Valkyrie Europa

Chapter 392

France, Paris, Grand Palais.

"Are you here?" Miss Sophie stood up from behind the desk. Her face was very haggard, her skin was a little pale, her eyes were covered with big bags, and she looked overworked. Even her voice was much weaker than usual. .

"I'm here to resign." The person who spoke was a middle-aged man in a tuxedo, who was one of the Polish warrior saints, the "Poet of Joy" Chopin.

"Are you going back?" Miss Sophie asked again as if unwilling to give up.

"Yeah, you also know that this time it was a complete fiasco, and there is no way to talk about future cooperation between our country and your country. And this time we helped you, if you fail to keep the German side, you will be angry and angry with us, Poland. Let’s start, Copernicus is the only one in China now, I’m afraid he won’t be able to handle it, so I have to go back as soon as possible.” Chopin explained the reason.

"It's true, and I have no reason to keep Your Excellency, but now His Majesty is recovering from illness, I wonder if Your Excellency can stay for a while, and you can leave after His Majesty recovers." Miss Sophie said sincerely : "Although we failed this time and couldn't meet the conditions in the original contract with your country, we will try our best to compensate, whether it is in various resources, materials, or money."

"No need!" Chopin interrupted Miss Sophie's long speech, and said directly: "Actually, you also know that my stay is not of much use, it is nothing more than a matter of face. Although your country suffered heavy losses this time, it is expensive As far as the security of the country is concerned, after all, with Mr. Roland around, it should not be a problem. After ten or eight years of recovery, it should be able to recover. It is useless for me to stay at this time, so I will not stay! As for the compensation As for the problem, you should discuss it directly with our ambassador, that’s all.”

After saying that, he kept striding forward, ignoring Miss Sophie's pleas, and left the palace straight away, then jumped up and disappeared into the distant sky.

It had been three days since the French army had withdrawn.

But rather than withdrawing, it might be better to say that they fled back. At the beginning, a dozen or so elite troops of nearly 20 went out to fight, but this time only more than 1 people fled back to the country one after another.Under the continuous pursuit of the German army and the three warrior-level powerhouses, most of the French soldiers left their lives on foreign lands.

But fortunately, Chopin, the "poet of joy" in Poland, did not abandon the covenant. He tried his best to support him all the way, and escorted His Majesty Napoleon and some senior generals back to France, so that the final loss did not fall in an unpredictable direction.

And when he came back, perhaps due to the long-distance exhaustion or the stimulation of the fiasco, His Majesty Napoleon still fell ill. Now he is bedridden and unable to deal with political affairs. The whole task of dealing with the mess was placed on Miss Sophie's shoulders.

Miss Sophie and Grand Duke Louisa and their party were in Austria on the south bank at the time, but they were not pursued by the Germans. In the end, they made a detour to Switzerland, returned to China, and began to think of ways to organize people to respond to the scattered and fleeing French soldiers.In the end, Lord Roland, the "No. [-] Paladin" was called to stop the German pursuit army at the border.

But obviously, it is easy to stop the Germans from pursuing, but it is very difficult to deal with this mess.

It wasn't just the soldiers who died this time, but also a large number of nobles, even senior generals and nobles. Many of these people held high positions in the current French government.These people have great influence, in-laws, brothers, father and son, and they are deeply intertwined in the French government.Their death in battle immediately plunged the entire French government into chaos. Many people left their public positions and planned to go to Germany to see if they could find their relatives or their bones.

This brought government functions to a standstill. As a temporary political handler, Miss Sophie took a long time to roughly restore the functions of various government departments and began to deal with the mess after the war.

First of all, it is natural to provide pensions. Whether it is ordinary soldiers or generals who died in battle, most of them have family members. In order to maintain the country's reputation and stability, the first thing is of course to stabilize the emotions of those family members and orphans. Carry out pensions.

Pensions, it sounds very simple, nothing more than money.It is not that simple to do that, the list of war dead is a big problem. In the end, the French army had completely dispersed and fought on their own. Most of them were killed by the Germans, but some were still lucky. Survived, even now, there are one after another, sporadic survivors escaped from Germany, which makes it very difficult to determine the list of war dead.

The other is of course money. After several years of recuperation, the French treasury naturally has some money, but there are also many places to spend money. Building a fleet and preparing for war are all major items of money.It stands to reason that the pension money is retained, but this time it is different, because too many people died in battle!The pensions of tens of thousands of people are barely gritted, and the treasury can afford it, but the pensions of hundreds of thousands of people are completely powerless, because no one thought that this time they would lose so badly and die so many.

The other is to restore strength. In this war, it can be said that the French elite have lost their lives!The current military strength is not even comparable to that of some stronger small countries, the Principality, which is the weakest time in history.Now it can be said that only relying on the prestige of Lord Roland, the legendary "No. [-] Paladin", was able to barely resist those possible threats.

But in the same way, recruiting soldiers, buying horses, and training new recruits all cost money. Even if the most patriotic recruits take the initiative not to ask for military pay, you still have to provide him with food, clothes, and weapons, and all of these require money!
Moreover, taking ten thousand steps back, even if you have enough money, if you want to train recruits to become the original elite, how can it be achieved overnight?

And the last point is high-end force.

This time the Holy See made a move, the Grand Pope of the Witch Cult, and a Martial Saint-level Archbishop fell one after another. Even the three "Goddesses of the Night" were captured by the Austrians, and the rest were kittens and puppies. Only, it can be said that giving the Witch Cult 100 years may not be able to recover, let alone support France.

And France's own "Sharp Gunner" D'Artagnan was also seriously injured in this battle. Although he was snatched back in the end, judging from his injury, he would not be able to shoot for at least a few years.Moreover, he is only a newly promoted martial saint, and the "Sharp Spear Martial Saint" is not considered powerful among all martial saints. Even if he can recover, it will not bring much change to the national strength.

Then there are things to appease the big and small nobles, compensate the thankless Poles, defend against possible German retaliation, and even how to deal with the Witch Cult.

And these things were all pressured on Miss Sophie who had just lost her husband, but had no time to grieve.

(End of this chapter)