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Albrecht and Valentina face each other in a fluffy rain.
Valentina gets down on her knees and looks up at Albrecht, and Albrecht looks down at her and pushes Iludia out.
“From now on, you are the doge of Lucretia. All you have to do is offer me five dollars in Lucretia's annual gross revenue. You know how to walk taxes. The rest of you will acknowledge autonomy. I don't want loyalty. If you'd listened to me, there wouldn't be much interference. ”
Institutionalism was a position that corresponded to the Duke of Feudalism. It was kind of like a president, it was a lifetime job.
In the meantime, Lucretia was ruled by a coalition of powerful families, but as you can see during the trial, it was only the level of the coalition of shells that Albrecht forced him to lead.
How Valentina will govern from now on will determine whether Lucretia thrives, but Albrecht feels she will do well.
In fact, Albrecht didn't like the merchants very much. I had only entrusted her with the pottery because I saw her bar competence, her qualities, and so on, right next to her in the days of Lord Oberburn.
However, I had the audacity to be so bold. Is this what a king would do? I just killed her father, brothers, sisters and cousins, and now I have to work for myself.
A fine book, practically the viceroy of the king of Lucretia. That's why Valentina said Albrecht was cruel. I could have been better off dead.
But Albrecht's unilateral orders did not end there.
“Hestein and Lucretia, lords of Taranthus, are enemies to the east of the current hour. I give permission to plot against Eastern merchants. Half of what you earn from private property goes to me. In the meantime, you've been trading with the northern cities by boat, but from now on, do it inland. I'll post you an article 100 so you don't have to worry about safety. With this sword, anyone who disobeys you can be killed. ”
A hundred knights were well-spoken escorts, practically watchdogs.
While the knights were ignorant, they could not be monitored professionally, they could notice a difference in military attitude.
Valentina glances back at the mythical Illudian sword. It was a sword that blew Lucretia's head off all at once.
Valentina bows her head for a moment. Wet brown hair covers her face.
Diego, who was watching from afar, was watching the scene with a dazed look on his face as to what was going on.
It wasn't just Diego. All the merchants nearby were fascinated by a new system they had not experienced.
Lucretia has never been a system governed by a working leader. No one could own Lucretia. Of course, I've never paid taxes.
Albrecht said he allowed the municipality, but the key relationship was established from the moment he paid the tax.
Taxes and charges were different, commonly referred to as tolls, but precisely as paying for roads.
Taxes were paid by peasants and commoners. Feudal lords only serve in military service, but do not pay taxes to their high lords.
Lucretia, one of the world's largest and most developed cities, became like a village beneath the castle of Albrecht.
Valentina, who lowered her head, raised her head again to look at Albrecht. Her dark brown eyes had no poison, and she had no determination. I was just confident.
“What do we get? ”
Albrecht said, looking at her with the same indiscreet eyes as before.
“Nothing.”
Albrecht made sure who was up and who was down. There's nothing you can't do with a man, but the first button is important, and this is not a deal.
But there was no loyalty like the knights. Valentina picks up Ilydia with one hand and gets up from her seat and stumbles upon Diego.
The king's trust is in her hands, so the knights step aside. Diego quickly raises his wife. And I held her in my arms and wept endlessly.
Valentina feels the weight of Illudia in her hands. It was because it already had the weight of 42 people in Lucretia's head.
Albrecht said Lucretia had nothing to gain, but he didn't know what Valentina was going to get for herself.
The merchants who lost all of the party members and the party saw Valentina and the first leader in Lucretia's history. They were more worried about the future than they were expecting.
The next day, the rain stopped, and the sun was clear. The world was clean and glorious with water.
Albrecht left Vittenheim with Rosamund, Randolph, Agnes, and Achilles, then left Penbach again.
The villagers, merchants and knights escort you to the mouth of Penbach.
The merchants looked at the king with a dead look on their faces. There has never been a king like this. It was because at most two or three lords killed themselves.
All the people in the north and the middle were not there early. Those who hold that vast territory in their hands do not seem impossible.
They killed their masters and masters, but they couldn't bear the grudge. I wasn't even born that way.
It was like I was standing on top of everything, like I was breaking every rule. If he's right, he's right, and if he's wrong, he's wrong. I did what I had to do, and I had to die.
