Dream Life

The information obtained from Viscount Ignacious Radford, the name of the Marquis Seawell family, was not solely about the Imperial Army. He had also obtained information related to politics.

What I particularly wanted to know was the imperial northern policy.

The current Emperor Siegfried XXI is now forty-five years old. He took office eight years ago in 3010 Tria history, but the following year he has stopped his frequent invasion manoeuvres into the kingdom of Lax, which were carried out by the previous emperor.

Rumor has it that he was commanded an invasion operation during the Crown Prince's reign, but hated the futile march because the Kingdom of Lax was stronger than he thought.

Other than that, it is also said that the most alarming penetration of phototheistic religions into nations was stronger than expected, thus concentrating their power on the Holy Kingdom of Luke. However, the Kingdom of Lax is not merely a state of temporary truce, nor is there any consultation aimed at reconciliation.

This means that the Northern policies of the current empire do not take the means of war, but they are also not yet trying to get something out of the negotiations. Until now, as a general story, it's information that even ordinary people can know.

The question for me is that the Empire has taken no action against the Kingdom of Lax. I have merely unilaterally suspended the war of aggression, which lasted nearly thirty years, and have not tried to get any fruit from it. I may be concerned about compensation issues and the like, but if an empire is overwhelmingly powerful nationally, you just have to stick around, even if requested, and you don't have to be weak. In other words, some concessions may be necessary, but without significant losses, it is possible to reconcile.

Reconciliation will not only allow economic interaction with the world's second-largest nation, but it will also serve as a restraint against the largest enemy, the Holy Kingdom of Luke. For Luke, the Kingdom of Lax and the Kingdom of Sartooth, which forms the United Kingdom with Lax, are traders who can trade exclusively in their own produce, Southern produce.

If the Empire intends to do damage to Luke's sources of funding, you can start trading with the United Kingdom. Just taking part of the share can do a lot of damage if you look at it as if you were in exclusive business.

I am asking Viscount Radford straight on this point.

"It's the corruption of the imperial aristocracy that causes it," the Viscount said somewhat lonely, "as you know, behind the Lukes (Buck) is Aurelia's commercial guild. The Alliance is offering massive bribes to imperial officials and the Dukes to keep Luke from being crushed," he said with a bitter look.

Still, the emperor ordered a truce with Lax, so I think there's a way to do it, but when I ask him about it, he clouds his expression even more,

"The Emperor's power is not so rocky. His Majesty suddenly reigned."

As I said earlier, Siegfried XXI took office eight years ago. At the time, given that he was already thirty-seven years old and the former emperor was in his late fifties, it's not that uncomfortable a story.

The story I find out is that the former emperor had a sudden death like a heart attack, and rumors spread that it wasn't poisoning at the time, but that's denied by a thorough investigation.

Also, whoever profits from assassinating the emperor at the time is about the Kingdom of Lax, the commercial guild does not want the emperor's death to move as they wish, and naturally, neither does Luke want the emperor to change who attacks Lax in vain.

Unless even the Kingdom of Lax has been waged a full-scale war of aggression, only sporadic skirmishes have occurred and are not so urgent as to take the means of assassination.

And there was no royal family to rival the current emperor, who was the Crown Prince at the time, nor was he rubbing it with the right to inherit the throne.

"It really just collapsed naturally, but it's a sudden reign if you try to be Your Majesty. At that time, only part of the Second Corps was sent regularly, and His Majesty himself had not moved from the Imperial Capital. I was surrounded by many beautiful princesses at the Crown Prince's Palace and I was relaxed..."

The Viscount's story is that the current emperor was not so obsessed with the throne that he remained as involved as possible in troublesome politics and wars. For this reason, he missaw the subtle power relations between the powerful royals and dukes, and at the beginning of his reign he was quite able to rub them.

"... one of them is that the war with Lax is abandoned... I heard the opinion of one faction and stopped trooping to Lax, but it is abandoned halfway through another faction's thrust. This is the situation of the Empire today..."

At the end of the day I laughed mocking myself.

(The point is, is he a politician who can't decide? I'm not decisive at the top, so a lot of people say whatever they want. Not as bad as the Kaum Kingdom, but that's not a very good situation, nor is the Empire. This could be the same situation for Lax and Sartooth......)

