A Narrow-Eyed Nobleman Is Always Misunderstood - A Narrow-Eyed Nobleman Is Always Misunderstood chapter 216

Episode 216 – The Cold-Blooded Grand Princess Heard the News

The hot summer has passed, and now it has become fall with cooler winds.

Preparations for the harvest were in full swing throughout the Bregern Empire.

Farmers were busy preparing, repairing farm equipment, cleaning warehouses, and setting mouse traps to catch mice.

However, harvesting was not just for farmers.

From the lord’s point of view, who had to receive grain as taxes, he was busy calculating the taxes to be paid to the central government.

The merchants who would transport the grain to the capital were also busy walking the tightrope of which territory would invite them at a high price.

While everyone throughout the Bregern Empire was busy in their respective places, some news arrived from the gateway city of Brisraum.

‘Confirmation of entry of Alberto Salihar Meydern, who was declared missing and had a funeral.’

‘We are currently heading to the County of Madern after passing through Brisraum.’

‘According to reliable sources, Alberto Salihar Meydern has been recognized as the youngest sword master by the imperial family.’

It was news that Alberto Salihar Meydern, who had been officially recognized as a sword master by the imperial family of the Bregern Empire, had entered the country through Brisraum.

As soon as this news became known, intelligence merchants and intelligence guilds in each region were on fire.

It was because people flocked here and there to buy information.

So many people came and went to buy information that there was even a joke that someone passing by thought this was a good restaurant and stopped by, but it turned out that it was a place where information was bought and sold.

That’s how great the impact of this information was.

In particular, people who dislike being behind the trends paid a lot of money to buy information about Alberto Salihar Madern.

“You mean this is true?”

And there was someone who was most happy about this news.

A woman who was recently fully recognized as the successor to the Grand Duchy of Galois.

Irene Svartina Galois was the person responsible.

“That’s right. Her Majesty the Grand Duchess.”

“Great job. “Go out.”

“Yes. Her Majesty the Grand Duchess.”

With two words, she sent her subordinate out of her room and once again organized the information her subordinate had brought with her in her head her her her her.

‘Prince Alberto was alive!’

Now she felt like she was going crazy with joy, but she suppressed it with the superhuman mental strength she had developed so far.

She barely suppressed the smile that kept forming on her lips and placed her hand on her chest.

“Hu~ha, hu~ha.”

To hide her joy, she tried to control her emotions by taking several deep breaths.

There was only one reason why she was so happy.

“Prince Alberto, you are alive…” ” ” …”

That was because it was confirmed that Alberto, the man she loved dearly, was alive.

In his life at the Royal Academy, where everyone ignored him, he was the only man who approached him kindly and extended his hand.

Even now, she couldn’t forget the feel of the hand he held out.

For the past three years, she was able to survive thanks to the feel of his hand.

“Do you know? “I have prepared so much for you.”

Irene put in a lot of effort to become a woman worthy of standing next to Alberto.

The first thing she did was to seize real power of the Grand Duchy of Galois.

Even though she was said to be a grand princess until now, it was because she was the eldest child born to her true wife.

However, after Alberto’s disappearance, she swore revenge on everyone.

To those who tried to hurt Alberto and tarnish his reputation

If an ordinary person had made that promise, many people would have snorted.

The people she swore to take revenge on were the Marquis of Arcus.

The family of the Marquis of Arcus was a great family that was comparable to the duke’s family in terms of family prestige.

Although Irene’s family, the Galois family, was a family with a grand duke ruling the Grand Duchy as the head of the family, it inevitably had less political influence than the Arcus family.

From noble mtl dot nete

This was because the Arcus family had a fiefdom close to the imperial capital, and the Grand Duchy of Galois was to the east of the Bregern Empire.

To the east of the Bregern Empire, there is a plain and coastal area surrounded by low mountains.

The Grand Duchy of Galois was a place where you had to cross a mountain or go down by boat in order to communicate with the outside world.

As can be seen from the fact that it is surrounded by mountains and the sea, this was a place where exchanges with the outside world rarely took place.

