Chapter 31 – 04. Golden Home (錦衣還鄕).
04. Geumui Hwanhyang (錦衣還鄕).
“What do you think?”
“Anyway, he seems to be aiming for the kingship…”
The two women behaved very cautiously.
To make sure it doesn’t leak out.
“Since you told me to keep an eye on your Highness, there will be some changes sooner or later… I’m sure you won’t touch it directly… Won’t the situation surrounding your Highness change?”
“For example…?”
“People’s sentiment. It has been said that public sentiment is the spirit of heaven since ancient times. When the public sentiment leaves, rebellions break out in various places, and if it is not suppressed, the country collapses.
The war over the past three years has devastated the country a lot. Public sentiment is also not a word.”
“It is, but if it is like that, there is no reason to send a secret letter, right? It seems that it has a different meaning.”
“Hmm…”
She butted her head.
Princess Ekaterina, whom they serve, is a thoughtful and intelligent woman.
And she wasn’t the kind of woman to send people on useless business.
“Maybe, doesn’t that mean that we should take action?”
“Action?”
“It seems certain that you are aiming for the kingship, but in order to do so, wouldn’t your height have to be shaken?”
“It is.”
“It may be a directive for us to take action and shake Your Highness’ foundations.”
Indeed, I was convinced.
But if so, how does that mean taking action?
“Didn’t you say that when the public sentiment is shaken, the country is shaken.”
“Are you saying that we should shake the public’s heart?”
I shook my head.
“Swaying public sentiment… I’m sure you’ll do it.”
“Yes? How…?”
“I don’t know. But it’s not easy for us, who have to go out and fight right now, to sway the public. There’s no one who doesn’t know that.”
“Then what are we supposed to do?”
“……”
She thought for a moment before opening her mouth with difficulty.
“…We have to negotiate with the Basaguk.”
“Yeah?! That, what do you mean! Mine!”
“Other than that, there is no way our actions can shake the foundations of Your Highness and create a hole in public sentiment.”
“But…What the…”
The woman moved the words of her seat her and said.
“If we negotiate with the enemy and retreat properly, the enemy will cross the Chora region and advance directly to the Sroydia region, where the capital is located.”
“Then, isn’t our land being trampled on! And, if you make a mistake and your Highness and I get caught! At that time, this war will end!”
“So it is.”
“Yes?”
“Perhaps you will tell Your Highness to do ‘Bachelor (播遷: the king fled the city and evacuated)’.”
“Pacheon?”
“Yes.”
“Your Highness will accept it? Your Highness is also a clever person. You know what happens when you break down, don’t you?”
“Yes, but we have to do it. As you said, if you are captured, this war will end in our defeat. That’s especially fatal for the nobles. They can’t stand to see it.”
“…At that time, I will help the lower… Are you saying this?”
“Yes. If the lower courts and the nobles unite and insisted on breaking the heavens, Your Highness has no choice but to accept it even if he knows the outcome. Then after that…”
“It means that public sentiment is shaken.”
“Yes. Even if it was a strategically correct choice, there is no doubt that he abandoned his people and ran away.”
“Hmm…”
It seems likely.
But even so, it was difficult to follow.
Do you have to deal with the enemy?
“It seems that you are already devising a means to restore public sentiment due to the degradation. Without doing so, there is no way you can make such an extreme move.”
“…Maybe we misinterpreted it.”
“Maybe. But you have to make assumptions.”
“…Whoa… We’ve already boarded the same boat. Let’s see. But, that’s the last resort.”
“Of course.”
* * *
“Mother, I will go too.”
Said the woman with her long black hair and her eyes slightly raised.
“You mean Juana?”
“I am also the princess. I want to take the lead.”
“Do you want to set the ball?”
“…”
“Hehe. Okay. I’ll let you go too. It doesn’t matter since the back is safe. Let’s pour it all over.”
“Thank you.”
