Chapter 734 – #96. Jinhaesol (38)
Living as a king was stricter than I thought.
As soon as I became king, the first thing I had to do was actually listen to the palace’s laws from the old courtiers who were following the palace’s laws rather than dealing with the rebellion.
The royal family learned these things from an early age, but I didn’t have time to learn because I was a person who suddenly jumped out.
In the meantime, it was possible that I hadn’t learned the laws of the palace from these people because the king used his hand.
Originally, I should have taken classes all day without a break to learn the law.
However, the king, knowing that his time was running out, put it off.
‘Since you ascended the throne, it is right that you should learn the law!’
As anyone can see, the old courtiers who live with ‘I’m a kankanhao’ on their facial expressions grabbed me and started to stir-fry them all day long.
The only time they can escape is night and time to watch the nobles and state affairs.
I could go for a walk every once in a while, saying it was a break, but the class time was so long that my head was pounding.
And honestly…
‘Why should I learn this?’
It’s not like I’ll live here for the rest of my life… The crooked line that I have to learn is starting to burn.
Still, I didn’t have to listen to the nobles saying that I was an ignorant and lowly person, so I was holding back my feelings of resentment and was taking classes.
Aren’t you the kind of person who gets lost when it comes to learning?
As expected, the old courtier, who had been very strict as the class progressed rapidly, started class with me quite fondly from a certain point on.
“How long do I have to take this class? I’ve already learned so much, but it seems there is no end.”
“There is no way to forget something once taught, and even if you teach one thing, you know ten, so I am happy and happy beyond measure to be able to teach such a clever king.”
“So stop talking. How much do you have left?”
“I’m sorry. Isn’t it true that there is no age and no end to learning? Since you have learned the rules of the palace, from now on…”
Military law and history and imperial law and…
I was distracted by the contents of the classes that were pouring in.
“Stop it! Are you guys going to put all the books called books in my head? Didn’t you pick out the minimum knowledge and ask me to teach you!”
“Your Highness! These are all the most basic knowledge a king should have!”
Isn’t studying supposed to be infinitely deeper if you try to deepen it?
What I said was that I wanted to know that there was such a thing as scratching the surface.
But what the old courtier asks of me is that in a few years, this and that happened, and then someone did this and someone did this! I’m trying to tell you everything.
‘Even if I remembered that, it would be used somewhere.’
Of course, there may come a moment when such knowledge is needed.
But aren’t there many smart nobles around the king?
Being greedy doesn’t make nobles incompetent.
Rather, it is competent enough to be greedy.
To get more.
In the end, I ignored the pitiful cries of the old courtiers and drastically reduced my study time by learning the bare minimum.
Only after doing so did I have time to spend the day like a human being.
In the new time, of course, I diligently teased my waist to break the mission.
“Aang! Aang!”
Fu chump pu chump pu trung!
Today, since he brought courtiers rather than noble ladies, he decided to hold the three at the same time.
“Um, jjook! Ha ha, Your Highness… It’s sweet… Uung… Side!”
For me, who has to embrace 3,000 women, today was also a bit special.
“Ha…That’s good.”
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
“Hauuuuu! Your Highness…Ahh!”
I spent a bit of a loose time hugging the girls hard.
There were so many women in the palace that there was always a woman who could be hugged just by reaching out her hand.
And today was a rewarding day for playing hard on the waist.
Finally, the number of women I embraced here.
[100/3000]
That’s beyond three digits!
‘Haa~ Hyeonta is coming.’
Of course, being in the third position was not very happy compared to the effort it took.
Because next to the unit of 100, there was a four-digit number of 3000.
‘I have to collect the dust and think of it as a great mountain. What can I do?’
Is this balanced? I feel resentment and perverseness, but what can I do?
You have already made a choice that cannot be reversed.
My journey to 3,000 didn’t seem easy.
As the number of women wearing seungeun increased, they began to run out of places to stay.
“What? No place to stay?”
“Yes, I’ve managed to accommodate them up until now… But if they continue to attract women at this rate, I think they’ll run out of places to stay.”
Of course, he wouldn’t say that because there really weren’t enough seats in the palace.
It was only because the woman appointed as the concubine had no place to stay.
Can’t I just let a woman wearing my surname stay anywhere?
