"But aren't they father and son?" Azir wondered.

"It's father and son, but that doesn't stop them from being political enemies." Vishina said.

"So you're relieved to divide the power equally into their hands?"

In the days since Azir returned, of course, he had heard about the so-called power seizure rumors, but he didn't pay attention to them, because he didn't believe that someone who could sit in the position of queen of a planet would know nothing about politics.

Of course, if she doesn't want to take care of it herself, that's a different story.

Azir also made up for it, and the son chose to follow in his father's footsteps to enter the official career, but his father made it difficult in every way in order to sharpen him, and in the end it backfired, resulting in a bloody plot in which the two became political enemies.

For example, those classic lines:

- Son: Father, I will definitely prove myself to you!

- Father: I just want you to surpass me.

……

These two can't be so boring, right?

The corners of Azir's mouth twitched, and he said that it was difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs, and he hoped that after he succeeded to the throne, he would not encounter a family ethics drama in the court.

"I didn't give it to anyone, they were able to sit where they are today, so their followers are also very loyal." Vishina said.

"It can be seen that he is quite loyal, otherwise he would not have fought, which side won?"

"Morning, noon and night, two out of three games, Nasus's man won."

"Are these old guys so capable?" Azir was slightly taken aback.

"In the morning, they lost in a group fight, and then at noon and at night, they took advantage of the time when the opposite side was separated from napping and having dinner, and they beat them one by one."

"I see, still playing tactics?"

Vicina sighed: "It's not so much a political enemy, it's more that the two philosophies are different, at the end of the day, they both want to make Shurima better, and they both think that their own ideas can make Shurima better." ”

"But the common denominator is that both the old and the young, the conservatives and the radicals, are pessimistic about the age of the universe, and the difference is, where should Shurima perish, the vast universe? Or shrink on the home planet? ”

After a little thought, Azir understood the essence of this, if the Asitanya faction really had simple confidence in Shurima's future, then the most intuitive manifestation would be that in a certain part of the cultural works of today's society, there will also be positive themes.

Unfortunately, no.

"That's pretty much it, in fact, before you come back, Shurima's situation is already a stalemate, as if development comes and goes, and all that awaits us is destruction." Vicina chuckled, the laughter clearly mocking, but more helpless.

She was enjoying dinner again, a topic that was still quite heavy for Vicina.

Azir looked at her and suddenly asked, "What do you think?" ”

Vicina said, "Do you think I, as the queen of Shurima, would want to see her perish?" Azir, if you have the ability to lead Shurima through this difficulty, I will be glad to watch you sit on the throne, and if you are incompetent, let go of those responsibilities and enjoy life like I do. ”

"Mom, you know I can't put it down." Azir said with a frown.

"Have you thought about your life's events?"

"What's life's work?" Azir was surprised by Vicina's sudden change of subject, but asked as if he didn't know.

Vicina didn't give up: "What do you think of those noble ladies?" I don't really like the dress-up fancy ones, but what impressed me was the big one, maybe two at a time. ”

"Mom, how can you, as the queen, say such vulgar words!" Azir's face turned red, "Where are all your teachings?!" ”

"Teaching is for others to see, how tiring is it to be like that all the time?" Vicina spread her hands indifferently, "Tell me which one you have your eye on, or do you want them all?" It's not that hard. ”

"All of them...... Uh, good night, I'm full. ”

Azir walked away as if he had fled, and said in his heart, "I have made up my mind not to be as unrestrained as I was in my previous life."

"Have a good dream, you can tell me which girl you dream of." Vicina smiled and beckoned behind him.

"Even if there is a dream, it is about Shurima, and that is the most important thing to me!" Azir said with great certainty.

"I can't be glad that you say this, the most important thing for me is to see that my son can become a stable family, and then live comfortably for the rest of his life."

Azir walked fast and didn't hear what Veshina said.

The hall was empty, except for a large table in the center, a few candles flickering in the darkness, bringing a faint warm glow to the place, and Vichyna dismissed the servants, only the crisp sound of knives, forks, utensils, and plates.

She had been enjoying this solitude for many years.

Azir returned to his room and did not fall asleep, he lay in the dark all night, sleepless.

He was puzzled as to why it had been almost two months since he had returned, and no one had ever asked him what knowledge he had brought back with him in Kamigawa.

The current Shurima's fear of unknown civilizations has reached the point where he does not dare to touch their knowledge easily.

Even if this knowledge is likely to be helpful to itself.

The next morning, Azir went to see Nasus, who was supposed to be the kind of official who got up early and worked tirelessly for the welfare of Shurima and the people, but when Azir arrived at Nasus's house, he found him sleeping.

The servant tried to wake him up, but was stopped by Azir.

Azir waited in Nasus's study, where he usually worked, with a family portrait on the table, when Nasus was still young, Asitaya's mother was still there, and he was still a little child.

When this picture was taken, Asitanya didn't know what had happened, Nasus pinched his face, and Asitanya pinched back in rejecting defeat, tears of pain rolling in their eyes, and the woman who was not very good looked looked at them with a smile in her eyes, her eyes full of happiness.

"It looks like they didn't have a good relationship in the morning......"

Azir shook his head.

It wasn't until the sun was on the clock, and the sun spanked, that Nasus crawled out of the bed.

He was yawning in a daze, when the servant said coldly that the prince was coming, and was waiting for him in the study, and the poor bachelor jumped up from the bed and kowtowed to his head before he was properly dressed.

Years later, the servant recalled that he said to his children and grandchildren: "The scholar was faster than the most agile athlete of Shurima!" ”

In his study, Azir saw a disheveled Nasus, and he persuaded him with a strange expression, "You can actually get dressed and come back...... I didn't expect you to like to sleep naked at such an old age......"

Nasus panicked and ran back again, and after a while, Azir saw him running back out of breath, this time finally getting dressed.

Azir made his intentions clear, and he wanted Nasus to show him the serpent he was going to deal with at his rite of passage, which was the queen's behest.

Vishina still wanted Azir to give up.

Nasus also agreed with the Queen's idea, arguing that the so-called challenge to the beast to obtain the right to inherit the throne was a complete waste of the past and should be abolished, and that some people in society now have the same idea.

Azir didn't expect the most discipline-oriented bachelor to be so open-minded in this matter, but he didn't fully express his thoughts, and only vaguely asked Nasus to take him to see it first.