Chapter 73: You’ve Been Captured
The Empire’s financial situation was currently in shambles.
The national treasury had always been shaky due to centuries of warfare and with the outbreak having occurred causing numerous casualties, it wouldn’t be long until spiders made homes out of the safes.
Sovereign default. So what had the head of the state been doing in a situation where that could occur?
That was the issue. Even though Robespierre held the title of a Marquis, he’d never been given the specifics about what the Emperor was up to. It was all a matter of speculation.
The current Emperor Yelchin Philiut wasn’t a tyrant but neither was he a wise ruler. To borrow the words of someone, he didn’t have the qualities of a king.
A figure that may be capable of being a village chief somewhere, but lacking the ability to oversee a vast territory like the Empire.
And this was the one command he gave him–to cut down the scholarship given to the students.
To Robespierre who was an educator before he was a noble, it was an incomprehensible decision. It had been a sudden notice that wasn’t previously discussed so it was rather baffling.
These were hard times, of course. They were short on money so it was common sense that it should be saved up rather than used unless it was an emergency. As a vassal, he had desperately attempted to understand this decision by the Emperor.
That is, until yesterday when the Imperials held a large party.
Forcing the Academy to make cuts while they threw themselves a grand banquet?