Chapter 809 – #96. Chinhaesol (113)
‘I’m sorry…’
I received an order from my master to stop returning now.
However, it was very regrettable that Bianca would step down as it is now in a situation where she is slowly seeing results.
“Please hold a banquet. A very grand banquet.”
“A banquet? It’s no problem to hold a banquet… But aren’t you already playing like a banquet every week? But do you want to hold a banquet again?”
So Bianca decided to hold the most luxurious banquet before leaving this place.
For her, leaving the gold and silver treasures she had been collecting so hard was something she couldn’t tolerate because of her personality.
‘I have to use it all in two months.’
There were so many things he received from the emperor, and the amount of money he had to spend on national projects was so great that it was close to impossible to use them all in two months.
“Not that ordinary banquet! I mean a month-long festival to be exact!”
“A festival that lasts for a month?”
“Does it make sense that in a country as blessed as the Geos Empire, there are only two festivals a year? Besides, the festival only lasts for a week.”
“But isn’t one month too long? If bureaucrats take a month off, there will be problems with administration.”
Usually, on festival days, noble officials are given leave.
“The bureaucrats can just tell them to work.”
“Is it a festival?”
“Let them work in the morning and play at night. Then nobles will be able to enjoy the festival while working.”
It’s like having a festival at night, like the night market.
Of course, the festivities should continue in the morning as well.
At Bianca’s simple solution, the emperor, as if at a loss for words, pressed her mouth shut.
Even a festival that lasted 24 hours made no sense.
Troubled look on the Emperor’s face.
“Isn’t it okay?”
“There’s nothing impossible…But it will take time to prepare.”
“One month. Prepare for one month, and start the festival the next month.”
“One month? Hmm…”
Unlike the emperor who always gave cool answers, the answers kept getting slower.
She said pouting her lips.
“It’s done. You don’t have to do it if His Majesty doesn’t like it.”
“When did I say no! It’s not like that.”
“You’ve always been troubled since before?”
“It was because the time was too tight. It wasn’t that the opening of the festival itself was negative. Rather, Jim thought it went well. Now that the people are tired from the war and national projects, the festival is a place where you can rest comfortably. If it opens, it will be a great comfort to them.”
“Isn’t that right? That’s what I asked for the festival to be held! As expected, His Majesty understands my heart even without saying it!”
Emperor Geos smiled broadly at Bianca’s words.
“Jim also thinks of you as the other half of his soul. Just like Jim did to you, don’t you understand everything without Jim even saying it?”
“You should know that the only reason I gave up my free voyage and settled here is your Majesty.”
“Well then. You know. You know everything. So, aren’t you always grateful to you?”
“That’s right.”
Bianca licked her lips with regret when she saw that Emperor Geos no longer showed the slightest hint of resistance to her words.
Now I’m enjoying it, but the owner who told me to come back was a little resentful.
‘It’s true that it’s dangerous, but I can easily pass this much.’
As the master said, risking your life for a hobby is foolish.
She agrees with this part too.
However, the opportunity to shake the emperor of a country in his hands is not common.
It was fun that no one could feel.
So, I thought it was something I could take a little bit of risk to my own safety in order to have fun.
“Since Your Majesty works so hard for me, I can’t stay still. It’s a festival I asked for, so I’ll pay for it all with my own money.”
“Nonsense! It doesn’t cost a dime or two! Where are you going to put all your money?”
“I have collected all the gifts Your Majesty gave me without using them.
As if the emperor was moved by Bianca’s words, she brought tears to her eyes.
“How can you be so kind-hearted? You don’t know how fortunate I am to have you by my side amidst all those who act like hungry ghosts trying to rip off at least one more.”
“It’s not that I’m not interested in riches. The gifts Your Majesty gave me are things that contain my heart, so I want to use them meaningfully.”
“Not everyone can come up with such an admirable idea.”
Emperor Geos is so engrossed in himself.
‘Leave this. No matter how much I think about it, I’m sorry…’
Feeling pity once again, she decided to rid herself of her lingering feelings at the month-long festival.
“By the way, Your Majesty, have you heard of that? Count Rezantier paid a huge amount for renting slaves. But other nobles seem to be sharing the price with each other, so they raised the same amount as Count Rezantier!”
“What?! It costs a lot to use commoners, so I raised the price on the topic of using slaves?!”
“In addition, since the price was raised together, what is this if not collusion?”
It was time to get rid of the aristocrats who had been bothering them.
In the meantime, I left it alone because the nobles’ retaliation was annoying, but now that I have to leave this place, I don’t have to fear repercussions.
