Chapter 286

EP.286

Imperial palace throne room.

“Captain Peter Jaeger of the Reich Imperial Army meets His Majesty the Emperor, the only sun of the Empire.”

As is customary, I got down on one knee and bowed my head, and as always, His Majesty walked down to where I was and helped me up.

Normally, he would look at me at this time and ask me with a bright expression, curious about what I’m up to, and whether something good or bad is happening.

When something good happened, he liked it and gave me a gift to celebrate. When something bad happened, he comforted me. If there was anything he could do to help me, he did so.

For example, the other day I casually mentioned that Frederick was suffering from a fever, and he immediately sent the emperor’s personal physician to receive treatment for the cold.

But now, even though he looked at me, his expression was not bright, as if he was having a lot of trouble with that damn militarist Lieutenant General Manstein.

“I would like to ask you how you are doing these days and hear your story, but given the current situation, I will just ignore it. So, for what purpose did you come to me?”

“Nothing different than that, I heard a rumor that recently retired soldiers formed a bad gathering, so I came to report this to Your Majesty.”

After hearing what I said, His Majesty nodded with an expression that showed that he already knew everything.

“According to the head of intelligence, I heard that Baron Pietro, some retired soldiers, some active-duty soldiers, and some from noble families with titles have gathered to impeach Peter Yeager. You rotten bastards, why are you gathering together and talking nonsense about how there are other great generals who have helped the empire as much as you? Since they are so incompetent, it seems like they have lost their minds out of jealousy towards you who are capable.”

People tend to feel jealous when they see someone who is successful because their abilities are superior to theirs, even though their abilities are inferior.

When the feeling of jealousy enters the mind, the person who uses it positively will try his best to keep up with that person and focus on increasing his or her capabilities.

Humans who are negatively dominated by the emotion of jealousy try to somehow bring the object of jealousy down to the same level or below themselves, whether through words or actions.

So, in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor, it may seem like those with an inferiority complex are trying to carry out political maneuvers... but as someone who

studied modern warfare and its history before being possessed, from my perspective, this meeting clearly shows that it is an assassination preparation plan that militarists love so much. This comes out.

So, I looked at His Majesty and spoke carefully in a very serious voice.

“I think the reason they gathered wasn’t just to impeach me.”

His Majesty looked at me with a questioning expression.

Until the early 1930s, the country of Japan took steps to properly read the international situation.

So, since it seemed like the United States and the other great powers would make a fuss and say something about eating Manchuria, a proposal was made in the Japanese cabinet to eat only the economic sphere of Manchuria and pretend to rule together with China.

This story was told by a man named Tsuyoshi Inugai, who was the prime minister at the time.

If things had gone on like this, the Japanese military’s biggest challenge, joining the Axis powers, might not have happened.

However, the crazy militarists in the Imperial Japanese Army killed the Prime Minister, perhaps because they thought that their officers would have nothing to eat if they did not expand their territory into Manchuria, or perhaps because they were just crazy patriotic.

As a result, Japan was truly ruined.

Of course, the biggest factor behind this was that there was no supreme authority to take over and control the Japanese state after the Japanese Prime Minister died.

Even if I die, His Majesty will personally wield the mace to prevent any unnecessary expansion of the army.

But the problem is that if those bastards succeed in assassinating me, problems beyond the level of Louise Laura Charlotte Anya’s sadness will arise.

The problem is that enemies from other countries will frantically try to take over the empire’s land.

Therefore, I will not give in to these bastards’ threats of assassination and will survive, and I will not only uproot these bastards, but burn them down to their very roots.

“I am sure. “Those guys gathered over there must have gathered to assassinate Peter Yeager.”

His Majesty’s face looked very serious when he heard the word ‘assassination’ come out of my mouth.

“Okay then, what do you plan on doing?

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