Chapter 155 – 16. Mock.
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A month passed.
In the meantime, Aran and his wives worked hard to restore the damage caused by the war and take care of the people’s livelihood, while recruiting soldiers in preparation for the upcoming war.
Of course, because everything about Athens was kept top secret, only a very small number of people, including Aran, his wives his, and Terrin, knew about it, which evoked opposition from the aristocrats.
If the royal family had a large army, it was obvious that the royal authority would be strengthened, but there was no way to wait.
“I think this will happen if I stay still.”
Count Ellin shook his head as he let go of his rhyme.
The situation was not very good.
“Under the circumstances, it can be said that His Excellency Therin is attached to His Highness His.”
“Isn’t His Excellency Your Highness’s mother-in-law?”
“Still, if you look at the history of the Mei Empire, you can find Buwongun’s rebellion quite often.”
Each of the nobles cursed the reality with lamentation.
In fact, I was full of dreams even when I first started here at Cornelia’s order.
Aran is a man and comes from a commoner, so he must be a jam bottle when it comes to politics, and he figured he could of course grab and shake it as much as he wanted.
He thought that the women who were marrying him would be able to bake and boil them to some extent.
But what is this?
Aran’s women were impregnable, and Aran himself was not so swayed.
To make matters worse, Aran is even loved by the emperor of the Mei Empire, so only nobles sing.
He did n’t have the strength to use his strength at all.
In the heavy silence, Count Ellin opened his mouth.
“You have to have power in your voice.”
“At the voice… You mean?”
Elin looked around her audience.
All of them belonged to her clique, and among the nobility they were called hardliners.
“It’s not enough for us here right now. At least the majority must oppose to put the brakes on, but right now the central nobles are divided into their own factions, aren’t they?”
“…I’m sure it is.”
Even nobles know that.
In order to have a louder voice, you need to form an alliance with other factions, but since Terrin is the key figure in recruiting troops, of course not, and the remaining factions are reformists led by Earl Ebena.
“For the cause, join hands even with your parents’ enemies.”
She thought it was possible.
Even though they had different opinions, Evena is also a noble, and a person who thinks about the interests of the nobles. If she knows the seriousness of this issue, she will gladly join her hand her.
As she remembered, she headed straight to Count Ebena’s residence.
Seeing the appearance of the hardliners out of the blue, Count Ebena greeted them while being surprised.
“What’s going on? You came here without saying anything.”
“I came because I have something to tell you.”
“…”
Evena stared blankly at her face her.
I know the intention of coming. Because she, too, was waiting for her to come.
But that doesn’t mean she’s welcome, she disagrees with Elin.
“You must know that Your Highness is gathering an army, right?”
“Of course.”
“It is a matter of course for a country to recruit an army, but shouldn’t that also be appropriate? Since the size of the army Your Highness is recruiting exceeds 50,000, this is obviously unreasonable. In addition, it will cause unnecessary tension with neighboring countries.”
Evena only nodded, but did not respond.
“Originally, the proper number of soldiers in a country is 5 ri of the population. However, since Your Highness recruits close to 1 penny, it’s not a bad plan to lead the country to ruin unless it’s preparing for war.”
Evena’s mouth opened.
“So, let’s unite together and defeat Your Majesty’s will… What are you talking about?”
“Rather than defeating them… I mean to lead them in a better direction for the sake of national interest. 50,000 is too many, so let’s make it around 30,000, and that 30,000 will be centered on the aristocrats rather than focusing on the royal family…”
“I will refuse.”
“!”
She cut off Elin’s words with her single sword, and she glared at her with her eyes as if they were shooting lightning at her.
“It’s because of the small profit in front of my eyes that I don’t know the big profit in the future. After all, this is the only person who can do it.”
“…Are you done talking now?”
“I have nothing more to say with you.”
She issued a celebratory order.
Anger at it.
And as if to suppress that anger, her doubts her popped up.
“…Let’s know the reason. If you’re a noble, you probably don’t know.”
Not directly mentioned.
