Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

“The mine is fine. I heard somewhere that Ughdash was doing, but they were mining.”

Orcs and goblins directly mined minerals?

For a moment, I wondered if I had heard it wrong.

“… It seems that I was in a hurry.”

“Hasn’t it already been half a year since we stopped the slave trade?”

Orcs and goblins don’t usually think of a trade.

When I think about that concept, I grab a weapon and wield it.

“Because the guys who came down to the Great Plains are the ones who were pushed back in the power struggle. He must have come with the thought that he would catch humans himself because he couldn’t take them from other tribes.”

“By the way, after the evacuation order was issued, they couldn’t catch humans, so they snooped around the mine.”

“They didn’t take the mined minerals anywhere, they just kept them intact. Thanks to that, it was like running the mine without a break.”

Seriously, it wasn’t that funny.

I was dumbfounded and laughed.

“After the damage repair is over, focus on absorbing the occupied territory. Even if we apply the policies we did in the Great Plains and Northern Wallochia to the occupied territories, the workload will be too much.”

“Yes, it should.”

Griff let out a sigh.

The policies that were solved in the Great Plains and Northern Wallochia are not one or two.

“Land confiscation and distribution, agricultural technology dissemination, livestock and farm equipment provision, tax exemption, land reclamation, mine development, migration encouragement, border fortification, factory building, headache-inducing.”

Moreover, the occupied territory was incomparably larger than the existing territory.

It wasn’t for no reason that Griff made a sound of pain.

“It is fortunate that the development of farmland and mines is over, unlike frontier areas. If I had to do that, it didn’t end with a painful sound. Even if you mobilized all your brothers and sisters and freed slaves, you wouldn’t have seen the answer? Because the scale is large.”

I nodded.

“First of all, it is urgent to preserve farmland and fill granaries. There will be quite a few places where farming was ruined during the chaos. If you don’t, deaths from starvation could follow one after another before next year.”

I guess so.

It was fine when my area was just the Great Plains.

You just need to import grain from Germania or Wallochia.

But now that the two countries are gone, where will the grain be imported?

“Therefore, as before, the mobilization of manpower that exceeds agricultural production must stop. You should be more concerned about stocking up on food than gold.”

“hmm.”

“Ah, I see.”

Skadi asked suddenly.

“Dad, didn’t you say there was a way to increase crop production?”

“Did you hear from Pasimea?”

“yes. I heard that it is not about improving farm equipment or spreading technology, but about making fertilizer.”

I shook my head.

“okay. I instructed Pasimea to make artificial fertilizer. The reason why I am not here now is that the core of fertilizer becomes the material…”

For a moment, I touched my forehead, which was throbbing with a headache.

“Are you okay?”

Calliope placed her hand on my shoulder and asked anxiously.

I patted her on the back of my hand and shook my head.

“Okay. Looks like Rachel used her strength.”

To forget the headache, I took out a cigarette and asked.

“It means things are going well. Rachel is helping Pasimea’s exploration. Soon Pasimea will come with good news.”

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Rachel grabbed the mace and scanned the city’s exterior.

It was a shabby city smaller than a small town built in the Great Plains, befitting an area belonging to the poor axis in the Anz region in the southeastern part of Germania.

The city was surrounded by a stone wall, but the wall was built a long time ago and looked like it hadn’t even been repaired.

“I thought Germania was a rich country, but I guess it isn’t.”

Pasimea murmured, and Rachel answered.

“According to prior information, about 8,000 people live there.”

“8,000? It is small.”

Pasimea glanced back.

4,000 men under Rachel’s command lined up.

Assuming that all the citizens of the city are citizen soldiers, the difference is only 2 times.

Considering the level of citizens and soldiers, it was a meaningless difference.

“I don’t know what kind of guts you have to do this.”

“That is what faith is.”

Pasimea blinked at the sudden remark.

“What are you talking about?”

“What?”

Seeing Rachel tilting her head, she let out a ha.

“no. no. It’s okay if you don’t know.”