In the Bregern Empire, this land could not be abandoned, and it was difficult to send people to live there.

Knowing this, the head of the Galois family voluntarily decided to move here and received various benefits in return.

One of the representative interests was not having to pay taxes to the Bregern Empire.

Nobles belonging to the empire, especially those with fiefdoms, had to pay taxes once a year as a sign of loyalty.

Taxes are determined by law, and the amount of tax collected varies depending on the income collected during the year.

If you earned less, you collected less, and if you earned more, you collected more.

From the perspective of managing a fiefdom, having to pay taxes reduces your income, so you may be able to pay less taxes.

However, for nobles who valued honor, paying a lot of taxes was an indicator of how capable one was.

Someone had to officially recognize the property one had, and the most trustworthy institution was the Imperial Finance Ministry.

The national financial report, published here publicly once a year, lists which fiefdoms paid how much tax.

If a person was recorded in this report as paying more taxes than average, this meant that he was evaluated as a person of ability guaranteed by the empire.

Therefore, many nobles honestly reported the profits they collected from their fiefdoms and paid taxes.

By paying taxes honestly, one could reveal one’s position in aristocratic society.

Still, there were people who evaded taxes or paid less taxes by falsely reporting the income of their fiefdoms.

In that respect, the Grand Duchy of Galois could be said to be unique.

However, people who came to the Grand Duchy of Galois could naturally understand why they did not pay taxes.

The Grand Duchy of Galois had no significant means of profit.

It was only a Grand Duchy and part of the Bregern Empire, but in reality it was a completely different country.

The good news was that grains could be grown to some extent, seafood could be harvested, and iron ore of acceptable quality was mined in the mountain ranges.

So, there were merchants who went in and out of this territory professionally.

The only road they could use was from the Galois domain to the Bregen Empire.

It was a road in an area where the coastal area and the mountainous area meet.

This road was wide enough for four carriages to pass, but to get to a nearby territory through this road, carriages had to run for at least three days.

There were no villages nearby, and since it was a road not frequented by people, attacks by bandits and highwaymen were frequent.

Of course, this was after Irene, who had now established herself as the undisputed successor to the Grand Duchy of Galois, had carried out a large-scale clearing operation, so that highwaymen and bandits no longer threatened people passing along this road.

The Grand Duchy of Galois was a fiefdom where one could easily run the fiefdom and live a noble life as long as one was not too greedy.

However, there were some who did not like the good-natured nature of the current Archduke Galois.

So, they would use their hands to ensure that the person they supported would become the next Archduke Galois.

One of the victims was Irene, the current successor to the Archduke Galois.

In the past, she would have been helpless, but after meeting Alberto, she became stronger.

He did everything he could to punish those who tried to harm him.

As she lived, defeating those who tried to bring her down, many changes occurred.

Those who regarded her as an ordinary female member of the Grand Duke’s family nicknamed her the Cold-Blooded Grand Duchess.

As many as 100 people died at her hands

They were all people who tried to bring her down and make her the next successor to the Grand Duke of Galois.

Even though they were all corpses now.

Having thus solidified her position, Irene eliminated all those who could threaten her position.

At the same time, she provided various welfare benefits to the residents living in the estate, preventing opposition from below.

She even made the Grand Duchy of Galois better off than before based on her experience at the Royal Academy.

Among them, the Marquis of Arcus family was completely destroyed by the Duke of Galois family led by Irene.

The person who currently leads the family of the Marquis of Arcus is the deputy marquis and was a person of Irene.

This happened just one year after he pledged to wipe out the Marquis of Arcus family that had harmed Alberto.

After that, she attended the Royal Academy and learned how to manage the estate more efficiently.

As time passed, everyone who interfered with her, both inside and outside of her territory she disappeared.

He was now the undisputed successor to the Grand Duchy of Galois.

Her nickname in public is ‘Cold-Blooded Grand Duchess.’

This nickname was given to her because she killed her relatives without the slightest hesitation to solidify her position.

But Irene didn’t care about this.

People won’t know.

The reason she did this was because it was for just one person.

But she won’t know.

That her own love would not come true.