European Financial Emperor

060 Re-establishing the order of the continent (2)

In Lee Hwan’s room, there are no air fresheners or perfumes. This is because the perfume is usually kept in the dressing room where you change clothes.

Because of that, Lee Hwan’s room had a musty smell peculiar to the bachelor.

Lee Hwan, who served her tea, became a little shy.

“It’s a place where men live alone, so it’s bittersweet, isn’t it? If you don’t do it, mold will grow.”

“No, where does that tangy smell come from? Am I better off?”

Often referred to as the smell of widowers, this kum-kum is always present when men go to a room where they live alone.

But for women, it can act like a pheromone.

Even animals like humans release pheromones from body odor, which means that sometimes this can be a s*x appeal.

Of course, it’s a scent that the same guy or sister would want to pick up and pick up.

After bringing a cup of hot tea, Lee Hwan asked her about the purpose of the visit.

“Okay, what’s going on from Prussia to this distant Ritterkirk?”

“I have something to tell you.”

“which… … .”

“Have you ever heard that our family has been involved in marriage?”

“Yes, it is. I thought it was quite surprising. I thought Prussia was racially very conservative.”

“It is not. However, it is certainly unusual for the East Stella Company to join hands with the Austrian Habsburgs. As you know, the relationship between our two countries is not very smooth.”

Austria has been the most powerful force in Germany since ancient times, but since the emperor died without an heir, a woman came forward to succeed the throne.

Prussia, which had 80,000 troops at the time, pressured Austria to recognize the throne if it ceded Silesia, but was rejected.

In the past, Prussia claimed that there was a treaty that would yield Silesia if they sent troops to Austria during the reign of Wilhelm I, but Austria ignored it.

Prussia, who raised an army with the logic of ‘fist over law’, invaded Silesia, and this was the Seven Years’ War.

In fact, the Germans, whose territory was devastated by the Thirty Years War in the past, would not like the Netherlands.

But worse than that, relations with Austria, which had broken the Treaty of Silesia and fought fiercely for seven years, were even worse.

No matter how it looks, the war of nerves between the two countries continued.

‘Yeah, eventually war will break out and Prussia will take part of Austria’s territory.’

Lee Hwan, who already knew everything about the relationship between Prussia and Austria, could not understand her words.

After savoring the aroma of the tea with dignity, she put down the glass and said:

“Anyway, what I want to tell you is that our marriage cannot happen.”

“Can’t the marriage happen?”

“Because I will not marry you.”

It was quite surprising that he came to visit me saying that he would not get married in person.

Although Lee Hwan had no intention of getting married in the first place, he couldn’t help but wonder what was going on with the big joint.

“If you have no intention of getting married, you should inform your family through the family. I wonder why you came here.”

It was quite surprising that people who thought it was offensive to even get out of a carriage would express their unwillingness to marry even after traveling such a long distance.

But her position was fairly straightforward.

“The family wants me to mate with you anyway. If it had been through my family and my family, I would not have been able to express my intention to refuse.”

“Hmm, then you mean that you came here to break the family’s will and make your marriage a no-brainer?”

“Yes, it is.”

In fact, Lee Hwan was also pretending not to know, but he was realizing that there were many things that could be gained through marriage.

He is in denial, but the thought of wanting to take advantage of the event of marriage to get a little more profit was underlying.

As such, I was a little disappointed that she was going to be active like this.

However, in the first place, he was a person who did not care too much about unearned income that he did not earn through hard work in the first place.

“Then what shall we do? Can I express my refusal?”

“If you would, I would be very at ease.”

Lee Hwan gladly agreed to her request.

It was because he didn’t like it, so if he struggled like this, he thought that there wasn’t much he could achieve anyway.

“Tomorrow, I will officially express my intention to refuse.”

“thank you… … .”

“It’s late at night, do you have a place to stay?”

Lee Hwan treated her as if he were dealing with a customer at the shopping street who went out to pick up items.

It is very sad that people are weighing the pros and cons of meeting people, but Lee Hwan was a businessman and a warlord no matter what anyone said.

It was a natural thing to meet people in secret, so I wanted to settle the situation as quickly as possible.

But she smiled bitterly and did not stand up.

“You don’t seem to be curious about why I came here and the circumstances?”

“What do you mean?”

“Every person has their own circumstances. But I don’t think the baron was curious about how a person like me felt when he walked like this.”

Were there not that many emotional people among the nobles?

Lee Hwan thought it might be because she was a woman, so he tried to let her go and sat down again.

“Well, did I look like that?”

“You act like a person without emotions in the first place.”

“This is what happens when people run a business.”

After taking a sip of the still hot tea, she cleared her throat.

It was as if he had a lot to say.

