the villagers were happy after so much suffering they are now free "long live the lord " "long live helstain " the soldiers left at every village and town some administration officers and some guards , the army was able to take back the land without a real problem that could destroy the plan , william himself lead the army who was marching towards the east after all there was the second biggest city there, around 400 soldiers were in this city but the connection with the capital was lost after the bandits took over most of the territory so the commander of the garrison has taken the administrating work of the city

the real officer who was supposed to do the administrating work had run away after he learned that the bandits had so much power but the commander refused to leave his position he said that his job is to protect the fort

las send 3 different groups to retake the land none of them faced any problem they were able to stabilize the region

after a month and a half the army had wiped out all the bandits who were able to escape, the region was retaken back , las gave the order for the army to stay in the villages and town for some time , the men were training for all the way , and the soldiers were given the order to record the exact population and what work does each does they only gave help to the officers who were send to count the farmers and land ,the soldiers were called back to the capital after the work was done

las now had all the numbers he had a map with all the villages it wasn't that good but it was enough , the officers had all the land recorded and all the farmers in the territory so las called for a meeting to start giving land

las sat at the head of the table he looked around he spoke " william you have done well did you encounter any problems ? and thanks for giving ranks to the soldiers "

william smiled "i just obeyed your order my lord , and there is something wrong that i saw , its about the major city in the east the commander there seem to be loyal but outside powers have a lot of influence in the city ,the major power seem to be the count of alfers "

the helstain viscountcy is bordering a marquess and a count in the east ,both of whom are in the kansberg empire the marquess seems to not have done anything in helstain , but the count is ambitious and too powerful for a normal count , the azeldian and kansberg empire have a unique law for lords in the border , they can have a different diplomatic relationship with other lords from other kingdoms and empires they can't go to direct war with them neither can they make an alliance

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but trade agreements are possible even if the imperial family of azeldia has a bad relationship with a kingdom , the lords at the border can have their own relationship of course the imperial house will execute lords at the border who are making deals who can be consider treason

las coughed brutally [ dammit my illness is coming back i'm not healthy at all ] las tried to hide it from the other he spoke " i see if he is loyal then ,i will sent a letter giving him all the command of the city "

las paused he looked at william he spoke " william i gave the order to make 300 muskets so i want all of our 300 soldiers to train in muskets the new recruit will be divided some will train in muskets and some at spears " las expected Resistance from william and oliver but to his surprise oliver didn't speak and william said "i will do as the lord commands " las looked at him dumfounded "good william ......."

he looked at alfred the minister of agriculture "alfred i want you to handle the land i want the commoners to be given the same amount of land and the same quality "

then he looked at oliver "how much do we have in our treasury ?"

oliver looked at his papers " around 54.000 silver coins my lord the last month ,but my lord in 3 days the money from the paper we sold will come ,you gave the order to michael to stay in another territory and we would sent the paper , the money are around 60.000 coins "

las froze [what so much money ] las gave the order for 7 more factories for paper production so the helstain house has 12 factories for paper and 1 for muskets

oliver understood after seeing las being frozen for a minute "my lord you gave the order to sell paper at a low price , my lord we sent michael paper worth 30.000 coins but there was an event that michael took advantage of "

las was interested oliver was hesitant but when he looked at las eyes he spoke " my lord as you know the overwhelming quantity of paper is produced at the eastern bay in the els trade union , in the south of the azeldian empire the two duchy have start fighting so many other lords were dragged in the war , so the land is closed and one of the ducky has a large navy and they close all the trade routes so paper from the els trade union can't came in the empire so the price in sky high even if we sell cheaper its a lot of money "

las "when did the war start ,how could i not hear of this "

oliver was embarrassed " my lord the war broke out half a month ago and you were too focused in the building of factories and knights my apologies my lord i should have spoke to you "

las smiled "its fine just make sure it will never happen again "

[wait such a large war and the 2 dukes are supporting different princes it will probably escalate i can take advantage of this ]

las smiled "hahahahhahahahaha this is great a perfect opportunity" [ i can use the memories for the iron production and with such a war i can sell a large amount of weapons ]