Price of Management

Oh, come on.

“You'll see. ”

"They" appeared shortly after.

Two Royal Knights armed with golden armor.

One of them looks familiar, Earl Randall Spair. Randall looks at me with a smiling face.

The other guy was a middle-aged guy with a hot beard, and he was about two meters tall.

“Earl Royal Knights, Earl Kronel Graham and Earl Randall Spaer, deputy commander of the Royal Knights. ”

Earl Kronel Graham?!

He was the finest Expert knight in the Kingdom of Leaden, the Knight known to be the second most powerful behind the Master of Orders, Duke Kronel Meutt. He was also a strong man who was expected to one day reach the master's estate.

I suddenly noticed something in Randall's hand.

Hey, what's that?

In Randall's basket was a bottle of Queens Blood and four glasses.

Eric smiles and says.

“So thick. Since they brazenly boasted that they had tasted fantastic wine on their own, how could they not bear the burden? ”

“Ha, hahaha……. ”

I'm confused. Was it the wine?!

Not really.

It was worth it for an alcoholic. I couldn't believe I could taste Queens Blood again.

Earl Graham and Randall, the Royal Knights Leader, sit beside Dorado.

Earl Graham was also an alcoholic, staring at the bottle of Queens Blood with an eager gaze that did not fit into the massive size.

He's gonna get a hole in the bottle.

“Wounded.”

When Wounded was summoned into the air, everyone noticed.

As soon as her hair came down to her toes, she kissed my cheek and said hello.

“Can you make that drink taste good? ”

Woundee nods, smiling as she applies.

During the time that Wounded's cleansing and healing powers were instilled in Queens Blood, Eric showed a deep interest in Woundee.

“Indeed, that is the Spirit of Water Woundee. This is the first time you've actually seen a Spirit. ”

“Confucius Caroc is a skilled spiritual contractor with the Spirit of Earth, Your Majesty. ”

Randall confronts you.

“Is that so? Then, can you show me your gnomes? ”

“I understand.”

I spoke lightly, and called out to Noonum as well.

- Did you call him?

A gnome protruding from the ground.

Earl Graham then takes his hand to the Long Sword of Waist Dance reflectively.

“Hmph!”

Earl Graham blushes his face and takes his hand off the long sword handle. A guy with a cute corner that doesn't fit into his size.

“This is the gnome. But I didn't know spirits looked so cute. ”

Stare at Noonum as if the king is strange.

“I heard that spirits do not have the form of Bondi, so when summoned to the material system, they change to what they want. ”

Randall says.

“Then the appearance of the spirit that Duke Caroc wants.... ”

Earl Eric, Randall and Graham look at me with a meaningful gaze. He will too......

Woundee, cute little 10-year-old girl.

Noum, a cute 12-year-old girl.

What, what? Tastes like that look! You're looking at me like I'm some kind of pervert!

I hastened for my honor.

“Your Majesty. This is not my sexual orientation, but the desire to have a cute daughter.... ”

“What are you going to do with your little girl! ”

Earl Graham is furious.

What's wrong with him?!

“I'm not doing anything! ”

Then what are you doing to her?

“Hahahaha!”

Eric bursts into laughter. Randall shuts his mouth and giggles.

I laughed as hard as I could, and Eric said,

“Understand, Karak Confucius. Earl Graham's daughter, who loves me like my life, is just my age, so she's sensitive. ”

It means "stupid daughter" in a word.

“Yi, I understand. ”

“Hmmm, I was careless. ”

Earl Graham apologized, clearing his throat.

But then Norm suddenly pointed at Eric and asked me.

- Master, who is that?

Twitch!

Everyone was surprised.

“No, Norm. He... No, he's the king of this country. ”

- What's a king?

“It means he's the highest and most noble man in the country. ”

I didn't know what the word honor meant when I read my mind.

Norm leaps over my head and stares at Eric.

- No, Master is the most honorable!

Hey, hey, hey!

I froze.

“Hahaha!”

The young king fires.

“Yes, I am the king of men, so how can I establish authority before the beautiful presence of the Spirit? Don't mind him. ”

- Master, I think he's a good boy.

“Ugh… ”

I sweated. Eric smiles louder than before.

The time has finally come to savor Queen's Blood, whose flavor has been enhanced by Woundees.

Randall pulls the plug himself and pours it into everyone's glass.

Eric raises his glass first.

“We congratulate the Duke of Caroc for his title and territory. ”

“Cheers!"

I nodded my head in gratitude and responded to the toast. And everyone took a sip of the red liquid from Queens Blood.

Oh, that tastes good.

I closed my eyes and tasted the illusion.

It was magically deep and dreamy.

The sight of Queen Isabella waving her hands across the river seemed to be clear to me.

Randall is in awe.

Earl Graham opens his eyes and looks at the glass of Queen's Blood.

And our king…….

“Hey! Get as many Queens Blood as you can from the Royal Liquor Bank! No, even the Red Breeze and the Thrón Blue! ”

Red Breeze and Thrón Blue were the worst of Queens Blood.

In particular, Thorn Blue is an unusually blue wine, and the production process was the best silk on the continent.

Soon after, Eric told me about a dozen bottles of wine that the maids had brought.

“It's a name. Make it all taste good! ”

Eric was fascinated by the taste of Queens Blood by Wounded.

Oh, man. We must defend our faith!

I stared at Thrón Blue instead of the answer.

“That's Thrón Blue. ”

“Well, yes. ”

Eric stammers, startled.

