Chapter 151 – 16. Mock.
Quinia trembled, but inside she let out an accusation.
Having touched the Emperor’s wrath, Athens will surely disappear into the dark side of history.
The current situation is terrifying, but if you endure this, you can destroy your nemesis.
“Ah, the King of Athens…Athena of Attica…!”
“…”
Seorae left the cup on Quinia’s head and returned to her seat her.
And then she glared at her gently for tens of seconds.
‘What, what…?’
Thanks to this, Quinia’s tension increased for no reason, and she even felt fear.
She couldn’t even get the cup off her head her, even when it was funny.
“Are you stupid?”
Then, Seorae’s mouth opened.
“Or do you have no brain?”
“That, that… Can’t be…”
“But why are you doing such a stupid thing?”
The maids hurriedly brought out a new car.
Seorae, who took it right away and ate some refreshments, told her ladies-in-waiting to bring a military map.
“If you’re a king, you should understand what I’m talking about. Do you think I’m bragging because I don’t have anything to say?”
I didn’t have an object, but I got it.
“Do you know the handle of the millstone?”
“Yes?”
“Say the handle of the millstone. Hey. You put something into the millstone to grind and try to turn it, but the handle is missing? Say you’re dumbfounded at this situation. It’s absurd. You can’t work because you’ re such a beggar.”
She threw her body forward.
“That’s how I feel right now.”
Then she gladd at Quinia as if to kill her.
“Isn’t it funny?”
* * *
By the time Quinia was meeting her Seorae, Attica, who had returned home, was thinking hard about her.
She had many things to do, such as state affairs, but these days, she did n’t enter her head.
“How can I do it…Naturally…”
The content is nothing.
She is trying to figure out how she can naturally approach Aran and make her cause her.
She thought it would be okay if she went near Gini, who is famous for being a sex horse, but since he is also a king, it can’t be that easy.
Above all, the very fact that she approaches him is a suspicious situation.
This is because Athens and the great Habsburg kingdom have no contact at all.
“Your Highness, nobles are gathering in the main hall.”
“…I’ll be going soon.”
Breaking her thoughts, she heard the voice of her maid.
When she finished her preparations and came out to the aristocrats, countless women bowed and greeted her.
This time, which is held regularly every day, is a time to discuss important issues of the country and discuss more legitimate policies.
It was also a place to read her appeals to her and discuss with her servants to her.
“Your Highness, requests from merchants to clear the road are pouring in.”
A noble came out and took his word out.
“Clear the way? What do you mean?”
A noble came forward.
“For the past hundreds of years, merchants have had to go around a very long way to trade with ancient Persia and the West. About 200 years ago, the king of Throdia rejected Persia, considered them barbarians, and forbade them to associate with them. There was friction, but due to the defense of the Mei Empire at the time, it lasted until the defeat of the last Persian-Srodian War). Their request comes.”
The nobleman’s words were simple.
It was to negotiate with the Habsburgs to allow merchants to use their territories to reach trade destinations more quickly.
“I think the Count is right. Even if he pays some tolls, it would be good for his country’s economy to save time and do more trade.”
“Hmm… It’s long…”
Attica was in trouble.
Certainly it would be to the merchants advantage to go the shorter route, unless they demand exorbitant tolls. In addition, in the case of trade going to the west region, in the past, it was common to go along the coast or to avoid pirate islands and move ships to the open sea for dozens of days without supplies. The former takes too much time, and the latter There was a disadvantage that there was less space to load trade goods because you had to load water and water.
However, the situation would be different if the pirate army could stop by the current Agneil territory.
You don’t have to go all the way back along the coast, and you don’t have to load up a huge load of supplies. And the period was shorter, so it was very important to negotiate with the great kingdom from the point of view of the merchants and the state.
‘Wait……Negotiating with the great kingdom?’
Suddenly, something passed like lightning.
Negotiations with the Great Kingdom.
For that, a diplomat must visit the great kingdom.
It creates a point of contact between the two countries that did not exist before.
‘Should I say I’m going? So I put my face on it… No. Let’s not rush. How to go back in a hurry. First of all, it is enough to establish a point of contact through negotiations between the two countries, and later, when there is an important national event, I can invite you or visit you to congratulate you. First of all, make a point of contact!’
