High School Soldier
107. It can still be bigger

25 December 2321, 09.43 WIB/1914 Kingdom of Arevelk, morning.

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Ragh was a member of the nobility of the military faction, and the grandson of one of the Empire's founders. However, ever since some vassal kings announced they would establish a new state with Sheyn as queen, she gave up all attributes related to the Luan Empire and left her surname. As a commander, his ability in making war and political strategies was the greatest among the nobility.

Before he joined this new, nameless country, Ragh was a member of the military faction's nobility. In other words, he was the one who gave the idea that, “Because the Empire is in danger, we should regroup the power, and regroup the legions under the Emperor. We will drive out the barbarians who control the Gate with military force!”

This man had decided to serve this new country, and was ready to fight against the land that made his name great and famous throughout the Andzrev Continent. Sheyn is lucky to have a commander who can think clearly, after the Empire suffered continuous defeats since the arrival of the green troops, and Ragh is a loyal soldier.

The nobles of the Empire's peace faction wanted peace in any way, but their numbers were now few. Some of the military faction's nobles pay assassins to finish them off one by one. It made the remaining peace faction nobles ‘refugee’ to the new land led Sheyn.

The new country, which does not yet have an official name, is a potential ally for Indonesia, with the intermediary of ambassadors sent to other worlds and Expeditionary Forces. One of the ambassadors sent by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been sent to the country's palace.

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Ambassador of Indonesia to ‘negara Baru’, this 34-year-old man is named Radit. He was still waiting for a few minutes before Sheyn appeared, he had already had breakfast with the typical menu of this region, which was more akin to the porridge and meatballs of this world's livestock meat.

The palace, or rather Sheyn's house, had many servants, half of whom were from the Demihuman race. The servants made sure that the ambassador was comfortable in any way. Radit was dressed in neat clothes, not in typical local clothing.

Radit's job is to build relationships with the people here, and learn the local language. Local language lessons given by Nio, it makes this man not understand and a little confused. According to him, Nio is more worthy to be a link between Indonesia and other worlds because of his foreign language skills.

But, the young man apparently chose to take a nap in the barracks instead of traveling around this world to build good relationships. No one could oppose Nio's choice, even Sucipto just let Nio and gave him a little leeway while on duty.

“Good morning, Your Highness.”

“Good morning, Mr. Radit. You came so early.”

Radit then praised Sheyn with some beautiful words, it was one part of the diplomacy strategy. This trick is usually used before starting negotiations with female representatives, and it is successfully used on women he meets.

Radit explained some of his goals were sent to this young country, including his desire to meet one of the country's most important people. Then, after some deliberation, Sheyn chose Ragh.

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“Commander Ragh, I will introduce an ambassador from a country called Indonesia, His Holiness Radit.”

Sheyn unexpectedly improved Radit's status by calling it ‘Yang Mulia’. But Sheyn also mentioned the word when Nio and the Expeditionary Force representatives visited the new country.

The two men shook hands and said, “It's nice to meet you.”

With a curious face, Ragh asked Radit, “I'm sorry, actually I don't know too much about the country of origin of the green troops and you. May I know what Indonesia is like?”

Before, before the Empire lost some of its territory, it was a powerful territory. There were originally dozens of vassal territories and tribes that formed this country. But, the Luan Empire was now not much different in strength from the developing world, or perhaps a little worse.

As an otherworlder, Ragh can be understood if this man does not know about the country of Indonesia.

“How do I say it, yes.., Indonesia is a beautiful country, and the food is delicious. Our people are very much, but that's the problem.”

Upon hearing Radit's reply, Ragh laughed softly with Sheyn. According to them, a great people is the standard for measuring the strength of the country. But, Radit said that the large number of people is a problem, which of course makes the two people feel surprised.

“Yes, because our country consists of very many islands, it is a source of risk of our country's unity.”

“Oh, island nation huh?”

It means that the country has a large maritime power to protect the sea area which is more dominant than the land area. In this world, only the Kingdom of Arevelk and a few other countries on the continent possessed powerful sea power.

Ragh, when he was still the commander of the Empire, he thought that the country of origin of the green troops was a remote and primitive land. But, some people will not believe in words before seeing the truth.

“I brought some gifts from my country, please accept.”

