Helping with Adventurer Party Management

The old priest began his explanation after preaching, "It's shallow for me to be on duty, too," he said.

"A clan of exiled village chiefs was a famous house that lasted for generations in this village, and they lived a lot better. It's like being the wife of a village chief doesn't soil, and the village chief himself is more dedicated to moving and dispensing with people than to plowing fields."

I see you're more of a farmer than a farmer if you get that far.

Did you direct the collective work of the people below as village chief?

As a position to bind the village, that in itself is not a story to blame separately.

"The land that was suppressed in the village chief clan was vast, so the working ones were always lacking," he said.

"No, that's crazy"

I contested the priest's allegations.

"The investigation has confirmed that there have been many young adventurers from this village in the past. If there wasn't enough labour in the village in the first place, wouldn't there be a need for young people to leave the city?

"Not exactly," the old priest replied softly to my point.

"There was a lack of what the village chief was looking for to work at the level of reward."

"... I see"

In short, they tried to make young people work within the village with a standard of treatment that they could not do very well.

That is the extent to which young people jump into the world of unseen adventurers disappointed that there is no future in this village.

"So the village chief seems to have laid eyes on those outside the village. If you're outside the village, it's hard to complain from the clan even if you're undertreated."

In a narrow village society, hiring people with too low treatment makes the public worse.

It's hard to do a lot of things when you have a bad reputation for who is doing terrible things to its nephew, etc., because of their close blood ties, for better or worse.

Then you can hire people outside the village, I guess.

"But hiring large numbers of human beings into villages will be problematic due to distributions in the event of starvation in villages, etc. And to hire people outside the village, we need permission for a meeting between the lord and the village..."

And I almost noticed.

The village chief was in consignment with the previous deputy, which means that the party issuing the permit was in consignment.

"That's right. The previous deputy had left everything to the village chief, who claimed at the village meeting that he was supporting the untouched to go. When that happens, even as a church, it's hard to cut the front and pay attention. Because even though it's under-treatment, it must be helping people."

Even though personal greed is the basis, it is perfect as a pre-construction, and with the permission of the lord.

Then I wouldn't have been able to complain about it as a church either.

"So what are you going to do in the future as a church"

If you're going to say you'll respond in church, you have to listen to policy alone as a deputy.

If it were a temporary problem, there would be parts of us that could cooperate.

"About that."

The old priest cut it out slightly, hardly to say.

"From the central side, we've only been instructed to follow the deputy's intentions."

"Does that mean I'll take care of it?"

"It's hard to say."

Is this a round-throat of problems?

Another challenge was built up, not only by the former deputy, but also by the village chief.

Damn, they do.

On my way home from church, I walked fast, angry at myself for the sweetness of the past as to why I didn't appeal to the clan of village chiefs then to inflict heavier punishment.

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What do we do with the problem of displaced persons, which has come to light even without trying?

I decide to put my thoughts together by putting all this in front of the blackboard that Gorgogo forced me to install.

Being a deputy is a hassle, but having lots of greenery and good air and a bigger office is one of the few advantages.

"Yes, tea. It's new."

I brought a portable iron stove from the workshop office so I can easily brew tea at any time even though I haven't cleaned the fireplace chimney.

Sarah's herbal tea is different these days.

I don't know where I picked them but they seem to be trying different kinds of leaves.

Sometimes it tastes strange, so I feel some thrill.

"So, what are we going to do with those people? You're not gonna kick me out, are you?

"Oh, you can't do that"

When I declared that I would not expel the displaced, Sarah gave her a blatantly horrible look.

Anyway, if it's just the grownups, they were playing in front of the church, and after seeing those large numbers of kids, it's impossible for me to kick them out.

Hardly possible, but it's impossible to take women and children on a journey that far as other territories accept them.

The fare for the Intercity Merchant is not cheap enough to pay the peasants, and it would be the mountain of Sekiyama that a child who can't walk will feed the Demon Wolf.

"Well, give everyone farmland or something"

"You can't do that either."

If I deny Sarah's plan, I'll give her a pitiful look this time.

But I can't.

In the first place, there is only the land of the village chief if he were to give it, but that land is the property of the church.

The power of control rests with the deputy, but he has no right to buy or sell.

In that sense, the administrative authority rests with me, the deputy, but I am not at all confident that I can instruct the village chief to farm the farmland on his behalf.

Depending on the political situation, you could leave this village on a monthly basis, and you're an agricultural amateur in the first place.

"I want to leave it to someone, someone who can," to be honest.

Kilik, who has not been in the debate until then, has come up with another proposal.

"Would you even do it in a bid"

If land as property is floating, bid within the village to determine the owner.

The deputy shall collect tax from the new owner.

It seems that my parents are the merchant Kirik, it is a split proposal.

"I don't want to do that."

The concentration of agricultural land is a distant factor that led the village chief to wield arbitrariness in this territory in the first place.

Tenders, a mechanism that further enriches rich farmers, do not seem a good idea given the earlier.

I need another plan.