Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

As the most powerful woman in France, she became a prisoner of a group of despicable mercenaries. Yolande will never forget this shame and humiliation.She will never let go of the opportunity to completely eradicate the wool soldiers.

As her political enemy, Prime Minister George Palace will definitely change the current sloppy attitude and support the Duke of Bourbon.

Plus, as the old saying goes, times have changed.

In the past, Yolande was willing to spare no effort to support Charles VII. It was also based on the principle of supporting the weak and suppressing the strong. He did not want England to connect with France, causing the balance of power in Western Europe to be broken.

And now, when Charles VII, who unified France, becomes more and more powerful, the relationship between the two will become more and more distant.

Charles VII is just a son-in-law, but René is his own son!

In order to preserve the ancestral family business of the Principality of Provence, Queen Yolande has worked so hard to make a living.

Although Yolande, acting as the deputy of the Duke of Anjou, did not attend today's secret meeting, the Duke of Bourbon felt that she could still fight for it.

To put it bluntly, only Count Armagnac, who was obsessed with magic, and Rachel, who was full of muscles in his head, were really on the side of Ma Youfu and supported him in executing Rodrigo and liquidating the Wool Soldiers.

The power represented by these two people is pitifully small compared to the lords on the Duke of Bourbon's side.

"Everyone must have firm belief in victory, and don't be affected by some people's unity and morale." The Duke of Bourbon gave the Duke of Berry a look while making the final summary, and warned him not to talk nonsense, "In the days to come , I hope that all noble gentlemen can exert their full strength and use various methods to draw more people to our camp."

After the semi-public meeting at San Pol Palace, another week passed, and on November 28, the imperial meeting was finally held.

Early in the morning, the sky was gloomy, and there was a cold drizzle.As winter approaches, people begin to worry about whether there will be enough food, whether there will be enough fuel, whether their homes will be strong enough to withstand the wind and snow, and whether there will be a dreaded celestial sphere convergence phenomenon.

However, the dignitaries who arrived at the Louvre in luxurious carriages obviously would not have the troubles of these ordinary people.They are full of ambition and want to persuade His Royal Highness the King to agree to their proposal and safeguard their vital interests at today's imperial meeting.

In the hall where the Duke of Bedford often used to hold military meetings, the huge mural has changed from "St. George Slaying the Dragon" to "St. Michael's Demons".

These details showing the change of the owner can be seen everywhere.

The confident Duke of Bourbon happened to meet Yolande when he walked into the Louvre.He greeted warmly: "Good morning, Queen of Aragon, may the Seven Saints bless you in safety and health! Today's imperial meeting is really exciting. I hope that we can cooperate happily and convince the king to agree to our proposal."

Two days ago, the Duke of Bourbon had a heart-to-heart conversation with Yolande.After carefully analyzing the fundamental interests of Anjou and Provence, he finally persuaded Yolande to temporarily put aside his hatred and unite for a common goal.

Although Yolande did not explicitly agree, Duke Bourbon took her as acquiescence.

Unexpectedly, this proud and capable lady just nodded slightly and responded: "Good morning, Your Excellency the Duke."

This unexpected indifference surprised Duke Bourbon.

"What's going on, didn't you say you've persuaded Yolande?" asked the Duke of Brittany who was traveling with him.

"I don't know either, women, their tempers are always capricious." The Duke of Bourbon shrugged helplessly.

But the next moment, he knew the answer.

Mahouf, the Marquis of La Manche, whom he regards as his biggest opponent, is enjoying a new oil painting on the porch at this time.Seeing Yolande walk in, he immediately greeted him, "Good morning, Mrs. Yolande, it's very cold today, take care of yourself. René can't do without your assistance."

"Don't worry about it, Lord Marquis." Yolande showed a natural smile to Ma Youfu, as if the two had been friends for many years, "The high-grade sucrose that is as white as snow that you gave as a gift is really miraculous. According to your suggestion, When the weather turns cold, I take a cup of hot sugar water every morning, which really warms up my body."

White sugar can provide a lot of calories, so it can effectively keep out the cold.

"Madam, the imperial meeting will start in a while, why don't we chat while walking. Let me introduce you, this is Mr. Donatello, one of the 12 elders of the Purification Court, and he is also a great sculptor."

"I've heard of your name a long time ago, it's an honor to meet you..."

Looking at the three people who were drifting away, the Duke of Bourbon felt disgusted as if he had eaten a fly.If he didn't disdain the vulgar and crude English, he would definitely curse at this time: "Wang! De! Fa!"

Chapter 310 Sixth, Invincible Tomorrow

The Duke of Bourbon, who felt that he was deeply deceived by Yolande, saw another scene that made him unbelievable before the anger in his heart dissipated.

I saw a meatball wearing a luxurious fur fur, "rolling" to the front of Ma Youfu and his party, and greeted the three of them in turn.

Even Yolande, who was not false to the Duke of Bourbon, nodded to the Duke of Bourbon and reluctantly put on a polite smile: "Hello, Your Excellency La Tremoille."

