European Financial Emperor

105 turning point(3)

Lee Hwan sent a telegram saying he wanted to visit Willem I, and immediately got in a car and headed for Amsterdam.

In the evening, Lee Hwan arrived in Amsterdam and received a telegram from Ben Heren’s mansion.

“Your Highness wants to meet you tomorrow around noon.”

“All right. I do.”

Lee Hwan and Elizabeth decided to spend a day in Amsterdam to pay for their entrance to the palace.

The two decided to buy a bottle of wine on the streets of Amsterdam and sit down for a drink in a moderately scenic harbor.

Drinking wine while enjoying the cool breeze was truly exquisite.

The two were drinking while exchanging bottles of wine and talking about business.

“Now that we have developed Cairo, can we prepare to mine and distribute diamonds?”

At Elizabeth’s question, Lee Hwan immediately took out a map.

The map he took out was given to Lee Hwan by Elizabeth the other day.

She smiled softly.

“I still have this… … .”

“sure. It is difficult to find an accurate map as much as this.”

“… … Sheesh, just for that reason?”

“And you gave it to me. I treasured it.”

“Heh, that’s it.”

Elizabeth is a woman who has to listen to whatever she wants to hear.

Sometimes it makes people a little embarrassed, but that’s what attracted Lee Hwan.

This is because he is a fairly passive human being when it comes to relationships between men and women.

Lee Hwan pointed his fingers at the area where he had sent the expedition to Elizabeth in turn.

“We sent expeditions trained in geology to mines known for diamonds. Now, as soon as we find a diamond there, we will offer to send messengers to the local emirates in exchange for necessities and land.”

“Um, so you bring it to Austria and sell it?”

“no. You have to wash it once and sell it in Egypt. It will cost a lot more.”

She slapped her knee at the Egyptian talk.

“Aha! That’s why you built an auction house for precious metals in Egypt!”

“I wanted to sell it undetected if possible, and if that was the case, I wanted to get a higher price.”

“… … Seriously, even if you have good resourcefulness, isn’t it too good? How could you think like that?”

On the surface, it was said that it was a project that was started to save Egypt, and the auction business was said to set fire to revival across the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula.

But to say that such a thorough calculation was hidden behind the scenes, she must be surprised.

“He is a very attractive person. No, how could you think like that?”

“Haha, too much praise is bad.”

“Tell me honestly. You, don’t you have tens of thousands of dead people in your head?”

“… … yes?”

“Is this possible otherwise?”

I thought that Elizabeth was a ghost and not someone else.

Lee Hwan accepted her joke.

“How did know? Ghosts in my head? Would you like to release it in front of you tonight?”

“Yeah, I knew it!”

The two get along pretty well.

Lee Hwan thought maybe Elizabeth was not the woman he was looking for.

He asked Elizabeth secretly.

“If I asked you to go to North America, would you go?”

“Are you married?”

“Anyway.”

Elizabeth agreed on the spot without thinking deeply.

“If you go.”

“No, I’m seriously asking.”

“Am I serious too?”

“… … What do you believe in me?”

She smiled softly.

Her strange scent mixed with the night air tickled Lee Hwan’s nose.

Drunk or whatever, her smile seemed more beautiful today.

She was more beautiful in heart than face.

“Believe in my heart that loves you.”

“… … love?”

“I think I already love you.”

Lee Hwan could not come to his senses at the confession of her who came in without even blinking.

But she said it over and over again.

He said that he would definitely marry Lee Hwan.

“Hey, she’s a pretty girl.”

“So take it.”

He made a decision.

He said that he would lead East Stellar with her in the future.

“Let’s get married.”

***

In May 1828, a message of victory was delivered to the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

Early in the morning, the voices of boys running with newspapers on the street filled with energy.

“Newspaper! Last evening the Prussian Union surrendered!”

Last night, Lee Hwan and Elizabeth, who drank moderately and slept together, came out to the street with happy faces.

The two handed the boy a silver coin.

“Take the rest.”

“Oh, thank you! You will be blessed!”

“We’re giving it as a commemoration of our engagement.”

“congratulations! If you have a wedding later, I will definitely go!”

“Ha ha, yes. Thank you.”

Elizabeth and Lee Hwan held hands and kissed on the street.

Yesterday, the two of them built the Great Wall, and the scent of roses seemed to float in their eyes as they looked at each other.

On the way to breakfast, Lee Hwan and her read the newspaper while walking closely together.

“Congratulations. Your family has won.”

“It’s all thanks to Eaststellar’s weapons. And now our family is Easterfield?”

“… … Whoa, is that so?”

“Absolutely. Now I have to change my last name to Easterfield.”

The two, who became lovers and betrothed based on the trust they had built up so far, celebrated the victory of the Austrian Union.

After having a soft soup for breakfast, they took a bath together and then headed to the Royal Palace of Amsterdam.

Obviously, I woke up early in the morning and went out to the palace, but the time was already approaching noon.

The waitress, who came to meet them, tilted his head.

“It’s strange. I heard you said there was a lodging nearby?”

The two looked at each other and smiled.

