Chapter 866: The Emperor and Prime Minister of the Frankish Empire (Part 2)

After four years of long recuperation, the number of the Armored Paladins has finally recovered to 20,000.

At this time, only 3,000 Armored Paladins remained in the garrison outside of Bolu, and the rest of the soldiers were scattered to various places to support various war zones.

After arriving at the training ground of the Armored Paladins, Shade watched the training of the Paladins with great interest.

As the trump card of the Frankish Empire, the training volume and intensity of the Armored Paladins are indeed worthy of the title of "trump card".

Some soldiers are doing horseback riding training, some soldiers are doing physical training, and some soldiers are doing combat training.

Because they were too focused on the training, they did not see the emperor who was watching them at the side of the training ground.

Although even if they noticed it, they would not recognize that the old man was their emperor.

Looking at the Armored Paladins who were training enthusiastically, Shade's face showed a satisfied smile.

"Good, good, good!" Shade said three good words in a row, "You are worthy of being the pride of our Frankish Empire."

After that, Shade sighed exaggeratedly.

"I wonder which cavalry team in the whole continent dares to confront my armored holy cavalry head-on on the plain?"

"There can't be such a stupid cavalry team, right?" Erwin, who was standing aside, answered very well.

"That's right! Hahahaha!"

Looking at Shade who was laughing now, Erwin said quietly in his heart:

-Your Majesty is in a good mood now.

-Maybe now is a good time to mention that thing again...

After making up his mind to mention "that thing" to Shade again, Erwin cleared his throat and then said respectfully:

"Your Majesty."

"Hmm?" Shade, who was in a good mood at this time, turned around and looked at Erwin with a smile on his face, "What's the matter?"

"Alliance with the Holy Xilan Empire..."

Before Erwin finished speaking, Shade's face and expression changed instantly.

Looking at Shade, whose face and expression suddenly changed, Erwin cried in his heart:

- Oops, His Majesty is still unwilling to let go of his prejudice against the Holy Hilan Empire.

And what Shade said next also confirmed what Erwin had just thought.

"Erwin, you are so persistent."

Shade frowned and looked at Erwin with displeasure.

"How many times have you proposed to me to form an alliance with the Holy Hilan Empire?"

"Then I will answer you again."

"Unless that little brat Vasili takes the initiative to find me for an alliance, otherwise our Frank Empire will never form an alliance with the Holy Hilan Empire!"

After hearing what Shade said, Erwin secretly sighed.

- Alas...

Erwin said in his heart in distress.

- When will the "Franco-Greek Alliance" be established...

Long ago, the Frank Empire had the intention to form an alliance with the Holy Hilan Empire.

After learning that the Britannia Empire and the grassland people in the Far East, that is, the Huns, had formed an alliance, the Frank Empire felt extremely uneasy.

This "Brussels-Hungarian Alliance" is definitely a big threat to the Frankish Empire.

The Britannia Empire is to the west of the Frankish Empire, and the Huns are to the east of the Frankish Empire. The two countries are in a pincer attack on the Frankish Empire.

No matter how stupid a person is,

as long as he looks at the map, he can see how big a threat the alliance between these two countries that sandwich the Frankish Empire is to the Frankish Empire.

Therefore, after learning that the Britannia Empire and the Huns have formed an alliance, the first thought of the Frankish Empire is to build a powerful alliance to counter the "Brussels-Hungarian Alliance".

The first choice of the Frankish Empire is naturally the behemoth and "superpower" in the north - the Holy Hilan Empire.

The Frankish Empire originally wanted to pull in the Rolling Empire, which is located to the south of the Britannia Empire, to promote a three-nation alliance and build an "anti-Britannia Empire encirclement network".

But after carefully examining the current situation of the Rolling Empire, the Frankish Empire finally decided to cancel the plan to pull in the Rolling Empire.

The two offensives of the Britannia Empire, "Spring Awakening" and "Summer Breeze" three years ago, seemed to have broken the backbone of the Rollin Empire.

Since suffering these two offensives from the Britannia Empire, the Rollin Empire has never recovered.

The current queen of the Rollin Empire, Queen Bella, seems to have no interest in revitalizing the country and continues to live a luxurious, drunken and dreamy life.

Thanks to this silly queen, the national strength of the Rollin Empire has not only not recovered in recent years, but has declined year by year.

After weighing the pros and cons, Xia De and others unanimously agreed that if the Rollin Empire in its current state is pulled into the alliance, the Rollin Empire will do them more harm than good.

Moreover, even if they invite the Rollin Empire to join the alliance, the silly queen may not agree.

The silly queen now seems to want to live a stable life and does not want to touch anything that may cause war, especially something that may anger the Britannia Empire.

Therefore, even if she invites the Luolin Empire, the foolish queen might refuse without hesitation in order to continue to live a stable life.

Since the Luolin Empire is unreliable, she can only go to the Holy Xilan Empire.

If they can form an alliance with the Holy Hilan Empire and form a "French-Greek Alliance" with the Holy Hilan Empire, then the strength of their alliance will definitely be able to compete with the "Brussels-Hungarian Alliance", and they may even have the upper hand.

For the alliance with the Holy Hilan Empire, Shade was quite concerned at first, and sent an envoy to the Holy Hilan Empire as quickly as possible to invite the Holy Hilan Empire's emperor, Vasili, to form an alliance.

Shade had great enthusiasm and expectations for this invitation to form an alliance.

However, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment afterwards.

The envoys arrived at the Holy Hilan Empire with friendly goodwill, but Vasili's reply to them was quite unfriendly, so unfriendly that people couldn't help but raise nameless anger.

Vasili directly rejected the Frank Empire's invitation to form an alliance.

The reasons for his refusal are as follows: The Holy Hilan Empire is a "superpower" with a national strength far superior to that of the continental countries, so it is not afraid of the "Brussels-Hungarian Alliance", so there is no need to form an alliance with your country.

Vasili's reply made Shade furious.

Not only Shade, but many civil and military officials in the central government of the Frankish Empire were extremely angry and dissatisfied at that time.

The Holy Hilan Empire had been sitting on the throne of the "superpower" for many years, which made many Hilan people arrogant - Shade was still clear about this.

But he did not expect that Emperor Vasili of the Holy Hilan Empire would be so arrogant that he directly made a "bold statement" - the Holy Hilan Empire was a "superpower" and was not afraid of the "Brussels-Hungarian Alliance" and did not need to ally with the Frankish Empire.