Frontier Lord Starts Out With a Population of 0

The day after the feast.

I finished my routine chores quickly and started this morning with a study group on aristocracy hosted by Eldan.

From today onwards, not only I, but Arner, will be joining us...... We will sit side by side in the chair provided for the tabernacle and teach this about nobility from Eldan, who speaks in a good mood as he walks right into the tabernacle to the left.

He said it was the founding king who came up with "aristocracy," an identity system where he was a nobleman in the first place.

In order to manage the national territory, which was much wider than it is now, he came up with a noble system and established a noble class to grow by competing, giving its highest rank, the Duke, various privileges to prevent the royal rampage.

Some of those privileges do not belong to other classes, there are a number of awesome things that everyone would envy, and there are also intentions to encourage healthy effort and growth by boiling their willingness to become dukes...... or something.

He said there are a number of tough conditions for becoming a duke for that matter... Eldan fulfilled that condition by being a duke family man, and I was going to fulfill that condition on my work in the war and my dragon crusade and my dragon demon stone dedication...

And about the privileges that only the Duke has.

The duke seems to have too many privileges to remember, such as the right to reprimand subordinate nobles and something about the law and taxes.

Particularly surprising among them was the ability to be in a position to support the King as a Regent, the right to remove to the King conditional on the endorsement of all the Dukes, and the right to decide on the abolition of the Princess conditional on the endorsement of more than half of the Dukes... who seems to be a greater duke than I thought.

"- Among those privileges, I attach particular importance to the 'territorial discretion'.

The power to buy and sell territory without having to ask His Majesty, or to acquire it as a territory by exploiting unmanned land, is outrageous.

Casdex territory has become the size it is now because my father, Enkers, bought the neighborhood with his financial means.

Buying and expanding territory is one way to develop further, or vice versa, to pay taxes and stabilize management with income earned from selling territory. "

Eldan says so as he sets up a large wooden board behind the tabernacle and puts up a map of Casdex territory, pointing here and there.

In contrast, when I nod "I see" with my neck slightly diagonally, and Arner snorts "I see" firmly, Eldan makes a small cough with Cohon, then corrects his residence and looks at us firmly before continuing his words.

"And for that reason, Lord Diaz... I'm going to put one practice into practice here.

I would like to sell half of this forest on our border to Lord Diaz.

I want you to offer me the price I think Lord Diaz deserves. "

Eldan talks absurdly, pointing around the woods of the map.

I wonder if that's meant to be a thank you for the Sangee Bunny thing, and if I try to say such a word, Eldan reads it or shakes his face to the left and right before I open my mouth to show a willingness to deny it.

"I am not thanking you for that matter… I will not give up the territory of the people's property for my personal gratitude to the boulders.

Although I do not deny that the decision to give way has had a small impact on itself, I want you to be assured that I intend to receive the consideration properly.

... and I think this is necessary for Lord Diaz and the others.

I wonder where the wood used in the house and life of Lord Diaz's "The Others" came from… that's the story. "

That's what Eldan says with a strange, mysterious, stiff look that weirdly emphasizes the part called 'The Them'.

The meaning of the word, not knowing the intent, I return the word with my neck tilted.

"Yurt and some kind of wood... will be what Arner and his villages gave away..."

"So where the hell did Mr. Arner and the others source that wood?

That's what I say and Eldan goes on to say, again emphasizing the part called 'Mr. Arner and the others'.

In the wake of that word. When I look next door thinking, "No way..." Arner turns his face away silently and gently.

That attitude, which is so blatant, is a true demonstration of the fact that 'it is Eldan's territory, that I was stealing from that forest'... and I roar, unspeakably, "Ah..."

If you ask me, we use a fair amount of wood in every part of our lives.

I just asked the ghosts to give them away and I didn't even care... but when you think about where the ghosts were sourcing that wood from in the first place, I guess the answer would be from that forest.

Basically it seems that the materials not in the meadows are either procured by expeditions like Zorg or by the villagers from close proximity... which means that they are bringing materials from elsewhere... so I guess Eldan is telling me this after realizing that he is stealing them.

... Maybe what weirdly emphasizes about the Arners is my care for not telling you more about the ghosts.

"If you say you want me to sell it because I need wood, there is certainly an option for me to prepare the necessary amount for you to sell here.

It is also an option to sell your territory after you have paid enough for it, as long as you take the trouble of doing business with it every time.

This is necessary so that "this matter" will not be ruined in the future.

That's why I solve the problem here. "

To those words of Eldan that follow, I roar and think, "Hum."

Even if I asked you to keep your hands off the Eldan Forest, it would be a delicate place if the ghosts would follow me honestly...

... No, I must continue to get my hands on more than wood is indispensable to my life.

Then it would be better if we let the wood be sourced with dignity after making that forest our territory. That's why...

"I know perfectly well that I need to buy that forest... but what a difficult thing to price it right.

I have no idea what the price of the land is or what I can pay right now... "

When I say that after thinking about it, Eldan smiles hauntingly and returns the words.

"That's the hard part about the Duke.

Negotiating prices requires construction for payment, reconciling mutual interests, and persuading residents if someone lives on land.

Just because you have the privilege of being free doesn't mean you're going to do what you think you're going to do… I want you to think about it while you're engraving it firmly in your chest. "

Following that Eldan word, engraved firmly in my chest I roared "Hummm" and roared over and over again...... do I have to make a mistake? And, think about that and say the words.

"When it comes to what we can put out now, it's about some extra gold coins and two and a half wind dragons material... so what do you think?

The moment I say that, Eldan stiffens with a hazy smile.

I keep stiff for a while, only slightly pale with stiffness, and exhale the words with a heavy sigh.

"Lord Diaz... is it again? Is it a dragon again?

Plus two and a half, that's as sloppy as anything......

Enough for value... No, the more I think about scarcity, the more I solve it... it's kind of very sloppy!!

That said, look at Eldan who drops his shoulder disappointingly. I didn't tell Eldan about the wind dragon if you say so... and with that in mind, what a good thing to do and haunt my head if I returned the word.