"Your Majesty!!"(??)
An alarming voice cried out, echoing through the walls of the castle.
"What, Shion?"(Souma)
"Y-Yes, One of our spies we sent to each nobles has alarming news in Marquis Runosia's territory.."(Shion)
"What is it?"(Souma)
Souma sighs, he already thought Runosia was the shady type, the 'road maintenance' was supposed to be done by the nobles of their territories yet Runosia had the gal to ask it from him, Souma wouldn't be surprised if he did something like that again,
"No one in Runosia's territory…. Has.. any money. They pay their citizens with food and objects, skipping the money system"(Shion)
"What?"(Souma)
Something like that was unprecedented and unthinkable in the medieval era, (not the modern era though, communism and whatnot)
"Hmm, like what happened in your hometown, Shion?"(Rondo)
Rondo, who overheard, spoke up,
"Hmm?"(Souma)
Souma was confused at the revelation,
"I'm not surprised that you don't know Your Majesty but, ____"(Rondo)
Rondo then went and spoke up on about the Mong Empire,
Its first Emperor, Emperor Vladid Serbyoski, attempted to start a new economic ideology called 'Project Communist' and attempted it in a small town near its border, (unsurprisingly) it ended in failure and suffering of the 2, 000 subjects selected for the project and the abandonment of the town nicknamed 'Marx' town,
50 years after his death, they are still trying,
"So, these fuckers plan to experiment with 'my' country?"(Souma)
"Y-Yes, Your Majesty"(Shion)
"Hmm, okay then, prepare for war."(Souma)
"Y-Ye—wait what?!"(Shion)
"Your Majesty!"(Rondo)
Shion and Rondo's voice were heard and justified,
A newborn country is waging war with the an empire who revolutionized the modern world, (Medieval era is what they were referring to 'Modern World') is simply stupid in every way,
"It would be suicide, for now, hehehe, MUAHAHAHAHAHHA!!"(Souma)
"??!"(Rondo/Shiro)
"Shiro, go to Earl Cranasia, tell him that I will go to the Dwarf Village for a mass commission of items."(Souma)
"Eh, I don't like Earl Cra- Wait!!? You will go personally?? But Your Ma—"(Shiro)
"No buts, Prime Minister Shion, this is war we are talking about, oh and after that go to the elf village and tell them I need 'Item 23'. Oh Rondo, keep tabs on Runosia, a new economic ideology is a responsibility for the Minister of Finances."(Souma)
"Y-Yes!"(Rondo/Shion)
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In Souma's bedroom,
He thought,
'Vladid huh? Sounds Russian and 'Communism'? this isn't a coincidence'
'My first job as king is to wage war huh?'