To begin with, first of all, it hasn't been decided how to govern Rezad in the future.
　The current position is under direct control, so I should be able to govern it directly.

　But the people of Rezad have a strong spirit of autonomy and independence.
　If you don't allow them to participate in politics to some extent, they will accumulate dissatisfaction.

　However, we can't let them be autonomous.
　This is because the port of Rezad is valuable both as a military port and as Adelunia's largest and only port in Rosais.

　As a land under direct control, it needs to continue to be governed.

　So what is currently being contemplated is a somewhat cumbersome political system that would establish a parliament and rule indirectly while respecting that parliament.

　Regulations and tariffs on goods coming in from Rezad need to be monitored by the state.
　Likewise, the state must maintain the navy as a military port.

　However, it is not necessary for the state to take direct command of everything.

　The infrastructure and special laws of the city of Rezad will be better understood by the locals than by officials dispatched from the center, and I'm not promoting local autonomy.

　And I'm a proponent of local autonomy.
　I'm a proponent of local autonomy because it saves money in various ways.

　The military, transportation infrastructure such as roads, and taxes.
　It doesn't matter what the local governments do as long as they have these three things under control.

　The reason why our national taxes are so low is that they are based on the premise of local autonomy.
　There is a tenth tax, which is a land rent, a twentieth tax, which is a sales tax, and other taxes, such as an inheritance tax.
　Other taxes, such as inheritance taxes.

　All totaled, the taxes are not high.

　So, if you want to hold or build a festival or a special building or something like that in a local area, you can collect a capitation tax or an additional tax and do what you want.

　Well, at present, there is no law that allows this, so the local government officials dispatched to the area have to implement it according to the residents' requests.

　I hope that Rezad will become a model case for local autonomy in our country.

　Now, the problem here is the establishment of the council.
　Establishing a parliament is not just a matter of building a parliament building.

　The establishment of the parliament is to determine the method of electing the council members and their authority.
　We have already decided on the powers to be given to the Congress.

　The question is how to elect them.

　Taxes in Loseys are not flat-rate, but fixed-rate.
　In other words, the more money he earns, the more taxes he has to pay.

　In other words, the richer you are, the more taxes you have to pay.

　So the rich think, "The richer you are, the more taxes you have to pay.

　'Only the rich, like us, should have the right to vote!　So that's it.
　That's why.

　Today, the former Rezad councillors effectively run the city government in Rezad, and they are very rich.
　So they tried to do political reform based on the idea that only those who paid a certain amount of taxes would be granted suffrage.
　He tried to change the old rule of 'the number of votes per person depends on the amount of tax paid' to 'everyone who pays a certain amount of tax has one vote'.

　This is a big step forward, considering the political system in Rezad to date.
　But some second-class citizens protested against this.

　Some of them are shouting: "We pay taxes, too!
　We pay taxes too," they said.

　Of course, second-class citizens don't own land or do business.
　So they don't have anything to do with land rents or sales taxes.
　But they are subject to the draft.

　Blood tax is a fine tax.

　Besides, the second class citizens played a major role in the earlier battle against Pofenia.
　Without their cooperation, Rezad would have fallen.

　But from the point of view of a first-class citizen, it's unacceptable for a second-class citizen who hasn't paid a cent to have the right to vote.

　That's why they are struggling with it.

　But there's no compromise. It's an either-or.
　''That's right. But if we continue like this, the discussion won't go forward.......so can't we have His Majesty decide this place with a single cry of a crane?

　"And allow second-class citizens to have the right to vote.

　Second class citizens outnumber first class citizens.
　Okay, that may be frightening to a first class citizen.

　But that's what democracy is all about.

　As I've said many times, as long as we can tax and collect taxes and maintain critical military installations, it's none of my business what happens to local politics.

　Well, if you start doing things like freezing the assets of first class citizens and distributing them equally, I'll be there to stop you.

　'Well, and campaigning is expensive. After all, only rich people can take advantage of their electoral votes.

　So second class citizens can't use violence in numbers.
　And second class citizens will not be cohesive in the first place.

　The balance of first class citizens slightly superior will continue to be maintained.

　Is there anything else I need to decide?
　No, not really.

　Okay, then it's not a problem.






　Around the time Almus and Alexios were discussing Rezad's city government....
　Ron was in charge of the post-war process in the newly acquired territory.

　There were several reasons why Ron was entrusted with the maintenance of this area.

　First of all, the premise was that Almus wanted Ron to gain experience.
　But this was the same for both Rosward and Gram.
　So why was Ron chosen instead of Rosward and Gram?

　First of all, Rosward, he has the position of head of the Kingsguard.
　The role of the Knights of the Kingsguard is to protect the king's person and defend the capital.
　Therefore, they can't leave their home country for a long time.

