"Looking at the recommendation I sent to the Regional Council, you came all the way here."
One way, after you showed me around the mansion. Jude said the real thing with a refreshing grin as she sat across the street. The tone was casual, as if talking about the weather.
Alicia and the others were in a sunny talking room like opening a salon or something. Outside the large windows that take in the sun's rays, the streets of Held, where traders live, and the blue horizon they see for the first time.
Alicia, who was blinded by the view, snorted in a hurry, after a moment of neatness.
"Oh. Uh, yeah. Yeah."
She really coughed up and Alicia stretched her spine. If I don't hold on, my paced young lord will touch me.
"The first thing I saw in your proposal was Clovis here."
"Heh. But that's after it was rejected by the Regional Council, right?
Glad to see his teeth, Jude turned his gaze to Clovis.
"Maybe you, too, aren't you told you're changing?
"As time"
Sir Jude's brow drops once again to Clovis, who answers vaguely and unambiguously. Clovis, on the other hand, slightly embarked on himself as if trying to regain the lead of the conversation here.
"What interests me is why Lord Nicole suggested that we create a Chamber of Commerce specializing in distribution."
"Go ahead, I'm talking about Jude. Can I call you Clovis, too?
Only nodded at Jude, who wouldn't break the pace, before the aide continued ahead.
"Artisanal industries, - the hardware, textiles, and other crafts that currently thrive in Heilland, still lose the competition with foreign countries. You said so in your recommendation."
"I'm glad. My proposal was always taken down by the local council, and I didn't have to give it a chance to read it properly."
With a bright exclamation, Jude let her green eyes shine.
"I wrote it. You think so too, don't you?
"Wait. I want you to tell me why you thought that first."
Alicia accidentally pinched her mouth.
Jude asked Clovis to explain what he wrote in the recommendation in advance, of course, and Alicia grasped it. One of the most difficult things to throw away is the part where "domestic industries will become obsolete in the future".
Craftsman industry, as he refers to it, was a craftsman who has been handed down from generation to generation, with whom Alicia deepened her interaction during a recent visit to the castle town. At the time of the nappy inspection, as for her, who was shown the elaborate moves up close, it was an incredible story.
Jude then tilted his neck properly.
"Because. If you're talking to the merchants entering and leaving the harbor, you'll have an easy prediction. And, oh, yeah. The princess doesn't get that chance, does she?"
Not at all disgusted, Jude scratched his cheek saying it was gone. Apparently, he was blind for a moment to the fact that the person he was talking to was not a merchant or a local official, but a princess and her squire from the King's Capital.
Clovis helps out to the lord who seems to be worried about it.
"We hear that the products coming in from across the ocean have been of good quality on each stage in the last decade or so. Is that impact?
"Yeah, that's it! Besides, according to merchants in and out of various countries, there are more stretches in other countries."
Looking at the aide as relieved, Jude continued ahead.
In Heilland, where Alicia and the others live, artisan culture has developed from an early stage in history. This is due to the serious and solid popular temperament and the fact that many people chose artisanal industries as their livelihoods, where farming was difficult to develop in harsh natural environments.
So for a long time, handicrafts made in Heilland have been traded at high prices, supporting the tax system of lords with their own craftsmen.
"But, not to mention, we have only been successful so far, and our country's production and sales system has not evolved for hundreds of years. What is this, but it smells really old"
"In other words, one chamber at a time is small and the amount of work that can be ordered is limited"
"That sort of thing"
Jude flattened her fingers and smiled at the aide.
"Across the ocean, on the other hand, they say they can catch up with and overtake Heilland, so the lords and countries are entering and selling their own industries for a long time. Aardar is a good example. There's a giant chamber of commerce with the Empress's permission to sell anything."
Like a long time ago, if products made in Heilland were of good quality out of the group, they could still win. Rather, limited production also increased scarcity.
But now that technology in the peripheral countries has caught up with our country and produced goods that are not inferior in quality, Heilland is overwhelmingly disadvantaged. This is because, if of the same quality and price, other countries with a system in place to receive more jobs must grow in the future.
"And if you're talking to a merchant for a second, you'll soon find out. Yet nobles in this country only get along with each other, so I don't know that..."
Oh man, the young lord waving his head, apparently forgetting once again that the two people in front of him are nobles (and one of them is royal). The troubled Alicia could only nod vaguely.