Chapter 22: The Queen Is Distracted
[This isn't right, why have these nobles accepted me so easily? 】
[It is said that the imperial people are paranoid and barbaric and that the nobles and commoners are worlds apart. I am still waiting for someone to jump out and slap me in the face, and then create some trouble. That way I will be expelled from the cabinet for being young and frivolous! 】
[Doesn't this mean that Dio wants to leave this cabinet minister all the time? 】
[Although the Minister of History does not have any specific tasks to be responsible for, the queen has always been poisonous, maybe she will have some strange ideas to trick me...]
The Queen of Eternal Night, dressed in a black dress and long skirt, walked slowly into the political hall, and immediately saw tens of thousands of stray thoughts running in Roger's head.
She couldn't help raising the corners of her mouth.
To this day, does this bastard still want to get away from the palm of my hand?
This is my cabinet!
Every member is loyal.
I personally recruited you. Even if they don't like commoners, they have no choice but to accept you and cooperate with you.
Here, I shall prevail!
Conflicts and differences from outside cannot spread in here.
"We greet Your Majesty!"
All members of the cabinet stood up and saluted the Queen of Eternal Night.
"Everybody, please take a seat."
The Queen of Eternal Night waved her hand and sat down on the "Throne of Stars" at the end of the hall.
This was made by the most outstanding alchemist of the Green Vines Empire. They collected countless meteorites and melted them with special techniques to create a... meteorite iron throne.
Thick, deep, shining with the light of stars, noble and gorgeous.
The Queen is not someone who likes nonsense, she directly announced to discuss the current emergency.
At this moment, the internal and external situation of the empire could be called grim.
After the Church of the Seven Gods was banned from missionary works in the Empire, its relationship with various forces continued to escalate.
Internally, the "Recovery Army" is mighty, and it seems to have a trend of sweeping the homeland of the Seventeen Kingdoms.
However, as the development of the Recovery Army reached its peak, the cabinet ministers knew that it was the Queen's plan, and they suddenly lost a big worry.
Today they are mainly discussing the issue of governing the vast territory of the empire after the pacification of the Restoration Army.
The Green Vines Empire originally consisted of five provinces. After sweeping through the seventeen countries, the empire now has ninety-seven provinces.
Managing such a huge territory was an unprecedented challenge for the Green Vines Empire which was still using something similar to the medieval European feudal system.
Even with the help of magic, it was not easy.
The existence of extraordinary power continued the stubbornness of feudalism, making the evolution of the system more difficult.
Traditional forces have advantages in resources and blood, but magicians were basically human-shaped artillery platforms. Thus, it was extremely difficult to overthrow a dynastic rule from the bottom up.
Naturally, the political foresight and way of thinking of the emperor's subjects are more limited than in the past.
If you don't agree, kill them all and you're done. You don't need to pay attention to any tricks.
The Queen of Eternal Night swept the kingdoms with force, but she didn't want to use her strength again, she wanted to conquer people's hearts more softly.
Facts have proved that the effect is not satisfactory.
After three years of hard work, the empire only added seventeen provinces bordering the five major provinces into the empire's borders.
Four times the size of the country has brought forty times as many administrative problems...
As a result, other areas that were not yet fully controlled were called the homeland of the Seventeen Kingdoms by the empire, and the governors were dispatched to manage them in a colony-like manner.
Such a system has no use. The governors can't be too strong or too weak. In many places, the remnants of the seventeen countries have developed and grown, wantonly doing as they will, and turmoil is frequent.
The Queen was naturally very upset.
She hoped that the seventeen countries would return to the Green Vines Empire, establish a real human empire, and eliminate the traces of the existence of the seventeen countries.
However, there were the Churches of the Seven Gods and their puppet counties outside, as well as the remnants of the seventeen countries inside. These things have always expended all the energy of the empire, leaving the Queen of Eternal Night feeling helpless.
Before Roger transmigrated, the turmoil in the Seventeen Kingdoms intensified, and because the spread of the stalls was too large, the empire's financial crisis gradually appeared.
It was not that the Queen of Eternal Night was not strong or smart enough, or that her subordinates were all trash.
