After the cleaning of the servants was over, Mitsuha took action at once.

First, Mitsuha's absolute ban on private rooms.

Of course, you will continue to use your office to do regular paperwork and to give instructions to your employees and their subordinates. However, considering the important paperwork and the work performed on the personal computer brought in, a conservation environment is necessary.

And there is also personal safety.

Eliminating the six "harmful", it also means "six people with resentment to Mitsuha in the field." They may guide and disseminate information on thieves and spies with remorse.

Also, the remaining servants may not betrayed now, but may take money or their family as hostages in the future.

Therefore, put your personal computer and other secrets in your private room and secure them with security equipment. So you can sleep at night.

Then, no one could inevitably enter.

I can clean my own room. Although the maids were able to go down considerably.

And make the living environment easier.

But there was no need to bring baths, utensils, water storage tanks and pumps from Japan.

Yeah, all the servants do it.

Oh, can I bring it in?

Then, the servant in charge of it will be unnecessary and you will get fired. That's "Nothing wrong, people who worked seriously".

I don't want to increase unemployed in my territory on my own.

At, it ended up installing a power generation system for AV equipment, a small refrigerator, an LED light stand, etc. in the security equipment in his room.

And recruitment of personnel.

Shortage of staff because one-third of employees were fired. We need defense personnel.

Is employment from within the territory? You can't just pull out the territory of another territory, and if it's a royal city or other free people, you're alone or with your family ... Let's talk with the butler. For now, a few people you can trust. We plan to increase it soon. I'll spread my hands in various ways. Let's recruit people with expertise in the royal capital.

For the meal, there is only one young chef other than the chef who was kicked out, so that's fine.

In the case of the former lord, the chef was in charge of cooking for the lord family, and the young cook seemed to be mainly in charge of preparing the dishes and meals for the servants.

No, I'm a cook alone. The servants should be able to cope because they eat instead of eating at once. I don't need a luxurious, full-fledged, or mostly-maintained meal.

, If you're doing this, it's a visitor.

Yeah, mercenaries and merchants.

I did not forget. Perhaps.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting for a long time. For merchants and mercenaries, 'Time is money' ..."

"No, there's no extinction. Looking back, I'll just wait a few days ..."

"Oh, that's right."

Pez and Willem, who returned me in my words.

Let's talk about work…

Consultation with Petz regarding handling items and taxes.

Tax varies by territory. It's natural because the conditions are different between the important points of transportation and the countryside.

Is it better to refer to the Bozes territory, where conditions are close and are said to be good politics, and give them a little preferential treatment? 20% of sales amount The more remote the area, the higher the transportation cost and the higher the commodity price, and the purchasing power of the people is still weak.

The trade route goes from the royal capital to the Bozes territory, from there to the Yamano territory, to the royal capital. Of course, you will also visit the towns and villages on the way, so when you come to the house, some of the products from the royal capital have been sold, so purchase them in the town on the way to fill up the unsold and the vacant space. The state that a little thing was a little.

Because you go through the same town on the way back, purchasing things for the royal capital is a way back. It is natural that there is no need to carry useless distances, less damage and less damage when attacked by bandits.

It is difficult to get good goods to our territory unless it means “it makes more money”. It sells even if it is expensive, and the tax is quite cheap.

If the tax is too low, the tax revenue of the territory will not increase, and there is also a balance with other territories, so you can not do much unreasonable. Ummm ...

"Sales tax 20%. If you don't want to take home products that are unsold, why don't you sell them on consignment? Because sales are done at our store, there is no need for stores or personnel, and there is no cost burden. .

And turn on crafts made in our secret workshop, there is no doubt that it will be profitable. Whatever you do, you can sell it on commission, in the form of Pez taking a commission. ''

"e……"

Pez is surprised. I'm surprised at such good conditions. It would be quite attractive to be able to cash all the unsold goods without any extra cost, of course, although taxes are cheaper than Bozes territory.

Anyway, the goods that did not sell on the outbound route are unlikely to sell in the same town a few days later. On the return trip, you want to pile up a lot of things to sell in the royal capital. It doesn't make sense to bring something back from the royal capital.

If you can get all the products, you don't have to watch out for unsold products and reduce the number of products. Even slightly expensive items can leave the royal capital in sufficient quantities to reach the Bozes and Yamano territories. And commissioned sales without commission. It's like getting a branch for free.

