Chapter 56: The Transmigrator's Comparative Thoughts

  "Hey, brother! The postal reform was your idea in the first place. How can you just drop it now? Can't you follow through on anything for more than three minutes?"

  "But military achievements are more important than this reform! I'll just put my name on it, and leave the rest to the people below. That way, everything will be fine, right?" The fat man was still reluctant to give up the opportunity to join the army.

  His approach is not unworkable, but to let him be a teammate, no matter how I think about it, it doesn't seem reliable: "Big brother thinks that on the battlefield, your sweating figure will be seen by people?"

  "No way! How?" Big Fatty subconsciously said.

  "What's going on here, brother? Are you working day and night? You should know that the reforms you're carrying out now will also have an impact on the entire war situation! Isn't this exactly the scenario you've been dreaming of? I'm emphasizing my tone, if this guy still doesn't understand, I'll smash my head against the wall and die!"

  "Daydreaming?" Marcus was taken aback, and sprang up with a start! His big belly made the flower vases on the table shake violently. "Younger brother, I'm leaving first! Now I'll go find my goddess... No, I'll go take care of your affairs right away!"

  The big fat guy just left like that.

  I looked at the literary girl, Big Fatty was clearly unreliable, so the postal reform would have to rely on her.

  "What are you looking at?" Penny's head drooped, her eyes darted to the side, a flush rose to her cheeks, and her long eyelashes quivered slightly.

  This downward glance of shyness startled me, but the roar of old Duke Burlingas made me subconsciously look away.

  "It's just the two of us now."

  She raised her head and looked at me for a moment, then gazed out the door at the already vanished fat man, the flush on her face even more vibrant.

  I found it somewhat amusing and didn't know what she was being shy about: "Let's continue what we haven't finished saying, while my head is still relatively clear."

  "Are you sleepy?"

  "It's not that I'm tired, but rather uncomfortable. I drank all night yesterday." Thinking about last night, I feel a bit lost on the road ahead, whether to join this war as a Roman or face everything as a passerby.

  "I knew you'd be drinking!" Penelope got up, I was taken aback for a moment, and she said with a pout, "Earlier I wanted to get some coffee for you but you didn't want it, now your head hurts, right? Wait, a cup of coffee won't take long."

  Pennywise went to get the utensils and coffee beans from the cafe manager, chose the coffee, ground it, boiled water, and brewed it. It was a very ordinary thing, but seeing Pennywise do it gave me a strange feeling, like waking up at home and seeing my wife doing all this.

  "I said." Pennives, who was busy at hand, interrupted my reverie, "That Duke Marcus is going to war for the sake of winning his heart's desire, and you, what are you going for?"

  "Me?" Looking at the ten fingers clasped together in my hand, okay, this question has gotten to me. Da Baozi is working hard for his beautiful imperial noblewoman, Alexander has his dreams, and I'm doing all this for what...to pass the time? Or am I unwilling to lose to that ex of mine? "What am I doing this for?" This question is more obvious than ever."

  "Also true, you are a prince of House Saofano, and you have no reason not to do these things." Penives looked as if she had already made up her own mind.

  I smiled and said: "I am also human, I also have my own fears."

  "What is your wish?" Penelope blinked, very puzzled.

  "Why ask this?" I was curious about Pennywise's reason for doing so.

  "This." She was a bit hesitant to speak up, "I'm not even writing that book anymore, but I basically know nothing about you and yet I want to talk more with you, understand your character."

  "Alright, since you've asked, I'll spend the whole day here answering your questions. As for what's in my heart, you can understand it as a desire to win, and the object of comparison is that great emperor who brought prosperity back to our empire. Alexander wants his name to be revered, and I also want to prove myself, see how far I can go in this world changed by my predecessor, as a traverser without a system, without martial arts, without any special abilities."

  "Great Emperor? Rhinehertz the Great?... He killed a lot of people." Penivis paused here, "It's said that he had many secret lovers, even black people and Mongolians."

  "Hey, you say I have the characteristics of a murderer, I don't mind that, but you say I have perverted tendencies, I don't agree with that. You should know that you're the noble lady I've known for the longest time since I came to this world. Tell me, where did I ever disrespect you? My exes include Chinese people and Mongolians, and even blacks aren't spared, I wouldn't dare compare."

  "Unseemly... you're being too forward, they didn't mean it that way! You're royalty, how can you say such improper things!" Penelope's face turned red as she scolded a few words, the next second, she revealed a triumphant and joyful smile, "Alright! Drink up."

  A cup of fragrant coffee was placed in front of me.

  "Thank you for the coffee."

  Behind her was a slightly red and sweet face, Pennyvis's eyes glanced elsewhere: "Don't be polite, anyway you have to know, I'm not doing it especially for you, I'm just helping myself, so that you won't get more and more confused later, misunderstand the point, make me do something wrong, and finally push the responsibility on my head."

  The artsy girl left me speechless for a moment, but making a cup of coffee or something, is it necessary to make these explanations. But thanks to her coffee, I managed to recover some of my energy, which made me more able to respond to her questions fluently. Our Q&A session suddenly reminded Pennywise of something, she mentioned a nation living under the Russian territory, on the vast plains of Don River, Cossacks.

  However, the artistic girl mentioned these people not because they ride horses under the blue sky and white clouds to live a herding life, but because even she, as a noble lady, knew that on the land north of Poland lived a group of people who were somehow different.

  Kill, burn, loot, and plunder; nothing evil is left undone!

  But he is as elusive as a ghost and as swift as the wind!

  "You dislike Cossacks."

  "I often hear my sisters who have been to the north for business say how bad those Cossacks are, and occasionally my father would mention the names of those scoundrels. Those people often go to Poland to engage in robbery and plunder, but they don't have any dignity at all, always hiding and making it impossible for anyone to catch them and teach them a lesson!" Penives said with disgust.

  I just laughed and glossed over it here.

  Because I have some understanding of the empire's policy towards the Cossacks, those free-flowing migrants often went to Poland and sometimes deep into the interior to burn, kill and loot for a very large part of the reason is that the empire did it. However, with the disappearance of Poland and Russia's intervention, the Cossack customs and traditions must change, whether they are looting the empire or taking action against the Russians, there will be no good results. But in the short term, the Cossacks living west of the Volga River on the East European Plain will be the hottest commodity!

  The Russians did not leave Constantinople that day, and the Empire sent envoys with gold and silver treasures to contact the Cossacks active in the north of the Crimean Peninsula who were attached to the Empire. The neutral Cossack tribes that had been relying on both sides in the past had to make a choice between the Empire and the Russians. But everyone knew that the Cossacks were also good at burning, killing, looting, and fighting when the wind was favorable, and if they were asked to charge forward, don't expect them to show their ferocity as they would during plundering, because they would run faster than rabbits at this time.

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  Too much nonsense, anyway, I'm now looking forward to Medieval 3, Mount & Blade 2 is frustrating me.