You greenlight the Advisor's plan.
976 AD, Spring
Your wife gives birth to another child! It's a girl she names 'Astrid'.
976 AD, Autumn
The Marshal arrives at your audience room with several officers in new outfits of the Army.
"This is the new beginning for our land forces, my liege! No longer we will depend on untrained commoners! The change of the military structure will be announced across the Duchy within half a year. Soon, letters of conscription will arrive in thousands of households!"
Congratulations! Grand Duchy of Tven successfully reorganized its Army to a professional and mandatory training model:
You will no longer be able to just grab peasants and mercenaries during End of the Year summaries to replenish Army numbers.
The Army will continuously maintain (or at least, try to maintain) a high level on its own and will cause a constant drain on Economy (currently easily countered).
As mentioned by the new Marshal, you just received a small Population penalty to kick-start the mandatory conscription&training scheme. Unfortunately this has stopped the annual Population tax from giving your profits at the moment.
In times of emergency, you will be able to order mobilization of a chunk of male popualtion for a certain amount of time.
You congratulate them all and then express your wishes that they do their best. They promise to do so!
976 AD, Winter
Revenues form gold mines plus the tax from dwarves of Zonalath have been placed in your Treasury.
976 AD, End of the Year
The year came and went, just like that.
People prosper, your sons are becoming adults, malachite is ready to be sent abroad, the Army slowly expands and the Advisor arrives to bring you the Scrolls of Kingdom Status.
Happiness: 4
Population: 7
Economy: 7
Army: 5
All is well in the Grand Duchy.
977 AD, Spring
"Father, I wish to see the East." Ulan comes to your study one evening.
"East? There's naught but trolls and Gubta there."
"No! That's over the border... I mean, really far East! We've got nothing on the lands of east." Ulan starts pacing about the room.
"West is populated by dwarves, nomads, the republicans and other peoples, and even elfs. South is filled with the Damdamians, their vast empire and their politicians. But to the east lies an Empire that rarely deals with us, and we know nothing of lands beyond." Seems like your son and heir has a geographer bug in him. Or cartographer. Maybe both.
"Please, arrange a caravan for me so I can set forth and explore the distant East."
A) "You're my heir! No way I will send you into the unknown. What if you get kidnapped for ransom, or worse yet, slain by some alien peoples!"
B) "As much as it pains me to send you away, I shall bow to your request, my dear boy."
C) "I won't let you go that far... but how about I arrange you a tour of the eastern neighbours? You could visit the Kashite, Ceodwell, maybe even Gubta borderlands..."
