Chapter 97.1: Clean Up After the War

Chapter 97.1: Clean Up After the War

At some point, I took the entire army to the border of the Lauren Knights territory to see off the imperial armys withdrawal.

Incidentally, I was told at that time by Baron Bagamon, Commander of the Lauren Knights, that the two factions, which had continued to have a small dispute in the territory, were finally united as one after the coronation of Queen Silhouette (in truth, probably after hearing that the kingdom had won the war) and all returned to the kingdoms side.

Its a pretty unimportant story but its never a bad story if the territory along the border finally stabilized.

I took the whole army and flew back to the royal capital of Silesie.

From there, I was busy with many other things. I had to clean up after the war but I was also exhausted from all the things I had to do as a triumphant general in the capital such as consoling soldiers who had fought bravely and even doing things I wasnt used to, like going to a victory parade.

Lyle-sensei and the prime minister were also busy concluding a peace treaty with Germania Empire.

Diplomatic negotiations after the war are another war.

The Kingdom of Silesie, which had won the great war, will not ask for the cession of any territory.

Instead, it demanded an unprecedented reparation payment from the Germania Empire equivalent to 50000 platinum coins in platinum, gold, silver, and copper coins.

This was an extremely unusual demand considering the common sense of this world that war is a struggle for territory.

The empire fell into an endless loop of deflation just as if it was rolling down a hill.

By imposing reparations payments as the empire wants to pay as little as possible, the empire collapses economically.

How many people realized that this was the Kingdom of Silesies strategy against the Germania Empire?

Of course, Germania, a great power, has its own set of great people.

Freeds brain, Interior Secretary Biden, realized that the cause of the frenzied prices was the lack of currency and launched a bold reform to adopt convertible paper money as practiced in the empires at the far west.

It was an extremely progressive and correct response but it was already too late.

Having lost the great war, the empire had already lost enough credibility to guarantee the value of convertible banknotes.

No foreign country would accept Germania bills and the territorial states, forced by the imperial government to accept the completely worthless paper bundles, finally rebelled against the empire.

The civil war began with the rebellion in the western part of the empire, the Kingdoms of Rastoir, the Kingdom of Trania, and the Kingdom of Gartland. The war spread to the eastern part of the empire where the coalition of duchy, led by the Duchy of Lanct, defected from their home country and peasant uprising broke out in various parts of the empire.

The empires adversaries, the Kingdom of Roland, and the Britanian Union took advantage of this opportunity to resume their territorial incursions one after another.

Subsequently, an anti-empire coup detat led by the military made the imperial capital of Northmark. The largest empire on the Eura continent was quartered and completely wiped off the map but well, that is a story for the future.