Chapter 708 – #96. Jinhaesol (12)
The conversation with the king was surprisingly not difficult and continued in a comfortable atmosphere.
As if the king had no intention of embarrassing me, he did not ask me a word about my past, as he had said at the banquet hall.
“What do you want to do next?”
“I want to enjoy the manatee that I have not shared with Your Highness.”
The king was more interested in the future than the past.
“It must have been a lot of hard work before you came out in front of Jim.”
“It was in a place too high and shining for the earthworms to reach.”
In reality, I was just moving and walking to the banquet hall at once, but the king believed my lie and felt sorry for me, as if he thought that I had worked hard to come see him.
“You will have a lot to learn in the future. I can’t even tell you that the process will be easier than past experiences.”
“I’ve never heard of being inferior to others.”
Haha! That confidence, it’s nice to see!”
Now that I am a member of the royal family, I am asked what I want to do in the future, what I will learn from me in the future, and there are warnings that it will not be easy.
Not only that, but the part where the king had a grudge was also mentioned several times.
“You are my son, so you must be king. Your role is very important to keep the royal lineage in this kingdom.”
“Before appearing in front of Your Highness, that part has already been prepared mentally.”
“It’s commendable! Even now, many members of the royal family are working hard to succeed the generation. You shouldn’t be negligent in your efforts either.”
What the king expected and desired from me the most was not whether I would rule the country well.
It was to pass on the genes inherited from oneself to the next generation.
How I would rule the country was not the king’s concern.
“Aren’t you worried about making an ignorant rainbow worm king?”
“Worry? Not at all! Leave the country to the nobles and just hold and shake them appropriately. It’s nothing too difficult. But only you can succeed to the next generation. Will continue its history.”
The king’s most important thing is to produce offspring.
It seemed clear that if I gave birth to a normal, healthy child without a handicap, the king would unwaveringly hand over the throne to me.
“Have you already been married?”
“I didn’t. I know where my bloodline came from, but I thought I couldn’t spread it carelessly.”
It’s what I said, but it’s disgusting.
But here, I knew very well that this answer was correct.
“Yes! You did very well. You behaved so well… You are my son!”
The king smiled broadly at my words and liked them.
Even so, he regretted the fact that I had no children.
“On the one hand, it’s a pity. Having grandchildren has been my biggest dream all my life. Of course, I won’t officially acknowledge the child you brought from outside, but at least I could have given you enough care to live without starving for the rest of your life.” .”
“…I will give you the grandchild you want in no time.”
“Am-am! Ha-ha-ha! You’re so pretty, I can’t help but laugh out of joy. Ha-ha-ha!”
The king’s laughter echoed outside.
But laugh for a while.
The king’s expression hardened at my words.
“Your Highness, I’m just worried about the nobles. It seemed that no one was pleased with my appearance today.”
“They are petty, thoughtless, and greedy. They covet my things and roll their eyes to snatch or steal.”
The king’s evaluation of nobles was very harsh.
“Why are those people nobles? All who take away your Highness are thieves.”
“I have a lot of things. Under the sky, the land, abundant resources, and even the people. Everything belongs to me. Do you know?”
“Yes. I know.”
“That’s why we give. If you give something to nobles, they think it’s theirs and do their best to decorate and decorate what you gave.”
“…”
The wealth of nobles also belongs to the king! I was amazed at the fact that I had a heart like that.
‘How high is your self-esteem… At this level, don’t you think you’re a god?’
Everything under the sky is yours…
“Even if they decorate like that, in the end, all of them belong to me. As time passes and what they have given is ripe, they just have to get it back. If that happens, the nobles will bow their heads in front of the king. You would have realized again that all the honor and power came from me.”
“A lowly man who lacked knowledge borrowed Your Highness’s wisdom and gained enlightenment.”
Haha! Jim has a lot to teach us in the future. In the morning, learn what a king is by his side, and at night, work hard to produce the lineage of a king at your residence.”
It was the king’s declaration that he would pluck and eat my marrow day and night.
But I bowed my head as if that was also an honor.
At least the king will be able to go on smiling contentedly until his death.
Although it is not true, he will die with the comfort of knowing that the king’s bloodline has not been severed.
‘I want to go home quickly.’
It’s only been a few hours since I’ve been here, but I’m already missing home.
