The Saxon Uprising-ARC

Chapter 53


The United States of Europe

All of the major newspapers in the country and many of the smaller ones came out with the story the next morning. It didn’t matter what day of the week they normally published. It didn’t matter whether they were morning papers or evening papers. Even if the edition was just a two-page special edition, nothing more than a broadsheet printed on both sides, they all published something.

The headlines varied from city to city and province to province, but the gist of them was essentially the same:

the emperor recovers

chancellor oxenstierna executed for treason

hundreds in berlin arrested

prime minister wettin freed and returned to power

the emperor orders a halt to all conflict

the emperor offers a truce to king wladyslaw

the emperor to return to magdeburg

The festivities and the parades died down, although they didn’t die out entirely. People of whatever political persuasion understood that the coming days were going to be a time of hard bargaining. Most of them figured they’d wait until they saw the end result before they started celebrating again.

Or started crying in their beer.