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“They had ambitions to control the logistics of the empire for their own personal gain, and I called it an economic invasion. As the Imperial Chief of Police, I eradicated them and recovered their property safely.”
I confiscated all the property owned by the Horcelons and Jahan Alliance merchants.
All promissory notes issued in the name of Jaylilith were burned, a huge amount of gold coins, jewels, and reagents were put into the imperial treasury, and fine wines, whiskey, the best tobacco, and perfumes were put into my villa.
At this time, they deliberately left the shares at the top of the empire they had untouched.
That was a carrot to be thrown to appease the capital's bourgeoisie.
“It’s really nice to see. You bought the ship with Jahan Alliance investment, you raised the building with Jahan Alliance investment, you bought the cart with Jahan Alliance investment, and you started this uphill journey with Jahan Alliance investment too? Is this your upper level or the upper level of Jahan Alliance?”
“I'm sorry.”
When I went to the capital's bourgeoisie and waved my share certificates in their faces, the upper class and workshop owners were speechless and just nodded their heads.
“I believe that you didn’t really mean to praise me and try to kill me.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“It was all because of their coercion.”
I smirked and lit a fire in my hand, burning all the certificates of ownership held by the merchant nobles of the Jahan Alliance.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Even though they are money demons, 380,000 gold coins is a huge amount of money, and they probably didn't know that I would kill Hosselon like this.
If you show me this much, I'm sure you won't do any more stupid things to the empire.
It doesn't matter if you come here to make money.
In any case, the Jahan Alliance was made up of excellent merchants.
But if they gain a monopoly in the market and then make huge profits from it, I won't let that happen.
It seems that my intention was conveyed quite well.
One summer, Jaylilith called me into her office and said,
“You. A personal letter has arrived from the Jahan Alliance.”
“What are you saying?”
“To cut to the chase and summarize, the attempt by Horcelon and his group to manipulate the Empire had nothing to do with the official position of the Jahan Alliance.”
“What did Your Majesty reply?”
“I said I fully understood. I also expressed regret that my bastard brother had desecrated the body.”
“This is an excellent decision, Your Majesty.”
Jaylilith smiled with satisfaction and held out her hand to me.
It was a pretty hand with long fingers and thin joints.
I was taken aback for a moment, then took off my gloves and held out my hand, and Jaylilith grabbed my hand tightly.
Although a bit small, he had a very strong hand.
“It’s warm and cozy.”
The halo shining through the office window, the delicate, long eyelashes contrasting with the gleaming golden eyes, were so splendid.
“Hey, do you like something warm in this weather?”
“I am a sleepless night.”
"ah."
“I will not forget that you are shedding blood for me.”
* * *
The virtue of the royal family was not to hoard money, but to spend it where it was needed.
Jaylilith distributed all the money and goods he had collected from the Jahan Alliance merchants to the central knights.
“You have stayed around the capital for more than nine months longer than originally planned. There have been so many unexpected events, but I am grateful that you have remained loyal to the royal family.”
They left their territory and came up to the capital around early spring last year, and were planning to return around fall, but they stayed in camp in front of the capital until this summer.
According to the vassal contract, they could have returned to their territory last fall, but the knights and barons of the central region kept their promise to us.
The presentation ceremony was hosted by Helena.
“Be careful on your way… … Go. I, I took as much as I could. This is gold, and this is reagents. An elixir, wine, and a silver cup. And I also asked His Majesty for some magic potions. They say they are rare in the countryside.”
“What I want is not this kind of wealth, but Your Majesty’s handkerchief. Could you please leave me a token of your service?”
"kyung!"
"majesty!"
“We will definitely meet again one day!”
“Please call me anytime. I will always respond.”
A blonde, red-eyed, warmongering royal, she has been leading the Central Knights as an officer knight of the Order of Brass for the past year.
It seems like he has grown very fond of her as he hugs her and sheds tears.
Well, it's strange that we don't become close, since we enjoy horse riding competitions every day and share drinks in the evening.
Tentia Kyungdo also had an expression full of emotion.
I envied those hot tears.
The central barons and knights each led their men back, and Helena stood blankly in the tent ground until the dust settled.
The sun was setting in the west, and Helena's shadow was lengthening.
I slowly approached her, and Helena spoke with a look of despair that did not match her fiery red eyes.
“Valencianus. Thank you.”
“What are you talking about, Sister?”
“Thanks to you, I was able to send them off with a heavy hand. If the imperial family was busy paying off debts and had to neglect those who were devoted to the imperial family, it would have been very, very miserable.”
“Of course. It’s embarrassing to say. If you’re from the royal family, you should naturally show your heart to those who offered their swords rather than those who ask for money. Even if it means skinning those who whine for money. No, it’s funny when you think about it. Did you think I’d listen to you if you asked for money without a sword?”
Helena chuckled and dusted the dirt off her blonde hair.
“It’s scary, dude.”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
“Now I will be just a knight officer again. An officer officer without any soldiers. An officer officer who plays with words on the game board every day.”
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“Why do you act so pitiful?”
“No. I think it’s true that I’m a bit pitiful. All the kids who graduated from the training academy under the Brass Knights are going towards the police, and they keep getting close and then breaking up… … I think it’s tiring.”
I looked at Helena's slumped shoulders.
He looked as miserable as a drowning cat.
I did have an original idea.
Of course, Jaylilith's approval comes first, and there are many things to check, but hope comes first.
“Sister. Do you want to make a private soldier too?”
