Helping with Adventurer Party Management

I spoke to Sarah last night and understood.

Thanks, the land development I'm trying to develop (rather than zoning) may be an unfamiliar method for the city's residents.

If so, the preparation must be done with the utmost care.

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The next morning, after breakfast, I decided to go to the church in the district to check things out.

"Oh, what can I do for you, deputy?"

"I have an errand I've been told by Priest Nicolo."

"It's... at your disposal"

Should it be called the margin of authority of the Nicolo Priest?

Or maybe it's because of the church and the adhesion I've been getting.

Previously, I had free access to the Church's record vault where I was charged with big copper coins simply by reference, and now by facepath.

"There it is... this one"

What I was looking for was a record of land purchases and sales in 3rd class neighborhoods.

Because buying and selling land in this city requires church brokering, and I wanted to look into its past examples.

In this era of the world, artisans and shops living there, even on the land of the city, are bought and sold at the same time as property, just as peasants and serfs are bought and sold at the same time as property, generally if it is the sale of agricultural land.

Since that type of rewriting of title takes as its criterion the Church's birth register, which records the birth and death of the inhabitants, it is for the Church to rewrite its name on the basis of justice (and appropriate remuneration).

Incidentally, the commission for this land purchase and sale is also one of the main sources of income for the Church.

And that's what I wanted to know from here.

"... after all, no"

I've traced back the records for the last few decades, but without the records of the nobility who bought all the land in the 3rd class neighborhood, there's no way they've thrown money into development.

"You have a record of selling it off."

Since tax revenues were no longer foreseeable due to the massive fire, there are records of the sale of reconstruction funds by district.

Well, from the aristocracy, the residents of 3rd class neighborhoods are the only ones that will sooner or later increase if left alone.

"Sarah's one should have a rejection."

Faded parchment records made me want to be evil.

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"'Cause that's what nobles are for, isn't it?

And, says Sarah, a former peasant.

"Well... you know what?"

As a member of the aristocracy, I have to laugh bitterly at my frank opinion.

"Kenji wants to buy a lot of city land?

"No. I don't have that kind of funding, and I don't intend to"

If we were to buy land from nobility, even if the Church brokered it, we would need enormous funds and fees, and we would not be able to buy together a painting of the city governed by the Count in his capacity as a deputy in the first place.

"So what do you do?

"Don't pinch nobility, I'll do it on my own"

"Uh... are you okay?

Why do aristocrats buy land? Because I want the right to tax the land.

If people are done, they take a headcount tax, and if there are shops, they take a sales tax.

Most of all, the city is governed by the Count, and taxes take the form of distributions to the nobility who owns the land after being given to the Count.

"In fact, we're buying land on our own."

People in 3rd class neighborhoods don't buy and sell land, that's not true.

Even if it is not in the Church's records, it is done in the form of accommodating land and buildings with parents, children and kinship relatives, handing over shops and workshops from parents to disciples.

Even our shoe factory purchases land for several workshops on Leather Street in the same way due to the expansion of the workshop.

However, the Church is not involved because this is, as a matter of fact, some kind of private buying and selling of usufruct.

"If you ask me that... I mean, what do you mean?

"Which means the church records are likely to be different from the people who actually use them."

"That's... why?

"Because I don't make any money compared to the hassle... I wonder"

There is considerable divergence between the owners of the land on the records managed by the Church and the users of the actual inhabitants of the land.

This is also due to the fact that some long-term census methods, record-management methods for people born to peasants and living in rural areas for the rest of their lives, in which updating the Church's birth register only records births and deaths for residents, have not kept pace with the reality of the rate of commercial activity.

It may be a little more tightly controlled in 2nd class neighborhoods and above, but I guess it's not laborious and profitable to detail the records of the common people in 3rd class neighborhoods.

People die sooner or later, and the records are modified in the birth register, so even if you leave them alone, you can get paperwork integrity on a decades-by-decade basis.

I also got the right to use the workshop I leaned on in private negotiations with Gorgogo in the form of sewing the gaps around it, so I'm not even in the mood to complain.

"Plus it doesn't matter whose land it belongs to. Depends on how you think."

I just want to pass a beautiful path, not take taxes from the people who live there, like nobles.

In the name of the Church, for the sake of the Church, there is no muscle to be appreciated and opposed because we freely replace the dirty third class outer district with a floral scented district.

Totally, on logic.

"I wonder if you're okay..."

Speak up to Sarah who looks worried.

"If you do it normally, you won't be fine. As soon as I start digging back down the road, a broken door, a caution stick, hired by the nobility pushes me. I'm sure the people of the city will curse at me and beat me up."

"No!!

"Don't scream in your ear... So figure out a way not to."

Make good use of the authority of the Church while passing a beautiful path to the 3rd class neighborhood so as not to be hostile from nobility or from the people of the city.

That's the squeeze of wisdom this time around.