Section 567 Scheming Woman
An alliance between the two countries is not just lip service, and the strength of both sides must be considered and measured in order to become allies when each other needs support and help. If one of the parties is too strong or too weak, it will lead to uncertainties in the alliance, especially when it comes to the distribution of benefits, which is not called fairness.
Because of this, King Rahman has been urging the harem guards to speed up the recuperation of Sida. In desperation, the female officer could only greatly reduce the teaching content and select important parts to indoctrinate Hida.
Learning is important. Although the northern giant could not speak the Chinese language of the Lord, as a princess, how could he not be literate?
You must learn to sing and impress the Giant Emperor with a melodious voice, otherwise you will never get the favor.
You must learn to dance, and you must dance gracefully and with strong seduction, otherwise you will never have a bright day in the harem of the Giant Emperor.
You have to learn to judge the situation, you have to learn to use the privilege of being a princess "at the right time". It's a complex and delicate process, and I can teach you the theory and basic knowledge, but it's up to you to decide how to use it.
Hilda used to be an honest child, the kind of honest friend.
The abuse of her father and younger brothers made her hate the society, and her mother's cowardice disappointed her. Hilda thanked the king for giving her a new lease of life, and was able to walk past her family with her head on her head and with unprecedented pride, watching them kneel on the ground and prostrate to herself...... It was a strange feeling, for for the first time in her life, Hilda had touched power and understood what the lady of discipline meant by "untouchables."
My father, my mother, and my brother were all untouchables, and everyone in the small village where they lived was untouchables.
There is no war in the royal capital at all, and the queen mother is anxious to be lonely. It's all a lie made up to deceive people, but it can also be a beautiful story. There is no need to think about things like royal blood, and Hilda knows that she is not related to the real prince and princess, but a gift chosen by the king to give to the Northern Giant Emperor.
Hilda didn't feel humiliated, but secretly happy. She thinks that with her ability and appearance, she can easily be liked by the Giant Emperor. As long as you get the favor of that man, you can get the power to control the world.
With the power of a northern country, it even declared war on the Rhine, Plantagenet, Saxon, Viking and Holy See at the same time...... The more she learns from the correctional lady, the more shocked she becomes, and she looks forward to the upcoming wedding.
"Remember, there are two things that need to be complemented by honorable status. The first is ruthlessness, and the second is kindness. This is the admonition of the female rulers.
Under her arrangement, Hilda ordered the left hand of the maid to be cut off. The reason for this is simple: Princess Sida lost a piece of jewelry, and all the evidence indicates that it was done by her personal maid. No matter how much the poor woman pleaded, even if she knelt on the ground and broke her head, and swore to the great gods that she was not a thief...... Shida still ordered the samurai to be executed.
Two days later, the maid, who was recuperating from her wounds, was brought to Hilda. This time, Princess Sida comforted the maid in front of many peopleββββ thief who stole jewelry was caught, and he was a servant who rarely appeared in the palace. He got drunk, took out his jewelry to show off to others, and was caught.
Hilda gave a large sum of money to the maid and asked her for forgiveness. She said it very sincerely, with a look of remorse on her face, promising that she would always be responsible for the future life of the severed handmaiden, and tripling her salary.
It was a perfect performance, and Hilda had the desired effect: the resentment in the heart of the hand-severed maid was completely removed, and she blamed fate for what had happened to her, hated and scolded the waiter who had stolen the jewelry and caused her unjustified disaster, and then thanked Her Royal Highness for all kinds of compensation.
The maid was a poor man after all. Money can buy a lot of things, including all the compensation after humiliation, ravage, hazing, mutilation. Even if it's double, triple, tenfold...... It is not difficult to understand the truth that in the eyes of the poor, one dinar is the whole world. In the eyes of the rich, a hundred dinars is just a dish on a lavish banquet table.
Witnessing this was several other maids and attendants. They don't know what to do, but they think that Princess Hilda has an honest character, and that she is a true nobleman, with the noble quality of not shirking responsibility, taking the initiative to take responsibility and make amends.
