Frontier Lord Starts Out With a Population of 0

--- Klaus at the Sekigo

As usual, Klaus was still in charge of building the Sekigaku.

A splendid wooden gate, a wooden stake bulwark extending from the gate to the left and right, a hut standing next to the gate, and a shed for questioning.

The wells and stables were also made into splendid objects covered with walls and roofs, and there were a sufficient number of horse stables, and dormitories to accommodate travellers were being built in a considerable way.

Although we are still relying on the yurt for accommodation, it is likely that we will not need it anymore... In order to make our castle that way that it is taking shape better, we will give instructions to the earning workers and artisans who came from the neighboring territory while rushing around from right to left with full of motivation as the driving force.

The craftsmen are good at building simple walls and houses, but they often don't know that they will build a military facility called Sekiguchi... Klaus, who has knowledge of the area, is detailed and sometimes ad hoc and gives instructions after considering the terrain around here... The craftsmen do not say irrational things, they are not high pressure, and they follow the words of the well-paid employer honestly.

On the side of such craftsmen, there are dog people at their feet, and the dog people are helping the craftsmen in their work by taking advantage of their small body and seriousness... The craftsmen have come to fully trust the dog people who work well in the days until today... Such things as well as the construction of the Sekisho were work in a peaceful atmosphere.

Klaus walks all the way around the scene and gives instructions as he climbs the freshly finished ladder... then looks around to see if there are any problems with the work.

Looking to the right, looking to the left, looking to the other side of the gate... looking around like this, a part of the Dog Human family reacts to something and begins to snore with their ears raised... and Klaus immediately turns to the other side of the road... looking towards the realm of Mahathi.

There are very few humans who come all the way to this new arrival point.

Most of these very few people are familiar with their faces or their bodies... and there has never been a visitor like them.

Still, it's important to be aware that someone has arrived... It's the Neighboring Territories that should be aware of it, and Klaus, who is narrow-minded to look further away, is raising his guard... A group of carriages, thought to be pedestrians, are coming from across the makeshift road that the cobblestones are about to reach this far.

"... a merchant, a merchant, from the feeling of a carriage."

Four escorts, two horses... one of them... I wonder if there's anyone in the carriage.

... I wonder what you've come to do now at such a scale. "

Klaus muttered to himself that he might have been frankly glad if he had just arrived here, but now that Ellie and the others have started the pedestrian business, I don't say it's useless at all, but there's not that much demand... and Klaus is bothered by how to deal with it while looking at a group of that size.

(If you're just a merchant, I'd like to welcome you... but it's possible that you're not...

The quality of that bodyguard... it's just as bad as a dick, because I can see the training and the equipment.

... if it's okay to let those people into our territory...)

This time, she muttered such a thing inside herself, instead of her mouth, and stared at the group again... and continued to bother her head. This time, the dog humans shook their tails inside the gate... Irku Village began to focus on it, and you could hear the sound of horses' hooves kicking down the dirt road.

As a result, Klaus turned his attention to you... there were Senai and Aihan figures across Aima, and visitors on horseback in pursuit of Senai and Isa and Eli... Klaus, who decided that you were likely to arrive sooner, ran down the hill and rushed over to see if anything had happened to you first.

--- Merchants in front of the Sekiguchi

A new territory was created next to the Mahathi Territory after the reorganization of the Kasdex Territory, which is the main commercial area of the Western Regions.

It seems that there are a lot of specialty products there, as well as a lot of materials of dragons that are often hunted... maybe there is a suitable opportunity.

When I heard that, I waved my beard and swollen belly, stroking my thinned hair and manipulating the reins... a hanging middle-aged merchant.

A merchant who had been robbed of a business opportunity by an organization and sank... by selling off the information he had gathered, the merchant thought that the axle was somehow pushing the carriage forward... and a more splendidly constructed seal entered his sight than he thought.

