- Two weeks from the case of "Yata-glass".
I was at Viscount Culver's residence in Phono City.
Right now, in addition to Father Alfred, Mother Julia, me, Steph, and other servants, there are Jeremiah, Donna, Beck, Grandpa Ganash, and then a few children's groups in the boys' room staying at the Viscount's residence.
I don't have Miguel because I'm not sticking with him, I'm staying in an inn with his mother, Mr. Moria.
The juvenile group in the boys' room is scheduled to be delivered sequentially to their parents as soon as their identities are known, but so far they have been kept in the mansion.
Donna, the oldest, and the fairies under Melvi, beginning with Cecel Cecela, were baking their care.
The former Nevilleans, "Orochists," have been kept under surveillance by other servants.
The knights of the third-party army under his father are also in detention, and the former servants of "Yata-glass" are under house arrest.
Many of them had just been deceived, but it is still unspeakable how far a commutation of their sentences would be possible by that.
I hear that even in Japan in previous life, mind-control was treated like an occult until there was a terrorist incident by the cult denomination.
I have consulted my father more than once on how to defend them in this marquect.
According to his father, this one case will undoubtedly beg for a direct ruling by His Majesty the King.
For this reason, Father and other officials needed to go to Monocanus, the Wang capital, but it would take several months to depart for Monocanus, as it would be a priority to listen to the circumstances of the user who is still in the house and to capture the full story of "Hachi Ou (Yatagras)".
"No call from His Majesty the King?
"Ed's got a perfectly good slippery tongue"
My father admired my question, and then...
"His Majesty the King has ordered me to work on my behalf to clarify the case and the full contents of" Yata-glass. "
In this case, I'm entrusted with full powers. "
"... usually, isn't that what sends people from the center?
"I guess in other countries.
However, we, His Majesty the King, are increasingly transferring authority to motivated men.
Thanks to you, the job is easy and helpful in the field. "
Vistogard I, current King of the Kingdom of Santa Mana.
I only know about his name, but I guess he's a good king when his father says that much.
"... and speaking of which, is Ed going to fairy land today?
You ready for this?
"Oh, I was"
"Yeah, well, what... don't be too late, huh?
…… Yeah, sure. "
Leaning his neck at his mouthful father like something pinched in his teeth, he left his father's study.
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"We have customers coming today, so Edgar's in Fairy Town - come on in, huh?
I was just about to go out, and that's what Mother Julia told me and gave me more pennies.
As far as I'm concerned, I just have to lean my neck.
Mommy Julia wanted to be with me for four or six hours when she came home from the crow, and it was difficult to even get time to improve her skills.
That's today's sudden palm return.
"... wasn't it something strange?
Ask Melvi that.
"Well, isn't that true?
Says Melvi, looking away.
... I knew it was weird.
My father and mother, for a moment, feel somewhat approximate to Melvi.
Melvi doesn't lie, so maybe she just tried to deceive me......
"Are you angry because you've done all these very unsolicited things?
Regardless of Fort Lanzrack, I did so because I thought I had no choice but to do so, but from the parents' point of view, it's not strange that a small child still seems to have jumped into danger on his own.
Besides, being a reincarnator, I wouldn't have many cute things that are essential for a small child.
Because you're a weird baby with more eyes for skill development than your mom or dad.
It's not like there's any chance you've been exhausted.
"Well, he said a customer was coming, and I was wondering if he was busy"
I would have suspected a little more in my previous life, but this way since I was born into this world, I have been helped a lot by the love and trust of Mother Julia and Father Alfred.
Now I'm not seriously suspicious.
However, I guess what I can do to them is something I'll have to think about all the time from now on.
"In the meantime, let's go to the market."
You can treat Cecel Cecela and the others in fairy land, but basically the amount you eat is completely different from the fairies and humans who don't have to eat to die.
Besides, I can feel the need to cook for me with a small body.
Let's buy something at the market that will be lunch and take it.
My mother gave me a penny.
I'll roll the copper coin my mother gave me on the palm of my hand.
Now I remember the currency of this world.
Marquecto's - No, to be precise, this currency of the Kingdom of Santa Mana is of three kinds, common to fantasies: gold, silver and copper, each of which will be of the same value as the top currency in one hundred sheets.
Nevertheless, it is troublesome to have to accumulate one hundred pieces of currency at the most, so there exist large copper coins, large silver coins and large gold coins each worth ten pieces.
Since one piece of copper coin is about ten yen in the previous life, it means 100 yen for big copper coins, 1,000 yen for silver coins, 10,000 yen for big silver coins, 100,000 yen for gold coins, and one million yen for big gold coins.
provided, however, that the currency is stamped with the seal of the Crown Monetary Authority, and that any currency that is not so may not be exchanged unless it is requested by a specialist exchanger.
It also seems that the exchange will have a replacement ratio that is discounted by some % compared to the regular currency.
This, he said, is to prevent the casting of currency.
If a large currency had the same weight as a small currency, it would purposefully make no sense to have it in a large currency, so a large currency is only about 1.5 times larger than a normal currency.
If you admit to casting, if you exchange large currencies for ten smaller currencies and then cast them, you will see more metal scabs (...), the material of the currency.
