Chapter 17: The New King

The Little Prince

This parliamentary election is regarded as a "Motion of No Confidence" vs "Motion of Confidence" to the monarchy. The ruling party had experienced unprecedented setbacks. Most people thought that the main reason was to deliberately downplay or dodge the issue of sustain of the royal family during the election campaign, and intended to please both side the royalists and republican. It was not a poor strategy, based on the advantages of long-term governance and high-satisfaction polls, maintaining the status quo seemed to consolidate the votes of its main supporters. Unfortunately, they ignored that people longing for change, and underestimated the turnout rate of the young voters, which doubled in this election, and the knock-on effect it brought. In short, they still maintained the status of the largest party in congress in thrilling situations, but they no longer occupied more than half of the seats. The original second largest party, also the party that waved the banner of defending the royal power in the election, lagged behind the emerging party that advocated the abolition of kingship. The entire political situation had been reshuffled.
 
After the election results were released, Prime Minister Liu immediately held a press conference to apologize to his supporters, and promised all the citizens that they would form a coalition government and start to visit the emerging parties that have increased their seats in this election in order to seek more communication and cooperation. Therefore, the subsequent new cabinet list was not only the youngest in average age in history, but also broke the oligopoly of political power.
 
Although the prince and marquis did not subvert the country, something has happened, and you may think this country began to turn around.
 
"Your Highness, His Royal Majesty summons you."
 
After being house arrested for more than a month, Jaijin left the chamber for the first time. The head of the Imperial Household Agency led him to a ward, Jiwon and Sunghoon were also waiting there.
 
Jaijin's face was about to cry: "Has Grandpa King died?"
 
Jiwon quickly comforted him: "It’s okay." He walked to Jaijin, stretched out his arms and hugged Jaijin: "Grandpa is retired, and is now on his way to Jeju Island for a vacation, and Grandma also goes with him."
 
"Come and salute the new king!" He led Jaijin to the the front of the electronic wheelchair, and then kneeled down to his uncle, the new king.
 
The king on the wheelchair didn't move, or basically he could only turn his eyes to let the precise instrument capture the letters he looked at the screen according to the movement of his eyeballs, spelling out what he wanted to say, word by word.
 
"Rise." It took about half a minute for the word to come out of the speaker with a computer sound.
 
Then Head of the Imperial Household Agency took a step forward: "His Royal Majesty had promulgated the first imperial edict, saying that three of you should not bow to him in the future."
 
"Why didn't you mention it earlier?" Jiwon growled.
 
He ignored the marquis, and touched the remote control on his hand: "This is the second imperial edict." The computer began to make machine sounds: "Jiwon, Jaijin, and Sunghoon, my three nephews, my dad finally understand that instead of giving the country to a kid who can run and jump, it's better to give it to a calm and mature adult with a clear head."
 
 "Well, I lied to you. That coward, seeing the election results, was worried that it’s too humiliated that if he will be kicked out before he die. He soon ran away, and wanted to drag me down."
 
"I was destined to inherit the throne from the time I was an embryo. For the past sixty years, I have been a legitimate heir, not until the country is completely destroyed by you fools, as long as I am alive, why can't I become the king and enjoy the power? After all, this is the rule of the monarchy, so I firmly disagree with signing the abdication statement. Besides, I can’t even hold a pen, how can I sign it? ”
 
"But I still need someone to act on behalf of me, approving acts with the imperial jade seal, holding Princess Kate's hand to dance at the state banquet. , every dog has his day. The three of you should fight first and tell me who will be responsible for being my puppet, wow, a puppet of a puppet, what a wonderful position.“
 
"I'm done. It took me an hour to say this. It's a ing waste of time."
 
The computer was silent for about three seconds, and said, "Do you think I can defeat Hawking and become the most famous ALS sufferer in the world?"

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