Sweet Reincarnation

In the office of the Lords' Palace in Thursden, Mortaire territory, the concave (bump) combination of the Lords' deputies and the chief squire was encouraging.

Two people as far apart from each other as parents and children, yet breathtaking from years of dating.

The work of the Lords is diverse, including enacting laws, adjudicating trials, adjusting tax rates and managing tax payments, enforcing and operating public utilities, and developing the military junta. Blah, there's as much work as there is.

Which is where it is, basically money. Whatever you do, you need people and money, and if you say it to the big mess, you can say it's the lord's job to decide what kind of work to do, who, and on what budget.

In a world of intellect, the management of money is necessary on a regular basis, even in the Moltaire territory, which has become a rich territory thanks also to numerous measures.

"Boy, we've got an estimate for this year's income and expenditure."

Shiites, the squire chief, offered Payce about his income and expenditure for the year.

Normally, it is a tax when it comes to the income of territorial aristocrats. With various taxes to be collected from the inhabitants, it shall be income, and expenditure shall be on various things pertaining to the territorial government. Of course, the consular government and so on, where most of the income may be returned to the inhabitants as the fruit of the Lords' household. You can increase taxes to raise tax revenue, or you can invest for the future. Additions and subtractions depend on the lord.

In the case of the Mortairn family, we try to separate the income of the house from that of the territory. A policy whereby a portion of tax revenues is paid in lieu of salary, while all the rest is spent for the territory. This certainly had Pace's advice, but it is also significant that the winning casserole was the wizard of [instantaneous movement] and that many territories could be compared to various. Because I have seen a lot of things about the fact that the more confused the public and private sectors, the more obscure the border between the tax revenues of the territory and the income of the house, and the more aristocratic territories that use tax revenues for luxury goods, the poorer they become.

It is only natural that we suck wealth up from the civilian population as a tax and while we will be poor if we do not reflux. The rationale that modern people might understand by common sense can also be the wisdom of a wise man in a world with a low standard of education.

"Thank you. What did it look like?

Pais, who was looking at future territorial development plans, asks Shiites with the material at hand.

It is important to know how much room we could afford this year in order to keep the budget for next year and beyond in sight.

"Come on, in black about two thousand crowns. The details will go up and down to around 10%, but the numbers are mostly there, so you can't deviate like that."

"... two thousand plough gold coins? That's a pretty black. I thought it would be a little less because there was some sudden construction."

Two thousand crowns. If you are unfamiliar with gold coins, you can live for a year and a half to two years in a single crown, even though the amount is unprepared. If you convert this to about five million yen a crown with a modern feel, you will earn about 10 billion yen. Differences in prices and differences in living standards, of course, are only indicative because of the variety, but even if considered a local government, it is a considerable deficit.

The budget size is not two thousand crowns. We execute the budget, and the extra amount is two thousand crowns. Proof left that the Mortairn family's rise is real, and also because Pais is trusted by his men. It also means that sugar and sugar-processed products with high unit costs are as lucrative as abalone.

Looks like we could do some pretty big business next fiscal year.

"There are quite a few overdrafts from various chambers of commerce, including Deco's. At the example rain-begging festival, because I made money. Also, I couldn't control the information about the rain begging dance, so some places seem to make it a big business story. I caught a lot of big guys, and I got a lot of gratuities."

The magic candy enabled magic to be used even outside the wizard, a paice that went into the outrage of wiping out the mountains from the fact that manpower could be secured, but this drastically changed the environment in Mortairn territory. It started raining in semi-arid areas like the desert, but this is a lot of problems. So one hand that Pace rolled out, the rain begging dance.

It's silly, no matter how anyone sees it, but when they actually dance, it's starting to rain. I reopened it with Tehepero, so it's hard for a swinging adult. The other nobles will be feathers in a hurry to find out what was actually going on.

As the Mortaire family aimed, and also worthy of being worried about the contents of Pace's head by his men in the rain begging dance, information about the rain begging spread safely all over the place.

It is in the ear of a nobleman who was the Lord instantly, such as when it began to rain, because it is Mortairn territory, where intelligence agents are at last in spy heaven.

But that's where the response splits.

'I tried to light the fire and dance and it rained.

A story like this, first everyone listens with a spit on their eyebrows. If there was a person who suddenly told me to believe and believe, such a person would be a good customer of a con artist.

Naturally I doubt it. Take the back for granted.

When it comes to what we do next, it's common sense to gather more information.

Wasn't magic used on dancing? Weren't the sneaky wizards lost? Or maybe a revolutionary new technology has been developed. again, was there really something about dancing that would create supernormal powers? Maybe you relied on religious prayer or the power of cults. Haven't coincidences just overlapped? There was abnormal weather, and even disguised it as if it were our own power. Isn't it disguise or intelligence work that it rained? etc.

