Chapter 165
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The Next Day, there was a furore in the political circles of North-frontier Town after the verdict of King Lionheart .
Ambassador Luke sighed as he heard about the decision of King Lionheart . He thought, ’I guess there will be big developnts now that King has personally decided to act against the North-frontier Town . It seems his hate for Lukavv is greater than what I expected . I hope we can pass through this storm calmly . ’
Bishop Robert thought and spoke, "I wonder what pissed Lionheart off so much that he decided to act against Count John this early . or is there sothing which I am missing?"
His subordinate spoke, "I guess he is just being too greedy and looking at that Count as a rabbit ready to eaten anyti as he has no power on land . "
Robert nodded and spoke, "I wonder who is the rabbit . But one thing is for sure, this count has managed to anger a lot of people in a short ti . I hope this done with already . Anyway, we will be leaving this town . I just got news from headquarters that there will be big battles as rcenaries would be invading this town in a month . "
Both of them headed inside and made preparations for leaving the City .
Taylor reported the current developnts which took place in the Imperial Capital where they were targeted by King Lionheart .
Hearing this John called for an imdiate eting to all the officials in North-frontier City .
In the afternoon,
There was a eting between all the ministers in the North-frontier domain .
John smiled as he heard the news and comnted in front of everyone . "It seems King Lionheart was quite impatient as he has decided to target us already . It was expected, I guess he may be anxious as we have bought a lot of food from the market at premium prices so that we don’t suffer because of increased migration . "
Taylor too added his hypothesis after the verdict, "Yes, from the looks of it, he may be waiting to make his move against us when we are in a crisis and have a shortage of food . However, he may have gotten anxious about our eting with Elves and our ridiculous spending on food from other domains . However, we are well-equipped these days when it cos to agro-managent . So there are no worries on that sector . "
One of the agro-managent ministers nad Wilson spoke after taking the signal from Taylor, He was personally trained by Taylor to reduce his burden, He gave his report to everyone present, "Well, they are in for a surprise if they think we will be in a food crisis . Our harvest this ti itself was more than 7 tis compared to the usual Harvest . We saved a lot of food in managent and transport while at the sa ti we had a huge growth in the harvest because of using fertilizers and other techniques proposed by Lord . The villagers are quite happy this ti around because of the harvest and the quality of food we grew this ti around . Watching these results, a lot of other farrs who were skeptical previously have also started using the sa techniques used by others . The techniques penetration this ti around is 100 percent this ti around after the harvest . Knowing our dilemma I have taken Food managent very seriously so that not a single grain goes wasted . "
John nodded as he agreed and congratulated him, "Good work Wilson . From now on always keep more attention to the managent of food as most of the food will be lost in transportation and preservation . You have already heard of the preservation techniques, right?"
Wilson Nodded . "Yes Milord, we have already started our work on it . For Long term storage, we have started using preservatives so there is no problem in that departnt as well . Currently, we have started supporting the Animal Husbandary Industry as people can earn extra pay in it while we will have more supplies of food . "
John nodded in agreent as he was impressed by the initiatives taken by Wilson in Agro-managent .
John later turned to Glenn and spoke with a cunning smile, "Glenn, from now on we will start speaking out against the royal family in our newspapers . First, we will target all the previous injustices that people have suffered previously, You know about professor William, right? We will publish his works first this ti around and also publish the book of professor Hague which was previously banned by the Imperial University . I will also be announcing that all the slaves in my domain will be freed in 2 years . This will be our attack against the Royal family this ti around . While this will also increase the morale of slaves because of our public announcent . I hope to remove the resentnt that the slaves will have against us because we purchased them . Yes, we will also start to make hit pieces on Prince Hector every day on his antics . We will make him a laughing stock . "
Glenn was surprised after hearing John and spoke, "Lord, wouldn’t this make us straight enemies of the Royal Family? I think it would be quite radical if we claim to free the slaves after 2 years and even if we are to free them after 2 years why don’t we do it discreetly where no one bats an eye . Not a single Lord has claid to free all of their slaves publicly over 100 years in the domain of Aelius Kingdom . Those who claid publicly were silenced imdiately by the parties whose interests were hard . And it was mostly done by the rcenaries funded by Aristocrats . This ti even the rcenary groups who are not funded by the Aristocrats would see this as an attack on their interests . "
Even Taylor, Tornwall and co were quite surprised by John’s proclamation as this was an attack on most of the aristocrats of the kingdom .
Sally smiled after hearing John and was the one who spoke now, "It seems you have made your decision now . "
John had eyes that were filled with resolve as he spoke with a grave tone, "Yes, I won’t be taking back my decision even if the king himself is present here with his whole army . You see I never liked the practice of slave trading from my childhood . This may be my first-ti publicly proclaiming my opinions on Slave trade but this ti we are prepared to fight them since they have touched my bottom line . And I am soone who is not a pushover . Do they think I am of Lorr family who will submit so easily? Since they decided to target and my people then they should be prepared for a bitter battle against . I am soone who rembers his grudges and would finish my enemies so that they can’t attack or dare to attack in the future . They want a piece of North-frontier town, they better be prepared to lose a piece as well . "
Sally was quite surprised after watching the resolve of John and understood that he won’t be taking back his decision .
Sally sighed and spoke, "Before you announce I want to reveal sothing or it might affect you guys . "
She continued, "I am actually the daughter of King Lionheart but I am an Illegitimate daughter born out of circumstances so this might affect you . I think I should leave or else the Royal family might use my kidnapping as a pretext to attack you guys . "
John smiled as heard her, "I expected your background to be sothing of this sort . You don’t need to worry . Even if you were not present, they might find another pretext to attack us . So you can remain or leave as you wish . "
Sally murmured, "Both of you are stubborn . I guess you more stubborn than him . I guess you are prepared for a big war . "
Eva was quite surprised today after hearing these many shocking things in a single day .
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