Chapter 75: Duke Zest’s Territory Change
“This is an Imperial Command! Duke Zest is to receive the forr Tarminal Kingdom’s capital city and half of the kingdom’s northern region. The Duke is allowed to na his territory Zest-Gaiyus-Tarminal.”
“I comply to the Imperial Command.”
Haha, I am even allowed to rena the forr kingdom as I wish.
‘Zest, let’s protect the Empire together! You are the wall!’
That Emperor, he definitely pushed this onto .
After his Majesty’s ssenger left, I discussed the matter with my master.
“Master, the Frontier Count is receiving the southern region, right? Let’s trade for food.”
“Well, we’ll probably have to do that. The north is........”
Yes, the northern region was not suitable for grain-production.
If you go north from the capital city, you’ll only find wetlands and sandy soil, then the sea, if you go further.
Normally, there shouldn’t be any wetlands near the coast, but......
Ah! It falls under the sa category as Japan’s Kujukuri Beach, maybe. 1
Anyway, it’s a very unusual terrain that is extrely rare to find.
When it cos to crops that could be grown in wetlands, that would be rice, but, unfortunately, you can’t find it here.
This world’s residents aren’t stupid, after all.
If they had rice, they would’ve definitely used it.
“Then, the only thing left is fishing.”
“Son-in-law-dono, you’ll have to ask the kemonobito to do this job.......Look.”
“Aaah! The forr kingdom used to discriminate them, so there are no fishern............”
In this world that hates discrimination to an extre, there are no highs and lows when it cos to races.
However, so races do hold monopoly over so occupations.
And they are fishing and blacksmithing.
It’s not like other races can’t do those jobs or anything, but there’s such an overwhelming difference in ability that they don’t stand a chance.
I’ve seen so human blacksmiths around here, but there were no fishern.
Since the sea if filled with all sorts of evil magical monsters, if you’re a fisherman who doesn’t use machines, and you’re not a physically blessed kemonobito, you won’t be able to survive.
“...........Should I use Herman and his people?”
“That’s all you’ve got left.”
Including Herman, the forr leader of the Rebel Army, they were all kemonobito.
For the ti being, Albert was looking after them as they worked as cleaners and repairn in the capital city.
I told an otherwise pretty convenient maid soldier to tell Albert to select a few fishern candidates.
The Maids Unit was ford mostly by nobles’ daughters, so they were really excellent.
............Even though they had muscle brains.
“Then........all I have left is to search for a civil official.”
Master didn’t answer anything this ti, instead, he frowned.
Master.........We’re doing overti work today too. You should just give up.
It was already midnight when we finished our work eventually............I already knew that once you get promoted, your office work is bound to increase, but at this rate, I will certainly die.
Civil official-san........I’ll give you an ample salary, so please co to !
The next day, Albert and I took Herman and his n and walked towards the coast line.
Out of 1500 people from the forr Rebel Army, 300 volunteered for the job.
The rest of them wanted to beco soldiers out of admiration for Albert.
.........I pray that the mongrels won’t increase with this.
On the way, we encountered so thieves and forr soldiers of the defeated army, however......
“Hahahaha, kill the thieves!”
“Don’t let any of them run away! Stab them to death!”
“It’s been a long ti since I last exercised.”
“I’m pregnant, so don’t touch !!”
Hm?
“dia, you’re not pregnant, you idiot!”
The Maids Unit ford a Death Won Party, apparently.
There was a man among them too, but because his outward appearance was that of a woman’s, it couldn’t be helped.
dia, don’t stare at like that........I already told you, I can’t give you a maternity leave.
“Your Excellency, you promised that you won’t treat like a man......”
“Then, do you want Tasel to go back to work?”
“........This is discrimination!”
“It’s called making distinctions, you absolute moron!!”
dia buried her face in her palms, and she collapsed on the ground, but no one was worried about it.
“There’s soone crying loudly over there! Kill them faster next ti!”
After two days filled with similar events, we arrived at the coast line.
For so reason, we were greeted by other kemonobito........Who are they?
“I am glad to et you, your Excellency. I am acting as chief for these people.”
An old lady.......ahem, a woman kemonobito at a blooming age, prostrated herself in front of as she spoke.
It seed that there was a kemonobito village close to here, where people who ran away from the forr Tarminal Kingdom’s oppression lived.
There were about 50 villagers, who went finishing and lived rather quiet lives, but when they heard that the kingdom has lost the war and the kemonobito got permission to work, they still couldn’t believe it.
They even sent a few people to check the situation, only to find that the kemonobito were living rather normal lives.
Therefore, they too decided to co out from hiding when they t with us.
Yeah, it does make so sense.
“In this case, why don’t you join us? We ca here in order to build a fishern village. If you don’t want to, we will guide you to the city and offer you other jobs, since they’re plenty. So, what will you do?”
She happily nodded to my proposal.
Many of the cat kemonobito won used to do fishing up until now, so they would rather stay in the village and continue with their lives. They were so grateful that all of them bowed their heads to .
Obviously, this was great for too.
I had no reason to refuse them, since all I wanted was a fishern village that would bring lots of fish.
I gave instructions to Herman and his n to finish with the village’s foundation and demarcation.
Once it had a rough shape, I would leave it to them.
I had so much work to do that I started to hate it.
Albert was in charge of collecting materials for the demarcation.
.........I couldn’t ask him to do complicated things after all.
“Your Excellency, I’ve finished.”
“Albert, don’t bury everything! Take so out!”
‘Ah!’
.......Don’t make such an expression.......
I already told you this was a demarcation, damn it!?
So similar happenings took place, but nothing I couldn’t tolerate.
I’d rather want it to end with this. That would be actually great.
It was already getting dark when we were about to finish.
I’ll leave the rest to Herman, who’s going to beco the village chief.
I was thinking about that when I heard soone quarreling.
“You’re wrong-nya. 2 That’s not enough to enclose the village with a fence-nya.”
“Why? 10 logs should be more than enough to do the job.”
“We could only make about 50 planks from one log-nya. And we need about 800 of them for the fence-nya. We need at least 6 more logs-nya.”
“..............I see. Your counting is correct. How did you do it? You have no tool, right?.......Did you write it on the ground or sothing?”
“That’s not too difficult for a ntal arithtic-nya. I’m good at counting-nya.”
The young girl cat kemonobito said then started to laugh.......
...................I found her! I found my civil official!
“Hahaha, my dear young lady........Why won’t you co talk to this old man for a second?”
It was dark and my words were sudden, suspicious and sowhat dangerous sounding, so much so that the girl freaked out and burst into tears.
.........Albert, you’re laughing too hard.
1. sen.wikipedia/wiki/Kujūkuri_Beach
2. Japanese onomatopoeia for cat sounds; nya = ow
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