NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 218.3
By the way, I have already instructed Max to distribute the cash rewards to Zeavert knights and mercenaries I hired.
Also, what should I do with the large number of Bicorn horns I got as a spoil of war? After the war was over, Demons’ materials were given to those who killed them, so I acquired a ton of materials for being active in the field and leading the army.
In this world, unicorn horns were considered a cure-all, but Bicorn horns were used as an energizer. It was a problem to have so many of those things. What should we do with hundreds of them?
In this medieval society, it was a righteous thing to have more babies, so why not give them away as a reward? On the other hand, if I sold them, I could make some money. Maybe they could also be used to breed horses.
Since Bicorn horns were expensive, they were usually used by the nobility, but with such a large amount, the price would probably go down.
“Viscount, I’m sorry, but…”
“What happened?” (Welner)
Another questioner. Yes, superiors were difficult people to talk to, so I understand that officers couldn’t approach them for advice easily. But I wish they wouldn’t keep coming to me all the time.
After overcoming all these problems, the day went on like this all day long. I think my father’s eyes looked at me occasionally, but I didn’t skip work, or rather, I didn’t have time to skip work.
That evening, after dinner, my father called me to his office at the mansion for a face-to-face meeting.“What did you think of today’s work?” (Ingo)
“I felt that a lot of people have been recruited this time. I mean, I didn’t expect them to mix nobles of different factions and make them work together. From what I heard, some nobles were assigned to convenient places like near the royal capital, or were entrusted with important bases, while others were sent to distant places.” (Welner)
“That’s correct.” (Ingo)
I knew it. It appears that the royal family wanted to take advantage of the confusion as well.
Roughly speaking, when the royal power was not very strong, the families of nobles often resided in their fiefdoms. In some cases, the wife of the head of the family even led a siege against an invasion from another enemy that occurred while the head of the family was away at war.
On the other hand, as royal power was strengthened and the royal capital acted as the central hub of the whole nation, the families of nobles began to live in royal capitals. This was simply because it was more convenient for them to keep their antennae up because information inevitably gathered in the royal capital. It was inevitable that one aspect of such information exchange meetings was that social circles develop in a spectacular manner.
Be that as it may, in that sense, I feel that the Bain kingdom today was just in a transitional period.
It was obvious that keeping the children of aristocrats in the royal capital in the form of academies was an aspect of hostage-taking, and many aristocratic wives who were in a more convenient position to be in the royal capital, as parents, for example, were living in the royal capital.
On the other hand, some aristocratic families with a somewhat independent spirit, such as Coltrezis House, seemed to keep their distance from the royal capital.
In the kingdom, there were areas that had suffered extensive damage from the demon army and areas that were relatively unaffected. So, in consideration of reconstruction arrangements and budget efficiency, it was necessary to establish a more centralized system that could move people and money efficiently.
So, if the question had to be asked whether it was good for noble families to be independent in the current situation from the perspective of the Kingdom, it was probably not good.
If some noble family refused support from the central government only because of their pride in being independent and self-reliant, the royal family would not be able to do much.
This would not only negatively affect citizens, but also upset the balance of power with the surrounding aristocratic families if the fiefdom of the aristocratic family in question became poor. In the mid to long-term, this would be detrimental to the stability of the country.
In other words, His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince intend to use the current vacuum in the country caused by the Demon Army to rethink the country’s structure itself. If this succeeds, he may be praised as the “Greatest”.
If it fails, the kingdom itself might be shaken, but for some reason, I could not imagine a scene where the Crown Prince himself fails.
Anyway, the royal family had begun to make arrangements to reform the entire country, and perhaps the nobles who opposed the reforms would be dealt with. The royal family probably intended to seriously destroy Coltrezis House to send a warning to the nobles who opposed it.
Since Coltrezis House had established relations with other countries on its own, the Royal family had sufficient justification too. Either way, I have no room for sympathy for Coltrezis House.