When she stepped onto Yaqui's dirt again, Zelda's heart burned with an indescribable passion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Even though the mud on the banks of the Nara, which was wet and soft, was much more than that.

This is his homeland after a four-year absence, and four years ago it was the thousand-year-old country called Yaqui, but now it is entrenched by Palci. Four years ago, Zelda was ordered to protect Prince Gilmus from escape, and now most of those bosses, friends, and comrades-in-arms have sacrificed their lives for the country, and this thousand pounds of burden has to be carried by Zelda alone, and only he understands the bitterness and hardship of the past four years. Therefore, even though Zelda knew in his heart that this action could only achieve the purpose of harassment, he still couldn't hide the excitement in his heart when he actually stepped on the ground of his hometown.

Compared to Zelda, Prince Gilmus behaved much more calmly. In his only nine years of life, four of which had already been spent in a foreign land, and before that time he had lived under house arrest as a half-prisoner in the Count of Libera's mansion, he was almost completely unfamiliar with the land of Yaqui, let alone homesick.

"We are the Liberation Army of Yaki! The army of His Royal Highness Prince Gilmus, the heir to the orthodox royal family of Yaqui! Now we're back! We must wipe out the Palci! These words were uttered by the exuberant Yaqui exiled nobles, who did their best to loudly declare their identities to the populace who were frightened by the sudden arrival of the army.

Unfortunately, contrary to their assumptions, those people still had some reactions to the title of Yaqui Liberation Army, but the reaction to the title of Prince Gilmus was completely blank. This was a shame for the Yaqui aristocracy in exile, who had always been able to agree with their own ideas, as if they had been slapped in the face, their voices became louder and louder, and their tone had lost their previous peace, if it weren't for Zelda's strict order not to be rude to the people, I am afraid they would have fought against these "ignorant" hillbillies.

But things soon got out of hand, for the nobles soon discovered that a considerable number of the common people who were working in the fields bore the mark of slaves, and they could not hide their anger at these rebellious slaves who ignored their existence, and began to beat these lowly people.

"Stop!" Seeing this, Gilmus shouted loudly, and then stepped on the mud and walked to the place where the incident occurred.

When the nobles saw His Royal Highness, they had to stand up straight and salute the prince, and the beaten people took the opportunity to get up and kneel on the ground and wait for the fall.

Gilmus walked up to the slaves and said, "I am Gilmus, Prince Yaki. I ask you a question, and you will answer truthfully. ”

The slaves kowtowed and said yes.

"I ask you, what was your status when Yaki ruled? What is the identity now? ”

"Your Royal Highness, the little ones were slaves when Yaki ruled, and now they are free people." A daring slave replied.

"Well, since you are free people, then you have your own land, right? Then let me ask you, which one do you think is better in your life now than in the past? ”

"This" the daring slave did not answer.

Gilmus looked at him and said, "You don't dare to answer, that is, you think you are better off now." ”

Leaving the slaves behind, Gilmus turned back to the nobles and said, "My lords, I am too young to know how to govern the country. But from the reactions of these slaves, I saw how difficult and difficult our future was. How many millions of slaves did Yaki have? And these slaves, who have attained a higher status and a better life under Palci's rule, will they welcome us back to rule them again? I don't think so, it's not in their vital interest. But can you wipe out all these slaves at the same time as Parci? Apparently not. Because if millions of slaves are lost, then the foundation of Yaki's statehood will also disappear. But these slaves are almost certainly on Parci's side, and if we want to defeat Parch, we must defeat these millions of slaves. If we can't give them everything they did under Palci, at least we should stop treating them like the Yaki rulers of the past. Otherwise, we will set ourselves up a formidable enemy, and what good will this do for our great cause of national restoration? Therefore I beseech you, my lords, to endure your anger for a moment, and to learn to be kind to our people, including slaves, as we return for the first time in four years, do you wish to be unpopular with your fellow citizens? ”

Gilmus's words silenced the nobles. Seeing this, Gilmus rewarded the slaves with some copper coins and let them go.

Zelda, who was watching this scene, looked at the sky secretly, and he silently said to Libera, who paid Gil Musto to himself, in his heart: My lord, your vision is really good, His Royal Highness the Prince is indeed a wise lord. It's just a pity, why wasn't this child born ten years earlier? If that were the case, we would be able to proclaim him King of Aki, and Aki might not perish.

When he returned to the camp that night, Gilmus was in a depressed mood, and at first Zelda thought that the child was tired from the rough seas, but soon found that this was not the case.

"Your Highness, what's wrong with you, is there something wrong with you?"

Gilmus looked at Zelda and saw that there was no one around, and then said, "Lord Zelda, I think Yaki has no hope of reviving again. ”

"Why did Your Highness say this?"

Gilmus sighed and said, "We have all seen that scene today, even if I ask the nobles to treat the slaves well, but I can't eradicate the contempt of the nobles for the slaves, even if we rule in the places we occupy, and the slavery system will be restored, will these slaves give up the freemen and land they have acquired because we have treated them well?" This is unrealistic. And I don't know if you have noticed, these civilians are cultivating the land in good order, and it is clear that they are very content with this life, and I really can't think of what can be done to give them a better life than they have today, and how can they win the support of these people? Is it just that I'm of Akie's orthodox royal blood? Four years, just four years, these commoners have lost their attachment to an old dynasty in their eyes, and it is hard to imagine how much place the country of Yaki will have left in their hearts in another ten years. ”

Zelda didn't know how to answer for a while, and then he realized that Prince Gilmus's ability to think had surpassed his own, and the prince thought of a level that he had never considered, so how to comfort His Royal Highness? (To be continued.) )