Good news, he became a noble.
Bad news, he's just a down-and-out baron about to be thrown over the border.
A dilapidated castle with air leakage from all sides, 40 old and weak defenders, 800 hungry and cold citizens, and a huge debt that could crush the entire territory - this was all the family property he inherited.
Outside the city, the herds of animals are migrating south, and bandits are rampant; inside the city, the granary is at its bottom, and the tax collector is planning to take away his territory. Further away, the greedy nobles, huge chambers of commerce, and ambitious empires have long regarded this border as meat on the chopping block.
Faced with this extremely bad start, Ron could only start by repairing the city wall.
Open mines, smelt steel, open trade routes, build workshops, train new troops, build colleges...
When thousands of lights lit up the desolate border, when the ragged refugees turned into craftsmen, soldiers and scholars, when the castles that the nobles were proud of fell one after another in front of the new army, people were suddenly shocked -
The border baron who was despised by everyone had turned a crumbling castle into a force that the entire continent could not ignore.
