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

Chapter 332

332~ A Joke?

"This... can it really be done?"

Could they really abolish the original system and establish a system with more centralized royal power?

"Yes, it can."

Gong was still hesitating. The Little Princess directly affirmed.

Because the current system was established by the previous king. From the nation's founding, it had been used continuously until now without any major changes. Yet his precious daughter came up and said she wanted to overhaul the system, abolish the three National Advisors, directly subdivide and delegate this power into Six Bureaus, then on this foundation establish three departments respectively responsible for drafting, reviewing, and executing the king's edicts, called the Three Palaces and Six Bureaus (actually just the Three Departments and Six Ministries).

Like this, not only could they disperse the three National Advisors' great power, allowing royal authority to tower above all, but it would also be more convenient to manage. During court, only the Six Bureaus' people needed to attend. Other not very important matters could be directly handled through memorials. Time and effort saved, plus it could avoid mistakes caused by individuals during decision-making.

"Mm... the system is indeed a good system."

After careful thought, he discovered that this brand new system his precious daughter proposed was indeed much better than the system the previous king established when founding the nation!

When Glaze Nation was founded, some parts of the system were very unreasonable. After two generations of kings improved it, then experienced several more generations of kings' sloppy modifications, all the way to his generation, this system had already been modified seven times. Among these seven modifications, most developed the system in a bad direction.

And now his precious daughter suddenly proposed directly overthrowing the previous system rather than modifying it. This made him hesitate.

Although this system looked very excellent, when truly implementing it, could it operate stably?

Overthrowing the previous system to establish a new system framework wasn't like previously modifying policies or promulgating policies, those small-scale actions. It concerned the entire nation's future fate!

Like previously modifying laws, changing policies, promulgating new policies, those could still partition an area for the Little Princess to test first. After effects manifested, then consider whether to implement it. But this system modification was different. There was only one chance to make mistakes! Once an error occurred, then the entire nation would inevitably produce certain turbulence!

The royal family proactively changing the system framework itself was extremely rare. Precedents could be said to be almost nonexistent. There fundamentally wasn't a reference example!

"Then if I plan to abolish the original system to make changes, do you have a way to change it?"

Even if he wanted to change, those National Advisors wouldn't agree to him messing around like this, right? After all, this was the system established by the previous king and used continuously until now.

He could already imagine how those three National Advisors would stop him. They'd definitely use words like how tradition couldn't be broken to stop him, even using their own power to resist royal authority, right?

"The matter Father the King worries about, I've naturally already considered. We only need to prioritize establishing institutions and slowly transfer power."

As long as they first established the Three Palaces and acted first before reporting, even if the three National Advisors wanted to say something later, it would already be too late. At most, they'd protest a bit, then create some small disturbances, then just wait for slow death.

She believed that as long as the Three Palaces were established and the three National Advisors' power was slowly transferred, they'd have no options left. After all, the king hadn't explicitly said he'd abolish the system, only conducting a power transition. Even if they wanted to stop it, they wouldn't know how to stop it, right?

The institution the king established, even if it had no use, would you dare casually abolish it? You wouldn't dare, right? If you don't dare, then that's correct!

"Act first and report later?"

Good idea! Worthy of being his precious daughter!

Previously, acting first and reporting later would only appear among ministers or officials below. To prevent superiors from not allowing them to do certain things or certain behaviors, they'd do the matter first before reporting upward.

And now, to prevent those three National Advisors from stopping her, they'd directly also use the tactic of acting first and reporting later. And because he was the king, after acting first and reporting later, he fundamentally didn't need to listen to the National Advisors' opinions to abolish already established institutions. This was the benefit of being king and acting first before reporting.

"Then, shall we implement it?"

She'd already given the suggestion. As long as her Father the King implemented it, then the Three Palaces, these three institutions, would be stable. No one could abolish these three institutions. After these three institutions were established, establishing the Six Bureaus would also be simple. They only needed the king's single order to abolish the original multiple departments and change them to Six Bureaus.

"Mm, then let's go with Mo's suggestion."

With his precious daughter's suggestion, he already had confidence in his heart.

Since his precious daughter had already touched the interests of all beneficiaries on that trade line, then eliminate them all!

However, after this, if he wanted to suppress grain prices on the market, it would be somewhat difficult. Whether commoners or merchants, he couldn't offend either side!

"Then just directly cooperate with merchants. Reach cooperation with the largest grain supplier using absolutely enticing conditions."

Have the currently largest grain supplier within Glaze Nation's borders cooperate with the Glaze Royal Family. Give sufficient benefits to have them fix grain prices within a reasonable range, and no matter what, the increase margin must not exceed a certain degree.

