Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

We have finally reached the Empire.

That said, it is in one of the four cities defending the imperial capital.

On my way here, I've seen some villages but they were terrible. Many villages are almost like ruins.

What Bel Elsier refugees said seemed true. Everyone is giving up on living and abandoning their homeland.

"Is this the right amount of disguise?"

I wore earlobes and dyed my hair black. The empire now recognises the elves completely as enemies. You should avoid avoidable sparks.

The empire is also surrounded by walls on all sides, and gatekeepers exist.

He seemed to be more alert than usual, and some of them were about to pay the front door.

It's probably impossible for me to get through here without any ID.

Turn off the signs, carefully, and go around the back.

"[Perceptual Extension]"

Connect your awareness with the wind mana and gather all the information around 300 meters.

"Okay, I can fly now"

No one recognizes me right now.

Jump vertically with all your strength, and…

"[Sudden wind]"

It calls for a gust of wind, puts your body on the wind, and jumps up high at once.

And jump over the walls and break into the Empire City. [Perceptual dilation] confirms that no one is behind the walls beforehand.

I let the wind blow again just before landing to avoid hurting my leg to mitigate the impact.

"Well, let's take a look inside the Empire"

So I could break into the capital.

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"That's terrible."

The city was miserable.

The store is mostly closed, filthy and full of women who sell themselves.

That's what I said when I find a gentleman who looks a little feathery. Huddles up.

I'm lucky I haven't been blindfolded when I'm putting my blurry coat together.

"I need to tummy"

Snuff as you rub your belly.

My stomach is screaming because I ran a long time before I got here.

Look for a handful of open stores and get inside.

Then I'm surprised to see the product inside. The number of items is low and the condition is not good.

I have no choice but to take one apple and give it to the owner.

"Hey, you must have some money with your brother, right?

"Naturally. I want this apple. How much?"

"One silver coin"

I'm surprised at the high price.

If you offer a piece of silver in Erin, you can buy six miserable apples.

Normally, I suspect it's been bogged down, but given the city's situation, it's quite food distress, and I can predict that this price would be reasonable. I took the silver coin out of my purse because I couldn't replace my belly on my back.

"No, customer. I can't use this coin."

"What?"

"You don't know? Only new coins can be used in the present empire. I can't use the coins I've had."

"Since when?

"Since you touched me two months ago. Turn the old coin into the new coin of the Empire. A month from now, you're banning trading in old coins."

"Until I bothered to throw away a common coin that could be used in a large number of countries...... what the hell are you going to do?

Today's gold coins were once made in a time when the countries of this continent were united and can be used in numerous countries, including the Empire and Erin. The convenience is immeasurable.

No one can be happy with a coin that can only be used in the Empire.

"If you can't use a coin, you can't help it. I'm sorry. I'll be back."

"Wait, brother. The state is still accepting coin exchanges, so this time I'm going to sell it to you. But five copper coins for the commission."

"... let's pay that amount. Here."

I reluctantly took out the copper coins and handed them over and bought poor quality apples for more than six times the usual amount.

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Walk through the city scratching a sleepy apple, aiming at a cash changer.

If you can't use your coins in the city, there's always a cash exchange somewhere. Otherwise, the merchants from the outside can't shop, and the imperial merchants have trouble when they go outside.

After walking for a while, I found my intended place, so I go inside and pay a commission for a few gold coins and a few silver coins in exchange for an imperial coin.

"I knew it."

I know the moment I hold the gold coin in my hand.

I am adding more mixtures.

Until now, gold has a gold ratio of about 90.5%, but this is only used about 70% of the time. And then there's the cheap metal.

"Do you want to do that?"

In fact, if all gold coins can be recovered and exchanged, the holdings of gold coins will increase by about 30%. There will be more money on the look of it, but this stuff doesn't work in other countries.

"And, brother"

My lady husband at the money exchange tried to leave the store. Call me off.

"There are some deals like this. If you're old gold, you can buy six of these Imperial notes in five."

My mistress put out six pieces of paper.

The text says the Empire guarantees the value of a single piece of gold coin. Furthermore, after a year, I am free to exchange gold coins.

"Well, I'll get six. Wow. I can't believe you got one gold coin in just one year."

