Chapter 340 Philippa's Ambition
"The Duke has been waiting inside for a long time."
At the door, Enns bowed slightly to the two people in front of him, fulfilling his responsibility as a guide.
When facing foreign guests, he used official titles for Lan.
Philippa held her chin high and nodded imperceptibly towards Enns.
She was accompanied by Prince Radovid of Redania.
The prince didn't seem to be very willing to get along with his own court sorcerer, and he tried his best to distance himself from Philippa through the narrow doorway.
Suddenly, the prince seemed to have discovered something and shouted loudly.
"What do you mean by Cintra? Is this how your guards treat Redania?"
Everyone followed his voice and looked over. Not far from the corridor, a man dressed as a guard put his hand on He held the lion-headed sword at his waist, his eyes fixed on Redania's direction.
Even those who are not skilled in martial arts can feel the hostility coming from this posture.
But Prince Radovid was so confident that he only felt offended.
He wanted to continue yelling something, but Philippa took the first step and put her hand on his shoulder.
The prince suddenly stiffened and could not say anything more.
"Your Highness, Cintra has just escaped from the quagmire of war, and there are brave knights everywhere." Philippa smiled meaningfully.
She was obviously talking to the prince, but her eyes were tilted in the direction of the guard: "This is something worthy of praise, isn't it?"
Prince Radovid lowered his head and tensed the shoulder that was holding the warlock's hand.
"Let's go in. The mission entrusted to us by His Majesty should always come first."
The door opened and then closed tightly, and the prince and advisors of Redania disappeared from everyone's sight.
Enns sighed slightly and patted House's hand that was still firmly pressed on the hilt of the sword.
"Didn't I deliberately tell you to stay away from the Redanian Mission?"
House took a deep breath: "I'm sorry, Mr. Enns. I originally wanted to report the situation to the Duke..." "
I didn't expect it. I met the sorceress..."
——Lan
, who had just returned from the dungeon, was closing his eyes to rest.
He was thinking about his conversation with Fringilla Vigo.
After being stamped by the system's [Follower] system, Fringilla's favorability towards Lan was directly maximized.
But in her own heart, she may only feel that she was convinced by Lan's description of the future and the promised benefits.
In short, in the end, we reached a state where we can know everything and talk about it endlessly.
During this conversation, Lann was also surprised to find that Fringilla had already established a relationship with Philipba.
They even discussed the identity of their ancient blood.
Fringilla is also quite an eccentric person among the southern warlocks: on the one hand, she has an extremely powerful uncle, Artorios Vigo; secondly, she is also a cousin of the Duchess of Toussaint, and even traces her bloodline to Distant relative of Emperor Emhyr.
This provides a certain political guarantee for Fringilla's uniqueness. As long as it was not an act of treason, the emperor basically tolerated her.
In this environment, Fringilla formed the concept of "magic above all else", and thus established a relationship with Philippa.
And what is Philippa's intention to contact the southern warlocks in her personal capacity?
Lann thought he would know today.
If his guess was correct, he might have to wait for the long-awaited opportunity - the opportunity to integrate the north.
The sound of the door opening sounded.
When Lan looked up, he saw Philippa and Radovid walking forward step by step.
It is reported that Vizmir II has appointed Philippa to be the prince's full-time teacher.
"Greetings to you, Duke Lannister."
"May His Majesty Vizmir II be in good health." Lann returned the greeting.
No matter what both parties think in their hearts, there must be enough superficial drama at this moment.
To Lan's surprise, it was not Philipba who spoke first during the meeting, but Radovid.
Redania seems to be interested in tempering the prince who will be called "hard-hearted Radovid" in this diplomacy.
"I am here to bring my father's congratulations. Now everyone in the North knows about Duke Lannister's achievements, and Redania also hopes to achieve closer and closer cooperation with Cintra ."
This little prince is a little younger than Xili, but he speaks in Mandarin in the same way.
After he ascends the throne in the future, he will become a cruel king beyond anyone's expectations, but it seems that it is not yet time to let himself go - at least the palace education he received is still good.
Although there is a feeling of stiffness like memorizing a manuscript.
Lann didn't have a good look on Radovid.
