A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

Not to mention that Heimos, who rarely lost his temper and ignored Garlan, left Garlan a little confused.

And here, the female knight who was waiting to speak to Garlan, whom she hadn't seen for several years, only listened to half a sentence before the horse suddenly turned around and left.

Fataya looked up and could only see the back of Heimos riding away.

The young man was completely blocked by the tall figure of the Black Knight, and she couldn't even see a hair.

She looked at the back of Lord Heimos in confusion, completely confused as to what was going on.

However, she couldn't figure out her lover.

Suojia felt a slight toothache when he looked at his master's back, which exuded an aura of oppression, and King Garlan who was tightly hugging him in his arms.

As Fataya's lover, he watched helplessly as his lover was taken away by the king right in front of his eyes. He should be the one who was obviously angry.

But for some reason, when he saw Lord Heimos dragging King Garlan into his arms from another horse on a running horse from a distance, he couldn't help but He said he was angry, and he even couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth because of the sudden and illusory toothache.

In addition, before King Garlan finished speaking, he deliberately turned his horse around and left...

Suojia just wanted to chuckle twice in his heart.

He thought that he had been scolded by Fataya for being narrow-minded, jealous, and small-minded in the past. Now he had the urge to grab Fataya by the shoulders and shake her hard, pointing at Heimos while shaking. The adult's back asked her——

Look, you can see for yourself, compared to that guy, my mind is really broad!

That person’s jealousy and desire for exclusivity are really terrifying, right?——

However, Suojia still had some sense after all and did not behave like this.

He took a step forward and helped his lover, who was still looking blankly ahead, up.

Fataya stood up and frowned.

"Did my rude behavior make Lord Hermos unhappy?"

She looked at Suojia worriedly and asked.

"Will it affect you?"

She knew that her lover was a subordinate of Lord Heimos.

A quarrel was a quarrel, and Suojia's position in her heart had always been very important. Naturally, she didn't want to bring trouble to Suojia.

Fataya's worried words immediately made Suojia feel happy.

"Don't worry, Lord Heymos is not a narrow-minded person and will not get angry over such a trivial matter."

——But except for the matter of King Garlan, the eyes of the mind are definitely smaller than the tip of a needle.

While comforting Fataya, Suojia silently added this in his heart.

"but……"

Fataya always felt like something was wrong.

Suojia coughed, interrupted her, pointed to the horse behind her and said: "Don't think too much, we should follow it first, after all, this horse..."

"Uh, by the way, this horse must be returned to Your Majesty."

Suddenly remembering that the horse belonged to Garlan, Fataya quickly got on the horse and chased forward with Suojia.

They quickly caught up with Heimos and the others, because although Heimos turned his horse's head and ran back, he was only trotting and not very fast.

When Fataya caught up with him, he saw Garlan turning his head back and whispering something to Heimos.

Heimos pursed his lips, looked cold, and said nothing.

While Gallan was talking to him in a low voice, his eyes were fixedly looking ahead, without even looking at Gallan, and he continued to move forward slowly and leisurely.

Fataya couldn't help but frown.

Lord Heymos's attitude was too rude to King Garlan.

As soon as she finished thinking about this, she saw Gallan sighing, seeming a little helpless, but he didn't seem angry because Heimos ignored her attitude. The helplessness was more like his own big pet making trouble. The feeling of being disobedient.

Then, Fataya saw Garlan raise his hand and rub Heymos' head.

The young man touched Heimos' head and spoke softly to him with a smile that seemed to be coaxing a child.

...This kind of immediate feeling is like smoothing the coat of a big black wolf dog...

The corners of the female knight's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

Although he couldn't hear what Gallan said, Fataya suddenly felt keenly that the fierce aura around Heimos had softened a bit.

The eyes that were staring straight ahead also fell on the face of the young man in front of him.

The moment he met Garlan's eyes with curved eyes and a smile, his gaze, which was as sharp as a blade a second ago, was like a sharp sword being sheathed and wrapped in soft white clouds.

In that look, the snow melted and the ice melted in an instant.

Only softness remains, only attachment.

Those golden-red eyes carried the afterglow of the sunset on the horizon. The moment they stared at Garlan in front of him, it seemed as if hundreds of millions of years had passed.

Everything in this world will eventually pass away.

Only the way he stared at the boy in his arms was immortal.

…

Plop.

Fataya looked away sharply.

what happened?

The female knight's heart beat inexplicably violently when she saw Heimos looking at Garlan. The female knight was a little confused at the moment.

