Chapter 810 – #96. Chinhaesol (114)
In the end, the aristocrats who had collusion were unilaterally fined and the rental of slaves was forcibly stopped.
Then, they hired commoners again, and in the process made them pay all the manpower costs that were not properly paid to the commoners.
If he was an ordinary person with a little thought, he would do a full investigation when he discovered corruption, but Bianca’s dissuade, and the emperor, who didn’t want to worry about such a complicated matter, turned off his mind by replacing the responsible official with another official.
The new interest of the emperor was related to the festival that Bianca wanted to do.
“Are you talking about a month-long festival?”
“The preparation period is too tight.”
“Your Majesty, many bureaucrats are suffering from heavy workload due to national projects.
Officials jumped up at the word festival.
Since they are the parties who have to go to the festival to proceed, they hate it.
What the heck are you going to celebrate, and what is the benefit of the festival?
“And then a month. The money going out during that period will be enormous!”
“The Geos Empire has had many days suffering from war. Even if preparations for national projects are over, there is no way tourists would visit the empire without any publicity? Plan a festival in advance so that tourists can visit the Geos Empire. Do.”
The Emperor spoke to his subjects as advised by Bianca.
The officials who were opposed could no longer express their strong opposition to the words of the emperor, who had a clear justification.
‘Again, Bianca, is that woman’s trickery?’
‘I heard that His Majesty brings male prostitutes every week to have fun…Is the festival part of that?’
‘Tsk tsk tsk, I guess Bianca, that bitch is corrupting His Majesty.’
‘Bianca…She’s a woman who must be eliminated.’
‘The reason Your Majesty suddenly talked about collusion this time is probably because that bitch was playing tricks. If it comes out like this, I can never leave it alone.’
As Bianca had predicted, her nobles did not stand still as she aimed her sword at her nobles.
“Your Majesty! They say that a worker fell to his death from a building that was under construction!”
“What do you mean by that?”
When asked if the death of a commoner was serious enough to speak in front of the emperor, the official answered.
“The fallen worker is a bureaucrat who supervised the field, and the common people say that the reason he fell is because he was pushed!”
“What, what?!”
It is shocking that the dead worker was a nobleman, but it is said that it was a commoner who pushed the nobleman away.
This was a terrible thing that shook the foundation of the Geos Empire, which was a caste society.
“How dare a commoner do such a thing?! We’ll have to figure out what happened.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
“And arrest all the commoners’ families. They may try to escape.”
“Yes!”
The killing of a field foreman by a commoner hired by the Emperor’s grace was not a simple incident.
The nobles would use this incident as an excuse to ask the emperor if they could hire slaves immediately.
The emperor was already reminded of the nobles’ nagging and his head was pounding.
“Bianca…I have to go to Bianca!”
“Yes? Are you talking right now?”
The work was not yet finished.
Even so, the Emperor stubbornly insisted on going to see Bianca, and she finally got up from her seat.
That day, the emperor ran to Bianca and tipped his glass all day long.
It was around dawn when the emperor came out.
He was drunk and was carried on the courtier’s back.
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The reason why the common people pushed the bureaucracy.
The commoner was one of those commoners who did not get paid properly for their work.
Then, this time, His Majesty the Emperor discovered the corruption and an order came down to pay the commoners properly.
But even after receiving the order, this crazy bureaucrat couldn’t keep his senses and handed over 1/3 of the overdue salary that was supposed to be paid to the common people.
At first, he thought it was fortunate that he got this back, but he later heard the stories of other commoners and found out that he had been scammed by bureaucrats.
He went straight to him and asked to return what he had not received, but the bureaucrat pretended not to have signed the document confirming that he had already been paid.
“This is the bureaucrat’s fault. But even so, it’s murder!!”
It was the bureaucrat’s fault, but the common people’s hands were too much.
That was the emperor’s conclusion.
“That’s right. That’s why I said that the common people do not need excessive wealth beyond their means. Isn’t this incident also created because the common people became greedy after acquiring riches beyond their means?”
“…”
Her aristocrat calmly dismissed her, putting her cool breath at the words of her emperor.
If he had actually hired slaves to work, there would have been no resentment for not being paid.
All the money they earned from their labor would go into the pockets of the nobility, and there was no way bureaucrats could embezzle such money.
“Have you captured the commoner’s family?”
The emperor said something else to change the uncomfortable topic.
“I’m sorry. By the time I went to catch them, the families of the commoners had already fled across the border to the revolutionary country.”
Currently, the Geos Empire was divided into a country created by revolutionaries and an independent country caused by a civil war by nobles.