After Radit plucked his finger, several Expeditionary Force soldiers in charge of escorting Radit, entered the banquet hall while carrying some wooden boxes containing gifts.

Instantly, Ragh and Sheyn's tense faces changed and showed a warm smile.

Indonesian indigenous handicrafts are diverse, and have their own uniqueness, is a prominent Indonesian culture.

Engraving intricate reliefs from Jepara made of the best quality wood, making the craftsmen who are ordered get a big advantage. Batik cloth, as well as clothing made from batik cloth, and woven crafts from the craft producing region. Puppet buffalo skin with stalks made of buffalo horns, and carved by hand, making puppets with the figures of Rama and Shinta look premium.

Silver crafts from some of these central areas of craft, and ceramic products are gifts specially brought in for the founders of this new country.

They are all rare, and useful Indonesian art products. And, do not forget there are some traditional weapons brought, one of which is this winding keris.

Since Ragh was a noble with a good sense of art, then he understood the skill of the craftsman who made the craft he saw in front of him. He was stunned by a shirt with a batik motif, and a woven sarong.

Ragh himself was fascinated by the beautiful curves of the keris. Although he was known as a warrior who was skilled in using weapons, but he was more interested in the beauty and quality of those weapons first.

Ragh added Indonesia to the list of countries he was most reluctant to, and most he wanted to see firsthand. His attitude now shows a great connoisseur of art and culture.

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The kings of the vassal territories of this new country began to accept the existence of Indonesia, the cause of which was the Gate that stood in one of these regions. They gathered to witness the alliance of this new country with Indonesia, but this step has not been inaugurated.

Any politician will be more easily seduced if there are elements that they like. The nobles of the Empire's peace faction who sought refuge in the country, begged to be allowed to meet the ambassador.

The informants got word that Emperor Bogat and the nobles of the military faction, went abroad and headed for another continent to get help in preparation for the upcoming war.

Expeditionary Forces have not been thought to send Navy warships to another world, after all they have not cooperated with allied countries in terms of maritime defense. Then, dismantling and assembling the ship requires a large cost, even though the AL has adequate manpower for this.

To travel the world, it is not enough to rely solely on military aircraft and unmanned aircraft. At the very least, if you get permission from the Ministry of Defense, the Expeditionary Force wants to send missile fast boats and landing platefrom dock ships to transport helicopters.

But that was only a plan, because no one knew how long the Gate would last, and then close. If the Gate suddenly closed, then there was still a lot of equipment left behind in the other world, then it would be a loss for the TNI. The equipment used was mostly old weapons, so it didn't make too big of a loss. But if what was left behind was a warship, it would be a different story if it happened.

The temporary housing of the refugees has changed a lot in recent months.

Because the establishment of ‘school Indonesia’ for those interested has been completed, there are hundreds of people who are interested in this facility. This development is based on the story of Sigiz and his two subordinates about Indonesian culture. That caused many nobles and other circles to want to go to Indonesia and study there.

However, since none of them could speak Indonesian, it was impossible for them to go to Indonesia without this ability. At least they should be able to converse in Indonesian, so with the help of the Kingdom of Arevelk and Indonesia, then stand language schools and other educational institutions in the refugee camp.

Since the Gate was included in the territory of the new country, there were some Barisan Roses knights seeking knowledge here, of course they were here on Sheyn's orders.

In this way, the Indonesian side does not need to require personnel who are experts in other world languages.

The school is also home to witches and sages who want to become official translators. Hordes of refugee children and teenagers also want to learn Indonesian together. This is much better than sending them to Indonesia directly.

In addition, the Expeditionary Force soldiers voluntarily became teachers. Some of them also need to learn the language of this world, of course there is no compulsion in this. Several representatives from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs became students at the school.

Living abroad turned out to give the dues of the representatives of the Kingdom of Arevelk in this school, members of the Barisan Roses are also women. Being confined in a small space puts them under stress. Therefore, providing sufficient facilities is an important task. In addition, the government people also cannot stay in the barracks that are always noisy with the soldiers who are practicing or whatever.

Therefore, the government made a decision “Rather than making a small semi-permanent building, we will send a budget to make a larger permanent building. The budget includes funding for the Expeditionary Force mission development.”

