Chapter 1233 Business (Part 1)

Chapter 1233 Business (Part 1)

Prince Albert let go of his hand awkwardly, but Victoria glared at him. She didn't like this eldest son. He was already 8 years old, but he couldn't even recognize all 26 English letters, and he was even worse than his 5-year-old brother.

The most hateful thing was that this little brat was full of nonsense and no one knew where he learned it from.

"Have you finished your homework?"

"I, I have finished it!"

Edward said stubbornly.

"Humph."

Victoria sneered, and she didn't look like a little bird in Albert's arms at all.

"Miss Mary."

"Please order, Your Majesty."

"Check his homework, write it ten times for each mistake, and write it twenty times for each blank."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Edward was anxious.

"You stinky woman! When I become king, I will give you homework every day!"

"Unless I die! One hundred times! Miss Mary, if he doesn't finish his homework, don't let him leave the room."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Feeling the warmth of the family, Prince Albert's tense nerves finally relaxed. Recently, he has been busy with the World Expo. The war technology of the Austrian Empire has left a deep impression on the British.

Especially the airship, which has become a nightmare for the British. The British Navy is invincible at sea, but it can't do anything about the things above its head.

To solve this sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, the British must have their own airships.

Prince Albert summoned the top engineers and craftsmen in Britain for this purpose, and offered a reward to the people for the craft of making airships.

The technical requirements of airships are not very complicated, but they can't be accomplished overnight. Although there must be brave men under heavy rewards, blindly doing things is also called courting death.

Under the stimulation of money and honor, people die almost every day because of airship experiments. This made Prince Albert feel very uncomfortable. He thought that those people would even disregard their lives for money.

But British government officials thought it was nothing. Even the families of the dead did not blame him after receiving the pension. After all, who doesn't?

Leopold I exchanged pleasantries with Victoria and her husband for a while and then presented them with gifts.

"Hey, why don't you see Edward? I brought him a gift, too."

"He"

Prince Albert hadn't finished speaking when Victoria stepped on his foot.

"He's sick."

Prince Albert immediately understood and changed his words.

"Yes! He's sick."

Leopold I looked at the embarrassed expressions of Victoria and her husband and didn't continue to ask. Instead, he sighed.

"You have such a good relationship. You can still be inseparable after so many years."

"Uncle, aren't you and your sister-in-law very..."

Prince Albert hadn't finished speaking when he was elbowed in the ribs and coughed unconsciously.

Even if Prince Albert wasn't too busy with the World Expo, he didn't know much about the secrets of the palaces of various countries.

His impression of Leopold I and his wife was still a few years ago, when the old man and young wife were very harmonious and were a model couple that everyone envied.

In history, Queen Louise was indeed a good wife and a good mother, and a very competent queen who would not cause trouble to her husband and comfort her subjects.

However, with the Luxembourg crisis, Belgium was defeated and divided, and finally had to live under the name of France.

As the eldest daughter of Louis Philippe, Queen Louise had no discomfort living under the protection of France.

However, Leopold I could not stand it and regarded this kind of life as a shame. He vented all his hatred for Louis Philippe on his wife.

The relationship between the two sides gradually cracked, and the ladies of the French upper class liked to spread some rumors.

This made Queen Louise, whose husband had lost power, feel humiliated. She hoped that Leopold I could cheer up again, but the latter felt that the other party was humiliating herself. After all, living under someone else's roof, even a man would have difficulty in achieving his ambitions.

The two sides had misunderstandings, and then the "good girlfriends" around Queen Louise began to instigate this good girl to seek excitement.

Queen Louise, a young, beautiful and noble woman, soon became the target of Parisian dandies.

Under the temptation of these veterans in the love field, Queen Louise soon lost herself. Leopold I was not incompetent. He knew he was wrong, but he could not forgive his wife.

The two sides were still the model couple in front of others, but gradually became strangers behind the scenes.

Victoria couldn't explain all this to her husband, so she had to change the subject.

"Uncle, what are you doing in London?"

"I want to discuss a business."

"Business? Are you short of money?"

Prince Albert asked with some doubts. He had never seen the king come to discuss business in person.

Suddenly, Prince Albert felt that a bad look was staring at him. Victoria was looking at him with an idiot look. Prince Albert laughed awkwardly.

Leopold I's expression did not change much. Years of forbearance made him very good at cultivating his qi, and as an elder, he also knew that Albert was completely unintentional.

"I really need money. Belgium is not the Belgium it used to be."

The area of ​​the Duchy of Belgium is only one-fourth of the area of ​​the Kingdom of Belgium, and it has lost all its ports and industrial areas. It is now an agricultural country.

Coupled with the full-scale war in 1848 and the extortion of the Second French Republic, it is not an exaggeration to say that Belgium has become a wasteland at this time.

With both the country and the family in ruins, Victoria can understand why Leopold I would take risks.

Prince Albert can empathize with this matter even more. Although he has never lost territory, as a man, he can understand the pain.

"Uncle, what do you want to do? We will definitely help you."

Victoria's eyelids twitched. Although she sympathized with Leopold I's experience, she did not dare to promise anything easily.

I don't know if my husband is stupid. How can it be a small matter to make a king speak?

Especially for a proud man like Leopold I, it must be no small matter to make him bow his head. The business he mentioned is probably to take back the homeland of Belgium.

Although Victoria has not participated in political affairs for a long time, she knows that Britain and Russia are now in a mess over the issue of Polish religious reform.

If it was just Russia, Britain could still barely cope with it, but if the Austrian Empire was added, Britain would most likely repeat the same mistake.

In such a situation, it would be too hasty to agree to it.

"I found gold in South Wales, and I want to contract some gold mines."

Hearing about gold, Victoria and her husband not only did not show any joy on their faces, but became more worried.

They had heard too many such stories, and there was a group of people who specialized in telling such stories to nobles and rich people, and then defrauded funds and ran away.

"Uncle, is your information reliable?"

Although he had an ominous premonition, Prince Albert still asked.

"Uncle, if you need it, we can lend you some, and the British royal family still has some surplus money."

Victoria seemed much more rational in this matter.

Leopold I immediately understood what they were thinking.

"You don't think I was deceived, do you?"

Victoria and her husband nodded heavily. In fact, Leopold I thought about it himself. If those words were not spoken by Franz, he would probably regard them as crazy talk.