"Zee, please!"

Petz agreed with the prompt answer.

Yeah, of course, it's a lie, secret workshop, and I'm planning to turn around 100 items so that they don't cover the products of general store Mitsuha. If this raises enough revenue, the value of coming to Yamano territory may increase dramatically and the number of visits may increase.

However, this is a temporary advantage. We have to develop "attractive products made in this territory" as soon as possible so that I can go without me. Oh, first of all, make a shop directly owned by the lord ...?

After that, we will discuss what you want to bring to our territory, that is, order items, and consult about the frequency of visits for the time being. I would like to hear about Butler's Anton, other servants, and the townspeople. They will be adjusted separately later, and next is Willem, a mercenary.

"How much defense force do you need?"

Mr. Willem with a bitter smile at my too honest question.

"No, it's up to the enemy to attack, so I can't say anything. But geographically, this is not the place where other nations will attack. That's up to the group. "

Pu-um ... The population of the Yamano Viscount is 260, towns and three villages, 290 in total, 79 in two mountain villages, and 47 in one fishing village, for a total of 676 people. It is quite small for the Viscount. No, I wanted it myself. Originally a baron.

How do you protect it?

"Should I bring in from somewhere? Or should I recruit from the lay people?"

"Well, hiring in a royal city is expensive because it's a distant countryside. I would dislike having a family. And there is a problem with loyalty in the first place."

Ah, when it's time to get away, you can easily escape, or those hired as garrisoners can turn into bandits. In this area, even if you kill all the lords and take away all the money, you will not be easily caught. After all, there are no photos, no newspapers, no TV. There is no decent investigation.

Good, training in the territory! It also leads to employment promotion. Ask Willem to train.

But it is necessary to prepare for newcomers to be useful ...

Ah! Flash!

"Mr. Willem will hire you as the commander of the Viscount of Yamano.

The planned total troop strength is five who are commanders and below the commander. After that, 36 people from the territory will be convened at all times to serve both family and military services. Swap it from time to time to train some 200 men suitable for military service to some extent.

After that, we will select some promising people as standing guards. ''

"e……"

Surprised Willem.

"Mr. Willem, of course, should not only deal with basic weapons, but before that, I would like to train mainly on physical aspects and mental aspects as a soldier."

"Oh, oh ..."

Willem, are you a little upset?

Yeah, I'm going to go with all the soldiers.

Despite the small number of people, we cannot maintain a large number of standing soldiers. That said, with just a few soldiers, you can't even rotate security, not just defense combat.

Therefore, we decided to assign a “period of serving both family business and military service” in a shift system. The subjects are men of appropriate age for military service, who do not have any sick persons, etc., and who do not have a major impact on their family business even if they leave a little. After a period, you will be replaced by the next group.

In this case, there will not be a significant impact on production. Since you are coming from home, the burden on the lord is small. I'll give you full lunch for lunch.

$ 36 generals are divided into four squads of nine.

Each squad thinks that they will be divided into three groups of three, and that they will be divided into four groups of two and one will lead the four divisions as squad leader. On top of them, four officers. The top is Willem.

Women will also teach those who wish to handle weapons. Even if we don't go aggressively, women in this world should have the means of self-defense.

Speaking of "People's soldiers", it seems to be a kind of militant, but Switzerland, which is said to be a symbol of peace, is a permanent country in Switzerland. The people are required to train their weapons, each house has a gun, and in the event of an emergency, they are called up to hundreds of thousands of soldiers. It's a pretty military state, Switzerland. There is a lot of military industry and we are exporting weapons more and more.

Sometimes, weird people say, “Japan is also a neutral and peaceful country like Switzerland…”, but Switzerland is armed and neutral, and with the power of a rattle, “Don't go out of your way, Golua! Is a country. If you want Japan to imitate Switzerland, you must first recruit all national soldiers, allow weapons to be owned by each household, and foster a munitions industry. Japan is much less peaceful now.

Pia, you have to make a family register first.

Although military service, taxation, welfare, whatever you do, it's first from family register management. Since there are laptops brought in, managing less than 700 people is not too much work.

Of course, I'll also print it out on a paper medium just in case.

Also, we need to return to the royal capital once and get rid of the store and that matter. And I want to return to Japan and get started quickly.

Oh, busy!

I guess I'm going to take it easy, but why did this happen! !

Do you own your own business?