Chapter 493

On the high platform in front of the main hall, his majesty Augustine VI sat on a throne. The only difference between the emperor and other emperors is that beside the throne, there was a throne parallel to his seat, which was naturally the position of Regent of the Empire.

Chen sat next to the old emperor, with a proper smile on his face.

The court band is on the left side of the hall, behind a curtain. When his majesty Augustine VI got up from his chair, the ceremonial officer next to him waved his hand and the band stopped playing immediately.

In the main hall, the atmosphere that was just cheerful suddenly regained its solemnity.

Soon, a court waiter nearby brought two gold cups. His majesty Augustine VI and the Regent picked up one. We all know that this is the beginning of the toast ceremony.

"Long live the Empire."

The voice was not loud, and everyone recognized that his majesty Augustine VI's mood was not too high, but it was normal, because everyone knew that now the old man who had been so successful had been elevated.

However, no one would dare to look directly at the old man's tired and impatient expression, so we all obediently picked up the wine glasses around us and raised them high. Hundreds of people answered, "long live the Empire!"

Then Prince Chen, the Regent, raised his glass. When he raised his glass, the Hall fell into absolute silence! Because everyone knows that the Regent is the real master of the Empire now!

"May the Empire prosper and the flag of bramble blossom flutter on the mainland forever." The Regent smiles, then raises his glass and touches his lips.

"Long live your majesty! Long live your Highness The Regent! " Hundreds of people, both men and women, were shouting and drinking all the wine in their glasses.

Dewey was in the first place on the left side of the throne, which was also the closest to the emperor and the Regent. From this sort of ranking order. Also enough to reflect the tulip Duke's status in the Empire now!

Others, old Prime Minister robustscher, can only sit at the bottom of Dewey's head.

When the toast is over, the party starts tonight, and the next thing is much easier.

As long as the old emperor sits in his seat for a little while and pretends to be in a bad mood, he can go back to the palace to have a rest, and the matter of tonight will be over.

According to tradition, the first dance should be performed by his majesty and the queen. But the old emperor is old. And the queen has already passed away. So since the coup three years ago, the first dance of this formal evening party has been performed by Prince Chen instead of the old emperor. Anyway, in everyone's mind, he is the emperor.

In the melodious and gentle dance music, the Regent with a calm smile stood up, slightly owed his body to the Regent queen sitting beside him, and gracefully extended his hand.

This is the first time Dewey has seen the queen. The queen is twenty-eight years old. It looks much younger than the actual age. It has a gentle and moving appearance, quiet and elegant. From the aspect of appearance and temperament, it can be seen that Du Wei has a certain elegant queen style. This woman is afraid that she will not be a queen all her life.

In fact, the queen is also a very gentle and virtuous woman. She married Prince Chen at the age of 16 and gave birth to a son and a daughter. And I heard that she is gentle and kind, and has no ambition. She is a peaceful and beautiful woman.

The only slight flaw is that, as the wife of the emperor, the Queen's family background is a little poor. Of course, this is also relatively speaking. She was not born in a poor family. She was also a local aristocratic family in the south. The family had a little influence, but at most it could only be regarded as the third class aristocratic family of the Empire. It's far from being a top family like the Rowling family. These local nobles in the South were often looked down upon by the rich and powerful families in the imperial capital and regarded as the local bumpkins in the countryside.

After Prince Chen came to power, everyone thought that he should marry an aristocratic woman from the imperial capital as the side room. Unfortunately, surprisingly, he chose another girl from the southern aristocratic family: Miss daili as his princess. This is a move. It was immediately taken as a significant political signal!

Obviously. In addition to wooing Dali's family and setting up a balanced land enemy for Dewey. This hand also has some significance: Prince Chen doesn't like the traditional powerful families and aristocrats in the imperial capital! So it seems that he wants to support a few new forces to balance the power balance in the circle of the aristocrats in the imperial capital!

Therefore, in the past two years, there has been a sign of "strong south wind" in the circles of the imperial capital.

Because both of them received strict court training from childhood, the court dance of the Regent and the queen was very superb, and their skillful dance and various perfect skills were fully displayed. The two were originally beautiful men and women. After a dance, they immediately won a burst of warm applause, which Du Wei could hear. The applause was from the heart, Not just out of respect for the status of the two dancers.

According to the custom, after the first dance was performed by the master of the palace, the Regent and the queen bowed gracefully to each other, and then walked back to the throne hand in hand: "OK, everyone, I hope you have a good time tonight!"

Then, the second dance music played... But after the music started, no one moved!

In the aristocratic circles of Roland Empire, they paid much attention to traditional etiquette.

Because, in this circle, everything is in accordance with the "status and level" to run! The first dance belongs to the emperor. So the second dance starts, although everyone can dance. But there is another subtle "tradition.".

There is an unwritten rule here: after the second dance music is played, the person with the highest status who is present tonight, except his majesty, must be the first to enter the dance hall. Only after this person moves first, other people can leave one after another, otherwise. Will be considered a rude and arrogant act!

On this occasion tonight, apart from the emperor and the Regent, there are only two people with the highest status: Du Wei, the tulip Duke of the Empire, and old robustscher, who has been the Prime Minister of the Empire for many years.

If the two of them sit still and the others step down first, they may be misunderstood: do you think you are more noble than the Duke of tulip and the prime minister?

The prelude to the dance is over. Neither Du Weiwei nor the old Prime Minister moved. As we all know, the old prime minister has been in good health every day in recent years, and dancing is no longer suitable for him.

In the past, he usually did not attend such a banquet if he could. And Dewey is in the northwest all the year round. In the past, in addition to the Regent's first dance, the first person who came to the end was usually the finance minister of the Empire, or the Marquis of two or three rich families in other places. Sometimes the count of villa would jump first.

But on this occasion, the old prime minister is here, and so is the Duke of tulip! In this case, who dares to move first?

Is it a title? Duvet is the Duke! It can be said that in addition to the royal family, the Duke has the highest title（ Only the royal family can be a prince.

What's the official position? He is already an imperial general! And the minister in charge of military affairs in Northwest China! And in a court meeting. The Regent deliberately arranged for Dewey to sit in his "bottom left" position, which has obviously released a signal: Dewey will become the Prime Minister of the Empire in the future!

The news has been spread through various channels.

Now the most important young minister of the empire is sitting there. At this time, who will move first depending on his status. That is to set out to challenge the tulip family that supports tens of thousands of rich people in the world!!

The following nobles are looking forward to Du Wei's move first, and in addition to the men, almost all the young aristocratic girls present are also looking forward to waiting!

Why?

Waiting for myself as a partner to accept the invitation of Duke tulip!!

Dewey didn't bring his partner tonight. As we all know, his fiancee is far away in the northwest!

Although the news of Dewey's engagement blocked the royal marriage channel, with his current prestige and influence, who would believe that the future First Minister of the Empire would only marry one wife?

Although those real rich families will not marry their daughter to Dewey as a sideroom (in their view, this kind of behavior is too shameful. It's more or less like marrying an emperor or a regent as a second wife. But some second rate and third rate noble families are absolutely willing to marry their daughters to Dewey! Even if it's a side room!!

After learning about Dewey's attendance at the banquet tonight, many noble girls spent all their time today. If they dressed up as much as possible, now in the hall, countless bright and charming girls were staring at Dewey with big eyes, if their eyes could eat people. I'm afraid we're young dukes. It's been eaten out of bone.

Dewey was in a bit of a dilemma.

He knows this traditional etiquette, but... Looking at those noble girls who look forward to it. He was a little hairy. In fact, if according to the usual state, he can have a good choice: for example, invite a princess to dance!

That's great, because in terms of identity, it's respect for the royal family. In private affairs, he could not marry a princess as a side room, which put an end to a lot of unnecessary reverie.

But it's a pity that Princess Louise, who used to be the most suitable partner for Dewey tonight, is now far away in the Northwest giliat City, acting as a nurse and taking good care of her brave knight.

Dewey's eyes turned around, then he suddenly laughed, got up, stood up, and walked to the lower right side of the Regent with his head held high in full view of the public

For a moment, this kind of action immediately made the hearts of several young girls from noble families around the place ripple, and some of them blushed with excitement.

However, later, Dewey quickly went to his "target", and then he showed the most elegant and charming smile on his face. He owed his body, and his voice was warm as the spring breeze, and he stretched out a hand. "Can you, your highness?" he said softly

In a word, almost let the presence of countless noble girls are crushed, rest assured, even those men, also seem to stare round the eyes, incredible staring at Du Wei!

