After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 213

213~ The Little Princess's Doubts~

"So I don't recommend you suppress commercial development."

Once commercial development was suppressed, economic exchanges throughout Scarlet Phoenix Nation would decrease, leading to imbalanced economic development. Long-term development would definitely form a new class—landlords.

As a little Princess reincarnated from modern times, she deeply understood how great the harm of this thing was.

By then, it wouldn't just be the "landlord class" emerging over time. It would also breed bureaucracy.

Although this was one of the normal developmental processes of feudal society, if it was the Empress, she still tried her best not to let Scarlet Phoenix Nation walk this path.

Emphasizing agriculture while suppressing commerce could certainly quickly strengthen Scarlet Phoenix Nation, but for future development, this wasn't friendly.

After listening to the little Princess's explanation, the Empress carefully thought it over and discovered what the little Princess said indeed made sense.

"As expected, Mo is my lucky star."

If it weren't for Mo's proposal, perhaps she would have truly implemented the "emphasizing agriculture while suppressing commerce" policy?

"Then, how should Scarlet Phoenix Nation develop next?"

"Agriculture and commerce in parallel. Don't crack down and don't support. Right now, it's best to let nature take its course. Don't strongly interfere with people's livelihoods. At this stage, letting nature take its course is best."

"Why is this again?"

"Rest and recuperation. Scarlet Phoenix Nation just experienced war. Even if it didn't affect Scarlet Phoenix Nation's cities, as citizens of Scarlet Phoenix Nation, didn't the common people also contribute high fees as taxes together in this war?"

The Empress nodded.

On this point, the little Princess was indeed quite right.

Because war required massive financial expenditures, she had raised taxes considerably. This also brought quite a burden to the poorer common people.

But because it was her decision, the entire nation strongly agreed. Even if families were extremely poor, they would basically pay taxes on time.

Although after the war ended, she immediately lowered taxes to an even lower level than before, some portion of those poor common people still fell to the point of having no food to eat. They could only eat the grain specially prepared for those beggars who truly couldn't get food.

"Natural recovery..."

The current Scarlet Phoenix Nation was also just as the little Princess said. No matter how powerful, after experiencing a war, it still needed a certain amount of time to rest.

Perhaps Scarlet Phoenix Nation really should properly adjust for several years, or even decades, before it could completely stabilize.

The current Scarlet Phoenix Nation couldn't compare to before. Its territorial scope was much larger than before, and it was still continuously expanding. Such massive territory naturally required more energy to reorganize.

And those newly incorporated places also needed development.

"Good, then let's do as Mo says."

The Empress once again placed the little Princess in her embrace, holding her tightly, her two hands continuously stroking.

"I say... since I've finished proposing my suggestions, you should also fulfill your promise, right?"

"Of course."

As Scarlet Phoenix Nation's Empress, she naturally wouldn't deceive the little Princess.

"Then every year in June and December, I permit Mo to return to Glaze Nation. How about that? As for the time, we'll allocate it according to the actual situation."

"As for the other condition Mo mentioned, I can also agree, but it won't be realized now."

She needed some time to prepare. Otherwise, if the little Princess blamed all the problems on her later, it would be troublesome.

She really didn't want the relationship between herself and the little Princess to return to that previous freezing point. She wanted a lively little Princess, not the lifeless kind.

Lifeless, completely without a bit of vitality, wouldn't that be no different from a doll?

The desire to control the little Princess couldn't be this strong...

"Still need time to consider?"

Seeming somewhat dissatisfied with the Empress's reply, the little Princess slightly pouted.

"Mm, because it's too dangerous. I can't let Mo mess around without any life guarantee."

"..."

Actually, to put it bluntly, she just wanted to stall her a bit, so she herself had enough time to figure out what she wanted.

"I'm worried about Mo's safety. Don't worry. As long as it's confirmed there's no danger, I can personally send Mo over."

Of course, while sending her over, she could also send her back.

"I feel that with Xiao Bai here, the safety issue Fei is worried about fundamentally isn't an issue."

Xiao Bai, as a Divine Beast under Xuan's command, although the Divine Power contained in her body couldn't compare with true deities, she also had power that humans in this world absolutely couldn't resist.

It could be said that as long as no other deities interfered, Xiao Bai was in an absolutely invincible state. Of course, that was also under the condition of not having her restraints.

"It's about time to sleep, Mo."

"Mm..."

She had just chatted with the Empress about Scarlet Phoenix Nation's future development issues. One chat lasted a full nearly one hour. After this hour passed, it had long exceeded her usual sleeping time.

You had to know she usually would sleep nearly half an hour earlier than this time.

Right now she still had energy because what she discussed with the Empress was extremely important. No matter what, she wanted to realize it. As long as she passed the Empress's hurdle, then nothing ahead could obstruct her.

If before it was because the Empress, as a Great Archmage, still couldn't truly create a close connection between two different timelines, or even let people from another timeline truly live in the timeline where she was, then now this problem had been resolved.

Xiao Bai was the best solution.

As long as Xiao Bai forcibly opened a permanent backdoor passage between the two timelines, that Ye Zixin could also properly reunite with her!

As a mortal, the Empress didn't have that ability. Then as a Divine Beast under a deity's command, she should have this ability, right?

The Empress, as a Great Archmage, could already possess the ability to cross time and space. Then what about deities?

The little Princess began getting somewhat curious. If those deities could also achieve this degree, or even arbitrarily interfere with different timelines...

She somewhat didn't dare continue thinking.

If she continued thinking this way, wouldn't it be chaos? Deities from other timelines coming to interfere with this timeline, while the deities living in the Age of Gods that Xuan mentioned also coming to interfere with the current timeline...

No, something must be wrong with one of these links. If it really were like this, where would deities still need to slumber?

There absolutely had to be some restriction in this. For example, perhaps deities couldn't arbitrarily interfere with timelines?

But then why did the Empress have the ability to interfere with different timelines? If it was because of Forbidden Magic, those deities who had already lived for who knows how many years should also know how to use it, right?

Which link exactly had the problem in this?