Chapter 632: Chapter 503: The Enemy Hasn’t Changed

Elsa’s words were quite harsh, but they penetrated everyone’s heart.

Indeed, those who had the time to watch Sajia and Elsa argue here must be people who had nothing to do after a meal. Those who were affluent and had additional leisure time would naturally come. Moreover, just as Elsa stated, the masses cared about the turnover of politicians, for all politicians had to be elected to take office.

However, the Emperor didn’t.

The Imperial Family came from inheritance and bloodline was essential. As to whether the person was excellent or not, that was for the Emperor to decide. Moreover, ordinary people had the most dealings with all kinds of bureaucrats day-to-day, rather than the Emperor. Ordinary people didn’t really care who the Emperor was, after all, the Emperor couldn’t directly help them earn gold coins.

As a result, for a moment, the entire atmosphere mysteriously became cold.

"Are you denying the righteousness of everyone present in participating in politics?" Sajia hastily accused.

"My enemy is you, not everyone present, so you don’t have to bring up the topic on everyone, I won’t fall for it." Elsa responded directly, "On the contrary, you, the First Prince, first lost to me in the test of wisdom, and now you are trying to turn the public into my enemy? Tsk tsk, if you were to become the Emperor in the future, I wonder what you would do? I guess the first thing would be to raise everyone’s taxes in the name of defeating me? I heard recently that you are planning to draft a tax increase bill aimed at the rich, I wonder if it’s true..."

Elsa glanced sideways, her face almost filled with the look of ’I know the inside story’.

As soon as this news came out, the whole audience was immediately filled with a buzzing noise. An increase in taxes aimed at the rich had been rumored for some time recently. However, since there seemed to be no news from various channels, everyone didn’t take it seriously. But today, Elsa, the Princess, brought this up and identified Sajia as the instigator! Suddenly, everyone started to doubt, was this true?

"Nonsense! This kind of groundless accusation is defamation!" Sajia denounced loudly, but it only made the discussion surrounding them louder.

"Look, I have a list of orders you signed when you were governing a certain planet. There are thirteen orders that you personally formulated and issued, five of which were tax increases. However, among the orders you drew up but eventually did not sign, there are seventeen tax increase laws!"

This!

Sajia suddenly realized that he had been set up! Unknowingly, the topic had entered Elsa’s rhythm of conversation! No! This must have been Elsa’s plan from the beginning! She only didn’t know about it! Elsa just wanted to provoke him and get him to bring up this topic, then draw out these laws of his!

Sajia was aware of these laws, these unsigned tax increase laws were aimed at different countries on that star! What Elsa neglected to mention was that among some of these laws, there were also laws reducing taxes for poor countries.

But at this time, does he need to refute?

Sajia felt that even if he refuted, it wouldn’t mean much. Most of the time, people only accept what they first hear.

"Actually, I can understand you to some extent. After all, you, the First Prince, had a grand upbringing. You’ve never suffered from hardships and don’t understand how the common people live. Unlike me, who was thrown into the Human Realm since childhood. The only person who could take care of me was a boy who was only one or two years older than me, and we lived entirely by smithing. No matter how you look at it, the speed of collecting money by taxing is much faster than a blacksmith’s shop."

Selena smiled wryly, no wonder Elsa looked completely indifferent. She had been prepared much earlier! When she knew absolutely nothing, Elsa had already collected much information on Sajia! This information may not be very hidden, but at this time it could play a remarkable role!

"Although I don’t want to be an Emperor," Elsa continued, "I understand one thing, an Emperor who doesn’t think about making his people wealthier but only contemplates raising taxes, probably isn’t suitable! Selena, if you were to become the Empress tomorrow, what would be the first thing you do?"

Selena was first taken aback, how did the topic land on me?

Selena had been dreaming of becoming an Empress almost every moment, and she had fantasized countless times about the first thing she would do after becoming the Empress!

Of course, it would be to wear the crown and rush into the royal treasury to completely immerse herself in the pile of treasure!

"Of course, my first step would be to immediately rectify the three impoverished planets located in the eastern part of the Heaven Realm, to create more jobs for the locals, and of course, provide more investment opportunities for our merchants." Selena said without hesitation.

Those three impoverished planets were like a black hole in the Heaven Realm, draining huge amounts of funding every year, but never yielding any returns. Merchants avoided the place, and some locals also tried to leave. Poverty and crime has become the main theme of the planets.