"I am very grateful to His Royal Highness the Prince and His Majesty Vizmir for their blessings, but why doesn't Cintra feel any closeness to Redania now?" "
As far as I know, all the port towns in Redania have improved. They imposed commercial taxes on Cintra and closed the main canals." Lann said coldly, "Is this a reflection of your 'intimacy'?" Lann's accusation was not
groundless, Redania has indeed given Cintra a Terra caused quite a bit of trouble.
Basically, except for Novigrad, which is controlled by the Eternal Fire Cult, the entire Redania official has shown a repulsive attitude towards Cintra.
Even though Redania's merchants are eager to see Cintra, which is now in desperate need of development, they are all hindered by the existence of this objective factor. The delivery speed of various materials and commercial activities have been greatly slowed down, which has reduced Cintra's potential. The speed of recovery.
Lan En could vaguely guess the reason.
He knew that after Nilfgaard was driven away, the attitude of the four northern kingdoms towards Cintra would definitely change.
The alliance is already fragile.
But I didn't expect that Redania would be the first to change, and the change would be so fast and so big.
Prince Radovid stopped memorizing the manuscript at this time, and his face began to show displeasure: "Duke Lannister, we just restored the policy to the previous state. Between the period of Queen Calanthe and Redania The relationship is like this now, I think you want to tell me about your accusation..."
Philippa coughed lightly behind the prince, preventing the prince from saying the rash words that followed his nature.
The displeasure on Radovid's face suddenly turned into even more embarrassing frustration.
Since his back was to Philippa, Lan could still clearly see the suppressed anger in the young prince's eyes.
What's more interesting is that the prince was stuck because of his emotions, but the royal advisor Philippa had no intention of taking over the prince's conversation and continuing to talk to the Duke of Sintra.
The sorceress even slightly raised the corners of her mouth with a satisfied expression, seeming to enjoy seeing the prince's embarrassment.
So Lan had a leisurely time to admire it for a while, and after a long time he took the initiative to say: "In that case, I wonder what opinions His Majesty the Prince has brought with His Majesty Vizmir?" This answer should have been taught to La by the staff in advance
. Dovid's, so the little prince began to memorize the manuscript stiffly again.
"I wonder if Duke Lannister still remembers the talks he had with my father and other majesties in Pontar?" [Sure enough. ] Lann thought to himself.
He grimaced.
"What do you mean?"
Radovid said loudly: "When my father, His Majesty Foltest, His Majesty Henselt, and His Majesty Demavi agreed to help Cintra's recovery, Princess Cirilla would not I will enter into a marriage contract with one of the royal families of the four major kingdoms." "
And among the four major kingdoms, I am the only one from Redania who has enough status and the right age to marry Princess Cirilla."
"Cintra also needs a strong ally to support and advance and retreat with it."
Radovid showed a reserved expression.
"I wonder if Duke Lannister knows that Queen Calanthe once promised me a marriage contract with Princess Cirilla. Princess Cirilla and I already have an extraordinary fate." "Father hopes that this time I
can Clarify the previous misunderstanding with Cintra and re-conclude the marriage with Princess Cirilla." "
This is what we call a 'closer and closer' friendship. And this will definitely make Redania and Cintra Terra has established an alliance in the north that no one can covet!"
Lann remembered that before the Nilfgaardian invasion, Queen Calanthe had indeed betrothed Ciri to Radovid. However, Vizmir II did not want to get involved in the battle between Cintra and Nilfgaard, so he broke off the engagement.
Queen Calanthe then betrothed Ciri to the prince of the Kingdom of Verden, which triggered the incident in which Ciri escaped from marriage and hid in the forest of Brochron in the dryads.
Now Redania wants to bring up the past?
Lan's face turned cold.
It's good. The pace of integrating the northern border can be accelerated.
——At
night, Lan soaked in the tub to relax his tired body.
But his brain was racing.
He had long known that the so-called "alliance" between Sintra and the countries in the north was full of holes, and he had long been prepared for the four major countries to take the opportunity to launch an attack.
He also has plans for dealing with various countries in his mind.
"I just didn't expect that Redania would be the first." Lann murmured to himself, "I originally thought that Temeria would be the first to bear the brunt. I was already preparing to support Yada to take the throne..."
