Chapter 1001 The Prince's Marriage
Although Ernst attaches great importance to the development of the country's alkali production industry, he cannot fully follow it. After all, he has too many things to do, especially during the First Five-Year Plan. To put it bluntly, all walks of life need Ernst. Special stared, and on this day, Ernst's work was forcibly stopped by Karina.
Karina: "My dear, even if you are busy with national affairs, you can't forget about sleep and food like this. Besides, have you forgotten something important?"
Ernst's mind has been filled with work recently. After all, the First Five-Year Plan has just been launched, and with other major national events, it is difficult to find free time, so he really didn't react and asked uncertainly: "What big thing?"
Karina said dissatisfied: "How old is Friedrich?"
Ernst: "Twenty...three!"
At this point, Ernst also realized that his eldest son, the grandson of the East African Emperor, is now twenty-three years old and has become an older single.
Karina: "Two years ago, I told Friedrich to look for a princess, but Friedrich always refused, and you didn't pay attention to me. If you don't look for me now, I'm afraid I won't be able to find a high-quality daughter-in-law who matches my family." "
Speaking of this, Ernst also looked sad. There are indeed reasons for this. The main reason is that the current European royal family is really difficult to satisfy Ernst. This generation of European princesses not only look good, Average, and there are a lot of bad things, and most of them are not of the right age or their family background does not meet the standards of the Rhine royal family.
East Africa is now a well-known big country in the world. This narrows the scope of Friedrich's choice of spouse among European aristocrats. It should be a direct lineage of the royal families of various countries.
Among them was Queen Victoria, a cancer of the European royal family, spreading hemophilia carriers among the major royal families. Ernst did not want his grandchildren to be infected with hemophilia.
For example, in the Tsarist Russian royal family, Nicholas II's wife was the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a carrier of hemophilia. This made Nicholas II's three daughters directly eliminated. Otherwise, Ernst would really have had a relationship with him. The idea of marriage between the royal families of Tsarist Russia, after all, the comprehensive quality of the daughters of Nicholas II is relatively high among the royal families of various countries.
In his previous life, Nicholas II had only one son, Crown Prince Alexei, who was diagnosed with hemophilia after birth, resulting in being frail and sickly. There was also Germany's William II, who was also a typical victim of hemophilia.
If the princes of East Africa married the daughters of these people, the consequences would be disastrous. After excluding several large countries, there was no one in the small countries that satisfied Ernst.
In fact, when Friedrich was just born, Ernst was already conflicted about Friedrich's marriage, because at that time Ernst still had the idea of letting Friedrich marry an immigrant of Far Eastern descent. After all, East Africa advocates In the integration of nationalities, the royal family should naturally lead by example.
In order to prevent himself from getting entangled, Ernst decided to pass the blame to Friedrich. He tentatively said: "Why don't we just call Friedrich over and let's ask him what he thinks?"
Seeing Ernst acting like this, Karina felt angry: "I am the only one who can support this family. You heartless person, if your son's life-long problems are not resolved, see how I deal with you."
Having said this, Karina still went to call Friedrich over. Facing the double concern from her parents, Friedrich was a little restless.
"Father, mother, did you ask me to come here for a big deal?"
Today, Friedrich's appearance is still relatively online, and Ernst has to admit that this is mainly due to Karina.
Ernst said earnestly: "Son, you are in your twenties this year. Many people in this age group have already started families, so I want to know what arrangements you have for your marriage?"
Friedrich secretly thought that what was supposed to come had come. In fact, Karina had not stopped urging the marriage as early as Friedrich came of age. However, Friedrich was busy with his studies at the time, so she escaped several times. Year.
Sure enough, Karina said: "Your father has been busy with work and didn't pay attention to your affairs. I have also shown you photos and information of European princesses before. You have also been to Europe, so you should get to know them." You’ve met a lot of people, do you have someone you like?”
Although they urged marriage, Ernst and Karina were not the kind of people who advocated arranged marriage. Ernst was influenced by the thoughts and ideas of his previous life, while Karina was influenced by the love brains of her parents.
Friedrich said with some uncertainty: "Father, mother, I probably don't have any ideas about marriage..."
At this point, Friedrich was actually a bit insincere, after all, the questions were brought out.
Ernst thought this meant something was wrong, and he said calmly: "Don't worry, as long as your interests are normal and the marriage partner you choose is not too outrageous, we usually won't interfere, so you can speak out boldly. , I don’t blame you.”
Under Ernst's instigation, Friedrich cautiously tried: "What if your future daughter-in-law is a native of the country!"
Before Ernst could speak, Karina said: "How can this be done? Since you have a noble status, your marriage partner should naturally be a royal family of various countries. Even if it is not an imperial royal family like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, at least it should be at the level of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Members of the royal family, in addition to the royal family and your grandfather and grandmother in East Africa, the highest ranking person is the duke.”
Ernst: "Karina, don't get excited. In fact, according to Friedrich's status, he can't find a nobler than himself as a marriage partner, so let's listen to what he says first."
Although Karina is more open-minded, it is also limited. The free love she wants should be based on her parents. The two are indeed in free love, but it is also a noble marriage. However, this kind of good thing is probably difficult to encounter in the entire European aristocratic system.
Ernst: "Son, are you hiding something from us? Otherwise, you wouldn't say such things about your countrymen."
Ernst is very clear that Friedrich has something going on. After all, he is full of energy and blood. Combined with Ernst's experience in his previous life, he is likely to have a tendency to "fall in love early."
As for why it is the experience of the previous life, it is mainly because Ernst is too mature in this life, so he is more prone to lying down when getting married, and the result is not bad.
Friedrich said nervously, "I do have some intersection with a girl from my country..."
Ernst had already made up his mind, but he relaxed his tone and said, "Tell me about her situation. If she meets my standards, I am not the kind of person who would break up a couple."
So under Ernst's instigation, Friedrich told all the secrets. He did have an early love affair, and it started in middle school. The object of his early love was the daughter of Ernst's subordinate Siweit, and the two of them had been in love from middle school to the end of college.
"Siweit's daughter?" Karina said, "Is it Anna or Quirina?"
Karina was not unfamiliar with Siweit's daughter. After all, Siweit was a high-ranking official in East Africa, and he was also a rare grand duke in East Africa. In addition, Siweit was considered Ernst's confidant.
And in this way, Siweit's family and the Rhine royal family were naturally familiar with each other, including Siweit's three daughters. Of course, Siweit's youngest daughter was too young and was definitely not the object of his son's love.
"It's Quirina." Friedrich said.
"If it's Quirina, it's not impossible..." Karina said, "She's a very sensible child, she's not bad looking, and her status is barely enough to qualify."
In East Africa, the daughter of a duke is already considered a noble status outside the royal family, and the Rhine royal family knows Quirina inside and out, which makes Karina more receptive.