Me, Adventurer! - Undoubled Skills Are Flat Magic (WEB Version)
Episode 193 - The Work of a Substitute - Part One
We packed up a conversation with the Viscount, and we decided to head back to Dorton. It's going to be a problem if we don't take office as deputies. I'm worried about my temporary mother, so I'm going to be back soon.
Dad? It's okay to leave that guy alone. Because he's strong and handsome. Keh!
"Well, I'm sorry, but Luca and Daisy need your mother's help. I'll pick you up after a paragraph."
"... the nomination of a young man. Good luck."
"Yes, I'll take care of it. Let us study hard so that we may live when we are"
You two get in the carriage and look up at us from the bottom and respond. Both Daisy and Luca have rough noses. Seems more motivated than anything else.
I've sent one strong gaze at the moment Luca says' we ', but, well, I guess that's what you mean. My thoughts are heavy. I'm a kid, so don't let me carry you yet. I don't want to carry the kid yet.
"Then I'm going home. Pee, you're coming back to see me, aren't you?
"Hmm. Sweet confectionery. Get ready and wait."
"Pee, twitch, bye, see ya!
I wave both wings that Pea wouldn't have hands with a patter. Dad and Mom are strangely Pea's favorites. He's got feelings like his first grandson. Because I seem like a dad to Pea, maybe they're both meant to be my grandfather's grandmother. No, I'm not your dad, am I?
Pea's real dad probably isn't in the world anymore. In a double sense, my real mom would have made me delicious. Fantasy nature is tough.
Everyone drops me off and a fuzzy floating carriage flies all the way west.
There are no horses, and no wheels are used carriages. I feel like the definition of a carriage is collapsing anymore, but, well, fantasy or something, okay? Even when you're flying in the sky, you call it a galactic railroad.
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"That's why we're going to start building streets connecting Dorton with the new Viscount Weissman territory! The budget is halfway between the Viscount and Dorton, and the manpower is due out of Dorton. Look at the materials we're going to hand out for more details. Because we will start as soon as the national permit has been granted and aim to complete it within three years. The proposal and the petition will be submitted to the Wang capital in a few days."
Adventurer Guild conference room that returned to Dorton and came to greet the deputy. As he gathered the executives who were the main ones there to greet him on his inauguration as deputy, he quickly announced one of the development plans, his first job as deputy. Kristera and Kikka in the secretarial position hand out simple plans and materials to everyone.
Dorton's administration is special, with the lord serving as the manager of the Adventurer's Guild. I mean, I became a deputy, and at the same time I became the manager of the Dorton Adventurer Alliance.
This system also has to do with organisational operations, with administrative tasks in the territory being carried out by officials of the Adventurers Guild. Given that the Adventurer Guild is one of the country's institutions in the first place, it may be said that it is also like doing Halois' work at City Hall.
It was Zubali, the public works, that drove me up in front of those Adventurer Alliance executives.
Modern Japan made it easier to feed the media and the opposition because of its rights, but that's not even an issue in this country. Anyway, I don't have the corner infrastructure in place. It's not a waste of work for rights, it's work needed for livelihood and distribution.
Traffic maintenance, such as roads and sea routes, is essential for the smooth flow of logistics and human resources. If humans and things don't move, the economy won't turn.
Currently, there is just a gravel road between the towns of Dorton and Dantes that is only about the width of one carriage that can't even be called a road. I only use residents of the town of Dantes who go out to buy out and about Mr. Vincent, who is a trader.
If we expand this and develop it as an official trading route, it will revitalize the town of Dantes and the city of Dorton. And that leads to an increase in tax revenues, which means both me and the Viscount are haughty. No, I'm a deputy, so it doesn't matter directly if tax revenues go up, but if the city is vibrant, it's not pointless, because I plan to earn more in a secondary way.
Besides, this would also improve the situation where Dorton is currently located.
Since the end of the war with Jerkin, the adventurers who were on each front are returning to Dorton. That's fine because we just went back before the war, but the problem is that more personnel are pouring into Dorton.
Once the war is over, armies other than the Standing Army will be dismantled. I don't have any use for it just because it costs money. Some competent personnel are sometimes drawn to nobility and the army of the country, but many lose their jobs and are scattered into society.
Some of the ex-soldiers go back to their homes and resume their former lives, but some of them are ironless guys who have dreamed of being born and jumped out of their homes, and those guys can't even go home, or get a legitimate job, and become adventurers with a glimmer of hope, or bandits from short-circuited thinking.