While muttering, “A fanatic,” he looked up at the top of the castle wall.

“You filthy apostates!”

Just then, the lord was about to spit out a cry with a red face.

“You think you guys can break our trust! Get out of here before Lord Horbid falls!”

“A filthy apostate? Are there clean apostates?”

Pasimea snorted.

“I see. It’s funny when I hear it.”

“yes? It sounds like you’re talking about a bad race, an evil vampire, or something like that. bad bad guy Wicked wicked, what do you mean by this?”

“Because he’s so stupid, he must believe in wolves and the like as gods.”

“…”

She tried to say something, but held back.

“We do not surrender! Even if only one believer remains! Let us arm ourselves with faith and let your—“

“Pasimea, please.”

“uh. Get ready to rush in.”

Crunching, I walked forward, clearing my throat.

“Sick bastards.”

She mumbled and stretched out her hand.

“I don’t know what his dog is.”

Although several weeks had passed since the conquest of Orhus, the capital of Germania, the uprising of the Wolf Cult, far from diminishing, was burning more and more with each passing day.

“Even though Nuadil has weeded it out like that, it keeps popping out.”

Maybe it’s because they couldn’t block the borders.

Thanks to Nuadil and his subordinates hunting the priests in advance, the Japanese uprising was stopped, but the faith rooted in the region remained intact.

It seemed that the church government secretly sent a priest to the area where the faith was maintained and instigated it, and the uprising broke out a beat late.

“Did they say that occupying Orhus would not be the end, but the beginning? It really is.”

Pasimea covered the gates with magic.

As soon as her magical energy touched the castle gate, sparks flew.

Someone created magic to protect the castle gate.

She snorted and held out her hand.

Tung—!

Then the gate was torn.

“…”

The lord, who had spat out curse words on top of the castle wall, opened his mouth wide.

Looking at that expression, Pasimea twisted the corners of her mouth.

“Surprised.”

A shout then erupted from behind her.

“let’s go!”

“Aim for the priest first!”

Twenty members of his family ran toward the wide open front door.

The knights and militiamen, who were only standing behind the gate, tried to stop the rushing people on horseback, but it was futile.

A single charge pierced three or four enemies at the end of his spear, and the spear could not withstand the weight and broke, so he had to take out an auxiliary spear.

“Dodo run away!”

The morale of the citizen soldiers collapsed with that single charge.

An oath to defend the city with firm faith?

How many people stand firm in the face of death?

“Come back! Come back! You cowards!”

Seeing the citizens fleeing in all directions, the lord cried out.

However, no one listened to the lord’s words or looked back.

“Cuck!”

The lord, who was left alone, tried to escape belatedly and was stabbed by a spear.

“Horbid!”

f*ck!

The priests who cried out for Horbid were no different.

They weren’t cardinals, archbishops, or bishops.

The only thing different from the citizens is that they didn’t run away.

It was the same as not being able to withstand the blow of his family.

“What’s this?”

Pasimea frowned at the dead priests.

The appearance of being transformed under the protection of Horbid was really lame.

It didn’t take the form of a devil, it didn’t become a werewolf, it didn’t turn into a wolf, but it looked like a human with a long snout and protruding teeth.

Who would think that they received God’s protection after seeing this?

“The false god put power into the small vessel, so it looks like this.”

“I won… How many will I send if I don’t have anyone to send?”

puck!

Rachel took the ax and cut the neck of the priest, who was holding his breath.

“You can’t ignore it. No matter how much they talk about us, they do quite a bit of damage elsewhere.”

“To these guys?”

“Even if it is a false god, the name and color claim to be a god. Even a tiny bit of power puts us on par with our brothers and sisters. It is dangerous when the number is gathered.”

The problem was particularly acute in large cities.

Because there are many priests and their level is relatively high.

Edar’s family, and the damage incurred in the recent weeks of suppressing the Wolf Cult uprising was greater than the damage suffered until the Battle of Orhus.

“Sister, it is over.”