Depending on the price of this scab and metal, large currencies will be exchanged for small currencies to be cast, and even (...) can be taken by selling the cast metal.
So the royal law stipulates that no currency without the seal of a jade can be used and that it is unfavourable to exchange it.
Interestingly, they say that the size of large currencies was initially nearly ten times the size of small currencies, but they became smaller over the years and now differ in size from about 500 yen from 100 yen japanese japanese japanese japanese japanese japanese japanese japanese.
In short, to bridge the difference between the value of money and the value of materials, the state is pushing a hanko on the currency and proving that "this big copper coin is worth ten sheets of copper coin".
So it seems possible to say that a large currency is a currency of exchange guaranteed by the state to be exchanged for ten small currencies.
"Phew... then it's all in copper coins - no, why don't we just print it on paper and press the ballmark?
For example, I'll redeem this note for one gold coin, with the promise that. "
I've asked my father that.
"Um, really, I wonder if that's okay on reason.
But isn't paper dirty or torn, and easy to counterfeit?
Indeed, will that be the case at this world level of technology?
Besides, in Santa Mana in the first place, paper is expensive because it's imported, so whatever the gold and silver coins are, paper is more expensive than one piece of copper.
"In the previous life, the state had issued banknotes guaranteeing their exchange with gold.
The advantage of this method is that if the state has credit, it can issue more banknotes than the amount of gold.
That's how they lent the issued notes to financiers at low interest rates, and the financiers lent the money further to the merchants.
If the economy goes bad, we can lower and stimulate that interest rate, and we can control prices. "
"... sounds a lot like a dangerous way to do it though.
Wouldn't it be hard if someone with a note told me to replace it with gold at the same time? "
"As long as the country is operating soundly, it's fine.
In my last life, I stopped exchanging with gold.
Well, even if that's hard, I think we can collect deposits and build banks.
Does anyone in this world do what it means to keep money and invest that money in a promising cause?
"Speaking of, I wonder if some of the goldsmiths do that.
It originally took the form of depositing and processing gold and silver owned by customers because the material was high.
So besides the goldsmiths, they do that by depositing gold and silver from their customers and issuing certificates of deposit.
Some nobleman or highly-ranked adventurer who laid eyes on it said it was dangerous to keep valuables around him, so he started depositing gold and silver in the goldsmith's workshop.
Of course, I'm talking about the workshop hiring some kind of formerly adventurous bent escort, and putting gold and silver behind a sturdy safe that's neither magical nor frightening, and locking multiple keys and tightly managing it.
On the goldsmiths' side, they also lend the gold and silver deposited to merchants and the like to take interest. Of course, only to a very small number of trusted merchants, apparently.
I have heard that certificates of deposit are certificates of deposit and may also be endorsed and used for means of settlement as being of the same value as gold and silver.
I wonder if this is anything close to what Ed calls a note.
A merchant in the city of Phono who couldn't pay market taxes once asked me to borrow a deposit card, and I checked it out. "
"That's probably a very promising business.
It's lucrative, and I think it's good for the Territory's reproductive industry. "
I told my father everything I knew about banking and exchange transactions.
"Maybe if you ask me.
Why don't we talk to Mr. Popols, but let him do it?
Mr. Popols is referring to the former merchant village chief Trenadette, Stef's father.
That village chief, he used to be a pretty good dealer merchant.
He said he wanted to settle down because he had a family, so his father, who owed him, left him to the village chief of Trenadette village.
"Is that it? But Mr. Popols said he wanted to be your father's direct minister, didn't he?
"Oh, really?
Because he's a doer.
When I had a family and settled down, I calmed down. So, are you feeling inadequate?
"Hmmm... I think it was like I wanted to enrich my family's life"
"Sure, there will be, but that village is starting to test grow cotton, and it's slowly getting wealthier.
So I think his desire to be a direct minister meant he wanted a bigger job.
Maybe that's what you're saying consciously, maybe you want unconsciously while you say it's for your family. "
You're saying something very deep.
"Ed, too, you should remember.
People don't always know what they want.
Rather, it may be easier to understand from others.
When Ed is in a position to use people in the future, you should try to sense what they really want behind their words.
I should have given him the status he wanted, but he was unhappy with the treatment.
Nevertheless, it's difficult because you can't ignore what you want. "
"How do you know that?
"Right......
The most important thing is to be interested in them. "
"Interests…"
"Yeah.
If you're interested in them, their personality and the circumstances in which they are placed will naturally come to mind, right?
That way, you'll also know what they want.
This is what my esteemed old sage said.
'Lords who are interested in their inhabitants will naturally begin to lay down good governance'.
So Ed should also try to be interested in his people when he has them.
Because that way, you naturally know what to do, and you don't have to be particularly conscious to do what they want you to do. "
That's right, Father Alfred, say something with inclusions.
Honestly, I don't think I'm the kind of person who stands above people, but a long life, not necessarily without that.
I'll keep my father's advice in mind.
Well, when I arrived at the market, I smelled delicious.
I bought fried land shrimp (land shrimp), liver roasted sand turtles, and hard-baked bread for myself, and looked out for nuts and berries for the fairies.
He enters an unpopular alley holding a bag of food and asks Melvi to open the gate and travel to Fairy Town.