"Hmm, I said the protection of culture, but I don't know what to do"
Problem clarified in me in my conversation with Lyon.
It was about an invisible culture, which may be rapidly being lost in the Kingdom of Fontana.
We do not know how the culture in the country will change in the future due to the dramatic social situation of recent years.
Some cultures will survive in each region.
On the contrary, there must be some that disappear uninhabited.
However, I felt a certain degree of protection was needed.
After all, no matter what, a culture that has vanished once is because it will never return.
So I think I'm going to use my powers as finance minister to turn the money around there in order to protect culture as a country.
I think, then, what do I actually do? This is hard.
Rather than that, we talk about what culture is in the first place.
The kingdom of Fontana today is founded by swallowing more than one former aristocratic territory, but each aristocratic territory has developed its culture independently over a long history.
I don't even know exactly what culture existed in the old Fontana territory alone.
Not to mention that I don't even understand what other cultures were in the old aristocracy.
"Then, after all, what is needed is a solid investigation? Payne, are you there?
"Yes, what is it, Master Ars"
"We need a compiled dossier on the culture we should be protecting from now on. I want you to find out about the cultures that are everywhere."
"Okay. But by what standards should I look into it?
"Right. Tomorrow, I think it's been around for about 100 years. Find it wherever possible. It wants to know everything, with or without form"
"Shaped or not, is it?
"Oh. For example, a building built over 100 years ago might be registered and preserved as a cultural asset. but the craftsman's technique of building 100 years old may need to be protected as a shapeless intangible cultural asset. What you can actually see with your eyes is important, and so are the techniques and customs that produce it."
"... I see. Tangible or intangible. So? That story, should I understand that classic objects such as buildings, sculptures, crafts, and books will be covered?
"Right. However, festival ways, music and theatre everywhere would also be culturally worthwhile. I want to grasp them too."
"I see. Art, too. Roger that, Master Ars. I'm sure the investigation will take a little while, are you sure?
"Absolutely. Nice to meet you, Paine."
If I don't have the knowledge, I'll use this as an opportunity for a thorough investigation.
With that in mind, I decided to ask Payne to investigate culture.
When it comes to the protection of culture, I somehow use it because the word cultural property I've heard in my previous life came to my mind.
The state and others said, "This is something that I find to be of historical value to the state," and I thought I would make it in a system that protects it.
Buildings and the like came to mind the most, but other than that, you can't forget intangible cultural objects such as technology and art.
Perhaps Pane's investigation makes it difficult to get a complete picture of the cultural objects that are located throughout the country.
No, on the contrary, it could mean too many by the criterion of 100 years ago.
but if you're going to do it, you've never been over it early.
Because I have my magic.
There are magic such as [finishing ground] or [wall architecture], or [road laying] or [track laying].
With this magic, the Kingdom of Fontana continued to develop on a daily basis.
It will be reused so that rough land can be exploited and used more efficiently than before.
But that meant, in other words, breaking and changing what was before easily.
Break it more and more, make it new.
As a result, many will be lost.
Maybe something that was supposed to be of historical value has now been destroyed in the progression system.
In order to prevent such a thing, I felt that the investigation should be done as soon as possible because it could be incomplete.
"But historical value, huh? You don't even know the history."
It was thinking about the protection of cultural objects, and it was the importance of history that lay at its root.
Whatever it is, history always exists.
Cultural property, whether tangible or intangible, is of historical value, which is why it makes sense to leave it for future generations.
but I was still ignorant here.
Just as I don't know much about culture, I didn't know too much about history.
No, generally speaking, I think I'd rather know about history.
I was born a poor farmer, but my married counterpart, Lilina, was a rare book lover.
I have also received commentary while reading and deciphering numerous history books by that Lilina.
And since then, I've been collecting books.
They collect books from all over the country and also make libraries in the Balkans.
Besides, in the land that I attacked, I collected as many books as I could, and I used the magic of the Reed family, [Mindfulness], to replicate it as a paper book.
But as I learned history from such a book, the question of whether it was really right to fulfill it was always stuck.
Because there is also the fact that the Church, which has long been deeply rooted in the region, made history up.
Anyway, a system was being built that even used the first king and his wife.
What is the right history?
I don't even know that. It's still happening.
It is only natural to question whether cultural objects of historical value can be certified in such a state.
Then perhaps we also need to do a study of history.
An investigation of history based on objective perspectives and physical evidence, rather than distorted history considered correct from the respective perspectives to date.
Can there be a working department that will compile them and even record the history of the Kingdom of Fontana, which will continue in the future?
Having thought about it, I felt the need to look into domestic history, not just culture.