Chapter 415 – 40. The Wedding of the Century.
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Near the end of the banquet, a group approached Aran.
They were four women, led by a blonde woman, but at least they didn’t seem to belong to the culture of this area.
“Nice to meet you, Your Highness. The girl is called Niwa Nagahide, the general of Owari.”
“With you?”
Speaking of Owari, it is a family from Nihon, far away from the western continent.
Aran gave Oda Nobunaga various support and asked him to unify Nihon, so for now, it’s like half a vassal state.
“First…Is it?”
I remember being taken prisoner….
Of course, it was quite a long time ago, and I couldn’t remember their faces because there was no one who left a big impression on me except for Nobunaga or Katsuie, but at the time, all the commanders Nobunaga brought were all prisoners of war.
“It’s the first time I’ve met you in person.”
She answered softly and brought up this and that.
It was mainly praise for Aran, and also reported on Nobunaga’s achievements of his.
“The reason the girl came here isn’t just for Her Highness’s wedding her.”
“Then?”
“As an envoy from Owari, I have something to tell you.”
“… ?”
A very serious expression.
It was as if our fate depended on you.
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Aran called her after her banquet.
“If it’s Owari, aren’t they the women you let loose to get that clone technique?”
“You’re right. It’s not necessarily the only purpose….”
He called her wives as well, as they are still politically immature, and are assisted by women who are skilled in this.
“Ah, come to think of it, I put the medicine in there too.”
“Did you make vampneel?”
“Yes.”
Just as Seorae started talking, Nagahide came to visit.
She showed an example to Aran.
It was very hospitable.
“Okay, what happened?”
Being a half-subject person, Aran naturally treated him disrespectfully.
“Your Highness, do you want our Owari to unify Nihon and become a vassal state?”
“Yes. That way, it will be easier to find clone magic.”
“For him, they provided guns, artillery, and other various support. Thanks to this, Imagawa, Azai, Asakura, and Miyoshi were subjugated to the west, and Matsudaira (Tokugawa) was subjugated to the east.”
“Hmm… I don’t know the geography there, so I don’t know how much.”
“It is a territory that accounts for one-fifth of Japan.”
Nagahide explained it like that, but it was meaningless since I didn’t know how big Nihon was in the first place.
“I heard that the approximate size of Nihon is one third of our Persia.”
“Ah, so it’s about the size of the Throdia Peninsula. If it’s one-fifth of them, it’s rather big for a lord.”
“… It is. Anyway, we marched all the way to Kyoto, but a problem arose there.”
She cleared her throat for a moment.
“In order to check our rapid growth, the feudal lords such as Mori, Takeda, and Uesugi united, forming a so-called encirclement and tightening us, resulting in a difficult situation. I took the weapons you gave me and fled to Goryeo.”
“Yes?”
“7500 guns and 32 artillery pieces, 1.13 million bullets and 1259 shells….”
“Oh no wait.”
Alan cut him off.
“I understood that the vassal betrayed them, but if they betrayed them, they would join another family. Why did you go to Goryeo?”
More doubt about him than anger about the mistake.
Basically, foreigners are bound to be ostracized, and since Goryeo was an empire, discrimination against foreigners was severe. You can see that just by looking at the Mei Empire without going far.
The two countries were able to become empires because they constantly checked and harassed the surrounding peoples, which led to discrimination against other countries as well as to the civilian population.
That is why it is incomprehensible.
Nihon is in a civil war anyway, so wouldn’t it be better to sell weapons to the lord on the other side and get a seat?
“Your Highness, it has to do with the current situation in Goryeo.”
As expected, Nagahide replied.
“Currently, there is a very large civil war in Goryeo, and the whole country is in chaos.”
“Minran?”
“The name of the ringleader is unknown, but the scale is in the hundreds of thousands, and it is said that the area where the first civil rebellion occurred has already been occupied with all nobles executed. Perhaps it is an intention to get involved in the situation and increase one’s tax.”
“They are bold bitches.”
“Perhaps the Minran Army, which is urgently in need of weapons, may have offered a high price. Anyway, that’s what happened… I’m very sorry… We lost about half of the weapons we donated.”
