Chapter 122 – Government General of Ozma
It has already been more than two years since Ozma took office as governor of Oz.
Oz, which was demoted from an autonomous state to a colony in the spring of last year, had many conflicts in the early days.
Yes, since the country originally ruled by humans is as if the entire country fell into the hands of the demons, dissatisfaction is inevitable among ordinary citizens who do not know the details.
Not to mention, the history of fighting between humans and demons has been close to 800 years.
This is because humans and demons have always lived in antagonism since the time of Tiberius, the 2nd demon king ‘Evil Dragon’, who was recorded as the worst demon king in mankind.
It was indeed a difficult task to control the public sentiment of Oz in a state where the gap between the two races deepened as it deepened.
So, as soon as the Japanese Government General was formed, what we did was to turn that hostility elsewhere.
In general, nobles and commoners cannot get along.
So the method we used was to put the two in a fight.
First, he robbed the barn by going around the nobles’ territories in various parts of the kingdom.
Then, in front of the overwhelming force of the Demon King’s army, the nobles gave up their property without a sound.
If the barn of nobles is empty, how will it be refilled?
Of course, it is a law to squeeze the blood of the people below.
If this is the case, of course we can’t help but hate the nobles who are closer than us who are far away.
Just as tax collectors who only do their job are greatly despised by ordinary citizens.
Of course, some of them with good brains made excuses, saying that the Japanese Government-General of Korea collected excessive taxes and had no choice but to blow up the mansion as an example.
In a land ruled by demons, power was basically closer than law, and above all, since I was the treasurer, all Oz’s taxes came to me, so I was almost the most powerful person except for Ozma.
Of course, I didn’t do crazy things while wielding power with Ozma’s favor on my back, I was only immersed in my work.
After about a year, the main enemy of ordinary citizens became the aristocrats, and the main enemy of the nobles became the Governor-General of Ozma, which collected huge taxes.
I could have been a little harsher as an excuse for war reparations, but I felt like I would stand up with a spear knife instead of money if I squeezed more than that, so I stopped doing this after about a year.
Of course, the money earned in one year was close to 3 years of the national budget, so I could feel how rotten Oz is from the inside out.
It was a surprise when slush funds worth close to 1 million gold were found in the baron’s estate.
Perhaps someone instigated the baron to move it for a while, but it was discovered before returning to the original owner, and we gulp it.
Perhaps the owner of the slush fund fell behind his back.
The moment you claim the money as yours, a supervisor from the Governor-General’s Office will come to you on charges of tax evasion.
On the day they found it, the entire government-general wanted a dinner.
If we occupied Oz and made the nobles and the people enmity for one year, we made both of them on our side for the other year.
First of all, he secretly contacted some nobles and seduced them by offering them convenience if they supported the Japanese government-general, and then divided the nobles into pro-Magic factions and restorationist factions.
In fact, it wasn’t that the pro-mafia didn’t exist at all from the beginning.
However, others must have noticed, and more than anything else, there must have been some people who had rushed to this side and forcibly endured exploitation, fearing what would happen if the demons were kicked out of Doom Land again.
That’s why we gave preferential treatment to those who had turned pro-mafia relatively early on, gradually expanding our influence around them.
In fact, if only one or two people had betrayed, the story would have been different, but as the number of traitors increased, those who remained in the Restoration Party began to suspect each other.
‘What if the rest of the people except me go over to the pro-mafa faction?’
‘Isn’t it because I was hesitant about transferring that I couldn’t get the benefits I could receive?’
‘Am I stupid? Is there any reason to hold out until the end when everyone else is going?’
In order to keep thinking about this, he encouraged the transfer of aristocrats by using the wind catchers inserted into the restoration group.
Of course, there were those who kept their incision like Daejeok, but from the beginning, such people were very few.
It was mainly made up of great nobles who were able to preserve their power even if they did not have to be pro-mafia.
Since Prince Tippetarius, who was currently the sole heir to the throne, gave up his royal status and settled in Dresden, his domain, the right of succession to the throne naturally went to the collateral.
If you can literally return to the era of monarchy, a new king may be born in your own family with even a little bit of royal blood.
Naturally, those with such greed held on tightly to the people around them and whispered sweet words.
Even if he became a pro-mafa faction now, he would be treated worse than those who were in the early days.
Perhaps they completely forgot the fact that they unconditionally surrendered to two shots of ether magic even when their national power was intact, and those who fell for the flattery of the great nobles remained in the restoration group.
In the current situation, it was a perfect situation because the pro-mafa faction and the royal party restoration faction were showing equal balance.
After making the aristocrats fight among themselves, he actively introduced things that were taken for granted in the territory of the demons to win over the common people.
“A 60-hour work week?”
“Installing a succubus window?”
“A minimum wage system?”
“If a human and a demon get married and then have a child, they will give money?”
“You say the tax rate is lower than before?”
Without any specific rules, the people who were working according to the order of the foreman suddenly lost their minds to the law for workers.
Of course, the aristocrats and bourgeois, who were in charge of them, protested, but I said fuck it and threw them all into the dark.
Sometimes, rather than listening to complaints, it is necessary to force them to proceed.
Even more so, it was an all the more necessary bill because there were many cases where demon soldiers were stationed there for over a year and met eyes with human women, and ended up marrying them as they were.
I didn’t think the people who worked in Heaven’s Demon King’s Army would accept the ridiculous working conditions in Hell Oz.
As the general public’s approval rating rose, the noise that kept coming out naturally subsided.
Man is an animal of oblivion.
It can burn for the first few months, but eventually you will adapt to your current situation and get back to your daily life.
In fact, it was a colony only in words, and it was forbidden to discriminate against them while claiming that they were first class citizens or second class citizens, so there was no ill feeling caused by discrimination.
Of course, there were still many people who hated the demons, but those feelings soon subsided as there were more people who were indoctrinated to hate the demons rather than really hating them.
In fact, as I expressed before, if humans are demons without horns, demons are humans with horns.
Since they basically have emotions and use the same language, living in the same place made it natural for them to harmonize.
In the first place, the most powerful person in the country was the demons, but there were no guys with big livers who could discriminate against the demons.
This is the result of about two years of hard work.
‘Colony Oz’
The only country in the world where humans, demons, and other races live together.
It was news that the Demon Lord, who was the planner of this plan, would be very happy to hear.
***
After the war, Ozma and I held an engagement ceremony before Maou-nim left Oz.
Actually, I didn’t want to do it, but since I was caught spending the night with Ozma, I had to take responsibility.
Fortunately, the other members also understood this fact, so Ozma was recognized as the true wife of our party.
This is how the current relationship was reorganized.
Ozma is her fiancé, Vanessa, Dorothea and Camilla are her lovers.
As the four of them started living together, it became almost like a common-law marriage, but it seemed that a proper wedding would be a few years later.
This is because there is a cultural difference between humans and demons. Humans with a relatively short lifespan say that they have lived a long time after 60 years, but 60 years by demon standards is at the level of saying that they have just shed their youth.
So, unlike humans who get married immediately after dating for 1 or 2 years, demons are companions who will be with them for the rest of their lives, so they watch over them for a long time and then get married when they are sure.
Because of that background, it was agreed that our marriage would take place when the stabilization of Oz was over and we returned to our home country.
“Then I’ll go.”
“When you come, whiskey.”
After quitting the Four Heavenly Kings and becoming a house guard, Dorothea waved her hand and left her house.
The four of us got on the carriage heading to the Government General’s Office.
“It’s nice weather today.”
After lunch, I should take a walk around the Japanese Government-General’s Office.
