After waiting for an hour, Nianze led Oyashiro En into the meeting room.
"Greetings, Your Majesty."
Oyashiro En bowed slightly in greeting. Shiraishi Yoshijo nodded. "Enough. You bastard, you've been secretly causing me so much trouble. Are you really not afraid of dying?"
"For Peach Country, I would die without regret. Your Majesty, I heard you intend to retire?"
"Feeling relieved, are you?"
"I wouldn't dare, but this truly is a good thing."
Nianze, standing beside them, was dumbfounded. There was actually someone who dared speak to his father like that?
Shiraishi Yoshijo snorted coldly, his hand hidden in his sleeve already clenched into a fist.
"A good thing? What's so good about it?"
"Why ask when you already know, Your Majesty?" Oyashiro En said with a smile, pushing up his glasses. "Peach Country has now established global hegemony, yet it has gained no tangible benefits from it. That is entirely because Your Majesty has been obstructing matters and refusing to centralize power. The Land of Earth is one thing, but even with the Land of Lightning, I truly want to ask: Your Majesty, why are you betraying the nation?"
A flicker of astonishment crossed Shiraishi Yoshijo's face, followed immediately by furious rage.
He had once thought this man had a pleasant way with words, but now he felt that his mouth was venomous!
In the end, it was because the two of them now stood on opposing sides.
From the nation's standpoint, Oyashiro En believed Shiraishi Yoshijo was acting utterly irresponsibly. Centralizing power was a national policy Peach Country absolutely needed to implement, yet Shiraishi Yoshijo, as emperor, disregarded national interests for selfish reasons. At least the five special zones of the Land of Fire could be taxed, but they could not collect even a cent in taxes from