I made myself a King

I was spoilt as a child got everything I wanted, why not we were wealthy. But my spoilt ways ended when I was sent to military school, I had pissed off my father once too often. Anyway, it was what I needed to make me a better person, instead of being a "I" person. I became a normal person, I could and did do things for myself. I also found I couldn't stand the people I use to hang with before going away to school. I, done well at university and all in the family company. My mother still tried to spoil me as she always had done, I got on better with my father. My mother only had me due to health (heart) problems that took her from me. She went to bed and never awoke; my father was 11 years older than her again and passed away 5 years later. I was 32 at the time and now I inherited everything, I was approached with a buyout offer and I accepted it. At the time I had an idea of starting my own business from scratch, but by the time everything was settled and signed. I had lost interest in the business I intended to start, instead I thought I would at first find a wife and start a family and just invest. So, I started looking for a wife and every woman I knew didn't interest me and I started travelling around. I like going off the beaten track away from the tourist spots. It was while travelling in a somewhat backward place, that I met the woman I married. The place had everything the modern world had to offer, but the locals were too poor to get the most out of it. Neither were they stupid, but there wasn't much for them in the area. The young had to leave to go to the city to get work, the woman I married was young beautiful and had to stay and help her mother and grandmothers. I tried getting her to out with me and failed, they already had enough problems without her getting pregnant to some stranger. So, I decided to improve the area using my money and I had a big house built, much bigger than I needed. But if I was able wed her, I would be responsible for her family as well. I bought up land in the area and started a farming business, growing different things and selling some to the cities and value adding the rest in a factory. This done 2 things allowed me to wed my wife as I wasn't a fly by night man anymore and had made myself the boss of the whole area. There was no local government and not much in the way of government services either. It was a 3-hour drive to see a doctor or go to a hospital and the police rarely made an appearance. Everyone was poor and there was nothing to steal, building a factory meant building homes for the workers and I almost owned everything. Improving the lives of my people as I started calling them, any problems I was asked to mediate. I built a small clinic and got a doctor and his wife (nurse) to move and run the clinic. No charge for the locals as I paid for everything, including improving the road access to area. My son was the first child born in the clinic, as the population grew so did the clinic with extra staff and it turned into a small hospital with a helipad on the roof. There's only so much you can do locally. Not every person who came worked for me, the government built a police station and a government office. But the factory has a fire brigade, ambulance and school attached which serves the area. I find it easier to run my hospital as a free non-profit business, it gives me great tax breaks. The government doesn't have to provide medical services. Anyway I've 5 children now and wife's grandmothers have passed on, I'm called mbret by the locals and at first, I thought it meant boss. My wife never corrected me, only later did I find over it means king. As far as the government is concerned, I'm the local owner or the mayor. I hold court to settle disputes and I'm invited to every wedding and the patron of the local church. The priest told me I was sent to save the people, I'm now 53 and my oldest is at university. I don't have to worry about the people as they have a better life now and their children have a future.