"So... The first thing you do is roll up the money from me. That's too much, kid."
"I'm not a kid anymore, old man. For that matter, I gave you the land, so think of it as the cost of the land."
Create a single organization, the first thing I did.
That meant getting funding from a pedestrian old man.
I'm the one who was obliged to pay the church by naming using magic formations, but I'm done paying that amount for once.
Because I could pay for it like a whisker and with the trick and the money I was saving.
But Bishop Paul was greatly surprised to see the money I gave him.
Apparently, from Bishop Paul's point of view, the amount was small.
That's all I could have paid for, for one thing, a deal with an old man selling a servant beast or something.
I mean, the fact that I was able to save that much meant that my old man was making a huge profit, too.
An old man who was so accumulated that he wondered why he had been doing business until now.
It means they paid quite a bit of money for the land from that old man's money.
"Well, I'll leave it to you that I've contributed to the Lord of the Knights of Barca. But are you okay? It's like suddenly I'm in a position of nobility and I've created an organization, but I think it's going to be tough to do it."
"Right. In the meantime, we need to create a system that makes money."
"It's easy, but can you do it? I'm telling you, making money is harder than you think."
I know you don't have to say that.
Maybe I wouldn't have bothered so much if I were the head of the normal knighthood.
But my position is not normal.
He was originally a peasant, and from there he moved forcefully to a position of territorial control.
I also have an interest in Carlos, the owner of the Fontana family, who is a close parent, so I wonder why this is not happening immediately.
But most of Carlos' men wouldn't think much of me.
Maybe he'll be thrown into a war zone or thrown away as a pawn when he's mobilized.
Or, if the governance of the territory doesn't seem to work, there will also be something out there that would advise Carlos to take the territory away from me on the grounds of obfuscation.
So I can't just rule this territory mediocre.
We must raise the Knights of Barca strongly.
Money making would only mean that first step.
"Well, that's why we're going to need radical improvement. Specifically, we need to get out of the barter..."
The first problem will run out there.
There are nearly 300 people in the Knights of Barca who can use the magic of [tidiness] and [soil improvement].
So I am sure that food self-sufficiency will improve exceptionally.
But that's why I don't want them to keep bartering forever.
That's because at no time will any revenue come in other than the sales of the servant beasts I do and the cultivation of magic mushrooms.
First, let's make sure that all the inhabitants can make money, not things.
What is needed for this is, after all, the presence of merchants who are not in the land.
"So we're going to open up the market."
Thus began my economic reform.
The old man was going around everywhere as a pedestrian.
I was listening at that time, and surprisingly, the merchants are in trouble.
First of all, in today's public opinion, it can be quite a lot to just travel around the place.
If we try to go elsewhere through the territory ruled by each nobleman, we cannot carry goods as bare as they are.
There is something like a precinct everywhere, where they take tolls, etc.
What is even more problematic is the existence of guilds, a gathering of merchants everywhere.
It would have been a little easier to understand if one merchant guild was partitioning merchants from all over the place together, but it's not.
Alliances are disturbed everywhere and for each commodity, and they cannot be ignored and commercialized on their own.
If you try, it's not strange to be erased unknowingly.
But I'm not very happy with how this works for me.
Because the movement of things is suppressed by all sorts of circumstances, and the price really goes up.
This may not turn the money around to my people.
To some extent, price competition between traders would also be necessary in order to keep prices down so that even ordinary people could buy them.
To that end, I'm going to create a free city.
Open the city to the land I have prepared, without going through a guild or anything like that, and if I give you permission, you can buy and sell it freely.
Preparing a place like that would make the money flow somewhat better.
"No, it won't work like that. Who's coming all the way to such a remote place in the north? By the time we get here, they'll be taking tolls and stuff in some other territory, so I think we're gonna end up together."
Speaking to the old man about my thoughts promptly returned an objection.
After all, I guess I have to think of it as difficult only for people who have done business in this world.
But I think it depends on how you do it.
A system that allows merchants to come together voluntarily from the other side.
I started preparing to open the city, thinking that if I created it, the Free City would become busy.