"These old nobility are the rotten flesh parasitic on the Kingdom, which must be excised. However, if not done properly, the wound will bleed incessantly.
Father once ousted three consecutive Ministers of Finance and eliminated many small to medium families in an attempt to control the Kingdom's finances personally, which then triggered an intense backlash.
The result of their struggle was that the entire Kingdom's finances were paralyzed for half a year, successively revealing a deficit totaling nearly six trillion, almost collapsing completely. Six years ago, the national defense war couldn't even fully cover the military expenses, and the deficit has been accumulating to this very day."
She paused here, picked up a pen, and scribbled something on Leon's file, then continued,
"So one mustn't rush such matters. If the cost of excising the old nobility is temporarily paralyzing this nation, it will only cause an even greater disaster, so it must be done step by step.
