Chapter 291: One week later...a cold war

"Fifty percent of the roads have undergone renovation, from cobblestone to cement. This is a great thing for us but a new challenge has been presented. The horses." Sigrid spoke into a microphone at a council meeting which was being broadcast live to Eldorians.

This was being done to announce the new changes and show transparency in the process, giving the people the illusion that their opinions mattered.

A few chosen commoners that had been picked as the people’s representatives from different cities were sitting in the meeting.

"What is the problem with the problem with the horses?" Representative Darlen from Starfell asked.

"There are too many horses in the capital and I am guessing that it is the same in other cities and they need to be reduced or slowly eliminated as a means of transport, permanently."

A myriad voices rose in uproar.

"If there are no horses how will we go around?"

"This better be a joke?"

"The horse breeders will riot? Wars have been fought for smaller reasons than this."

All sorts of statements were made to oppose what Sigrid had said. And she understood why that was. She had always known that getting rid of horses and introducing other means of transport would be a challenge.

"Listen to me, I have not finished speaking and I don’t have much time to debate this with you so I ask that you give me your attention while I am still available." Sigrid said into the microphone. "Horses have been the most common means of transport for the longest time but there are disadvantages to them.

horse shit. No matter how much we keep improving the sanitation of the roads, it has not changed. The fact is, people let their horses shit

the crown princess say shit?" Someone asked, forgetting

had not been interrupted, "Safety. We cannot discuss the troubles of using horses for transport without talking about safety. In the last month alone, there have been one hundred eighty accidents

"But..." Someone started.

am still talking." Sigrid said in a strict

over the room and

operate like in times of extreme heat, rain and snow. A lot of businesses are affected by this. You can see how many shops close

why we must phase out horse transportation is because the new cemented roads are not designed for horse travel. Which is why the

how will we

cannot expect

of outraged individuals

two new forms of transport today. One is the Mysticar,

cars and trains. In fact the mage estate had also made fifty buses which were ready to run. They had worked hard to make all these through through the winter, working with non mages on a off site location that

things were ready for use and the cemented roads had been constructed in the

said anyway. All the roadside vendors will be moved to new assigned locations. The

winter we moved people from some buildings and renovated them or expanded certain alleys. It was to prepare for this change. The capital city is not a

laws enforcing this will be very strict and there will be a fine to pay if one is caught breaking

noise exploded in the room and this time, not even

the side, Christie, Mauve, and Mrs. Elsworth were troubled. They could not comprehend how Sigrid was so well put together, business like and of sound mind in the midst

Sigrid had simply answered that her husband had declared a cold war on her. They did not understand what a cold war was but they could see that something had happened between the couple and it caused

listened to the content being discussed in the meeting, they were too busy thinking of other things. On top of Sigrid’s marital troubles, they had to

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