"Oh my God, did the devil cast illusions on my eyes? Why do these two mortal enemies act like acquaintances who just had a drink together last night!" Duke Bourbon whispered, full of puzzlement .

In fact, under the mediation of Ma Youfu last night, Yolande and George Palace did sit together and had a few drinks and reached a settlement.

Prime Minister George said that he deeply apologized for sending someone to kidnap Queen Yolande, and was willing to pay twice the original ransom as compensation.

Queen Yolande said something similar to "peace is the most important thing for everyone, and martial arts should be emphasized. Don't engage in infighting. It is the right way to unite to build a beautiful feudalism with French characteristics." The two sides shook hands and made peace.

Of course, the real reason for the two major factions in the French court to abandon their previous suspicions is still their interests.

Ma Youfu first approached the Prime Minister of George, and persuaded him earnestly to take a long-term view and stop staring at the French court all day long for introversion. There is no future.

Charles VII has now gradually grown into a real hero, and he cannot allow his close ministers to play the game of eliminating dissidents and monopolizing power.If the Prime Minister of George Palace continues to seize power and suppress political opponents as before, and even resorts to force, it will definitely not end well.It's better to take a long-term view, the world is so vast, there is a lot to do.

Then, Ma Youfu took out something-a bag of white sugar as white as frost, so that George's palace made up his mind to invest the resources of the La Tremoille family in the Crusades and go to the Maghreb Break new ground.

The refinement and purification technology of sucrose in this era is still very backward, and the finished product is often yellowish in color, contains impurities, and lacks sweetness.The high-purity sucrose that can be called "white sugar" needs to be refined repeatedly, the process is complicated, the yield is extremely low, and the price is comparable to the same amount of gold and silver.Brown sugar and brown sugar with lower purity and poorer appearance are the main sweet consumer products.The maltose business run by Margaret also competes with these low-end sugars.

However, Ma Youfu has a way to purify the flawed sucrose into white sugar with a crystal clear color like frost.

He was able to know this method, naturally thanks to the blessing of the system.

About a week ago, Ma Youfu and Donatello met. When they had lunch, they talked about the folk beliefs and customs of the Seven Saints, which gave Ma Youfu a deeper understanding of the world.

As early as the Roman Empire, when the Seven Saints had not become an official belief, and still competed with the ancient polytheism for believers, the folks actually had many different ways of praying, offering sacrifices to the Seven Saints in order to obtain blessings.

Before leaving, Donatello also gave Ma Youfu an ancient book in Latin, "The Advent of the Seven Saints".

This book records many ceremonies to communicate with the Seven Saints through rituals and pray for the blessings of the gods. They are quite different from the official etiquette of the Seven Saints, and they do not require the participation of priests. As long as they gather the materials for the ceremony, anyone can do it, and the effect is very good. not bad.

Seeing that he was happy with the hunt, Ma Youfu collected many rare magic props including twelve lucky four-leaf clover and five prophet bird feathers according to the needs of the ceremony.

According to the method in the book, he held a prayer ceremony to communicate with Mirna, the goddess of luck.

Not to mention, it really worked. A golden light shrouded Ma Youfu's body. According to the system, he got a "lucky blessing" buff within 24 hours.

Ma Youfu wanted to try the effect, so he opened the system store and started to "draw cards".

After spending only 300 points and refreshing twice, I bought two items that are very useful to me.

One is the "Diplomatic Character Feature Upgrade Scroll", which can upgrade any character features purchased with diplomatic points by two levels.

The other is a book, The History of Sugar.The book records the history of the spread, cultivation, and production of sugar in human history, as well as its impact on human society.Of course, the methods of how to make sugar and how to grow sugar cane in various historical periods and regions are also indispensable.

The yellow mud water leaching and decolorization method recorded in it can conveniently and quickly mass-produce the kind of white sugar recognized by modern people.

This technology was born in the Ming Dynasty.

After Ma Youfu read this record in the book, he couldn't help being excited, raised his arms and shouted, and played a stalk of "I am invincible tomorrow".

In fact, it was because he, an engineering student, was ignorant.This is the knowledge recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu", but anyone who reads a few more historical time travel novels will not be unaware of it.

All in all, having mastered the method of producing sugar in large quantities at low cost, Ma Youfu's ambition has evolved from "developing the sugar industry to make a lot of money" to "monopolizing the sweet stomachs of Europeans and building a sugar empire".

Then, Ma Youfu urgently purchased a large amount of sucrose, and after several experiments, he finally successfully produced a batch of white sugar.

He carefully packaged these white sugars, and then presented them to the nobles who were ready to win over.

Yolande and George Palace Minister naturally received such a gift as white as snow and as sweet as honey.

Prime Minister George Palace immediately realized the huge benefits and broad prospects.So he gave up the previous attitude of both sides of the mouse head, and decided to support Ma Youfu at the imperial meeting.

The Yolande side is a bit trickier.

Because what she cares most about is the inheritance of her son René.

Then Ma Youfu gave her a suggestion: let René also participate in the great sweet party crusade cause, and promised that as long as a crusader country is established in Tunisia, he will help René seize the throne of Naples.

