Eagle’s Glory

After hearing the priest's voice, Aigron didn't know how to reply for a while. Deep in his heart, he even vaguely agreed with the other party's idea.

He has an ambition that is more ardent than ordinary people, and he also has a strong desire to be recognized and worshiped by others. It is difficult for him to accept that he leaves the world in obscurity, so he can understand the meaning of what Father Faria said.

Some people would rather die than live in the indifference and contempt of others. For them, only by displaying their talents and being remembered by everyone can they truly live a life.

Father Faria had a particularly strong desire in his heart because of his troubled early years. He finally got this opportunity, so naturally he was not willing to give it up.

Put yourself in his shoes, if you were a priest, you probably wouldn't be willing to accept a disguised form of emeritus retirement. Anyway, you don't have a few years left in your life, so why not make it more exciting?

Precisely because he is also the same kind of person, he can't bear to criticize the other party harshly.

Seeing his silence, Chanel, who was standing behind him, became even more anxious. She could not understand the thoughts of these two people. She just wanted to let the priest live a few more years and let him enjoy a few more good days.

So she boldly took the initiative to persuade Father Faria, "Father, His Majesty is completely well-intentioned towards you, why do you insist on your opinion like this? Don't you think the longer you live, the greater your contribution to Your Majesty? We still have too many wives. You are needed in many places, and neither Your Majesty nor I are willing to watch you just...leave this world like this."

"Chanel, I'm very grateful for your concern for me, but you worry too much. I can still survive." Father Faria still insisted on his opinion.

"Look at how you look now! How do you look like you can hold on?!" Chanel became anxious and interrupted the other party loudly. She took the medicine bottle from the table next to her and showed it to the two of them. Personally speaking, "I have been taking care of you for so long, how can you still lie to me? The amount of medicine you drink now is several times what it was more than a year ago, and it is almost like a medicine jar, and even if you don't look at this, Just by looking at you talking, I can feel that your life is fading away, why would you lie to us again?"

Being snatched away by Chanel, Father Faria was speechless, but he still did not change his mind. "Everyone is destined to die, and everyone will eventually return to the embrace of the Lord, sooner or later. Moreover, even if I don't perform official duties, I won't live much longer. My health has long been destroyed in prison life... Since it is destined to be very long... If I am about to die, please let me die gloriously in a respected position. If you have mercy on me, please grant my wish... I don't ask for wealth or title, I only have this wish..."

Chanel wanted to persuade her again,

But at this time Aigron reached out to stop her.

"Chanel, stop talking... We have to respect the priest's wishes. He has the qualifications."

After stopping Chanel, Aigron looked at the priest again, and then said to him seriously, "Father Faria, although we have not known each other for a long time, over the past year or so, I have gained a lot from you. A lot of lessons. To a certain extent, you are both my subject and half my teacher. You are qualified to make demands of me - so I grant your wish. You don't need any leave, but will continue. Do your job. But..."

He changed the topic, "I can no longer let you perform your duties with such high intensity, because you are obviously overwhelmed. Even if your body is not considered, I have to doubt whether you can do your job well, so I have to do it myself." Share the responsibility.”

"Do you take responsibility?" The priest was a little surprised and didn't understand what he meant.

"I appointed you as Prime Minister of the Principality and asked you to take charge of the overall situation, but I underestimated the difficulty of this job. I set up a prototype of a cabinet in vain but did not really make it work, so that in the end all the pressure was overwhelmed. It's on your shoulders, and you really carried it on your shoulders with your loyalty... Edmund was there to help you before, but now Edmund is also sent out by me. You, an old man with limited mobility, can You can imagine the hard work it took to achieve this." Aigron answered the other party with a hint of self-blame, "This was my omission. I didn't do what I should have done, so now I need to make up for it."

Eggron's self-blame comes from the bottom of his heart.

Although he single-handedly created this small Principality of Ioannina, deep down in his heart he never really took it seriously. In his own mind, this place was just a temporary residence for him and his knights. That's all, there is only one place for his final destination.

Since it's just a temporary stay, why should we care so much? Just make do with it.

But facts have proven that even for such a small country, affairs are still complicated and complicated. Even if you just want to "make do", you have to expend a lot of energy to maintain basic operations, not to mention that it is still in its infancy. Everything was built on the first step - from this point of view, Father Faria has overfulfilled his task in the past six months or so, which is very remarkable.

However, after all, it cannot always be like this. Father Faria himself is certainly overwhelmed - and once the priest really collapses due to running out of oil, will the principality just ignore it?

Eggron must prevent this from happening.

Although this principality would not be his permanent residence, it was still a piece of land that he had created, and he did not want to give it to others, let alone let it go to waste.

If one day I really have to leave the principality with a large group of cronies, I should hand it over to someone I can trust and continue to run it. It can be used as my strategic fulcrum in the Balkans and the Near East; take ten thousand steps back. For example, if one of his descendants unfortunately loses the throne one day, he can still have some ancestral property as a retreat. It seems that this risk really has to be guarded against.)

This thought originally only vaguely stayed in his mind, and was put aside because he was busy with things on the mainland, but now that he saw the priest looking so old, he had to think about this issue.

First of all, he must try his best to keep the priest alive. Even if he does not consider his personal feelings, every extra day he lives is creating value for himself; secondly, he must try his best to create a principality system that can last long enough to share the pressure of the priest in the near future. , in the long run, he can continue to run this principality and maintain loyalty after he is gone.