“….”
Alan frowned in resentment.
In the meantime, a total of 20,000 guns and 300 guns have been provided to Nihon.
This was not an amount that could be easily seen even with the finances of the Algrey Mage Tower, which was attracting money, and even the finances of the Great Habsburg Kingdom.
But it’s not enough that I lost half of this, and even leaked it abroad….
It is a huge mistake that has nothing to say even if he is sentenced to death if he decides to do so.
“… I didn’t see Nobunaga as such an incompetent person.”
“… Sorry.”
“Well….”
Alan is in trouble.
If half of the supported weapons were lost and Nobunaga was surrounded, it would be a crisis of desperation. So he had no choice but to come to ask for additional support.
But does that mean giving back support is a good thing?
Anyway, Aran’s purpose is to leave Nihon as a vassal and to obtain the clone technique for his wives.
And when he decided to put down the king and become a god completely, the vassal state became meaningless.
“Once you know, go back.”
“Yes. Majesty.”
Aran sent her back and started talking about her with her wives in earnest.
“What would you do if you were my sister?”
“Once, I will do it again. But the price will be greater.”
“Is that right?”
“Well. If it were me, I think I would cut off support altogether. There is no need to push a child with no ability.”
“Still, isn’t this the first mistake? You have to look at that.”
“That first mistake is too big a problem.”
Seorae seems to have very different thoughts from Illyana.
She exchanges opinions with Illyana and she says scary things like ‘If it were me, I would have killed them all and started over.
“What does your mother think?”
“I don’t know if it’s all lost, but since they said there’s still half left, I’d support it. Conditionally, of course. If the condition so far has been subjugation, this time we will have to give away at least the land.”
In general, opinions were focused on providing additional support.
There were three women who did not, including Seorae, Terrine, and Hancock.
“First of all, you don’t even know if that woman is telling the truth. Maybe they just swindle each other and ask for it again.”
“It’s a scam….”
“No matter how incompetent you are in the first place, how could you lose half of your important military supplies?”
“There are those two, and I heard that Mr. Seorae left an advance guard in Owari, didn’t he? If so, I think it would be more efficient to choose a different force. If we use that spearhead to collapse Owari from within, we will be able to easily create a large force.”
“Well.”
It was a fair opinion.
‘Nihon and Koryo….’
Alan thought.
It seemed like something important was about to be caught.
“Come to think of it, we… Shouldn’t we go on a honeymoon too? I didn’t even go with my wives….”
After thinking about it for a few minutes, the words he said raised question marks in everyone’s heads.
“It is, but… Why are you suddenly saying that?”
“No… After listening to it, I think they are all valid opinions. Surely you can’t just trust what they say. There’s a chance it could be false. If so, you will have to figure out the authenticity of it, but isn’t it time to do so? If you hesitate and fail, you will become neither this nor me.
Besides, as long as our weapons have been passed over to Goryeo, we need to come up with countermeasures for that matter as well. For him, you also need to know the field. So…”
Aran paused for a moment.
Then he stared at the new wives and the former wives.
“How about taking a trip to Nihon and Goryeo…… Except for sister Illyana…”
“…Yes?”
“… So, let’s go to the western continent for a honeymoon? That far away?”
The women were agitated.
A honeymoon can be said to be very important, but to go to Nihon, which is in the middle of a civil war.
In addition, the round-trip time to the western continent is several months. If you want to have a little bit of people, you can easily go beyond the year unit.
“Hey, wait a minute!”
And the woman who was more agitated than anyone else was Illyana.
“Why… Why are you excluding me!”
“Yeah… You are the emperor. I have to rule the country.”
“Certainly not. I don’t know if I’m going close, but I’m going to the west continent….”
“There’s nothing we can do. The western continent is too far away.”
“I know, right. It’s the western continent.”
“Keugh….”
Illyana sat down clutching her heart.
Can you fix it like this?
She can be savage like this.
Other wives … Even her concubines her go, but she has to be completely absorbed in herself.
This is why she hated ascending the throne.
She has no free life at all!
“Sister will let the two of us go later… I don’t know when it will be…”
