He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 2

Became the Greatest Crazy Emperor – Episode 2

Became the Greatest Crazy Emperor 2

“Your Majesty, will you be attending the royal court meeting today?”

It’s been a week since I became the emperor.

I was having a great time slacking off.

I wish I could say I wasn’t just playing around, but I was, in fact, just playing around.

The state of the country is quite a mess, but it’s not like the imperial family is in dire straits, so I’ve been busy eating delicious banquets every day, lazing around, and finding out about things.

For the first day or two, it was fun.

The food was delicious, even if it lacked some modern flair, and even though I missed carbonated drinks, I could drink high-quality liquor to my heart’s content.

So I spent my time eating, sleeping, reading, and learning about the ‘System’.

I lived a life of utter laziness, but after a week, I got tired of it.

“Are all the officials gathered?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. They are waiting for your arrival.”

So, I decided to start working a little from today.

It’s not because I like working, but because this world is incredibly boring.

What’s the point of being an emperor? There are no computer games, no idols, no web novels, no entertainment shows, and no clubs, which I didn’t frequent much anyway.

Soccer? Baseball? What are those? Are they edible?

If I don’t do something more dynamic than this, I’m going to die of boredom.

“Alright, what are the agenda items for today’s meeting?”

Shortly after, sitting on the throne in the audience hall, I asked the officials lined up in a lax manner.

“Yes, Your Majesty, if we are to review the important agenda items in order…….”

“Instead of that, just tell me what the agenda items are first.”

As expected, the Prime Minister spoke, but I cut him off and ordered him to speak.

Documents with the agenda items were submitted, but I didn’t want to read them all, so I made him tell me.

Wouldn’t the reporter be able to lie even if he did that?

No, I had [Emperor’s Eyes].

[Name: Karl Bright]

[Position: Prime Minister of the Gross Empire]

[Abilities: Administrative Power 8, Diplomatic Power 6, Combat Power 2]

[Disposition: Competent, Slightly Corrupt, Sincere]

[Current Thoughts: It would be better to look at the documents directly, tsk tsk, I’m worried about the future of the Empire]

I could see the Prime Minister’s thoughts clearly through the Emperor’s Eyes.

[Emperor’s Eyes]

[You can read the thoughts of those who belong to the Emperor’s vassals conditionally or probabilistically depending on their loyalty.]

[You can see through information or value of things necessary for governance.]

[You can see the personal information of all imperial citizens.]

‘As expected, it’s an ability with great cost-effectiveness.’

The choice to choose the Emperor’s Eyes was not wrong after all.

With that trait, I asked him while reading the Prime Minister’s impudent thoughts.

“What are you doing? Are you having impudent thoughts about me?”

“No, Your Majesty. Then I will tell you in order.”

I saw through his impudent thoughts and spoke, but the Prime Minister replied without changing his expression.

Judging by the competent aura he was exuding, he was the perfect talent to enslave.

But after listening to the agenda items he was talking about, my impression was, ‘I’m going to die of boredom.’

‘Taxes aren’t being collected well? Isn’t it strange if they were collected well when the country is in this state?’

‘The local lords are disloyal, if I were on a ship that looked like it was about to sink, I would naturally think about saving myself first.’

‘What’s with strengthening the punishment because the public sentiment is turbulent? Can’t you think of a way to make the public sentiment not turbulent?’

The Prime Minister had been singing for me to approve it all week, so I thought there was something important, but I was disappointed.

They were all armchair theories or things that didn’t require me, the emperor, to think about.

Perhaps they were agenda items raised with the intention of looking down on me, the emperor, and deceiving me.

“I see now. You can stop talking, Prime Minister.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. Then which one would you like to approve?”

“I will not approve anything.”

“……Yes?”

The Prime Minister questioned, as if he couldn’t accept the flow of the conversation.

Not only him, but the other officials also looked embarrassed.

“Ha, Your Majesty, if you don’t approve, the state affairs…….”

“You’re asking me to approve after doing work like this?”

“…….”

When I spat out harsh words directly, everyone’s expression turned white.

Even if he is the emperor of a failing country, the emperor is still the emperor.

If I feel like it, I can physically separate the heads of the officials here.

Of course, they have no choice but to sweat when I show signs of anger.

This feels better than I thought?

Feeling the subtle pleasure of absolute power, I continued, thinking that this was why the tyrants in history went so wild.

“Just by looking at the agenda items you’ve raised, I can tell how carelessly you’ve scribbled them. Did you think that if you just covered them up roughly and raised them for approval, I would just stamp them like a blind man?”

The emperor continued to spew harsh words at his vassals without the slightest hesitation.

“The contents of the agenda items you’ve raised are terrible, but the agenda items that are desperately needed in the current situation are not visible; can I take this as an insult to me?”

Their eyes were shaking as the harsh words continued.

Even though it is a failing country, as long as the empire exists as an empire, the emperor’s power is at least strong to his vassals.

Rather, the more failing the country is, the more terrible the state of the country is, but the emperor’s power alone becomes stronger.

‘It’s a common characteristic of failing countries.’

To be exact, not only the emperor’s, but also the power of the leadership becomes stronger.

It is easy to think that treacherous subjects or powerful subjects ruin the country and make the king or emperor a figurehead, but that is not the case in a country that is truly doomed.

Since vassals, whether they are powerful or not, cannot create power on their own, real traitorous vassals leave the authority of the king or emperor intact or even strengthen it.

