Chapter 57: The Struggle for Numbers

March 25, 140 New Calendar, Bluestone Palace. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Myer, it is your own business to have as many wives as you marry, but as your father, I need to remind you of one thing - you are the king of this country, and your every move will affect the whole country."

Little Bird's plan went well, and it took her less than three days to achieve her goal, and there were no more princesses in the entire side hall who were hostile to her. Although according to her plan, it will take at least half a month to achieve the original goal, but she is not surprised by this result.

On the night of March 15, Ulris, who was still jealous of the flower basket incident, was very uneasy. Because Maier took Lingyu to the office directly after the dinner, with a woman's intuition, she noticed Lingyu's strange eyes looking at Maier at the dinner table. So after the dinner was over, she was uneasy and took Yishan's hand to prevent her from leaving.

Ulis felt that something was going to happen tonight, and coincidentally, Yishan felt the same way. But this time the two did not rely on a woman's intuition, just Maier and another woman were alone in an enclosed space, and the other was a woman who looked at Maier with eyes hot enough to melt steel, and the time was still at night, and it was strange that the two were not worried.

In fact, the other princesses also felt strange and were a little worried, but they didn't show it. Coupled with the fact that Euris and Yishan had already taken action, they could pretend to be calm and return to the side hall to watch the changes.

Euris and Yishan were delayed by discussing the excuse of going to the office, so when they knocked on the door, Maier was overwhelmed by Lingyu's hug. When they knocked on the door and received no response, they immediately pushed the door open, and then they saw the scene they least wanted to see.

Lingyu is the great witch of the new-style shrine, and the influence of the new-style shrine in the country is undoubted, so Lingyu has a high reputation in the country. She was an unmarried woman, and Maier already had many wives, so it seemed to others that there was nothing wrong with marrying one or two more. If she intends to marry into the Byronic family, she will definitely be supported by the people.

With Maier's character, he couldn't go against the will of the people, so he would definitely marry Lingyu. Moreover, marrying Lingyu is not a loss-making deal, and it can directly enhance Maier's control over the new shrine. Lingyu is beautiful and has a good figure, and he will definitely not suffer a loss if he marries home.

Yishan was about to blow up when she saw this scene, but she quickly endured it. She did this not because she had become mature, but because she knew that she didn't have the capital to blow up her hair, and if she wanted to blow her hair, she had to let Euris come first. Euris almost blew up, but fortunately she retained some sanity, knowing that there were outsiders here, and frying her here would definitely make it very difficult for Mel, so she didn't blow up.

But no matter what, Lingyu seduced their husbands, and this beam is over. In the past, Leah, who received the flower basket made by Maier, and later, there was the spirit feather who seduced Maier at night, and the bird caught in the middle was easily ignored by the two. Thanks to Lingyu, the little bird achieved her goal without much tongue.

Just as Euris and Yishan were worried, Maier was only surprised for less than half an hour after learning about Lingyu's intentions, and then began to think about this issue very rationally. Marrying Lingyu is not harmful to Myer, the Byrens family, and the Byrens Kingdom, but if you don't marry, it will cause all kinds of problems. Anyway, Maier is already going to hold a wedding with four engaged partners, and since Lingyu has this heart, it is not a big deal for Maier, who is already "too many wives to be pressed", to marry her.

Since he has decided to marry Lingyu, it is not bad for the little bird who has been accepted by the side hall. On March 20th, Maier summoned Lingyu and Little Bird to his office to discuss their marriage. Myer's decision was already expected by the birdies, so she directly said that everything was arranged by Myer. Ling Yu was more panicked, you must know that she originally wanted to help Lan Xian and let Maier marry her, but now she has become Maier's wife, which easily gives people the feeling that Lingyu is using her position to rob a man.

Maier solemnly asked Lingyu whether she liked herself or not, Lingyu first shook her head in a panic, then nodded quickly, and finally shook her head, making Maier very helpless. He spent a long time talking to Lingyu and figuring out what she really thought. Lingyu felt that since Maier had married Xiaoniao, she wanted Maier to marry Lan Xian by the way, so that no one would gossip about her.

