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"Okay, we've set up the statues of the transporter stone and the ice absorbing stone. Let's move on."

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Yes, sir. Next we will go to the new Burmese territory. We'll be riding a Valkyrie, is that correct?

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Of course. I'll be right there.

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　The newly acquired lands of the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　It has only been won and taken.

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　This battle was the result of a dispute between the Xillia and Rajka families led by Wagner that evolved into the Kingdom of Fontana versus the Union of Northern Nobles.

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　Therefore, it can be said that the issue of this battle was originally only against the Rajkas and not against the other nobles.

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　In other words, although Fontana fought against the northern nobles, the reason was over the House of Rajka, not over the ownership of other nobles' lands.

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　In other words, Fontana's army attacked the eight nobles who had been stretched thin, but there was a problem that they did not have a good reason to claim the ownership of the territories.

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　A cause is an important one.

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　Without it, no matter how many battles they won, it would be difficult to convince the people around them of their ownership of the territory, and the people living there would not recognize it.

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　However, it will be difficult to give it up now that we have won the war.

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　So there is only one thing to do.

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　We have to take effective control.

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　We will place the four families of Xillia, Birma, Ix, and Graham in the eight noble territories that we have taken this time, and establish an army there to rule them.

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　If they complain about it, we will ignore them or eliminate them by force.

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　Then, by making it a continuous and permanent state, they will make the residents and the surrounding area recognize their de facto domination.

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　It is a mess, but while maintaining this effective control, some kind of diplomatic negotiations must be conducted to officially recognize the land as Fontana's land.

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　In order to do so, first and foremost, we have to establish a foundation.

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　While placing forces in each area to deal with discontent, we must prevent attacks from the outside.

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　That is the job of the frontier counts who have gained territory, but there is something I can do to help.

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　As the first step, I set up the statues of the transfer stone and the ice absorbing stone.

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　Of course, it is not enough to simply install the transfer stones.

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　In order to move between the stones in an instant, there must be a magical connection between them.

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　For this purpose, a road is built.

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　This is to be done with the help of engineers in Fontana's army, and with a good deal of calculation.

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　Since it will eventually become a major artery for transporting people and goods, we will not use the forced method of using Valkyries with horns as we did in the east.

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　We will survey properly and build roads that connect the cities straight.

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　In addition to this, we have installed ice-absorbing stone statues.

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　This is also to provide a tangible benefit.

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　The newly acquired land is south of Fontana, but still people freeze to death in winter.

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　The current season is autumn.

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　It would be a great benefit to the inhabitants of the city if they could install ice-absorbing stone statues that can absorb the cold before the winter is about to arrive.

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　It would be a good cost if they would be grateful for it once it is installed.

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　The rest is up to you.

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　We can try to organize a cookout once the planned transfer stones are in place.

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　I've been traveling around the nobles' territories on the Valkyrie, and in general, many of them are poor.

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　Whether or not providing food in the form of a soup kitchen will help the ruling power is not so clear, but it may help to impress the residents.

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　Besides, in the Kingdom of Fontana, it does not hurt their pocketbooks too much to donate food for free.

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　So far, the self-sufficiency rate of food has been greatly increased by improving the soil and clearing the land.

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　There is no problem financially to use the wheat collected as tax.

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　Above all, there is a stockpile for earthquakes, so we should be able to use some of it.

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"Is there anything else we need to do?　Hey, do the locals around here have any problems, Payne?"

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"What are the residents having trouble with?　Well, ......, I'm sure the list goes on and on, but I think it would be a good idea to get rid of the bandits, don't you?"

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"Exterminate bandits?"

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"Yes, there are a lot of bandits and such, Mr. Ars. Basically, when farmers cannot pay their taxes due to crop failure or other reasons, they go to the city to look for work. But not all of them can find work. In such cases, rather than die in the streets, they sometimes attack villages or merchants as bandits.

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"Well, restoring security by exterminating bandits may help to improve the impression of Fontana to the inhabitants. But didn't the original aristocratic families used to fight bandits?

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"There are effects of the long upheaval. They would have had to deal with large bandits and prominent groups, but they might not have been able to deal with smaller ones. And, while the area near the capital may have been a good place for bandits to hide, the borders of other nobles' territories are more likely to be overlooked.

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"I see. If we send out troops to exterminate the bandits near the border, we might provoke the nobles and knights near the location, making it difficult to deal with them. This time, since we acquired several territories at once, there might be many such overlooked bandit groups in the new lands."

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"That's right."

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"Okay, then tell your brother Byte. Tell him to use the cavalry to find and kill every bandit he can.

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Yes, sir.

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　Normally, the nobility should be responsible for governing and maintaining security in the territories they acquire.

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　But this time, because of the sudden reassignment, there is a possibility that Rion and the other nobles will not be able to handle it.

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　Therefore, I have mobilized Fontana's army to the frontier counties as well and started to exterminate the bandits.

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　This will be a demonstration to show Fontana's army in various places.

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　No matter how many noble families have been defeated, there are still knight families and powerful families with influence in each region.

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　This will be an opportunity to demonstrate our power to them.

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　In this way, we were steadily gaining ground.

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