"See, that's power, and the benefits of being a nobleman. You cut off one of her hands, but instead of resenting you, she is grateful to you and even swears allegiance to you because of the so-called "compensation". On the other hand, what did you put into the whole thing? It's just a little money. Her salary for a month's work in the palace was five dinars, and the double compensation was ten, but at the end of a year it was only one hundred and twenty...... Hehe, one hundred and twenty dinars can buy a man's hand reasonably and legally. But if you look at it backwards: if you tell her directly that you will be given one hundred and twenty dinars a year, and that your left hand will be cut off for me, who do you think would be willing to accept such a condition? β
So they are pariahs!
So they are forever crushed at the bottom of society!
As a result, the entire logic of Sida's thinking has undergone earth-shaking changes. She was soaking up knowledge like crazy, wanting to get more in the shortest possible time. The correctional lady was pleased with her changes and the pace of her teaching, and although there was not enough time, Sida behaved at least like a nobleman within the time limit demanded by King Rahman, and was also in line with the princess status of a side branch of the royal family.
Everything about Roaring City amazed Hilda. She was a restless person, and she knew very well that the amount of power she could wield in the Dragon Empire depended on the young emperor who was fighting in the south.
Before this, Hilda felt the need to erect her own majesty in the harem and establish her own power group.
This should not be difficult, after all, the kingdom of the Lord is an ally of the Dragon Empire, and she is the only "princess". Hilda never worried about her unique identity being replaced by someone elseββββ super-tall white women were already rare, and King Rahman took great pains to form an alliance and gave a large dowry. If the goal cannot be achieved, there can be no second "princess".
The same coldness and kindness that Hilda wants to do again in Roaring City. She is confident in what she has done and thinks that there will be no flaws. In fact, no matter what the giant civilian walking on the road did, he would be recognized as a "crash driver" by Hida at that time. What she wanted was to punish the untouchables in public, for all to see and witness.
Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, Sida will go out of the palace again with the guards, find the pariah who was punished, and apologize to him in public. The reason is nothing more than this: I thought about it carefully, thought that I shouldn't do that, and then apologized to Balabala, and offered a sum of money as compensation.
There will also be a lot of people on the spot.
Sida hasn't been idle since she came to Roaring City, and she has found out a lot about Tianhao. The young giant emperor was extremely popular, and even to some extent alongside the gods. As long as he gave an order, almost all the northern giants would willingly die for them, and there would not be a word of complaint.
Therefore, the identity of "the emperor's favorite concubine" is particularly important. Hida was sure that as long as the plan was implemented according to the predetermined steps, he would receive the first praise from the people, and maybe even turn into support.
From the very beginning, Hida saw Ayi as her biggest rival.
Only by becoming the queen can you truly control the harem of the Dragon Empire.
I had to take her place.
Ayi frowned and looked at Xida: "Who told you to do this?" β
Without waiting for Xida to reply, Ayi continued to ask, "Who gave you the authority to do this?" β
Two questions caught Hilda off guard, and she stammered for a moment and didn't know how to answer. The first question made her a little frightened, thinking that Ayi might have seen through what she was thinking. The second question was not as strongly worded as before, but both the concept and the way of asking it were unfamiliar to Hilda, and she wanted to say "I am the princess", but after thinking about it, she felt a little unanswered.
"This is Roaring City, not Fort McVeigh." Ayi stared at her blank face and said lightly: "Your Majesty governs national affairs by laws and rules. You should take the time to read the Dragon's Code, as well as our Constitution. Every law, every provision, was formed by His Majesty and the ministers who spent a lot of time discussing it word by word. There are old tribal customs, as well as a combination of old and new regulations. β
"Do you think it's a trivial thing to hit someone on the spot on the street? Crash car driving? What is this violation? Traffic in the city is handled by the police, and pedestrians and vehicles have their own lanes. I asked the people below, and they told me that you were in control of the carriage, and the Mite next to you saw the police erecting a red flag telling you that you couldn't pass, but you insisted on moving forward regardless of it, so you were hit by the man, but fortunately Mite was next to him and pulled the reins in time, otherwise that person might have been trampled to death by your horse on the spot. β
Electronically controlled traffic lights are currently in the experimental stage, and the major cities of the dragon clan have used the practice of changing red and green flags at regular intervals as traffic signals, and the specific rules are similar to those of civilized times.