We will also gather information about people who have power in the Empire.

The Empire has an organization like the Emperor's Advisory Body called the Senate. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Senate is moving the Empire because the Emperor does not show any interest in politics, although the system is that twelve elders with more than the Duke's title propose policies and the Emperor approves and adjudicates.

Four of them have a particularly strong voice.

Grand Duke Tristram Langton, brother of the former emperor; Duke Irving Feelobisher, prime minister and representative of civilian; Duke Lawrence Kendrew, head of the Fifth Legion and representative of the martial arts officer; Duke of Charles Ingolslop, with strong connections to commercial guilds and the finest financial power in the empire.

Of these, the Grand Duke of Langston and the Duke of Kendriw are the Leopold Prince, and the Duke of Ingolslop, the brother of the current Empress, is the Crown Prince, and the Chancellor, the Duke of Feelobisher, is said to be neither, nor neutral.

Other than this, he is the cousin of the current emperor, the Duke of Alexis Ezarrington, the chief of the Fourth Legion, the father of the righteous queen of Crown Prince Gigismund and the Duke of Edmond Gabiston, split brilliantly into three groups: the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince and the Neutral.

"His Royal Highness the Duke of Phyllobisher is long enough to remain a prime minister in the history of the Empire. Without His Excellency the Chancellor, the Empire would not stand..."

In the Viscount's story, the Chancellor, Lord Feelobisher, is among the seniors and one of the few men of good sense. Turning sixty-two this year, he was prime minister for twenty years, including during the time of the former emperor, during which he not only held firm to the reins of the squandering emperor to sound the empire's finances, but also prevented the interference of commercial guilds and the runoff of the military, for one thing, it seems only with his arms.

"His Excellency the Prime Minister is also through the pulse of His Excellency the Governor of the North..."

When the Hubert Raswell border uncle succeeded the housekeeper, Lord Feelobisher was not the prime minister, but he had already succeeded the housekeeper, supporting the imperial stalls as a competent young politician among the senate. When he visited Imperial Capital to receive the Imperial Imperial Palace of the Governor of the North, he made a deliberate meeting with Imperial Palace, who listened carefully to the minister in his young, yet cautious character.

"... because if you stand out and show a friendly relationship, you will buy Your Majesty's distrust. The Chancellor is struggling, too. So I keep in touch through my lord, His Excellency the Marquis of Seawell. The Hall is brother-in-law with His Excellency the Governor. It's not funny..."

The Viscount has told us of the seriousness of the matter. Sure, Marquis Seawell is the real brother of the late wife of Borderline Uncle, so he can be described as a brother-in-law, but it's not even that easy to talk about in a big country like the Empire. First of all, there was no such story in the information I gathered.

(The Chancellor had strengthened centralisation. In other words, leading aristocrats in the region should be aware of it as a potential threat. I didn't know that the prime minister and the governor of the North were joining hands...... But the Lockhart family (of which) can be said to be the stepchildren of the Raswell Border Uncle family, but isn't this story confidential? In particular, the Chancellor is distancing himself from both successors. One mistake, I can't dispute being told that the Prime Minister and the Governor of the North are looking to usurp... I think both the Crown Prince and the Crown Prince want so much information that they can get their hands on it from their throats...)

I told him so thoughtfully.

"I don't think it's a good story to say in a broad way? As far as the Crown Prince and Crown Prince talk earlier, Your Excellency the Chancellor is in a delicate position?

The Viscount nodded loudly when I said so, but there was a grin on his face.

"It's you who can cross with Speaker Worgman, the agile guild leader of that sorcerer's guild. If you give some information, you will come to a conclusion of your own without having to tell me. Then it's not a problem for me to tell you..."

I wasn't sure what to say. In the meantime, the Viscount kept talking.

"This isn't what happens right now, but sooner or later, the time should come for me to want to borrow your wisdom. Give me the right information for then."

I said, "Don't they think that information leaks from me?" I asked a little mean. The Viscount shrugged his shoulders like a snack,

"There is no way you could do anything that would cause confusion in this village. At least if anything happens to the Governor of the North, it will affect the Lockhart family. I don't know exactly, but what you're trying to protect isn't booze, is it?

I was losing my word staring at the Viscount.

