Chapter 52: Cleaning up the Chaos
The year ended, the new year, 466. Politics in the Empire has been stormy in the months between my return and today.
First, let me tell you about myself.
It seemed that the citizens of the capital looked favourably on the Emperor who won his first battle. The negative image they had of me as the ‘child of the former Crown Prince’ who died on the battlefield had been erased.
But the aristocrats weren’t particularly alarmed by this victory because there was a rumour spreading around them stating that I left the fighting to foreign tribes and hid and trembled at the back of the battlefield’. Well, I ordered Salomon to spread this rumour though.
The aristocrats weren’t wary of me, and the citizens saw me in a positive light. I believe I have settled into the ideal position.
Next, let me talk about the Chancellor and Regent factions.
These two factions blamed each other and pushed the blame to each other until I returned to the capital.
The Chancellor was blamed for the defection of the mercenaries he had hired and for the attack on the Emperor in his fief. The Chancellor was criticised for an aristocrat in his faction fleeing even though he had volunteered himself as a ‘guard’ and for his own suspicious activities in the capital during the few days the Emperor was missing.
These pointless arguments continued for some time after the Emperor returned to the capital and their political positions were facing imminent danger.