The bandits are quickly captured in the center and near the big cities where the Knights eyes are shining, and are based near the regional cities away from the center because they are attacked by demons if they are too peripheral. This neighborhood of Dorton would also be its candidate.
The bandit's crusade is often multiplied by bounty money. And the treasures gathered by the bandits shall belong to the crusaders. Sometimes if you can crusade a large band of bandits, you'll earn enough to play and live a few years. In search of such a grand dream, the adventurers also gather in the city near the border.
For that reason, there is now rapid population growth in Dorton. It's not like there's enough lodging, it's like there's a camping tent up to outside the outer walls. I'm afraid it's going to slam when I leave it alone. I need to hit my hand early.
"One of the reasons for this situation is in the Baron, isn't it? No, there's nothing wrong with the Baron."
"Baron... what, me?
Sitting next to my left in my birthday seat, Deputy Manager Imelda spills a boss. I feel a slightly different tone than usual, but are you thinking of TPO?
It's my fault, but no fault, you mean I'm making some kind of impact?
"Yes. An adventurer made up of Lord Whirlwind Dantes, a hero of the war, slightly eight years old, from civilians to barons. Few people think that children can do it themselves. Those people are pushing to abandon the baron. It even influences rumours of" The Next Generation of Commercial Guild Executive Candidates, "a" Hidden Ball of His Majesty the King, "which creates soap and shampoo and has a hidden influence on commercial guilds, and lets any challenges be solved vividly. Did you know? Not only is the inn missing because of the more adventurers, but also because the merchants are pushing to get to know the Baron in large numbers, right?
Ah. Is that why you're almost full to a luxury inn? Come to think of it, there's no way a poor adventurer can stay in a luxury inn.
Let me correct one thing, it's not from civilians, it's from slaves. I'd also like to deny that 'His Majesty's Hidden Ball' if I could, but there's no way a kingdom nobleman could do that, after all.
Well, I just found out what caused it, and it doesn't open up the status quo. We need to do something to solve the problem. So it's my proposed public works after all.
Construction will require a lot of manpower.
Because the streets are going to be cobbled, they will need a lot of manpower on the horns, such as masonry to process stone, manpower feet for transport, workers to actually work on, cooks for cooking, etc. This neighborhood is a border, so you'll also need an escort to protect your workers from demons and bandits.
So let's ask adventurers for a lot of the personnel we need for these.
Many of the people gathered in Dorton now will have little experience as adventurers. It's a common story that you can't do normal requests because you're immature, get stuck, and dye your hands on crime, and it's only a matter of time before a bunch of people come out that do that if you leave them alone.
Then security deteriorates and the city becomes obsolete, so as a ruler you have to strike some kind of hand at it.
Even inexperienced apprenticeship adventurers should be able to cope with simple manual labor. If you can cook, you can take charge of the restaurant. I have a job I can do even if I don't have the strength. Street laying works become receptacles for such people.
Have veteran adventurers guard the construction. You won't be attacked by bandits because you're not a merchant, but there can be a Warcraft raid. It's time for a veteran with quite an arm.
Only the masonry has to be left to the artisans, but most of the rest should be left to the adventurers. This raises the steeple field for now.
"But when it comes to construction on this scale, I don't think it's going to end in very three years... it's going to take ten or twenty years just to build the foundation?
A little fat Odishan with a barcode head raises one hand and speaks Oz Oz. Don't be the first to see this Odysan. Maybe he's a pretty good executive, because he's sitting near the top seat for 10%. Let's ask Mr. Imelda later.
"It's okay, I've already done a close field survey, and I'll do the foundation work. The plan is to start with the foundation work and the surrounding landscaping, and the street itself opens quickly, gradually paving with cobblestone from Dorton, right? If we just let it open, we can do it in about three months, right?
"Three months!? Not so fast..."
"Unbelievable? Well, that's right. Well, let's just demonstrate a little upfront."
"Yes, no, not like that!
"Fine, fine. It would actually be more convincing to see with that eye. Shall we all move to the south gate?"
It is only natural to question the effectiveness of this plan. Think in common sense, the period is too short. But my planar magic lightly kicks such common sense and so on. Travel to the city's south gate with all the executives to prove more evidence than theory.
Hmm. Looking at it this way, the South Gate is pretty narrow. It's only about six meters wide. The narrowness of whether a small carriage is critical and different. Maybe we should expand it in parallel with road laying. Let's include this in the proposal, too.