In addition to digging wells and building water storage, the TNI must create good waterways and build water purification facilities. For water purification resources, solar power panels are installed. Through this development, life in the refugee camp slowly resembles the life of a village in Indonesia.

Indonesian products began to be imported into this world, which means opening jobs for refugees. It would be impractical if to buy supplies had to be to a distant city. So, ‘minimarket’ was established which contains products made in the country of origin of green troops.

Refugees can also sell anything in this minimarket, including weapons crafts. Armaments can be a great souvenir for Expeditionary Force soldiers who get leave rations.

Of course, to run this minimarket is left to teenage refugees.

As it turned out, the establishment of minimarket invited the kings of the subordinate territory of the new country, and its nobles. Since the borders of the new country with the Kingdom of Arevelk had been opened, then access for the Royal nobility became easy. Almost all products sold in minimarkets are foreign goods, which of course is very attractive to the people of this continent.

Nobles who learned the language also visited the minimarket. The Expeditionary Force soldiers were more interested in the weapons sold, as well as local souvenirs.

But, if sales increase, there are not enough people to help in the import activities of selling products.

In other worlds, work is earned through connections. Since there is no labor center, therefore, all they can do is get the word out to people that help is needed.

But, the problem is, the labor is mostly from among women who used to work as servants of the nobility. It makes the appearance of ‘the satan’ cycle, where the existence of female workers makes single male soldiers become attracted to them.

The scales from the wyvern carcasses and dragons killed in previous wars, made the stock of flying lizard scales drastically increase. Merchants from all corners of the new Kingdom and country visited the Holy Land, and were attracted by the scales of the flying lizards.

The traders began to be interested in products imported from Indonesia. For example Paper, ballpoint pens, cloth, traders scrambling to get the items. If the supply of goods is starting to thin, and demand is getting more and more, then the auction is the last resort. Surprisingly, there was a Royal nobleman who easily traded 100 pure gold coins for 1 ream of ordinary HVS paper.

Nio, who is in charge of the security of the refugees, has been given an additional duty which has made his salary increase by 200 thousand rupiah. This young man sighed as he filled out the list of orders for goods given by minimarket workers. Then, he would send her a wholesale company. Once the buying process is complete, they will import the goods, and once the imported goods come in, they will sell them, then this cycle will repeat endlessly.

While doing this additional work, Nio realized that economic activity had grown rapidly.

Where there is profit, there are traders. But, their presence that was too much made a fret. And of course, there are types of cunning traders in economic history. To guard them, the rover squad is forced to work in turns.

There was one more problem actually, but this problem was not a problem for the Expeditionary Force. The need for alcohol or beer. Because the law in Indonesia restricts the circulation of alcohol, but it is also impossible they bring pure alcohol to drink the people of this continent.

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There were about 20,000 troops of the Kingdom of Hrabro who were about to storm the Expeditionary Force fortress. However, upon hearing the sound of artillery training exploding, their commanders ordered to return to their respective homes rather than be hit by the massive explosion.

Let's forget that failed ambush, and let's move on to the new cafeteria that's been built. It should have been a canteen for soldiers, but its large size made it more like a tavern.

“Bos Nio, special table for you is ready!”

The one who spoke earlier was a big man, much bigger and taller than Nio who had a height of 178.8 centimeters. He used to be an Imperial soldier, and decided to defect so that his life was calm and there was no need to face his brutal green army.

He had previously challenged Nio to a fight, just by chance encountering Nio who was peeing under a tree. But, after accidentally seeing the unreasonable size of his anus, then the man lost his confidence and considered Nio as his boss.

“Alright, thanks!”

The special table was the place used by the Expeditionary Force officers, nobles, government representatives and knights that Sheyn had sent. But, since Nio gained a special place in the hearts of the refugees, he was allowed to use this special table.

Just as he had just a few seconds put his butt on the chair, dozens of girls dressed in armor approached him. They rained down on Nio with hundreds of questions regarding his relationship with women and that sort of thing.

The cruiser squad 1 is part of the army that will be sent to the new country palace. They will monitor the state of the ambassador there, and attend the inauguration of the name of the new country.

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Funfact#4: 27 cm x 6 cm, and can still be bigger....