"In the meantime, would most knights have embraced agrarian improvement?"
After the New Year's greeting, I snapped at myself with a pom pom pom on the shoulders that didn't suit my child.
Well, I don't think that's going to help.
I've been talking to a lot of knights for a long time, so it's only natural.
Of the work I did on behalf of the Fontana family, it was the most important and influential.
Because it was tax reform.
Calculate the size of the land in each area and the area of the field there, and estimate and calculate the yield for the following year.
And based on those data, he announced a tax that he would collect from the knights who ruled everywhere.
The face value of the tax was completely different from last year.
Everyone will complain when they see a higher tax payout than expected.
However, this figure is for this year only and is unlikely to change further from next year.
Perhaps some of the knights that I couldn't accept could hit me in front of me.
However, it is also a fact that it is quite sweet in calculation.
If you do my magical [leveling] and [soil improvement], the yield will increase.
But I'm not a demon either.
Some negotiations have permitted a reduction in the amount of tax payable.
No matter how good the Balkan magic is, you can't improve the land all over Fontana at once.
First of all, we will thoroughly improve the Fontana family's direct jurisdiction, and expand it to other knights.
As just one of the bargaining techniques, I wanted to show you a big number first, and then we could explore a compromise between the two.
In addition, we must also consider how we can pay taxes other than wheat.
No matter how much harvest it is for the moment, there is no problem even if it is too much.
If the wheat can be harvested much more than before, the wheat market will eventually decline.
It's possible that, after all, making a lot of wheat didn't pay more than I thought.
In fact, I also think about this point to some extent.
That was the condition of the harmony we had with the Menmen.
The Menmen have promised to sell their wheat cheaply for years to come.
This also served as a condition for the withdrawal of the Menmen I fought against.
The goal of continuing to sell wheat at at a low price while recognizing that it was a tax was to preserve the dignity of the Menmen.
It's because they could face Fontana and make him admit it.
With that in mind, Fontana, who had beaten two of the main players in the Menmen's army, didn't seem to have eaten much.
But the priority was to turn back the opponent's army smoothly, and the wheat market was in the corner of my head.
Initially, we intended to recommend sake brewing to stabilize the growing market for wheat in Fontana territory.
We are trying to stabilize the price of the wheat market by using a portion of the harvested wheat as a ingredient for distilled liquor.
But this idea came only when Carlos was alive.
While Carlos was there, he didn't want to rapidly redevelop the Fontana farmlands.
It was only a stance of contracting a farmland improvement dispatch at a slow pace and waiting for market principles to work and stabilize while spreading brewing about the wheat market.
However, it was dangerous to keep an eye on the fluctuations of the market longer than other great aristocracy could have noticed.
Therefore, there was an implication in the lecture that the knights from all over the world aimed to stabilize the market price of wheat by forcing it to pay tax and selling it directly to the Menmen.
Over the next few years, we will sell wheat to the Menmen and gather more data in the meantime.
In this way, we should move on to other vegetables besides wheat, such as Abrana, where oil can be removed.
I wonder if there's any other way to make more money.
"That's why I want to sell this guy... Can you sell it?
"Of course you can sell it. I mean, I think it's because the buyers are too attached that we need to adjust the price, kid."
I see. That's what the old man thinks. It replenishes magic faster than magic healers and is easy to use. "
Once I had finished thinking about the market for wheat, I started talking to my old man about something else.
It was about selling magic stones.
The other day, I finally completed a spell called [Magic Stone Generation].
It is magic that can make magic stones by that name.
Magic stones like blue crystals become darker and darker as magic is applied.
If the magic contained in the Magic Stone disappears, the color becomes dim, but if [Magic Injection] is used again, the color becomes darker and the magic is compensated.
And if you use magic while holding the magic stone, you can replace the amount of magic required for the magic with magic stones.
The magic healing medicine I have been using in Balka is like tea made with magic mushrooms.
Remove the powdered product with hot water before drinking.
Then, after a while, the magic will be restored.
In other words, the effect is delayed, and Magic Stones have more immediate effects.
It was the common understanding of all knights that magic stones were more convenient.
I created a spell to create this magic stone.
And this Magic Stone is worth as much as you can sell.
There is no doubt that it can be sold.
As the old man says, there will be no trouble for the buyer.
But I feel like it has a better use.
"... I wonder if selling magic stones is limited to the Linzats, old man?
"Only the Rheinzats? Hmm, I'm sure they have the money they deserve, but why the Rheinzats?
"Don't you remember? I sold my wheat cheaply to the Menmen because I was wary of trade problems. If you went east from Fontana to King's Land, it was because of the Menmen. On the other hand, the west is heavily influenced by the Rhinesatz family. Isn't it okay for Magic Stone to be sold not to other nobles, but only to the Rheinzats to maintain economic connections?
"I see. That might be a good idea. If you are transporting magic stones from the west to Rhine Zats territory, you can also transport them by river. Maybe we can get more jobs in the Arbarest district with fewer inhabitants, one stone and two birds?
"Well, then, it's settled. From now on, Magic Stone sales will only be sold to the Rhinesatz family by creating a specialized agency. Send a messenger to the Reinzatz family and arrange for the story to be closed."
"Okay. Let's get ready right away."
I talked to the old man and decided immediately.
However, there are other objectives besides trade issues.
It is becoming a situation where the three great aristocracies that were united as alliances of the three aristocracies are seeing each other.
Even if you only deal with the Menmen, if the three aristocracies compete, Fontana is automatically judged to be a member of the Menmen faction.
I want to have an even-looking relationship with everywhere.
That's why I decided to restrict the sale of Magic Stones to the Rhinesatz family.
If the story is put together well, I wonder if the Lindsatz family will be able to have a good relationship in the future.
With my head bothered by the relationship with the knights of my faction in Fontana territory, I also looked outside the territory and carried out my duties.