Build various inferences and hypotheses and try to find out what the truth is.

Some houses are as good as trying to test multiple hypotheses at the same time, others do, say, look for evil people by assumption, etc.

Whatever it is, the Mortairns have an extra spy replacement. It is the only now exclusive set with spy espionage agent Mashimashi Intelligence.

What will the newly arrived intelligence agents do?

First, as an affordable information-gathering destination, it hits the merchant. Merchants have lighter mouths depending on gold, and often hold important information. Of course, there will be plenty to be blown to a skilled opponent who is good at running. Conversely, however, it means that if you pay for it, you are very unlikely to have any bare hands.

The Nata Chamber of Commerce, which is connected to the Mortairn family, sold such deceptive information as "material information that is not known to be true or false" and made a lot of money. That's why they squeeze gold coins out of hundreds of pieces from big aristocrats' subordinates and thinkers. That's why so many people come all the way, so much money you can't stop laughing.

By the way, the best seller is about the "magic of Shiites". It means that many aristocrats want to ascertain the veracity of “rumors" that they can predict the future with the backgammon of the Thousand Mile Divine Eyes.

Thanks to this, the fact that Shiites is finally spreading to rumors of Loricon is a joke of a businessman. All this is bad for Shiites, who married thirteen daughters after forty.

"That would mean that the impact of the onset of rain in the Mortairn region would be enormous. Honestly, I never thought it would be that big a sum. That's more than I imagined."

"Yeah, we're saving too much money, so make money to the extent that we're likely to get complaints from elsewhere."

From the people who pay, I want to get the money I paid back as much as I can. I want to achieve results commensurate with the amount I have paid. This is natural.

But the Mortairn family's good intelligence warfare, his skill in information manipulation, is in season. There is also a counter-argument that Pace can use more than one magic. It is rarer for humans to have information that is as useful as they thought, for a commensurate amount of money, and for the most part they see them cry when they are paid a lot of money for trashy information.

I naturally regret my loss. But things are about the world behind them. It is not a matter of representations and complaining.

I am dissatisfied but can't even complain. But if you have to say something, it's also a natural emotion that your belly bug won't subside.

The reluctance of the Mortairn family to make a little too much money, etc., is one of the most recent increases.

"I can't help but save gold coins. Money only makes sense when you spend it."

Pais isn't even a money-keeper. I think that money and other things can only be used to make sense.

Especially when it comes to sweets, I even thought they should be used more and more because they are more meaningful than anything else.

Even if they say they squander too much on their hobbies from around them, they are confetti idiots who insist that it is a slight expense before the daunting of making confetti, trying to throw dozens and hundreds of gold coins at incoming fruits.

"Sometimes you save up and buy peace of mind, don't you?

Of course Shiites also stabs the gizzard because he knows that when he takes his eyes off for a moment, he spends money on the outrageous things Pace does.

Unlike when it was a mercenary in a creed to spend just what he had money for, now he's a father with a belt. The importance of savings is well understood.

"It's also reasonable to save for peace of mind to some extent, but if you save too much, you'll buy another anxiety. If they think there's money roaring over there, there might be people coming over the mountains."

A world where you go weak and strong on the ground. Protecting property must be done on its own. If you rely on people, it is common for you to be able to move forward. It is also in Zara that the armed groups push and steal away from the money. Being a bandit, a thief, an army of nobles, an army of nobles, an army of nobles.

There is no mechanism that can be pulled out at any time if only numbers are entered in the ledger, let alone electronically datalized and physically secure.

Protect property in kind, with strength. It is nobility that can be done.

In the case of the Mortairn family, a hostile aristocratic territory of another country exists next door over the mountains. Though there is a ceasefire, such is like a promise, and I don't know when or when it will strike.

If we talk about large quantities of gold coins, etc., the risk of aggression in other countries increases, as proportional to the number of gold coins.

The lack of money is also a problem, but that doesn't mean it's safe to save.

Speaking of which, were you able to settle your debts at Count Raing's?

"The Count's house, even if it rots. They let go of their personal wealth in a grand way and compressed their debt, borrowed money from close relatives and acquaintances at ultra-low interest rates to balance their income and expenses, and put in place a system so that they could move first. More economical than usual, but that's why they could hit us for a one-shot reversal."

In the lords of other countries, the most dangerous is Count Raing. He is a hardliner against the kingdom of God, a nobleman like Casserole said hungry wild dogs, who are after the kingdom of God with tiger vision.

Once Pais deceived… