Chapter 170. Hygiene Reform and Change (4)

In every era and country, there's at least one idiom meaning you can never know how things in the world will turn out.

It's evidence that people with different cultures and histories all empathize deeply with the fact that you can't know how life will unfold.

Duke Sforza keenly felt this obvious fact once again in his 72 years of life today.

"A mere baron dares to humiliate me?"

He feels like crushing him even if it takes all the forces his faction can mobilize.

A mere trifling baron, that is, someone who can barely raise his voice on the central political stage.

How dare such a guy insult an imperial duke.

If it were just about being presumptuous, it would be treason. If he had found some pretext, he would have done something immediately.

Like coaxing and cajoling the High Court Chief Justice to conduct a tax investigation and search and seizure of the Rothschild baron family, or mobilizing Deus religion archbishops he knows to impeach him as someone without faith.

Or mobilizing nobles in the faction to sue for the fact that Baron Rothschild went around causing trouble...