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"Tranche is vast and rich in the first place. Neighbouring marquises, including Marquis Edis and Baron Maud, also claim the Rheinzatz family as allies. Rather, as a Reinzatz family, I would be reluctant to take care of the royal family at any rate, and I might just want to take this opportunity to distance myself from the Wang capital and invest in the development of my neighborhood."

"What will happen to the historical benevolence"

"Yeah?"

"It is a favour bestowed upon you by His Majesty the Founding King by our distant ancestor, Mashka Pale."

"Ridiculous"

Manfrey took it deep on the couch.

"The royal family is spreading that as a beautiful tale of grace, but I know everywhere the old aristocrats knew it wasn't actually like that"

"Say."

"When the Founding King flagged, he had few companions and no money, and ended up having to borrow soldiers from the Palais family. After that, he escaped into the Palais family after waking up with the neighborhood. Even in the Founding War, we could not have fought without the soldiers of the Palais family, money, weapons and wealth. As a Palais, you just took care of yourself the first time, and that's a convoluted form. And even after the founding of the country, I couldn't run the kingdom without the strong backing of the Palais family."

"Really?"

"Mm-hmm. The name Reinzatz and others is just what I gave to boast that I'm a monarch more"

That's what I asked, and Norma had somewhere to fall for. Prado told me that Mashka Pale and the Founding King were just a little too clean.

If that's what you mean, there's something suspicious about the White Snowflake Princess I just heard from Manfrey. Only the Wazlov family is too right. Perhaps, on the Rheinzatz and royal side, they are telling another slightly different story. But that's normal. Everyone wants to think that their house is on the right path.

"I'm not familiar with the history of the kingdom of Zaka, but isn't the Rheinzatz family putting out many of the prime ministers of history?

"That's right. Only the prime minister has been offered by the Reinzatz family. Instead, I'm not putting out any other people."

"Then this time Princess Jerez was served."

"Mm-hmm. As a Rheinzatz family, I guess it's bitter. On the contrary, as a royal family, I am delighted. You'll want to take this opportunity to take Princess Jerez into the royal family somehow."

"Is the Rheinzatz family thin with the royal family?

"The Rheinzatz and Wazlov families have no direct marital ties to the royal family at all"

"Really? Hmm. Dear Manfrey."

"Something."

"What is the aim of Marquis Gido and Marquis Smark?"

"I don't know that."

"Do you have any idea what Viscount Goloun is up to?"

"Too little information. It was too abrupt."

"Findin. Any thoughts?"

"I don't know what both Marquis are after. If so, I know I will have to ask you directly."

"Hehe. I see."

"Ask directly, what?

"Dear Manfrey, Of course, that means asking the other party directly in the matchmaking."

"Are you going to see me?

"You won't be able to refuse this"

"Uhm."

"The situation doesn't get any better where I ran away. It just gets worse. Then you'd better just respond."

"If you could do that, it would help as a home"

"You know I'm in voca, right?

"If you must be, we think so"

"Where are the elder sons of both Marquises now?

"He must be in the king's capital."

All lords have their homes in the king's capital. If it were the Marquis, it would have a pretty fine mansion.

"Then we shall also head to the King's Capital tomorrow. Could you please tell Gido, the Marquis of Smark and the Rheinzatz?"

If we go to the Wang capital at this point, we will have met the demands of the other side in the shortest possible time. In other words, it would have shown sincerity. That matters now.

Then Manfrey and Norma, as well as four of the Wazlov family's house-killing Fujisr and Goncourt's deacon assistant Findin, held discussions on future moves.

Firstly, it was found that the Wazlov and Reinzatz families did not threaten the foundations of existence even if they became hostile with the Indore and Fortos families of the Marquis de Gido, Smark. Instead, if the economic ties between the Wazlov and Reinzatz families were severed, it would seem that the Indore and Fortos families would be the ones in trouble.

However, if the relationship between the Reinzatz family and the royal family is severed, the sales of salt and spices from the Indore family and the Fortos family to the Wang capital may increase.

Even militarily, the Wazlov and Reinzatz families have wiped out the Indore and Fortos families, making it impossible to attack and destroy them.

The Royal Family has difficulty in deteriorating relations with the Indore and Fortos families. It is also difficult for relations with the Rheinzatz and Wazlov families to deteriorate.

Also as the Rheinzatz and Wazlov families, it is not desirable for the entire kingdom to be stable, so I do not want to conflict with the Indore and Fortos families any more.

Even as the Indore family, the Fortos family, should not want to conflict completely with the royal family. Then we cannot take advantage of it as a port city.

That's why he should want to get things settled so much.

"I see. I know a lot about the situation. Lord Fujisul."

"Yes."

"Could you prepare some material about the Indore and Fortos families? I want to read it while I'm on the road to Wang Du and while I wait in Wang Du"

"Yes, sir."

"I want to know, among other things, how you think of things in both houses. What you care about, what you weigh in and judge, etc."

"Yes, sir"

"And I also want materials on the economic relations between the two families and Wang Du"

"Yes. But can we have it overnight?"

"Fujisul"

"Yes."

"You, go to the king's capital about Norma."

"What? No, but"

"I can't prepare the materials. You can explain them verbally."

It is important to send as many landlord housekeepers as the Wazlov family.

I guess that's all Manfrey is taking this matter seriously.