426 Episode 49: Perugian Night

I finished dinner with Meer, about that night......

King Yuhar was in the bedroom with the queen.

"Earlier, you were obscured because that merchant had fallen..."

Yuhar shook his head at the queen, who looked worried.

"No, perhaps Her Royal Highness Princess Meer is not going to give us time to think..."

Meer didn't have to dare go after Sharoke on that occasion.

After the confusion subsided on that occasion, again, you could have asked Yuhal, and by pressing for a decision, you could have put pressure on him.

Despite that, Meer didn't do it.

"You mean you're absolutely confident in your offer..."

"No, I don't think so, Father"

A sudden voice, at the same time two daughters appeared.

"Asha, Ranya......"

"Excuse me, sir."

To my two daughters' pretentious visit...... well, no surprise.

Somehow... I felt like I was coming to talk to you.

"Father, may I have a moment, please?

"Right...... I had something to tell you too..."

Yuhal bowed his head deeply when he invited his daughters into the room….

"I'm sorry...... I didn't tell you about the treaty with the Empire."

A treaty between Perugia and Tiermoon, which was concluded at the beginning of this country.

Originally, the Peruvian farming nation was born in response to the interest of the Tiermoon Empire in the fertile trimester zone.

The hunting peoples who occupied the fertile trimester zone and the peasants who were invaded and denigrated by the serfs. It was the Peruvian farming country that the peasants who escaped the hands of the Empire moved to the South and created.

Either way, the founding fathers of Perugia, who thought that the land must also be swallowed up by the Empire, strike the lead and hold a deal that is in the Empire.

He wants us to acknowledge the survival of our country because we will plow this land and make a certain amount of wheat for the Empire, ….

The first emperor of the Empire heard the wish.

Yuhal doesn't know what thoughts there were. Even if I didn't do that, I should have swallowed it up right away and used it as a serf......

Nevertheless, Peru was guaranteed independence.

Since then, the Peruvian farming nation has continued to maintain its dignity as a nation by relying on and subordinating itself to the Empire. Without letting them live and kill, the Empire continued to exploit Perugian produce at low prices......

It was that in Peruvian only the royalty and some knew.

Because if there is an increase in resentment towards the Empire and even if there is a clash, the Peruvian will end. If the Empire cares about it, they easily invade themselves and others.

The fear was particularly strong among those who were chased through the fertile Three Moon Zone.

Give the Empire a pretext to invade and he will be corrupted by the serfs. In order not to do so, we have to manage, to the best of our ability, not to buy the wrath of the Empire.

The kings of history demanded that the art of getting out of poverty be not "a treaty amendment with the Empire," but "an improvement in their agricultural skills".

Thus, the treaty of the beginning with the Empire became secret. Only the royal family and some were responsible for the annual price negotiations with the Empire, and the majority of the people had not revealed that figure.

It was the same for the two princesses, again. Yuhal was explaining to his daughters that he was good at the Empire, with the contents of the treaty.

He said it was an important opponent for industry….

On one side it was also true, and the Empire had bought up large quantities of produce other than wheat. In terms of agricultural products not tied to the treaty, the prices were also considerable… That is why the people's psychology of the empire was subtle.

"You will all be married to another country. That's what I've been thinking and trying not to tell you anything extra..."

To Yuhar's words, Asha shook her head small.

"Now, I'm not saying anything about that. So, what are you going to do?

"Well, what is it... na"

Indeed, if there is no more treaty with the Empire, most of the land will be available for use. There was a need for a policy of wholesale wheat that was now available to countries other than the Empire or create crops that were likely to be more gold.

"Instead of losing the wheat tie, you won't even be able to rely on the Imperial Army more than ever. We will be able to be richer, but armaments will need to be put in place to protect it"

Even if it is not exactly an armament comparable to that of the Empire, the extent to which it forces itself with other neighbouring countries will require troops. That's a natural way of thinking. but......,

"Do you have something to say?

Seeing a faint dissatisfaction in Ranya's face, Yuhar said.

Shortly after I said..., to my own words, Yuhal was surprised.

I asked my daughter for her opinions and so on... something he would never have thought he would have done before.

- You mean I'm also affected by Princess Meer...

But at the same time, I was interested.

The wisdom of that empire......, what the hell answers the daughters who were by the girl who would rock a country so far at just one supper......

Ranya also showed slight confusion as her father had changed, but she shook her head immediately before saying.

"I think that would be against the minds of our ancestors, who built this“ cake castle ”

What Ranya says was beautiful like a child.

A world without war that might come one day and a fairy tale of a castle that doesn't put war in perspective.

Only children can believe, dream stories.

Nonetheless, there was no stray whatsoever in that word.

The reason for this is well known to Yuhal today.

If it was the wisdom of the Empire, the expectation that even such a distant future would be accomplished made Ragna say it.

But what if... what if, as Ragna believes, such a world is truly feasible?

What is the right attitude to take as a Peruvian people?

"We are the ones who plow the earth and deliver food grace to the people. Shall we not abandon that pride?"

More seeping than that word is pride in Perugia.

An overwhelming pride in what the Peruvian people have done since they established their country in this land.

It was the light that Ragna put together.

That's the afterlight.

Ranya, who ascended the golden slope next to the Empire's wisdom, also seemed to be shining a light in his blindness with the glow of wisdom.

Yuhal, who saw it, opened his eyes to surprise......, the next moment, he smiled only slightly.

- Oh... you've grown...

After I crush it, I think again.

Both Lagna and Asha, as princesses of Perugia, are trying to do what they have to do with decency.

In that, I don't know what I should do...

"Did you know, Father? What did Mia tell you at the St. Noel School Induction Ceremony..."

To the reticent Yuhal, Ragna said.

What Meer showed during the admissions ceremony, the story of the Pancake Declaration......

"Do we help each other in times of famine? If anyone but Her Royal Highness Princess Meer says so, you're going to doubt your sanity..."

"I believe that Mia is a typographical person in every way."

Following Ragna, Asha spoke.

"Not only does he regard the people of his own country, but also the people of the continent, of other nations, as equally important. Meer, when you asked me to be your lecturer, I was going to say no. Nonetheless, I was talked to because I found out. What I was aiming for is not that the people of Perugia do not starve. That's a shortage..."

Straighten up, to Asha as she stares at this one, Yuhal breathes.

There was no hidden rebellion against my halfway father, there was no such thing as a daughter once... What was there was the appearance of a young researcher who had a major role to play.

"That day, Meer, the light you showed me…, the Pancake Manifesto feels exactly like what follows"

"Bread Cake Proclamation…, plus the need for those who tell you that it is cold resistant wheat…. Our agricultural country, the liberation of Perugia… a new walk…. I see..., I think Her Royal Highness Princess Meer has finally figured out what she wants from us. And maybe what you guys are trying to say..."

So Yuhal laughed happily.

That's not the usual humble grin. What a childish grin.

"I see, that's... interesting"

It may not make much sense to get on Meer's thoughts when she says she can be free from the empire because of it......

"No, we will be free. Then it is also foolish to be bound by the causes of the past. If so…, it is also a pleasure to ride the thoughts of Her Royal Highness Princess Meer…"

King Yuhar remembered the height of his heart, which he had not felt in a long time.

It feels like a child taunting the prank he felt in his childhood.

"Then Her Royal Highness Princess Meer could have done what she wanted..."

Ragna and Asha blinked at her father's appearance.