years' War - there was no other such an outrageous reversal in the world.

"...If my mother's pen pal is Mr. Friedrich, then it wouldn't be surprising."

Marie didn't seem to have much resistance to Voltaire's statement.

"why?"

"Because my grandfather, Charles VI, was Mr. Friedrich's godfather."

? ? ? ? ? ?

At this moment, Ritsuka was completely stunned.

"Yes, that's right. Take the First World War as an example. The Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, George V of Windsor, and William II of Hohenzollern were actually cousins."

"Let's get back to the point. In fact, in 1066, Hohenzollern was just a baron of Sollenberg in the Duchy of Swabia. Sollenberg in Hohenzollern also came from this. It is worth mentioning that the other side of the Alps is Habichtsburg. Of course, for the queen, the term Eagle Castle is more familiar to you."

“That’s where the family started.”

Mary nodded slightly. She knew something about this.

"And these two pieces of land were the direct territories of the then Grand Duke of Swabia, Friedrich von Hohenstaufen. Fate is sometimes so strange, isn't it?"

"But at that time, the whole of Europe had little to do with the two families that came later. The Habsburgs did not lay the foundation until they conquered Austria in 1282, but their homeland was stolen by the Swiss. The Hohenzollerns came even later, and had to wait until 1415 to buy Brandenburg."

"It all sounds miserable." Joan of Arc said, and Voltaire broke out in a cold sweat. If he couldn't control himself and pulled Burgundy...

"That's not the case, Miss Joan of Arc. It was after we occupied Austria that we truly took off." Marie Antoinette did not agree with Joan of Arc.

"AEIOU, Austria erit in orbe ultima." (Austria will occupy the whole world)

She said softly, with that same emotional look in her eyes, which had a bit of the flavor of Theresa, the person she admired most in her heart.

"That's right. After all, holding the throne for nearly 600 years is not something that ordinary people can do - even during the Thirty Years' War."

"And the fundamental reason why Frederick and Maria Theresa did not marry was precisely because of this war."

It's time to come.

"Queen Mary, do you know how much your grandfather, Charles VI, loved Frederick?"

"Mom never told me about this, but Dad would sometimes get drunk and hug us brothers and sisters and talk about how he snatched Mom from Mr. Friedrich."

Mary's face was filled with nostalgia when she thought of this. When she was a child, she only wanted to sneak out of Schönbrunn Palace after her father went to bed and take Amadeus out to eat crepes. But now she misses the time she spent with her parents...and Amadeus, of course.

"The Duke of Lorraine is indeed a remarkable man, but the most important thing is that Prince Eugene strongly opposed it. In front of this general whose first battle was the Battle of Vienna, Charles VI had no choice but to give up this idea. But as compensation, His Majesty the Emperor personally took out 8000 silver coins from his own treasury every year to support Frederick."

""

"You all know what happened afterwards. At that time, Friedrich, who was still an artistic youth, dragged his good friend Carter to escape from prison. However, they were stopped by his father at the Polish border. He then made a decision that turned the artistic youth into a war lord:"

"Frederick I beheaded Carter in front of Frederick."

"The blood splattered from where he was beheaded almost flew onto my face. It was at that moment that the former Friedrich died."

It was late one night in the Sanssouci Palace. Friedrich held his own hand and recalled the past. In the second half of the night, he almost collapsed emotionally.

At this time, Voltaire suddenly remembered that he hadn't had coffee for a long time.

"The conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism did not affect their relationship, but after they were pushed to that position by the tide of the times, for the interests of their respective countries, the two who were once taught by the same person wielded swords against each other."

It's really sad that two people who were once good friends had to meet on the battlefield in the end.

"So the Three Skirts Alliance was born. Maria Theresa, Elizabeth Petrovna and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, they represented..."

"Why don't you just say that Madame Pompadour has a meticulous brain and a heart full of justice? Tell me, when did you do it?"

"Get lost, you old pervert. Why are you still playing LOLI games at your age?"

"That's called guidance! Besides, I have at least one-third of the credit for Ekaterina's current status, right? It was really funny that you couldn't speak after seeing her again."

"Go away, lolicon!"

"Old pervert!"

The two masters of the Enlightenment suddenly started arguing over two women, and Miss Mary looked both amused and helpless.

I couldn't listen to the romance between my parents anymore, so I could only go back and continue digesting the letters between my mother and the man who might become my father.

"Mashu, it's time to run away. This is already a battlefield between them."

"Oh, oh oh, yeah."

There was a sense of pity in her tone. Once upon a time, Mashu's little head was only filled with study, and she didn't care about the triangle relationship between Dr. Romani, the director, and another man at that time.

Now that I think about it, it was really a huge loss!

As the listeners left one after another, Voltaire and Montesquieu also stopped.

"What happened to the play we agreed on? Why did they really start fighting?"

Napoleon lay on the windowsill, looking at the two masters with interest.

"Who asked this guy to expose the Poisson incident first?"

Voltaire touched his left cheek and looked at Montesquieu, who was also grinning, in silence.

"How can you frame the relationship between me and Catherine the Great? Our friendship is pure and it is the care of the elders for the younger generation, do you understand?"

"Let's not talk about this, Montesquieu. What you said about Valhalla today reminded me of something very important."

"what's up?"

"I have a request from Constantine XI, the last Augustus of Rome."

Chapter 152 Augustus' Question

"Little fawn."

"Ok?"

"He's been gone a long time."

When the two hostile forces met, nothing happened. Alvin said something meaningless and ran away without even a trace.

"I'm... sorry." She came to her senses and apologized to Elizabeth. "I just didn't expect that we would actually go to war."

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