When fate makes you bow your head, you can resist—but be prepared to accept the consequences of taking a backdoor route around fate!
Your Majesty the Emperor did not resist fate, so during this process... he could actually still put on a show of enjoying it.
Whether he truly enjoyed it or not, at least he could preserve some of his dignity, while his core interests would remain untouched! Soon, the Imperial Emperor had made his decision regarding the Federal people's "demands," and the Federal Government was also using this method to remind him.
Don't forget the pain just because you've started feeling better!
It was very useful and effective. As for whether it would cause some trouble within the Peng Joe Empire, who cared? The changes in the social system had already left many people with no interest in these national affairs. The only thing they cared about was how much money they could earn next week or next month.
And what those sums of money could buy in the current market! Gladstone certainly had no idea that while he was reading the newspaper, so many major events had taken place in the world.
Just as he did not know that when he closed and opened his eyes, more than a few minutes had passed—it had been an entire hour! When he saw the old man's portrait, he really wanted to laugh. The old man was dead, while he was still alive.
From certain political perspectives, the person who lived to the end was always the victor, because at least he was still alive!
The only thing he found regrettable was that victory had come too late.
A late victory was not necessarily a victory, just like now! If this news had arrived a few days earlier, he could