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Vol 05 Chapter 157: Those Who Unite and Those Who Cannot

「It’s finally over… Raymond.」

「We somehow managed, Your Majesty. However, we still can’t let our guard down…」

Four months after the Second Southern Expedition, all the territories owned by the patricians and the legal power over their inhabitants were returned to the country.

The contents of the royal edict that made this possible were filled with annotations, making it extremely long and difficult to understand. However, to summarize its contents:

-The land and its people are to be returned to the king.

-The various patrician families will henceforth manage the king’s land as nobles, continuing to control it as they always had.

In other words, it might seem like only the title changed… but there is one decisive change.

That change is in military power.

Previously, the patricians were the ones in charge of conscripting soldiers in their territories, they had total authority to decide when to conscript soldiers and their number. This gave them significant military