This annoyed Myer. He married Bird, partly because of an agreement on the side of the temple, and partly because Birdie had been with him for a long time, and she could have married Mel a few years ago, but she did not do so, but chose to join the army and continue to serve Mail. In Mayr's opinion, Bird sacrificed a lot for himself, and it was a reasonable reward for him to marry Birdie.

And Lan Xian is Lingyu's subordinate, although she is doing things for Maier, Maier has already given her enough rewards. Salary, status, honor, Mel gave her a lot. Besides, the relationship between Lan Xian and Maier was originally very dull, but because Maier gave her a sword, she began to think crankily, it was impossible for Maier to marry a woman because of this kind of thing.

Mel unceremoniously lectured to Lingyu, who shrunk his shoulders, bowed his head pitifully, and peeked at Maier from time to time with his pitiful big eyes, like a puppy being reprimanded when he made a mistake. This kind of posture is impossible for Lingyu to show on a daily basis, so this kind of performance brings a huge sense of contrast to Myer. He suddenly felt that Lingyu was quite cute, so he stopped preaching and touched her head comfortingly.

In this way, the marriage with the little bird and the spirit feather was decided. The date of the king's wedding has been announced, as has the time and number of weddings. Now that four weddings have become six, the order of weddings will also change. While Mel is busy preparing for the wedding, Gray summons him to his room, and the conversation at the beginning of the chapter begins.

Gray didn't want to meddle in Myer's family, but he had to. After the announcement of the new wedding, the people of Ilibi in the country were unhappy. After her marriage Mary had sixteen wives, of whom there were the Iraites, the Letines, the Tuchusus, the Tejonites, and the Elts, but not the Ilibis.

The Ilibians are monogamous, but that doesn't mean they're against polygamy. Mair was a native of Leitin, and he had the right to marry as many wives as he wanted, and he had plenty of Ilibi girls to choose from. Maier had already married sixteen princesses, including purely political marriages, and even then, it was a bit of a stretch to say that there were no Ilibians among his princesses.

On March 22, the country's Ilibi elected representatives, who privately approached Salin, who was most likely to marry the Byrens family at this stage, and hoped that his daughter would contribute to the race. Salin now has only two marriageable daughters, the twins, the older sister is named Roy and the younger sister is named Zoe, and both of them are afraid of life. Salin dotes on the twin daughters, they are nineteen years old this year, and they have long reached the age of marriage, but Salin has never found them a mother-in-law.

In addition to the twin daughters, Salin has two daughters, a ten-year-old and a three-year-old, both of whom are of marriageable age. Salin consulted with the delegates about whether he could wait another two years, when his ten-year-old daughter reached the age of twelve, and then marry the royal family. The delegates could not understand Sarin's decision, why did he have to wait two years for another daughter to marry Mel when he had a suitable daughter?

Salin explained that the twins are together in everything they do, and I'm afraid they won't even be separated when they get married. When the deputies heard this, they were even happier. If Salin had married both of the twins to Mel, there would have been two princesses of the Ilibians, one more than the princesses of the Taijon.

The Tairong people have always been superior to the Ilibi people in terms of population, and the south of the Byronic Kingdom is the Tayrong Kingdom, and every month there are Tairong people immigrating to the Byronic Kingdom. The most is three or five hundred, the least is one or two hundred, and there can be thousands of people in a year. The Ilibi Confederates did not have a direct border with the Kingdom of Byrons except for the Republic of Bukin. The Republic of Bujin itself faced a manpower problem, and it was impossible to emigrate to the Kingdom of Byron in large numbers.

The Ilibi people are very fertile and have a short adulthood, and if they are given time, the population will definitely increase. But the problem is that the people of Ilibi can have children, the people of Tairong can also have children, and there is a steady influx of immigrants, and immigrants can also have children. The number of Ilibi people in the country is too small, and the speed of immigration is slow, and the population cannot surpass the Tairong people in a short period of time.

