Chapter 746: Windsor Rebellion
"Windsor Castle, located in a col on the outskirts of the imperial capital, was built in the year 68 of the Eliat calendar, and was completed in the year 78 after ten years of construction. It was the palace that my father had set up for the Holy See Lady Jessica to visit the Empire. Rebecca reminisced as she introduced.
"Oh oh ~ I know about that famous incident. I said, how can I be so familiar with Windsor Castle!" Alfie exclaimed that there were relevant memories in his predecessor's memory, but his face suddenly became strange, "It seems that the Holy Maiden did not live in Windsor Castle, she seems to have died of illness on the day she arrived in the imperial capital?"
"It seems that this legend has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the mainland. From the point of view of the empire, their propaganda apparatus is very competent and ...... Succeed. Rebecca said with a sneer.
"Oh, that sounds like there's something else going on?, anyway, it's still a while before the castle gates, so why don't you hear it?" Alfie's eyes lit up after hearing Rebecca's words, and the fire of gossip began to burn. This is a royal secret from more than 2,000 years ago, and it must sound very emotional.
There was a hint of hesitation on Rebecca's face, and Tenelle next to her was anxious, considering whether to continue to increase Rebecca's illusion to make sure she could tell the secret. For Tenelle, this kind of super gossip about old rivals is also one of her interests.
"Two thousand years have passed since that incident, and the people involved are all gone, so it shouldn't have any impact if you say it now, right?" Alfie, who had an occupational illness, also spoke.
"No impact? Hmph, it's a big impact on the Imperial Family!" Rebecca sneered.
"Anyway, the current royal family has little to do with you, and in a sense, you should hate the current royal family more than most. Alfie made this inference from some of the details he knew about Rebecca's origins.
"You mean the rebels?" Rebecca gave Alfie a surprised look.
"Aren't you? Although you are not the eldest son of Otto the Great, Otto the Great had made you the heir before you disappeared. And your sudden disappearance and the death of Otto the Great happened one after another, if there is no cat in this, I am afraid that even Fred the Great himself will not believe it. Alfie also seemed to have a lot of criticism of Fred, the former emperor.
"Now that I'm back, two thousand years have passed, but I'm going to find out. A cold light flashed in Rebecca's eyes, and a momentum that had been in the top position for a long time flashed.
"I'm not interested in your old-fashioned palace fighting dramas, can you hurry up and tell me the whole story of that 'big event'?" Seeing that the two of them had a tendency to go off-topic, Tenell protested.
"Say it's up to you. Seeing Rebecca's target for advice, Alfie wisely gave Rebecca the decision to the point, even though he was very eager to know about the gossip.
"Well, it's not a big deal anyway. Rebecca thought about it and decided to tell the unpleasant secret.
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After the end of the Great War, although the Eliad Empire established by Otto the Great had unified the entire continent, out of respect for the great sacrifices and outstanding contributions of the Holy See in the Great War of All Races, Otto the Great deliberately set aside a piece of land for the Holy See near the Holy See Mountain in the northwest of the continent to the Holy See, making the Holy See an independent country within a state.
With the end of the Great War, after all the ethnic groups on the continent entered the stage of recuperation, conflicts inevitably broke out between the divine power and the imperial power. As events progressed, the relationship between the Holy See and the Empire became more and more stiff, and by the end of Otto the Great's reign, the two had even reached the point of being inseparable.
Therefore, when the Holy See's No. 2 person, St. Jessica, offered to visit the imperial capital of Catania in order to ease the relationship between the two, and immediately received an enthusiastic response from Otto the Great. After all, the survivors who participated in the Great War of All Races were still alive at that time, and there was still a strong fighting friendship between the two sides. As for the political disagreement that followed, it was more the result of the struggle for power among the new young Zhuang factions.
Otto the Great, after accepting the olive branch of the Holy Maiden Jessica, immediately decided to start a construction spree in a beautiful col on the outskirts of the imperial capital to build a palace to welcome the arrival of the Holy Maiden.
However, there are many good things, and the Holy Maiden's departure from the Holy Mountain is an out-and-out event for the Holy See, and in the case of the then Pope Gyllenhaal's frequent "retreat" because of something, Her Majesty the Holy Woman is actually the supreme leader of the Holy See, so after Her Majesty announced that she would choose the opportunity to visit the imperial capital, she was obstructed by layers of obstruction from within the Holy See.
Coupled with the various voices within the empire that also arose for different interests, the time of the Holy Maiden's visit was postponed again and again, and finally it was postponed for a full ten years.
When the honor guard of the Holy Maiden finally appeared on the outskirts of the imperial capital, Windsor Castle, the palace specially prepared for her by Otto the Great, has been continuously expanded and decorated into a huge complex that is not inferior to the imperial palace in the past ten years.
However, to everyone's surprise, less than an hour after the frame of the Holy Maiden was personally welcomed into Windsor Castle by Otto the Great, the Imperial official announced a sensational news to the world: the Holy Goddess Jessica of the Holy See was declared dead shortly after her visit to the imperial capital.
This news immediately caused an uproar on the entire continent, you must know that although she is limited by the laws formulated by the Lord of Light, Her Majesty the Holy Maiden is not a holy realm, but as a powerful person who has experienced the test of the Great War of Ten Thousand Races, how could Her Majesty the Holy Maiden die of illness due to the lack of adaptation to the water and soil?
The Holy See immediately blamed the Empire's poor protection for the death of the Holy Maiden, and announced the Holy Knights to launch a crusade to seek justice for the Holy Maiden.
Not only that, but Reding, a merchant alliance located in the southwest of the continent, also took the opportunity to rebel due to dissatisfaction with the empire's tax system.
However, the strangest thing is Otto the Great's attitude towards this matter. After the death of the Holy Maiden, Otto the Great entrusted the affairs of the empire to his trust, Franco O'Brid, declared a retreat and closed himself in Windsor Castle, taking a blind eye to the imperial rebellion.
After ten years of war, the situation on the mainland gradually became clear after the Holy Knights' Crusade and the rebellion of the Leiding Alliance: the continent was no longer dominated by the Eliad Empire, and two new countries appeared, one was the Clare Kingdom, a religious state with the Holy See as the main body, and the king was Brentes next to the Holy Mountain, and the other was the Leding Federation, known as the country of the Thousand Islands, based on the commercial alliance in the southwest of the mainland, and the capital Lechester.
This major event, which caused drastic changes in the situation on the mainland again after the Great War of the Ten Thousand Races, was known as the "Windsor Rebellion" because its starting point was at Windsor Castle.