"Big sister, you actually dared to say that. I’ve laid such a good foundation for you, why didn’t you just say to reduce taxes?" Elsa gave Selena a blank stare.

"This... I’m afraid that’s not feasible. Taxes are the foundation of a state, any minor adjustment would touch the economic lifeline of the entire state, I can’t randomly say to reduce it, of course, unless it’s planned." Selena explained.

"And then you bring up those three planets? Isn’t that a little unwise? Unless you have some plans?" Elsa asked.

"Yes, I’ve recently been planning to inform our father that I intend to distribute the commercial rights of those three planets to some influential families or businessmen, renting out these planets as a single unit. These families can lease the planetary rights individually or collectively. At the same time, we will make every effort to reduce and even exempt taxes on those three planets..."

When the conversation reached this point, some people in the audience were already becoming restless.

The commercial rights of an entire planet!

An entire planet!

An undeveloped entire planet!

Some powerful business families were going crazy! If they could get a piece of the pie, having a planet going from nothing to something could bring them tremendous profits!

Observing this back-and-forth between the sisters, Sajia knew that if he remained silent any longer, a crisis would happen. He was meant to suppress Elsa’s argument, yet he had just become part of Selena’s personal show! This was unacceptable!

"I didn’t..."

"Clang!"

Before Sajia could speak, Elsa suddenly drew her Greatsword and stabbed it to the ground in front of her.

"I’m wasting my time arguing with a fool like you who only knows about increasing taxes. So, could you please keep quiet and let my sister finish speaking?"

The Greatsword, radiating a cold light, was planted into the ground in front of the First Prince Sajia. Elsa stared at Sajia seriously, her face bearing an expression of dissatisfaction. Sajia’s eyes twitched with rage. He was unsure if this unpredictable Elsa would decide to unsheathe her sword and attack him next!

A threat of physical violence.

Usually, if this happened during a debate, it would receive significant disapproval. Because political performances are not about combat; the audience who enjoys watching political performances prefer to see politicians defeating their adversaries through careful reasoning.

But now, things are different.

At the moment, every person present wanted to hear Princess Selena’s plan for planetary development. Everyone who managed to attend here was either wealthy or noble, and except for a few fools, everyone had a good head for business. They all understood that, if this plan to lease the commercial rights of three planets really took off, they would be reaping enormous profits!

From the moment of their birth, be it war or commerce, what humans ultimately seek are benefits. From this perspective, there are no differences between a business person and a warrior.

Therefore, no one helped Sajia.

Selena knew it was her turn to take the stage. Although she had not spent as much time in the outside world as Sajia, she had picked up more wisdom from being by the Emperor’s side, especially the foresight, which ordinary politicians could hardly match.

After all, height determines perspective.

Selena began to explain her plan with confidence, spelling out the general strategy for the execution of the plan. Although it was still merely a plan, and even the Emperor was still oblivious, it wouldn’t matter. Within an hour, the entire Heaven Realm would know about it.

Sajia knew he had lost out completely today, and all his plans had been countered by Elsa.

No! Such detailed countermeasures couldn’t come from Elsa! She was just a reckless individual who only knew how to use force and had only recently scrambled her way back from the Human Realm! The true perpetrator had to be Selena! The more Sajia considered this, the more sure he became. The intricately crafted plan had to be from Selena; Elsa was merely pushed to the forefront by her!

With that, everything began to make sense! I’ve been targeting the wrong enemy from the very beginning! Selena must have lured Elsa to her side using some advantages, persuading her to join her camp. Even though the two are mortal enemies, politicians know one thing: "There are no eternal enemies, only enduring interests." As long as the benefits are massive enough, even enemies can become friends! And it seems, that is exactly the relationship between Elsa and Selena!

According to the information he had, Selena had helped Long Yi in the Human Realm on many occasions, obviously intending to win over Elsa! Reportedly, the one thing Elsa cherished more than anything was her human world boyfriend, Long Yi. If Selena also promised to help Long Yi in order to gain Elsa’s loyalty, then everything would make perfect sense!

Damn it! How could I have not seen through this earlier!

At this moment, Sajia was filled with regret. He had allowed Elsa’s provocations to sway him, causing him to point his spear at Elsa and ignore the real enemy behind Elsa - Selena!

It turns out, my opponent has never changed. It’s always been you, my dear sister! (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote for it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)