Because the "Highness" sitting in front of Dewey is the eight year old daughter of his Royal Highness Prince Chen, Regent, Princess Karina!

Karina dressed up tonight. At the age of eight, she was the first to attend such a formal banquet. This 8-year-old girl inherits Prince Chen's handsome appearance and her mother's beauty. At a young age, she was born with beautiful features and delicate facial features. She is a beauty of the future.

Although Dewey's action surprised her, the eight year old princess did not expect that the duchess would invite herself

however. Having received strict Royal etiquette training, she soon calmed down, coughed and stood up, her eyes were a little flustered. In her tender voice, she nervously replied: "it's my pleasure..." after hesitating for a moment, the little princess added a name: "teacher!"

Du Wei Leng for a while, then immediately remembered that he also shouldered the task of being a tutor for a couple of children of Prince Chen. He laughed, took the little girl's hand and walked slowly down the dance floor

Around came a very obvious helpless sigh. But no one dares to say anything. Because although Karina is very young, she is a real princess after all!

With Dewey's leadership, other guests finally dare to move. When Dewey is dancing with Princess Karina, many nobles around invite their partners to come to the end.

The little girl's body has not yet grown up, Dewey slightly bent down. Accommodating the height gap between the two, he easily took the weight of Princess Karina down, half embracing the child and gently rotating with the rhythm of the dance music.

Princess Karina was obviously excited and excited. Her little face turned red. She was so nervous that she even forgot her strictly trained dance steps. She almost stepped on Dewey's feet several times.

"Ah! I'm sorry, teacher... "Karina felt that she would have to find a crack to get in.

"Don't apologize. Your highness. in fact. You've done me a big favor

Kalina's eyes turned, and she immediately understood that Dewey was a royal child.

"Teacher..." Kalina suddenly came over. He whispered in duvet's ear, "do you know? This is the first dance in my life. "

Du Wei laughs and looks at the lovely little girl. He tries not to pinch her lovely nose. Wen Yan smiles and says, "it's my pleasure, your highness."

At the end of the dance, Dewey takes Karina by the hand, takes her back to her seat, nods and leaves. There was a look of disappointment in Karina's eyes, and sitting next to her was Prince Charles, 10.

Charlie looked at his sister and suddenly laughed: "honey, I heard that this time he will live more in the imperial city. I think tomorrow I can go to ask my father and ask the teacher to give us a formal class. What do you think? "

Kalina looked at her brother in surprise immediately, and then repressed her excitement: "good! Thank you very much

Prince Charlie gave a faint smile and looked at Dewey in the distance: "don't thank me... Because I'm also looking forward to tulip's class! He is now the most famous genius in the mainland! Well, I really want to ask him to teach me how to ride a broom that can fly to the sky, fly in a hot air balloon, and... "

Karina smiles. She looks at her brother's excited expression, but the little girl can't help but think of the first volume of the general history of the mainland that fell into her hands!

Over the past year, Carlina has been familiar with all the notes of Dewey. Although she can't understand many things, little Carlina is undoubtedly fascinated by it.

She subconsciously looked at her toes. Fortunately, in order to prepare for the dance tonight, she chose a pair of her favorite new dance shoes! Karina has decided to treasure this pair of dance shoes when she goes back.

Shortly after the end of the first song, when the second dance began, Prince Chen winked at Du Wei. They looked at each other and understood each other's meaning: it's almost time.

According to the plan, in the interval after the end of the second dance, we can announce that the old emperor's spirit is poor and leave first, and then we can send his majesty back to rest. In recent years, this is generally the case with every public appearance.

At the moment, his Majesty's performance is perfect. He does not show any flaws. Sitting on the throne, he has some dissociation, some inattention, and a touch of impatience and boredom. These performances are also in line with the consistent performance of Augustine VI.

Finally, the second song is over, and Prince Chen and Du Wei are relieved: tonight's test finally passed smoothly.

Prince Chen is about to stand up and announce, but just at this time

Outside the hall, there was a rumble of drums, followed by the horn of the guard of honor, which showed that there was another distinguished guest coming!

Sure enough, a loud voice, is standing outside the hall of the ceremonial officer's announcement: "the mainland Temple of light, Pope Paul XVI, his Majesty's arrival!"