Chapter 1320 Academy

Chapter 1320 Academy

"I will talk to her, but I don't think we should interfere if it's her decision to lead the trial. It's something she has to face as The Queen of the Elven Kingdom, after all," Ava let out a sigh, "It's just unfair for her that she has to bear her mother's sin."

The atmosphere was bad when she brought up the last part. Tang Shaoyang also did not know what to do to cheer her up since he was a big part of the problem.

"It's not your fault. It's mine," Tang Shaoyang pulled her into his embrace.

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The following day, Tang Shaoyang woke up and had to attend more meetings. The topic was about public execution, more proposals on how they should govern the territories outside China, and the plan for the empire's development. They have confirmed that the three factions would no longer send an army to fight them, so they proceed with the empire's affairs.

Tang Shaoyang just finished the meeting with Wei Xi, Alton, and Li Shuang along with their people, but it was not over. He had to meet with Cao Jingyi, Kang Jiayi, Kang Xue, Zowen, and Li Shuang. As the Prime Minister, each time the meeting was about the development or to build something, Li Shuang would get involved.

"Can you just take over the meeting and report everything to me later?" This was not the type of work he liked. He would rather go out and fight zombies or monsters. He felt his people made things more complicated than it was supposed to be. For the public execution, for example, they did not need to ask him who to invite, just invite everyone they could reach, that should be fine. As long as the words spread out what happened to the World Government, then they had achieved their goal setting up the public execution.

But for his people, it was not as simple as he thought. Wei Xi even brought up how to handle the protesters of the execution. Many people still had the old mindset where the death penalty violated human rights, and stuff. His thought was simple, if these people wanted to stay in the Tang Empire then follow the regulation, and if they did not want to stay they could leave. He had risked his life for this empire, and he was not going to waste his time with such an issue. Not when the battle was not entirely over. The next battle would not just be Nirvana, but also the other six God Alliances allied to Nirvana as well. He was not going to waste his time to spoil these protesters.

"This is a great proposal," Finally he got to listen to something he was interested in after the last meeting, "Let's get to work on the project immediately. What do you guys need to start with the project?"

"We have written everything we need on the scroll. If you read it, you will know what we need, Your Majesty," Cao Jingyi responded, kinda salty in her tone.

Tang Shaoyang was caught off guard, looking at Cao Jingyi then glanced at Li Shuang. Li Shuang just shook her head and showed them a page of the list of the project needed. First, it was the location. It seemed the right location was important, and it was emphasized not to set up the academy in the capital.

"Why not in the capital? All divisions operate in the capital, isn't it more effective to set up in the capital. If the academy needs someone from Tarrior or TEID to teach the student, it's more convenient for them since it's closer to the main headquarter," Tang Shaoyang could not understand the reason.

"You will know the reason—" Cao Jingyi was getting more annoyed when Tang Shaoyang asked, but Zowen stood up and pulled her back, "I know you are annoyed because you wrote everything in the scroll, but I don't think you can't act like that, Miss Cao. Let me take over, I don't want our project to get canceled because of your temper."

Tang Shaoyang blinked his eyes. He understood why Cao Jingyi was annoyed, but he felt like there was no need for her to be angry like that. He felt it was more effective to have an interactive conversation rather than reading the proposal, but of course, one of the reasons was because he hated reading thousands of texts when he could just listen to them.

Zowen explained why the location must be outside the capital. It was because the academy needed more spaces than what The Capital had. She gave him examples like how Mage tower needed a training ground where they could practice the spell without worrying the civilians, and they needed a lot of spaces since the training ground would be separated between the apprentices' levels and stuff.

Just like how the dwarves requested to build a bigger smithy because they wanted to separate the apprentices based on level, so they could provide a focused lesson, much better than a mixed hall. At the end, Zowen asked for a whole territory to be dedicated as an academy city, and they asked for Suzhou territory because it was closer to the capital. There was no reason for Tang Shaoyang not to give them the approval, especially when the project benefited the empire a lot.

The four left the meeting hall after an hour conversation with Tang Shaoyang, and right in front of the meeting hall, Zowen grabbed Cao Jingyi's arm, "We need to talk, privately, Jingyi."