"Lord Ars, don't you want to build a castle here?
"Give me the castle? Here?"
"It is. You said you built a castle by the south river because of it, but now you're mostly here in Barca. If so, why not build a castle here too"
You saw me build a refrigerated warehouse, and Grand has said that about the architectural greed.
Although it is true that the castle north of the river was built on the border with the city of Fontana, the ceasefire agreement with Carlos diminished its existential significance.
Because originally, as for Carlos' side, he didn't want me to have that castle.
But I didn't want to give it to you honestly, either, because I didn't want to be deprived of the castle I built right away.
So instead of acknowledging that I own the castle as a result of the negotiations, I was restricted to keeping the soldiers stationed at the minimum necessary.
As a result, it was now almost like a gateway and lodging town between the city and the village of Barca.
"But isn't that what Gran just wants to build a castle after all?
"That's not true. Building a castle means a lot. One of them is to show power."
"Power? Doesn't it seem like you're on track or something when I show you that on purpose?
"That's not true. Rather, it is absolutely necessary. We all know the strength of Lord Ars if he was on that battlefield. But on the contrary, it means you don't know anything else. There must be something out there that doesn't like paying taxes to Lord Ars, who is still a child."
"... I see. So you want me to create a symbol of power that I can see in appearance, so that I can take the tax without delay?"
"That's what I'm talking about. So here in Barca you should not think only of defense, like a castle in the north of the river, but also care about decoration"
Hmm.
I wonder if it makes sense.
However, it also makes me wonder if Gran still has a great desire to build a castle.
There will be no such thing as not wanting to pay more taxes to me now that I have 4km of land surrounded by walls and won directly against the Fontana army.
It shouldn't mean there's an urgent need to build a castle.
But it doesn't mean it's okay to stay like this.
I've had a paragraph of other work, and here's one, I started thinking about keeping my hands on the land.
First, let's check the status quo.
The village of Barca, the village where I was originally born.
A vast forest stretched north of this village of Barca.
I gangled through the forest and surrounded the land with walls.
It covers an area of four kilometres on one side.
However, not only the pioneering land, but also the northeast side of the pioneering land is set up as a forest management district for the wooddust.
Well, to put it briefly, from the village to the north, it can be said that it was almost under my control before it became Barca Knights territory.
Straight south from the village of Barca, there is the city of Fontana, but at its midpoint there was a river, and a castle was built to the north of that river.
And a neighboring village with the Vargas exists just southwest of the village of Barca.
If you look at the roads laid to connect these three from above, does it look like a two-sided triangle?
This is the land I'm ruling now as Knights of Barca.
But if you think about it, the best building in the Knights of Barca will be a castle north of the river.
Though there are long walls on my land, it's no surprise they think the finished castle has more impact.
Perhaps you think that merchants and others who have come from somewhere else will also have a lord to rule the land over the castle.
With that in mind, there may also be a new castle to be built in the sense that it creates a place where the top of the Barca Knights is shown to be here.
But then I wonder if we could take another step.
Create the heart of Barca Knights.
I am concerned that, as things stand, there is no place at the core of the Knights of Barca.
It may also be relevant that even though we are opening a free city, we have not yet gathered that many merchants.
That's right.
When is it possible for the Fontana family to send you to the battlefield to be summoned and crushed, for me, just being serious about ruling the land only increases the chance of instant and death?
In order to increase the power of the war, it would be better to bring people together and settle them even from approximate.
Then let's create a city where people want to come from themselves.
That's how I decided to redevelop my land.