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Then, I would like to confirm our agreement that your meat and ours will be shared by the dough. Is that acceptable?"

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"Yes. Yes, sir.

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Then we have a deal. I look forward to working with you in the future.

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　The Barka army staying in Sult territory.

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　The surrounding lords who come there pledge their vassalage to House Reed through me.

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　So far, there has been no major opposition around us.

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　I guess it is ingrained in the nature of these people to follow the strong.

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　They came to bow down one after another to us who just showed up suddenly, once they confirmed to some extent that we did not say anything unreasonable to them.

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　I was having a business meeting with such people.

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　It was a business meeting about the food that could be obtained in this region.

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　There are many foods that can be found in the southern part of the Rheinsatz Territory, including Surt, that are not found in the north.

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　We traded them for the fabrics for clothing produced in Barca.

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　Here is a princess wearing a dress made of fabric made from the fine hair of goats raised in Barca.

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　Olivia Risorte, also known as the Dragon Princess or the Warrior Maiden, is showing herself in front of the lords who have come to me.

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　She has been strong and good at communicating with dragons since she was a child, and of course, as the daughter of a powerful noble family, she has been educated in etiquette and manners.

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　Olivia, whose every movement is beautiful and makes you fall in love with her, is a perfect billboard for us.

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　Olivia, wearing a garment dedicated to the gods, is used as an example to show how superior the fabrics made in Barca are.

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　In fact, there are only a limited number of places where goats that can jump over rooftops can be bred, and the finest fabrics made from the carefully selected hair of such difficult-to-breed goats were highly valued even in the capital.

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　In other words, Barca fabrics were extremely expensive and were treated like jewels.

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　Using such rare and expensive fabrics as a trading material, contracts were concluded with the surrounding lords for the regular trade of a certain amount of food every year.

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　It would be nice if we could study the production of food from these areas back in Barca, but we do not know how much the different climatic conditions would affect this.

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　Therefore, we decided to secure a direct route to purchase food from them.

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　This seems to have helped them to win the hearts of the lords of the southern part of the Rheinsatz.

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　It is not a loss for them either.

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　The fact that they will now have access to rare fabrics that had never been available before, and which had a certain reputation to begin with.

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　And the local specialty food they were willing to offer in return.

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　Most of the local specialties were brought as if they were offered by the participants themselves, although they must have been the pride of each region.

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　It is likely that they had an ulterior motive of wanting us to like them to some extent from the beginning.

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"But how do you intend to carry out your annual transactions, Mr. Ars Varka?

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"What do you mean, Mr. Bryan?"

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No, I was just curious. I would say that Barca fabrics are easy to trade if you take care to preserve them. But the items that we will give you in trade for that fabric, especially the foodstuffs. They are likely to be damaged in a short period of time. How do you propose to trade them with Barca, which is so far away?"

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"That's a bit of a problem. Basically, we would like you to trade in food that will keep for a long time as a preserved food. In addition, if possible, we would like to build a road leading to the town of Richard. There is a magic circle in Richard that allows us to go to the north in an instant. I think it would be a good idea to make use of that."

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"I see. I remember that after the battle with us on the Rhine, you said you were going back to the city of Fontana. I've never used that transfer magic circle, so I wonder if it is really possible to travel such a long distance, but I understand. I will prepare a road to our Sultanate and the former Holy City, now the city of Richard.

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"Thank you very much. Now, if possible, it would be better to have other commercial routes. I cannot say at this stage, but I would like to build a port on the Rhine if possible. That way we can travel that big river and reach the Arbalest area in the Barca territory."

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"The Rhine. That river is indeed a large, wide, deep, and long river that could be used for commerce. However, it is complicated by the fact that it flows over several territories, right?

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"You mean there are territorial issues on the river as well? That certainly sounds troublesome. Well, this is just something that I hope will happen eventually. For now, the first priority is to improve the road to Richard. Since the Balkan army cannot leave here for a while yet, we should send people from the Balkan army as well. Shall we quickly clear the road?

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"Are you sure?　You're going to use the army to maintain the roads, aren't you?"

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That's fine. We often do that kind of work in the first place. It's not a problem to put in that much effort to eat good meat on a regular basis.

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　I don't think so.

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　I guess I like the food around here more than I thought I did.

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　I think I'm being driven by my appetite.

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　But that's okay.

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　If I'm going to be here for a while anyway, I might as well do what's in my best interest.

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　Besides, the road to Richard will be well maintained by the Balkan army, which will show how important the Sults are in this region.

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　Thus, I set about the task of building an arterial road that would allow us to cut off the southern part of the Rheinsatz territory and still be able to send the food we obtained there to Barka in a stable manner.

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　I was especially pleased because I often enjoyed barbecue parties here in the Surt territory.

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　Soon, a clean and easy-to-move road, which would become known as the Yakiniku Road, connecting the cities of Surt and Richard was to be built with great speed.

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