Chapter 24: Cowardly Emperor
I turned 8. The Chancellor and the Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies came back to the capital at the same time as if they had arranged it.
At first, I had thought that they had come to congratulate me… but that came after.
… No, I wouldn’t have been moved at all if they had just come to the capital to congratulate me. I was rather impressed with how low their loyalties are. There was nothing more disgusting than empty flattery.
The two came to the capital to discuss a certain plan which was ‘how to defeat the Theanabe Union’.
There was 1 Marquis and 4 Counts of the neutral faction who became independent to create the Theanabe Union. Their territory was so small that the fief was directly ruled by Duke Raul. I guess they want to ‘strike the enemy who is easy to strike’ rather than to remain vigilant against an invasion from the Ghafur Republic.
… I don’t think it’ll work out well for them.
It’s not as if two factions, who have been in political strife for years, can ‘work together to attack the enemy’.
Well, anyway, I don’t know whether they were fighting or criticising each other… or maybe they were even discussing this seriously, but there was always one topic that came up on the agenda.
‘Military expedition led by the Emperor’. They wanted to make the Emperor a ‘nominal commander-in-chief’ so that they could dispatch the army.