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"I want to see Your Highness!"

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, you are resting."

"The French Ambassador has urgent matters to find His Highness, I order you..."

"Sorry, Mr. Prime Minister, I am the Nord Guard, and I am directly under the Grand Duke. I can refuse your order."

"I……"

If possible, Cres really wanted to say "I'm a sage", but his identity did not allow him to do so. For this reason, he could only stand outside Joseph's door and wait.

Fortunately, James' arrival solved the embarrassment here in time. Although he had been appointed by Joseph as the Foreign Minister of the Principal of Nord, his identity as the butler of the Grand Duke's mansion did not step down. Therefore, he continued to live here, just adding more diplomatic information to the matters he handled.

"Are early, Your Excellency Prime Minister."

"Are James, I have an urgent matter to find Your Highness. The French Ambassador will arrive here at noon today. I hope Your Highness can meet..."

The reception was just a nice saying, but in fact he wanted Joseph to greet him. For this reason, before Cres finished speaking, James couldn't help but frown slightly and interrupted: "Prime Minister, this is not in line with the rules. Your Highness is the ruler of Nord. There is no reason to welcome the ambassador of another country. You can let him wait first. If your Highness has time, he will naturally meet him."

James said it very clearly that there was no reason to welcome the ambassador of another country. This sentence made Cres blush slightly, and he must have realized that his behavior was somewhat inappropriate. However, Nord was just a small country, and his status was really not as high as that of an ambassador of France, so it was reasonable to do so.

Such a thing is a matter of opinion. From James's eyes, Cres saw determination, so he did not continue to entangle and accused him of guilt and was ready to leave.

"Is it Cres? Come in!"

When he woke up early in the morning, he heard the noise outside. He was stunned and Joseph remembered that he was no longer the college student Zhang Jun but Joseph Ragner III, the Grand Duke of the Principality of Nord.

Joseph was not clear about the specific content mentioned outside. The main purpose of his request to come in was to clear the northern city of Suno, which had long been uninhabited, so Joseph planned to use it as the location of the new city.

Cres looked at James and tidied up his suit and walked into the bedroom. Then James walked in with concern in his eyes. What he was worried about was that Joseph would rashly agree to the request of the French ambassador.

However, his concerns did not come in handy in the end. Joseph was not a fool, especially his mental age was not the boy who looked eight years old on the surface. Therefore, when he saw Cres enter the door, he said first: "I need someone to help me level the North City."

Looking at Joseph who was wearing clothes, Cres said only one sentence: "The reason, my highness!"

This inquiry made Joseph pause. It was obvious that he did not expect Cres to refuse so bluntly, but he was just a beat and returned to normal in an instant.

Just when Cres thought about how he ruthlessly explained how he could shirk his back, a low sentence reached his ears, and at the same time, this sentence also made James, who was about to come in, tilt the corners of his mouth and retreated.

"There is no reason, Prime Minister, I am the Grand Duke of Nord."

There is no so-called domineering outer building, no aura to suppress people, only the low voice of an eight-year-old boy, but just this low sentence, Cres stood there in a daze for a long time.

"As far as you wish, my Highness."

Cres suddenly felt a little upset. He found that things began to surpass his expectations, and he didn't even talk about the French ambassador until he left.

Why didn't he change so much in a day? Is it possible that coronation has such an effect? ​​The little guy doesn't look like an eight-year-old boy at all, and everything about him seems to be exposed to his eyes.

After Cres left, Joseph pointed to the north city area of ​​the Duchy of Nord on the table, and murmured in his heart: "Everything will start from here!"

After a while

Joseph looked at the little boy with a beautiful face, blonde hair, black eyes and a little thin eyes nodded with satisfaction. Everyone said that mixed-race children were more beautiful, and he really did not deceive me. Although he was not as good as some princes in the Middle East who looked so beautiful, he was not a good person. Although he was not as good as some princes in the Middle East, the word "Shouta" was suitable for him.

Walking out the door, two guards at the door hurriedly leaned over. One of them wanted to speak, but looking at Joseph, who had a rosy face, did not speak in the end.

"Your Highness, where are we going?"