Looking at Ayi, who looked serious, Xida bit her lip secretly. She didn't think it was serious, it should be that the queen felt that she was a threat to her and wanted to teach herself a lesson...... The Correctional Lady has said before: Always watch out for the Giant Queen, she is your real enemy.
Hilda is a smart person, and she wants to resolve the fight in her own way. So he stood up, walked to Ayi's seat and stood still, bowed, and said seriously, "I'm going to apologize to that person." β
She speaks English, not the simple, interspersed words of "Banlong", as she used before. The reason for doing this is a way for Hida to express her inner anger.
Thanks to Tianhao's teaching, Ayi's English level is very high. Her eyes were calm: "In addition to apologizing, you must also go to the Roaring City Traffic Police Brigade to be dealt with." β
Hilda's eyes widened.
She certainly understands what "handling" is all about. That means paying fines and, in serious cases, even detention.
Hilda never dreamed that things would turn out like this, that they did not go in the direction they had envisioned, and that there was no so-called "coldness and kindness".
"It's our law." Ayi's tone was calm, and although she didn't know what Hilda was secretly planning, her instincts told her that the woman from the land of God must be regulated by law.
"But I'm the princess! I am the concubine of His Majesty the Emperor! Hilda screamed. At this moment, she has no grace at all, and she can't talk about any upbringing. She was not good at these things in the first place, but she enjoyed the magic of manipulating power under the forced indoctrination of the female correctional officer, and once she was suppressed by the higher power Ayi and deprived of it at the legal level, Xida felt that all her clothes were stripped of her body, and she returned to the terrible poverty she used to be, and she could be humiliated at any time.
"You're wrong." Ayi's voice was still serious, even a little rigid: "According to the laws of the empire, only a woman who has undergone the canonization ceremony can become a princess. That requires His Majesty's approval, as well as a copy of the relevant books issued by the court magistrates. Although you are a princess in the kingdom of the Lord, as long as you do not receive the canonization for a day, you are just an ordinary person. β
Sida trembled all over, and she stared at Ayi with resentful eyes.
The latter didn't like to be stared at like this, but considering the alliance between the Lord's Kingdom and the Empire, Ayi thought for a moment and said seriously: "A word of advice for you: read the laws of the Empire carefully." If a similar situation arises again, His Majesty will personally send you to prison. β
Tianhao has a deep supervision of the royal family, and he has repeatedly reiterated that any form of royal corruption will not be tolerated.
Because this is the source of the destruction of the empire.
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Plantagenet Kingdom, the capital, the city of Mercador.
Carlos XII received Viscount Monio in the vault.
Carlos, forty-two years old, is a man of great power and a great name among the kings of the South. He doesn't have too strong a desire to control, has a good cooperative relationship with ministers, and more importantly, knows how to delegate power and won't point fingers in unfamiliar areas. To paraphrase Carlos's common saying: "Professional things, leave them to professional people." β
Looking at the viscount kneeling in front of him, Carlos kept frowning.
A person who has been a captive will not be likable no matter how you look at it. Although Carlos had already learned the details of the battle from the officers and soldiers who had returned from the defeat, he also knew that the defeat of the war could not be blamed on the Marquis of Elken and Viscount Monio.
But it was still difficult for him to change his opinion about the viscount who had been captured and continued to be released by the giants.
Let him kneel like this, and he won't need to get up for the time being.
"What is the purpose of the Northern Giants?" Carlos asked bluntly.