Chapter 405: Burden of the Empire (1)
“Your Majesty, a new report has arrived from Eriksson, who is exploring the New World. Would you like to read it?”
“Sebastian, just pick out the important parts and tell me. I have to write a letter to the Sultan myself.”
High-ranking officials rarely write letters by hand.
It’s partly because they have a lot of work to do, but it’s also because it takes a lot of time to rewrite the content that’s already been decided in a ‘fancy style.’
No matter how simple you try to write, you have to mix in all sorts of metaphors and useless literary expressions.
However, a letter to the Sultan has to match their religious and cultural codes, and I’m the only one who can do that, so what can I do? There’s no other way, so I have to do it.
“According to Erikson’s report, some of the sailors even had children with the local women. At first, they almost went to war with the local tribe they first encountered because of those troublemakers, but now, thanks to them, it’s easier to form friendly relations with the locals.”
“Thank goodness. When I heard that they raped the local women, I thought they were going crazy.”
“You never know how life will turn out, but I never thought it would turn out this way.”
He used a similar method when he was building friendly relations with the Masai Alliance.
He paired the local women with the sexually hungry sailors and made them his family, and approached them as if we were their friends.
“At that time, it was mutually agreed upon.”