I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle - Chapter 86

A knight with territory can truly be said to be the lord of a castle.

Regarding the territory, we basically have the right to collect taxes and have jurisdiction, so we can govern it freely.

But if you have a right, you have a duty.

My position is to be a knight serving the Fontana family and to pledge allegiance to Carlos, the master of the Fontana family.

Swearing loyalty means, roughly speaking, keeping Carlos' word, paying the Fontana family taxes from the taxes I have collected, and if a call is made, you will gather and join the soldiers.

Collecting this soldier must always be in the corner of your head.

This area has been in turmoil for a long time.

Originally, a royal family raised each noble as a kingdom, but there is a history that the power of each noble became stronger due to the decline of the royal power, and the runaway could not be suppressed.

A powerful aristocracy has repeatedly waged war on other aristocracies, seizing territory, and forces opposed to it have fought back, with nothing to stop it.

Whether it was luck or misfortune, because it was a land pattern where interference from other countries was unlikely to occur, or even this appearance was not invaded, but because of this, the war continues.

In this situation, it seems that when I formed the ruling party and stood up, no army came out of other nobles.

From the perspective of other houses, if the Fontana family has successfully seized the riot, and even if the Fontana family loses due to some mistake, you can take the territory by targeting its liking.

That seems to have been the idea.

I don't know when a war will happen.

For this to happen, the aristocrats must be prepared to be on the move at all times.

And that also applies to the knights under your command.

If the Fontana family, the owner, does not gather people and go to the battlefield immediately, they will be deprived of their territory for that reason.

I was able to get my territory in good shape.

We need to do a lot to keep this going.

And what I need most now is money.

I've been obsessed with naming myself.

If this were to take place, my troops would be turned into a bandit group wandering around in search of food without even having the funds to prepare food immediately.

But even if I make money, I'll have to get away from the way I make it personally.

I will create a system that will generate money even if I leave the territory.

In other words, we need to create an organization that can do home affairs as soon as possible.

"Yes, pay attention. I would now like to announce HR in the Balkan Knight Regiment."

I gathered the key members of the castle to raise my voice.

No matter how hard I work alone, I'm unlikely to be able to run a territory.

That's why they decided to use everything they could.

After all, all the members here are the ones I gave the Vulcans last name.

This, to put it mildly, means that I, the knights of the realm, are the ones who took the knights as their own.

This means that they will have me swear allegiance just as I swore allegiance to the Fontana family.

By the way, if you do something strange, I will judge you at my discretion and there will be no problem.

"First of all, about the old peddler, Trion Barca. My old man's in charge of home affairs with me."

Among the people who gave Barca a last name, the person who can write letters is particularly valuable.

Generally speaking, peasants cannot read and write properly.

This old man can not only read and write, he can even calculate.

I feel like I promised to open a shop in a pioneering area, but let's get to the accounting department of the territory rather than the shop.

"Next, my part-time brother and Vargas will be captains under me. Gather and train the peasants regularly."

I really want a standing guard, but it's too expensive to always hire people.

As it stands, it is impossible to secure a standing guard.

Therefore, I decided to use my part-time brother and Vargas, who were also active enough in this fight, as a group of soldiers, and to have them train alongside agricultural work.

"Next, Dad needs security. Especially those who use attack magic in their everyday lives don't have to ask questions, so I don't mind."

On the other hand, it was in terms of policing that I always decided to hire people.

Some of the ones I gave magic to hurt people by spreading magic on them.

We really needed an agency to get rid of him.

After all, I brought up the idea that the face of Buddha would not pass in this world up to three times, and decided to create only the criterion of forgiveness until the second time, but not the third time.

It's a tough job, but I want you to do your best.

"Next, Mr. Maddok and the two village chiefs will be judges with me. From now on, I will light up the culture of each decision, so please do it with that intention."

Next up is the trial.

It is also common in this world to resort to a method of trial to resolve problems that for some reason cannot be resolved between the parties.

But the problem is that there is no law.

Essentially, it seems that the power person listens to the parties and decides, "Okay, let's do it now." It is the way of judgment, and it is the place of judgment that is satisfactory to both.

However, it seems difficult to understand.

Then I will make the law.

That said, I will definitely fail if I bring out the feeling of my previous life and make the law.

So I decided to bring the two village chiefs and Maddok together into a council trial that would have solved the troubles in my life.

If you could just give me a precedent and make a law to give me the maximum common denominator from there.

"Next, Gran continues to be in charge of manufacturing. I'll talk to you if I need anything."

As always, I'm going to have Grand made a lot of things.

However, rather than collecting too many people and doing things in an organized fashion, it seems like you want to make something you like, so let's keep people close by.

"And I want the rest of you to do your chores at my place."

And then I decided to hire some of the people that stopped me.

They were watching when building castles and roads.

When I was building roads, I basically did most of the work with magic.

But, for example, when I was trying to straighten the road, there were a few people who said something like, "It's easier that way."

Most people just listen to people's instructions and work, but they can think for themselves and say that these things are more efficient or better.

Perhaps you're smart even if you can't write letters.

Then they'll have to use it.

Beyond having a Vulcan last name, you can use Meditation as a magic of fatigue recovery.

Don't worry about dying of overwork.

Let's have the black company work as bad as it looks.

That's how I started running my territory.