Golden Experience

Episode 383: Substantially Infinite

There used to be a country called the Shape Kingdom.

No, to be precise, there was somehow a larger country called the Empire a long time ago, but that old story doesn't matter to Claude.

Either way, neither country exists anymore.

The Berger Republic is here now.

Even if you dress up like that, the reality doesn't change.

The Republic of Bergler does exist in this land. In this place where King Shape's capital was.

But the territory is small. Former Shape King Capital is a little wider than its outer perimeter.

There is, of course, a reason for this.

Because it did not gain the support of the citizens of the former Shape Kingdom.

I learned in the update that something like NPC patriotism would be needed to build a nation. I knew in the first place that the players could really build a nation, but this was a big deal for Claude and the others.

There is no point in using the important NPC of Bogdan to start a new country unless it is recognized by anyone but ourselves.

In that regard, I hope that it will be guaranteed by the system.

But there was also a problem.

It is the criterion for determining the size of the country in the game, i.e. the total population of the country.

Apparently, this is judged to be like patriotism towards the country to be founded as mentioned above, and naturally, the specification assumes that the NPC is the national.

During the previous war, I was desperate and only thinking about fighting.

Even though the king died and the Shape kingdom virtually perished, there were still many powerful nobles left, and nobles who still had the power of war besides those who marched on the pair.

After the fog cleared up in the Wang capital, the Claudes sometimes defeated such nobles, sometimes threatened them, sometimes forgave them, and managed to control the Wang capital, but neither did Claude think that they had enough NPC support to build a proper nation.

So Claude and the others cut off their money, bought food in other countries, such as the Oral Kingdom, and tried to make it popular by distributing it free of charge to the people, mainly in King's City.

But no matter how much Claude used to earn in the dark, he didn't have enough money to do that in every city in the country. Nature and support were limited to the King's City and the surrounding urban areas.

In other regions, the Oral Kingdom began to provide food aid even though it did not ask for it, and the name value was not popular with the Oral Kingdom, and it could not be as effective as the gold coins used.

The food the Claudes collected to distribute also belonged to Oral, but what the hell is going on in that country that keeps all that food on the market while still having enough reserves to turn it around to other countries' aid?

Anyway, the result is only around King's Landing, a narrow territory of the Berger Republic.

However, that said, few players have built a country larger than a typical city.

The former King's capital of a country can be much wider than those cities, and even so, the Berger Republic is a powerful country with ten fingers on the continent.

"─ ─ No, usually five fingers. Oh, my God, ten of them."

Did you say something, Claude?

"Anything."

Answering James, Claude sat deeply on the couch.

I used to sit on the couch when I came to this castle.

When the nobles were enlisted and re-entered the castle, the atmosphere in this room was quite different from that of that time.

The room was vandalized as if it had been stolen, especially since all the books had been taken away by someone. The window in the office was also broken from the inside, and I wondered if someone who stole it had escaped from the window.

But this room is near the top floor of the castle. Even if I escape the window, I don't think I can get down to the surface safely from here without any tools.

The window that had been broken to think so was probably a bluff to mislead you into believing it was the crime of an outsider, in fact by an insider. Well, it doesn't matter.

It seems that there is something about the Shape Kingdom, such as Bogdan of the NPC, who was concerned about the whereabouts of books, but it is difficult to trace them if they were lost during the war. You won't be on the front stage anymore.

"Eh, I guess the only thing we should think about right now is ground-building. With food brought by all of the Gentiles, those in the Republic managed to breathe back, but this is only a temporary measure. I can't buy food forever or so.

There is also funding to make food supply dependent on other countries. There's no foreign currency, and, uh, some kind of industry is needed to get gold coins from abroad. "

Yes, Nanaka Tomizuko spoke.

This systematic head of the Bergler Republic is served by this man, Nanaka Tomizuko.

Claude and the others weren't such rats, and Tor refused. Hydeo was a bossy president and said he could handle the mask, but the other members weren't crazy enough to leave the head of state to Hydeo.

Originally, if Bogdan could not be the leader among Claude's group, he sometimes intended to throw a round at the vegetable rice production, which was decided by a majority vote.

The king is Bogdan, but the first president is a vegetable rice crop. No, Claude doesn't know if the King and the President are institutional. Will you be Prime Minister, Prime Minister or something? Well, it doesn't matter if you're not yourself.

"At first, I thought about using my skills and experience to farm, but there's a big country right next door that uses a lot of land and people to do large-scale farming. There's no way we can beat the competition, whether it's the land or the population. This is not limited to agriculture, but industries such as land and population determine production volumes are basically not suitable for small countries.

In the meantime, I wonder if there is anything else I can do to increase the rate of food self-sufficiency by creating fields around King's City. Something that might sell to other countries. "

I brought in vegetable rice to get people to think about such troublesome things.

Nevertheless, it is too rough to let them participate in a deceptive way and throw a round in case of trouble.

All the outlaw groups except Claude and James have gone out to earn money outside the country, but I don't know exactly where they are or what they are earning, but it won't be difficult anyway, and I've told them not to break their identity alone ─ ─ At least Claude's remaining in King's Landing will have to be wise.

