I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy

EP.316

Count Ticino heard me and stomped his feet.

“You are speaking too harshly! No matter how much you came to mourn the Count of Bern and how sorry you were for his death! Can you insult my lord, His Majesty the Duke, in front of me, the Count of Switzerland? “Please go back. I’ll pretend I didn’t hear what you said today.”

We’ve already taken a big hit, but backing out is something a fool would do.

Count Ticino and I are each other’s potential enemies, and I crossed the line by gossiping about the Duke, so there’s no way he could keep his word that he wouldn’t hear anything.

Rather than believe that, I would rather believe that the bullshit Francois are spreading about His Majesty being gay is true.

So here, it is right to attack unconditionally with a life-or-death mentality.

“Count, once is difficult, twice is easy. “Doing an unrighteous act that goes against good faith may be difficult at first because of your conscience, but once you get a taste of it, you will not find it difficult to repeat the same act when a dangerous situation arises.”

“….”

“Think of the benefits His Royal Highness the Duke of Switzerland has gained from this purge of the Earl of Bern family. Due to His Majesty’s mistake, the export of mercenaries itself became difficult, and as a result, the people living in this barren land were forced into a situation where they had no choice but to starve. “But what happens now?”

Through this purge, the duke not only succeeded in overcoming the political crisis that faced him, but also took control of the Bern canton and the property of the family of the Counts of Bern.

Although the method he used was truly mean and petty, it was so effective in the short term that I would never be able to escape that temptation for the rest of my life.

This type of trick is like a drug.

When Count Ticino was about to refute my words, I cut him off and said:

“When I came here and saw Switzerland, the feeling I got was like a volcano that might explode at any moment. The people were suffering from hunger to the extent that it would not be surprising if a civil unrest broke out at any time. In the meantime, the Count of Bern was put to death as he was blamed for everything, but isn’t the hunger of the people still not resolved and in fact worsening? His Majesty the Duke will need a second scapegoat. If so, the second victim could be the Count. But are you sure you’re okay?”

“Your Majesty the Duke…”

I whispered into Count Ticino’s ear.

“Count Bern must have had such naive thoughts right before he was purged.”

At those words, the Count’s eyes opened wide and his pupils were seen shaking.

Although I didn’t say it out loud, this thought must be lingering in the mind of the person in front of me right now.

If another large-scale civil unrest breaks out this time, the Duke of Switzerland may cowardly shoot himself and send him to the target in order to survive.

The family of Count Ticino, who had become a disgrace to everyone due to the duke, was put on trial by the people in a state of hunger and madness, and was finally sentenced to death.

In the end, he and his wife and children meet a miserable end by being dragged to the market square and having their heads cut off.

If this were Joseon or China, even if the king purged his subjects with such intentions, there might be loyal subjects who would bow to the king according to Confucian teachings and accept it as the duty of a subject.

However, on the Europa continent, revolt is not viewed as a bad thing when a monarch attempts to purge his subjects without any reason. Rather, I take it for granted.

Anyone who suffers from a lord who is trying to kill them and their entire family through no fault of their own is a fool.

He stretched out two fingers of his right hand and asked.

“So make your choice. Are you going to sit like this and die like Count Bern? Or will you seek the light? The Reich Empire will provide maximum support no matter what choice you make.”

The Count sighed and looked at me.

So what I’m saying is, hurry up and find out what that damned light is.

“Rise with the determination to cut down the Duke of Switzerland before he dies. “That is the only way to survive.”

“Are you telling me to start a war with His Majesty the Duke, Marquis?”

“Shouldn’t you do what you have to do to survive? The Duke of Switzerland killed his vassal, the Count of Bern, even though he was innocent. “Is there no reason to hold on to a monarch who has abandoned his duty to protect his subjects?”

“It is certainly my duty to follow His Highness the Duke and go into battle under his orders. It is only valid when he fulfills his oath to protect me forever…”

Like in the Joseon Dynasty, no matter how bad a king did, dying by saying like Socrates, ‘A bad law is a law,’ deserves to be ridiculed. Even though it is considered work.

Naturally, there would be psychological resistance to starting a rebellion to punish a duke who had served for generations, even hundreds of years.

