"Ars, you've brought back something amazing."
One day I was talking to Father Paul at church.
Father Paul said, looking at the sentences written on the parchment.
But what does "awesome" mean?
Father Paul and I were named after a baptism ceremony.
After that, I sometimes come to church.
It was to learn letters.
All I saw properly in this empty village was the book that the priest had at the baptism ceremony.
By the way, both parents were illiterate.
It was best to go to church to learn.
When it rained and did not go out to the field, he visited the church and received a text lecture from the priest beside the book.
This time, the priest came up with the letter lecture.
I always use the priest's book as a teaching material, but I brought the parchment with the letters to show you something.
I got the parchment the other day when I went out to town.
It was dedicated to the Fontana family and was issued as a license for future service beast sales.
"Wow, that Fontana permit?
"Yeah, that's right. That said, it's not a sales license."
"No? Does that mean the other one?
"That's right. This is the document that officially recognizes the woodland as yours, Ars."
That being said, Father Paul offers me a piece of parchment all the way to my desk.
I got two papers from Mr. Raymond, the Fontana family butcher.
One dealt with the sale of service beasts, and the other dealt with the ownership of land.
"Dad made me feel better. He said he would be troubled if the land he had cultivated demanded tax on wheat. Thank goodness."
Really? Assila did it, didn't she? But the beauty of this document is not just about taxes. Do you understand?
"Eh... no, I don't know... It's not supposed to be that cute."
There is little written on the parchment.
To officially acknowledge to me the land that has cultivated the forest north of the village.
In addition, the land pays taxes in money, not wheat.
In other words, it is only written about these two points.
Alright? First of all, this document acknowledges that the land where the forest was developed belongs to you. You know that, don't you?
"Yes"
"Well then, that's a question. Where was the land you pioneered?
"Huh? No, isn't that where the woods were cut and leveled?
"That's right. That's what pioneering is. But what's important here is the face of the land you've developed. It doesn't say when, where, or what size. It includes all the land you've developed so far and all the land you're going to develop."
"Well, that sounds like bullshit, but is that how it works?
"Now, add the following text here. It's about paying taxes in money, not wheat."
"Is there a problem with that?
"The nobility of the Fontana family officially recognizes the possession of the land and pays taxes according to the land. But it's not wheat. That means it's not farmland, it's not a problem."
"Well, that's right. Because it wasn't originally to make wheat on land to grow service beasts."
"No, there's nowhere to find land to grow service beasts. That means there's nothing wrong with doing anything on this land."
"I mean, what do you mean?
"So you were told by the Fontana family to treat you like a luxury."
Thank you. I don't care if you tell me about the nobles or the powerful.
I asked Father Paul what he didn't know after that.
After all, it turns out that nobility is the ruler of the land, but not the complete emperor.
The Fontana family rule the territory of Fontana, but they do not seem to have complete control of the territory.
Some of them have long ruled part of the land, and they have ruled the land in the form of adding it to the umbrella instead of granting it some privilege.
It is said that it is common to pay money, etc., as well as to send troops that will be useful in the event of an emergency.
And as far as the paperwork goes, Father Paul wants to say that he's applying the same treatment to me as the luxury.
"Why did you get such special treatment? You don't do that much because you have a horsemanship, do you?
"Perhaps you never dreamed that Ars had this much land or could develop it."
Father Paul says that land is an irreplaceable property for many people, but there is also the aspect of immovable property that cannot be moved with it.
This time, I gave the Fontana family a beast named Valkyrie that I could ride.
So, as a Fontana family, Raymond should have thought this way.
I was not the eldest son of the farmer, and I went to another land ruled by another aristocrat, and I had trouble producing service beasts there.
In any case, I would like you to continue to make a service beast here for the rest of your life, to the benefit of the Fontana family.
If so, I can officially own the land that I developed to feed the service beast, not my parents.
That way, we can tie it to the land for the rest of our lives.
But Mr. Raymond didn't know my pioneering skills.
No wonder you never dreamed you had the power to open a land so vast that you could call it a landlord, a luxury.
As a result, the abbreviated text confirmed my ownership of the land.
For this reason, I was granted the right to own more land and use it freely.
In other words, I can do anything as long as I pay for it here.
Apparently, I had a job change to a luxury without even noticing it myself.
That said, I don't know what to do.
In the meantime, I just remembered I had to do what I had to do.