It was the twelfth month of the old calendar.
　I say "long ago" because under the current calendar, it would be the first day of January.

　Yes, today is the day the new calendar created by Nikolaos was officially adopted.
　It was the day that the capital and the palace were transferred to the new capital and the new palace
　And it was the day to declare the 'founding' of the country.



　We were in a square in the center of the new city.
　This hall was built for celebrations and festivals.

　I'm standing on a wooden platform that was specially built for the speeches.
　In the front row in front of me are Julia, Tetra, and Anx and Fiona.
　Marcus, Flora and Sofia are not present because they don't want me to cry.

　Behind them, the seats are set up according to official rank, from right to left, Bartolo, Ial and Raimondo.
　Ron and his friends are seated relatively farther to the right.

　Behind them are diplomats invited from foreign countries........Domorgal, Fardham and Gilbed, of course, but also diplomats from the Kingdom of Roselle and the Republic of Pofenia, as well as diplomats from the lesser seen and unheard of Gallia and the small frontier countries of the southern continent.
　And the one who has a distinct presence is the diplomat who came from the Persis Empire.
　I didn't expect them to come.

　Behind them stand bureaucrats, Kingsguard and soldiers, and behind them are commoners who have won the lottery.

　To my right, the diplomats and representatives of Alliance and Autonomous Cities take their seats, and to my left, the kings and overlords of Evil, Belvedil, and Alva (formerly Equus) are seated.

　I slowly open my mouth to the gaze of the crowd of various countries, statuses and professions.
　I speak, at length, about a speech that took a month to make.

　It takes more than thirty minutes to talk about the legitimacy of the founding of the country.
　To put it bluntly, there is no need for such a long speech.

　It's all packed into the last ten seconds or so of the speech.


　'I now declare the transfer of the capital to the new city of Losais and the founding of the Kingdom of Romalia and the Federation of Romalia!!!!

　The crowd erupted in cheers.




　The first half of the ceremony was followed by an overview of the Romali Commonwealth, new political systems, personnel and the calendar, which concluded the first half of the ceremony.
　The second half of the ceremony was followed by a large scale divination.
　According to the results of the divination, the Kingdom of Romalia and the Commonwealth of Romalia will continue to develop in the future.

　No, well, it's only natural since it was an octogenarian fortune-telling with a fixed result from the beginning.......

　And so the first day of the founding ceremony went off without a hitch.





　Surprisingly easy, isn't it?
　Well, that's something.

　I minister to Tetra's words.

　Graduation ceremonies in elementary school are also rehearsed a lot, but once they start, they go by in a flash.
　Since the preparations for the founding of the country this time took so much time and effort, I get the impression that it ended even more easily.

　"What's happening tomorrow?
　'Tomorrow is ... a festival, if you will.　Gladiatorial games, chariot races, plays...

　I snap my fingers in response to Julia's question.
　In addition to palaces, government offices, parliament buildings, and noble houses, various other play facilities have been built in the new city.

　I'm going to show those facilities inside and outside.
　Well, in short, "The Kingdom of Romalia has the national power to host all these buildings and events! This is the appeal of the festival.

　The festival will continue for a week.
　Tomorrow is only for the nobility and diplomats, but the remaining six days will be open to commoners for free.

　Many commoners will come from all over the country to watch the event, and merchants will come from all over the country to take advantage of them.
　During the week, the city will be very noisy.

　'Well, tomorrow is the day to come, isn't it?　We didn't tell any of the countries about the Romali Federation, so...
　...King Fardham and all that, you look like a May.

　Julia gave a bitter smile.
　King Fardham would definitely complain about it.

　That he did not tell his own country, an ally, in the alliance against Gaul.

　Not only King Fardham, but the countries that didn't know about this, or weren't informed about it, will be in a panic to demand a meeting with me.

　The inauguration of the Commonwealth of Romalia, that's how important it is.

　Because it means the birth of an organization with great military, economic, and political power in the eastern part of the Adelian Peninsula, which had been a vacuum until now.

　Nevertheless......

　''Let's leave those troublesome things for the day after tomorrow and enjoy the festivities tomorrow. I want to show you guys the new city and the new palace.

　Julia and Tetra smiled as I said this.

　'Okay,'
　Yeah!





　That night...

　By the way, you know...
　Hmm?　What's up, Julia?

　Julia came to me in the bed with her arms entwined in mine.
　I don't need to go out of my way to say it, but Julia is completely naked, and as a result, various places are touching my arms.

　'The capital's name is Rosais, isn't it?　I know you took it from the Rosais clan but it could have been Julius or Almusnople or something else, right?

　Yeah ... well, you know what I mean?

　'Almsnople it's a lovely name. I should have done that.

　Tetra tangled in his opposite arm and whispered in his ear.
　'I don't need to bother saying it (below).

　''I'm too embarrassed to name my city after a stone.

　In case you're wondering, I'm not disrespecting Alexander the Great or the Emperor Constantine in any way.
　It's just one person's opinion.

　'So Julius wasn't good enough?'
　'Well, I thought of that as a name for it too...'

　I owe a lot to the Lossies.
　Of course the centralization of power, it was with the help of the Lossies that I was able to expand my territory and become king in the first place.
　Without their help, I wouldn't have been able to get this far.

　But what would I have done for them?
　Of course, they have been able to occupy many of the key positions in politics.

　But is that enough to say that we returned the favor?

