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"I'm glad I did the Barca School."

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"What are you talking about, Mr. Ars?"

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"No, we built the Barca School in the city of Fontana some years ago, right?　I think it helped more than I expected with the doubling of the land area this time. By the way, was it Payne's advice that prompted you to create the Barca School?"

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"Yes, that's right. I think it was my suggestion. The idea of creating an educational institution for the children of knights.

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"Great. We should reward Payne with something."

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"Thank you, Mr. Ars."

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　Rapid national expansion.

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　The Kingdom of Fontana has grown from seven noble domains to fifteen, and naturally this has caused quite a few problems.

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　One of them was the lack of human resources for governance.

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　The three former counties were placed outside of the kingdom, and each of them was responsible for the management of their territories.

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　The former Lubitsch and Hermes territories, which had been left vacant by the departure of the counts, were placed under the direct control of the Fontana royal family, and the former Ix territory was incorporated into the Barca territory.

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　The former Ix Territory was incorporated into the Barka Territory, where the deputies and other officials of the Kingdom of Fontana were placed.

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　However, the number of personnel for this purpose was not easily filled.

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　The Balkan Academy was then established.

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　The Barca Academy was a school for knights in the city of Fontana.

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　In the Kingdom of Fontana, there is a king named Garod, a nobleman, and knights under him.

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　Of course, each knight has children, but the eldest son is the heir of each knight's family, and the second and third sons and after had to fend for themselves.

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　In the private school where the children of such knights were gathered and educated in the Balkan style, they were mainly taught about governance.

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　However, the school was only a few years old and did not have such a solid curriculum.

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　At the most, they were taught on a case-by-case basis how to govern at a minimum, or how much farmland could be redeveloped in a certain period of time and how much increase in harvest could be expected by using Barka's magic [soil improvement].

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　Unlike ordinary people, the children of knights were taught to read, write, and calculate to some extent at home, so they had the advantage of being able to learn more practical skills immediately after entering the school.

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　This time, many students left the Barka School.

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　First of all, among the students, those who were excellent and serious were asked by me, Kyle and others if they could work as deputies in the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　This is a relatively stable job, but it does not allow him to expand his territory with his own forces.

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　There may be those who believe in their own power and want to become the lord of a kingdom with their own fiefdom.

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　Some of them went to the frontier counties to serve and get a job, not under the direct control of the royal family.

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　This time, the Xillia, Burma, and Ix families, the frontier counts, moved out of their former territories in exchange for larger lands.

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　Even though the families that were ordinary knights until a few years ago now have lands equivalent to two noble families, they do not have the human resources to cover them immediately.

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　For this reason, even the frontier counts were short of manpower.

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　Basically, in the place of the counts of the frontier, each house is at the top, and a number of knight families rule the knight domains under the head of each house.

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　In other words, they are half independent fiefdoms, although they are positioned in the same Kingdom of Fontana.

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　If you go to such a frontier territory, you may be promoted as a knight according to your work and ability, and you may get your own knighthood.

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　This was seen as a great attraction for ambitious young men.

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　Therefore, those who were more upwardly mobile than stable were recommended by the Balkan school to the frontier count's territory and left for a new land.

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　However, even though they had learned how to run a fiefdom, they were actually amateurish young men with no practical experience.

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　As for whether the frontier counts would really want such a person, in fact, they wanted him a lot.

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　After all, the city of Fontana is the capital of the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　All the nobles and knights under Carlos had been ordered to live in the city of Fontana since the time when Carlos ruled the Fontana territory.

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　In such a town, the graduates of the Barca School, which was held for the children of knights, were all well-connected.

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　In other words, for the Counts of the Frontier, hiring students from the Barka Academy would not only provide them with immediate employment opportunities, but it would also lead to the securing of human resources who had connections with other influential families in the capital.

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　These connections are very important.

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　In any case, no matter how much money you put up, connections are not easy to obtain.

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　Thus, the students of the Barca School with a minimum knowledge of governance scattered to new lands at once.

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　And this was of great significance for the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　In any case, the administrative work in each region has not been without its own local rules.

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　The people who governed based on the format taught at the Barka School spread throughout the country.

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　In other words, the administrative work in each region became more unified than before.

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　This trend also had a great impact on other noble families and knight families.

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　Because it seemed as if those who had only studied in the Barka Academy, an institution that was neither official nor unofficial, had easily risen to the top.

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　In other words, some of them not only became deputies as civil servants without going into battle at all, but were even knighted by the frontier count's house.

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　I do not know if this will be a one-time exception or not.

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　Or, if the lands of Fontana increase in the future, the same thing may happen.

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　Many of them thought so.

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　Thus, the Barca School in the city of Fontana saw a dramatic increase in the number of students who joined the school after this incident.

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　If possible, we would like to have more people who can work in various places.

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　We have decided to improve the contents of the lessons so that we can send the increased number of students to the various places as immediate workforce.

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