Tunisia, Sicily and southern Italy have had close business ties since ancient times.Even if the two major religious forces are now facing each other across the sea, it seems that they are irreconcilable, and the trade relationship between the two sides is still maintained.

You can see merchants of the Seven Saints in the city of Tunis, as well as merchants of Araby in Messina and Naples.

Occupying Tunisia is equivalent to having a forward base for attacking southern Italy.In the future, when a war broke out between Aragon and Provence for the throne of Naples, René could gain a great geostrategic advantage.

Therefore, Yolande finally threw an olive branch to Mayoufu, and shook hands with George Palace while pinching his nose.

This also relieved Ma Youfu, eliminating a hidden danger in the palace.

Although that fat man is sinister and cunning, he is obsessed with power and extremely greedy for wealth, so he is not a good person.But what about that famous quote from Roosevelt?

If he's a son of a bitch, he's our son of a bitch.

The previous cooperation between the two parties was very pleasant, and Mayoufu felt that he could also give him a hand at the right time. Don't let this guy be disgusted by Charles VII because of his authoritarian interference in politics, and then he will be in a relationship with the Breton faction and Yolando. He lost power in the political struggle against Germany and eventually ended up being expelled from the court.

His cousin Gildrey was also implicated, and was finally framed by the Breton faction and executed for murdering a large number of children for cult rituals, becoming the prototype of the later Bluebeard.

After experiencing a dramatic reversal at the gate of the Louvre, two groups of people, Ma Youfu and the Duke of Bourbon, arrived at the conference hall one after another.

After everyone was seated, after a while, Charles VII, wearing a blue iris cloak, arrived at the scene.

In this enlarged imperial meeting, Charles VII convened a total of [-] important figures from all walks of life, but the attendance of the three major walks of life was seriously unbalanced.

The clergy consisted of the archbishop of Reims and lord of the seal Regnio de Chartres.If it is considered Donatello, the representative of the Holy See, there are only one and a half.

The bourgeoisie consisted only of Jacques Cole, the treasurer, and Étienne Amboise, the mayor of Paris.

There is also a personal adviser to the king who does not belong to any class, Bryce di Valentino.This alchemist and fortune-teller once had a relationship with Ma Youfu in Burgundy.

The rest of the people were all from the noble class, and all six dukes were present.

From this point, it can be seen which class's interests will be most affected by the results of this imperial meeting.

Charles VII didn't say much, just waved his hand and let Donatello speak.

"You all gathered here today must be to stifle the evil, spread the glory of the seven saints, and conquer the great cause of the heretics." Donatello said with a smile on his face, "Here, let me tell you noble gentlemen a piece of good news. In addition to the initiative of France and Burgundy, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Italian states, the four Iberian countries, and even the three Nordic countries have all returned to the Holy See and are willing to respond to the call of the Holy See to join this Southern Crusade. "

Within the sphere of influence of the Seven Saints, except for the Eastern European countries that faced the threat of Ottoman, and England, which was in chaos, almost all other countries agreed to participate in the Crusades.

But how many of them are sincerely willing to cross the sea to fight the heretics for their beliefs, and how many of them are just talking about it, it is uncertain.

However, even if this lineup is discounted by [-]%, the scale of the Crusaders will be unprecedented.

The news lifted the atmosphere of the meeting.Everyone is a devout Seven Saints, can you not be happy?Dare you be unhappy?

Charles VII proposed to levy a special tax for the Crusaders for military use, and everyone agreed.However, for matters related to the interests of the middle and lower classes, the imperial meeting has nothing to say, and must be voted on by one vote at the three-level meeting.

Whether to participate in the Crusades is purely voluntary.As for the Hundred Years' War that has just been fought, the question of where the soldiers will come from is a matter of discussion.

The content of the discussion finally came to the most sensitive issue of wool soldier disposal.

Chapter 310 Seventh Controversy Before the Emperor

When talking about the issue of soldiers, it is natural to think of those wool soldiers in France who can only burn, kill and loot every day because of unemployment.How to deal with these wool soldiers became the focus of the meeting.

Although he lost the two cards of the Prime Minister and the Queen of Aragon, the Duke of Bourbon, who was still confident, took the lead in attacking.

He first stated his proposition, and then presented a roll of letter paper: "Your Highness, this is a joint letter from 31 nobles. Most of them cannot come to Paris, so they can only entrust me to submit their petition. I hope you can fully consider our suggestion. Release Rodrigo, who has a strong appeal among free mercenaries, and let him summon a mercenary group to attack North Africa as the vanguard of the crusaders. This is the best way to solve two problems at once method."

"Why only organize half of the wool soldiers to participate in the Crusade? What about the other half?" Charles VII said in a calm tone.

"On the one hand, it is to save money. The national treasury is not abundant, and it is too difficult to supply [-] troops across the Mediterranean." The Duke of Bourbon explained in detail, "In addition, France also needs With a certain amount of military protection, in addition to preventing the invasion of neighboring countries, you must also guard against the possible convergence of the celestial spheres. Therefore, you need to have professional troops stationed everywhere. The lords are willing to pay half of the country’s military expenses to show their loyalty to you.”