Chapter 2449 Peace

Mrs. Josephine confessed frankly in her letter to Joann - Professor Moriarty would never follow her advice!

"In fact, my concern only backfired, stabbing Trofim's pride and accelerating his slide in a direction against our wishes."

"In this case, neither you nor I should try to influence Trophim's decision, just let him make up his own mind."

"Son, one day you'll understand that sometimes doing nothing is the best thing to do."

The person who knows Professor Moriarty best is his former pillow.

Joan accepted Mrs. Josephine's advice, and never talked about the "Brotherhood of Our Lady" with her mentor.

Time passed quickly, and two weeks passed in a blink of an eye. On September 14, Joan received a letter from Mr. Tennyson, and learned bad news that was both unexpected and reasonable.

Due to too much controversy, this year's OFA Annual Conference, originally scheduled to be held at Midgard University, was postponed.

As for when it will be postponed and whether the venue will still be at Midgard University, Mr. Tennyson and his colleagues are currently unable to determine.

From the lines in Joan's letter, she could see that Mr. Tennyson was deeply affected by this incident, and felt very sorry for it.

Professor Moriarty's refusal to attend the annual meeting was forced by political pressure, but he decided to follow his mentor and refused to attend the annual meeting, which virtually destroyed the backup plan designed by the organizers to deal with Professor Moriarty's absence, and it is likely to be Because of this last straw, the annual meeting could not be held as scheduled.

In retrospect, the term "eventful autumn" seems to have been tailored for the autumn of 1625.

On September 15th, the second day after the postponement of the Austrian Law Annual Conference, major newspapers and periodicals on both sides of the ocean simultaneously reproduced a big news released by "Cloud Network":

The Western Expeditionary Corps of the Korath Kingdom has successfully advanced into the Holy City Special Zone, and the capital of the Holy Ashan Empire will fall soon!

The death knell of the old era has already sounded. Hundreds of millions of people at home and abroad, including Joan, are focusing their attention on the capital of the empire. Some people are still looking forward to the miracle that the imperial authorities will stage a Jedi counterattack, while others have already begun to consider the "Holy Light" After the end of the "Era", the new pattern of the world of Vales.

On September 24, the tense confrontation on the outskirts of the holy city finally ushered in a turning point.

The aristocrats, generals, bankers, industrialists and high priests of the "Peace Party" of the empire unite, headed by Marshal Sigmund, Patriarch Gregory, Prime Minister Claude, Sir Vogel and Sir Weinstein , formed the "National Salvation Committee", replaced the cabinet as the temporary highest administrative body of the empire, and initially reached a ceasefire agreement with Far East Prince Roland Kolas.

According to this agreement, the imperial government admitted defeat and agreed to sign a surrender document. The detailed terms of surrender are still unknown, and only one item was exposed by the well-informed Yunwang News—the imperial government promised to pay the Kolas Kingdom a sum of money lost in the war. The total amount of compensation is as high as 1 billion gold thalers!

Accordingly, the Far East side promised to abide by the ceasefire agreement and release the captured Imperial Crown Prince Frank.

Not long after the "National Salvation Committee" welcomed the crown prince back, the Far East Prince also brought only one guard division in accordance with the ceasefire agreement, and entered the holy city of Ashan as a conqueror, and continued to discuss the terms of the armistice with the "National Salvation Committee". And on October 1st, the National Day of Kolas Kingdom, a grand military parade and coronation ceremony was held in the capital of the empire, leaving a good story for later history books.

Contrary to many people's expectations, the protagonist of the grand coronation ceremony held at the Imperial Palace that day was not Prince Roland, who conquered the city, but his father, the legendary Rudolph who had been assassinated and disappeared for nearly a whole year A generation.

More than 20 years ago, Rudolph Kolas was sentenced to exile in the Far East for heresy. Perhaps he never imagined that one day he would return to his old capital and be crowned on the emperor's throne.

What is even more unexpected than this is that at the climax of the coronation ceremony, His Majesty Rudolf was promoted to a true god at the last moment of his life, under the admiration of countless courtiers, and raised his authority from the mortal world to the Pantheon.

The coronation and deification took place in the same ceremony, and this grand ceremony, full of drama and destined to become a poem sung by poets, was Prince Roland's gift to his father.

Rudolf I ascended to the Pantheon and passed on the mortal land and authority to his only heir, Roland Colas. This is the most intuitive, vivid and indisputable interpretation of the "divine right of kings".

However, Prince Roland was in no hurry to ascend the throne left to him by his father. In the following days, the topic of news reports returned to the agenda of peace negotiations.

Negotiations continued for another half a month. During this period, it was puzzling that the ruler of the Holy Ashean Empire—Emperor Charles IV—had no sense of existence, as if the Supreme on the throne had completely given up own authority.

It was not until October 9 that an unexpected piece of news gave an answer to the above mystery. The "National Salvation Committee" issued an obituary, claiming that Emperor Charles IV "passed away due to illness" last night "Granted to the crown prince Frank, entrusting the prince to inherit the throne.

Did the old emperor really die normally?

The timing of his death was a bit too coincidental.

All kinds of rumors about the cause of Charles IV's death spread like wildfire, but there is no convincing evidence for all these speculations, not to mention the times have changed. Few people in the empire and abroad really cherish the old emperor who has been away from the public eye for many years.

Removing this useless clay idol and replacing it with a young and promising monarch is an opportunity for the old empire to be reborn from the ashes.

On October 27, 1625, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Frank held the imperial jade seal—the first of the twelve zodiac artifacts, the "Holy Light Orb"—to hold a coronation ceremony, known as Frank VII in history.

The day after the new emperor's accession to the throne, the "peace agreement" was officially announced, and the Far Eastern army withdrew from the holy city of Ashan.

According to this agreement, in addition to paying huge war reparations to the Kingdom of Kolas, the imperial government also leased the coastal city naval base and the "Belt Canal" to the Kingdom of Kolas, and the eastern province of Komi became a demilitarized zone. At least in name, this fiasco did not lose an inch of land other than the Far East Province. This result was beyond people's expectations.

Why didn't Prince Roland take the opportunity to dismember the empire, carve up the territory, and expand the territory under his rule?

Is he really not interested in winning more living space for the subjects under his rule?

Doesn't he want to achieve some great feats of emperors who opened up territories?