"Don't you think? It's boring. There's no such thing as a good story. Buy more. A lot of people do business on this paper now that they're in the empire. We can put it back in gold in a year. You don't even have to bother carrying heavy gold coins."

"I'll keep you out of this."

I say no with ease.

I just wanted it for research and I don't think I can make money from this.

In the first place, in relation to the gold content, the deed, which is said to be worth six gold coins, is also already less than the value of five gold coins at the moment. It is more likely that the gold content will drop now than ever when it is refunded in gold coins.

Finally, in the long run, it's a contract that always loses money.

... Still, from the Empire, you can get a lot of gold temporarily, and when you convert it, you can get it if you lower the gold content. This is no longer the same as a kind of tax increase.

"Is this Imperial Note and They Sold?

"Of course, it sells to fly. Hurry up and buy your brother or he'll be gone."

"I'm fine. We don't cross dangerous bridges."

I walked away from the money exchange feeling bitter.

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Since then I've been strolling around the city for a while.

I'm not as lively as a joke.

I know why. Residents employed by merchants lose their jobs more than they are thoroughly squeezing away from merchants. If you lose your job, you have no money.

Without money, the economy would not turn.

Hearing this rumor, there will be fewer merchants coming in from the outside, and even if they come in unknowingly, the deal leaves with a minimal indication of the difficulty in exchanging coins.

Without something from the outside, we would have to make our own food, but while we are depleting ourselves in repeated wars, people are starting to flee the countryside with tax increases and production itself is falling.

I don't know how to rebuild myself from here. I can only assume that you are deliberately trying to crush this city.

I feel scared instead without knowing what the purpose is.

"Come on, we're recruiting soldiers! Do a quick exam today, hope follow me!!

Soldiers appear, and when they raise their voices, the inhabitants of the town follow behind them.

People in jobs line up to recruit soldiers to get daily food.

An unusual line of wondering if most guys in this town are following.

I don't care how you look at it, the merchants, the men with the luxury meat, they keep following me.

I know you need soldiers. But if you only collect soldiers and you don't have food...

"No way, is that what you mean?

I run away with magic to confirm my flickering.

What we aim for is the gate opposite the one that came in.

The Empire is made up of an imperial capital and a quadripartite city founded to defend it.

Therefore, what comes from the imperial capital, which comes from the opposite side of the Elsier side, prevails.

So what I saw...

"Again?"

A large quantity of food was being carried on the carriage.

I mean, the Empire...

"Are you going to dispose of this town and wage the biggest war"

I'm convinced of everything.

There are four other cities in the Empire besides the Empire. Paradoxically speaking, the other four can be crushed as long as the Empire is safe.

Here's the sequence of this empire.

Thoroughly, squeeze gold from the inhabitants of the Elsier side of the city. The prominent big merchant collects taxes directly, and in addition to raising taxes from the general public, he collects gold coins in his possession after saying he switches coins and lets them exchange them for bad ones.

Furthermore, even the slightest remaining gold coins are recovered by spreading fraud-like banknotes on the condition that they are exchanged for old coins.

Naturally, the economy is a mess, unable to buy or produce what it eats.

Therefore, we have no choice but to devour the recruitment of soldiers that the state does. I volunteer myself if people who show difficulty in conscription and other colors are to live, and I can stand any terrible training if I stop soldiering and starve to death.

And food that eats soldiers is gold coins wound up from residents and bought from another city within the Empire.

Cities other than the Elsier side would be happy to sell them because if they were purchased from other towns and sold to the Empire city on the Elsier side.

"Does this increase the number of soldiers in the short term, while also securing food?"

Cold sweat flowed.

Too inhumane. It's not a decent nerve to cut off the future and put it in just one fight.

"Hmm, that face, I knew I'd notice. I thought I'd notice one day, but I guess it's a little surprising that it's the first day.

My thoughts are blocked by the girl's words.

"Welcome to the Empire. You're welcome, Elsier. Do I need to introduce myself? I'm sure you know me very well."

"For once, please. I've never had one with you. Nice to meet you, Ashno."

When I said that, the beautiful High Elf girl by the time she was abiotic, her jade eyes glowed and laughed.