Our world is backward

A few moments later, a disheveled Eugene was brought before the king by two robust knights while Alexandre was following behind them with a smile plastered on his face.

One should know that even if it was now nightfall, finding Gigi Dafour was much easier as compared to finding Eugene, thus, Gigi was already seated at the king's meeting table while waiting for Virtya to order her around.

"Your Eminence." Both Eugene and the two knights bowed before the king.

Virtya shooed the knights away and remained with Gigi, Eugene and Alexandre at the meeting.

Virtya glanced at the three of them and put on a weak smile. These people would be the first individuals to roll out his plan of modernizing this backward world.

"Gigi, I want you to send these letters to the dukes all over Azuhai kingdom, wait! I know most of the dukes don't reside near to the king's capital, so, I want you to give the letters to those who are near to us first and then send the rest to the ones who are far away from the capital and could not make it on time." A knight appeared behind Virtya and walked towards Gigi before he handed several letters to her. The letters had the royal insignia stumped on them. The stumps could not be forged thus, the dukes could easily tell where the letter was coming from.

One should know that Gigi as the head of all the  messengers who were serving the royalty, it was her job to ensure that the letters that the king handed out reached to their intended audience.

"Your Eminence, I will leave first." Gigi didn't remain seated as she knew that what Eugene was going to be told didn't concern her, thus, she quickly left the meeting room while carring with her the pack of letters that were addressed to the dukes.

In the letter, Virtya simply wanted an audience with the dukes. He wanted the dukes and him to agree on the same thing before he rolled out his plan. He didn't want any opposition to his leadership at this pivotal moment for the people of Azuhai. He wanted to receive all the support from the dukes. However, because he was in a hurry to unfold his plan, Virtya planned to have an audience with the dukes that resided in the regions that were closer to Whiddiff as they would reach to Whiten district quickly while those that resided far away from Whiddiff would need a few days or even months to reach to Whiddiff. Virtya didn't have the time to waste waiting for those dukes who were far away from him, he could roll out his plan using the people that were closer to him and then expand it henceforth slowly by slowly.

"My king. This imbecile has become a frequent visitor to the city's brothels. I think his pintle should be cut so that he could concentrate on his work." Alexandre advised. He poured some wine for himself and swallowed it in a single gulp.

A chill run down Eugene's spine when he heard what Alexandre said. Do you know how much Eugene cherished his pintle? That was what made the women out there to call him a man when he pushed his shaft between their legs, the women loved it and he also enjoyed every moment with them. Those women in the brothels were not only after his money but also the pleasure that his pintle brought to them, How do you want him to feel good in the company of women when you remove his thing? Women are only around him because he is carrying something in his pants.

"My king. It is not like that. I had finished all my work for the day..." Eugene said with a trembling voice while glancing at both Virtya and Alexandre at a time.

"Don't worry about that. I know you have your urges that you are supposed to fix, therefore, I will not say anything about it. What I want you to do for me right now is to give me all the records of taxes, revenues, the kingdom's expenses, trade and mining. I want all the records brought up to me right now." Virtya said with a laid-back voice. If he wanted to elevate this kingdom from scratch, he first needed to check out what was recorded in its ledgers, so that he could see where he was going to start from.

"Eeerm. My king. Those records range from years since the creation of this kingdom. It is a huge pile of data. Are you sure about this... I can get you a summary of the whole thing since time immemorial..." Eugene sweated as he said this.

"Just do what the king has said and do it quickly or else I will make you a Eunuch." Alexandre growled making Eugene to sweat even more. A knight appeared and helped Eugene to get out.

"Phew! That is for today." Virtya sighed softly. He reclined on his seat and stared at the ceiling. How he missed staring at the electric bulb in his bedroom when he was lying down. He couldn't help but wish those moments to come to life once again. If only he had everything that he needed right here, he could have already started bringing his dream to reality. Too bad, he didn't even knew if all the chemical elements found in the periodic table could be located in this world. Do all of them exist in this world or some of them might be absent?

Will his plan of bringing technology to this world fall apart or come to fruition?

For certain, Virtya was not sure himself. After all, fabricating components required one to have an extensive knowledge in many topics including mathematics, Geography, mechanics, engineering, programming and so on.

Virtya himself was very poor when it came to calculations in advanced mathematics and solving problems.

In his past life, he hated the thing called calculus, algebra, logarithms and all that shit that was mathematics, well, what about chemistry? Don't even talk about it. Virtya had to think about it and come up with a fruitful plan that will enable him to win and not to bring the whole thing down and thus,

Virtya needed a team and a big team at that, this team will not include just anyone, no. It will only include geniuses around Azuhai and in this entire world if it was needed but where will he locate these geniuses? How will he knew that this person was adept in mathematics or chemistry?

"I have to expand the ministry and give out more roles." Virtya declared.

"Hehehe! Geez! You are becoming like me day by day. Talking to yourself while disregarding your image. Don't you think that people will start saying that the the king has become demented?" Alexandre uttered. Alexandre didn't get to formalities when other people were not around.

"So many things that needs to be done. It is driving me crazy. I don't even know where I should start from.... Why is your world so backward? Do you know how much I miss watching my favourite shows and eating pizza?" Virtya asked Alexandre. He then supported his chin with the palm of his hand and tapped his fingers on the table.

"What do you mean by saying that our world is backward? Wait! What is this shit that you call pizza?" Alexandre was disoriented by the gibberish that was uttered by Virtya. Virtya had dropped so many new words in that Alexandre could not even pick up, he was overwhelmed.