Humans are creatures of adaptation, and once they have adapted, they have an instinct to avoid taking on new challenges in any situation.

However, he is already showing signs of being shaken by my words, so if I give him the right amount of rice cake, he will move as I want.

Thinking of giving a crying child a piece of rice cake, I need to give it a proper justification first. Give some stimulation to the public.

“I believe that Count Ticino will not abandon his vassals just because the Duke of Switzerland has neglected his duty as a nobleman to protect his vassals.”

The count blushed at those words and glared at me with such force that he felt as if he were going to grab me by the collar.

“No matter what, aren’t those words harsh? “Unlike you, our family, the Count of Ticino, is a family with a history of protecting its vassals for hundreds of years!!!”

A nobleman’s duty to protect his subjects, called vassals, is a duty on the same level as the duty of filial piety towards the parents who gave birth to him and raising his children with charity, which all human beings should do.

Therefore, to say something that implies abandoning a vassal to a person who calls themselves a noble and is still in their right mind is a huge insult.

Roughly speaking, ‘a Horae child who grew up without a mother or father like this.’ Since it is an insult beyond the above, it is likely that it will come out that way.

However, keeping one’s cool when the other party is angry is the skill of a top-notch, if not top-notch, negotiator.

“If your family is threatened, shouldn’t you, as the head of the family, draw your sword and protect it? Moreover, as a count of the Count Ticino family, you are in a position to take responsibility for hundreds of thousands of citizens of the county, so you will need to make an even quicker decision.”

The count let go of his harsh expression, sighed, and lowered his head.

“I’m sorry, I just got angry. “Please forgive my rudeness.”

“it’s okay. “I also spoke a bit harshly, Count.”

Count Ticino looked at me and asked with a serious expression.

“If I follow the Empire’s will, what kind of support will you give me?”

Usually, when instigating a rebellion like this, it is common to promise some kind of material support, but what I promise him is not a tangible item.

“Didn’t we sign a five-year peace treaty last time? Based on that treaty, we will prevent the Francoist Republic from interfering in any way when a civil war breaks out in Switzerland. Wouldn’t this be enough? “Everything else is a matter to be handled within the Principality of Switzerland.”

According to an analysis by the Imperial Foreign Office, the reason the Duke of Switzerland can maintain his current position is not because of his outstanding political skills.

I heard that this was because they were worried that if a civil war broke out between the counts in each canton, the Francois Republic or the Reich Empire would invade.

So even if you don’t provide weapons or food, it will be enough to make the count move.

“Is there any other support?”

“I think this is enough. To begin with, isn’t there one or two counts who are gnashing their teeth at the duke? In addition, we believe that we have done enough to stop the François Republic, which is greedy for its territory. However, if you need it, we can provide weapons and armor not used by the fortress imperial army at a low price.”

The Count sighed and said, expressing his intention to admit that this was the limit.

“Very well, Marquis. “You must provide support for weapons and armor that are not in use.”

“The Reich never breaks its promises.”

With those words, I left.

**

Count Ticino, who remained in the room, sighed.

Fucking Peter Ye -ger. Even if you knew that I wanted to rebel and cut off the fucking Duke’s head, how could he stab me so well?

Before the Count of Bern’s death, he only fantasized about three times a day that he would push away the Duke and become the Duke of Switzerland.

However, after the death of his friend, the Count of Bern, he trembled at the thought that he would be purged someday, as he said, and prepared for a civil war… but if a

civil war broke out, foreign intervention would occur, and if that happened, it would be like killing someone and giving it to someone else. You barely held back? A crazy, cowardly bastard who gives old weapons and armor to the subjects he instigated to start a rebellion and only wants to stop and end the civil war from other countries.

However, Count Ticino had no choice but to follow Jaeger’s trick, which satisfied only the minimum conditions needed to start a rebellion.

Because he didn’t want to die sitting down either.

Huh, now that things have come to this, I think I need to at least get the title of Duke of Switzerland to relieve my anxiety.

After mumbling that, he decided to meet with those who were trying to lead the civil uprising in the name of ‘negotiations’.

In fact, it was a negotiation, but he was trying to control them.

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