“Gather them in one place as usual.”

Rachel gathered the surrendered citizens in the square.

Should they exterminate themselves or sell them into slavery?

He stood on the podium while receiving the eyes of the citizens who were trembling in fear.

She called the injured soldiers from the podium.

“uh?”

The crowd opened their eyes and looked at Rachel.

As her hand touched the soldier’s wound, a light arose.

The light was brighter than sunlight and could be seen by all the citizens gathered in the square.

However, what surprised the crowd was not the light itself, but its effect.

“The wound is healing!”

“How can an apostate do the high priest’s miracle…”

The wounds of each soldier are healing.

It was like a miracle emitted by a high priest.

The crowd forgot their fear and only wondered.

“Did you see it?”

When Rachel spoke quietly after the treatment, no one could hear.

“I have shown you the truth.”

Is it true?

The crowd blinked.

“I showed the power of faith that a priest can show. The power that you say is a miracle. Does anyone say that?”

Didn’t someone just say it was a high priest’s miracle?

It was not one person’s idea, but the idea of the whole crowd.

In their eyes, the power she unleashed was a divine power that no apostate dared to imitate.

“You stood up against me, swearing at me as a heretic. But what about now? I have vindicated my faith, but what about the priests you believe in and follow?”

A member of the family threw the dead priest’s body onto the podium.

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The crowd who saw the corpse in front of the podium screamed.

Even though the divine protection has disappeared, the mutation has not been resolved, so it is a bizarre appearance.

No one in the crowd considered it sacred.

“Look. A monster that is neither wolf nor human. If they were truly Lord Horvid’s priests, why would they look like this?”

“…”

“The priests you believed in and followed are heretics.”

Pasimea, who was watching Rachel’s speech from a distance from the stage, clicked her tongue.

‘Because it’s hard to push away the Wolf Cult beliefs, you’re pretending to be a real Wolf Cult priest and pretending to be real… I’m afraid to really think about it.’

Rachel cleverly tricked the crowd.

The situation where Nuadil annihilated the previously appointed priests.

The priests who led the uprising were the priests who infiltrated later.

Therefore, there was no close relationship with the city people.

“What do you think of me? Do you still think that I am a heretic and that they are orthodox? Even after seeing the light of my faith?”

She suddenly appeared and incited the real priests who led the uprising and brought blood to be heretical and false, revealing that she was a real high-ranking priest of the Wolf Church.

Citizens had no choice but to believe it.

The real priest turned into a monster that was neither human nor wolf, Rachel performed a miracle that even high-ranking priests could not perform, and those who were devout enough to give their lives to fanaticism died.

Those who remain only accept realistically and choose to be deceived.

“It would be right to punish those of you who said you didn’t know, but stood on the side of the lying man. But I will forgive you and show you mercy.”

The crowd trembled at the word of punishment let out a sigh of relief.

“If you swear to change your faith, I will cut the rent for this year and next year in half, and I will not collect a special tax.”

In addition, they say that they will not receive or reduce taxes.

Who would dare to call her a heretic?

‘Not only this, but the lord and the property confiscated from the temple are also distributed, so that even if the priests are sent again from the church, they will make them accomplices so that they do not take sides?’

By now, other members of the family should be robbing administrative documents and property from the lord’s house and temple.

As mentioned earlier, the wealth was for distribution, and the administrative documents were to clearly reveal land and slave ownership and send them to Edar.

Pasimea shook her head.

‘I’m really born with it.’

There was a reason why the uprising did not recur in the city that Rachel had suppressed.

‘Well, what’s good is what’s good. There’s no other way.’

Pasimea decided not to think deeply.

After all, her mission is not to watch over Rachel.

Because I have a much more important mission than that.

She narrowed her eyes and looked around.

“hey.”

“Yes…yes?”

I caught the farmer who was looking at Rachel blindly.

“Have you ever seen a white crystal around here?”

“A decision…?”

The peasant looked at her and asked cautiously, cringing.

He couldn’t understand what she was asking.

