Let's Manage The Tower

In Mixen, we left the city the day after the ceremony.

Sometimes I went around the city for half a day with my children, but Mixen, originally a city for priests, had nothing to see in particular for the examiners.

Of course, Sylvia sees a lot of things, but she didn't tell me to crush the day for herself.

And if Mixen needs help, he can come at any time using the transfer gate.

Don't bother wandering around the city and adding more luggage during your journey.

That is why the scholars left the city immediately.

The samurai who started heading south began to see the opposite of when they were heading for Mixen.

Naturally, the pilgrims heading for Mixen are not only heading north, but also heading south.

He began to intercept the pilgrims that were coming to Mixen from the south.

However, even if they are interchangeable, they do not meet many times a day.

At most, three times, mostly twice.

Of course, it is natural that there are other things besides pilgrims and pedestrians.

Soon after passing through the second village, he ran over the carriage of the merchant.

Everyone is already accustomed to being surprised to see a carriage running without horses.

"Hmm. Looks like this area is still bustling with peddlers."

"Between the south and the east?

Of course.

Floria nodded and replied to the examiner who was tilting her neck.

Rather than the central continent, the eastern continent and the southern continent are the ones with the most traffic to and from Razek Amamiya.

In a sense, it was natural that there should be more traffic between the eastern city and the southern city, which interact directly with each continent.

Not all goods from the continent are transported by pedestrians, as the towns of East and South and Mixen have gates of transition.

But towns and villages without gates are transported by pedestrian means.

Crowns sometimes build large caravans and drop goods into towns and villages along the way, but not every day.

Individual peddlers still exist in the sense of being able to move lightly.

"I know there will be a lot of shopping around here from the south, but..."

Hmm.

"Why is it that Mixen is closer, but there are so many gaps rather than overtaking them?

If things are moving through the transfer gates, there should be more pedestrians from Mixen to their respective towns and villages.

The city of Mixen is still closer to where the samurai are than the city of the south.

As a result, Floria shook her head to the right and left, questioning whether there would be more travellers going away than travellers going to Mixen.

"What Kouske is saying is that you probably don't think about the transfer gate royalties?

"Ah..."

If you are a major merchant guild, it is often better to use the transfer gate to move your luggage along with other luggage.

However, small guilds and individual peddlers may incur royalties.

"Sometimes it is cheaper to leave it to an individual pedestrian than to move it through a transfer gate. I suppose the merchants in the pedestrian trade are also aiming for such a gap."

I see.

By the time a large merchant caravan had just been formed, individual peddlers were expected to be eliminated.

However, there were gaps in everything, and the remaining merchants survived by doing business with those gaps.

Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the number of transfer gates has decreased compared to before they were opened across the continent.

Of course, the reduced number of merchants is not sad, but has been captured by crowns and other merchant guilds.

The population of the entire continent has also increased compared to before Razeqamamiya was born.

That would naturally increase the number of luggage travelling within the continent.

In other words, the amount of clearance products handled is also higher than before.

With that in mind, the shop itself does not plummet at once.

"Sometimes there are more deals with other continents, but after all, is population growth the best reason?

"I guess. If the amount of luggage handled had not increased in the first place, we would not have been able to maintain the current number of merchants."

Floria nodded and replied to the examination with her head tilted.

Shreyne, who had so quietly listened to the two conversations, asked her what she doubted and leaned her neck.

"The population is growing, but are the towns and villages growing? Where you've been, you don't seem to have changed much?

Shreyne has rarely traveled the continent since Mitsuki summoned her.

Still, I had to travel on vampire business.

Given that, it doesn't seem that the towns and villages we've been through are making a big difference.

Floria nodded with a bitter expression to Shreyn, who had revealed her doubts.

"That must be the challenge ahead. The population as a whole is certainly growing, but it is only a change in big cities. The towns and villages that are halfway there are still to come."

"... I see. Is that what this is about?"

In Florian's answer, Shreyne had a convincing expression.

The increase in exports to other continents has led to an increase in commercial transactions and an increase in the share of jobs, resulting in an increase in the urban population.

However, towns and villages that are not have changed only slowly.

In towns and villages with special processing techniques, there have been dramatic changes, but only a handful.

These towns and villages must also change in the sense that Razeqamamiya will strengthen the country more.

As the story reached the population growth of the town and village, Floria's expression became happier.

"... I don't think so. This is what happens when you travel around the corner."

Now, Floria shook her head, saying that it was not a topic like herself, who had already retired from the queen, and the examiner looked strange.

"I don't think so.

"Kouske?"

"If you're at the top of the country or if you're not a big town, you wouldn't be able to talk about it like this."

Shreyne shook her neck up and down several times to respond to the appeal.

"Is that so? Rather, it's just the right topic to comfort the boredom of your journey.

If you are traveling, topics such as the level of development of each town and village will emerge first.

At least, it's much more important than just moving forward without any topic.

By the way, all the women around the examiners can follow these political topics properly.

Even with such a topic, there is no one who does not like it.

There is no doubt that having children will make noise in a different sense, but the journey of adults alone has a different taste with it.

More importantly, it is not boring, just because there are various topics makes it one of the elements of enjoying travel.

Just because it's been a far journey rather than just spending time in a boring car, Kaiseki reassures Floria (?).