Hope began to appear.
“Okay. Get a diplomatic mission ready right now.”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
* * *
With Seorae’s consideration, not consideration, Quinia was able to change her clothes to her.
But the important thing is that the clothes were not originally brought back, but clothes worn by maids of the imperial palace.
If you use the clean badge, you can wash it in one second. It was a punishment.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t express your dissatisfaction in front of Seorae.
I don’t even have the guts to do that, and even now, Seorae was very angry.
“I’m here?”
Quinia came back to Seorae hesitantly.
Suddenly, her body shrank.
On the round table where Seorae was sitting was a large map, none other than a map of the East Continent, the most accurate map in the world made by countless geographers and magicians.
In the southern part of the Throdia peninsula, which may be the most up-to-date, there were the names and place names of the great Habsburg kingdom, and under them, the names of the territories, countries and places of Persia were written. .
As Quinia sat down in her seat, her writing desk her raised her pen.
“You see this?”
The place she pointed to was the 35 subject countries.
It was distributed in the west, south, and east along the border of the Mei Empire, so it was like a breakwater.
“I’ve been thinking about it, but aren’t there too many of them? It’s annoying to manage for nothing. It costs a lot. It creates noise… But it doesn’t matter.”
“…?”
I felt ominous.
Seorae slightly pushed her body out and met her eyes her.
“I’m thinking of cleaning it up, what do you think?”
“!!”
There was an illusion that my breath stopped for a moment.
Organize?
Tidying up?
What?
Vassals?
Surely it was not meant to liberate the subject country.
“One in the east, one in the south, and one in the west. Wouldn’t this be neat?”
“…”
It’s sincere just by looking at it.
It is truly trying to organize those numerous dependent countries.
The problem is the means.
No matter how tributary it is, there is no way to say ‘yes, I understand’ just because they say ‘you guys merge’. Then, of course, there would be a war, but since it is clearing up 35 countries, the damage is not dared to be expected.
One thing to note is that being a vassal state of the Mei Empire is not a tiny little country. Countries ranging from as small as half of Throdia to as large as Persia were eaten by the Mei Empire simply because of geographic requirements.
If all of those countries participated in the war, the scale would exceed the scale of the ‘Persian-Srodia’ war by several times.
Quinia fell to the ground and bowed.
“Your Majesty! Fix it! How can you say such a thing! Please let go of your anger and bestow on you!!”
She screamed for her throat to burst, but Seorae did not pretend to hear.
“It’s a war for survival in each region. If you survive by fighting a war between the vassals, it’s OK. I’ll raise the national status to a great kingdom and lower the taxes that you guys are shouting about. How is it? Isn’t that a good way?”
“Your Majesty…!”
There is no justification for war, but if you make it, stop. The Mei Empire is capable enough.
What if, as she just said, it raises her national prestige and lowers the annual taxes she pays to the Empire? There are any number of countries that will go to war.
Even if there is no arms race, the arms race will inevitably lead to friction and war because the tension continues.
And what remains is the impoverished economy and national defense. In that case, they had no choice but to depend on the empire even more.
Her seorae her squatted in front of her.
“Don’t do that too much. I will support you.”
“…Yes?”
When she slightly raised her head, Seorae smiled.
“All the other bitches betrayed me and came running to me. It’s commendable.”
Her beautiful hand was placed on her red hair.
I stroked Quinia’s head as if I were petting her puppy her.
It was a very soft hand movement, so I could feel the warmth at first glance.
But that’s for a while.
Soon her her hands her grabbed her her hair her violently and pulled her up close to her own face her.
A face visible at intervals where her nose was barely touching her.
Quinia trembled as she hit her chin.
“If you didn’t come today, you’d be dead. Do you think I don’t know what your meetings were about?”
“…”
Gulp.
The sound of spitting and heart beating loud as thunder.
Her seorae smiled at her and put her down and stood up.
Then he took something from her chest of drawers and threw it at her.
It was an artifact that could record conversations.
The moment she saw that, the color disappeared from Quinia’s face.
No way.
No way…
“Remember. The Empire is greater than you think, stronger than you think.”
