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

Chapter 75

75~ Problems~

"..."

Listening to the little Princess's steady breathing, the Empress didn't know what she was thinking.

She had already used Purification Magic to clean the bloodstains on the little Princess's body just now, so holding her at this moment wasn't disgusting. Even without Purification Magic, she would still hold the little Princess to find a place to wash her clean.

The Empress placed her on the bed and carefully toured the little Princess's former boudoir, that is, the bedchamber the little Princess lived in before going to Scarlet Phoenix Nation and being placed under house arrest by her.

It was somewhat different from what she imagined. She thought a room like the little Princess's would be filled with books, with the desk covered in a large number of filled notebooks. But in reality, there were no bookshelves here. What was on the desk were just some things for drawing and playing.

After touring the bedchamber, the Empress looked at the sky, used magic to condense a magic messenger pigeon for sending messages, casually picked up a piece of paper to carefully write down the content, tied it to the pigeon's foot and threw it out. Then the Empress locked the door, took off her clothes and casually hung them beside the bed.

After also helping the little Princess remove her clothes, she embraced the little Princess and closed her eyes.

Today the little Princess was truly exhausted. She'd probably need a long time to wake up. Since that was the case, then she'd also sleep here for a bit.

As for the army outside, she had already notified them how to arrange things via flying messenger pigeon. They could directly garrison nearby. Glaze City's garrison wouldn't be on guard against Scarlet Phoenix Nation's army anymore.

After all, their temporary Acting King, Her Highness the Princess, had already spoken, having someone come over to relay the message to let Scarlet Phoenix Nation's army garrison freely.

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"Mm mm..."

The little Princess clamped her legs together, tightly hugging the thing in her arms. After a tremor, she woke with a start from her dream.

Had she been so tired she fell asleep?

The little Princess opened her eyes and discovered she had actually returned to Glaze Nation's bedchamber. It was simply like a dream...

Then she shifted her position slightly and discovered behind her was a familiar breathing sound and touch...

This was really seeing ghosts. This was clearly a nightmare. Why hadn't she woken from the nightmare yet?

"Mo? You're awake?"

Not listening, not listening, the turtle chants scriptures. As long as she didn't respond and continued sleeping, then all of this was just a dream.

The Empress extended her hand toward her waist. Before long, the little Princess couldn't help but start begging for mercy...

"Since you're awake, go finish the remaining matters."

The little Princess's face was pulled and pulled. Only after playing enough did she let go.

Glaze Nation had just experienced a major upheaval. First was Scarlet Phoenix Nation's invasion. After fighting South Palace City and withdrawing troops, it had already lost a large amount of economy. After that came this incident of the King being attacked. Glaze Nation really couldn't withstand any more turmoil. If it continued being tormented, it would truly be gone.

Setting aside that the heirs were already less than half of what they originally were, the current situation was that the heirs with some ability had already been eliminated. There were no more heirs to torment...

The little Princess sighed helplessly.

Glaze Nation's royal family being infiltrated was one reason. If the royal family hadn't been infiltrated, probably today's situation wouldn't have occurred, right?

She had thought about it. If she hadn't been placed under house arrest over there by the Empress, would things like today still happen?

The answer was affirmative. Regardless of whether she was placed under house arrest in Scarlet Phoenix Nation or not, this kind of thing would definitely happen. It was just that after she was placed under house arrest, there was nothing that could restrain the other heirs, which accelerated this process...

The royal family was infiltrated. Aside from her and a few others, probably all had colluded with other nations to divide the spoils after becoming King.

However, none of that mattered now. She estimated the royal family members who could be valued and colluded with were basically gone. Now the remaining royal family members, aside from herself, were the First Princess, Second Princess, Fourth Prince, Sixth Prince, Seventh Prince, and Ninth Prince.

Originally thirteen royal family members with the right to inherit the throne were sharply reduced to the current five. Then she still had to subtract herself, because she had never planned to become this King.

You ask why it's five? That's of course because a certain wild monkey had already been treated as an abandoned piece...

"Troublesome..."

After counting the remaining heads among royal family members, the little Princess had a headache. If she calculated this way, when her Father the King abdicated, there would be no qualified candidates...

Seventh Prince and Ninth Prince were minors. Even the Ninth Prince's age was several years younger than hers. This one could be cultivated. Children had to be raised from childhood! It just required a bit more time. When inheriting the throne, there might not be much time to adapt...

As for the Seventh Prince, although he was mediocre and was also cultivated from childhood, the problem was he was a bit cowardly. He wasn't decisive enough in doing things. There was always a feeling of being timid and hesitant. Even if he became King, he probably wouldn't have much influence. He might even be controlled tightly by certain old foxes...

Forget about the Sixth Prince. He had already become a wheelchair person in the internal strife. As for the Princesses, they weren't under consideration for now.

The reason Scarlet Phoenix Nation's Empress could become Empress wasn't just because she had sufficient strength, but also because of her decisive character in killing and a clear head. Not one of Glaze Nation's Princesses met the conditions.

Xiao Xi still hadn't been found back. She didn't know where she was hiding. Clearly, this side had already successfully driven that beast off the throne, yet she still hadn't returned. There wasn't even a bit of news.

If she was in other cities, she'd probably still have to wait. In this world where communication methods were backward, information exchange between cities took at least two or three days. For distant places, sometimes it was even over a week.

"Has Mo thought about what to do?"

"Not yet..."

The little Princess said somewhat dejectedly.

She discovered she had absolutely no talent whatsoever in being King. In just this short period, she had already encountered three problems. And if it weren't for the Empress beside her guiding her, she'd probably make even more mistakes.

"Tsk tsk tsk... if your Royal Brother continued being Acting King for a few more days, this country might have become completely chaotic."

The Empress said, looking at the government affairs piled up like a mountain.

There was no specialized agency to handle unimportant government affairs when the King was unavailable. Moreover, they hadn't been processed for a while. Weren't they afraid things wouldn't operate?

Generally speaking, Glaze Nation didn't have a particularly complete operational mechanism. She didn't know why. The little Princess clearly had the ability but didn't make changes in her own country.

The suggestions she gave could improve Scarlet Phoenix Nation quite well, but in her home country, she was very conservative, only implementing them in some regions.

Regarding this question, the little Princess could only answer that her authority wasn't great enough. Moreover, things applied to Scarlet Phoenix Nation couldn't be applied to Glaze Nation. National conditions had to be considered.

Wanting to do these things without resolving Glaze Nation's internal division contradictions was like wanting to run before recovering and standing steady.

"I see..."

The Empress thought carefully and discovered it was indeed so. Glaze Nation's national conditions weren't suitable for adopting too radical reform methods like Scarlet Phoenix Nation. It could only be like slowly boiling a frog in warm water, gradually proceeding from points to areas, establishing reform pilot points to connect into a line, then expanding into areas, gradually advancing development.