“… … Even if I hadn’t taken a bath.”

“Cook… … !”

The chieftain intuited that the two were now close, and ignored the two of them being late.

“Well, in any case, Your Majesty is waiting for you. Eat inside.”

“thank you.”

Holding hands, the two decided to stay for a while in the palace’s reception room before meeting the king.

While sitting here and drinking tea, the two were busy making love.

“Would you like to go to Asia together later?”

“Good! You know, it was my dream to give birth in a belly.”

“… … It’s not that difficult.”

It was a love that had just begun, so it was very hot.

To them, the servant chief appeared with contemplation.

For a moment, Lee Hwan frowned.

“What is going on?”

“… … Your Majesty is important.”

“what?!”

“I told you to bring the baron. Go quickly.”

Lee Hwan got up from his seat and headed to the king’s bedroom with her.

The vassal arrived in front of the king’s bedroom, and secretly looked into Elizabeth’s eyes.

“The baron told me to come by myself… … .”

“Then please tell me. We’re engaged and we’ve been spending the night together, so they want us to go in together.”

“… … I’m sorry, but that seems difficult.”

She nodded.

“it’s okay. I’ll be waiting for you, so let’s go.”

“But now we will soon be a couple… … .”

“There is a saying in the East that a married couple is of one heart. What you hear is the same as what I hear. So come on in.”

Also, she was full of strength.

Lee Hwan left Elizabeth and went into the king’s bedroom.

As soon as the door opened, the stench entered Lee Hwan’s nose for an instant.

‘… … What smells so bad?’

He was guided by the chaplain to the bed on which William I lay.

The face of King Willem I, lying on a duvet made of red silk, was nothing short of a mountain mortuary.

There was no flesh to be found, and his eyes already looked like there were more whites than blacks.

“… … majesty!”

“Wow, are you here… … ?”

Even Willem I didn’t seem to have the energy to speak properly.

Lee Hwan asked the chief of staff what the name of the disease was and how to treat it.

“What happened? Why have you come to this point, Your Majesty?”

“According to the doctor, it must be the Black Death… … .”

“… … Damn it, whatever you do, you bring the Black Death!”

It seemed to Lee Hwan that he was addicted to something or suffered from severe organ failure.

In addition, if it was the Black Death, it was normal when he received medicine from the East Stellar Research Hospital by now and showed signs of gradually improving.

“At least he wouldn’t be so emaciated if he got some fluids, so what the hell did the doctors do?”

“That, that… … .”

“It’s absurd. Go ahead and bring a representative from the headquarters of the East Stellar Company. We need to bring in the doctors and nurses from the research hospital.”

Of course, I thought that the royal palace had the best medical staff, but Lee Hwan was disappointed.

Then King Willem I beckoned him.

“… … No, leave me alone.”

“majesty! At this rate, it is really hard to predict today!”

“… … there’s nothing wrong with it If this is my destiny.”

“fate… … .”

“Hey, Easterfield… … . I have something to tell you.”

To make people like this, Lee Hwan was very angry, but he struggled to endure it.

He decided to listen to Willem I first.

As he approached and sat down, Willem I told him an astonishing story.

“… … They tried to poison me in England.”

“Yes… … ?!”

“… … But I think there are helpers in the royal palace.”

“whoever?!”

He shook his head.

“Shh, don’t talk too loudly… … . They can hear it.”

“But shouldn’t we be looking for the culprit?”

“… … No, don’t. Rather, I have to prepare for my death first. If we leave it like this, our Netherlands will be divided into quarters.”

Lee Hwan felt frustrated.

Regardless of the public opinion, Willem I provided a foothold for Yi Hwan to leap forward, and he was the one who guided him until now.

Without Willem I, the Eaststellar Company might not exist.

He shrugged off his troubled heart.

“Your Majesty, please tell me.”

“… … Come on, marry Elizabeth first.”

“I already promised to get married yesterday.”

“… … Oh, that’s good. Then it would be much faster.”

King Willem I took the ring from his hand and handed it to Yi Hwan.

After receiving the ring, Lee Hwan had a mysterious expression on his face.

“Why… … .”

“… … Our Kingdom of the Netherlands is now up to you.”

“… … ?”

“Elizabeth, you want to make her a queen.”

In an instant, Lee Hwan’s eyes widened.

King Willem I held Yi Hwan’s hand tightly.

“… … You must protect the queen. Do you understand?”

“Ha, but… … .”

“Answer me. Can you do it?”

If Lee Hwan accepted this, he would have plunged into another European civil war.

However, if it was really the poisoning of Willem I in England, the deal had already been made.

“… … I will destroy England.”

“Yes, thank you… … .”

Willem I summoned the chieftain.

Then, he left a will to the chief servant to assist Lee Hwan in the future.

“… … written a will. When you reveal it, you should take care of it with all your heart.”

“Damn, my lord… … !”

“Hey, Easterfield… … !”

At the end of his life, he called Lee Hwan.

“Yes, my lord!”

“… … Ask the Netherlands and Queen Elizabeth… … .”

dump.

Thus, the Reformed monarch of the Netherlands, Willem I, died.