The Nord Royal Guard is the only army in the Principality of Nord. However, it is actually only thirty people in the full range of battles and the commanders of the Imperial Guard are temporarily held by James, which shows the embarrassment of the Principality of Nord.

"Just go around, don't inform James."

One sentence interrupted the idea of ​​finding James, one of whom continued to follow, while the other ran to drive. Joseph's car was not a Les-Royce Phantom, Bentley RV. As a country where cabinet members were mostly French officials, most of the vehicles here were Renault or Peugeot from top to bottom.

Joseph was no exception. When Joseph walked to the door of the first floor, the black sign was already docked there. He shook his head a little aggrievedly inside Joseph got into the car while the guards were waiting.

This can be said to be the first time Joseph saw his own palace. Although there are many related scenes in his memory, memory is memory, which is completely different from facing it with his own eyes.

As a ruler of a territory of only more than 20 square kilometers, his royal palace is naturally not as good as Versailles and Buckingham Palace, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is also one of the best luxury houses. From south to north, there are thousands of square meters across from east to west, of which the building area is 600 square meters, and the rest are small green squares in front of the royal palace.

The Nord Palace does not only represent Joseph's residence, but in fact, Cres's cabinet government also works here, but they occupy the first floor.

The palace is located on the only mountain range in Nord, and the only mountain building is the palace. This is the first line for the east and west to connect France. When Ragna I built his palace here, the purpose of resisting the enemy. In the Eastern terms, it was the emperor who guarded the country's gates.

When he took a bus down the mountain and arrived on the main road of Nord Central District, Joseph saw the bleak streets, pale-faced passers-by, and civilians holding signs to look for jobs. Seeing these scenes, Joseph suddenly became heavy.

"Your Highness, it's not your fault, and this situation is not only in Nord, but even in France. Even in eastern France, some cities are not as good as our Nord..."

Joseph had no doubt about the Imperial Guards. After all, this place was a remote area of ​​war. Compared with eastern France, there were mainly a large number of young people who were symptomatic, so there was no great damage to the construction.

After a walk around, Joseph's mood was gone, and there were no shops on the main roads, and the industry was almost zero. At this time, Nord... has a long way to go!

"Let Cres come here."

Before entering the study, Joseph asked the Imperial Guard to call Cres. During the period when Cres had not arrived, he could imagine that nominal father was worried about Nord's development here. He could have been a carefree playboy, but the responsibility of the country completely overwhelmed the kind prince.

When he opened the works on the economic construction of the country that Ragner II had not finished reading during his sudden death, Joseph fell into deep thought for a moment, and even Cres didn't know that he came in.

"Sorry, I'm a little distracted."

"Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, His Highness Ragner II's favorite book."

"I heard that Cres, you and my father are good friends?"

"I have escaped together and been captured together. What I admire most about your father is that he can remain optimistic at any time. He is a good person."

"But it's such a person who is always optimistic and dies suddenly in the study. It's really a irony, isn't Uncle Cres?"

"Your Highness..."

"I went to the Central District today, and it made me feel bad."

"sorry!"

"No, it's not your fault. You have tried your best to do so now, but I want to know how many people in our country have no jobs, how many people have no place to live, and how many young people are there."

Cres was silent for a long time when he heard Joseph's words. Just when Joseph was a little impatient, a decadent voice came: "Now most of our country are middle-aged and elderly and children, and less than one-tenth of the young people can live in. After all, there are many people who escape, and the spare houses can completely meet the needs. As for those who have no jobs... there are many."

Less than one-tenth, many. Such vague words can only explain one thing, and the matter is so bad that Cres is unwilling to mention it, or he can't say it at all.

Taking a deep breath, Joseph did not force Cres to tell the details, and smiled and said, "Everything will be better, the war has passed, isn't it? My Prime Minister."

"Yes, the war is over and everything will be better."

"I'm talking about the Principality of Nord."

"Yes, it's the Principality of Nord."

"Go and do it! The matters in Beicheng District will be handled as soon as possible."

Hearing Joseph's words, Cres agreed to leave, and when he walked to the door, a similar murmur came to his ears. The content of the words made him stunned and he left in a hurry after a long time.
Chapter completed!