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"Hey, Ars. Are you sure about this?"

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"What are you talking about, Bite-brother? What do you mean, "is it okay?"

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"It's a domain, the domain of the House of Bald Knights. Isn't it too big?　It's a lot bigger than the original Barka Knight Territory. I'm just saying I don't mind if I get such a big piece of land."

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"Well, to tell you the truth, I think it's too big. But, well, as I said at the beginning, my brother Byte took the land himself, so it's okay. Feel free to take it, brother byte."

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"Well, I'll take what I can get. But I've never run a territory before. Do you think you'll be able to do it?

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"You're being unusually timid, brother. You're right ......, just make sure you do the bare minimum for now. I think you can manage it safely if you don't think about making money by creating various things like I do.

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What's the minimum I should do?

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"All right, take a look at this, brother Byte. This is the letter I sent to the knights. It says here that they'll be forgiven if they surrender and join Barca. I've also included my conditions."

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　Until now, my brother Bite has done nothing but move armies.

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　But now that he has suddenly been put in charge of a large territory, he seems to have grown uneasy.

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　Well, I guess that's fair enough.

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　Everyone is anxious about something they have never done before.

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　So I began to explain to him.

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　I began to talk to him about the points that he should keep in mind when running the estate, based on the contents of the letter.

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　Actually, the job I wanted him to do was not so complicated.

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　Basically, it is to make the people plow the fields and pay taxes on the harvest.

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　To make sure that this is kept up to date, he has to deal with all sorts of troubles.

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　However, when a knight surrenders his lands to Barka, he is allowed to keep his lands.

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　For such a case, the knight will make the inhabitants of his knight's territory pay wheat tax, which will be paid over to the Barthes family of the Bite brother.

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　Then, the taxes collected by the bight brother are paid again to the Balka family, where I live.

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　This was the flow of the administration of the estate.

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　However, I have asked the surrendered knights to accept some other conditions as well.

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　For example, the abolition of the toll tax, which is also in effect in some of the Fontana territories.

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　Normally, they would have to control the entry and exit of their territory at the customs and collect tolls as necessary.

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　However, this has the disadvantage that even a small distance traveled is taxed, resulting in higher prices for goods.

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　The Baltic States is planning to improve the road network to increase the flow of people, but we do not want such a state of affairs.

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　That is why I have already asked for the abolition of such a toll tax.

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　Thus, it is also necessary to make the native knights abide by some of the conditions that I have set for them.

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　Perhaps, for a while at first, they may try to ignore our orders and continue to do things the same way they have always done.

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　However, we must strictly instruct them.

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　And in order to make them follow us like that, the Bald Knights needed power.

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　That is why I ordered my brother Bite to cut off Uruk territory without my participation.

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"But is that what you want?　You make a lot of money making all kinds of products, don't you?　Maybe I should do the same. I don't know if I can.

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"If you can do it, you should do it, but only as much as you can. Anyway, it is important to expand the farmland and increase the yield at first. To put it bluntly, as long as you use Barca's magic to improve the farmland, you should be able to manage the territory well.

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"Improved farmland. I'll take care of it, Ars. I've been sent to Fontana before. I'm used to it.

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"Yes, brother Byte. You should take care of the people who did the brain work for you on that temp job. Smart people are valuable. They are indispensable for the management of the territory.

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"Right. Then maybe we can get Kyle to come over here.

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"No. That's a no-no, brother Bite. I need Kyle. I can't help it. I'll send a guy from the Reid family that Kyle trained in Vulcania later. Use him well."

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"d*mn, I was hoping you'd be able to get away with it, but I guess not. If Kyle had been here, he would have been a hundred times better. Well, we'll get by with a civilian. But you know what, Ars? But, Ars... it's not enough just to improve the farmland. I want to make something that makes money.

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"If ......, I wish my brother Bite would do his best to raise goats. There are a lot of goats in the mountains of the old Uruk territory. Enough to feed them to the dragons. I think it would be a good idea to keep goats to make yarn. It's cold here too, and there's never enough fabric to go around.

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"I see...I remember you had a goat. But that's all right, Ars. If the Baltic family produces so much dough, you might not be able to make any money.

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"Well, if that happens, I'll compete with quality, not quantity. I'll make the finest fabrics that have passed Lilina's screening and sell them as luxury goods, so I guess that won't be a problem.

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"All right, we'll just have to improve the farmland and get the hair from the goats, won't we, Ars? If it works and we make some money, we'll try something else.

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"Oh, that's the spirit, brother Byte. Good luck."

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"...... hmm?　Wait a minute, Ars. What the hell is this? Did you put these conditions on me?"

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"What the hell, all of a sudden. Just when I thought I had it all figured out. ...... Well, here it is. Yeah, that's it. I made the knights who surrendered take these terms. But it also applies to the territories that the Bite Brothers attacked and carved up without surrendering."

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"You're going to do this to the entire Bald Knights territory?　Are you serious, Ars?"

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"Of course, brother Bite. Yes, of course, brother Bite, I won't allow you to oppose this. This is an absolute condition for the custody of the territory.

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　One of the conditions for the management of the estate that my part-time brother noticed after he thought he had reached an end to his conversation with me.

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　As expected, he was surprised to see it.

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　But he could not be trusted with the management of the territory if he had missed this.

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　The contents of the article were the obligations to be imposed on the residents of the territory of Barca.

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　It was to be imposed on boys of a certain age for a few years only.

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　It was compulsory participation in the Balkan army.

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　Thus, Barka was to carve out about a third of the old Uruk territory and drag the young boys living there into the army.

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　This meant that the Balkan army had to start anew as a conscripted civilian army.

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