　Next is Gram, and he has a mission to cultivate the forest of Romalia.
　The Romarian Forest is strategically important to King Losais' kingdom and only those close to Master Gryphon can cultivate this area.
　That's why Gram can't be absent from his seat.

　So Ron is useless?
　That's not true. Ron has a mission to crack down on drugs in the country and eliminate spies.

　But Ron has already perfected the organization and there is no reason why the place to give orders has to be the capital city.
　With a falcon flight, he could reach Almus in a few hours.

　And most importantly, the newly invaded areas have not been infiltrated by the organization Ron has created.
　As the head of the Secret Police, Ron will have to cast a wide net over the newly invaded areas.

　Then he would also have to take charge of internal affairs and defense.
　The decision was made to leave domestic administration and defense to Ron.



　Ron was given four thousand men by Almus.
　It was a consideration that he would need the strength to deal with them.

　The first thing Ron, who entered the old House of Miehalis with 4,000 troops, had to do is to maintain security in the territory.
　The first thing he did was to keep the peace in his domain, i.e., clean it of thieves and brigands.

　After the war, the estate was ravaged by fugitive soldiers and brigands.
　Also, the exploitation of wealth by some of the wealthy families impoverished the commoners, resulting in bandits, and some places were very unsafe to begin with.

　'I'll forgive you if you surrender,'
　Are you sure?
　Really, really. I'll save your life.
　He's surrendered!　I'm going to work diligently from now on!
　Yeah, you'll be working. Mr. Ains, nice to meet you.
　Yes, I know. This is good muscle, it's going to sell well. And this one, if you sell it as a male prostitute, it'll be worth it...
　Well, I thought you were going to help me.
　I'm saving your life.

　Ron and Ains had made a lot of money.

　The next thing they did was to take a census.
　The next step was to take a census of the population and survey the land.
　They had to get these two things done.

　The census went off without a hitch since it was a small area and the population itself was not large.

　Hmm, there are a lot of peasants. It's a problem that 80% of the commoners are peasants.

　Ron frowned as he read the report.
　The military system in King Rosais's country is conscription, and military service is determined by property.

　Wealthy people such as landowners and merchants who have large land holdings are cavalrymen.
　Self-employed farmers are heavily armed infantry.
　Peasants and unproductive citizens are light infantry.

　Of these, the mainstay of King Rosais' country is the heavy infantry.
　In other words, the quality and number of the heavy infantry was directly related to the military strength of King Losais's kingdom.

　Therefore, the lack of home-grown farmers is a big problem.

　'And there's a lot of uncultivated and abandoned farmland. Well, we can recruit immigrants over here........well, for now.......

　Ron issued the following proclamation.

　The landowner's land is to be confiscated and given to the peasants free of charge.
　No taxes for a year and ten percent rent thereafter.
　Taxes were to be collected under the national system of King Rosais.

　The landowners who had been cozying up to the wealthy families and exploiting them were the ones who suffered the hardest.

　They have been cut off from the land largely by the distribution of the land.
　And they lost their vested interests in being able to pocket some of the taxes they had been paying as tax collection contractors.

　A few rebellions were about to break out, but as expected of Ron, who controls the intelligence community.
　All were arrested and punished before they could take place.

　"Mr. Ron Aemilius!　Hooray!
　Long live the new lord!
　Marry me!
　'What a lovely man my crotch swells just by looking at his profile.

　Ron's popularity-grabbing policies had paid off, and the newly acquired territories had been easily incorporated into King Loseys' kingdom.
　There would be no need to worry about a peasant revolt for the time being.

　''Well, I'm not a new lord but I'm going back after my one year reign is over.
　That's good, my new lord. You look great.

　So Yeon compliments Ron.
　Unlike in the capital city, they flirt more than usual, probably because they don't get as much attention from people they know.

　The day of having a child will come sooner than later.

　

　The old Miehalis house will be renovated and turned into a fortress to be used as a base for the western conquest.
　It is Ron's job to guide the renovation.

　''What about the workforce?''
　'I'll hire a commoner. And I'm paid by our leader.

　Even though the tax is gone, it doesn't make life better immediately.
　We will have to wait for the harvest.
　There are many impoverished commoners in the region who are on the verge of falling into slavery.

　We could protect them and turn them into a workforce, all in one fell swoop.

　When Ron made his announcement, many of them sent their second and third sons to him.
　He ordered them to renovate the pavilion, build roads and bridges, and improve the water control and irrigation systems.

　The reward was copper coins.
　The purpose was to infiltrate the monetary economy as quickly as possible.

　I'm a pretty good ruler too, if I do say so myself. I'm just imitating what the leader does.
　Way to go, Ron!

　Children (below).