Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

Asur, the blue-haired lady, said that the final negotiation would take place.

This card in the negotiations is iron technology donation. The other card is a right to customs and commerce. If this doesn't fold, Bel Elsier's food security will be very tight, and we need to reduce hemp harvest.

It is also difficult to go into the exercise of force if the obedience to Asur really possesses the strength of a brave man.

At a time when Erin and I have become hostile, I arrive in Elsier when I am not here. Elsier will perish only if that condition is fulfilled.

I can't stay away from Elsier with vigilance. That's very bad. Since there are no good people to entrust to external negotiations, Elsier will no longer be able to hope for any further development.

"Mr. Cyril, before we negotiate, I'd like you to show me Elsier, if you don't mind?

I asked for guidance yesterday from acting village chief, but I could hardly answer the questions I asked him, so I'd love to hear from you. "

I was on my own thinking, and the blue-haired lady, Asur's voice, called me back to this side.

"Nothing, I don't mind. I don't know what to do if I can answer."

"First, I want you to show me the bow training area."

"Shall we go now?"

As requested, guide Asur and Jiji to the shooting range he uses in cross-bow training. There, tree targets with imperial iron helmets are available 20m, 50m, 100m and 200m away.

"You're a long way from home."

"Elves are talented with bows, so now they're almost all 100 meters away. Nearly 30% of them can be targeted 200 meters away."

Non-Iraqsa members also continue their three-day morning training all the time. Fighting is number. We need to increase the number that we can fight at all.

"You're unbelievable. If it's a regular bow, just fly 100 meters and you'll get the best you can for 50 meters. Do you want a bow? Or arms?"

"That's both of them. Do you have any experience with bows?

"I don't."

"Then why don't we try and shoot him?

That's what I said, take out the crossbow. I was asking my men to bring it to me when she said she wanted to see the firing range.

This is an improved version that I recently started to make, which improves on the fact that string tension was too strong to pull. It is as powerful and easy to use as possible after securing the minimum power to penetrate the armor of the Empire.

"I can't. A bow is something that normally takes years to use."

"If it's a normal bow, so be it."

The bow looks simple but is a very difficult weapon to use. How to connect, how to pull, when to let it go, no matter where it goes wrong, it doesn't fly properly. As the lady said, it takes years to raise a recruit to be an archer.

"But this bow, a crossbow, just plays the trigger."

I pushed the crossbow to the ground and pulled the string with both hands and set the arrow.

"Look, set it up and point it at me. It's the nearest 20 meters away."

When I say so, the lady turns to the crossbow, roughly as she said.

"All you have to do is put your finger on it, right? Play that trigger."

"Wow, okay."

And the lady played the trigger and let go of the arrow. It went off target at all costs, but flew pretty close.

"Hey, twitch, I can shoot you, I can shoot you in the bow"

"The lady is a genius. I can't believe I started using my bow and it's going to be like that in three minutes, so let's make sure Erin's soldiers can all shoot in three minutes or we'll get a pay cut. It's a disgrace that the battle pros are less than the ladies who are flirting in front of their desks. And turn the floating money to my salary."

"Oh, come on, it's the last thing that's real."

"I'm sorry for this."

"I'm surprised. You're a lot easier to shoot. Can we start from where we set the arrows next? I know how to do it because I've been watching."

"Be my guest."

The lady repeated the motion of having fun setting and releasing arrows on the crossbow.

And at the end of the day, it makes me laugh more deeply when I see an arrow pierced by hitting my helmet.

"This is good. The number of people is directly linked to the power of the war. It would be amazing if Erin, who has more people than the Empire, ran it."

"I didn't think I'd be able to put my eyes there first,"

What the lady said was the benefits of the original crossbow.

"Naturally. A crossbow can tailor anyone to a soldier who can easily kill people if they train for a day. Citizens of the city will be archers in no time. With a regular bow, it takes years to educate and refills don't work, but you can make as many changes as you want, and more and more.

All you have to do is bring this to the recruits and line them up in a row and fire them in unison, destroying the imperial soldiers of the war in iron armor. I just imagined it, I'm going to tremble. I want it. "

"I know how that feels, but I don't think you can,"

"Why not? If we can get the iron making technology, we can make it, right?

"Getting good iron and being able to process it is another dimensional story. If it's Erin's craftsmanship, that's right. Did I just say thirty years away that this level of machining can be done?

In addition to that, the metal in the plate spring is not iron, but an alloy to make shiatsu, and the yarn that withstands this overwhelming tension is carbon fiber formed from carbon.

I don't think I can make either of them with Erin. That's why I can safely expose my iron technology.

"Then how do you say you made this bow?"

"We use witchcraft for processing. The iron part can be replaced by industrial technology, but from there on, we need magic."

I honestly said it because I can't help lying here. And that means no one can make it but me.

When processing using soil magic, it is basically as difficult to process as those with higher masses, when it comes to iron or so, it is impossible without the Gnome, which possesses the demonic stones of soil, and the aptitude of Dwarf class soil magic, which does not exist in today's world.

