Hearing Hadilan's words, Matilda subconsciously wanted to frown, but this action only appeared in her heart and was covered by her indifferent expression.

"There is still a tense atmosphere in the city, but the order of factories and markets has begun to gradually recover," she came to Hadilent and said casually. "Due to the intervention of the royal family, those merchants who tried to speculate on Guchi during the chaos and the nobles who tried to transfer assets were sentenced to death in advance. The supply of food, cloth, and medicine is no longer a problem... More than half of your contributions are given to you."

"In the special period, we need to use some special means to make some guys 'honest'," Hadillen chuckled slightly, "Chasing for interests is human instinct, but some people's instincts are too out of control. By the way, Emperor Sister, I heard that the Knights of the National Guardians and the National 11th Regiment had a confrontation. Has the matter been resolved?"

"We found a group of commanders and soldiers who were mentally polluted in the 11th Legion, and a few were excited by shallow faith. The source of the confrontation was them - they had been sent for treatment," said Matilda. "As for the others... when Grand Duke Peidinan appeared, the situation quickly calmed down."

"Duke Peidinan..." Hadilan showed a thoughtful expression, "He is the most respected person among the military and powerful nobles. The Knights in charge of the country guarding are absolutely loyal to the royal family and are completely isolated from the God of War Sect. With him standing up, it is more effective than a hundred generals."

Matilda nodded softly: "As long as the army is effectively controlled, the military power and nobles remain loyal, and the faith pollution in several core legions is eliminated in time, the situation will be quickly alleviated - and we also have a large number of combat mages, who are completely unaffected by this 'plague', and the Royal Mage Society is always on the side of the royal family. If these two forces do not lose control, the order will not lose control."

Hadilan's eyes fell on the list next to him, and the corners of his mouth curled up a little: "This is also the primary guarantee that these lists can be properly 'handled'."

He knew that when a series of crises suddenly broke out, there were many pessimistic emotions in the country. Some people who knew too much of the inside story even felt that the Augustus family would not recover from this, and felt that the Tifeng royal family was over. The government orders could not be released from the Obsidian Palace. The front-line army lost control, and the capital was in a "spiritual plague". People in the parliament were panicked. It seemed that the situation had reached a complete collapse, and the royal family in this country could do nothing about it...

Hadillen actually understood these pessimistic and even extreme emotions, but he never felt that he could agree with them.

Because a large number of troops, including the Knights of the Nation, the Obsidian Imperial Guards and the Wanderers, are still firmly controlled by the royal family. Due to the intentional control of the Tifeng royal family for many years, these troops are not affected by any church. The Royal Mage Association has always stood on the side of the Obsidian Palace. The contemporary association presidents and almost all high-level mages are firm royalists. These mages not only have powerful force, but also master technology. They are a key link in the rapid purification of the national communication network and quickly fill in the loopholes in the communication system. In addition, the real nobles led by Peidinan Wendell also have reliable loyalty and have long been separated from the Church of the God of War, either openly or secretly...

Tifon faced a crisis, but the situation never lost control, and the Augustus family was just caught off guard.

The only factor that made young Hadillan feel uncontrollable and always uneasy during this crisis was the Cecils who seemed calm.

The angered Cecils are dangerous, but after calming down, they may be even more dangerous, who silently occupied the Winter Wolf's defense line - what's terrible is that all this is not something that Tifeng can control.

He shook his head and rubbed his slightly sore eyebrows. Matilda's voice came in the next second: "Maybe, some people can leave it to me..."

After Matilda finished speaking, Hadilda shook his head. He raised his eyes and his eyes fell on the face of the emperor, and said with a serious expression: "We all know why this matter must be left to me."

Matilda frowned but didn't say anything - she understood what Hadilan meant, and out of tacit understanding, none of them went deeper into the topic.

At this moment, a slight buzzing sound suddenly sounded, and a earring that Matilda wore made a slight flash and a whirlwind. The conversation between the siblings was interrupted, and Hadilan quickly reacted: "The father is looking for you."

"It seems yes..." Matilda touched her earlobe, nodded to Hadilan and said, "Then I'll leave."

...

Not long after, Matilda, who said goodbye to Hadilan, walked through the deep and long corridors and rooms in the Obsidian Palace, and came to a study in the inner court. Her talented father sat on the high-back chair he loved most. When Matilda entered the room, Rosetta Augustus was reviewing several documents. He raised his head from those documents, and after seeing his daughter, a faint smile appeared on his face: "It came a little earlier than I expected."

"I happened to be with Hadillon," Matilda said frankly, "and I came immediately after you received your call."

"Hadilan...he should have been very busy lately," said Emperor Rosetta casually, "So, what have you talked to him?"

"It's just a discussion about the recent domestic situation," Matilda said, and then she paused and couldn't help saying, "List, more list... to be honest, it looks a little uncomfortable."

Rosetta looked at her and shook his head a few seconds later: "Believe me, Matilda, I don't want to see more lists like that than anyone else - but this is something we have to do after all. There is still a lot of things that need to be changed in this country, and this crisis has exposed all the accumulation of Shen Ke. If we don't take this opportunity to eradicate their determination, we will face longer difficulties and accumulate heavier hidden dangers in the future."

"Of course, I understand," Matilda said immediately, "but... I always feel like I'm standing by."

"…Siding by is the best way to 'participate' now," Rosetta looked at Matilda deeply, and then he seemed to hesitate for a moment before whispering, "Remember, child, your hands must not be dirty, especially in this matter."

