As monarchs went, he wasn’t a noble, kind ruler of the
people. Instead, he was greedy, uncaring, selfish. He imposed levies and taxes
on whatever he could think of, and spent most of the money on fine food, finer
alcohol and cheap women.
In any other time and place, he’d have been overthrown
quicker than you can say ‘people’s democracy’, but oddly enough he was
tolerated since he befriended all nearby rulers with his parties.
At the time, he was just… whatever.
But historically, he’s the greatest ruler ever.
Because he was clever enough to pay the record keepers well.
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