“A rare pearl, no doubt there were only two bottles in the palace, Master? ”

Earl Graham nods at Randall's question.

“Two bottles. ”

“Drink is for drinking. ”

“Of course.”

Eric's conversation with the Deputy Master of Royal Knights made him look uneasy.

“Thrón Blue is a treasure trove of burdens. Do you know how to show your taste for it? Jim will taste it secretly. ”

Then Randall looks at me and shakes his head.

“No, Duke Caroc, you! You look exhausted. Did I overdo it when I did the animosity? ”

Aha!

Mr. Randall.

Hold on!

“Ugh, yeah. It's never easy to make Wundine taste better, so you'll have to refine it for a while. ”

I made my peace with him.

Eric is embarrassed.

Ufufufufufu.His Majesty doesn't want to protect his highness. We don't entertain.

“What are you talking about? You can't be exhausted just because you did that. Don't lie to me. Hurry up and make these wines delicious. ”

“Your Majesty, it looks very difficult for me, but you'd better not force me. ”

Even Earl Graham gives you his solemn advice, and finally, Eric sighs and shakes his head as if he can't stop it.

“The crown fell to the ground. It's a sign that the country is doomed. ”

By the way, since we have lifted the hood of Thrón Blue, we cheer with our doubles.

Yippee!

I've enhanced the taste of all the wine here by getting Wounded.

In return, Queens Blood enjoyed the luxury of tasting even Thrón Blue, which I had never seen before.

“Hah... Why does the Kingdom of Leaden not come out like this?" ”

Eric sighs with a pitiful voice mixed with amazement and grief.

If you look at the remaining half of Throne Blue, everyone will hear it.

All the other wines were taken to the Royal Barracks, and we only enjoyed Queens Blood and Throne Blue.

Alcohol, especially extreme wine, exerts a mysterious power. Friendly to kings, knights and merchants.

No, I don't.

It's not just the power of alcohol.

This is the crown jewel of young king Eric Leaden.

A weapon that quickly becomes friendly with its target and makes its youth and impact into its own person.

You can tell by the two knights Randall and Earl Graham seem to know each other well.

He is certainly an exceptional king. But in his previous life, he was unsuccessful.

Why is that?

It's because the walls after the siege were that thick.

“Let me ask you something. ”

Eric opens his mouth.

“How did you decide to buy a lot of wheat in advance? ”

I know the future.

If I say this, I'll get slapped in the cheek.

“The wheat price of the last year was low because there was no bad news for five years, and it was a simple gamble that if you buy it in bulk, you'll see this when you go up next year, and the farming went well for five years, and it was a simple idea that it wasn't until the famine. Hahaha.”

Eric laughs as I smile.

“If that's true, then you're very lucky to gamble. ”

“Beginner's luck. ”

Not lucky, actually.

“You seem to be very good at negotiating as a beginner. ”

Even though I look like this, I'm over 80 years old in my past life.

“A compliment, Your Majesty. ”

“I hear you're in the pharmaceutical business this time? ”

You must know something about me.

“Yes.”

“Is that a gamble, too? ”

“Of course, Your Majesty. ”

Huh. This guy. Trying to spoon on someone else's dinner table?

Hmm. But it's also a sharp question.

“I'd like to hear it. Is it a gamble on any basis? ”

I hesitated for a moment.

What if the Royal Family listens to me and goes into the pharmaceutical business? Reduces my profits when an epidemic occurs.

But I made up my mind.

I decided to make money, but it's not about money. How many people can be happy with that money?

If I can save more people who will die from the plague, I can take the risk of my profits being reduced.

I've been feeling it lately, but maybe that's why I came back to the past.

Save people.

Maybe that's what I need to do.

“I simply thought about it. Diseases come when human health is poor. ”

But I can't tell you that I know the future, so you have to do a proper job of making horses.

So I told him what I had in mind.

“That's right."

“And according to the research done by the Magic Guild, the more unclean and dirty you get, the more likely you are to get sick. ”

Eric nods.

It was common sense.

After the results were published, the nobles who only bathed once a month started living with washing every day.

“The drought prevented me from washing off my water, and I was weak because I had no food to eat. Isn't that the perfect sign for an epidemic to occur? ”

Eric was flawed, I'd say.

“Your capital is good, but if you go to other bad lands, rats will devour the bodies of starving people. It's common on the streets. And I started growing herbs. ”

Yeah, it is.

It's simple.

But the whole continent was defeated because they didn't know it.

I panicked about the food crisis in front of me, and no one thought ahead.

A historian announced after the Great Plague and plague.

Statistically, the epidemic occurred more frequently after the famine.

Before that, it was common sense that no one knew about the concept of ‘statistics’.

Humans may look smart, but they are actually very stupid. I repeat the same history over and over, but I don't know the future, so I keep turning around.

I'm one of those people.

I'm just trying to be prepared for the future.

Eric says.

“Fair point, but it's not usually easy to do business on that basis. If you miss, you can't act boldly because you have to avoid failure. You need more accurate information and a clear future to be able to move around. So you likened yourself to a gambler. ”

“Yes, Your Majesty. ”

“But you know what? Seems you are more confident in your predictions than a gambler. as if they knew the future. ”

For a moment I was flawed.

Yes, it is!

As expected, Eric Lerdon was no ordinary man. People's eyes are as classy as an old monarch.

Eric smiles and says.

“You seem to know the future of this country. ”

Yeah, I know.

The future of this country.

This country collapses in less than a decade and is cut in half.