When the Duke of Desay and Earl Koshiciusko ended their meeting at the roadside inn, Princess Maria and his father, August I, were walking in the back garden of the Dresden Palace. A few minutes later, the father and daughter sat on a bench next to the green space to talk, continuing the conversation just now, which was a topic related to Andrew Desay.

Compared with the first week, Princess Maria is getting closer and closer to the day of recovery. Her sparse and yellow hair regains her golden youth and becomes rich and dense. Her long-term pale face has a blood color for the first time, and her skin is fresh and soft, as yellow as amber, and slightly exposed red blood vessels. Everything has revealed the vitality of a healthy adult. After the follow-up visit yesterday, the imperial doctor of the royal palace allowed Princess Maria to walk in the back garden, from 20 minutes to 1 hour.

"Why choose Duke of Desay?" Princess Maria asked her father. Just like she has become her husband in religion and law, the names given to each other by both are formal occasions and not intimate names.

Before, Maria on the hospital bed was unwilling to ask her husband Andrew Desay anything, but now, when her body functions are as healthy as her brain thinking, many years ago, the topics that hide her heart began to be mentioned.

"The Holy Covenant!" August I continued to explain, "For too long and too many things, either can't remember them, or can't remember them! However, I can tell a part of it: the father of Little Desai, the family of General Desai originated from an ancient French nobleman, and this nobleman was essentially a direct descendant of the Polish Pieste dynasty exiled in France.

According to the initial provisions of the Holy Covenant, whenever Poland needed a king, a male descendant of the Piest dynasty in France should be elected and become the crown prince of Poland. But as far as I know, the second year after the covenant was formulated, it was declared illegal by the Polish parliament and deposed.

In 1765, Prince Franz Ksavel, my uncle of the prime minister, gave up the Polish throne instead of me, Stanislaw became the king of Poland, and I was listed as the first heir to the Polish throne by the Polish parliament.

In 1782, after the three powers of Prussia, Russia and Austria completed the first division of Polish territory, I joined forces with Duke Lubomiersky to submit a motion to the Polish Parliament to restore the ancient sacred covenant. After three months of internal discussion, another secret resolution of the Polish Parliament overturned the previous ruling and determined that the covenant was legal and valid!"

"1782?" Princess Maria muttered, and she secretly calculated in her heart that this time should be the scene where the little Desai mother met with the old Desai somewhere in France before she became pregnant. From this point of view, the two were not a sudden encounter, but an abnormal political marriage between the ancient royal nobles, with the purpose of giving birth to a Polish crown prince.

Thinking of this, she then asked: "Since the Holy Covenant was re-established 28 years ago, why don't you choose to directly use the old General Desai, but you have to spend your time waiting for nearly 30 years to allow his descendants to grow up?"

A smile appeared on King Saxony's kind face. He gently hugged his daughter's shoulder and said, "The terms and conditions for becoming the Polish king through the Holy Covenant are not simple, and there are many restrictions. One of them is that as the crown prince of Poland, he must marry an unmarried woman from the Weiting family. Of course, this is not the only factor that denies the old general Desai.

As far as I know, the Duke of Lubomierski, General Koshiciusko, and the Archbishop of Warsaw, the three were not optimistic about General Desai himself. They believed that Old Desai was just a brave general who charged forward and could not serve as the savior to save the fate of Poland, too loyal to Napoleon, and lacked sufficient political wisdom and diplomatic ability.

After asking General Koshichushko, Archbishop of Warsaw, and myself, Duke Lubomierski brought his grandson, Andrew Desai to him to train, trying to make Little Desai a new generation of Polish kings. Unfortunately, the old duke could not see the day when Little Desai ascended the throne!"

Princess Maria seemed to not like her father to praise her husband who had never been masked from another side. This dissatisfaction was expressed in her tone, so she said with a smile: "In other words, do you think Little Dercy, or the Duke of Hruna, already have enough ability to save Poland?"

August I naturally tasted his daughter's words. He put away his smile, stared at Maria's eyes, and nodded solemnly.

"It's not just you, my child, before 1809, including me, General Koshiciuschko, and the Archbishop of Warsaw, all agreed that your husband, Andrew Desay, was just a copy of his father, and he could only become a general under Napoleon, and could not bear the historical mission of saving Poland and reviving Poland!

But soon, we found that we were all wrong, and we were very wrong.

You can imagine that within a year, the almost self-made Little Dercy, was able to form a powerful Dercy legion and become the actual monarch of Catalonia and Northern Aragon, with 4 million subjects and more than 30,000 troops. Of course, this is just a display of military and strategic talents.

On the surface, the relationship between Dercy Little and Emperor Napoleon seems to be a direct subordinate between the monarch and the vassal, but in essence it is a contractual cooperation. His various transactions with the British are not as simple as we see, and should be close and complex. In fact, many people are also aware of this, including the French emperor in the Duille Palace.