Eggron knew that he was already a skilled expert in building momentum and winning public opinion, but he was still a novice when it came to ruling the country, and when he was educated in Austria, the Habsburg royal family also deliberately treated similar content was eliminated from his educational curriculum.

Because he knew he had this shortcoming, he also deliberately avoided this problem. When the principality was first established, he determined a structure with the Knights as the core, and then the Greeks and MSL landlords as hierarchical rule. However, he later Everything was left to Father Faria and others, and he ran to the mainland to conduct diplomatic activities.

However, the problem is unavoidable after all. If you want to be a ruler, you must rule personally, otherwise you will just be a rootless person.

If we don’t sort out the small principality today, what will we do tomorrow when we arrive in France, which is a hundred times more complicated than the principality? It would be better to start practicing now, while Father Faria, the counselor, is still alive.

Just because he figured all this out, Aigron's original sadness and depression were swept away, and he was suddenly full of energy again.

"Father, you and your cabinet members were appointed by me. We have been together through life and death. I am familiar with each of you and will never doubt your character - otherwise I will not entrust you with important tasks." Egger Long looked at Father Faria sincerely, "I am by no means a know-it-all, but I can learn the things I must master. From now on, your cabinet will meet at my residence once a week to report to me. , and you don’t have to attend in person, just provide me with a written report and list the suggestions you want to give me. I will make a decision based on the situation, and in this case your workload will be reduced a lot. It’s great for your body.”

"Your Majesty..." Father Faria hesitated slightly, "Have you really decided this way?"

He was not worried that Aiglon's arrangement would share his power, but that such a sudden change would cause great chaos to the principality's initial government order system.

He and his cabinet ministers are now responsible for too many tasks, ranging from the appointment and dismissal of government officials to the formulation and promulgation of laws, as well as tax rates in various places, farmland reclamation and water conservancy, city and fortress construction projects, and From the supplies of the garrison to the diplomatic work, all the things added up are extremely complicated.

Even for a small country, these matters are so numerous that it is a headache, and they have tortured him to this point.

If His Majesty intervenes rashly and issues orders that are different from the previous ones, a lot of resources will be wasted in the back and forth, and the people below will be at a loss as to what to do, which will invisibly damage the prestige of senior officials and further undermine the The country became chaotic.

Because of this, he didn't want Aigron to intervene rashly.

"Don't worry, Father, I will only listen to reports and observations at the beginning, and will not make any decisions. All decisions you have made before have been accompanied by my approval and have irrefutable authority." Aigron saw that He felt the priest's worries, so he took the initiative to explain, "I will also read the report you gave me carefully. If you have any suggestions, just give me any suggestions. I think you don't mind continuing to be my teacher?"

After receiving Aigron's assurance, Father Faria finally felt at ease, but he still had some reservations. "Your Majesty, I am very happy that you are willing to learn this, but I still want to remind you that you are a king, and the most important task as a king is to send those who you trust and have talents to the appropriate positions to play a role for you. Instead of you doing the work for them alone, there are too many things to do in a country, and if you ask about everything, you will definitely not be able to do anything well."

"Of course that's what he said, but how can there be so many people in the world who can be completely trusted and entrusted with important tasks? Smart people are in the minority, and selfless smart people are even rarer, very few." Aigron replied with a smile, "If I don't know the ropes, then how do I know who is suitable? I will be deceived by those smart people. They will try their best to please me and enrich their own pockets. As a result, everyone's resentment will be concentrated on me! So I You have to figure out how the machine works, and then you have to find the right people.”

This is also a major reason for the decline of the dynasty. The founding kings often conquered the world personally, and were very good at commanding the army or building territories. However, the later kings grew up in deep palaces since childhood and were ignorant of worldly affairs and did not know how to handle state affairs. It is impossible to judge who is the right minister to handle the task. In the end, he can only choose those loyal ministers who can sing the most high-profile words. As a result, they are often deceived and fooled. In the end, the entire political machine decays and collapses, and the dynasty is also on the verge of collapse.

Now of course Aigron does not need to care about the future problems of his descendants. He must first learn what he should learn and prepare for the future.

"This is really wise talk!" Aigron's words resonated with the priest, and he nodded with a smile, "Although you are young, Your Majesty, you often have the ability to see the world, and you often speak to the point, which makes me I admire this person who has lived for a long time...I believe that no matter what your descendants are, at least you will not be easily deceived and fooled."

"If I hadn't known about your character, I would have thought that you were deliberately flattering me!" Aigron couldn't help laughing, and then he held the priest's hand, "Father, we can talk now. It's clear enough, there are many smart people in the world, and there are many smart people under my command, but I have never seen many smart and selfless people in my life, and you are one of them, so your value to me is priceless. I estimate that after I lose you, it will be difficult for me to find someone I can completely trust. Even from my selfish point of view, I ask you to live for a longer time, I need you."

Father Faria almost choked with sobs.

He has never seen Aiglon say similar words to his other subordinates - His Majesty has always driven his subordinates with a stern and unquestionable attitude. How could he ever comfort a person with such gentle words?

This kind of "favor of knowing someone" is the best compensation for his rough life. It was for this reason that he was willing to go to pieces.

"I'm sorry for you," he muttered. "Fortunately, Your Majesty, I can still live for a while, and I will complete the task you gave me."

"Okay, take good care of yourself. We'll see you later." Aigron hugged the other person as a farewell, "Remember, my order will be implemented immediately, and you can write your first report."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"