"Thank you for your hard work!"
The next morning, in the Emperor’s study, Jenia relayed the "information purchased at a high price" from Lynch to the Emperor. After hearing the news, the Emperor imdiately expressed his gratitude to Jenia.
"What you said is very important to , providing a perspective we hadn’t considered before. How did you convince Lynch to tell you this?"
Jenia sat on the beautifully upholstered chair, crossed her legs, holding a lady’s cigarette holder with a filter. She glanced at the Emperor with a hint of disdain, shook her head, "Are you sure you want to know?"
The Emperor was stunned by her attitude for a mont, but curiosity ultimately overca his reason.
Curiosity is normal for everyone, even the Emperor.
The thods conveyed by Jenia, which ca from Lynch, indeed offered a way to address so issues in the Alia Region that they hadn’t considered before. This was a unique approach and solution, very valuable.
His Majesty the Emperor believed that if he were Lynch, he wouldn’t have disclosed the information without sufficient benefits.
Even though Jenia’s "Are you sure you want to know" contained potentially unpleasant guesses, the Emperor still wanted to ask.
Curiosity comprised most of it, and part of it was to ensure the effective value of this information through its "purchase price."
It’s like soone buying a gemstone-like thing for one dollar. When he tells others he bought it for one dollar, no one will associate the shiny thing with a gemstone.
But if he tells others it cost hundreds or thousands or more, people will imdiately associate the shiny thing with a gemstone.
Not just gemstones, anything that can be assessed, tangible or intangible, follows this principle.
Jenia took a drag from the cigarette, the intricate lady’s cigarette holder adorned with gemstone particles, wrapped in red lips, glowed for a mont as she exhaled the smoke and revealed the cost she paid for the information.
"I sucked...", she didn’t feel any embarrassnt at all, instead looked at the Emperor with interest.
The Emperor was first stunned, then his expression turned unpleasant.
Jenia, as the most famous mber of the Imperial Family, the sister acclaid as "Flower of the Empire," the dream love of countless n in the Empire.
Yet she went so far...?!
Lynch truly despicable!
But soon, this angry emotion subsided; he knew he had no ans against Lynch.
If Lynch were killed by him, perhaps a war would be inevitable.
The Federation frantically expanded its international influence; their approach differs from Gafura’s through war. They are more subtle, less aggressive, and easily accepted.
But this doesn’t an they can tolerate a diplomatic personnel’s death; it would undoubtedly cause significant trouble, all just speculation.
Yet the thought of his sister, sitting less than ten ters away from him, possibly engaging in those acts naked, made him unhappy, angry, and... a bit excited.
Fortunately, he quickly adjusted his mindset, finally saying, "Thank you for your hard work."
"You said that earlier!", Jenia’s sharp counter, "I did this not for myself or for you, but for the Imperial Family and the country. I must tell you, this is the last ti."
"I don’t want you to have do this whenever there’s trouble; I’m not a prostitute!"
Jenia rarely expressed her position firmly; feeling guilty, the Emperor faced his rarely assertive sister and chose to apologize to express his attitude.
"I’m sorry, this is the last ti!"
Jenia’s expression soon softened, "I accept your apology!"
After a few seconds, the Emperor escaped from these emotions, continuing to ask, "So, are these all his thods?"
Jenia shook her head, took a puff, pulled the cigarette from the holder, tossed it in the ashtray, "From the tone and attitude when he spoke, these are rely what he is willing to share; he has better thods, but he’s determined not to tell . I believe you need to et him."
The Emperor nodded, "If he truly has better thods, then I should et him...", he pondered for a while, "You can talk to him, invite him to the Imperial Palace, we can have dinner together, perhaps make so progress."
Jenia stood up, packed so personal items like a lighter, cigarettes, and cigarette holder into her bag, "I will invite him, but I can’t promise he will co."
"Thank you!"
The Emperor eagerly anticipated the eting with Lynch, but in the evening, he received disappointing news; Lynch refused to et the Emperor, citing refusing private etings before negotiations concluded.
To ensure the negotiations proceeded without incidents from an unsolicited invitation, Lynch’s reasons were sufficient. Neither Jenia nor His Majesty could find any reason to refute Lynch’s reason.
He himself being a mber of the diplomatic delegation, private contact with Gafura official personnel would be a taboo, no flaws to pick, Emperor Gafura can only urge his subordinates to conclude the negotiations, at least the main contents.
The two simple thods Lynch offered to Emperor Gafura were brought out by the Emperor to discuss with trusted ministers.
"Are these truly Lynch’s ideas?", the Minister of Defense found it hard to believe, "I think it’s more likely soone behind him provided the ideas, a young man in his twenties can’t possibly have the capability to devise these solutions, and you said he has better thods!"
Other ministers nodded in agreent, their eyes returning to the written description.
The two thods Lynch conveyed through Jenia to the Emperor were simple: immigration and opportunity.
Large-scale immigration alters the foundational structure of the Alia Region’s social base; Lynch also ntioned immigrants mainly from the lower class.
Letting more ordinary people from the Empire fill the Alia Region to dilute the proportion of the entire region resenting the rulers while providing stability and supervision to so degree.
Currently, most of those living in the Alia Region are rchants, middle to upper class; they wouldn’t live with ordinary people, having their own living areas in each city, disconnected from the outside world.
This instead gave locals a very wrong implication, that Gafura people haven’t truly accepted the region or its people; they first established a class confrontation stance, leading to the subsequent escalating tensions.
Secondly, Lynch ntioned giving locals opportunities; Gafura people are arrogant, evident from their attitude towards other races; under such a "we are superior" environnt, how could the ruled accept themselves as inferior?
Moreover, utterly lacking opportunities, which is the most terrifying.
Human society has proven countless tis that with even the slightest possibility of a future, people will strive for the seemingly possible future!
This includes their stable work and study.
Open channels for locals to enter the upper society, increase promotion opportunities for locals, and grant limited autonomy, transforming the "us vs. them" conflict into internal conflicts among locals, reducing pressure.
These thods were perhaps thought of by Gafura people before but not taken seriously; noble Gafura people are the ruling race of the universe, a naless lowly race doesn’t deserve equality with the noble Gafura people?
No... Impossible!
Now they must face this problem and seriously consider Lynch’s suggestions; ultimately, their discussion concluded the suggestions were quite feasible.
But soon they faced another issue; all Gafura people knew the Alia Region’s ssy situation was dangerous, frequent attacks from various anti-governnt ard groups against Gafura people.
Call for people to migrate to the Alia Region now?
Even the Emperor’s words wouldn’t be effective; only a few lunatics would go, normal people wouldn’t.
"These thods are suited for relatively calm tis, not now; our current problems require more stringent solutions, these are references."’
This was the Minister of Defense’s final summary: valuable but currently useless.
The Emperor hesitated; his hesitation was noticed by the Minister of Defense who then communicated instantly through eye contact among ministers, and the Minister of the Army stood up.
"Your Majesty, if Lynch has better suggestions, perhaps we should talk to Lynch!"
Alia Region affects the nerves of this nation; if anyone claims to solve the issues, ministers wouldn’t mind offering an opportunity.
The Emperor nodded and then shook his head, "He does have, but he doesn’t want to et us now, citing that we’re currently in the negotiation process, and before that concludes, he won’t engage in private contact with anyone."
Showing a helpless expression, urging the completion of negotiations, without undermining national dignity, showcasing Gafura’s tolerance and generosity.
The entire ti, the Minister of Finance, feeling so matters slipping out of control, appeared indifferent.
Compared to the shared interests of the nobility and royal family, an international speculator and so money won’t stop him from pursuing his true intentions!
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