" I wonder what the Temerian mission will ask for tomorrow..."
The window was opened, and the cold evening breeze poured into Lan's bedroom.
This level of temperature is almost insensitive to Lann's current physique.
But Lann doesn’t have any hobby of taking a bath with cold wind blowing.
He is waiting for someone.
"Pulling Leng-"
Lan En was not disappointed. As expected, the sound of flapping wings soon sounded on the balcony.
A huge owl stared at Lann with big eyes.
With a burst of chaotic energy distortion, the raptor's body began to swell and outline, and finally transformed into the shape of a sorceress.
It was Philippa Eilhardt, the Redanian royal advisor who had just met with Radovid and Lan, and now one of the top ten senior warlocks in the North.
"Long time no see, Lan."
Philipba walked forward slowly and glanced at Lan's bedroom.
After leaning a little, she fixed her gaze on Lan En's upper body above the water, looking at Lan En's well-defined muscles with admiring eyes.
"Our last meeting was not pleasant." Lann did not give Philipba a good look. "And you should call me 'Duke Lannister' like it was during the day." The last time we met
was at Cowfort. At that time, Philippa Reba made a lasting impression on Lane's entire team.
Philippa's face turned cold.
But she soon managed to smile again, because now their identities have indeed been reversed.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have to make so many preparations for today's meeting.
"People with great power and high status deserve the respect that matches them." She bowed to Lan, "Please forgive me for my presumptuous visit, Lord Lannister." "You seem to have expected that I would come
. ?"
"Radovid is a child who doesn't know what to say." Lann sneered, "But you seem to have deliberately trained him to be a silly boy with a bad temper." "A normal
prince teacher should have taken over the conversation during the day. But you allowed him to take the conversation out of control."
"You deliberately let the prince arouse my disgust, and the purpose is to use my dislike of the prince to achieve your goals." Lan moved his body upward She moved to make her posture more comfortable, "So you will definitely talk to me in private again." "
I'm just curious, how can you be so sure that I won't just slash you with my sword this time?"
Philippa said slightly. Keep your chin high.
"I know you are still bitter about the unpleasantness we had last time. But now that you have become the actual person in power of Cintra, I believe you will put the interests of Cintra as your first priority." The sorceress Said, "The benefits I have brought to you are enough to offset all the unpleasantness."
Lann said nothing.
Philipba gritted her teeth. Compared with the last meeting, Lann's sudden increase in power made her unable to find a suitable way to deal with it. And this indifferent attitude made it difficult for her to take the initiative in speaking.
After a long silence, she took the initiative and said:
"I will bring you Redania's help, my wholehearted help. Redania will become Cintra like Mahakam and even Skellige today. The staunchest ally."
"And the price is..." Philipba looked at Lan, whose expression remained unchanged, and gritted her teeth to prepare her emotions.
"I want you to help me - seize the power of Redania?"
These are absolutely deviant words, words that shocked the legal principles of the entire continent.
Even though there are too many phenomena of fatherly kindness and filial piety, brotherly friendship and brotherly respect, and family harmony among various royal families, there are still royal family members with royal blood sitting on the throne.
At most, the royal family of one country has usurped the royal family of another country. No matter what, it is still a game between the upper class and the grassroots class has never come to power.
There has never been a warlock.
Lan's eyes were confused: "You want to be a queen? A...warlock queen?"
"No, Lan...Duke Lannister." Philippa shook her head, "I never thought of taking such a big step."
She slowly spoke out her plan: "Duke Lannister, your performance on the battlefield against Nilfgaard was too amazing. To some extent, this changed the pattern of the continent, and also gave the kings and warlocks New ideas."
When she said this, Philippa couldn't help but get excited.
"I am a member of the [Warlock Council] in the Warlock Brotherhood, so I know some inside information. Not long ago, the kings in the north conveyed their goodwill to the Brotherhood through their royal advisors, and wanted to restructure the domestic system. Spellcaster system."
"We are planning to hold a meeting on Thanede Island to discuss this issue later." "
And the key to my desire to control Redania lies in this meeting on Thanede Island - among them I also need your support, Lord Lannister."
(End of chapter)