* * *
A fire broke out on the streets of the Academy of Learning.
“Kill them all!”
“Let’s get those Sayrose Academy guys out of this street!”
“Let’s hang those Hellesio Academy guys on the flagpole!”
Boom! Boom!
Fireballs exploded, chain lightning and lightning nets flashed blue, and breaths of ice and pestilence gushed out.
Saaaaah!
The fencing students armed with small circular shields called 'bucklers' and bronze swords and the fencing students armed with long swords ran out.
Chaeng, chaenggang!
The seminarians carrying huge steel crosses would strengthen their own academy cadets with hymns and prayers, or they would swing their iron hammers and break the heads of their rival academy cadets.
puck!
The black magic specialists targeted the opposing academy's powerful members and cast all kinds of curses at them.
Wedge!
And the poor Union Student Association members, caught between two or three academies, struggled to keep them apart in any way possible.
“Eww!”
“Chairman! When will reinforcements arrive?!”
“You just got wiped out by a fireball explosion?”
“Retreat first, retreat!”
Jin took the lead and tried to escape the fight, swinging an iron pipe.
However, it was a place where the philosophy of 'you die, I live' was implemented in real time, it was a cesspool where you couldn't leave once you entered, and it was the middle of cadets who could come up with a hundred reasons to fight.
“Chairman. We have reached our limit now.”
“I got hit hard in the arm too-”.
“Let’s break through there. I’ll take the lead.”
Jin looked for any openings he could, and although he knew the fighting there would be fierce, he never backed down.
And the heavenly royal family helped those who helped themselves.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A massive fire swept across the center of the battlefield.
“Eww!”
“It’s a pillar of fire!”
“Run away!”
The temperature of the flames is about 80 degrees.
It wasn't enough to cause fatal injuries to the cadets, but it wasn't a temperature they could tolerate either.
The cadets who had been fighting like a swarm of mad ants scattered in all directions.
Jin lay on the floor, wrapping his body around his recent lover.
“Yeah. It looks nice. Why is it like this here again?”
After the flames died down, I was able to see the face I had missed so much.
A scoundrel with white hair and a sly demeanor, Hwang Hyung, was approaching with a stylish gait.
Jin bowed his head as he woke up his lover.
“I will first take you to the student council room.”
* * *
The student council president, Jin, vice president, secretary, and general affairs manager gathered in the conference room, and Valencianus, Tentia, and Helena followed them.
Valencian looked at the map where the fighting had been marked with numerous magnets and the mountain of reports on the cause of the fight.
“So why is it like this again this time?”
I knew it was going to be a very competitive place, but this time it felt like a real war.
Jin opened his mouth with a deep sigh.
“There are too many people who couldn’t graduate because classes weren’t held in the second semester last year.”
"ah."
“They have worked as vigilantes under Your Majesty and me, collected the corpses of encroachers, and sometimes even hunted encroachers, so their skills have improved considerably. Originally, they should have graduated and found jobs anywhere, but now they are involved in the fight, so the scale is growing and the fights are getting fiercer.”
“Hmm.”
“Furthermore, since we have freshmen as freshmen, the population density has also increased significantly. It was already common to fight for seats in studio apartments, classrooms, dormitories, restaurants, bars, and cafes, but now the fight has become more intense.”
Valencian nodded as if he understood.
“They’re trying to completely drive out the neighboring academy.”
“Yes.”
“Can’t we do something about the cadet gangsters? Maybe scare them all into locking themselves in somehow.”
Knock knock.
As if in answer, the conference room window opened and a slender beauty with long red hair came running in.
Tentia opened her eyes wide in surprise, and Catalin winked with her long, scarred eyes and gave a charming greeting before bowing her head to Valencianus.
“That seems difficult, Your Majesty.”
“Why?”
Valencian also listened carefully to opposing opinions.
He had seen Katalin eliminate several groups that had caused chaos in the tent village, and he knew that, despite her past actions, she was a person of her own, with power, authority, and expertise.
“First of all, most of the cadet gangsters are weaker than the students who are about to graduate. They become gangsters because they can’t get a proper job. The main characters in this year’s fights are mostly the ones who were ranked first or second in terms of grades. Didn’t I just get beaten up?”
As he said, there were traces of potions poured on his limbs.
Valencian recalled how many talented people had applied when Celerazie and Marcus were selecting their disciples.
“… … .”
In other words, talents of that level were not able to find jobs until then.
It was a loss for the empire that they were all shedding blood in the fighting.
Valencian glanced at Helena.
Her eyes sparkled again, setting fire to the savage romanticism in her heart.
“Sister Helena. I heard. This is an opportunity to bring in friends who are already outstanding in terms of ability into the Imperial military at a low price or make them your private soldiers.”
“What should I do?”
“I have to convince His Majesty the Emperor. I have to prove to him that I won’t do anything strange with that army. I have to explain to him why we need to increase the number of elite soldiers. Can you do it?”
Helena nodded immediately.
Valencian smiled inwardly, satisfied.
'Jaylilith was also interested in quantitative augmentation, so I think they'll accept it to some extent.'
'It's not like it's been a day or two since we've been catching cadet gangsters and forcing them into service. The difference this time is that it's not a temporary conscription, but a long-term maintenance.'
'It's because the cost of maintaining elite troops is so high, but once you raise them, you can use them whenever and however you want. Will you allow it? I wish Sister Helena would take charge of the Republic of Langso.'
'Will it work? Will it work? Will it work? Please.'
* * *
“I am sorry.”