Matilda's heart thumped and she couldn't help but open her eyes slightly.

In fact, she knew that sooner or later her father would make it clear about this matter, but she never thought that it would be under such circumstances to put it on the table in this way.

Rosetta Augustus continued after a brief silence: "Matilda, remember that if you want to shoulder a country, everything you do must be focused on the long-term future - longer than anyone thinks about it, taking into account all the costs and possible impacts from the beginning. And this time, all you have to do is keep your hands from being dirty, you have to comfort the nobles in a perfect manner, meet with the citizens' representatives, and announce subsequent welfare, production, and supply policies. You must be the maintainer and builder of order, and those unpleasant things... must be done by others.

“Even if you make many things and many decisions, you have to maintain this ‘decent cleanliness’.

"Matilda, those lists - and the purging work outside the list, we all know that they are to eliminate the empire's borers, to quickly stabilize the situation and resist internal and external threats, but many people will not pay attention to these long-term results. They will pay attention to the terror and tension in the process, and the 'explained victims'... In fact, their ideas are even correct, because these purging work itself is not glorious no matter what the purpose and means are. If it is abused, it is even a destruction of order. No matter what effect these actions have produced in the present and in the short term, they will definitely be full of controversy in the long run - and these controversies cannot fall on you."

Speaking of this, he looked at Matilda deeply again, with a smile on his face: "Does I feel that I have overprotected you?

"Matilda, many years ago, I had faced a situation similar to today...even worse, because at that time I had a much more list than today, and the people I had to deal with were much more cunning and insidious as those speculators and selfish nobles today, and I could only do all this with my own hands.

"The consequence of doing it with my own hands is that I made more compromises, more trade-offs, and more room for leverage, and more enemies that cannot be directly eliminated, because only in this way can the whole country be avoided from being divided. I have used more than ten years to repair these cracks and used repairs to advance many incomplete new policies. Even so, many people still hate me in the dark, and hate Yu Shen as time goes by - Today, I have to put these people on a new list, and face many new opponents who are affected by them.

"It's too exhausting energy and time, Matilda, I don't want you to walk again on my path.

"So, your hands must be clean."

Matilda listened quietly to her father's teachings, and a thought suddenly emerged in her heart - her father, who is like a steel, has rarely said so many things to her at once in recent years.

"I understand what you mean," she nodded, "but Hadilan..."

"He knows what he is doing, and you can see it," Rosetta said in a deep voice. "It may not be fair to him...but it is the responsibility of the royal family."

Matilda sighed.

"Let's talk about the serious matter now," Rosetta changed the subject, "I'll tell you to come, there's something to explain."

Matilda immediately became serious: "Please give me instructions."

Rosetta reached out to the drawer next to him - he took out a thick document from it and placed it on the table and pushed it towards Matilda.

Matilda took the document curiously, and the first thing that caught her eye after opening it was a line of large-sized letters in printed form - "The plan and long-term significance of establishing the Tifeng Memorandum Library".

She continued to open a few pages and soon found that a considerable part of the contents in the following section were actually bibliography and a large number of bibliography.

"This is..." She faintly made a guess in her heart, but she was not sure of her thoughts. She showed a surprised and puzzled expression and looked at her father.

"We want to secretly establish a memorandum library - to cover everything about Tifeng. Scholars have compiled a list of all historical books and technical books, and further collection and sorting work is underway. According to the plan, more books will be included in it later, and a huge set of encyclopedias will be formed. In addition, the collection and sorting of works of art such as poetry, drama, architecture, painting, etc. have also begun. Now this work will be handed over to you to continue to carry out."

Matilda finally couldn't help but interrupt Rosetta: "Your plan...is it a preparation..."

"Just in case," Rosetta said calmly, "if we fail, someone needs to make sure that our traditions and history can continue."

"Is the situation so critical?" Matilda couldn't help asking, "At present, everything seems to be under control..."

"It's really not at its worst, but we're wandering on the edge of the cliff and it's possible to get worse - and if there's a day, the work of preserving history and culture must start from now on."

Matilda listened carefully and thought, then she suddenly realized that what her father was really worried about was not the high god at all, but the man: "Do you think those Cecils will take this opportunity to engage in a devastating war? And do you think they have this ability?"

"I admire and support Gauvin Cecil and the 'propositions' he declared, but we can never completely believe in our enemies. As for whether they have the ability...Matilda, they have this motivation, and I have recently discovered their motivation for doing so, even their specific actions."

Matilda fell into a brief thought, and after a few seconds he said in a deep voice: "...If it really comes to the situation you are worried about, even if we have sorted out these books, they may only become collections in the Cecilian Museum - used to show off their successful conquest."

"So this is the worst solution, and it can't even be called an effective countermeasure," Rosetta said lightly. "If this crisis is safe, we will naturally have time and space to solve the problem slowly, but now... we don't have much to do."

Matilda looked at his father for a long time before finally lowering her head: "...I understand, Father."

Rosetta said lightly, and then a brief but suffocating silence fell into the study. It was not until Matilda couldn't help but want to speak that Rosetta suddenly said, "Do you think I'm too pessimistic?"

Matilda hesitated for a moment, but nodded: "…yes."

"Indeed, I am a little pessimistic, especially when we were immersed in the confidence of our country's strength and proudly planning the glorious era of the future. My pessimistic ideas now seem particularly unreasonable... But, Matilda, I am making a big bet.
Chapter completed!