13 – You don’t like this forest, turn it over.(1)

“good night. Then, from this moment today, I declare that my son, Schwein von Nantes, has become lord of the Countess of Nantes.”

After saying that, the old count smiled reassuringly and sat down helplessly in his chair.

Seeing that, the other vassals quickly tried to get the count to rest, but the count stopped them by raising his hand while sitting in a chair.

At the same time, Schwein came out and continued the story.

“Glory to Deus, dignity and honor to His Majesty the Emperor of the Elain Empire, and I will show loyalty and nobility as a count who serves them. Therefore, you also repay me with loyalty and devotion.”

Everyone got down on one knee and bowed their heads accordingly.

“good night. Then, as your masters, if each of you wants something, say it. As the lord, I will grant your wish.”

It is said to grant all wishes, but in practice it is customary to ask for the tools necessary to work as ‘the Count’s soldiers’.

And since I can’t grant everyone’s wishes here, I can’t even mention them except perhaps for a few barons.

Instead, each person can receive expensive weapons for free according to their title and status, so there are many events that secretly fall.

After a short amount of time passed, the count’s butlers collected notes from each nobleman with their ‘own wishes’ written on them.

After a while, only a note containing the baron or the baron’s heirs was delivered to the count, and Schwein read it and declared that he would personally bestow them.

What was particularly unexpected was that Baron Ren’s son asked for a ‘knight’, which is normally requested for a weapon.

In the end, using an interlude, Schwein directly bestowed a knighthood on Baron Ren’s son, and he became Lord Knight Ren from then on.

And I…

Schwein opened my letter after the knight ordination ceremony and said in a surprised voice.

“Finally, um? Ciel von Creutel Why did you ask for things like second and third sons of serfs? Aren’t they things that, if left unattended, would become paupers or wanderers? Well, you could be a bandit… but wouldn’t it just be a burden to you and your estate? It’s not like there’s too much food.”

As the saying goes, in most territories, those who do not receive farmland to farm, such as the second son and third son of serfs, are expelled from the territories due to lack of food.

So a few lucky men join the mercenaries, and the majority are exploited as urban poor or low-level laborers.

If a woman has a good appearance, she becomes a maid, a concubine of a noble somewhere, or a prostitute who follows a city or a mercenary army.

Those who do not want to do this become bandits or gangs of thieves.

However, our manor will change farming tools and reform the manor in the future, so there will be surplus food, and various manpower is needed to develop the manor based on this food.

People who will do construction, people who will build something, people who will make farmland, people who will be soldiers, etc…

So I answered honestly, excluding the words ‘food can be left over’.

“We seek cooperation from the nobles of the baronial territory, and instead of burdening them with some burden, we are going to pioneer the unexplored land and cultivate the farmland. We need people to do that, and I thought it would be more helpful if we took the future criminals who were causing trouble for the Count.”

As if he was satisfied with those words, Schwein in front of me replied with a smile.

“You are right. It’s nice to see him dedicating himself to me with plans for the future. Within a month, I will send serfs, male and female, to your estate.”

“thank you.”

As soon as that was said, the other nobles went back to enjoy the banquet.

**

The next day, my father and I went around to visit each of the count’s retainers to say goodbye.

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Just go back I don’t know why they go there and say hello for more than an hour when they can just say ‘thank you’ and give them a proper gift.

‘Heh heh heh, we parted like this when we were fighting on the Rittheim Plains, and I bought the ham you said you wanted to eat at that time. Oh, but this ham…’ Because they talk about this for an infinite amount of time.

Even if I somehow understood this, the thing I didn’t understand the most was buying souvenirs for my vassals on my way back.

Of course, it is a good deed for the baron to buy souvenirs for his vassals who cannot come to the city.

Aristocrats who received a bounty said that they received it from their lord, and when they received something expensive, they boasted for generations, and when they received something like wine, they drank it and boasted for days and days.

Then, there is also a loyalty that was not there.