Besides, it's a demonstration. Travel further east about a kilometer from the south gate. Near the South Gate, there was a dense tent of adventurers overflowing from the city that could not be constructed.
"Well, I'll try to build the foundation lightly for about half a lee."
Activate the planar magic quickly to dig back into the soil, which is thirteen meters wide, one meter deep and about a distance of one and five kilometers. Keep the excavated soil aside at one end and hang it on a planar sieve to separate it from the coarse stone and soil.
Poke and consolidate the trenches that have been dug with vibrating planes and gravitational fields. Raise the soil hanging on the sieve there by half, and stiffen it further.
Rising dust is adsorbed into a viscous meta-particle and dropped into the ground. It's dry and dry in the summer now, so I guess a good amount of it comes along.
Place the separated stones on the pierced solidified soil and the remaining half of the soil on top of it to further pierce and solidify. Creating layers of stone with these gaps improves water drainage and suppresses the deterioration of road conditions during rainfall.
And what we could do is a flat, straight dirt road about twelve meters wide and one and five kilometers long. To the south is the Great Forest, and to the north is the Dark Forest, which runs almost east to west in the middle of nowhere.
The reason for this width is that the common carriage width in this country is less than two metres. As two lanes on one side, four round-trip lanes, make room for a total of ten metres of carriageway. The pedestrian path is twelve meters long.
To the left and right of the road there is a drain about fifty centimetres deep and wide, which is also designed to provide peace of mind during rainfall. The slack is going to cover the roads and ditches with stone, but now the soil is pouring out because we don't have that stone yet. I have no choice.
"This, in such a short time..."
Mr. Barcode is crushing with a surprising look.
This construction took about thirty minutes. If you have about three kilometers in an hour and six hours of actual work in a day, you will be able to calculate that you can proceed with about eighteen kilometers. In fact, there will be some sort of maintenance of rest stops and water fields, so maybe fifteen kilometers a day would be the limit.
The straight distance from Dorton to the town of Dantes is about three hundred and fifty kilometers. The road we have now avoids the woods and stops at the water field, so the total extension is about three hundred and eighty kilometers. The new streets are also planned to connect the water fields, so the total extension is scheduled to be about three hundred and seventy kilometres.
If I had a little over a month in a rough calculation, it would be over. Well, the journey time from Dorton will grow as construction progresses, so it's about two months to consider that. Considering the delay due to unforeseen circumstances, it is three months in a big mess.
As a matter of fact, if I had everything from the foundation to the pavement, the construction period could be shorter. The stone material can be made by John and when done in planar magic from foundation work to pavement, it can be taken to opening in no time. Maybe it won't take a year.
What we don't do is aim to revitalize the city.
When one monopolizes profits, it becomes difficult for the market to restore them. It doesn't affect the economy because one person knows how much to spend. Then you are disqualified both as an exchanger and as a merchant.
When this is made into public works, a large number of people can engage in work and earn income. It hydrates the market and revitalizes the economy. The vibrant city will now attract many merchants, further revitalizing the economy. Tax revenues will then rise and exchangers will have many benefits, which will continue in the medium to long term. As a result, more profits come into the pocket of the traders than monopolize the construction. Winning alone is not a real win.
Nevertheless, since I'm a deputy, my salary won't change even if my tax revenues go up. Suffice it to say there might be a little bonus. I'll get paid for the foundation work.
So I'm thinking of letting you bite me on the rights just a little bit with deputy authority. What, it's no big deal. I'm just talking about setting up a company with Mr. Tonerico, who will set up a mid-sized chamber of commerce in Wangdu, to monopolize the sale of cooking ingredients and construction tools.
When a new chamber of commerce is set up, registration with a commercial guild can be quite cumbersome, as well as face-to-face and rights adjustments to existing chambers of commerce. In that regard, if Mr. Tonerico is already a member of a commercial guild and deals in Dorton, he can clear most of the trouble around there. All I have to do is jointly launch a nominal board subsidiary and monopolize demand. It's a public works limited company, so it doesn't even eat with existing chambers of commerce. I haven't told Mr. Tonerico yet, but he'll probably be fine. If you can't, you just have to look at it from the merchants gathering in Dorton right now.
Only an employee of the Chamber of Commerce actually works for the company, and I only plan on getting paid for the board.
Hey, that's great to earn unearned! I know exactly what it's like to be a bureaucrat in heaven. Ningen, if you work, you lose!
Come on, then, will you work hard for a great future!
... Is that it?