It was obviously in broad daylight, and it was obvious that the two of them were just laughing and talking to each other in low voices.

But that... uh... that indescribable atmosphere between the two... made her embarrassed to continue reading.

She was always careless and careless, but her cheeks felt slightly hot for no reason.

She couldn't describe it.

Anyway... that Lord Heimos looked at King Garlan with a special, special look...

foul?

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Because there was one missing horse, Heimos refused to let go. Garlan, who had finally managed to appease the angry big black wolf, was too lazy to bother and simply rode with Heimos.

Just in time, Heimos pulled the reins, and he was able to have his hands free, and he started to eat the hot chili pancakes that Heimos had bought for him just out of the oven.

Just now, you could gallop your horse in a remote place. Now that you are in a place where people come and go, you naturally have to slow down your horse and walk slowly on the street.

Suojia glanced at his lover.

The female knight already had a sense of responsibility, riding a horse to follow closely, watching the surroundings with vigilant eyes, guarding Garlan's side loyally.

"Your Mightiness."

On the street, Suojia naturally only uses this vague honorific.

"Are you here for a private visit again this time?"

Yes, ‘again’.

The reason why Suojia asked this was because Garlan had left the palace privately more than once or twice, and he was almost becoming a habitual offender.

This young king is really completely different from the previous kings.

The kings of the past dynasties were located at the highest point of the palace, high above, looking down on all living beings from the throne.

Only when he was leading his troops on an expedition, the people of the royal city could take a distant look at the king's figure surrounded by countless guards.

But the young king always left the palace from time to time and came to the people of the royal city to talk to ordinary people and visit privately.

Every time he visited and returned to the palace, one or two dignitaries would suffer.

After doing this several times, the dignitaries in the royal city who had often bullied and plundered the common people in the past felt insecure and restrained themselves a lot, fearing that one day they would be unlucky and would be caught by the young king who came out of the palace for a private visit.

I don’t know which powerful person will suffer this time.

Suojia thought silently in his heart.

"No, this is not a private visit. There is some trouble that needs to be resolved."

Taking bites of the fragrant chili con carne pancake, the boy who answered vaguely did not look like an unattainable and majestic king.

Looking at the young king in front of him who was almost completely different from what he imagined, and then looking at the soft-eyed Heymos whose eyes only fell on Garlan who was chewing scones, Suojia suddenly felt a little worried.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the worry in his heart, and continued to ask.

"I don't know what it is? Do you need my help?"

Suojia has always been a person who knows current affairs very well.

Although in order to help Heimos fight for the throne, he could use any means to deal with Garlan, but now that the overall situation has been decided, looking at his master's unpromising appearance who was fascinated by the young king - in fact, in his own family His IQ would plummet in the presence of his lover, and he had no position to say such a thing - I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to count on it in the future.

In this case, of course he had to change his stance and start thinking about how to serve Garlan to improve his status.

You must know that his mortal enemy Shemuer, who has been fighting against each other since he was a child, is now extremely trusted by the Young King, and the result of this is that in the current royal court, the power of the Sun God Shamash Temple is also Overwhelming the temple of Nanna, the God of Night.

As a priest of Nanna, he naturally had to try to reverse this situation.

He didn't want to spend the rest of his life losing to his rigid and boring nemesis.

"Well, you should also know that I established a new trade and trade office and it started running half a month ago. But when I went to check it out in the afternoon, I found that no businessmen seemed willing to trade there."

Gallan did not shy away and continued to tell the matter while eating scones.

He knew that although Suojia was good at conspiracy and not a good person, he was very loyal to Heimos and could be trusted.

"that……"

Of course, Suojia, who usually pays great attention to various developments in the royal city, knew about the Trade and Commerce Department that Garlan was talking about.

You have to pay a certain percentage of business tax when you go there to trade. Of course, those businessmen who regard money as their life are not willing to go there. After all, they will lose a lot of money in vain.

The fact that the department was still so depressed despite Wang's support made many people laugh.

Those people did not dare to talk about the real mastermind behind the scenes, King Garlan, so they secretly ridiculed Tal, who was in charge of the Trade and Commerce Department.

It even caused a wave of incompetence in the royal court, demanding that King Garlan abolish the Trade and Commerce Department.

but……

Suojia also thought about this matter privately.

Although he was good at setting up schemes on the battlefield and in politics to deceive people, he was not familiar with the business sector. Of course, he could not understand Garlan's purpose of setting up the Trade Department.

Although he can't understand, he has a brain.

So, after thinking about it carefully for a long time, he had a vague idea in his mind, but he was not sure.