There was no way she could utter the words that the royal power should be weakened.
“I just told you. They don’t know the bigger profit because of the immediate profit. I just don’t want to talk to such a person.”
“…Are you ignoring me with that?”
“How can it be? You don’t know how to do a really big business like last time. Nobles from weak countries can’t use their power. Isn’t the law that aristocrats become strong only when the power of the country is strong?”
Elin tried to say something, but she just gave up.
The difference between her thoughts was so great that she decided that it was meaningless to say it.
“Phew. I’ll be back. Please do well with that proud ‘big deal’.”
Turning around with a real jerk, she left the building without even hiding her displeasure.
Apparently, something groundbreaking was needed.
“How about contacting Her Highness her Juana?”
“Grumble…”
A nobleman’s words conflicted her.
Certainly, Huana is attractive.
However, she did have one burn of her own, it was about Aran’s commoners’ business.
The other day, through Juana, she pointed out Aran’s business her as a commoner and tried to destroy it, but she was devastated when she heard the unbelievable news that Juana had given her title her to her her commoner her .
She somehow didn’t seem like the Juana she usually knew.
Of course, that plan was canceled, and Mooning and Catalina, who were the core of the common people’s business, are still living happily (?).
“Let’s think about that later.”
It is possible that Juana may have changed her mind her.
Or maybe it’s true that she has a crush on Aran.
In that case, the entire Elin faction could be stamped out by Aran and purged, so he had to be very careful.
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Coincidentally, when the Elin faction was thinking of Juana, Aran was also thinking of Juana.
To be precise, he was receiving reports through Ayla.
Having previously felt the need for real-time reporting, Aran spent the past month building and installing new artifacts while coping with becoming a woman, becoming the first human being to invent a ridiculous artifact capable of real-time face-to-face encounters.
It was kept secret so that neither she nor her wives knew about it, so only Aran and Ayla knew about it.
“Her sister her ‘s nothing special. She’s just for the future. She’s gathering people of her own. Oh, is she anything special?”
Juana was living a normal life.
She did not appear to be plotting her plot against Aran.
‘But. There’s no way I can do it.’
Since she has become the snake Gnir, these worries are, in fact, unnecessary.
But she was so easy with people’s hearts.
She felt anxious when Juana was not with her. Didn’t she see her last personality of her? She might be taking it for granted.
“Her sister summoned ‘commoners’ and gave her a title.”
“Ah…I heard that too. I just heard it as a rumor…Is it true?”
She nodded her head loudly.
“Yeah. It’s true. The imperial palace turned upside down because of that. Even her mother was greatly surprised and opened her eyes.”
“Hmm… I guess he’s a really great person? He’s overflowing with talent.”
“Ah…Sister is not the kind of person who would accept a commoner with something like that…”
“Is it.”
If she did, she would have been close to Aran too.
“This is just my opinion, but I think something is conspiring. They’re gathering power at random? They must have something on their mind.”
Aran nodded her head even though she thought she couldn’t do that.
“But what are the names of those commoners?”
“First of all, the representative person is ‘Sup’.”
“Yes? Soup?”
She was stunned for a moment.
Isn’t that the name of the woman Aran was looking for so much?
Even now, the soldiers of her great kingdom were scouring all her lands her in search of her her.
‘…There’s no way my sister could be there.’
Her pounding heart her soon subsided.
As a Throdian, she had no reason to cross over to Persia, and even if she were, there was no way she would be in the Persian army.
‘And it’s so exquisite… The person Juana reaped must be Soup sister. Nonsense.’
Aran shook her head and erased it from her mind her.
But her heart was not like that, and what Ayla said afterwards did not reach her ears.
‘Sister…’
When she thought of stepping on that poor woman’s body, a part of her heart her felt so hot that it hurt, and even so, when she thought of her helpless smile her, she was so angry that she wanted to destroy her world her.
Of course he doesn’t deserve it. He was no longer a good man, and there were also some women who had ruined it.
But even so, a fire broke out in her chest.
