Chapter 642 – Tuesday, Week 8 (4)
The empire was blocked on all sides. Orcs infested the north, where life seemed impossible to nurture. Although he had never personally gone beyond the barrier, the threat was clear as Marey, who was not related to the military, often heard of large-scale subjugation.
After arriving in Balter, I heard that a fortress on the northern front had been captured, so a group of orcs were knocking on the door of the northern front, as if they had risen from the ground in that extreme land.
In the western part of the empire, the Sigma Empire, called the toothless tiger, rose from the damage of the tribal war with the beasts, and was growing as if remembering the days when it was the only empire on the continent in the past.
It was not certain how long the elves, who were secretly known as Elvenheim, the eastern bamboo forest, would remain their allies. Many elves were interspersed with Valter and the Empire, but from Julia’s point of view, there were no permanent allies.
The Dwarves, who claimed their territory from the mountain range where the dragon slept, to the southeastern plains and the desert below, and the beastmen who crossed the arms of the Sigma Empire in the tribal war in the southwest were hostile forces with too great uncertainty.
“I heard Lee Ha-woon is also a famous beastman…”
“If I can take you to the Sigma Empire, I will give you the title of Marquis.”
Julia said casually.
“She protects the chairman, and even in her empire, there are things that don’t want to be hostile to her and her beastmen… Professor Lee Ha-woon’s story is a bit complicated. He’s also intertwined with the Principality of Romania, and he’s on good terms with the elves… It’s because he’s also a person who retired from active duty due to a wound suffered during the subjugation of the Demon Dragon.”
This is my position as a professor. Julia smiled lightly after saying that.
“Sigma is growing rapidly as an intermediary trade in the East Continent, but we are not able to digest our size properly, so accidents are happening here and there. If the elves didn’t help, I’d have no choice but to delegate like Balter. Whether it’s the old nobles or the former royal family.”
Julia let out a long sigh and glanced at the long line drawn on the map in the north.
“Neither the North nor the South is a place where military spending cannot be reduced arbitrarily. Maintaining a group that only consumes on this scale was possible even during the Continental Wars, when the state was able to control most of commerce and logistics. There are still too many soldiers. I am not in a position to reduce it.”
“Are you going bankrupt?”
“I usually say I don’t know, but the Parwen family can tell me honestly. Bankruptcy is not that easy. The Vatican, the Parwen family, General Schwafen, etc. All the debts of the empire came from the pockets of guys who couldn’t be ignored.”
If you say you’re going bankrupt, they won’t let you go. Julia let out a small sigh and sat down on the table with the Continental Map.
“Not everyone is in a hurry for money, and everyone is a person who makes transactions neatly, so they solve it by receiving high interest rates or interest-rate businesses. Among the major nobles, the imperial family will be the poorest. No, poor Isn’t it fun?”
Julia let out a small laugh and went on with her words.
“Even though the emperor suffers because of the immature princess, I heard that the debt can be paid off within a few years, so the imperial family won’t regret it anywhere.”
“In a few years… Doesn’t that sound like a lot?”
“Well… If you are the grandson of Viceroy Balter, who accounts for most of the tax, you can talk about that.”
With Julia’s indirect answer, Marey was able to understand at once that it was a huge amount that she could not have imagined.
“…Can you pay it all off?”
“Sufficiently, I borrowed it in the name of the imperial family, so there is no need to worry about running away. Most of the creditors also lent money because they wanted to erase their debts to the emperor rather than play with money.”
Marey once again saw the transition of the continent. On the continent, the empire was so huge. It was also a great ability to have unimaginable debt as a Marey, not a penny to learn here.
“Then, most of the tax is used for border expenses and debt repayment?”
“I’m not on the administrative side, so even if you ask me that, I can’t give you an exact answer. It would be more accurate to ask Ravela about that. Or maybe she’s the chairman of the board.”
Julia shrugged her lightly.
“Don’t worry too much. There are many things that require the direct power of the imperial family, so having the imperial knights dispatched on the condition of repayment of a certain amount is a big income. Doesn’t the emperor show his face during important events? It’s all money too. I heard that there were quite a few trades during the Romanian Principality, but I don’t know the details.”
When she first met Philia, she remembered the image of the emperor passing by on the founding day of the principality. To put it mildly, the relationship between the principality and the empire wasn’t very good, but I didn’t go there to improve the relationship, but money. Marey unknowingly smiled dejectedly.
Of course, if you see Demeter gnashing his teeth at just hearing the name Parwen, compared to the Parwen family, the Empire and the Romanian principality are sound and friendly… It might have been a relationship.
“By the way, are the Imperial Knights also dispatched?”
“Well, this time the saintess borrowed an army of knights to subdue the pagans, didn’t she? Of course, I almost didn’t even get my money’s worth by putting unreasonable conditions on it.”