It also happened because no king had as many concubines as I did in a kingdom where kings rarely excelled in stamina.
‘I should make a harem in advance.’
He could not handle 3,000 concubines in the same way as the palace where concubines live now.
Depending on whether you are from a palace or a noble family, the size of the palace you can be assigned to is different.
But aren’t there a lot more concubines coming in from now on?
When I thought about the future, I thought it would be better to build a new large-scale palace that can accommodate 3,000 people at all instead of messing around with it now.
“I’m going to make a new concubine.”
“A concubine… You mean?”
“I’m going to build it big enough to accommodate as many people as possible.”
When would we say we would afford such a luxury, except now, when we have pockets of riches from nobles who have been returned to the country for treason?
The nobles looked bewildered at my declaration.
“Ah! And as I’ve been familiar with the surrounding situation these days, I’ve come to think about why our country is a kingdom. I wonder if this is an assignment left by the previous king.”
“?”
He smiled meaningfully at the aristocrats who couldn’t catch his senses.
This kingdom has already grown so much that it can be called an emperor due to the war of conquest of the previous king.
Even if he hadn’t been bothered by succession issues, the king would have already turned the country into an empire.
Although there was an unfortunate incident of treason in the middle, I, who succeeded safely, obtained everything he had accomplished intact.
‘The king cheats. He inherited an estate, but there is no inheritance tax.’
I received so many things without inheritance tax, so can’t I just do nothing and rot?
It was time for this country to rise to the next level.
“I will declare an empire.”
“!!!!”
“!!!!”
“Me, Your Highness.”
At the same time as my declaration, the nobles are startled.
“After the declaration of the empire, I will send envoys for friendship with the neighboring countries. And I’m thinking of forming a marriage alliance.”
For alliances between countries, marriage alliances were not unfamiliar.
It is an excellent diplomatic tool that has already been verified.
From my point of view, it was a way to kill two birds with one stone, so there was no reason not to do it.
“And when you declare an empire, is there one country that bothers you the most?”
The country that hinders our country from becoming an empire from a kingdom.
It is the Geos Empire.
“I’m thinking of making the woman from there the empress.”
“Huh… The empress… Nope…”
The nobles began to struggle with my proposal.
The development of the country from kingdom to empire seemed to be viewed positively by all nobles.
The only objectionable thing was the empire that interfered with the previous king’s war.
Due to the previous king’s achievements, he subdued neighboring countries through numerous wars, and each time the empire held onto the kingdom’s ankles and hindered it from easily winning the war.
So even if we declare an empire and send envoys, the probability of being treated well is low.
“It will be a situation where we reach out first, but it doesn’t seem like a bad plan.
“If we don’t accept it, that will also be an advantage as we can be sure what they think of us.”
I will say no.
If a kingdom becomes an empire, doesn’t that mean that the country’s power will grow stronger?
Of course, if there are nobles who support the marriage alliance diplomacy I proposed, there are certainly nobles who oppose it.
“I don’t know if it will come out well in the Geos Empire. Isn’t it a place where we are not on good terms with our country?”
“That’s right. Even if we reach out our hand, they’ll rather start a fight.”
They were aristocrats who were hesitant to appoint a woman from another empire as their empress in a situation where my successor had not yet been decided.
What if the empress were the first to conceive her heir?
Knowing what the nobles were worried about, I spoke to them.
“I don’t think there’s anything to worry about regarding the succession. Before making a woman from the empire the empress, I plan to make Lady Luabel, the daughter of the Duke of Semoron, the empress.”
“Are you talking about Lady Luabel?!”
“There is something I haven’t told you yet. Lady Luabel is pregnant with Jim’s child.”
“!!!”
The Duke of Semoron is one of the first nobles to line up to stand by my side.
Besides, she was the first woman to tell me that she was pregnant among the girls I had sex with.
Even if she wanted to protest against Millini, she couldn’t because she was pushed behind in terms of status and that she was pregnant with a child first.
“Well, if that’s the case…”
“She’s not a prince yet, she probably doesn’t know if she’s a prince or a princess, but she’s chosen empress just because she’s conceived recklessly…”
“It’s because the person who didn’t fall out of his status and trusted and supported me in the last incident was Duke Semoron.”
