Since the soft approach did not work, he would have to use force.
Nianze frequently mobilized the army for drills, intending to put pressure on them. Yet who would have thought that Yang Zi would complain about him to their father? Then the others followed suit, claiming that Nianze was using his power to bully others, utterly disregarding their former familial ties. They even said that if Shiraishi Yoshijo did not discipline Nianze, they would put righteousness before family and such nonsense. It nearly made Shiraishi Yoshijo laugh himself to death.
Of course, laughter aside, Shiraishi Yoshijo ultimately stepped in personally to stop Nianze, advising him not to be too hasty.
After causing such a farce, Nianze was so frustrated that he wanted to smash his head against a wall.
He had finally understood something completely.
As long as his father was alive, regardless of whether his father was emperor or not, his father was the master of this country. This was the influence his father had once spoken of.
In everyone else's eyes, there would always be only his father. And he would forever be nothing more than a fledgling beneath his father's wings.
Fine. A fledgling it was. His father was still his father, after all.
Since he could not get money from outside, he could only get it from within.
So the question was, who was the richest person in Peach Country?
The answer was naturally the emperor.
Asking his old father for money was—well, rather damaging to the pride of Nianze, who had been determined to prove his own abilities.
But things had already come to this, so how could Nianze care about losing face? Yet when he tactfully indicated that the national treasury had no money, he never dreamed that his father would simply spread