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"Mister Ars, are you going to build a castle here, that you are?"

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"A castle?　Here?"

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Yes, that it is. You built a castle by the river in the south, but now you are mostly here in Barca. Then why don't you build another castle here?

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　Gran saw that I had built a refrigerated warehouse, and he started to get the urge to build.

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　It is true that the castle north of the river was built on the border with the city of Fontana, but its significance was diminished by the cease-fire agreement with Carlos.

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　This is because Carlos did not want me to have that castle in the first place.

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　However, I didn't want to give it to him because I didn't want to lose the castle that I had built so quickly.

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　So, after negotiations, they allowed me to own the castle, but restricted the number of soldiers stationed in the castle to the minimum necessary.

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　As a result, the town has become almost like a gateway and a post town between the town and the village of Barca.

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"But isn't Gran just trying to build a castle after all?"

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That is not true, that it is not. Building a castle has many meanings, that it does. One of them is to show power, that it is.

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"Power?　If I go out of my way to show you something like that, won't you think I'm getting carried away or something?"

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"That is not true, that it is not. It is absolutely necessary, that it is. Everyone who was in that battlefield knows the strength of Mr. Ars, that we all know. But, on the contrary, we do not know anything else, that we do not know. Some of them will be reluctant to pay taxes to Lord Ars, who is still a child.

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"...... I see. In other words, we should create a recognizable symbol of power to ensure that tax collections are carried out without delay.

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"That's what I mean. So, here in Barca, we should not only think of defenses like the castle in the north of the river, but we should also pay attention to the decoration.

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　Hmm.

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　You have a point.

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　However, I still think that Gran's desire to build a castle is the main reason.

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　Not many people would want to pay taxes now that I have 4km of land surrounded by walls and won a direct battle against Fontana's army.

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　It is not urgent to build a castle.

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　But it is not enough to leave things as they are.

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　With the other work settled, I began to think that it would be a good time to make some changes to the area.

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　I have been thinking about it for a while now.

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　First, let's look at the current situation.

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　Barka, the village where I was born.

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　There was a vast forest to the north of Barca village.

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　I have been cultivating that forest and have surrounded the land with a wall.

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　The area is as large as 4km square on each side.

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　However, not only the cultivated land, but also the northeast area from the cultivated land is set as a forestry management area for lumberjacks.

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　Well, to put it simply, the area north of the village has been under my control almost since before it became the territory of the knights of Barca.

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　If you go straight south from the village of Barca, you will find the town of Fontana, but there is a river in the middle of the town, and I built a castle on the north side of the river.

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　Then, southwest of Barca village, there is a neighboring village where Vargas and his family used to be.

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　The road connecting these three villages looks like an isosceles triangle when seen from the sky.

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　This is the land that I am now ruling as the knight of Barca.

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　But if you think about it, the biggest building in the territory of the knights of Barca is the castle on the north side of the river.

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　Even though I have a long wall on my land, it is not surprising that a completed castle would have more impact.

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　Maybe some merchants from other places will think that the castle will be the one to rule the land.

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　In this regard, it may be possible to build a new castle in order to show that the head of Barka Knight's Domain is here.

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　However, it would be better to go one step further.

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　Let's build a center of Barka Knight's Domain.

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　It is worrisome that there is currently no central location for the Barka Knight Territory.

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　It may be related to the fact that merchants have not yet gathered there even though we have opened a free market.

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　That's right.

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　As I may be summoned by the Fontana family at any moment and sent to the battlefield to be used up, the probability of my death will only increase every moment if I just govern the land diligently.

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　In order to increase our strength, it would be better to gather people from other places and settle them down.

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　Then, let's build a town where people will want to come here on their own.

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　Thus, I decided to redevelop the land.

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