We have sealed off a thoroughly thick street and built a long wall beside it so that it would not be bypassed... There is a deep forest on both sides of the street, and even with a carriage like this, we can't avoid it.

(What the hell... you're going to have to go through that customs post.

If I let you take a bribe, you won't even be able to check the shipment... but it's going to be a hassle.

I've loaded some contraband that I might be able to sell on the frontier... but the amount of the bribe could make me a deficit)

The merchant muttered such a thing in his chest, slowing down the carriage slowly... and stopping the carriage in front of the Sekigo creates a clinging smile.

As the merchant waited for the arrival of the Sekigaku lord... the Sekigaku gate slowly pulled open and three humans came from behind.

One of them must be a soldier... wearing armor I've never seen before, and carrying a spear I've never seen again.

One is a man dressed as a merchant or a traveler... the other is a woman.

It is unlikely that the master of the Sekiguchi is a woman, but for some reason the woman stands in the middle... The woman, soldiers and men like travelers frequently exchange words.

What the hell are you talking about? For a while, the words kept exchanging... The merchant who was silent for a while and continued to make a smile troubled his head, and the woman who had stepped up to us before said something with a cold smile on her face.

"Welcome to Me 'Abadal Territory. I would appreciate it if you could come all the way to this periphery."

Unfortunately, the merchants and our guilds manage the sale and purchase in Ma 'abadal territory... I'm sorry, but I can't let the unaffiliated pedestrians through.

That said, even though you've come this far, it's a pity that you're leaving like this... how about we do business with everyone involved in the construction of this customs post here?

In that form, we won't say anything in detail either..... "

Guild of Imperial Merchants.

When I heard such words, the merchant's face turned blue... and immediately dyed red with anger.

The merchant... I was surprised to see such a thing on the periphery, but I don't have to complain because it's usually there.

But the guilds... the guilds that fallen themselves can't shut up when they hear they're involved.

The guild... the strange group that appeared suddenly began to do business in a place called the countryside, where there were few inhabitants and few business opportunities.

A free class on simple reading, writing and computing was held so that I could make rules according to the stupid subject such as accounting in Akaro and understand the rules, and so that I could firmly buy and sell.... I wanted to root out business to those who do not know business.

When they created a commercial zone where the rules they had created would be applied and respected...... they forced the other traders to impose the rules halfway...... if they did not abide by the rules, they would be relentlessly excluded from the commercial zone.

Nothing is more powerful than being able to impose our own rules, which we have made in business.

It is troublesome to say that there is a beautiful subject that customers seem to be happy about, such as not letting customers lose money and not cheating them.

The merchants like myself who didn't realize the trouble immediately turned to the backhand... when they noticed the trouble, it was too late for everything... The guild that had made a big sale by spreading the commercial zone obtained a connection with the royal family by donating a part of it to the royal castle in the form of war expenses... and spread the rules throughout the kingdom against the backdrop of that connection.

Moreover, I taught reading and writing mathematics to the unlearned all over the place... to those who were the most deceitful ducks... thanks to which our business rose.

I tried to convince you that sending bribes to lords around the world to teach civilians is a risk of rebellion, but all the guilds taught me was that it was really simple... at the beginning of reading, writing, and math.

To that extent, it was not considered that it would not lead to rebellion, but on the contrary, they used their connections with the royal family and more bribes than they did, and they took the lords of various places as allies... so they fell.

I can't forgive you... I can't forgive you for putting yourself ahead in the world of commerce.

...... the merchant's face turns red when he thinks about it, but that doesn't mean that he can do anything, or that he can say anything in this situation... so he just regains his coolness and loses even if he runs away like this. As I told them, at least do business here to avoid deficits, and stick a smile on his face again,

"If so, please say so in one form."

And somehow I squeezed out those words.

Then, the woman in front of me turned a cold smile towards the merchant, as I saw it somewhere... and I didn't want to recall it... anywhere before.