"Can this really work?"

"Of course it can."

On Scarlet Phoenix Nation's side, the royal family directly interfered with the market, forcibly controlling grain prices at fixed prices. No matter the situation or time, grain always maintained a stable price.

On Glaze Nation's side, to achieve the same effect, the Glaze Royal Family could only reach cooperation with grain suppliers.

After all, the Glaze Royal Family wasn't like the Scarlet Royal Family, possessing absolute say domestically.

Although the Scarlet Royal Family only had the Empress alone, what kind of person was the Empress? That was the pinnacle of countless mages, a Great Archmage, and also the continent's number one strongest. She could completely destroy an entire nation with one person's power! Plus adding Cecilia, this Great Archmage, two Great Archmages' combined military deterrence, who still had the guts to teach the Empress what to do?

Completely the bearing of "Above heaven and earth, I alone am supreme."

"In short... Father the King, you should first establish the Three Palaces. As for what to continue doing afterward, let me properly consider it first. After I've thought it through, I'll properly explore it with you."

"Alright."

He approved of this matter!

Anyway, his precious daughter couldn't possibly harm him. What did he have to fear?

"Then I'll withdraw first."

Saying this, the Little Princess performed royal etiquette toward her cheap Father the King, then... because she'd sat too long and her legs were numb, she summoned Maid Xiao Xi to carry her away.

"Sigh..."

Sometimes she truly felt fortunate the Little Princess was her daughter. That outstanding ability was completely what a king must possess. At such a young age, she already had the appearance of a qualified king. This made him quite gratified.

Simultaneously, he also felt somewhat sorry toward his precious daughter.

Clearly, his precious daughter at this age should be carefree. Other children this age were still studying in school. Even the other princes and princesses in the Glaze Royal Family, before growing to 22 years old, were still receiving systematic education, only receiving royal tutors' education in the palace.

And what about his precious daughter? At 12 years old, she was already forced to break away from royal education and directly participate in politics, prematurely contacting this cruel world...

"Actually... sometimes not working so hard is also fine..."

In his eyes, his precious daughter was a princess who worked very hard for Glaze Nation, very competent, but matured too early. Every day, she pondered how to improve Glaze Nation's current situation, then also thought about inventing some things convenient and beneficial to the people.

Even for Glaze Nation's sake, she offered herself up. The first time stepping into another nation was also to better conditions for Glaze Nation, avoiding Glaze Nation's destruction.

"You've truly worked hard, Mo..."

This could also be considered fulfilling the Little Princess's... wish, right?

......

"Princess... have you gotten a bit plumper recently?"

"You're the fat one! Your whole family is fat!"

The Little Princess cursed loudly.

Saying her flesh had firmed up a bit, she could accept. But saying she'd gotten fat was absolutely unacceptable!

"Then how does Princess hope I express it?"

"Can't you say I've gotten more robust?"

"Uh..."

Maid Xiao Xi silently glanced at her, somewhat speechless.

Princess was clearly so thin. Getting a bit plumper was still a good thing! How come her Princess so disliked people saying she was fat?

Perhaps it was her Princess's certain beauty-loving heart at work?

Clearly, she hadn't cared about her figure this much before. She always said living was good enough, living was good enough. How come now she paid such attention to her figure?

Thinking it over, she didn't know what the reason was.

"I still think you look better with some flesh. Now that you've gained some flesh, your physique is much fuller than before~"

Little Princess: "......"

Not knowing if she was somewhat shy from being praised, a rosy glow appeared on her face. A faint blush emerged on her face, making her already exquisite face even more alluring.

If she weren't the Little Princess's personal maid but rather a princess or empress of some nation, she probably would've already proposed to her Princess, right?

"Princess..."

"What?"

"Actually, you've always been very cute! If not for our statuses being mismatched and unable to be together, I'd want to confess to you."

Maid Xiao Xi said as if joking.

Hearing this, the Little Princess's head went "bang" and transformed into a steam princess. Quite a bit of steam emerged from her head. At this moment, she'd already been made to blush to the extreme.

"This... that... you... I..."

She was already somewhat incoherent, not knowing what to say.

"I'm just teasing you... Princess."

"You dare say such words recklessly!? Aren't you afraid Father the King will blame you and execute your nine generations?"

"Princess, you really love joking. Where would I get nine generations from?"

She herself was a child picked up by the Glaze Royal Family. Where would she have nine generations from?

Then... the two awkwardly stared at each other for quite a while, already not knowing what topic to bring up to cover the awkwardness. Both sides could see the awkwardness in each other's eyes was about to overflow.

"Sigh... don't make this kind of joke again next time!"

"As you command! My Princess~"