In the meantime, I left the Rogue Shea Mansion early after I appropriately looked around the courtyard, saying that I had finished the face-to-face meeting that was the purpose of the day.
Human resources, education in a mansion that is not in keeping with the customs of the Grunfeld region, the Lord and his Son, but, contrary thereto, has been put in place to the point of perfection. I learned of a lack of information on what was going on in the contradictory mansion.
And, you know, the brilliance of the metal shining through Fayria's ankle -- coincidentally, it was a huge gain to see that. I had a general anticipation of why Faelia herself wanted to dissolve her engagement with Augrain.
I mean, she has someone she's currently socializing with. That's how he probably also wants to marry that other person. He wants to destroy his engagement with someone who is deliberately inconsistent.
It's a simple story. And it's a particularly troublesome story just for the emotional and social circumstances involved, and at the same time a little angry.
Engagement between nobles does not exist just for status. There are aspects of the bond between houses and one of the means of power struggle, but many are exchanged for trading purposes.
A little different, but in Arksia, a merchant doesn't have that much power. This is due to the fact that we end up finishing a large deal between territories, mostly between lords. As I arrange all the household goods and food, household goods and their materials for the new inhabitants, and as the Earl of Teresia arranges for household goods that cannot be produced in the territory, basically they are ordered by the Lords to other territories and distributed to the inhabitants.
Merchants are powerless because they deal with predominantly preferences and luxury goods, so that their business counterparts are almost limited to nobility and are placed entirely under the control of the noble class.
Export imports for the inhabitants by their lords are also defined by the sacred code as the work of the lords. Perhaps to prevent the domestic balance from falling apart by merchants with excessive financial power.
Okay, let's get back to it.
The most convenient way to conduct such commercial transactions between territories is through marriage between their lords.
In the Grunfeld region, there is certainly an aspect that attaching an engagement early is the status of the lady, but in many cases it is also known to switch to someone with better conditions.
However, in spite of this, there is a willingness to go out of their way to secure an engagement in this case. If this was a request from the Rogue Shea family, the reason would be that they can't keep their dignity if they discard their engagement even though they don't have any other candidates, but vice versa, they would still have big business problems.
Between engaged houses, they are formally treated as matrimonial. Tariffs imposed by the State can then benefit from various benefits, such as lower tax rates and easing annual trade restrictions on regulated goods.
That's why the Church bothered to come up against the issue of engagement. Some of them trade in necessities, which, together with the dissolution of the engagement, prevents the necessary quantities from being imported or directly interferes with the lives of the inhabitants when the transaction itself is dissolved.
What makes me angry is that Felia, who is about to graduate from the Academy, is about to disregard those things and destroy her engagement.
It is true that Viscount Augrain has malicious intentions, and it has become clear that this request is a complete harassment of me. But there must be an absolute part of that engagement that helps each other's inhabitants live their lives.
Lords' revenues are generally taxes received from their inhabitants. And I don't know if it's gold or goods, but it's the people of my fiancée who owe me a favor. And yet the daughter of the lord, who is allowed to cover her clothes and lodging with that tax, wants her romance to take precedence over the circumstances of the inhabitants?
Well, I don't know exactly what's going on yet, so it's a mistake to be angry.
I'm also concerned about Viscount Rogue Shea's behavior. It tells him exactly why I visited him in advance. Especially when the Augrains talk to me, I think they know exactly what Faelia thinks about her engagement.
On top of that, the Viscount is making Fayria like her. I saw it first-hand today and found out, but Faelia probably doesn't know anything about it herself. The fact that the continuation of my engagement is at risk because of me, and the fact that I visited because of it.
"Lord Eliza, I let you carry a drink, though. Why don't you pinch some rest?
When I got home, I suddenly started pulling out the noble roster about Viscount Rogue Shea and looking into what he was doing, and it was time for me to light a candle that sounded like it.
When I looked up, just as Oscar was being invited into the room by Claudia. Behind it was a maid with a tray in her hand, followed by a snack and him. Speaking of which, you've never called a maid to your study before.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Have I distracted you?"
"Never mind. More than that, what are you looking into this time? Is there anything I can do to help you?
I smile slightly at his serious care, which is layered early on in the arrow succession, no. He has been entrusted with all the procedures for the establishment of the Knights with Berwyer, and he has been hastily packed about the Cardians. It is painful for me to let you help me with anything more, and if you can afford it, I would ask you to help Count Teresia with his work more than I can.
... and I thought.
Claudia gently climbed my flank. Stop it, don't fudge it. I haven't muscled yet, so I can't help but be soft.
What, turning her gaze, Claudia shrugged "Leader Army" in the end.
Leadership? Oh, you mean the restructuring of the Leadership? It wasn't even an imminent issue, so I didn't think of it.
"I'm sorry, Lord Oscar. I still have one favor to ask."
"Huh? Yes."
"Not immediately, but with Lord Claudia, I want to entrust the rearrangement of the leadership of the Cardian territory. There's something a little special about the leadership system… Lord Claudia knows all about it."
Hmm, and Oscar nods, I accept, and replies.
Now don't float another job, okay. I just feel a little more comfortable and swallow tea dusty.
"... n,"
At the same time, I noticed the smell of a mixture of strong sobriety and sweetness, like coming out of my nose. Uh, this... kind of smelled scattered today.
"... did you change the blend?
"Oh, looks like we're adding Lembia today."
Lembia again? I enjoyed the smell scattered in the courtyard of the Viscount Rogue Shea Mansion in search of some healing in an atmosphere that was generally not very good, albeit my fault, while having only an unusual conversation, is that Lembia?
I've had a lot of Lembia today.
"... I'm sorry you brought it, but I'll get the usual"
Having said that and taken a seat at me, Oscar tilted his neck properly, and Claudia, who knew all the exchanges at the Rogue Shea Mansion, grinned slightly like a cat.