"Dear Ars, are you really going to put this story together?
"Oh, yeah, Paine. You can negotiate. Under the circumstances, there must be a chance that the story will come together well."
"... ok. Make sure you achieve results. Wait in anticipation, Master Ars."
"I asked you, Payne."
Rion, who survived the raid, brilliantly summed up the story of an alliance between the great aristocratic Risorte and Fontana families in the south.
When the information was unmistakable and had been passed on to other nobles, I decided to depress my other hand anew.
This time, we decide to send Payne out as a messenger to make that measure a reality.
My next hand wasn't that special when I smashed it.
It was to negotiate with the Memento family, a family within the trinoble alliance.
In other words, he decided to reconcile himself with the Memento army, which is now staring south of Fort Einrad.
The Memento family turned to Fontana for the purpose of securing the king's identity.
But it ended in failure.
In the battlefield where I burned down the food and Kyle spun it around by [talking], they even took it to the main level.
And further misfortune struck the Memento army, which had stayed in the form of half disregard for the army's subsequent cease and desist orders.
A night attack by Barca's Cavalry was once again fought against by one of the main ranks.
In terms of momentum alone, the Fontana side could win by some mistake as it were.
It is true that such an atmosphere was only for a moment.
But something like that quickly got misty.
by an event called the death of Carlos, who was escorting the king.
In the wake of the distant incident, I had to separate and act on part of the Barca army.
In doing so, what happened to the original three positions became a complete match.
The Barca side quickly communicated information by Kyle's [pronouncements], and based on the information that Carlos had died, they immediately pulled part of the army from the position and went elsewhere.
But the relative Memento army is not.
Suddenly the breakdown of the army among the three positions took its place, but I had no idea why that was.
But that's why the Memento Army has just lost its two main classes, too.
That, too, left the hard-line person who wanted to fight the most.
As a result, the Memento army chose a negative measure of lowering their positions greatly once to see how they came out.
This put me in the position of principal proxy of the Fontana family, and while Vargas had enough time to acquire Arborest territory, there was little fighting between the conflicting Fontana and Memento forces.
Thus came information from afar into the Memento army, which is now staying in the land.
In other words, he found out that the king, who was on his way to the king's capital, was dead.
This means a lot.
For, at any rate, the original purpose of the Memento army was to secure the identity of the king, neither to defeat Fontana nor to acquire Fontana's territory.
At last, the Memento army was now in a state where it had lost sight of its purpose and wandered into the universe.
This moment is a chance.
That's how I decided to strike my hand right away.
He acted with the aim of negotiating with the Memento army.
The Memento and Fontana families entered the battle temporarily in conflict, but this is not an absolutely necessary battle.
The purpose of the Memento family is only to gain possession of the King in order to ascend to the hegemonic nobility, and for that reason he has sent soldiers to Fontana.
In contrast, the Fontana side doesn't want to fight any more.
Anyway, we don't have anything to gain from beating the Memento army that attacked us.
I only moved to repel him because he was attacked, and if the fight is over, that's the best part.
But that's why the Memento Army won't be able to hear you from here on, like, "There's no point fighting each other, so let's not do this anymore".
No one wants to return to Memento territory with the mere fact that two of our principals were taken over without fulfilling their key objectives.
Therefore, they also needed the effect of something that could be described as manipulation.
"That's why you're not giving in too much, kid? With the state we're in, Payne's really gonna be talking to the Memento Army on those terms, right?
"Nothing's good, old man. If that's how the war ends."
"... ask again, are you sure? We're going to be selling wheat for cheap in the next few years just to install a truce agreement with the Mementos. Do we need to get that far?
"Of course I do. A truce with the Memento family, even if they make a pact that will cost them money. Otherwise, Fontana doesn't have a future."
"But they're from that trinoble alliance, right? It is possible that he attacked the king or Carlos. I don't know what a kid thinks about selling wheat to someone like that for a very cheap price."
I was dropping Paine off as a messenger, and the old man by my side talked to me.
Apparently, I'm not very convinced about this one.
I thought the situation was the right time to negotiate with the Memento family, and I was bringing the proposed concession to Payne to wrap up the story.
That is the cheap sale of the old man's worried wheat.
Once the terms contained in the proposed concession are in place, Fontana will have to sell the wheat to the Memento family over the next few years at prices far below the market.
Wheat is tax.
If taken by many nobles, the point of having territory is to have the right to take taxes from those living in the land, which means nothing more than to collect the wheat harvested.
In other words, the proposed concession I have prepared means that the taxes I can take on Fontana territory will be channelled to the Memento family at a terribly low price.
Some people might think it's like submitting to the Memento family.
"But this is also a necessary deal. If you don't do this, Fontana will dry up."
"Dry up? Fontana? What do you mean, kid?"
"... so far, it has not been found who attacked Master Carlos. But I think it's probably somewhere in the three nobles. But the Memento family isn't. The Memento family demanded the king's identity. The killing of the king without hesitation of every Lady Carlos leaves me uncomfortable to assume that the Memento family raided"
"... I mean, do you think the boy attacked one of the remaining two houses of the three nobles?
"That's right. And apart from that, there's one more thing I need to think about. You know what, old man?
"Fontana dries up...... Well, that's a trade issue."
"That's right. Fontana, and hence Barca, is a territory that has grown through trading. Built in Fontana territory, merchants take it south and sell it, and now profit from the proceeds earned there by purchasing goods such as the Wang Metropolitan Area and transporting it north. I mean, even if the Trinity Alliance doesn't attack us in tandem, Fontana could end up in an economic crisis just by stopping the movement of merchants heading north."
"So you're worried that the trinoble alliance will come after us to economically seal off Fontana, the northernmost part of the country?
"You're right. I have no connection to any other nobleman. It is possible to follow there and be made into a village eight-point state among the nobles. That's why I want to make an economic connection with the Memento family in order to take the lead and break the economic blockade net."
"But can the Memento family be trusted that far? It wouldn't even be a laugh if they attacked us with food we bought from Fontana, would it?
"I probably don't think so. The Memento family's purpose is only to become a hegemonic nobleman. I have to look at the two aristocrats in the alliance more than Fontana itself. And perhaps not until the Memento family gains hegemony in the talks of the Trinoble Alliance. and then there will always come a time to dispute among the three great nobles. Even for the Memento family, it would be an attractive proposition to buy large quantities of food cheaply. I think we'll be able to report to the Territory as a result of moving the military."
More important than anything for Fontana today.
That is the trinoble alliance coming to deal with Fontana in unity of will.
Out if the trinoble alliance is coordinated and sends troops north to attack.
In contrast, it reduces the risk by joining hands with the former hegemonic aristocratic Risorte family in the south.
And we must also think about the economic tightening, not the battle, that the trinoble alliance is going to make against Fontana.
It would be very difficult if the product were not carried as before.
That's why I wanted to create a state where the deal would continue with the Memento family even if they were prepared to lose some money to prevent it from happening.
Besides, wheat can increase yields by using the magic of [rectification] and [improvement of agricultural land].
It shouldn't be so devastating damage.
Thus, while working with the Risorte family, I decided to reconcile myself with the Memento army by positioning it as Fontana's survival strategy to remain economically connected to the Memento family.