Chapter 278

Meanwhile, near the Imperial court, the Spies from Sky too were a bit stunned but had expected surprises in Aelius Politically as informed by their superiors . One of the Head spies nodded his head and spoke to his mates, "You can confirm to Lord Grey and Lord Taylor about today's decisions taken in the Imperial court of Aelius . Prince Hector's power has been reduced and it seems Lord Plato is sending us quite a message by demoting 10 officials and Imprisoning 5 officials on bribery cases from Prince Hector's faction . As for total demotions, it looks like 23 in total . There are also demotions from Prince Felix's faction, it seems this is done to aim the Radiant Church . "

King Ludwin's spies meanwhile squinted their eyebrows as they understood the implications and message behind today's political storm in Aelius .

One of the men took a parchment and wrote a letter for Internal Minister Murnet about today's matter .

The man murmured as he wrote the letter, "It seems today's matters are quite serious and indicates a certain alignment between Lord John's interests . I guess they have a deeper deal as well . Anyway, the mistrust between both countries won't be gone for a long time . "

Meanwhile, near the Aelius Court, A lot of ministers and bureaucrats were gossiping on previous dismissals in private and about the big changes in power .

One of the ministers spoke with a big smile, "I never thought that the bureau of Personnel had such big corruption going on for this long . Now, It is good that we can cut some of their wings by bringing in some laws to rein them in . "

Another bureaucrat who had previously offended the vice-head from the Bureau of Personnel smiled a bit and spoke about his plans, "Yes, the newly created Political inspection department, especially for the Ministry of Personnel, is quite good for us to keep them in check as all the departments can write them letters so that they can investigate them if some corruption is going on . "

Meanwhile, he himself thought, 'I better get those sons and nephews from our family to be recruited in this Ministry of Inspection to get more power . Meanwhile, we can scheme against the vice-head of the Ministry of Personnel to be impeached for his corrupt practices . He and the other heads at the Ministry of Personnel might be feeling quite a lot of heat today . '

Similar conversations and schemes were being carried out by ministers and bureaucrats outside the Imperial court .

At this moment Duke Norman had a thought to gain his Majesty's favor and was writing a petition which will be given in a few days to the court officially .

Duke Norman's Assistant thought and asked, "Milord, What is this petition related to? I don't think we would want to poke a hornet's nest by writing a petition since there was such a big political storm today . "

Duke Norman smiled and spoke his mind after watching today's fiasco, "Haha, Don't worry kid, since this time the Imperial court has started targeting the Radiant Church's finances then I too won't be going against this trend . It is related to what my spies in Lord John's domain had observed long ago . I hoped that his Majesty would set up a Research Institute in the Healthcare sector like the one in Lord John's domain from half of the proceeds of profits of Medicine sale we do in the future . This Institute can be formed by private businesses or the Royal Family itself . Like John's institute, we should hire Potioneers, herbalists, Magicians, etc to conduct research and experiments to make effective medicines like Sky . Lord John was quite perceptive in creating such an institution . Even if we get unworthy results we can still get some results which can be useful in the future . So even if we create medicine for one of the diseases it will be helpful for us . "

The assistant's eyes started sparkling and spoke, "Lord, then why don't we do it from the profits we earn by selling it in our domain?"

Duke smiled and spoke, "Kid, I know what you are thinking, I am not doing this to earn money currently . I am doing this to earn political points in the Imperial court and also earn the favor of his Majesty . Come and take this petition and hand it over to the administrator today only . But if it doesn't work as the Royal family might not have enough funds then I may try to make a business collaboration with other Nobles and Merchants to reduce my loss in the initial funding for research . Because from what I know from my spies, that kid is quite a genius disciple of that Old Hag Melanie and it was actually him who created those medicines so it would be quite difficult for mediocre people . We can't fight with him in a fair competition but we can try to poach his researchers and also try to plant spies to rob their research data after the peace trade deal . Also if we get some results then the Royal family would certainly support us via giving orders and raising taxes in the name of fair competition . "

The assistant nodded as he understood Norman's plan and exclaimed, "Aah, now I understand . No wonder you were always an astute politician, Uncle . "

Duke Norman spoke harshly as soon as he heard his nephew, "Don't call me uncle at the Imperial court . It will be problematic for you in the future . Now hurry up and give the envelope to Lord Roman immediately . "

The Nephew hesitated a bit and spoke, "Milord, it seems you are quite respectful to Lord John nowadays after his successful rebellion . Previously, you only had disdain for him when we were at war with him . "

Norman thought deeply and spoke, "Well, now he has enough capital and qualifications to gain my respect . Even the Lord Grand Duke, My father felt the same after watching his courage as well as the political scheme laid out by that brat from the day he became a Lord . The actions where we thought of him as foolish was something he deliberately did to fool us . If we were in his position then we would have lost the war and the Royal family would have seized our technologies like the Lorr family . Anyway, go and deliver the petition to Lord Roman so that he can review it present it to the Imperial court . "