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Before opening the free market, I had to work on one thing.
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It was to build a new road.
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The new road is an extension of the road that connects the village of Barca to the north of the river to the city of Fontana.
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The reason why they built a road outside of their territory is because they had an agreement to do so.
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One of the conditions of the truce agreement with the Fontana family was to build a road connecting the castle and the city.
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To me, a road is just a convenience to speed up the movement of people.
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But from the point of view of the nobles who ruled the war-torn land, it has another meaning.
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It is an invasion route for the army.
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Well-developed and wide roads speed up the movement of armies.
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Conversely, it also speeds up the progress of the opponent's army.
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For this reason, many nobles built roads in their own territories, but not in the areas bordering other houses.
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The absence of roads is important for defense because it slows down the speed of invasion by armies from other lands.
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The reason why the Fontanas ordered me to build a road is that they wanted me to build a road myself so that they could use it against me in case of any emergency.
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Since I went to the trouble of stipulating in the truce agreement that the number of troops I could deploy in Kawakita Castle should be kept to a minimum, I guess they are still wary of me.
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The Kawakita Castle was, in fact, the subject of the most controversial discussion I had with Carlos.
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After many questions and answers, he accepted my ownership of the castle based on my statement, "We can always build a new castle if we have a few days.
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However, I don't want to make the relationship with Carlos worse.
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I think that this castle in the north of the river will become a sort of gateway and a post town between Barca and the city.
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But this has its advantages for me.
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It will be much easier to get to and from the city than before when there were only narrow roads that could not be called roads.
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If the knights of Barca are going to do business, it is above all necessary to secure the transportation routes to and from the city.
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For the Fontana family and for me, the construction of this road was meaningful.
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There are many people who can use magic in the territory of the Knights of Barca now.
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I sent those who have their own farmland back to their homes and instructed them to immediately clear the farmland and improve the soil.
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Then, they take the rest of the people who don't have farmland with them and start working on the road.
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He takes some of the money he has taken from the old man for the land and puts them to work as day laborers.
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Since all of them had experienced road construction once before, the work proceeded smoothly and without confusion.
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I had those with less magic power [clear the land] to widen the narrow road, and after I erected the landmarks, the rest of them [lay the road].
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In this way, a road was completed that would allow us to travel the distance from the village of Barca to the town of Fontana in a much shorter time than the three days it had previously taken.
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"Boy, are you sure about this?"
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"Well, that's fine. We have to make sure that those who don't have their own farmland can earn a living."
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It was shortly after the city of Fontana was connected to the knightly territory of Barca by a road.
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I had a hard time making up my mind, but I decided to go for it.
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Some of the people I had given magic to had farms and some did not.
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But the proportion of those without land was much larger.
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This was because I only gave magic to those who participated in the battle.
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When I first gathered the people in the village of Barca, there were a good number of farmers like my father, partly because I had recruited them by asking them to join me.
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However, most of the people who came with me when I joined Vargas in the next village and those who came after we had won the battle in the field were without farmland.
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It was only natural that the second and third sons of farmers, who had no choice but to be shady, gathered here like insects lured by the light of the fire.
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I had to do whatever I could to keep them fed.
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People who don't even have their own farmland suddenly have the power of magic.
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But what would happen if they had magic but no work?
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They will probably become a group of ruffians who try to solve their problems by force.
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We will provide some people to maintain security, but I don't think they will be able to keep it under control.
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However, if they are given jobs and can eat from them, the crime rate would still be better.
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I needed to create jobs to maintain security in the territory.
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The land I cleared out of the forest in the north.
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There is a land where I built a 4km square wall as my space, but in reality, there is a land that has been cleared further outside of the wall.
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The land I had cleared in the past was still there outside of the wall.
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On a part of the land outside the wall, a number of inn-type buildings were constructed.
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Those who wanted to live in these buildings were given the right to live in them and were also given jobs.
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There were two main types of work.
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One was brick making, which I used to do mainly, and the other was growing magic mushrooms.
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Brick making is a business that can be done with zero capital.
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Everyone could use the magic I had given them.
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Instead of consuming magic, they can make bricks every day.
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But things are different from when I was making bricks.
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At that time the city of Fontana was having its outer wall built and there was a great demand for bricks.
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But that's over now.
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So I specified the bricks to be made.
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I made them make and sell hardened bricks that would never be available in other places.
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If I had tried to make them by myself, I would have needed materials such as tusks of a big boar and horns of a valkyrie, which are related to magic.
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In terms of materials, they are not available anywhere else, and can only be obtained in the land of Barca.
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I think there is a certain demand for it.
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And so, with great reluctance, I gave permission for the cultivation of magic mushrooms.
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These magic mushrooms are definitely profitable.
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So I was growing them on my own, keeping the cultivation method as secret as possible.
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But I later found out that the most important part of growing magic mushrooms was to inject the logs with magic power.
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If you don't inject magic power into the logs, they will not bear much fruit, and once you take one, you won't be able to grow any more.
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However, if the logs are properly infused with magic power, many magic mushrooms will grow from the same log, and they can be harvested for several years.
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So I decided to teach this cultivation method to my people.
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The people I have named after me will be able to successfully cultivate them, since they are capable of [infusion of magic power].
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This is in anticipation of my eventual call to the Fontana family.
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If I grow and harvest a lot of magic mushrooms, I can make and stockpile magic restoratives for them.
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The more magic restoratives I have, the more I can build buildings without worrying about how much magic I have left.
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I think this will greatly increase our chances of survival.
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There is a disadvantage that my direct income will decrease, but I have decided that the advantage will be greater in the long run.
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Thus, the territory of the knights of Barca was quickly transformed into a land of new specialties.
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