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"All right, let's build a castle town.

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　I had been thinking about it for a while and decided to build not only a castle, the symbol of power according to Gran, but also a town to go along with it.

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　In the past, when I had been diligently cultivating the forest and expanding my land, I had felt that "this was my land" and did not think of actively inviting other people to live in it.

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　But now the situation is different.

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　The pioneer land is my land, but a larger area than that is recognized as the land of the knights of Barca, the land I rule.

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　Then there is no need for me to stick to the land of this settlement alone.

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　Rather, as a reversal of fortune, let's actively make them live in this land.

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　We should build a city inside the wall that we have built to deal with the big boars that come out of the forest, and let people live inside the wall.

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　Then we will defend the land of Barka with its inhabitants as a force of war.

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　What could be more beneficial than protecting the inhabitants and the land at the same time?

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　With this decision made, I immediately began to take action.

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　I decided to take action immediately.

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　A wall of 1 km on a side exists in the center of the land surrounded by a wall of 4 km on a side.

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　This wall is made of hardened bricks and is called the inner wall.

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　On the land within the inner wall is my house, where I have basically been hatching Valkyries and cultivating magic mushrooms.

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　Eventually, I will build a castle here where I can show the power that Gran has said I have.

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　But first, I will redevelop the land between the inner and outer walls.

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　On the side of the road stretching south from the central district are Gran's house, his part-time brother's house, and the old peddler's store.

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　In the open space of the road, there is a space where stores can be set up with a permit, and this space is used as a free market.

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　In addition, there are refrigerated warehouses here as well.

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　However, there is still a lot of land available.

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　Let's put prospective residents in this vacant space.

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　Since we are wasting time, let's set up a road like a grid, and divide it into lots of a certain size and sell them.

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　If I build a building, you can move in on the same day as long as you have a door.

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　Unlike the South District, the Northeast District will gather people in the lumber business.

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　Originally, when the forest northeast of the settlement was set up as a protected area, it was used as a lumber storage area.

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　There is a house where lumberjacks live.

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　In addition, there are charcoal making and blacksmith shops, as well as a paper making and magic mushroom cultivation plant.

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　It would be more efficient to have all the workplaces related to wood and the people who work there in one place.

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　The West District is currently a wide area of fields, mainly growing Hatsuka, the food for Valkyries.

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　However, a part of the field is to be destroyed and turned into a ground.

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　Eventually, I would like to gather soldiers here.

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　The west gate should be used only for soldiers so that they can go into battle immediately.

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　However, we are not yet at the stage where we can have a standing army of any kind.

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　So, I have decided to gather a security force centering on my father.

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　They are in charge of policing the villagers who have gotten carried away with their magic.

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　So we should also build a jail here.

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　I'll also build something like a courthouse.

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　I am not sure if we should hold trials in the castle or in the courthouse, but if it is only minor crimes, we can let Mr. Madoc and the others handle it in the courthouse we are going to build here.

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　There is still a lot of vacant land, but for now, let's go with a blueprint like this.

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　Eventually, we can collect taxes on HATSUKA as one of the taxes, and reduce the number of fields and increase the number of dwellings.

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　But let's make an ordinance for this land.

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　Let's build all the buildings with hardened bricks.

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　Suppose there is a military invasion beyond the outer wall.

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　The buildings in the city can slow down the army's progress.

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　If we can make the buildings that will slow down the army's progress by using hardened bricks, we can slow down the army's progress one more step.

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　With this in mind, I immediately started rebuilding the house of my part-time brother and placed the buildings around the southern district.

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　The buildings were placed mainly in the south ward.

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"Wow, kid. I've never seen a city like this."

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"How do you like it? You put a lot of effort into this, old man.

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"No, I mean, it's more impressive than the city of Fontana, isn't it?"

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　At any rate, I built a lot of buildings made of hardened bricks in the south district.

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　I climbed up to the top of the inner wall to see how it was done, and was looking down on the city from a slightly elevated position.

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　An old man who happened to be nearby joined me and watched the scene.

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　While I was nodding my head at the castle town I was building, the old man was looking at me in dismay.

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　Well, that's just as well.

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　I have made a really nice grid line on both sides of the road that runs straight from the central district to the southern district by using magic such as [Clearing].

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　Moreover, houses of the same shape are lined up at equal intervals on the lots along the grid.

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　The house is the same as mine.

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　I had [stored in my memory] a house with a lot of arches and windowpanes, so I mass-produced it.

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　I have seen exactly the same rows of houses for sale in my previous life, but you would rarely see them in this world.

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　It would be hard not to be surprised at how beautiful they are, made of beautiful hardened bricks that look like marble.

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"This would surprise even a merchant from another country, old man.

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"...... Yeah, if anyone's not surprised, I'll be surprised about that."

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　Thus, the town was steadily being built.

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