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"I never thought that my father, who was just a farmer, would be able to use the Fontana family's [ice spirit summoning], Ars.

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"Now that brother Hector can use it too, practically everyone in our family is the head of the family, father."

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"I can't believe it. I can't believe it...but are you sure?　If the magic of Barca is to be given to the Fontana army, shouldn't Ars be the one to name it?　Are you sure it would have been okay if Dad or Hector had named it?"

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"Okay. That was one of the goals of that military reform."

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　He is a good farmer at heart, but he can't believe he has such power.

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　But he will come to accept it naturally after a while.

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　And your fears are not unfounded.

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　He said he was going to reform the Fontana army and named 10,000 engineers for the soldiers who belonged to it.

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　As planned, the naming was to be done in a pyramid or tree diagram, starting with the head of the smallest group and gradually working up.

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　Then, the magic of Barca was given to the battalion commander, so that the entire Corps of Engineers could use the magic of Barca.

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　At this time, I did not do the naming myself.

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　It was my father, my brother Hector, and my old man who gave the Barca magic to the multiple battalion commanders.

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　This was the secret purpose.

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　If I were to knight a soldier in the army, I would have to name him as a knight of Barca.

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　But that is not the case this time.

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　I have made it so that the act is not for the purpose of taking them up as knights, that is, the soldiers do not have to swear allegiance to me, and this has given a name to someone other than me to do the naming.

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　Even though they are knights of Barca, my father, brother Hector, and the old man do not have a fiefdom, and therefore they do not have their own vassalage.

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　In other words, they cannot increase the number of their own subordinates and siphon off the magical power from below.

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　However, the name of the fathers could give their names to the soldiers of Fontana's army in the name of giving them Barca's magic.

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　Thus, from a knight with no lands, he has suddenly succeeded in becoming the holder of the magical power of the head of the family.

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"Did Ars have that in mind from the beginning?"

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No, not really, Dad. Our first goal was to strengthen Fontana's army. But if we're going to do this, it's better to give more than one meaning to the same act. We've decided that the naming of the army is not a master-servant relationship between a nobleman and a knight."

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"I see. Ars is a good man. I don't think my dad could have thought that far ahead."

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"That's not true. I'm counting on you. Well, I'm sure I'll be asking a lot of you in the future, Dad.

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"Oh, all right, Ars. I'm sure you're ready for this now. Your mother is in the process of having and raising your brother. We'll have to hang on until he grows up."

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"Ha-ha-ha. If you need anything about your brother, you can always talk to me, Dad."

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　Well, actually, this military reform has other aims as well.

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　It was about land development.

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　We had already been working on improving the soil of existing farmland to increase yields, but we decided to leave these projects completely to the Fontana Army.

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　There is a reason for this.

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　It was because of the events of last year.

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　Last year was a big one.

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　Fontana was reborn as a kingdom from the aristocracy, a historic event.

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　And at that time, the royal house of Dorren issued a royal decree against it and sent an allied army of nobles to defeat Fontana.

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　What did I do to counter the overwhelming numbers of the allied forces, even if I had gathered the Fontana forces?

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　The wall, called the Carmathian Wall of Defense, was built over a period of several months, right up to the time when the Allied Forces were closing in on us.

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　It was built just in time, thanks to the time-wasting efforts of the allied forces, who gathered in the capital and then headed for Fontana.

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　However, this only meant that the defensive wall was completed in time, and most of the people who could use Barca's magic were busy for several months building the wall.

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　Within the Kingdom of Fontana, Barca was contracted to improve agricultural lands.

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　He would receive money from the knights who owned the lands, and he would decide at which time of the year to improve the soil or to lay roads.

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　They planned the schedule on an annual basis.

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　But that schedule was not met.

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　The reason was that the people who could use Barka's magic had been dispatched to deal with the Allied Forces.

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　There are, of course, extenuating circumstances, partly because of the emergency.

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　Above all, to avoid unnecessary arguments, I had spent a considerable amount of money to reach a settlement with the knight who had failed to accomplish his task.

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　However, there was no way to predict what would happen in the future.

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　We do not know when the schedule will fall apart.

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　Besides, the expansion of the Kingdom of Fontana was also a concern.

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　What if the Burmese or Xillian families, who had been relocated outside the defensive wall of Carmas, the old border line, would ask for the construction of a Great Wall in their territories as well?

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　It was obvious that the current knights of Barca would not be enough to build such a great wall.

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　However, it would be a shame to refuse so easily.

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　Since the issue was also one of national defense, if I were to refuse too bluntly, he might say that I, the Prime Minister and Grand General, was not thinking of protecting the country.

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　That is why I wanted to increase the number of people who could use magic and, if possible, to keep the Barka family away from developing lands too far away.

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　For this reason, they decided to increase the number of people who can use Barka's magic as engineers.

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　This could be done by having the council review the annual schedule of land development and using the army.

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　And if the agreement is written in advance that the army will not be available for land development in case of emergency, there will be no one to complain.

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　If they complain, we can accuse them of thinking only of themselves.

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　And at the same time, the problem of selling salt to the Church could be solved.

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　The fact is that the amount of salt that was being sold to Archbishop Paul was far too little.

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　Well, that may be so.

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　Salt is wanted by all.

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　Not only within the Kingdom of Fontana, but also in the nobles' territories outside of it.

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　The Church has requested many times to Barca to increase the production of salt, since there is a demand for it in all the noble territories and there is not enough salt to meet the demand.

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　But last year they were busier building the wall than making salt.

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　We could not do that much.

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　But now the Fontana army has more people who can produce salt.

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　They will be able to sell a little more salt to the churches.

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　There were many problems involved, and the military reform was meant to be a means to solve them.

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　That is one of the reasons why the people around them approved to some extent of the out-of-the-ordinary action of giving magic to the military.

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　Although Barca lost a part of his job, he did not lose much because he was able to earn a stable income through the military.

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　Thus, Fontana had the ability to further develop the land after the winter and before the spring.

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