You might have seen the answer in other comments. The MC has a different view and has to battle against the aristocratic world and his family's views to do what he sees as right. So we aren't to be cheering for the aristocrats but those representing or pushing change.
I get that but my point is that this could most likely go two ways. Basically I don’t have a concrete expectation of whether the MC will make a change in the system or be a “good” rendition of the current system.
Usually novels would just be a good rendition and have the MC be the greatest king or something but it doesn’t acknowledge that the system itself is still flawed. An example is the MC of a book having to sway the opinions of nobles and do shenanigans to be able to give commoners more food. However, they do it in a way where it can’t be easily replicated as some of it is luck so though they did a good thing, the way to do it is not feasible or practical long term.
However, this book gets really political at times so I’m wondering if it’s gonna be a rare case of the MC dismantling or making significant changes to how the current system works. They don’t show him particularly caring about his country’s monarchy so there’s not really a concrete build up of him being the right hand or something of the king, he has conflicting views with his parents and instead of painting his parents as these great ppl they show them as nobles (I really like the fact that the father only hired our MC friend after finding out he was a bastard noble and the MC thought it was done out of simple good will) and he’s been sent to a different country with more “progressive” views. I’ve never seen all three together in one place for this genre so I have hope that the mangaka is gonna take a more bold turn and have a systematic change in their series.
Hence, why even though I don’t fully understand the direction of the messaging / I think it’s unpredictable, I understand the premise of what’s going on which is enough for me to look forward to more from it.
I don’t understand the messaging of this manga, cause I feel like it wants me to root for the nobles in a society that is definitely feudalistic and capitalistic. Which makes the future of this manga kinda unpredictable.
In one instance, it can take a more basic route where the MC is a “good noble” and will be a noble that takes care of the peasants and keeps other nobles inline for the commoner interests. But that’s boring and is common for this genre so I hope they don’t do that.
Or they could be bold and have the MC try and uproot the system. I don’t know how tho cause I can’t see his father agreeing with him, and the society is so class bound that I can’t see him changing it without a decent amount of people having to be killed. I don’t know if the mangaka would have the balls to do that tho cause at times this feels like a light hearted read about two siblings then other times it just goes deeply politically.
So far it’s decent tho.