Chapter 226 – Day 34 – Imperial Parliament
“It’s really surprising that not a single one of them attended, even those who didn’t attend the birthday party and the engagement ceremony…”
The princess, who clicked her tongue, sat in her own seat in the huge Imperial Palace.
It was originally supposed to be the seat of the emperor, but Venus, who was sitting as his deputy his, the owner of the Keal family, and the sole successor her, felt quite uncomfortable in a corner of her heart her.
Although Hedone was sitting next to her, she was speechless when she saw the number of nobles who filled the table, well over a thousand.
In reality, most of them attended to exercise their rights, but there were also quite a number of nobles sitting with venomous spirits like Diana, starting with Princess Hailey, who could be seen far away.
“…The number is really high. When I read it in the book, I thought there must be some lies…”
The atmosphere in Hedone, which was the first time in her life to see more than a thousand people crowded, was somewhat overwhelmed.
He was wearing a black dress, half covering his face in black, but the panicked atmosphere did not disappear easily.
“Hmm… In the Imperial Council, there are cases where you receive preferential treatment just because you speak well or agree with the agenda, so it can’t be helped…”
“What kind of privileges do you have? Princess Heojeop.”
Hedone was cautious because he could not learn such things from books.
“Hmm… It has a strong meaning of forming an alliance by being inserted into their faction. Did you know that Obama allows war within the empire if there is a good reason?”
“Yes, I know that there have been times when the nobles have been at war with each other, even among the three kingdoms.”
“If there is a legitimate reason, not an absurd reason, war is tolerated. That’s why it’s important to be seen well by those who are called the leader of the faction in a place like this…”
The princess cleared her throat once.
“…I said it was a legitimate reason, but doesn’t Lucia also have the right to a summary judgment, if you catch even a small pod that is related to the demons, you can start a war at any time. Even personal grudges are tolerated by Obama…”
“I feel like you’re deliberately instigating a war between nobles. But is that okay?”
Hedone’s natural question made the princess smile bitterly.
“Fighting means that someone is getting bigger, yes. As Hedone feared, if you grow that much, maybe one day there will be someone aiming a sword at our royal family, and everyone thinks so…”
The princess smiled strangely and touched the back of her hand her.
“…Those who know what happened to the Magicka Kingdom do not dare to point their swords at us imperial family. Just know that, hedone. I won’t let them grow that much in the first place…”
“……Your Majesty has a cruel side. I knew that.”
At Hedone’s strange words, the princess simply nodded her head.
While the two of them were talking about this and that, the atmosphere in the Capitol was ripe, and Princess Hailey started walking to the seat where the chairperson was sitting.
“Come on, quiet. Silent! Silent!!!”
Princess Hailey, the heir to the kingdom of Galagon, who had made the Capitol quiet by holding a hammer and striking it cheerfully, raised her eyebrows.
She wore her oddly charismatic appearance, her black hair tied back in a ponytail, and a black leather uniform that accentuated her figure.
Thanks to her her, her strangely plump buttocks her were clearly visible to her.
“Your Majesty didn’t attend the imperial council this time either. Princess Venus.”
“Isn’t Obama doing something? Are you saying that His Majesty, the emperor of the empire where the sun never sets, should stop doing what he is doing and talk here?”
“Ha, haha! It can’t be, thanks to His Majesty the Emperor, the demons aren’t appearing.”
After her strange words of her, Princess Hailey received the blue gem-encrusted sword that Ceres had brought from afar and lightly lowered it into the chair.
“From now on, let’s start the Imperial Council. I will serve as the chairman of this council on behalf of Hestia Gregorio. Then…”
Princess Hailey excitedly began to speak her words of her, and Hedone saw them and brought her mouth to her princess ‘ear her.
“Princess… What did you do?”
“Ah? Hmm… I’m sure this wasn’t in the book either. That sword was made by a certain emperor in the distant past at the request of the wizards of the Kingdom of Magica while making the Imperial Council.”
The princess pointed with her finger at a blue gem-encrusted sword that resembled her dagger her.
