Santairiku Eiyuuki

"Not enough troops."

"Isn't there a standing army"

"That's not enough."

To Elquille's words, Carolina leaned her neck wonderfully.

From Carolina, I feel like I have a strong enough army.

"In the first place, Carolina. Do you understand what countries are around our country?

"Naturally. What do you think people are?"

That being said, Carolina explains to Elquille one by one.

First of all, the Kingdom of Fars, the largest enemy of the Lemurian Empire.

Also called the Farth Empire.

A great power, comparable to the Lemurian Empire.

Religion is a polytheism with the God of Justice, Law and Fire, Abra Dazzle, God as the supreme God.

It is holy fire.

Conflicts persist because the Lemurian Empire and the Kingdom of Fars consider both sides to be demonic nations that should destroy each other.

It should be noted that a truce is now under way.

Because Hadrianus III, the father of Elquille, twice defeated King Sasan VIII of the Kingdom of Pharus, who made peace by paying large contributions.

This large contribution payment is oppressing the national treasury of the Lemurian Empire.

This is not the only enemy nation of the Lemurian Empire.

Another, the Bulgarian kingdom, a state of nomadic Bulgarians in the northwest, exists.

(* Although they claim to be empires, they do not recognize any country, including the Lemurian Empire, and will henceforth be described as the Kingdom of Bulgarons)

These nomads are a people from the Far East, completely different from the people around here in the first place in terms of skin and face shaping.

Mongoloid.

That may be easy to understand.

This Bulgaron kingdom has attacked the Lemurian Empire many times and is so powerful that it has besieged Nova Lemuria three times.

With this country, too, the Lemurian Empire has made peace by paying its contribution payments.

And the same Messianism in the West...... divided by nations of different doctrines.

Their relationship with the Lemurian Empire remains in a state of well-being…

I don't know when I'll fall.

The Lemurian Empire was in a very nice state where all sides were almost enemies.

"Clarifying, paying a contribution payment is not bad for the time being... but it is in very bad shape being held to the right to life and death. We need to get some proper armaments in place as soon as possible"

"How much force does that require?

"At least don't need a hundred grand just for the infantry."

"Jiu, one hundred thousand..."

Currently, the military power of the Lemurian Empire totals about 20,000 infantry, 10,000 archers and 10,000 cavalry.

Eighty thousand more infantry from here... we also need to have archers and cavalry to support it.

"Well, the ideal would be about 150,000 infantry and 50,000 cavalry, two bowmen, 30,000."

"... is it three times what it is now? Can you do that?"

"I can't do this right now."

I can't, but there's actually nothing I can't do if I want to.

Yes, if you multiply it by a very heavy tax.

Most importantly, if we do that, the country will lean quickly and collapse from within.

"After tax revenues, if we double the amount, we'll be able to align them..."

"It's also hard to double it, but even if you double it, you can't get more than 200,000 troops in alignment?

"No, if my calculations are correct, I can align them."

I would use a little backgammon.

"Can't we hire mercenaries? It would be cheaper to hire someone on a temporary basis."

"You don't like mercenaries very much."

Repeat the looting on your own, and if the war gets worse, you run.

That is the presence of mercenaries.

I have to use it if I don't have an alternative, but I don't want to use it if I can.

"First, I want to double my tax revenues"

"... can you increase it?

There's nothing you can't do.

Full production of coffee and bone ash porcelain is now beginning.

And then, in ten years, it will definitely be one of the major industries of the Lemurian Empire.

But it's still not enough.

Industrial products are never bad...

After all, the most efficient means of earning foreign currency is…

"After all, I think sugar cultivation is the best."

"Sugar?"

Carolina tilted her neck.

There were two kinds of white powder before Erkür's eyes.

It is not a powder that makes me feel better when I smoke it.

It may feel good to lick it... but it's nothing suspicious.

It's just sugar.

There are two kinds of differences.

"Carolina, why don't you lick it"

"Sugar......? I don't mind..."

Carolina hands the sugar on her right and licks it pero.

Yeah, sweet.

"It's sugar."

"So, what's left?

Carolina licks the sugar on her left, tilting her neck.

Yeah, sweet.

"It's sugar."

"Can't you see the difference?

"Hmmm...... you taste worse on the left. It has a clutter."

"Exactly"

The sugar on the right is sugar imported abroad by Erkühr, that is, from the East.

The ingredient is sugar cane.

Meanwhile, on the left...

"It's sugar made from vegetables for feed."

"Huh? Is that the pickled vegetable?

Carolina's known pickled vegetables eat leaves, eat roots, and feed cattle and horses.

At least it won't be sugar.

"Well, it was five-fifths whether or not I'd succeed."

In this world, sugar is treated as a form of spice.

Basically, sugar is very valuable because it only has a sweet taste to the extent of honey and fruit, and is traded at a high price.

Since this sugar is imported into the Lemurian Empire via the Kingdom of Fars......

Importing sugar would spill foreign currency and at the same time enrich the enemy country, the Kingdom of Fars.

But that's not why we're taking the embargo.

So Elquille thought about growing sugar.

The percentages and erkür are those who like sweet things, so it matched their personal erkür desires.

Now, the question is how do we grow sugar?

In general, there are two types of sugar in circulation in Japan.

Sugar made from vegetables and sugar made from sugar cane.

In this world sugar is basically a thing to make from sugar cane, and no method of removing sugar from vegetables has been established.

In the Lemurian Empire, however, vegetables are grown very normally.

Although sugar cane is not grown...... it is possible to buy a slave that can grow sugar cane and sugar cane if you order the merchant to pay a lot of money, and it can be grown because the south of the Lemurian Empire is a tropical region.

It's easy to grow, but I don't know if it can be refined, and I can't guarantee the flavour if it's made.

Sugar cane sugar that is likely to take a long time to obtain and produce in bulk, but can be definitely refined to guarantee flavour.

Elquille was troubled.

And I concluded.

Let's do both.

That's why Erkühl was doing both sugar refining from vegetables and obtaining sugar cane in parallel at the same time.

As a result, both went well.

The method of removing sugar from vegetables was only approximate, so it was possible to increase the number of attempts and make improvements over and over again.

If you are a sugar cane, it has been brought to Lemuria with a certain Kunara.

"Isn't that awesome! You mean you can eat sugar every day from now on!!

"... No, you can import it if you want to eat it every day"

Nothing. Erkür says it doesn't matter whether sugar can be produced in our country or not.

"The Galeanos family's finances make it difficult."

(I'm going to marry her anyway (she's going to be my daughter-in-law) and I'm going to buy her...)

I thought so, but Elquille held her mouth.

Exactly, I'll feed you sugar every day, is too bad for a proposal.

"By the way, do you double your tax revenues with sugar?

"That's just not gonna double."

Erkühl's fiscal reforms alone have finally increased by a factor of one or five.

Sugar is not enough in the end to further double this.

"Restoration of land loss and devastated land, reconstruction of infrastructure. Something authentic is important."

It's important to take the obvious for granted.

It's very difficult to take that for granted...

At least just because you've grown sugar doesn't mean the Lemurian Empire's national power will soon rise.

It will take at least ten years to get on track.

"Well, the only craftsmen who know how to make sugar out of vegetables first are me and the artisans who cooperated with the experiment. And sugar cane, I'm the only one with it. We're both trying to make money out of monopolies."

When it was possible to produce in large quantities, it was intended to profit by multiplying it by a sugar tax instead of lifting the monopoly.

"Well, why don't you put aside the hard stories and have a shortcake?

"Soaked? What is it? It is"

"Sweet treat."

"Sweet...... I'll eat!!

They then had a sweeter time than sugar.