But the problem is…

‘Here is 20 bottles of wine bought for 10 years, 40 bags with inscriptions engraved on knives…’

After buying it like this, special packaging for nobles will jump at least twice the original price.

I also bought a box of cookies for Ella and a dagger for Balt, but I think I lost money.

That’s 2 gold coins in total…

**

After buying all the presents, the baron and I returned to Creutel territory over the course of a week.

On the way back, the baron and I rode in the same carriage, and on the way the baron asked me various things.

‘When are you going to get married? Do you like anyone?’ As an aristocrat, it’s natural, but that’s why it’s an important question.

Regarding this question, ‘I’m still in the spirit of pioneering the territory.’ and passed it on

Fortunately, my father, the baron, did not ask me about my new farming method if I hadn’t reported it before he asked.

Had he interrogated, he would have had to rack his brains to come up with a plausible excuse, but he was relieved that he didn’t have to.

**

And as soon as I arrived at Baron Creutel, I joined Ella, who was staying at the Baron’s mansion, and boarded the carriage to return to Windheim.

When I sat down in the carriage, Ella sat next to me very casually.

It’s a little far away, but if it shakes a little, it’s a place where you can reach your shoulder or body.

After a while, the carriage moved, and Ella smiled broadly and opened her mouth.

“You’ve been there, master. I really missed you.”

“Yes, I missed you too, Ella.”

Then I lightly stroked Ella’s hair.

When I stopped petting, Ella said with a slightly forlorn expression.

“I was really lonely while I was separated from my master. So next time, I studied hard so that I could follow my master even if he went far away. Cooking, cleaning, etiquette as a maid…”

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Just as she said, Ella’s tone of voice changed from the childlike, innocent tone of voice to that of a maid before she knew it.

“The head maid said that. The master said that one day he would definitely inherit the Baron Creutel domain. If that happens, more great people will stand next to you. So, he told me to do my best.”

Ella’s voice speaking quietly, in her voice, for some reason, ‘don’t go far’. I felt like saying

That’s probably the case, because the pain and sadness this child must have experienced right away were beyond imagination.

The despair he felt when he lost his younger brother to Bayleaf one after another after his parents died.

Despite this, the resignation when I tried to give up everything and become mine.

How would you feel if you had to deal with all this alone?

And Ella looked at me and said, changing from the sullen face she showed a moment ago to a slightly brighter smile.

“So master, from now on, I can follow you too, right?”

“Of course.”

As soon as Ella heard that, she raised her head as if asking me to pet her.

I just stroked her hair endlessly.

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Just hoping that this child’s sadness and resentment will be resolved.

Then I handed Ella a cookie I had bought.

After taking the cookie, Ella said with a very happy face.

“Thank you, Master. And it’s really sweet.”

good to buy

**

Two months have passed since I returned to Windheim, my domain.

First of all, the old people who had been village chiefs in various villages in Windheim were dispatched as baileps or village chiefs to various places in Baron Creutel.

At first, everyone was against the dispatch, but when I said that if I did a good job, everyone would be able to become a bailiff, they all went away happily.

Listening to the story now, thanks to hard work in other provinces, it is said that they are carrying out a four-year crop rotation in their own way.

If I do as I think, we will probably be able to secure enough food for the serfs and nobles of our lands.

And in Windheim, the serfs rode the wagon I bought and went farther and began to carve out new fields.

It must have been the aftermath of the fact that if all the fields currently being reclaimed were reclaimed and more distant fields were reclaimed, taxes on all fields cultivated would be reduced, and the land that could be cultivated had increased by using cows and horses for farming.

By now, they would still have to plow their allotted fields, but with horse-drawn plows distributed to each household, they could make deeper and wider fields faster.

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My guess is that this year, if there is no bad harvest due to a sudden natural disaster, we will be able to safely support the new serfs.

And when the serfs come, yes…

Balt jumped up next to me and said to me.

“young master! The serfs are here!”

I said to Balt with a smile.

“is it? tell the serfs I don’t like that forest, so I’ll tell you to get rid of it all.”

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