It's a little gamey but it allows you to stack up to 20 merchants on the same slot by placing them in the fort. Even less pressing concerns like Spanish and Milanese expansions will soon become a royal headache for the monarchy if France does not establish solid fronts to the south.Well the obvious answer would be don't make so many troops but there are also merchants, a merchant on silk down by Byzantium can bring in 1k a turn each if they've got some points which they gain quickly if they stand down there and hold monopoly on silk, one thing you can do is bring a general down there and build a fort on top of the silk patch and place a mercenary in the fort after your general has made it to prevent anyone from taking it. exercising a little authority over these lands looks like an essential move for the French if they're to have any hope of creating a power base that can stave off the might of the Holy Roman Empire to the east. Other provinces such as Aquitaine, Burgundy, Brittany and Flanders aren't quite so dangerously ambitious.
The Normans are clearly serving their own best interests, having recently taken England for themselves, it's hard to believe that they will be content to stop there. Frankly, the way things are now, the King isn't truly safe to wander a kingdom that is supposedly his.
This is not because of a great love for the city, but rather because the surrounding lands are under the shadow of bastions owned by "Robber Barons" that serve their own interests. The Ile de France may be where the monarchy resides, but the royal family rarely leave Paris.
About the only thing the French lack at this point is a sense of unity. The French lords eagerly embrace the system that splits the country up into smaller provinces, duchies and fiefdoms, actively building up their forces to ensure their own security and power. France is a shining example of feudalism in its rawest, and arguably, most delicate form.
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