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What's wrong with just wanting a bit of an easy mode life? I just wanted the people to produce resources for me while I slack off as the Emperor.
Just help them when they're in dire need, make them respect you, and then you can gain their royalty because nobody else would had helped them in this horrendous world.
Quite honestly, it is a very simplistic mindset, and its nothing hard to believe, but I guess that in this world where people have powers and can blow each other into bits to just steal a piece of magic bread or whatever, I guess they really don't care about this.
"I don't really see myself as a saint or something, I am mostly doing this for my own benefit and that of my family… After recovering enough, the people will be indebted with me, and they'll bring the resources to me happily. Also there's the dungeons too, I wanted to own them… And who's better for the job of extracting materials from them than the citizens themselves?" I asked.