It was just the limitations of the times, combined with the limit of backward productive forces in this era, meant that it would take decades to control such a huge empire even without foreign enemies.
It was only possible to find a feasible path through continuous trial and error and paying countless painful prices.
But the enemies were all around, and the gods didn't give the empire any time at all.
The moment the empire shows any flaws, it will be torn to bloody shreds.
At present, it is entirely dependent on the Queen of Eternal Night who is as powerful as the gods, coupled with the strongest magic army in the world that has been trained for many years, and also the internal officials and people that have the desire to continue to expand outwards, which supports the brilliance of the empire on the surface.
But there are many hidden dangers within
In the game, the Queen of Eternal Night tried several times to reform the country, but they all failed. She could only make up for the deficit with constant wars, suppressing the whole country and surrounding areas with mighty power.
Until the eleventh year of the Yongye Calendar, under a series of operations by the protagonist group, the Green Vines Empire failed in their attack against the Elf Empire.
The Queen of Eternal Night was injured by the descended God of Nature, and since then, the pace of external expansion was unable to be maintained.
This caused the problems that the empire had been suppressing to break out one after another, until the queen ultimately fell and the country fell apart.
The causes and effects planted long ago all erupted and caused the empire to collapse.
These did not surprise Roger.
The Green Vines Empire has stubborn ailments similar to the Three Virtues（refer to a Chinese old country）, and the scholars of the game of course know it.
To his surprise, the action of pretending to be the Restoration Army was very effective, giving the Empire a sigh of relief.
The Restoration Army solved a lot of the remnants of the Seventeen Nations, plundered a lot of wealth, and increased the loyalty of the Seventeen Nations by a lot.
It directly solved the financial crisis within the empire and saved several battles.
And to give the Queen of Eternal Night and the army more time to recuperate, Angelina's many methods can also be employed.
Under the butterfly effect, he's afraid that the game difficulty for the protagonist group will increase a lot in the future.
[The world line has changed? I'm just a silent confidente. How can the queen come up with so many tricks? 】
[She is too strong! This cabinet is also very competent! 】
[But in the face of the gods and the children of the heaven, this level is not enough...]
Roger didn't say a word. He smiled and listened to the discussions of the other ministers in the cabinet, but he was also quite emotional.
The Queen has tried her best.
However, the gods suppressed the ancestors of Fengling.
Speaking of the imperial cabinet at the moment, every member is very competent.
Not to mention that the two prime ministers have high-level ability.
The other magic advisors, finance ministers, military ministers, foreign ministers, agriculture ministers, industry ministers, etc. also have their strengths.
Only Dio, the last minister in the cabinet, the minister of history who doesn't know what to do, is a proper bastard.
Roger also maintained an attitude of not saying a word, just listening, learning, and smiling to the end.
And also fell asleep because of the speech of the Minister of Education.
As expected of the education, the hypnosis skills are all max level.
The Eternal Night Queen was a little unhappy.
She did everything possible to bring Roger into her cabinet, hoping that he would form a human-shaped barrage to make the days without war more interesting.
Can't you just randomly propose a few good ideas like “pretending to be the Revolutionary Army” or “invasion of the unified culture”.
It had to be said, the joy of having good ideas fed to you was addictive.
But today, Roger just didn't speak, and he didn't even have any interesting thoughts in his mind.
[Sleepy... sleepy...]
[During the strategy meeting the Minister of Industry spoke very fast... um zZZ~]
[Sleepy... sleepy...]
[Why are you stepping on me, little ceiling fan, how could I object to my sister's proposal? 】
[Sleepy... sleepy...]
Sleepy, sleepy, are you a sleepy insect?
The queen also had the urge to yawn.
"Your Majesty, what do you think of this matter?"
Angelina asked the Queen for instructions, and there was a hint of curiosity and inquiry in her eyes.
Today the Queen was distracted during the cabinet meeting.
The reason is...
The Queen was sneaking a peek at Dio Brando, whom she recruited into the cabinet.
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to solve the problem of the queen's spouse?
The Right Prime Minister has a lot of inspiration in her little head.