"Ah, how about this? First, I buy food from the orals. Well, there's nothing ahead of us right now, and you can borrow some gold from somewhere. Therefore, the food and other ingredients are processed in the Republic. Like canned food or preserved food. Now I can sell it to another country and make a living."

First, Tor of Cook gave his opinion.

Tool and Hideo have no athe to earn money, so they stick to the Claudes and participate in the King's Capital policy meeting.

Some newcomers didn't look good enough to eat into the center of the country, but they just had to stop making money and come here instead.

After all, everyone chose to make money in front of them. I mean, if it's true, Claude and the others want to do the same.

I see. I mean, the processing trade.

"Is that what you say? I don't know the details. Even the original ingredients, the salt needed to make it into a preserved food can be given infinitely as long as the MP goes on with the skill" Lower ".

"... as long as the MP lasts, isn't that limited?"

"It wouldn't be too much trouble to acquire just 'downstairs', and if we had the number of people available and put them on a shift system, we would have earned some production. Anyway, get a dedicated building or place somewhere. Arrange the ingredients and workers there. For example, someone who cuts ingredients, someone who shakes salt, anyone who can work by refining the content and educating them, maybe they can earn a certain amount and become an industry."

"It's called factory manufacturing."

It's called Manufacture.

Now that the distribution route has been destroyed by the war and many nobles have disappeared, the former Shape King Capital has many people who have lost their jobs.

Not as bright a reason as the agricultural revolution in medieval England to increase surplus labor, but certainly manpower anyway.

In the UK at that time, the method of enquiry-based domestic industry, which produces like domestic work within each farmer's household, was widespread, but if we start from scratch, including work education, it would be more efficient and easy to produce results.

Thool looks like a mere culinary idiot at first sight, but he has an unapologetic head like this.

"... so far, I've never heard of a country or region with such industries. If we can get started first, it could be for sale."

Nagatomi wrote the proposal on paper.

There has probably been no player-driven country so far, and it is unlikely that it will ever emerge. How quickly it can be achieved will be the key.

"─ I guess this is a pretty powerful idea. Anyone else?

Hmm, Hydeo raised his hand.

Claude was a little surprised that he wasn't that type, or just thought he was an unrestrained man other than what he was interested in.

"─ ─ What we can sell. It's the heart of justice."

It was a mistake to be surprised. He was the man I thought he was.

If it's a performance to appeal to your character, I want you to do it later. This is not the time right now.

"I'm sorry, just ignore him."

Tor, who seems to be close to Hydeo, apologizes instead. If you think of these two as a combination, let's offset Hydeo's bokeh just as much as Tor made a good plan.

"─ ─ No, wait. The heart of righteousness is good."

But I was followed unexpectedly. It's James.

"There you are, huh? What exactly did you do to sell it? What do you mean, selling away the heart of justice? In that case, it would have been so long ago ─ ─"

"Fuck you. Think about it. First of all, I don't care what justice is here. I'm talking about legal philosophy."

I decided to listen to you for the time being.

Hideo is decent when he says James is following me because of it.

Justice and philosophy of law don't seem to swallow well.

"And the point of Hydeo's righteous mind is to blow up the bad guys."

Hideo nodded silently at this. I am truly jealous that I seem to live in a simple and lucid world. If you can, Claude also wants to live in a world where you can bust someone you don't like, whether it's justice or evil.

"Bad guys, in this case they're just, which means they're different. Blow up those who make claims that are different from their own. Eliminate by force. Sell something like that. In other words, lending military power to others."

"Oh, that's..."

Claude took control of the towel as it tried to penetrate it.

I understand what James is trying to say. In other words, we will use the leisurely outlaw group to launch mercenary operations in their original sense.

This is a good idea for two birds, one stone, who can get their gas drained and gold coins.

Do you think it would be useless to stop a controlled towel, or try not to get in the way anymore? Above all, it's a good thing to know.

"Hmm... The locals on the continent have just ended a massive war and will be resistant to that kind of thing... I've heard rumors that bandits are on the rise, and there may be demand in the sense of fighting them...."

I may know the growing number of bandits, but I don't need to tell you right now.

"Tell you what, don't just imitate the innocent people to cry. I have cooperated with you to make this land your last home for those who have lost their place of return. Don't forget that."

King Bogdan, the symbol of this country, stabbed him with a nail.

But it's a little too late to say. What are the players out there doing? I don't know much about Claude or James, and I don't know anything about vegetable rice or bogdan.

"I know. It's okay. At least be careful not to become a bad (...) thing. You can just flip over there and watch."

"I wish..."

"Well, then, as a domestic industry, we can hire locals from Wangdu to start a food processing plant, and in parallel, free players will go abroad to work as mercenaries and get gold coins as mercenaries in their original sense.

Tor in the food factory and Hydeo in the mercenary regiment ─ ─ "

"No, I'll take care of you. Hideo, you must keep the peace of King's Landing."

So the Mercenaries say that James is the project leader.

In this way, the new industry in the Berger Republic began to flourish.

The Mercenary Corps will continue to operate as the "Burgler Mercenary Corps," and the food factory will operate as the "Burgler Meal Factory," using the word "rice", which broadly means meals in Chinese.