Risou no himo seikatsu volume 01

The interesting part about humans was that they misapprehended their wrong acts as legitimate when it was left unpunished for years, even though illegal acts were statutory.

When you suddenly tried to punish a person with such a perception according to the laws one day, he would fly into a passion with “You never did anything before, why now!”.

That was an emotional point of view, but if there were several of them, even the Queen would find herself in the line of a harsh retaliation when she neglected to show sympathy. The power of the Queen and royal family in the Carpa Kingdom was overwhelming, but not so overwhelming that they could ignore the influence of conspiring nobles.

“And if I may add, all of these people you mentioned, contributed greatly to the previous war.” “…Right. We cannot deny the fact that their services in the war were part of the reason that our country emerged victorious.”

Aura nodded, honestly acknowledging what Secretary Fabio had added.

At present, most of the remaining nobles were survivors of the previous great war.

Barely anyone of them was so incompetent as to falsify taxes to the Kingdom or pocket heavy taxes from the people in their fief simply for their own good.

Most of these incompetent nobles, who only leeched off the Kingdom, couldn’t protect their family during the war and perished.

That was the reason why the remaining nobles were so troublesome.

The nobles mentioned by Aura earlier used the evaded taxes on their private military preparations. This very military power had shouldered a part of the defence for the country in the previous war, so it technically couldn’t be denied that these unpaid taxes were used for the good of the Kingdom in a roundabout manner.

However, it was likewise a fact that these taxes could replenish the royal army better if they were collected properly.

The royal family stipulated the reinforcement of the royal army through taxes to optimize the troops and the local feudal lords couldn’t drop the effort to strengthen their own troops as the royal army was useless for defending the own territory due to their inflexibility.