306.Queen Amidala
Mid Rim, Naboo, capital Theed City.
On a beautiful planet, a beautiful city, a city now enveloped in a rain of flowers.
In the city, colorful flags were flying, drums and music were blaring, and countless fireworks illuminated the sky colorfully.
People spontaneously took to the streets and sprinkled flower petals on Theed City Central Street. They cheered loudly, laughed, and shouted the same name together——
Queen Amidala!
On Central Street, a long parade motorcade passed slowly. At the front of the motorcade, a girl as beautiful as a budding flower was standing on the roof of the car, surrounded by flowers. She showed a beautiful and innocent smile and waved to the people around her.
After Naboo's former king Als-Veruna announced his resignation and disappeared, after seven months of preparations and elections, Naboo finally determined his new king, or... Queen.
Padmé-Naberrie!
The respected elder personally painted Padmé-Naberrie with heavy makeup representing the supreme authority, then put the gorgeous crown on her head, announcing the birth of the new king Naboo!
This talented girl who is only 14 years old has an unparalleled reputation in the hearts of the people of Naboo. She studied law since she was a child, entered the Theed City legislative body at the age of 8, and graduated with first place three years later and became an official legislator.
Moreover, she has been carrying out various charity activities and refugee relief activities all year round. She has been traveling to every poverty-stricken area in Naboo for a long time, bringing support and warmth to the poor who are hungry due to King Veruna's mediocre rule.
Padmé has determined to be in politics since she was a child, because she believes that only by engaging in politics can she help more people. For this reason, she did not hesitate to part ways with her second lover and an artist she loved deeply, Ian Largo [Note 1].
Naboo adopts a monarchy electoral system, so at the age of 13, shortly before Als-King Veruna plotted to assassinate Hego-Damask II, the girl Naberrie family was elected as a princess, one of the candidates for the king, and her king name was designated Amidala.
And Padmé-Naberrie became Princess Amidala from that day on.
After Als-King Veruna announced his departure after leaving a mess, some people hoped that Padmé-Naberrie would stand up and elect the king and lead Naboo to move forward.
Padmé-Naberrie originally thought that he was relatively inexperienced and did not want to elect the king now. But then Naboo's MPs Sheev-Palpatine also expressed his support for Padmé and often attended her charity events to raise money for her poverty alleviation fund.
Moreover, Palpatine also hinted that now only she can save Naboo from dire straits, which made Padmé finally make up his mind.
There were no surprises in the election results. Padmé-Naberrie, who won the support of both civilians and nobles, easily defeated all competitors and was elected Naboo Planet Queen.
After taking on the role of Queen, her nickname also continued, called Queen Amidala.
So her name should be Padmé-Naberrie, and her royal number is Queen Amidala. These two are the official titles, and Padmé-Amidala is just a conventional and popular title.
After Queen was elected, Padmé immediately began to fulfill his promise. She claimed that she wanted to return power to the people, and the previous perverse behavior of Als-Veruna also proved that a lifelong king could bring disastrous results to Naboo. Therefore, Padmé amended the constitution to limit the king's term to 5 years, and could be re-elected once at most.
And because Queen Amidala is the second youngest king in the history of Naboo, her cabinet also arranged many means for her safety. There is a group of maids around Queen Amidala. They are all friends who grew up with Padmé-Naberrie, and have received strict training to serve as her bodyguards, spies, and even mistresses of political opponents.
Moreover, Padmé herself is hidden among the maids, appearing as an ordinary maid, but the one wearing heavy makeup, a crown and gorgeous clothes is actually her stand-in - a maid named Sabe.
Sometimes, no matter how kind or noble a person is, once it comes to the level of royal power, they will be stained with a little bit of black.
After that, faced with internal and external troubles, Queen Amidala began to take difficult steps step by step. She first sent an envoy to Gungan, hoping to repair relations with them, and promised not to over-exploit plasma mines in the future and to protect Gungan's living environment.
Then she started negotiating with Trade Federation and lowered her stance, hoping that Trade Federation could reconsider the unequal treaty signed with Als-King Veruna.
Queen Amidala told Trade Federation Governor Newt Gunray that if the previous unequal treaties continue, Naboo's administrative foundation will be severely hit, and a war between humans and Gungan may even break out. And because on Naboo, the population of Gungan living in the water is more than twice that of human residents, close to 3 billion, so once the war starts, it will be out of control.
If it comes to this step, Trade Federation itself will not be able to guarantee the output of the plasma mine.
And if the treaty can be re-signed, Naboo is willing to cooperate more with Trade Federation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit to make the bilateral relationship closer.
But at the negotiation venue, although Sabe, pretending to be Queen Amidala, spoke sincerely according to his instructions, Padmé, who was standing in the crowd as a maid, saw in despair that Newt Gunray, who was sitting opposite, had an increasingly cold expression.
Trade Federation, there is no intention to negotiate at all.
After the first day of negotiations, Newt Gunlay just said one sentence: Trade Federation's interests in Naboo cannot be tarnished in any way. Then he walked away and left, flying directly to Golden Nyss Shipyard, chatting and chatting with the representatives of Fourth Group, Glosse-Shelbia, and was excited to see the battlecruiser data that was analyzed one by one.
Although Rune Harkou, who stayed to negotiate on behalf of Trade Federation, was a coward and did not dare to say the same harsh words as Newt Gunray, his position was still extremely firm——
If Naboo cannot come up with a new clause that makes Trade Federation's income no less than that of the current unequal treaty, then everything will continue as usual.
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[Note 1: You read that right, before meeting Chosen One Anakin-Skywalker, Padmé had two relationships, and she had her first relationship in every sense, and she was only 13 years old at that time! The soul is weak! What a beast! Let her go and let me do it!]
[Easter egg chapter attached picture 1: Queen Amidala (disguise).]