When he confided in the emperor all the corruptions he had committed so far, his face quickly turned red and burned with anger.
“Why didn’t you tell me sooner! If that had happened, I should have said it sooner!”
“It’s a job that His Majesty entrusted to me, and I wanted to do it well. The nobles don’t deserve me, so I thought that if I gave them that kind of convenience, they would of course look at me positively.”
“They can’t do that! Rather, they’re more condescending than saying that you’re flat on your face!”
“That’s right. I was wrong. They didn’t treat me as an equal in the first place.”
“I didn’t know you were going through such a hard time, and you must have felt sorry for Jim. I should have paid more attention…”
From the point of view of the naive emperor, he just took it for granted that the project could not go wrong since a lot of investment money had come in.
It was unimaginable in the emperor’s head to hear about the corruption that the investment money was slipping away.
“Jim will make everything right.”
“I think it’s too much to pretend to be with the nobles. It’s okay to punish the nobles who colluded, but it’s too dangerous to touch other parts for that reason.”
“…I’m sorry. I’m in a situation where I have to pay attention to punishing even if you say something because Jim is weak.”
In fact, if the entire investigation went in, Bianca would have something to do with it.
That’s why the emperor was prevented from entering into a deep investigation.
“I’m fine. I didn’t say this to hurt Your Majesty…”
“I’ll make sure the festival does as you wish. I won’t wait any longer for the nobles who benefit from renting slaves. Don’t tolerate it any longer.”
Bianca laughed inwardly at the Emperor’s remark.
‘In front of the nobles, he would swing around and then run back and wince.’
I’m not sure if we can properly punish the collusion of aristocrats with obvious evidence.
He said he would establish his authority as an emperor, and he is in the process of carrying out a national project, but it is only a matter of time before he perishes due to the tyranny of the aristocrats.
Getting angry about how things turned out like this couldn’t rectify the situation.
It’s because the emperor’s authority fell to the bottom.
‘It’s not like I have the ability to deal with nobles, and all I can do is frown.’
The nobles, who had been wary of and fearful of the emperor due to the influence of the tyrants in the past, gradually noticed that the current emperor was easygoing and began to be lax in their attitude.
This time, the great emperor is afraid of seeing blood and pays attention to nobles.
Biancara favors her nonsense by keeping her presence by her side, listening to her and even taking her political advice.
It didn’t make sense for nobles to respect such an emperor.
And the emperor was well aware that the nobles looked down on him.
“I’ll trust only Your Majesty.”
Bianca said something she didn’t really mean, and her emperor put a strain on her shoulder to show it.
Of course, there was no such thing as the emperor’s political power suddenly growing and producing good results.
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“Your Majesty, collusion. There was no such thing!”
“If that’s the case, what’s the reason for raising the rental price of slaves all at once!!”
“It’s because the cost of managing the slaves has increased. The slaves who participated in the construction got damaged, and the damage is not insignificant. I lent them things, but they don’t use them sparingly, so what should I do?”
“If that’s the case, how can the price of renting slaves be better than hiring commoners! Aren’t you the ones who said that you can’t waste your investment money recklessly!”
“Among our family’s slaves, there are many talented people with expertise in construction. How can the price of renting such slaves be the same as hiring ordinary people?”
The emperor was very annoyed at the smooth tongue movements of the nobles.
‘I told Bianca that I would take care of everything, but wouldn’t it be a situation where I would have to pay a higher price and forcefully rent a slave?’
I thought that the nobles would be scared if I pointed out the corruption, but they boldly insisted on their innocence without changing the color of their faces.
“No matter how much it is, it is problematic to raise the price all at once by collusion!”
“Your Majesty, it’s not a collusion, it’s an unavoidable expense.”
“In that case, I’d rather hire a commoner. Jim can’t spend that much money hiring a slave!”
In the end, the emperor pushed his will as if he were playing ding-kang.
The nobles said with an expression that they were like that again.
“Even if you let the commoners do the work, would you do it responsibly?
“That’s right, Your Majesty. On the other hand, slaves treat their duties as if they were their lives and do their best. How can you compare those who regard what they are told as their lives and those who cheat and avoid themselves?”
“Didn’t you guys ask me to use slaves because it was a waste of money in the first place? It’s just going back to the original plan! I won’t listen to objections.”
The emperor recklessly pushed ahead with the work.
Since they couldn’t openly reject the emperor’s words, the nobles decided to obey as if they had no choice.
But just because I was going to do it didn’t mean I wouldn’t do anything behind it.
The nobles had the ability to force the emperor to hire his family’s slaves.
Buying off a few commoners hired by the emperor was easier than eating porridge.
