The king of the kingdom of Mainz(defacto main character).

As I was sitting in my carriage, thinking about the world and ways to pit the princess and make her life harder, Felix came and said.

"Your majesty, Strautsbourg has refused our peaceful demands and is planning on forming a state with Braunschweig. The Kildarians are the driving force behind this, but the smaller states aren't supporting this union. So should we attack right now, or should we wait for the Uigur rebellion to start?" asked Felix.

I am honestly quite divided on this issue. If I attack now, I can quickly destroy Straustsbourg, and there will be reinforcements from the north when we try a coup d'é-tat in the western empire. I can send 50,000 troops from the west and 100,000 soldiers from the north.

I also need to complete this coup quickly as the countries finances can't handle this level of mobilization for a long time. The longest time we can manage is six months, and after that, we will have to take loans from foreign countries, which I want to avoid desperately.

At the same time, if I start a war right now, the princes in the western empire will grow warier of me. That is not much of a problem, but the Kildarians might do something. They are masters at creating contradictions and baiting countries, indeed the masters of diplomacy. Even I can't compare to them as even if I am a reincarnation, I am a single person.

If I attack Straustbourg right now, they will increase their surveillance of my activities and might notice that I am agitating the Uigurs to rebel. They know that the Uigurs rebel due to their selfless contribution to world liberation that the Uigurs have such strength. The Rostok empire, the Lombardians, and many other countries support the Uigurs as they have a selfless national spirit.

The Rostok empire are the allies of the western empire, but they still support the rebels. The logic behind this is that the international situation is everchanging, and they might be allies now, but they might be enemies the next day.

It is not just the Rostok empire. Even I make selfless contributions to human liberation in the Rostok empire, and they also do it for me. This is one of the reasons for the collapse of colonial empires in my past world, competitors were backstabbing and destabilizing each other, which led the colonial empires to fall. While the Americans grew in strength, the cost of colonization was getting higher and unprofitable. If it wasn't for this, the British and French might still be forces to be feared in my past world.

I think that waiting to attack Straustbourg is the right way to do things. After all, patience is a virtue, and I want to minimize the chances of failure as much as possible.

"Don't attack the Kildarians yet. Wait for the Uigur rebellion to start. Keep forces on standby but make sure not to adopt a 1*bellicose stance against them. After the Uigur revolution has begun, wait for a week or two and then attack Strasbourg. We don't want anyone thinking that we planned the Uigur rebellion."

Now, let's think of a way to irritate the princess. Irritating her is a stress relief to me. So maybe I should only speak in poems to annoy her like a person I met on the internet.