Soon after, she confided about Prussia’s territorial expansion plans.

“We will soon unite the German Confederation, part of the Old Holy Roman Empire, and annex Austria. It can be seen that Germany is preparing to develop into an empire.”

“… … It’s a bullet.”

Present-day Prussia, virtually the leader of the German Federation, had the ambition to unify Germany, which had been divided in the past.

Even Prussia did not hide such ambitions.

However, no one had yet thought that Prussia would again challenge the Austrian Habsburg dynasty.

It took quite a long time to repair the damage suffered in the last seven years war, and it was also costly to restore the place that had been swept by Napoleon.

But Prussia will never abandon its ambitions.

It was because the ghost of Frederick II, who had been given the title of ‘Great King’ as a powerful monarch, still ruled Prussia.

“But I hate war. So I came to you.”

“I don’t know what the dislike of war has to do with me.”

Louise, who hates all-out war, assured that Lee Hwan would soon become the spark of war.

“Those great firearms, power ships, and cannons that you created. Perhaps if you and Prussia are united, there will be war. Perhaps the same is true of Austria. Even if you achieve perfect union with the Golden Child, there will be war. London financiers always want war.”

Even in the present age of oversupply, Britain was a country where the people had nothing to eat, so they were living with the momentum to sell their souls for a piece of bread.

For Britain, war was like an oasis where they could solve the oversupply and mobilize the people again for war specials.

Lee Hwan was simply practicing pragmatic diplomacy to take away only what was helpful to him, but in a way, it was also narrowly suppressing the war in Europe.

Of course, it would be a different story if the Netherlands wanted war.

Louise was emphasizing that he had come to this place by himself to keep away Lee Hwan, who would become the spark of war.

“The nanny who raised me for the rest of my life died in the Great Buddha War, and my only real brother died while participating in the Great Buddha War. So I hope that the Continental War will never happen again.”

“Ah, there was such a thing. I don’t know what words of comfort to offer.”

She seemed to like Lee Hwan’s answer, so she smiled.

“Your words have already comforted me. But more than your consolation, I hope East Stella’s weapons don’t spread to Europe. Perhaps the guns you supplied will be passed on to the blacksmiths of each country, and their efforts to steal the designs will continue. Eventually, the gun you develop will cause war once again.”

“It will take at least a decade or more for them to copy the weapons I made.”

“But one day, war must break out. You are the seed of war. Either way, war will start because of you.”

As soon as Prussia or Austria imports East Stella’s weapons, they will do their best to copy them.

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Moreover, as Prussia is preparing for the industrial revolution at the same time as its territorial expansion, it was clear that a new weapon would be released within the next 10 years.

Cartridge rifles will probably be common by then.

That was what Louise was worried about.

But from Lee Hwan’s point of view, there wasn’t much of a problem.

After all, no one in the world could catch up with him anyway, and it was because he was printing rifles and distributing them to the Netherlands with technology that was almost 50 years ahead of the firearms that had already been supplied to them.

“If you are worried about copying weapons and starting a war because they have a powerful military force, then there is no need to do so. We have technology at least a century ahead of them.”

“First century… … .”

“Perhaps the reason you are here today is because I gave a demonstration of how to fire artillery. You, weren’t you actually in Holland today?”

“Right. It was.”

Louise did not dare to hide that she was with the gun demonstration.

Because now, that fact has nothing to do with it.

Then, Hwan Lee thought that there was no need to share the discussion with her anymore.

“I will not marry. But the weapons will be supplied. Because they can’t keep up with our East Stella anyway.”

First of all, I don’t know how to make white gunpowder. How on earth will Lee Hwan’s technology be copied and how will the engine of the power ship be created?

There was no need to worry about Lee Hwan, as there were many difficulties everywhere.

From now on, he only had to make money by taking over oil fields and gold mines in turn.

“I will not go far. then… … .”

“… … iced coffee!”

As if no further conversation was necessary, Lee Hwan tried to let her go.

Suddenly, she got up from her seat and grabbed Lee Hwan’s hand.

Louise’s eyes were extremely cute and beautiful, stimulating the protective instinct as a man.

Her cherry-like lips moved like that.

“What would happen if war disappeared from this land and we saw the good again as ordinary men and women?”

“… … ?”

“Then won’t you treat me like one of the cards on the gamble? Is it really like I thought?”

Taken from readwn.com

Maybe she was upset because Lee Hwan treated her too harshly.

But Lee Hwan was an honest man.

“I do not know. If you want to hear a lie, I can do it, but I don’t want to lie to you.”

“… … Yes. What will the times do?”

Now was such a time.

On the surface, the era of peace had entered, but the era of full-fledged fierce battles was coming.