However, Napoleon was able to depose his brother Louis' Dutch throne by force by violating the mainland blockade laws, but he was able to depose the Dutch throne of his own brother Louis, who had always had semi-open overseas trade with the British, and the Manresa government. On the one hand, it was that the Dutch del Serie had an important bargaining chip to convince Napoleon to cooperate with him, and it was a trading condition that could not be refused.

The more reason is that the French emperor was afraid of the combat strength and cohesion of the Desay Legion and was unwilling to push the entire Catalonian region back into the arms of the British or Spanish. Whether it was the exchange-free French prisoners of war, ordinary soldiers composed of Irish or Polish refugees, or the guard group spontaneously formed by the Catalans, the only object they were loyal to was Andrew Desay Duke or Prince, not the little Corsican dwarf who was hated or ignored.

As the father-in-law of Little Desai, I admit that I do not have the political wisdom that penetrates the hearts of his husband and the sophisticated diplomatic skills. Of course, King Saxony is not an opponent of the Prince of Catalonia when it comes to commanding the army. Of course, the huge spy network developed by Little Desai is not comparable to that of me.

However, what I admire most is Little Derby's pursuit of science, his emphasis on scholars, and his investment in science and technology. The former Dominion of Hruna and now Catalonia have become one of the places that scholars in Europe most yearn for, with a peaceful and friendly surrounding environment, a relaxed and free political atmosphere, generous treatment, and the top laboratories."

Princess Maria, who has been smart since childhood, knows her father’s praise for Little Desay, but she is just unwilling to admit it on the surface.

She was proud of herself and kept her mouth pursing, waiting patiently for the tone of praise from King Saxony to her son-in-law to end, and then added, "Of course, the Manresa government, who only obeyed the orders of the Duke of Desay, seemed to be willing to invest in scholars, doctors, engineers, etc. who could make a lot of money, develop murderous weapons, or be conducive to the rule of Catalonia. As for those poor musicians, writers, painters and sculptors, they had never received public gifts from Catalonia."

While Princess Maria expressed her disdain for the Duke of Desay in a contemptuous tone, she was also turning around and praising her kind father. In 19th century Europe, the "good guys" praised by musicians, writers and artists was His Majesty the King of Saxony, who was known for his kindness and kindness.

After hearing this, August I laughed happily. Apart from God's teachings, there is no more beautiful gospel than the praises of children. However, the king still advised his son-in-law to continue to be angry with his daughter.

"If literature and art can convince the greedy Russians, Prussians, Austrians and give up their ambitions for Poland, I don't mind buying and leading musicians, writers, and artists from all over Europe to negotiate with them. But this is impossible, my Maria. Only iron and blood can save and revive Poland!"

As if he felt his tone was too heavy, August I changed to another relaxed topic. He made a strange expression and made a strange tone and said, "Oh, your lovely princess, can you tell you that this old king in front of you is not very good. Since October last year, whose bedside is full of six different language versions of the Desay fairy tale collection?"

Then, His Highness, who was originally aggressive, became embarrassed, and His Majesty, who had succeeded in the plot, was already laughing, and his voice echoed over the back garden of the palace.

The conversation with my father is always so short. After all, August I, as the monarch of the Saxony Kingdom, had too much government affairs and diplomacy to be busy and could not be with my daughter at all times.

Whenever Princess Maria returns to her bedroom, her personal maid, Christina, is her best playmate until the fact that Christina acts as a military intelligence agency spy and the fact that the undercover palace of Dresden is exposed.

This sentence is also applicable to Princess Maria after being sick for a long time. Just the next day, Maria realized that her diet was different from usual, and seemed to be mixed with an unknown strange smell of medicine. However, she did not immediately question the maid Christina, nor did she tell others, including her father, but just secretly paid attention to Christina's every move.

After her body was restored day by day and Princess Maria was able to move freely on the ground, at noon on the fifth day, she finally saw Christina adding a solution in a narrow glass bottle outside the door.

In the next few days, Princess Maria quietly collected the residue of these glass bottles. The morning before yesterday, she showed all the evidence to Christina and asked about the real reason for acting as a spy maid from another country. For security precautions, Princess Maria also hid two overloaded pistols under the table, within reach.

Christina is just a lurking spy who was incorporated by the Military Intelligence Agency in the Dresden Palace. She is a member of the peripheral, so she naturally has not received professional training. When faced with the princess's evidence-based inquiry, she immediately panicked and told her directly.

After learning the truth, Princess Maria did not show much emotion. She just told the maid who was sitting on the ground to be as usual, including taking over from the outside of the palace, such as a magical drug solution that can cure her stubborn illness for more than 10 years, mixed into food every day.

In addition to this, Princess Maria began to have a more detailed idea of ​​her unseen husband. So she took the initiative to talk to her father about Andrew Desay in the garden, and wrote a private message to the latter, asking Cristina to leave the palace and handed it over to the secret stronghold of the Military Intelligence Agency in Dresden.
Chapter completed!