It was all the more so because my alter ego is now playing happily with my family at home.
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The king kept his word.
After officially becoming a prince, he dragged me around and taught me various kinds of knowledge and wisdom.
At times, I felt uncomfortable with the disparate aspects of his high self-esteem, but on the contrary, there was something to learn from his teachings.
Time passed quickly as he made a teacher on the other hand, who had lived in the position of ruler for a long time, and was sincerely surprised by his wisdom.
The king, who thought he was a toothless tiger, handled the nobles skillfully as he said.
‘Most of the nobles felt embarrassed by the king.’
Until now, watching dramas and movies, there was a feeling that kings and nobles were fighting each other over power.
Of course, there may be loyal subjects among them, but most of the subjects were written that way to give a dramatic feeling.
However, when I saw the real king and his servants, it was quite different from what I had encountered through video media.
‘Or is it because it’s on a different level?’
It is not possible to unify it because it is only one country, but it was amazing to see the king skillfully pressuring the nobles and the nobles fearing and following the king.
‘Besides, the investigation data also said that the king, who was suffering from anxiety, was being pushed back by the nobles.’
If the nobles couldn’t use their power against the king, it seemed like they needed to change their plan.
Originally, I tried to use one of the moderately powerful nobles to turn the political battle into a battle between nobles and nobles rather than kings versus nobles.
However, looking at the current situation, the king was in a position where he could not be touched, and a battle was going on between the nobles and the nobles who were trying to win the king’s favor.
‘No. Let’s watch some more. Even if it looks like nobles fighting each other on the outside, there may be nobles who challenge the king from places I don’t know.’
What I had to do now was to stick close to the king and develop my political power under his protection.
The king seemed to be pleased with my behavior.
It would not be easy to have an attitude of learning without making a fuss despite the sudden rise in status.
And my guess was true.
The nobles were meeting every day in a place I didn’t know, and were having meetings about the current situation.
“Your Highness has great confidence in this unknown person. What can I do?
“…Is his history still unknown?”
“Ah…I did find it.”
“You found it? But why didn’t you tell me! If you knew earlier, you should have used it to pressure me!”
The nobleman, who said he knew the prince’s history, spoke timidly at the urging of the nobles around him.
“Actually, I did something wrong and regretted it.”
“Regret?”
“Yeah, I looked into it and found nothing special.”
“Why isn’t there anything special? I’ll find out if there’s anything special, so tell me something. What the hell were you doing?”
As if the noble had no choice, he shared the history he had been investigating with other nobles.
However, as the nobleman continued to speak, the other nobles’ expressions became bitter.
“What should I do… What should I do…”
“Has Heaven really abandoned our kingdom…”
“From the first appearance, I thought that he must have something because his momentum was unusual…”
After investigating the prince’s past, he had no particular range to attack.
The prince is a hunter who lives in the mountains, and it has been investigated that he has been living in the mountains since he was a child, alone without any relatives or family.
He has lived mainly by hunting or gathering animals and plants, and he only sees people once a month.
He said that the end was to come down to the village and buy food and necessary living tools.
“Isn’t it rather suspicious that you live alone in the mountains? You live alone and no one knows who you’ve been in contact with?”
“You can’t press the prince without clear evidence.”
At least if he had an acquaintance, he could have bribed him and made up a story.
However, he did not have any close acquaintances, and the only people he spoke to were the merchants he met when buying and selling goods.
“Does it make sense that there wasn’t a single girl with that face? Surely the local girls wouldn’t leave the prince alone?”
So if there’s a girl she’s had a crush on even once, she’ll try to bribe her and guess what she’s saying…!
“Didn’t you say you were a hunter? How could ordinary country girls touch a man who was a hunter?”
“Ah..!”
Moans of sorrow flow from here and there.
The prince was pure white.
So, I am more suspicious, but if the prince is suspicious without evidence and tells me not to get close to him, he is more likely to be caught by the king.
“How about sticking to the prince?”
“To the prince?”
“He’s a formidable guy. It’ll be no different from serving the current king, but stick to the prince!”
“Isn’t the nobles breathing a little bit now? A prince must never be a king. That intelligence is like a star in his eyes!”
When an aristocrat said that he should just stick with the prince, the surrounding aristocrats protested here and there.
So far, the nobles are not ready to accept the prince.
