Luzia Senki: Notes of the Luzian War

{1.8} Internal dispute!?

Many of us will be more concerned with our own ego than with a logic no matter if it will benefit or harm other individuals and groups.

Ten years ago the second Prince with the help of the support of the nobles he managed to win a very bloody fight to get the seat of the leader of the prestigious Kingdom.

The Crown Prince who was supposed to be the successor of the kingdom was instead lacking the support of many nobles eventually had to be killed at the Battle of Magtuz, a Battle that took place in the Royal Capital, Magtuz City.

With a combined force of 20,000 troops made up of nobles, the Second Prince staged a blatant coup against the Crown Prince and carried out a siege to the Royal Capital.

In just less than 3 months, the Capital's army of just 3,000 was forced to surrender to the forces of the second prince's faction, The Crown Prince who was in the palace tried to escape but a terrible fate approached him.

The Royal Guards, who were supposed to risk their own lives in protecting the Crown Prince, eventually betrayed him in order to give the Crown Prince to the second prince with their own security guarantees, they were eventually killed the next day.

The captured Crown Prince is thrown into a miserable dungeon, a dungeon where heavy criminals are supposed to be.

A second prince who did not want to take too much risk tried to threaten the royal judges to speed up his execution, the result of which was only 3 days in prison he would immediately be executed in public.

There are even rumors that say if so scared after hearing the news of the execution of the Crown Prince's hair turned white just overnight.

On the day of his execution many of the townspeople attended him, they basically came just out of curiosity about what was happening in front of them and no matter what befell the Aristocrats because in the end no matter who was leading them only thought of him alone and not too concerned with the commoners.

And after the terrible tragedy happened the second prince who had obtained the Throne finally known by the nickname Wilhelm I The Greedy (The Vultur) , and not long after that the nobles with the approval of King Wilhelm finally made a Parliament called the Parliament of Kirya in which the Parliament was led by the Alliance of 3 Duke.

Although the nobles had strengthened their position in the Kingdom they remained unsatisfied with what they could, they tried to conspire to get rid of the King.

But beyond the expectations of the members of Parliament the King hastily and without apparent reason declared war and immediately launched an invasion of the neighboring Kharza Empire.

Because of the King's reckless actions, the, Parliament decided to postpone deposing the King because it was not wise to do when the country was at war with other countries while peace talks were also impossible because their own kingdom began war.

So inevitably Parliament waited for about 7 years which the Kingdom of Drasruz finally lost the war.

The lawmakers who had waited for 7 years finally took the opportunity by blaming everything to the King, because of the stress of the pressure the King eventually died or according to Sir Erwin it is the result of a Parliamentary conspiracy.

However, Parliament still needs a puppet leader who must be placed in the seat of the royal throne so that other countries do not immediately declare if they have a person who has the right to be King of the Kingdom of Draeruz that way the Draeruz kingdom will be threatened with foreign intervention.

But the only thing left of the royal family line entitled to be King is the son of the Crown Prince who was previously executed.

The boy was found not guilty by the royal judge because he was completely innocent, according to the judge having the blood of a criminal is not a crime. Because the child was declared to have leprosy

King Wilhelm and the Parliament saw it as not a threat, so they ignored the decision.

Finally with a heavy heart the members of Parliament finally raised the Crown Prince's son to be the King whose purpose is only to be made a Leader Doll, now dubbed King Joash the Leprosy.

Even so the misfortune again approached Parliament because unexpectedly King Joash who was once considered innocent turned out to be actually quite capable to the point that it was enough to make Parliament difficult in making himself a puppet because the great maneuvers of King Joash.

"This country's really on the edge, huh? "

Since I myself still have a lot of free time before meeting the Village Chiefs, I thought of listening more fully to Sir Edwin's current Royal situation, even so I really didn't expect it to be this messy.

By the way, I was sitting in the courtyard garden in the town hall with a cup of tea made by Clotte and Sir Erwin who were also sitting on a table, because if I had Sir Edwin talking in the city hall's room it would have made a bad rumor spread all over the city if a noblewoman brought a man into her room.

"If the nobles had openly staged a coup against the Crown Prince, why didn't they repeat it back to King Joash."

Sir Erwin who was drinking warm tea with a graceful look immediately put his glass on the table after I asked him a question.

"Because the situation is somewhat different from before, your majesty."

"Different?"

"In the previous situation the nobles dared to act as well because they were taking refuge behind the Second Prince, in contrast to the present one where they did not have umbrellas to take shelter. Moreover, because the Royal Judge who should be neutral to politics began to support King Joash because previously the Royal Judge had been threatened by King Wilhelm by killing or hurting their families if the execution of the Crown Prince was not immediately implemented."

"It makes sense too."

I've read about the Royal Judges in my Library, they themselves have stood from the beginning of this Kingdom in the form of. Actually, they themselves even though they have stood for a long time but do not have enough power and voice in politics, so they prefer to be neutral in politics, but even so they are also quite popular among the Common People who eventually also make Parliament quite difficult.

"Ah, there are some nobles who were previously neutral like His Majesty's family have finally started to join the King Joash faction."

"They really dare to take risks..... "

"I also agree with that, Your Majesty."

As discussed earlier, King Joash suffered from the disease Leprosy which is now 19 years old 3 years after being appointed King and for people with the disease tends to be short in an era where medical technology is still very low.

It is true that the King Joash faction for now is still on the leaves but seeing his current condition he can die at any time due to his disease, and it will all be in vain.

Moreover, even though the Parliament for now is still quietly waiting it does not mean that they are not planning anything ahead, so it is still quite risky if I join the royal faction, even Sir Erwin seems to agree with me as well.

"Although Sir Erwin seems to know a lot about this."

"Well, I have an acquaintance of a former military officer who was also the one who participated in defending Magtuz City from the siege. But now he's more successful at being a trader and sometimes he gives me information like this that he collects during trading."

"Hoho, looks like you have a pretty valuable acquaintance."

Because in this world there is still a lack of information media technology such as the internet which eventually results in slow flow of information, which is very slow, so having an informant to be a connection to such information is a very important thing in this world.

Maybe I will try to ask Sir Erwin to introduce the acquaintance to me next time because it could be with the information that I get I might even be able to menopoli the economic market of this country, that way I can live a peaceful and more luxurious life with my abundant savings, fufufu.

Oh no-no, I have to endure my excessive opportunistic expression because it seems like Sir Erwin is looking at me with an intimidating curious gaze, Clotte help me.

Ah, it seems that I should also slightly delay my luxurious life plan because for now my free time seems to have run out.

Erliz who looked disciplined as usual immediately walked into the courtyard garden and headed towards me and Sir Erwin who were sitting across from each other, for Erwind's formalities to turn to me which were useful as a tribute, after that he reported that the Village Chiefs had gathered and were ready to meet me.

"Well Sir Erwin, that was a fun lesson but it seems like work has called me."

Without further ado me and Sir Edwin hurriedly began to rise from their seats and began to exit the courtyard garden of the town hall.

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Note: Sorry if there was a time-counting error from previous chapter².

Fix time: The war started 10 years ago and lasted 7 years, so the war finished 3 years ago. King Joash was made king after the war ended at the age of 16.

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