Gnome is a species that doesn't come out in public as much as it is suspected to be real, nor is it a very smart species. It is not realistic to need to be highly educated after finding a nome that is said to be illusory.

"Jitsu."

"Ma'am, Mr. Cyril is not lying."

"Yes...... ok. But you really want this. It's just that you're gonna get a pretty good arrow. How can an elf be guessed at a distance?

Asur had no indication that the target 20 m away would hit him once every few rounds, but not 50 m away at all.

"Elves have the magic of the wind. I'm not affected by the wind resistance.

Crossbows take less inertia for shorter arrows than regular bows, and only smaller arrow feathers can be worn, which makes them less straightforward and more susceptible to wind, making long-range sniping in crossbows a craftsmanship you can't do other than elves. "

Well, it's a minor problem.

Asur fires a crossbow at 45 ° and flies an arrow into the mountains. The arrow pierced the ground with ballistics shifting under the influence of the wind but still being powerful enough: 300 m is flying.

"Anyone can fly as far away as it is powerful. That's enough. Unlike elves, we don't care because it's a barrage operation. If Mr. Cyril had the ingredients, how many could he make a day?

"In a day, right. Is twenty the limit?

"Why don't you let me buy 400 a month on a one-year contract? I'll give you five pieces of gold. Prepare the ingredients here. Twenty-four thousand pieces of gold a year, that's not a bad deal."

"Ma'am, can I give you that kind of money?!?

"Fine. Compared to the cost of raising a person for a few years, five pieces of gold (300,000 yen) are trivial."

My grin spilled on my judgment too masculine.

It would certainly be overwhelmingly costly given the cost of raising a soldier.

"In the first place, Setouchi will no longer have the money to spend, so I'm not going to answer anything here."

"Of course, but if you could sell this, I wouldn't shut down the deal."

"Really, I get it. I refuse to sell crossbows"

I said no instantly.

The crossbow I made is too dangerous. The elf can deviate from the arrow by the wind if it is at a distance, but not by the elf wind magic because of its overwhelming first speed if the arrow is released at a distance of less than 20 m in a crossbow.

Plus this is highly ambush because unlike normal arrows, you can move around with arrows set.

It is good to make degraded products with the idea that Erin obtained iron today. Anything that can be raised in that way falls out of step in power and precision. But it's unlikely I'll give you the same one I made in Elsier.

"I thought you were willing to sell me this."

"This bill is only iron, so I just showed it to you in an attempt to make you recognize its value. Even if we can't make the same thing, I think we can make something inferior."

"I'm sorry to hear that. But I'm gonna get this idea."

"Yeah, go ahead."

The lady's demand for iron seems to have increased more.

"I'm against introducing this stuff to Erin."

But the twitch laid in there.

"Well, what do you mean?

"This bow kills too many people. The war that's been going on doesn't kill so many people, but even the arrows don't really penetrate the armor until the sun goes down."

What you're saying makes sense.

War in this era doesn't kill many people. The tip of the arrows is mostly copper or stone, because the iron equipment is only decent to the empire, and so do not penetrate copper or thick leather armor, nor do those who fight with swords inflict fatal wounds on each other.

If you do poorly, you can't possibly have finished your day while you have swords with the same opponent all day.

"But when this crossbow comes out, I'll make a difference. Everyone pierces their gear right now. Shoot and you'll die. Hundreds in a flash. Hundreds of times as many people die in a single war. The point of waging war is much, much heavier. Nothing like this should be on the battlefield."

In a way, wars between countries with national power are like sports. When the battle is over, there will be casualties, but not so many. Set deadlines and locations and hit each other to the full extent possible to negotiate the exchange of rights and security deposits as a result.

Losing doesn't reduce the number of people, so you can go to war right away, and the power of the state doesn't fall so much.

But if the crossbow comes out, as Jiri says, there's no room for that. In an instant, people will die easily and the country will suffer enough damage to tilt in the war.

"Shit, I know that. But Crossbow is already in the world. The worst part is that weapons that can easily kill people come out first besides Erin. Now, if you go to war with a country that has thousands of crossbows, Erin will surely perish."

"... lady, I imitated past you"

I bowed my head to the lady. Neither of us has said anything wrong.

"So shall we leave this about it here? Do you still have something you want to see?

"Can you show me the glasshouse?

In the end, he was led to the glasshouse and the carriage, where he listened to the root dust leaf dust.

Seems to have a lot of interest in glasshouses in particular. I know how it feels because a stable food supply, regardless of the weather, is still one of my admirations as a ruler.

The glasshouse here showed quite a bit of eating when I told him I had a track record of growing potatoes all year round.

And a carriage. I pulled the carriage I made on the horse the lady brought and ran, but this one seems to have impressed me. Because the weight is half conventional and the impact absorption capacity is excellent with plastic wheels, the speed and bad path treading force are raised and comfortable to ride.

If you are also the head of Erin, you will want a carriage that performs well because it offers more opportunities for carriage travel.

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"Today, thank you for asking me what I can't do. I've learned a lot."

They are gathering again in the conference room of the village chief's house. Perhaps this will be the last meeting.

Elsier called Klao, Lucier, and Ku besides me. As always, Erin is with Asur.