“Aren’t there really many nobles participating in the Imperial Parliament? A single word from these nobles would end the day. That said, the Assembly cannot be held for a week, so that’s why the emperor thought about it.”
The princess sighed.
“Isn’t it enough to stop time at the Capitol?”
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“Where are those amazing soldiers of the Empire? Where are they and what are they doing? Now His Majesty the Emperor has more troops than other emperors.”
“That’s right, I don’t know where the heck it is being used. Look at the Gregorian kingdom!! What was the emperor doing while the demons sold out the country!”
Every time they get up from their seats and talk, the voices of nobles resonate in the huge Capitol.
Their faces and voices were seen through a huge mirror placed in the center by the magic tool, and their voices were amplified.
“Haaaaa of the beginning of the story about two hours of listening to such words…
To be honest, the princess did n’t want to say anything when she heard her always cursing the emperor.
No matter what they said, the nobles would bite the imperial family nonstop, and after biting it for a long time, it was only at the end that they showed their true intentions with their swords.
Princess Hailey, who was actually holding the hilt even now, stood up and didn’t say a word.
Quite a number of counts stood up and said, ‘The tax collected has increased, but I don’t know what the emperor’s standing army is doing…’ He was talking in a tone of ‘.’
“Princess, something…”
“It’s okay. Hedone, those guys are just swearing out of excitement … When the time comes when they really want to hear what Obama says or their position in his, they will call me by name.”
“Still, you’re quite bold. Can I criticize His Majesty the Emperor like that?”
“In Congress, everyone should be able to talk about problems. If you’re afraid of Obama and everyone shuts their mouths and shakes their hips while flattering, will the empire go back…”
Even as the princess said that, she gulped down the drink brought by Ceres standing next to her.
It’s annoying to hear over and over again what you thought would happen but you can’t argue against it.
Emotions naturally fluctuate, and nobles have always used this method. If the emperor made a mistake, he could use that as an excuse to do many things.
She was the princess who knew it best, but it was true that she was still in a bad mood.
“Princess, then, do you mean that you know what the nobles, who are excitedly chattering about, will say or ask for something?”
“…Hedone, do you know that the Imperial Council is held regularly once a year?”
“Yes, poor princess. Don’t you know.”
“The count who is talking here and there has been asking for the same thing all five years.”
“…No way.”
Whatever it is, the princess clicked her tongue and made a circle with her thumb and forefinger.
“She doesn’t want to pay taxes.”
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“It’s not just the work in Gregorio that’s a problem. We, the Kingdom of Galagon, haven’t seen soldiers wearing the imperial insignia since 10 years ago. Not only demons underground are dangerous, aren’t demons on the ground also dangerous? “
The nobles nodded their heads as if they had been waiting for Hailey’s words.
“Who is stopping the demons from crossing over from the frozen land of all things? It is our Galagon Kingdom! While the soldiers of the Empire are playing comfortably in the capital, it is the Galagon that truly protects the Empire while shedding blood and sweat. They are soldiers of the kingdom.”
Sensing that it was time for her aristocrats’ dirty desires to vomit, the princess patted her own waist.
She was on the brink of death because she was bored because she had been listening to the story on an agenda for six hours.
“Your Majesty, Princess Venus, the representative of the great Emperor. We nobles want to know. Where are you going to use our blood and sweat taxes?”
If you can’t convince yourself, it’s obvious that the sound of tax reduction will come out.
The princess, who has experienced this kind of thing so many times that she yawns, gets up from her seat looking at the smiling Princess Hailey.
“Nobles of the empire where the sun never sets, I heard your story well today.”
There is no need to be angry in the first place, so she starts talking softly. After all, among the nobility, there is no case of living a painful life because you can’t pay your taxes.
Most of them were greedy to open a war to secure more territory for their own greed.
“Ceres, bring me the map.”
“Yes, Princess.”
In an instant, Ceres grabbed the huge map on top of the red cloth with both hands and opened it.
The territory of the Empire where the sun never sets was really huge, and the nobles swallowed their saliva the moment they saw it.
For her explanation of her, the princess pointed to a certain land in the south of the empire.
