Entering the Capital (1)

For a hundred years, chaos had persisted, and the wealth the nobles had amassed through corruption had swollen to absurd proportions.

Until now, that corruption had been poison eating away at the Empire....

'But now, it's a piggy bank for me.'

From the perspective of someone who no longer needed to preserve the existing system, that was actually a good thing.

I intended to completely overhaul the Empire's administrative system—not into an aristocracy, but into a thoroughly modern authoritarian dictatorship.

No one could be allowed to emerge who might challenge my authority in this Empire.

What the Empire needed now was not checks that could challenge its leader and prevent him from going astray, but efficient decision-making and tremendous momentum.

I would turn the House of Nobles into a parliament and replace the nobles with entrepreneurs. Of course, unlike the nobles who had wielded absolute power, entrepreneurs would be subject to various restrictions.

Treating the nobles under Southern law rather than existing Imperial law was part of that plan.

Imperial law was far too favorable to the nobles to interpret it clause by clause and send them to the chopping block...