"With regard to the proposal I received yesterday, if I could get the iron method and the workshop drawings, I would not suspend the business, plus allow a consulate that could treat it as a store. Prepare a suitable location for it.

But we can't just allow tariffs. The only limit that can be compromised is to limit the timing of tariff changes to a few years at a time so that you can be informed in advance. I'll keep you free of customs duties for a year on the service. "

It's the way I expected it.

It would be quite appreciated if the timing of the tariffs were merely once every few years. Even if they can set up an obstruction of commerce through tariffs, there can be a considerable respite in time. Until then, it is possible to make a profit.

If it had remained so, early and late maple syrup would have been subject to high tariffs, which would have greatly reduced Elsier's profits. Whatever, it's a luxury item that can be sold in a single gold coin. That's weirder being treated with the same tariffs as cheap liquor.

"Then let's just say we didn't have this story."

But I'll push it only with strength. To that end, he showed off his iron charm.

"I'm not going to end up on these terms either. As for Erin, in addition to the iron process and the workshop drawings, I'm going to ask for a Elsier carriage and three crossbows."

It's within our expectations. It's easy to imitate if you have an example. I understand exactly what you want. But...

"Are you insane? I can't believe you're saying no on current terms, but you're making more demands."

"It's sane. I'll give you more than just an extra request. You Elsiers are what I want most."

Asur smiled confidently.

"If you can drink this condition, I promise you that as the last of me, Asur Fer Corine, and the royal family of Corine, the Kingdom of Corine will enter into friendship after officially recognizing the village of Elf as a country called Elsier, and will make that known to the neighbouring countries"

"Asur!"

He gets up and yells like a scream. For the first time, he called himself Asur, not the lady.

"Well, that's as much power as I have left."

"I can do it!? But if you do that!

"I know. But it's the investment I need for Erin."

"... I won't stop you if you're ready"

"Thank you. It's gonna bother you, too."

Erin's two sides talk to each other with their eyes.

In the meantime, I was indulging in the meaning of Asur's unleashed words. Recognized by the Kingdom of Corinne as an official country.

This is of great significance. Elsier is still only insisting that it is a country on our own, and in fact it is only thought of as a village under the control of an empire that is rebelling.

A country is the first country to be recognized by another country.

The Kingdom of Corinne is a country of second highest rank to the Empire. Moreover, unlike the empire of human supremacy, friendship is also widely trusted because of the coexistence of numerous races.

I get such ink from the Kingdom of Corinne. You won't have this chance for the rest of your life.

But the problem is...

"Is that really possible? It's just like selling fights to empires, isn't it?

"I'll try. If you don't believe me, you can pay me later."

Voices and expressions full of Asur's confidence. I wanted to believe it.

"Okay. If you can give me so many terms, I have no reason to say no as Elsier. Let's go on that condition. However, the crossbow cannot be handed over until it has been officially notified by the Kingdom of Corinne. Let me give you the carriage today, on this occasion. I don't mind if you take the horse and ride it home."

"Thank you for the carriage. Now we can go home a day sooner than planned. … Now we have a contract."

Asur gets up and asks me to shake his hand, so I shake that hand back.

"Let's work together now for each other's prosperity"

And the provisional contract was completed.

By the end of the day, Erin will have made a contract and signed and sealed this agreement.

The conversation ended on this occasion with a decision on the details of the tariffs.

In addition, as soon as the budget and land were secured and the building began, I gave instructions for the iron mill to go out for about three days, and later, once a month for three days, by carrying out checks and education, the conversation came to a close.

"Oh, and twitch, bring me an example."

"Yes, I'm home"

I ran out of the room.

"Is there a continuation of the negotiations?

"No, I'm not. Proof of friendship, if you insist."

After about five minutes, the scratch returns. He was carrying his men, with large pots in each hand, and green plants were growing.

"No way, this is"

"That's right. Erin seemed very interested, so I made it ready. Let me send this as a sign of friendship."

I was trembling with so much joy.

Growing in that bowl were sage and thyme, and basil seedlings.

Everything can be cooked and medicated with highly effective herbs. Sage, for example, is the more user-friendly it gets the better of anything that goes into meat dishes for now.

"Are you sure you want it?

"Yeah, go ahead."

"No, I'm glad. I looked around Erin's market and found no seeds, not just seedlings."

I buy herbs every time I go to Erin, but they were all leaves dried.

I desperately searched for seeds and seedlings but dropped my shoulders without finding them every time.

But I can keep getting more and more of them from now on than I've got seedlings today, and most importantly, it's nice to be able to use raw fresh herbs for cooking.

"I failed. If you're that happy, you should have used it as a bargaining material."

"That way, sooner I might have compromised too"

Asur and I laugh face-to-face.

"That's a waste of time. And Mr. Cyril will give you a wedding, won't he?

"In the near future"

"Then I want you to invite me, too. As Erin's representative, I would like to attend the ceremony of Elsier's head"

"Pleasure."

Thus the long negotiations were concluded and friendship with Erin could be forged.

I was relieved to pull out some pretty attractive conditions for Elsier.