Instead, they just play along with such a king in various ways and live in luxury.

‘I’m probably an emperor who was enthroned with that intention.’

As a totem-like role to maintain a moderately corrupt phenomenon.

Of course, there may be loyal subjects who really worry about the country, but there will inevitably be many people of the opposite kind.

So, I’m an emperor who was set up to be easily held and shaken, so they must be confused because I suddenly came out strong.

And if I point someone out and say, ‘Kill that guy,’ it was possible to kill him without question.

But I had no intention of doing that.

‘Why would I? I’m just going to live the way I want. If I kill him as a treacherous subject, my power will be reduced.’

Of course, it depends on the power structure, but based on what I’ve learned in the past week, killing treacherous subjects is not a better choice if I only think about my power.

It would be a different story if I openly said, ‘I’m going to reform the empire! So all the treacherous subjects are dead!’ but I had no intention of doing that.

No one likes living in a latrine, so I can reform the country.

But at least I had no intention of taking the lead in that reform.

Because it’s also difficult for me to get aggro [attract unwanted attention].

Above all, I had no intention of being ground to death while working.

After all, my goal is to live the way I want.

“Review and raise it again. If the plans for each agenda item are substandard or not essential, there will be absolutely no approval.”

“Yo, Your Majesty…….”

“I will step down now. Head of the Imperial Guard, follow me.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

I will try to make sure that the empire does not fall at least in my generation, but I only intend to do what I want.

I have to use the vassals for trivial matters.

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“Huh, gee. I wonder what His Majesty is thinking.”

The Prime Minister of the Empire, Karl Bright, muttered to himself as he left the audience hall after the royal court meeting.

The emperor who ascended the throne at the young age of 18.

He was a talented person from what I had seen since childhood.

So, even after the late emperor suddenly passed away, I thought that his enthronement might be a better opportunity.

The late emperor was not a very bad emperor, but he was not a good emperor either.

At least he was not an emperor who could revive the empire, which is currently in a bad situation both internally and externally.

“However, His Majesty’s actions since his enthronement have not been very good…….”

He suddenly refused to approve the documents and refused all official duties for the past week.

But it’s not like he was just being extravagant. He enjoyed banquets and drank a lot of alcohol, but that wasn’t a big flaw for an emperor.

He never touched the maids of the imperial palace, so he was rather close to being restrained as an emperor.

Besides, he spent quite a lot of time reading books. He often asked the servants in the imperial palace about things he was curious about without worrying about his face.

But he hardly mixed words with me, the Prime Minister.

“It seems like he’s changed a bit…… no, we weren’t close enough to know his personality in the first place.”

He hasn’t shown many actions since becoming emperor, but he had never seen the arrogant actions he showed today when he was the crown prince.

But considering his status as the crown prince, he may have been hiding such a personality for some reason.

“If so, he knows how to hide his true feelings, so what is his intention…….”

While the Prime Minister’s worries were getting longer, he felt someone approaching him and looked towards them.

“Prime Minister, what are you thinking so hard about?”

“Ah, Head Butler Jurgen? I wasn’t thinking about anything special.”

It was Jurgen Heinenberg, a vassal who was in charge of the head butler position.

The head butler’s name is head butler, but he only oversees the royal palace butlers and does not directly perform butler duties.

Direct butler duties are mainly done by the deputy butlers, and those deputy butlers use the servants to handle the miscellaneous tasks of the royal palace.

But the head butler is not just a sinecure [a position requiring little or no work] that takes care of miscellaneous tasks. Rather, it was the center of power.

Within the imperial palace, the head butler was virtually close to the emperor’s personal secretary.

Dirty things that could not be discussed with the Prime Minister were mainly resolved through the trusted head butler.

‘This guy seems to be in a good mood because the emperor is showing such an attitude.’

In fact, the former emperor did not trust him very much.

He was not a great emperor, but he was not a tyrant either, so he did not easily wield the various powers that the head butler had and continued a smooth rule.

He spent moderately on luxury, so the head butler nominally held power, but he couldn’t really wield it.

But now that the current emperor has shown an unexpected move, he must have seen it as an opportunity.

An opportunity to become a powerful subject.

“Perhaps you are worried about what His Majesty said at this meeting?”

“I will not deny it. How could a vassal not be?”

“Huhu, His Majesty must have his own thoughts. Isn’t our top priority to follow His Majesty’s will?”

The Prime Minister listened to his words and thought that he was just gloating because he thought things would go his way.

But on the other hand, what if the emperor really had his own intentions and showed such actions?

‘Well, there are a lot of agenda items that are not in line with the actual situation.’

For example, an agenda item was raised that ‘taxes are not being collected well’, but the analysis of the cause was poor or intentionally omitted in many parts.

Then, the solution written down was to collect taxes more harshly, so it was true that even the Prime Minister thought it was substandard.

The other agenda items were the same. They were not in line with reality, ignored reality, or, in severe cases, were really raised to deceive the emperor.

‘If he intentionally ignored the approval of such agenda items, he may really be planning something.’

“Prime Minister, you seem to be lost in thought again. Take it easy even when you work. You can get sick.”

“Cough, thank you for the advice. I’ll be on my way.”

Karl Prime Minister quickly left the place, leaving Jurgen Head Butler behind.

Jurgen Head Butler looked at him sinisterly.