During this time, Suojia has been silently paying attention to the development of the situation.

He vaguely sensed that there seemed to be someone in the royal city who was adding fuel to the flames, deliberately publicizing the fact that the Trade and Commerce Department was collecting business taxes, taking it out of context, and using such a thing to cover up the other benefits of the Trade and Commerce Department - they deliberately used public opinion to The mainstream impression among businessmen is that "the purpose of setting up the Trade and Commerce Department is to take advantage of them."

Suojia has already guessed that there may be a large force secretly trying to abolish the existence of the Trade and Commerce Department.

The profit that is enough to make that force not hesitate to cause trouble behind the new king's back... must be very great.

It is just because it is so big that those with vested interests are reluctant to spit out this piece of fat.

They did not dare to confront the tough-minded King Garlan head-on, so they started things secretly, using rumors to control merchants and the Trade Department to become hostile.

At this moment, the group of them had already returned to the remote Trade and Commerce Office on horseback.

From the bustling market just now to the location of the Trade and Commerce Department, in contrast, I feel more and more deserted and depressed here.

Except for a dozen guards standing guard outside the gate, the gate was empty and no one could be seen entering or leaving.

There were not many people at all on the spacious street that was specially widened here.

"Someone is causing trouble behind my back."

Suojia said,

“If this continues, there will definitely be someone at the court who will request the abolition of the Trade and Commerce Department on the grounds that it is of no use and is just a waste of manpower.”

He looked at Garlan and asked, "What are you going to do?"

After swallowing the last bite of the scone, Garlan looked up at the deserted door of the Trade and Commerce Department, where no one was entering or exiting.

The sun was about to sink into the horizon, and the last weak sunlight shone from behind, hiding half of Garlan's face under the hood of his cloak in the backlight.

He stared quietly at the nearly deserted door.

Suojia looked at the back of the silent Young King.

he thinks,

It was this person who made a personal promise at the beginning, allowing merchants to choose voluntarily whether to come to the Trade and Commerce Department for transactions.

I'm afraid this person never thought at that time that no businessman would be willing to come.

However, now that things have happened... King Garlan cannot break his original promise and force the merchants to move in.

………………

Suojia's prediction soon came true.

In the small court meeting a few days later, after the customary handling of local government affairs was completed, someone stood up.

"King Garlan, your newly established Trade and Commerce Department has not been very effective so far."

The minister who stood up euphemistically changed the word 'no effect' to 'not very effective', but everyone else understood what he meant.

"If we continue, I'm afraid..."

As the director of the Trade and Commerce Department, when someone directly said that his department was useless during the court meeting, Tarr's fat face immediately turned red.

However, he couldn't refute it.

Someone took the lead, and then another person stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, because of the Department of Commerce and Trade, your reputation in the royal city has been greatly affected."

He said respectfully,

"Since this place is not of great use, it is better to get rid of it. Firstly, you can avoid people's discussion of you. Secondly, you can also save some manpower and material resources."

Several ministers agreed and proposed that the useless Trade and Commerce Department be abolished.

They all said that for the sake of King Garlan's "wise name" and in order not to increase the burden on the people, it would be best to abolish the Trade and Commerce Department and the commercial tax.

This is all for the sake of the reputation of King Gallan. After all, no other country on the mainland has such a commercial tax. Only Aaron Landis has this tax. If it is publicized by the merchants walking on the mainland, not only will there be Damaging the reputation of King Gallan, and even Aaron Landis's reputation will be affected.

What's more, if the merchants are too harsh, the merchants will not be willing to come to Aaron Landis, which will lead to the decline of Aaron Landis's business in the long run.

The general meaning of those words is summarized as——

Your Majesty, you cannot have your own way.

Adding more tax items is not what a wise king should do.

Money is just an external possession. Compared with that kind of thing, the righteous name of you and Aaron Landis is more important.

Amid the earnest persuasion of the powerful ministers, Garlan, who was sitting on the malachite throne, remained quiet.

He sat and listened quietly to everyone's remarks.

"I have heard all your suggestions."

At the end of the court discussion, Garlan stood up.

"Maybe I didn't think it through well at the beginning," he said, "I will think about it carefully again."

After saying that, he stood up from the throne and left.

The sky-blue cloak was raised behind the young king who turned to leave.

The blond hair that swept past covered his side cheeks when he turned around, making it difficult to see his expression at this time.

Everyone in the court also retreated one after another, and some of them exchanged understanding and satisfied looks with each other as they left.

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