The Great Age of Voyage of the Elves

Chapter 57 The Canary in the Cage
In order to ease the embarrassment, Mu hurriedly found an opportunity to escape.

"That, I'll think about it when I go back, thank you Lord Duke for your love."

Then he politely got up and said goodbye.

However, he regretted it as soon as he left the table——

Oh, it's too fast, the dishes on the table have not moved, I'm not full...

At this moment, he could only cry with hunger.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the savior to come—Lydia came to him alone, and kindly brought some homemade biscuits.

For the sake of delicious biscuits, Mu's impression of this girl improved a lot for a while.

While eating biscuits, Lydia asked him shyly, "If father asked you to choose a partner among his daughters, would you choose me?"

Mu avoided the topic, casually slapped a haha ​​to get away with it, and asked instead, "Do you know who the Seventh Prince is?"

Lydia blinked, "Huh? You don't even know the seventh prince, Lafayette? He is the closest prince to the throne."

"Uh, tell me more about it?"

Following Lydia's narration, many memories in Mu's mind emerged one by one.

It turned out that he actually knew all this information in the past, but after crossing, his eyes all turned to the sea, and as time passed, these memories saved by the original body in the past were gradually forgotten by him.

Today, the king of the Windmill Chrysanthemum Kingdom is still the old king Tulaon. This long-lived king has been on the throne for more than 40 years, and he survived his three sons to death.

Up to now, the children born to the old king when he was young have either died of illness or lost their mentality.

From Lydia's words, it can be heard that she highly respects the seventh prince, but most of this respect probably comes from the duke's indoctrination.

"His Royal Highness Lafayette is a truly discerning lord. He is trying to stop the old king's militarism in the early years, and he has seen clearly who is the real backbone of this country. Including our Courbeille family, now more than half of the princes and nobles have joined this Highness.

In the future, he will further correct the old king's past mistakes, take back the glory that was once generously distributed by the old king to those pariahs, and recast the glory of the nobles.

Now that His Highness has not succeeded to the throne, he is very eager for young talents. I believe that with your trainer ability, once you have the opportunity to meet that Highness, you will definitely—"

As a result, Lydia didn't expect that before she finished speaking, Mu interrupted her in a panic: "No need!"

She looked at Mu in confusion, wondering why the other party seemed to have been frightened suddenly, and even dropped the biscuit in her hand to the ground.

Of course she would not understand that Mu was indeed frightened, very frightened!

Because he suddenly realized that he almost fell into a prehistoric pit!
Combined with the memories of his original body gradually surfacing, he now finally has a preliminary understanding of the power map of the Pinwheel Chrysanthemum Kingdom.

At the same time, he finally realized: what a cheat this seventh prince is!

Everything Lydia just said should actually be heard in reverse—

The old king is a truly talented monarch.

He clearly knew that the power of the old aristocrats in the country was deeply rooted, so he had been vigorously developing the navy during his reign, trying to use the force and power of the navy to compete with the old aristocracy, but this was dismissed by the old aristocrats as militarism.

The old king has been struggling with the old aristocratic forces in the country all his life.

For this reason, he promoted a large number of naval officers of civilian origin, and invested the income from maritime trade in the development of private industry and commerce regardless of return.

However, in his later years, his son turned his head to win over the nobles and princes who had been suppressed by him for decades, and even wanted to recast the glory of the nobility...

Mu reckoned that if the old king hadn't really gotten old, he might have thought of deleting this account!
So far, Mu has finally connected many things in series——

No wonder Siegfried scolded the First Fleet before, "They are dogs raised by princes and nobles!" At that time, Mu didn't understand what this had to do with the prince. Isn't the navy originally sponsored by the royal family?
It wasn't until this moment that he realized that it was all because the Seventh Prince was helping those nobles infiltrate the navy built by his father!

No wonder the inland feudal nobles can have such a big say in matters such as maritime trade routes and sea power struggle.

It turned out that their master, the Seventh Prince, was helping the platform behind this.

At this moment, Mu suddenly understood Siegfried, and understood why he was always out of his mind recently.

Anyone who knows the truth will be autistic!
The moment he figured it out, Mu only felt a little bit of fear—fortunately, he didn’t agree to the Duke of Courbeauer’s solicitation at the dinner table just now!
In the age of great voyages, in order to inherit the throne, he gave up maritime sovereignty and turned to curry favor with the domestic enfeoffment nobles. In Mu's opinion, this wave of operations is simply eye-catching, not to mention discerning!
Lydia would never imagine that when she was still struggling with which daughter of the Duke she would choose after Mu married, and whether she still had a chance, the person concerned had silently made up her mind to stay as far away from the Duke's family and the seventh prince as possible.

The only thing Mu is worried about now is: Will his own family, the Eliak family, also be a fan of His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince?
When Siegfried made his identity public at Jiamaitu Port before sailing, he realized that no matter how much he wanted to stand on his own after crossing, the connection between his family and him would not be easily severed after all.

In this world, his surname is always Eliak, and this cannot be changed.

So now he wants to know whether his family has also set foot on this doomed historical car with no future, which makes him very worried.

This worry is destined to be unable to tell the person in front of him, so Mu just dealt with Lydia hastily, and found an opportunity to sneak away again without saying a few words, and he didn't even finish the small bag of biscuits.

Afterwards, he successively refused the appointments of the Duke's other daughters, and the next day he found an excuse to leave, swung a cable to leave the Grand Duke's ship, and returned to the USS Cleveland.

On this day, Lydia was leaning against the railing of the deck, still holding the half bag of handmade biscuits that she made herself but no one cared about in the end.

Looking at the beautiful blue sea and blue sky in the distance at this time, Lydia felt a little self-pitying.

She couldn't see where her future was, and she didn't understand why the young talents she had a crush on all left her one by one in the end.

But it never occurred to him that in this turbulent era, how could a young man who would focus all his attention on a little girl like her be truly talented?

In fact, Mu has seen through her small thoughts of fighting against fate from the very beginning, but he is still not interested in her.

It's just because she never had any doubts when she relayed the Duke's evaluation of the seventh prince.

She seemed to be rebelling against the life the Duke had arranged for her, but she never had any doubts or thoughts about the world the Duke described to her.

In Mu's view, she is a canary locked in a cage, and even now she has not been able to see where the cage that traps her is...

(End of this chapter)