There was only one person on the decks of the two ships, and they stood on the side of their respective ships, and were speechless.

Finally, the young man in a white coat broke his silence: "Mr. Obilean, you invite me to the sea not only to confirm whether I am still alive."

Obilean, who had a cold and arrogant face in a red military uniform, said stiffly: "Mr. Robert, Duke hopes that you can advance our plan according to the previous agreement and start war next month, is it OK?"

The young man in a white coat was Robert Baptiste, the Prime Minister of the Principal of Castia. At this time, he still kept a gentle smile and said slowly: "I think the reason for the suspension of the plan should not be the reason for me."

As Stuart's commander-in-chief, Obilean was not used to the way of communication with politicians who spoke around the corner. Robert's unquestionable answer made him quite angry. He suppressed his anger and said, "I just came to confirm with you whether the war could start next month. If you agree, we will follow the plan. If you refuse, we will make corresponding adjustments. All the previous agreements with the Duke will be invalidated."

Hearing this, Robert's gentle face suddenly changed, he glared and slammed the ship's guardrail with his palms, and said angrily: "For the sake of your colonists being attacked by the Dog of Light, I delayed the time of the plan. Is it wrong? I'm all for your own good! Who knows that Dog of Light attacks on the New World at that time?

I will give you time to deal with the troubles of the colony. Are you wrong? Can you hold on to the multi-line battle?

What if Duke Amon's new army is defeated by the royal family? Have I ever said that I will stop working together?

Because of this, you sent someone to assassinate me? Do you think we can still cooperate?"

Facing Robert, who suddenly lost control of his emotions, Obilean was still expressionless, and his deep eyes seemed to see through the hysterical man in front of him.

"One of the main purpose of the Duke asked me to talk to you is to explain to you that the previous assassination was not done by our military intelligence office. We suspect that another force intervened and provoked conflicts between us."

Robert was not satisfied with his explanation, "Provocation? Joke! I know how many people we cooperate with have in total? Once I die, the army on the border will inevitably launch an attack. It is not in line with your wishes, and I will take the opportunity to drag the royal family into the war."

Obilean had no choice but to say: "It is not in Stuart's interest to kill you. If you die, although the war can begin immediately, it cannot continue as our plan, and it cannot end with the expected results."

Robert scoffed: "Once I die, you can support a guy who is more likely to be controlled by you to become Prime Minister Castia. This battle is not just about fighting as you want, ending as you want, and occupying as much territory as you want.

I'm dead. You owe me money, the patent fees for gunpowder, the patent fees for warships under your feet, all of them have been written off. Isn't the Duke secretly happy?

By the way, there is no need to give it to my family in the five southern cities!

Just a fake war performance, who can’t do it? Who can do it if it’s changed to anyone!”

Debate is not Obilein's strength at all, but his advantage is his firm will and clear thinking.

"You know that with the close cooperation between us, it is impossible for us to betray our alliance. I believe you have reserved the means to check and balance us. So, this time I came to ask you for the Duke, what price will it take to keep our plan going?"

The other party played the cards without following the norm and directly turned on the trump card. Robert had to put away his anger and began to put forward new conditions.

...

The cooperation with Stuart began five years ago. At the beginning, it was just Stuart's spies who came to the door to hope to cooperate with each other to do some "small" things that are mutually beneficial.

At that time, Robert had just mastered the knowledge hidden in the book by his great-grandfather, but he was suffering from the lack of equipment and materials, unable to experiment, and even more unable to mass produce.

The emergence of Stuart spies gave Robert the opportunity to "borrow chickens and lay eggs". The powerful industrial production capacity of the Principal of Stuart finally turned the gunpowder, muskets, artillery, and warships that remained on the drawings into reality. In exchange for Stuart to help Robert establish a train and rail production factory.

It can be said that without Stuart's support, Robert would not have put the train and railway into use so quickly and then established the railway company.

In fact, in the eyes of many "knowledgeable people", Castia has the weakest military strength, and is closest to the Principality of Stuart, which has become increasingly powerful due to industrialization in recent years. It will definitely be the first to be affected in the future and be annexed by Stuart. Under this pessimism, many Castias secretly colluded with Stuart.

The Principal of Stuart also used the network of relationships that had been lurking and bribed over the years to push Robert from an ordinary second-generation nobleman to Castia's finance department, and later became the auxiliary minister in charge of finance.

If he had not unexpectedly become the acting president of the Mithril Society, Robert was just one of the Castia officials who was bribed by Stuart's spy. He was optimistic about Stuart's strength and handed over a "vote letter" early. After Castia is annexed by Stuart in the future, he will still be rewarded and valued for his merits.

However, after becoming the acting president of the Mithril Society, Robert suddenly gained strong support. Not only did he start to cultivate his own power in Castia, but he also took the opportunity to get rid of the then prime minister Eisingdorf and become Castia's ruler.

Robert, who was getting richer, naturally interrupted his cooperation with Stuart, turned to building Castia, and began to build his own factory to produce powerful gunpowder weapons, and establish a unit like the Stuart new army.

Not only that, Robert also used the power of the Mithril Society to make trouble in Stuart, hoping to hold back the expansion of Grand Duke Stuart. It was Robert's work to secretly spread revolutionary ideas and fund trade unions. The time when Martin was imprisoned was initiated by the Mithril Society.

During the years Robert's rule, Castia's military strength grew rapidly, which forced the Grand Duke of Stuart Amon to consider launching a war against Castia in advance.

Considering the attitude of the royal family and the Principal of Saxony, Amon hoped that Castia would launch the war. Stuart was forced to fight back. With the help of the traitor, he landed from the south and quickly occupied the most fertile southern coastal areas, creating a fait accompli before the royal family intervened, and fighting half of Castia's territory.

In this way, Stuart can firmly hold the strongest position among the three major priests, and slowly erode Castia in the future until it annexes it.

Unfortunately, Amon's plan was informed by members of the Mithril Society. In the past two years, Robert made a lot of arrangements to disrupt Amon's plan.

First, a group of pirates were recruited in the New World, equipped with gunpowder weapons, and led by several masters with strong combat power in the Mithril Club to raid the northern region town Ilga, and at the appropriate time they exposed their connection with the Principal of Stuart, and opposed the Northern Region and the Royal Family with Stuart.

Then he planned the "Contact Office Massacre" in the imperial capital to make the conflict between the royal family and Stuart public.

Finally, he took the opportunity to declare war and posed as if he wanted to go to war with the Principality of Stuart.

Under such circumstances, the Principality of Stuart did not dare to start a war. Once the war began, the royal family and Castia would fight Stuart together.

The way of dealing with the Grand Duke of Stuart was to take the evidence that Robert had surrendered to Stuart back then, threatening Robert to provoke the war, and deliberately defeated after the war, giving up enough interests to Stuart, and then begging for surrender at appropriate times.

As long as both sides are well prepared, the war goal can be reached before the royal family intervenes.

Of course, in addition to threats, he also drew a large piece of cake for Robert. For example, in the future, the five southern cities can become the fiefdoms of the Baptist family.

However, after learning that the colony of the Principality of Stuart was occupied by the Kingdom of Light, Robert pretended to agree, while delaying the time and continuing to arrange it, hoping to give himself a better opportunity to fight back by delaying the war.
Chapter completed!