He had to send an army to take it back, but the emperor did not want to wage a war and see blood.
Even if the land was lost, the Geos Empire still had many rich lands.
So the emperor was postponing the dispatch of troops.
“You ran away? You couldn’t catch me in the end!! You can’t do anything properly! It’s frustrating, frustrating!”
Isn’t a noble dying to a commoner, or even missing the commoner’s family?
The more I learned about politics, the more irritating and the more my head hurt.
Emperor Geos sighed at the throbbing headache again.
“How can I get them?”
“Isn’t it a place only commoners can enter in the first place? How do you feel about sending an army to punish you?”
“Is the only way to see blood? Is there no other way?”
“I apologize, Your Majesty.”
It’s like saying, “Why should I think of another way over the easy way?”
“Do you guys like war that much? You have to die like that to be satisfied!”
“Your Majesty, war is absolutely necessary. Can’t we keep watching the civil war forever?”
“You guys don’t know, but you don’t know too much. We, the Geos Empire, don’t have the money to wage war!”
“Yes?”
The nobles were dumbfounded by the emperor’s words.
No money in the imperial family of the Geos Empire?
It wasn’t something that could be fooled by saying that it was a joke.
“Why does everyone seem so distrustful? Think about it carefully. Is there really any money left in the imperial family?”
“Uh…Huh?”
“But…But no matter how…We are the Geos Empire…”
The faces of the aristocrats, who tried to laugh it off as a ridiculous joke, wrinkled.
Perhaps among the crumpled-looking aristocrats, they were reminded of what had happened in the meantime.
The imperial property that was taken before bringing down the tyrannical emperor and the establishment of a new emperor, the property that was used for national projects, and the property that was used for the emperor’s weekly banquet and luxury.
As the water level of the river, which had not dried up, gradually decreased, the situation was on the verge of revealing the bottom.
“Well, why are you saying that only now!”
“It’s money, isn’t it coming back after you collect taxes anyway? It’s not that the imperial family is going to collapse because of lack of money, but they’re saying that war is impossible because there are so many things left open.”
“Isn’t that a problem now!!”
What the aristocrats were worried about was none other than a national project.
State projects in which they invested.
Although he is eating and eating next to the metallurgical metallurgical metallurgical metallurgy, he earns his share, but strictly speaking, the money he put into the investment was more.
I wondered what to do if I ate the money that was supposed to go into the building and something big happened.
However, it is said that the royal family, which is supposed to take care of it, has no money.
‘Then what about my investment?’
A cool chill passes through the back of your back.
Something was going wrong.
The Emperor is acting boldly with the taxes that come in every year, and that was something he should never have done.
What is a tax?
After all, it is money that needs to be used again to maintain the country.
Why would there be such a thing as a reserve in the country!
‘Such a stupid bitch!!!!!!’
The aristocrat suppressed the words he almost uttered in an instant.
You don’t know how fortunate it is that there are nobles who haven’t figured out the situation yet.
‘Subtract your investment. There is a hole in the boat, but if you stay on the boat, all you have to do is drown!’
All the nobles had turned their eyes and gathered all the money in the family and jumped into a national project.
No one predicted that the national project would fail, and they were having a money feast.
After all, money has limits, and if you spend it profusely, you will run out.
‘I have to run away!’
It was fortunate for this aristocrat that it was not too late.
If he had been a little later, he could have become like that, just like the common people’s families left their lives and ran away taking care of themselves.
Among the nobility, there were still those who were sucking their fingers because they did not get the opportunity to invest in national projects.
I’m passing this bomb on them.
The nobleman’s eyeballs rolled secretly and meticulously.
The nobles, oblivious to the signs of the great explosion the emperor had spoken of, were still crying out for war.
“If you don’t have money, you have to go to war even more. I know that the amount of empty tax is quite large as the civil war has become independent. If we defeat them and regain the land again, we can refill the empty internal wealth of the imperial family.”
“Your Majesty, there is no law that says that the commoners in question should not happen twice. How would you like to reconsider hiring commoners?”
In his eyes, bones had already been eaten here and there, but crows and hyenas were still looking for an opportunity to see if they could see only the remaining flesh.
His tongue clenched at the pathetic figure, he pondered over whom to hand the bomb to.
There will be more people who do not know that it is a bomb, at least not yet, so it will not be difficult to pass it.
‘The Geos Empire without money…How did it get to this point?’
The Geos Empire, which had been called a thousand-year-old empire and a powerful country that would not collapse.
But that’s what it’s called, isn’t it true that it’s been a thousand years?
Let alone a thousand years, I had a hunch that the end of the Geos Empire was not far away.