(Only three days. This guy was here... Sure, the defense facility here is unusual, but when it comes to protecting Scotch's vault, everyone believed it... I could have misjudged this guy's insight...)

"You don't have to be so vigilant," he laughed as I shut up.

"Firstly, if we are to protect booze, we should also build a distillery in this museum hill. But the distillery is not here. All we have here is a vault."

I said, "If you lose the original alcohol, you lose time on a ten-year basis. The distillery can be managed in a few months if even the craftsmen are safe. Besides, this place is not suitable for distillation," the Viscount replied, nodding small.

"Of course, I know the value of the raw alcohol stored. But the school building that we're building in parallel with the reservoir is an emergency shelter. Which means we've set up all these defense facilities to protect the villagers."

I lost my word again. The Viscount turned to a slightly more serious look,

"I don't know what the Lockhart family is wary of, and I understand it's not something to ask. But to be derived from it means that we are at least doing our utmost to protect this village. I mean, it's my conclusion that you can't possibly want things to create new confusion."

As I searched the words, the Viscount said, "Seriously, the Seawell family wants an ally. You can trust that, too, and you have powerful allies," he said, staring me in the eye.

"Isn't it your idea that the hand the Governor of the North struck this time?

I was confused by a topic that suddenly changed and could only deny "yes, no". The Viscount nodded as small as he said he knew,

"His Excellency the Governor is an excellent ruler. The assistant Baron Oldham also has the talent to look ahead... but" he cut the word once. And then you take your gaze off me, and you look out the window.

"They are not those who can come up with measures that would strike Luke's Holy King's Palace by moving a commercial guild like this one. I felt uncomfortable there. And they felt the same thing. The rest was easy. Previously, there was a person who succeeded in the measure of replacing the head of Luke's ruler, the archbishop general. I wonder if the person has moved in the back this time..."

I was wary of the Viscount's words.

(I did move the blacksmiths in my name then. Using an organization that I can't normally move, the Mage Guild... but that wasn't meant to damage Luke's ruling system. Simply the result has been so. But I definitely referenced that......)

At the beginning of this disturbance, the fact was discovered that after the rebellion perpetrated by Associate Baron Gateskel, a man of Uncle Borderline's was being assassinated by Harrison Gannell, a Gateskel subordinate who had been used by Lukes.

A calm borderline uncle usually went upside down to that fact, about to storm off.

That's when I threatened the commercial guild in Aurelia, forced Luke to ban his dealings with the Holy King, and suggested that Luke not only failed in his plot, but also did damage to his adversaries.

(Still, there is no evidence that I was involved in this case. Though it was the victim, everything should have been done by the borderline bosses. I didn't expect it to be so easy to break through......)

When I was thinking about it, the Viscount had the usual people-loving grin.

"You don't have to be so vigilant. I want to have a good relationship with the Lockhart family and Lord Zacharias. It's not about using each other, it's about being able to hold hands."

I frankly asked, "Sure, the Lockhart family has power, but why as famous as the Marquis Seawell family?"

The Viscount returned to his serious expression and began to dive into his voice and speak.

"His Excellency the Prime Minister will retire in a year or two. I'm over sixty already. Then there will always be confusion in the Empire City. I hope Lord Ezarrington, who will be seen as the next Chancellor, decides that he is a samurai. There will always be horizontal spears...... and if there is confusion, Luke and Aurelia will definitely get their hands on it. If that happens..."

The Viscount obscured the end of the phrase and did not conclude.

(With the current oral rhetoric, do you mean there could be civil unrest between the worst Crown Princes, the Crown Princes? If the emperor is not indecisive, he will do so in a matter within the court...... I guess the Sewell family, a neutral, will be forced to make a difficult choice...... then, using the power of the Rockhart family with influence in the blacksmith guild, the likelihood that the Sewell family will survive is considerably increased......)

It was an annoying story for me. If civil unrest broke out within the Empire and affected even the Northern Governor's Office, fathers and brothers would be heading to Welburn. Naturally, take a select soldier from among the squire and vigilante who was the Lord. If that's all you need.

As a magician, even more likely to try to call me as a military teacher. I can say no, but my brother, the son-in-law of Uncle Borderline's daughter, will be forced into a painful position.

(In a few years there could be confusion in the Empire... I hope this isn't the work of God's enemies...)

Dark thoughts grew in my head.