“Have you ever seen a transparent or white lump of mineral in a mountain or field? It can be small grains. Whether it is transparent or white is important.”

“well···.”

The farmer, who was struggling to recall his memories, opened his mouth.

“This seems to be there. If you go out through the north gate, there is a barren land where grains turn white after rain.”

“really? Are you in the north?”

She quickly got on her horse and went out through the north gate.

Since the gate the army entered was the south gate, it was in the opposite direction.

After passing through the north gate for a while, I saw a rough land with yellow ground and not a single blade of grass growing, just as the farmer said.

“driving me crazy.”

I stopped talking and muttered as I looked at the dirt floor.

It had rained a while ago and the ground seemed dry.

White crystals were scattered all over the ground.

“What are all these places?”

He got off his horse while muttering something dumbfounded.

After picking up the scattered crystals one by one and examining them, Rachel came.

“Is that what you were looking for?”

“huh.”

Rachel tilted her head.

Pasimea’s purpose was to discover resource areas, and Rachel helped Pasimea secure and stabilize the resource areas.

However, this destination was unusual.

There were no mines and no production facilities.

I wondered what was going on here.

“What is it?”

“What do you think?”

“salt?”

“More valuable than that.”

Pasimea swiped the dirt on her palm with her thumb.

Several translucent crystals were revealed in the soil.

“It’s a cornerstone.”

cornerstone?

Pasimea let out a deep sigh as she stood there, not knowing what it meant.

“Essential Ingredients for Gunpowder.”

“ah!”

Then Rachel clapped her hands.

If it was gunpowder, she couldn’t have known.

Aren’t they black grains used in bronze cannons?

“Gehard sang gunpowder, gunpowder songs like that, and I finally got it. The reason we haven’t been able to increase cannons so far is because we don’t have gunpowder.”

Rachel remembered the power of the bronze cannon.

To be honest, it wasn’t that great of a performance.

‘Even though the destructive power is high, the hit rate is too low. The loading speed is terrible, and the movement is inconvenient. As Gerhard said, it would be great if it could be improved, but right now it’s an ambiguous item.’

That was Rachel’s assessment of the cannon, and it was an appropriate one.

The cannons used in the conquest of Germania were mass-produced in a hurry after Rachel had made them for research and demonstration purposes, so they were ambiguous weapons to be used in the field or for siege purposes.

At least, the ambiguity was offset by the number of 20 gates, but conversely, because of the 20 gates, gunpowder was insufficient, so it was actually used only three times.

When protesting at the border, when fighting the duchy, and when fighting the kingdom, the gunpowder ran out in those three battles, so I heard that I should rather make a servant and donate it to the city.

Pasimea frowned.

“Do you really know how much I struggled to make that damn gunpowder? I heard that they went through all the hardships to make something that others say will be used only a few times and thrown away.”

The story of her overturning latrines all over the Great Plains to make gunpowder was famous.

Rachel smiled shyly as she watched her growl, and turned the conversation around.

“Then, can I make gunpowder with just this?”

“Other materials are nothing compared to this.”

Pasimea held the kernel in her left hand and showed it to Rachel.

“And there are more important things.”

“What is more important?”

“There are three nutrients that crops need. But this guy contains two of them. What does that mean?”

“…that means it can be used as fertilizer.”

“If you mix one missing ingredient separately, it is a perfect artificial fertilizer. It will increase crop yield incomparably compared to planting soybeans in the field.”

Pasimea smiled brightly.

As crop production increases, the number of people who can support it also increases. As the supportable population increases, the number of people who can engage in activities other than farming also increases.

Pasimea knew that it was Edar’s purpose to form a standing army with this increased manpower and to arm it with gunpowder weapons.

“I found the most important puzzle piece to Edar. Now all we need is time. Only time to build a civilization based on what we have.”

She clenched her fists.

White crystals mixed with the soil fell to the ground.

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Time passed.

From mid-autumn through winter to spring.

And with the short spring coming to an end, the days are starting to get hotter.