Chapter 330: One Ghost, Labor Standards Act (8)
As soon as the meeting in the parliament ended, Count Salerno was deeply troubled.
"Never did I think a day would come where I’d have to make such a decision."
When nobles talk about making decisions, it usually means giving an order to assassinate someone, or issuing a directive to politically destroy someone by spreading outrageous propaganda and lies.
One might easily imagine such actions being those of beasts wearing human skins, not humans themselves.
That assumption is mostly correct.
In modern and contemporary world history, whenever something heinous occurred, you could usually trace it back to the land of fish and chips as the culprit, and that would mostly be right.
However, the decision Count Salerno was about to make wasn’t about immersing someone in a vat.
"My heart is heavy, but there’s no choice. I have to live, after all. Don’t you agree?"
One of his followers replied to him.
"Loyalty and honor don’t feed you, do they? Even loyalty passed down through generations can change with the situation."
In Eastern cultures, loyalty is absolute, and it's a given that a vassal cannot ask for any rewards in return.
But in the Toscana Empire, loyalty moves with the situation.