Utopia

The result was just as Tulo thought. The corrupt nobles who were addicted to wine and sex were no match for the common people. And when the contract expired a month later, Tulo felt helpless watching the burning Principality of Akern.

Even if Grand Duke Sidney became a prisoner, the chaos in the Principality of Akern could not be easily suppressed.

"Oh?"

"Grand Duke Sidney..."

"Your Majesty, I am just a prisoner, not a noble, let alone an influential person."

At the same time, knowing that things were getting worse and even difficult to deal with, Emperor Tony had to come to the cell and visit Sidney Akern.

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"Sidney, is this what you want to happen?"

"Your Majesty, what does this have to do with you? What does it have to do with me?"

"Sidney, do you really want your principality to become like the empire a hundred years ago?"

The Kahn Empire a hundred years ago, this is a very embarrassing thing for Tony van Kahn.

Because the Kahn Empire a hundred years ago was a chaotic place with "demons dancing", "bandits everywhere", and "wailing constantly". Although he has always hoped to reunify the empire; but...

"This is not a problem for me alone. If you find it difficult, you can poison my food."

"Hmm..."

If Sidney could be killed, would Emperor Tony still need to put him in jail? Wouldn't it be enough to have someone chop off his head and send it over for examination?

The problem is that once Sidney dies, the situation in the Principality of Akern will become even more chaotic. After all, no force in the Principality of Akern has publicly established a new Grand Duke, and still recognizes the Duke and Lord status of Sidney's family.

Strictly speaking, the current riot is just an armed attack launched by civilians. If the temporary Duke who used to act in the past is cruel enough, he can directly mobilize the army to clean up every household.

However, everyone is not stupid. The consequences of such a cleansing will often lead to a more serious civil war, a massacre-style civil war initiated by civilians and specifically targeting nobles.

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister is coming."

"Let him come."

At this time, led by a guard knight, the Prime Minister of the Kahn Empire, Mura Barnabalite, came to the prison with a solemn face. Seeing his expression, Sidney not only couldn't help but smile, but also began to laugh quietly.

"Sidney Aken, I... I..."

"Did something happen at the Noble Academy? Prime Minister, among the students you drove away, there was a blacksmith's child."

"Did you do it on purpose?"

"On purpose? I sent all the students who knew how to forge iron to the academy! It's you who didn't take the initiative to cherish them and offended them! To be honest, what are nobles? Do you know? The common people below pay you money and taxes not for you to squander, but for you, a noble, to stand up when disaster strikes and help these lonely people. The people of Ding came out to shelter from the wind and rain! What was the result? "

"I... I admit that I didn't know about this in advance and didn't expect it. The teachers and students in the academy... um..."

"Prime Minister, the academy of nobles, I know, isn't it a place where a group of nobles gather together to study? Such a place shouldn't have ordinary people. But what did your ancestors do? The ancestors of the Barnabalite family were serfs who specialized in growing grass to provide livestock feed! As for me, the ancestors of the Aken family were salt workers!"

Speaking of this, Sidney himself was very emotional. Except for the royal family, almost all the nobles in the Kahn Empire started from the bottom. After time and many meritorious performances, they began to become nobles as knights.

Of course, as a descendant of a fisherman, the reason why Sidney's family came up with the idea of ​​using salt to replace the original gold, silver and copper currency is actually related to the fact that the ancestors often made salted fish from the fish they caught.

After all, the production of salted fish requires a lot of salt, and until now, every household in the Principality of Akern has salted fish just in case. However, compared with the previous practice of pickling and preservation just to prevent food from spoiling, the salted fish now began to be mass-produced by smoking under the influence of the dark elves to extend its shelf life.

As a result, according to what he knows now, even the cooks in the army actually prepare salted fish. When the war starts, the cooks simply make a pot of salted fish soup.

Needless to say, it tastes good, anyway, it is very happy to have a bite to eat during the war.

Obviously, Sidney, the overlord of the Eastern human kingdom of the Old Continent, the Iron Fist Empire, did not realize the importance of diet.

An important reason why the Iron Fist Empire army in the Old Continent can fight and dominate the human kingdom of the Old Continent is the high quality of food. As a result, the well-fed Iron Fist Empire army beat other human countries to their knees and surrender and voluntarily become vassal states, and killed the demon forces in the eastern part of the Old Continent to almost extinction.

As a result, the Jingnan Federal Republic, the Orchid Republic, the Negan Kingdom, and the Rimei Empire, which were culturally influenced by the Iron Fist Empire, all strictly required the quality of the cooks in their troops.

Just like Her Royal Highness the Princess of Negan Kingdom, Laiting Jiaqi, who is currently in the military academy. If nothing else, she is a strong woman in her own right. In addition to his father, His Royal Highness the King of Negan, Aoba Gru has killed elite demon warriors and generals of the human kingdom, and his sword skills are top-notch.

Being a cook is definitely the best fit for her, although in a certain aspect, it is actually a waste.

However, such waste is a good thing for her classmates. Especially when facing the enemy, her classmates and instructors were able to fight one against ten.

"Those are all things in the past. If the matter is not resolved in a more peaceful and gentle way now, the principality of Aiken will..."

"Let me go back?"

"Well……"

"It's impossible even if you think about it. Prime Minister Mulla and His Majesty, isn't your goal to find a way to swallow up the entire Principality of Aiken? But do you think you can do this? Just a person handed over to the Ascetic Church I will not pay the piety tax like my elder brother. I absolutely do not believe in the way to pay the piety tax, and I even have great doubts about it! , the Ascetic Church is blatantly deceiving all the citizens of the Kahn Empire!”

"this……"

"Tell me who wants to destroy the Principality of Aiken. Otherwise, you won't know anything useful from me."

By now, Sidney had already lost confidence that he could get out of prison alive. He had to plan carefully what he should do...