“Unreasonable conditions?”
“Even the saintess doesn’t have time to bother negotiating, so she asked for five times the amount she usually offered, but the treasurer insisted on getting more, and then an accident broke out and she sent for half the amount. “
“Are you buying?”
Marey asked again, and Julia looked at her lover with her puzzled eyes.
“The parties to the case… No, it’s a little embarrassing to see the leader come forward and ask.”
“Yes?”
“I heard that your support for the Pawen Knights was confirmed because you persuaded (?) Ms. Ravela with your body last week?”
“Ah… ! Yes, that’s… I guess that was it… “
Marey remembered Erden forcibly hugging Ravela and thanking him. Recalling the image of the two kissing her, taking turns tasting her own penis and sharing her semen, Marei nodded her head.
“Later, when the North needs knights, I’ll take care of them.”
Julia let out a small laugh as she lightly closed and opened one of her eyes. She looked at the map of the continent with a serious expression as if she were going through her class again.
“Well, let’s talk small talk like this… I often talk about the South, but in fact, I will have to go inspect it myself. The other side isn’t subjugating according to the prescribed doctrine, but it’s a calculated war with the beast tribe and the dwarves, so it changes every time. The same goes for geography.”
“Is the terrain changing? Is it magic?”
“Hmm… That’s a reasonable inference. Of course, it would be nice to be able to change the terrain with magic, but few people use such great magic, and people with that level refuse to do things they think are insignificant, even if they die, which is a big problem.”
Julia added her afterwords with the fucking bastards. When she was on the northern front, she seemed to have bad memories.
“Well, all of that is fine, but the biggest problem is the cost. It would be ridiculous to add all the catalysts needed for great magic and the wages of wizards. Now, let me show you something interesting.”
As Julia flicked her fingers lightly, several of the southern rivers moved.
“…?”
“The topography of the map… ?”
“This is a map of the South that has changed in the last five years.”
Five years was a long enough time, but it was not the time for the rivers that flowed in the south to show so many changes.
“Schwappen, that human. No, the devil did it.”
“Is it magic… ?”
Julia shook her head. Marey looked at the continent again with disbelief. Julia snapped her fingers again, revealing a previously familiar map.
“Can you believe this was done by manpower?”
“…I do not know.”
“Yes, it will be different when you see it in person.”
Julia muttered something crazy.
“I don’t know how much he got from the chairman for the price of the antique, but if you see him pouring in his own money to this extent, there may be people who say it’s a sacrifice or a loyalty, but I can’t just look at it positively. The emperor tells us to let them do as they please, but the southern front itself is dangerous in my opinion.”
Marey tried to imagine how much budget and manpower were put into comparing the flow of the river that had changed, but she could only think of magic as the proportion of the town where she grew up was so huge that it couldn’t even be displayed.
But she was clearly dangerous. The danger was neither the beasts nor the dwarves. Elisabeth von Schwappen, commander-in-chief of the Southern Front, was dangerous.
“Professor Julia wants the Southern Commander… “
Julia closed one of his eyes and put the tip of his finger to her mouth. Her expression was very solemn, unlike when she usually laughed and talked about secrets.
“Still, is it possible to change the stream of water with her manpower…? ?”
She said, “We also looked at the report on what bullshit it was at first and started with her swear words. You could call it a devil’s trick. The idea of turning on a water stream is insane, but in reality it is very bad for nature. The elves will start by swearing at her if she tells the story of her general Schwappen, so don’t ask about her.”
At the words of Julia, who calculated Illien and Idrien, Marei nodded her head.
“Thanks to this, there are no elves in the Confederate Army, so take note. There are quite a few of them in the North, so you can expect them.”
Julia smiled mischievously and lightly kneaded the nape of her apprentice’s tense face.
“The exam will be subjective. I’m going to ask about your understanding of the doctrines of the Southern and Northern Fronts and how to improve them, but the Southern Front is so erratic, so pay attention to the Northern Front and study it.”
“Oh… ! Um, can you tell me that story… ?”
Recalling that the previous day she had struggled (?) Stopped her twin professor from committing her cheating (?), She told Julia that she had heard her hint about her exam. I cried a lot. Julia let out a small laugh and nodded her head.
“Don’t worry, I’ve told all the other students. The topic can be difficult, so I would like to add that the score is very generous even if you simply summarize it, so you don’t have to worry about creative ideas. Any more questions?”
“Oh, no…”
Julia glanced at the clock and praised herself for finishing the class faster than expected, then the young student sitting on the table and standing awkwardly, no. She saw her lover She said nothing for a while, staring at her floor, swaying her floating foot back and forth over her.
“…It’s a bit not so to have classes too tight during the exam period… ? Shall we make it this far?”
“Ah, four… !”
At her lover’s expected answer, Julia let out a small laugh and stretched her body wide.