In front of the unstoppable ruler, the merchants simply took off their hats and bowed their heads.
Albrecht drives his horse for a moment and sweeps them away. Among them were Valentina and Diego.
Diego bows to Albrecht, not as a friend, but as a lord of the countryside.
Albrecht wonders what's left of him now. As soon as the void approaches, you see Erbin. I have to work.
Albrecht passes through the merchants and approaches Herbin, the knight commander.
“As I said before, the knights going to Lucretia will take shifts once a year. First of all, only 50 in a year, and the next year, the other 50. And as soon as you clear out the Stragglers, collect the rest of the Knights and come back. ”
“I understand.”
The Stragglers Albrecht had brought had already arrived and had dispatched twenty knights separately, leading ten soldiers to their homes in groups of two.
Albrecht taps Erbin on the shoulder a few times, then returns to his party.
I leave the rest to Erbin, and he heads for Lightingen. Along the way to Wrightingen with the group, Albrecht checks his work.
First, I had to establish an adventurer guild to create a map, and if necessary, a swordsmanship guild to give people their own strength. That way, I could prepare for the unpredictable debacle.
This was also a kind of strategy. Albrecht was not a trait that could gather and block the capabilities of all mankind. He thought he had to deal with bold cases, and the rest had to rely on people's autonomy.
And since the loan from the Dwarf Bank has arrived, the funds have been relaxed. In addition to the king's road to the east and west, it was possible to regroup the roads from north to central to south.
The letter in Wescade was not something we could do immediately, and we had no idea what the thread of fate was intertwined with her descendants.
Maybe you're talking about yourself and Rosamund, but what if you unravel the thread of destiny? I had to meet him and ask him myself.
I decided to wait and see what happened to Hestein. We've just disbanded the Union, and we can't regroup immediately.
He controls both the north and south of the east, so Hestein is as isolated as any. But I had to settle with him at any time. I didn't mean to keep her alive.
Erbin reports that Sigmund's heirloom has risen.
He was occupying the Midwest, separating the living from the dead, as he said, waiting for Albrecht's instructions on who to sit on the dry land of the family.
Albrecht was reminded of some people right away, but it was something to review with his side.
But when we got to Wrightingen, Randolph had to return to the territory, and there was only Eurgen, Richard and Carpen left beside Albrecht.
Yurgen and Carpen had their territory, and they had to go back, but at least they were nearby and Albrecht forced them to stay.
Albrecht's shoulders are getting heavier. Things were so scattered that they could not compare to conquering the north.
Albrecht was reforming, not just conquering the world. The world Albrecht created was not a closed feudal society, like Earth's history, but an open feudal society.
I respected the authority of the apostles as much as I could, but I was connecting the world to survive on the great shore.
As if circulating blood, technology, manpower and knowledge were spreading across the continent.
Originally, the heart should have been beating whenever a person was asleep or awake, sad or angry, no matter what.
As Albrecht claimed to be the heart, he was destined to work with no excuse.
Beyond misery and suffering, a great and arduous number of things have been scattered. And this was not the end. Perhaps the most important thing remained.
It was Maria who was pregnant. The king's household was not a personal matter, it was a Narath.
What would happen if Mary gave birth to a son? Albrecht is clearly his son, but he is reluctant to leave something behind.
How could Rosamund possibly have a son in the future? A country could only be torn apart.
But Albrecht thought it was too much to give up. Later or later, when Rosamund gives birth to a son, the next king will unconditionally leave it to him.
So what are we going to do with Maria's children? Albrecht had a horrible thought, but struggled. Please don't let that happen.
Despite the slaughter of the Bedouins, Philippe claimed to be no more than human garbage, the human bottom could not know its end.
Albrecht's head gets complicated with his heavy shoulders. The test of destiny is not yet over. Destiny was the constant test of man from birth to death.
Above all else, Albrecht was only a man.
Albrecht bows his head and thinks, and Rosamund, walking side-by-side, reaches out and sweeps Albrecht's back.
Albrecht turns to look at her and greets her with a smile brighter than the clear sunlight after the rain.
‘Yes, whatever happens, the next king is the son of Rosamund. ’
If Rosamund does not end up with children, the old man will pass on to Mary's son and he will leave with Rosamund.
But it was still far away, and I couldn't figure out what was going to happen, even if I was a wizard.
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