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"I would like to charge you for the return of the Hail Medium in the form of food and necessities, is that correct?"
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"Yes. Yes. I think that's a good idea. I'll leave it to Mr. Banagher.
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Banagher came to the fort after receiving my call.
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He had already told them what we were going to do, and they seemed to have a plan in place to deal with it.
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Negotiations for the return of the captured archers to Bulgaria.
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It seems that they have decided to ask for goods instead of money.
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Banagher is also concerned about the price of the necessities of life, which will continue to rise in the future.
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He intends to trade with other countries and regional powers through magical tools, but some of them are located far away from the Orient.
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There is also no guarantee that the transportation will be safe.
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Therefore, in order to be more thorough, they have decided to obtain the necessary supplies in exchange for prisoners of war.
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Perhaps this would be an easier way for the Gulagarians to pay.
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It is better than paying a large sum of money directly.
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Banagher mentioned that since what is being requested is not a particularly expensive item that is difficult to obtain, this request may be easier to fulfill.
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Well, that's just for now, and I don't know what will happen if the prices of various goods gradually rise in the future, but that's just our guess.
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"Still, it's a pretty big sum of money when you actually have to pay for it. If this is a bad idea, wouldn't it be possible to run a country just by exchanging prisoners of war?"
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The documents Banerjee showed me while he was explaining the project to me.
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The documents included the approximate amount of money for the return of prisoners of war and the amount of money demanded for the Hail Medium in comparison with the approximate amount of money for the return of prisoners of war.
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I think that the price for one person would be quite an outrageous amount.
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Well, I guess so, considering the rising price of magic tools.
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"You are right, Mr. Alphonse. In fact, there are such countries among the small nations, that there are. They invade other countries and use the prisoners they get to demand money. There are countries that make a lot of money even though their land area is small, that there are.
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"Heh. Then, should we do the same in the Orient?
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"That is also good, that it is, but I would like you to move your army with the safety of the country in mind, that I would like you to do. As long as the country remains, you can make as much money as you want, that you can.
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"I see. I see. Of course you do. I understand. Then I'll split up my army and head for Peria. I'll leave the rest to you, Mr. Banagher.
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Yes, sir. We will not let Master Alphonse's victory be in vain, that we will not. I will extract good conditions from him, that I will.
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I wasn't familiar with it, and neither was the Orient, but it seems that some of the smaller nations are making a strong effort in POW diplomacy.
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They fight against other countries, win victories, and take prisoners of war.
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They demand a large sum of money as a condition for returning the POWs to the other country.
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Some countries are said to be repeating such a practice every year.
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Or perhaps the newly independent powers in the region are also earning money by doing such a thing.
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The interesting point of this POW diplomacy is that sometimes they pay with something else instead of money.
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Looking at the market price shown by Banerji, the amount of money to be moved was quite large.
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It was so large that the home country might be reluctant to pay for the capture of several influential people in a single battle.
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However, there seems to be a trick to it.
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If the country could not pay, the POWs were sometimes kept there for a few years to have children and so on.
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This is probably due to the fact that children of people with high magic power tend to be born with high magic power.
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In other words, the children born there are likely to have more magic power, and the POWs do not have the right of custody.
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In other words, if you get a POW but cannot get money from the other country, you will get his bloodline instead.
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When a child is born, the captive is returned to his country of origin, and the child is raised in the victorious country and used as the property of that country.
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Therefore, some of the small states sell their own bloodlines.
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When money is desperately needed due to famine or disaster, they sometimes have children in other countries instead of migrating.
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One wonders if it is safe to establish blood ties so many places.
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However, it seems that children born in other countries do not have inheritance rights in their home countries, so it is not considered to be a problem.
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However, there are times when blood ties are used.
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That is, when attacked by a group of nations other than a small group of nations.
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Small states, which consist of a number of city-states and other independent entities, sometimes unite to oppose an attack from an outside power.
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I have always wondered how they could take a cooperative line only at such a time when they are always fighting each other, but it seems that this is partly due to the influence of the prisoner-of-war diplomacy mentioned earlier.
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In a sense, in a group of small states, all of the influential people are related to each other.
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It may be that although relatives are always quarreling with each other, the whole family will deal with them collectively when they are bothered by someone else.
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Once again, I was reminded of the unique character of this area.
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However, it seems that the Orient is rather unique among them, and they did not take in other bloods such as prisoners of war.
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Anyway, Banagher does not seem to be concerned about taking prisoners of war.
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I don't think that I have any need to get money from other countries by treating POWs politely for now, so I don't think I will do it actively.
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At any rate, we left the border guards at the fort, delivered Hale's body to the Orient, and headed northeast.
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