She is her second princess her, ‘Juana Raim Lee Persia’.
She was the only one of the four princesses that Cornelia had under her care of her, and it was safe to say that she was in fact appointed as the next emperor.
“Then, only three members of the imperial family are participating in the front line.”
“Because I have to step on Throdia thoroughly.”
Cornelia thought for a moment.
Originally, she planned to combine Illyana and Aran into one legion, but if she sent her to Juana, it seemed that she could split the army into two and send them.
She already has 150,000 troops stationed in the enemy camp, so if you include that, it’s a whopping 3 corps.
“First of all, Illyana, you will command the 1st Army with 150,000 troops.
“”Your mother.””
“As for the 2nd Army, you and Juana will take 150,000.”
“Your mother.”
“Wow…Then if you include the troops stationed in Throdia, that’s 450,000… 5% of Throdia’s population!”
Ayla burst into exclamations.
As she said, a large army of 450,000 is close to 5% of the population of Throdia. It is an enormous force that can never be stopped by conventional means.
“Ayla, you will be in charge of supply from the back. It’s not going to the front line, but it’s the most important role.”
“Yeah~.”
With 450,000 soldiers going to the front, millions of manpower are mobilized to feed, clothe, and supply those soldiers. Of course, without a head, it doesn’t work efficiently.
“Then I’ll have to go into detail. Of the additional 300,000 troops dispatched, 200,000 will be borrowed from the lords.”
“I’ll put it all together, Mother.”
“Yes. You do well that way.”
Although she was not exceptionally good at swordsmanship or magic, she possessed outstanding abilities in her administration of her.
“By the way, is the boat ready?”
“A total of 3,000 ships are deployed in each port. It is practically difficult to gather and go to one port, so it seems that each corps will have to decide on a landing port.”
“Um. Okay. Do that.”
After discussing a number of things, Cornelia stood up from her seat her.
“Everyone knows why this war took place and what it means.”
“…”
“It’s an opening statement. It’s not cool to chew on Throdia’s heads. I want to slaughter them all.
But there’s nothing to gain from that. Realistically difficult. So you will get as much out of it as possible. You will get a lot of land, a lot of slaves, and a lot of goods.
I will engrave my footprints in the city, and I will humiliate and harass the kings and princesses every night.
I will take everything from Throdia and rule it all. And finally, we will erase their traces from generation to generation, erasing them from the record of history.”
Her anger her was palpable.
She is really trying to erase Throdia.
It is not simply the concept of conquest, but to erase their people and their history altogether.
That figure was still unfamiliar to Aran.
Every time we joke around like a joke, but at times like this, she seemed like a completely different person.
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.
.
“You’re going together. Aran.”
“…Why are you smiling like that?!”
“Why? Now they’re both a couple in name and reality. It feels good to have a honeymoon like this without falling apart.”
“A couple ah…”
“Are you going to eat and throw it away?”
“It’s not like that…”
Illyana laughed mischievously.
“No matter what anyone says, you and I have already had several relationships. Didn’t you enjoy it too?”
“Grumble…”
I had nothing to say about it.
Aran, who went to the Ainu region and fully awakened to the castle, had sex with her princess and Illyana alternately, and when she returned to the imperial palace, she used to take care of her former duke and enjoy herself with Estelle.
And she would sometimes wallow with Illyana under the guise of her training her.
“So stop admitting it. Pahaha!”
She vigorously patted Aran on the back.
“Huh!”
Then, someone jumped ahead of them.
Giving you a dirty look as a bonus.
“……That year is like that again.”
“What’s wrong?”
“No, well… There are people who welcome you like me and Ayla, but there are also people who don’t.”
“Ah…..”
I got it.
In fact, her reaction would be normal.
“So Juana-sister will hate me?”
“That’s right. But don’t be too depressed. Doesn’t this older sister care?”
“Oh, thank you.”
Aran stared blankly at Juana’s disappearing back her.
