Rama and the Lost Art of Martialism
Princess Bag's Past. 2

"Isabella and Reina, you two should go and explore all corners of the country, and solve each of the problems that exist there.

"You left, of course, with a few soldiers and a confidant of your own.

"With this, all the decisions I make are absolute and inviolable!" Speak to all people.

"I'm sorry if I was presumptuous, Father.

Why does Father bother, want us to do all this?"

Ask Reina to Dad.

"Isabella said that she was not worthy to lead this country. He also said, that you are the one who should be the successor to the kingdom of Verdifield.

However, I must act fairly by testing you both." Answer Father.

Remember that! You should return to the palace immediately, after the peak of the harvest day celebration is over!"

And after that, you'll have to go back to fighting on the Verdifield academy ranking bullish exam." Keep saying Father.

"6 months, yeah." I said in my heart.

Long story short, we are in exile and carry out their respective missions to go to a village that has problems. Actually I left feeling half-hearted, considering all this was meaningless to me. Because, I have no interest in becoming the successor of the kingdom.

Long story short I arrived with soldiers in a seedy village, seen people here suffering from malnutrition. Starting from children, youth, parents and others.

At first I was reluctant to blend in, but as I felt sorry for their circumstances, I finally asked why such a terrible thing could happen.

One of the villagers said that this could happen because of the prolonged drought coupled with corrupt village heads. Hearing this of course makes me angry, considering that Dad always acted fairly by distributing financial assistance to the villages.

"What are we going to do, Princess?" Dristin said to my confidant.

For a moment I thought and came up with the idea to dig a new well that could later be used by the villagers. However, they say that, have done so and the result is failure.

"Can you show me the well you've made?"

I ask the whole village.

Then one of them showed a well that had been dug deep enough, but did not release any water at all.

They then explained that this area was minimal with a spring source, the well in this village was known to only have one and it was only used by village officials.

Getting the other facts made me even more furious, wondering inwardly, why they were only selfish of themselves rather than various with the people.

Then my confidant, suggested that we report this to the palace. The idea is good, but by involving the kingdom it will add complexity. Where Ayahanda will definitely punish the dead to the people involved.

The death penalty in my view is an ancient practice that should have been abandoned, given that the perpetrator's actions are not comparable to his actions, and if the perpetrator is sentenced to be punished, it was the same as running away from responsibility. This kind of punishment will also never give satisfaction to the victim, and it will cause a prolonged rope of hatred between the victim and the perpetrator.

Especially at this time, the kingdom is in a period of crisis due to the war of the last 20 years, considering the death penalty does not necessarily directly execute the perpetrators of the crime, but there is also a budget to be spent and the amount is not small.

I actually want to propose to the father with 3 alternatives to cover it all, namely ;

Prison sentences and forced labor, in which the perpetrator was confined in a palace cell. However, in it the perpetrators were employed by the kingdom with wages as details

If the perpetrator is known not married, the wages of his forced labor are given as much as 75% for the family of the victim, 15% for himself, and 10% for the palace.

If the perpetrator is known to have a family, the wages of his forced labor are given as much as 50% to the family of the victim, 40% to his own family, 5% to himself and 5% to the palace.

If the death penalty is necessary, then the penalty of forced labor for him is still there. Wages from forced labor will be set aside as much as 20% for the operational costs of the punishment later.

With details :

When the perpetrator has not married, the wages of his forced labor are given, 60% for the family of the victim, 20% for the operational costs of his sentence, 10% for himself and 10% for the kingdom.

When the perpetrator has a family, the wages of his forced labor are given, 40% for the family of the victim, 30% for his family, 20% for operational costs, 5% for himself and 5% for the kingdom.

All these systems are carried out as well as possible, when the perpetrator of the crime makes an attempt to escape from his punishment, then the system is aggravated by not giving the wage of his forced labor to himself or his family, which means only for the families of the victims and also the palace with details of 80%: 20%.

If the crime was to enrich themselves with royal money, then the system was changed. With details, the wages for the families of the victims were eliminated and replaced with royal wages.

The activity was carried out by relevant ministers and in cooperation with private parties.

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All of these systems I wanted to talk to Father, but I still didn't have the courage.

"Then, what should we do, Princess Isabella?" Ask Dristin back.

"We're going to try to dig deeper into this well, hoping some water comes out." I answered Dristin.

Long story short, we have been digging this well for 7 days. However, there was never any water coming out of it. We not only dug one well, but several wells as well.

"I'm sorry, but the result is still the same, Princess." Said one of the soldiers.

At that time, I then asked one of the soldiers I was assigned to spy on the officials of this village. The fact is that it is true to do such a cruel thing. Aware of my helplessness, I finally asked Ayahanda for help.

Long story short, we went from one village to another. While riding a horse, I read a handwritten letter directly by Father. He said that, the thing that I have done is the right thing, but I am also asked to solve my own problems later.

We also went to a village, which is called a small Mountain village. Here, the citizens look happy with most residents livelihood as wheat farmers.

"It seems there is no problem here" I said in my heart.

We passed by a market, and I and the soldiers were welcomed by the people here. It looks so friendly welcome they do, they clap their hands while shouting my name which of course I reply with a smile and warm greeting.

However, the ascetic began to come because suddenly in front of me there was an explosion that destroyed the building that we were about to pass. Not only that, when the dust from the explosion spread, one by one my soldiers were seen fainting from being attacked by unknown people.

"Everything! Beware carefully .. " My word is that all soldiers be on standby.

However, suddenly someone attacked and made me faint afterwards.

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