The sense of inter-ethnic competition has kept the Ilibians in a constant state of wanting to surpass the Tayons in other ways. The Tayrong people don't want to be surpassed by the Ilibi people, so they can only redouble their efforts. In the same way, the Ira and the Letin people maintain a similar competitive relationship, and this healthy competition is a good thing for the country.

Competing for the number of princesses may seem naïve, but in fact it is not. The number of princesses can indeed show the king's attitude towards the race to a certain extent, and the number of princesses can also have a certain influence on the king's decision-making. If the king were to make a decree that might harm a certain race, the princesses of that race would intercede with the king, and the more princesses who interceded, the more likely the king would be relenting and might even revoke the decree outright.

Therefore, for the various clans of the Byronic Kingdom, it is reassuring that the women of their own clan can live in the side hall. The Tuchus were the least numerous of the major races in the kingdom of Byrons, but they did not have any sense of crisis about it. Because the side hall is inhabited by the two princesses of the ancient people, Euris and An Jie, with them, the king will not easily harm the interests of the ancient people.

Of course, if the Byrons family is an absolutely patriarchal family, and women don't even have the right to speak, no matter how many women of their own race live in the side hall, people of this race will not be at ease. It is precisely because the Byrons family gives people a sense of harmony between the male protagonist and the female protagonist, so the various ethnic groups will feel at ease because the women of their own clan live in the side hall.

Salin couldn't resist the pressure of the delegates, so he could only go to Gray for help. Gray felt that what the delegates said was very reasonable, so he enlightened Salin and said, "It's not a way for your twin daughters to never marry." Now that Maier has decided to marry six more princesses, it won't be much of a problem to marry two more. And there was a good reason for this marriage, even if it was for the sake of the harmonious relationship between the Byrons and the Ilibians, and to strengthen the relationship with the Ministry of Defense, Mel would marry them.

At present, the official system of the Kingdom of Byron is lifelong, and officials can remain officials as long as they are not removed from office or voluntarily retire. That is, as long as the four ministers have not been removed from office or voluntarily retired, they have been in power. So as long as you marry the minister, you can strengthen your control over the department.

Unfortunately, Pershing's health began to deteriorate due to his advanced age. Even with the ability to recuperate with the shrine maiden, his energy is not as good as before. He was an open-minded man, and when he found that his health was deteriorating, he began to look for a suitable successor.

A penny is hard to beat a hero, the Ministry of Finance is the top priority of the kingdom, and it is not too much to say that it is the heart. As the Minister of Finance, Pershing is of average ability, but he is loyal enough and honest. Under his leadership, no one in the Ministry of Finance dared to take bribes. Of course, this is only the case of the central finance department, not necessarily the local finance bureaus.

Among the local finance bureaus, there is no one cleaner than the Byron City Finance Board. It's not that there are no greedy people in the Finance Bureau of Byron City, Byron City is under the nose of the king, and the headquarters of the Supervisory Council is also located here, even if you borrow ten guts from the local Finance Bureau, they will not dare to be corrupt and take bribes.

In order to choose a suitable successor, Pershing borrowed some from Meier. These people are from the Supervisory Commission, and they are all elites of the Supervisory Commission. He sent these men to the side of those he saw fit, to observe them, to test them. Those who failed to resist the temptation, or who were unfaithful to the Byrons family, were screened out.

There is only one Minister of Finance, and as the number decreases, the trials become more and more severe. Unbeknownst to those who were put to chance, they were already candidates for the next post of Minister of Finance, and their performance was recorded in detail by watchers as evidence that Pershing used to convince Meier.

Back to topic.

At Gray's persuasion, Maier decides to marry Salin's twin daughters. Roe and Zoe are so frightened when they learn about this that they hide under the covers and refuse to come out. Salin knew that he could no longer let his daughter stay at home, so he could only be ruthless and personally tied them up and sent them to the Bluestone Palace.