　In the first place, I'm not returning the favor, I'm returning the favor from them by 'founding' the country.

　To me, this was a bit of a regret.

　''So as a token of my gratitude to the Rosais Clan, Raimondo, and the previous king for all the care they've given me... I thought I'd leave the Rosais Clan's name as the capital.

　It's just a little gift.

　Oh, yeah....

　I turned to Tetra.

　'Actually, I've prepared a similar gift for the As clan. ........This is after I've settled with Zordias.

　Tetra raised an eyebrow, a little surprised.

　'Is the example case good?'
　'We punished everyone involved in that case. In the first place, it was only a small percentage of the Ass Clan's extremists who acted. I don't blame the entire Ass clan for this.

　If the As Clan is in a mood of self-restraint, Tetra's position will be a little worse, and the Lossies Clan might get carried away.
　I hope that the As clan will maintain their authority in their own way.

　''Then what about the Dibel clan?''
　Well that's fine as it is.

　The authority of the Dibel clan is a light in the wind.
　I'm not going to go out of my way to blow it out, but that doesn't mean I don't feel the need to light the firewood for them either.

　Well, I guess in another hundred years it will pick up.
　Ial (the steward) is also a member of the Dibel clan, for one thing.

　 In a good way.

　Julia gave a bitter smile.
　

　''The two stewards in charge of important political affairs, one of them is the fallen Dibel clan (Ial) and the other is the non-mainstream Pompeius clan (Bartolo). Neither Rosais nor As can use their great power in this way.

　Julia points out that I'm leaving the mainstream clan out of important key positions.

　'Besides, both Ial and Bartolo aren't widely related and don't have that much land, so the ground is weak. Neither of them can take it too far.

　Tetra pointed out that Ial and Bartolo's political foundations were weak.


　Well, I don't deny that that was certainly the intention.
　But that doesn't mean that Bartolo and Ial were non-mainstream and that's why he appointed them both as regents.

　He appointed them as stewards because they were both highly competent.

　That's why you could say that the mainstream Rosais and As clans can't complain about them, though.





　''By the way........By the way, that's a different story again.
　I need to talk to you, too.
　What?

　Julia and Tetra smile.

　'What happened with Alice?'

　I'll leave it to your imagination what happens next, but....
　Just to note that forgiveness has been granted.


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　The Kingdom of Romalia was founded with the introduction of Nikolaos history in the year 0 of the empire. In the early Kingdom of Romalia (later renamed the Empire), the influence of the Rosais clan was strong, and the Rosais lineage produced emperors from generation to generation, and this dynasty was called the Rosicrucian dynasty until a change of dynasty.
　In addition, during the reigns of the emperors Almus and Marcus, the emperor's power was strong and was practically tyrannical, which distinguishes it from the republican political system of the aristocracy, where the emperor's power was weak.

　During the period of imperial despotism, the Almus regime was simple, practical and strong. In the capital city of Losayes, the Senate was the advisory body to the emperor, from which the Council of Ministers was elected.
　The term of office of the Senate was for life, but considering the average life expectancy of the time, it was considered that the turnover of personnel was very active.

　The political officers included a steward as the highest office. A legal officer in charge of judicial affairs, and a financial officer in charge of financial affairs. A financial officer, who was in charge of financial affairs. There was also an inspector who was in charge of the security of the capital and public works. There was also an Inspector General who was in charge of monitoring the bureaucracy and taking a census to support the Emperor. Under the direction of the Procuratorate, a group of bureaucrats, mainly Cilician descendants of the lower nobility, took charge of general government affairs.
　The term of office for most of the officials was one year, and they were forbidden to be reappointed consecutively.

　Tax collection contractors were dispatched to the provinces to collect national taxes and local officials were dispatched to the provinces to oversee local politics, but as local self-government progressed, local officials were gradually abolished.

　The first regulators were Bartolo Pompeius and Ial Claudius, both of whom served for ten years in order to ensure the stability of the governing body. Both of them were non-mainstream aristocrats.
　The first Prefect was Raimondo Rosais, a native of the Rosais clan.


　With the establishment of the Senate structure, the centralization of the kingdom of Romalia was greatly enhanced by the centralization of the powerful families in each region. The relationship between the aristocrats and the ex-patriots was never severed: some of the ex-patriots supported the aristocrats economically and politically, while the aristocrats protected their own supporters. Later this relationship evolved into a guardian (patroness) and a protector (crientes), and became a political, economic and cultural pillar of the Romanian Empire.
　The aristocrats did not abandon all their land, but retained some manors (tax-exempt) and vast private land (taxable) in the provinces, and the proceeds from these lands enriched the capital by providing political capital for the aristocrats.'

　In the process of the unification of the Adelian peninsula, the old status order was changed. With the expansion of the Kingdom of Romalia, many of them were expropriated and given to the peasants. Many of these peasants were confiscated and divided among the peasants, and the great families who had served the Kingdom of Romalia for a long time became effective landowners, giving up their administrative and judicial rights to their domains under the policies of the Emperor Almus. Many aristocrats failed to manage their lands and fell, but some succeeded in running large farms and used their wealth to buy more land and increase their private property.
　At the same time, Romalia developed a money economy and many merchants were active in the country. They became wealthy through their commercial activities and eventually became very influential in the political world of Romalia.
　As a result, there were three classes: the patricians (landowners), the equites (merchants) and the plebs (farmers).


　-The National Textbook of the Romani Empire
　Excerpt from.