Chapter 208: Back to Peace (1) (1/2)
Chapter 208: Back to Peace (1)
‘Leila does this kind of thing better thanat the conditions Siegfried laid out While it was a pity Leila wasn’t here, Milton was the one in charge here and had to decide what to do about the situation
‘What else could we gain by accepting these terms’
Politics wasn’t Milton’s specialty He wasn’t terrible at it, but he was by no means an expert at it
‘Most of the politics I was involved in, and policies I introduced, were those that worked out on Earth that I just reworked Oh, wait…’
A thought crossed his an to speak carefully
“As a condition for peace, there’s soest”
“And what is that?”
“I want the separated families to be able to meet”
“What?”
“From what I understand, there are a lot of people in as formerly the Hildes Republic who are separated fro able to see them I want to help them reconnect with their families”
“”
“Also, allow those ant it, to become naturalized”
“This is very random”
“They’re people who’ve become separated from their families because of the war They don’t even knohether their family members are alive or dead Don’t you think it’d be too cruel to just ignore that?”
“”
Siegfried’s expression closed up
“You do realize that we gathered here to negotiate the post-war proceedings?”
“Yeah, so?”
“Your topic seeotiations”
“Then are you rejecting it?”
“”
When Milton responded to hifried’s face hardened and he refried to become speechless While he was pushed into a corner, Milton was confident in his silence
‘As I thought I can get one over on him with this’
Milton had a faint sfried
“What’s wrong? Is there a problefried could only curse Milton in his head
‘That son of a btch’
The act of arranging a reunion for the separated fa those anted it to be naturalized; while this suggestion seefried’s flesh
Even though both sides had separated family members ere frodom weren’t in the same position The separated fa men, ordinary soldiers who took part in the attack on the Strabus Kingdodom were mostly civilians If both sides were to ain, then they’ll have to be naturalized…
Which ould they lean towards? It was obvious For the military veterans, the Northern part of the current Lester Kingdom was their hoht they would never see again Could there be anything else more precious and important than their hoht on the battlefields? Would it be possible for theive up their families and head back into the battlefields when their fa the mentality of the Republican soldiers, it wasn’t impossible for them to continue to stay in the military, but even so, it was obvious that there would be a considerable number of defectors
Even if the ratio of people wanting to be naturalized was 5 to 5, it would still be a loss for Siegfried Not to mention, this situation itself was extremely unfavorable to him The Republican soldiers from the Hildes Republic were all elite soldiers who had been trained for a long tih countless battles, not to fried What would happen if those soldiers were to leave in large numbers after they h he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Republican Army, he needed a military force that would absolutely obey his orders in order to keep his position If the Ghosts were Siegfried’s bodyguards, then the soldiers from the Hildes Republic were his rank and file If he had fewer soldiers, that fried’s military foothold would be weakened
So ould Siegfried be thinking nicely of Milton right now? Butwas…
‘I can’t reject this easily’
That’s right Siegfried knew very well that he couldn’t reject this proposal It was obvious ould happen if Siegfried was to reject it Not only within the Lester Kingdohout the Republic
[I offered to hold ato comfort the fafried refused]
[I apologize to those who are suffering fro separated froh]
[But please understand that this was all because of Siegfried]
‘He’llbastard’
It had been a while since Siegfried felt like he was in a political crisis Milton’s proposal seemed harmless, but it was definitely poisonous However, there was no way for him to avoid the poison If he rejected this proposal, and Milton went aroundthe people’s hearts, then would it be possible for him to persuade the soldiers?
‘It’ll be difficult They’re not the Ghosts It’ll be impossible to completely sway the hearts of the soldiers’
Smart people arethat you have been check it too soon
‘I wonder what’s wrong withat the atmosphere, it seee to the Republic?’
Those who didn’t know the details, like Jake and Jerome, were simply puzzled
‘There’s no other choice, I can only put up with it…’
In the end, Siegfried could only sigh
“A great opportunity has come for the separated falad to hear that”
Milton grinned broadly
Then, he thought to hiave this monstrous bastard a political hit’
He felt a bit bad because he used the separated faood idea It was such an exquisite plan that even Queen Leila wouldn’t have thought of Of course, the only reason Milton could co like this was because of his previous life
‘Who knew it’d be helpful to live in the only divided country in the world’
After that, the ion of the Valence Kingdoion in return for participating in the Valence Kingdom’s war As a result, the territories of both the Republic and the Lester Kingdodom was reduced to less than half of what it was before the war
King Nicholas wanted to die, but he couldn’t argue against Milton and Siegfried’s decision
While the war had taken place in his country, in a turbulent era like now, the actual power of a country was ht or wrong Milton and Siegfried had decided everything and all King Nicholas had to do was sin thedom to continue to exist
Of course, they had a reason for that