“Now, His Majesty’s army is conquering the southern lands with the Zodiac Knights, so more lands than expected will come into the hands of the Empire, and the nobles who made the achievements will naturally be given lands. Anyone who does not know this may be Are you seated?”
It can’t be.
The nobles’ privates were conscripted long ago, and rumors of a land flowing with sparkling jewels and milk and honey had existed since before the princess was born.
“Kuhmm… But Princess, the war between humans is the royal family’s—”
“Yes, it is not the duty of the imperial family. But, who raised the agenda to conquer the southern lands at the Imperial Council 10 years ago? I can see the people sitting here even now. Did not wage war on its own.”
The princess said, and the nobles only cleared their throats.
“Haona, princess, demons are appearing in many territories of the empire, including Gregorio…”
“I know that well, so I investigated the crown that Gregorio Zinaida used. However, there was no means to track the demons. I did not forget that I was the one who captured the demons disguised as pagans in Mediolanum in the first place. I guess?”
The nobleman with a white beard smiled shyly and nodded.
“Abama is in the process of blocking countless demons under the ground right now, even at this very moment. Is there anyone in this seat who would tell such a person to get up from her seat and find out and wipe out demons who are unknown whether or not they are on this earth?
The nobles did not answer the princess’ question.
What is the emperor of the empire where the sun does not set, sitting on a throne made of gold all day long?
Is there anyone who doesn’t know that the demons in the underground don’t dare to come up to the surface just because he exists? Because the princess knows the answer to everything, she answered like that and she smiled a little.
“However, there is a point in what you said. As Princess Hailey said, the imperial army does not fulfill its original mission of defending against the modern demons, but owes you money.”
Her little smile her, the princess, snaps her fingers her.
“Even your Majesty the Emperor is not the kind of person who turns a blind eye to such a problem. First of all, in the case of the Kingdom of Galigon, as long as the war in the south continues, I will reduce the tax from 50% to 30%. Speak, His Majesty the Emperor has given me the right, so I must be kind to you.”
When the princess sat down in her seat her, Princess Hailey cleared her throat with a strange expression on her face.
“…G-Thank you. Princess Venus, in the kingdom of Galagon, we will continue to be loyal to the imperial family. Kuh-hum, and… Let’s talk about this agenda until now. The next agenda will be as soon as the meal is over-“
Hailey’s words she continued naturally, and the princess comfortably put her back on her chair.
“Princess… Isn’t it too much tax reduction? And contrary to what you said, it’s too easy…”
“Hmmm, that’s right. Apparently Princess Hailey cut taxes as she wanted. But that’s it. How many nobles have been talking all day and a half?”
“…More than 100 people.”
“Only one of them, Princess Hailey’s Galagon Kingdom, was exempted from tax, but other than that, I told him to come and ask me if there were other dukes and counts as successful as the Galagon Kingdom…”
When the princess smiled slightly, Hedone smiled.
“There’s no noble that has done as much work as the Galagon Kingdom, where countless soldiers are shedding blood to stop the demons. Poor princess, you’ve done something like a fox.”
Haha! Princess Hailey has a lot to say, but now that she has suddenly eaten a huge piece of meat by herself, it will be difficult for her to play the role of captain in the future. I guess?”
“But since the kingdom of Galagon also received tax cuts, aren’t there any nobles who ask for it as well?”
Haha, would another noble leave a whining noble like that?
Tax relief is a delicious dish that will make any aristocrat salivate.
But Princess Hailey ate it all by herself. Incidentally, last year more than 10 nobles received tax cuts or revised vassal contracts, so it was not a false expectation to expect to receive the same amount this time around.
It was a situation where only one person had to do it, so it wasn’t a loss from the imperial family’s point of view.
“…Heh, you speak well…”
Hailey, with a dissatisfied look on her face, glanced at her princess once and walked away from her seat her with her dissatisfied look on her face, talking to several nobles who approached her.
“Hedone, we need to eat something too. Let’s get up.”
The imperial council, which was boring for the princess and exciting for Hedone, was just the beginning.
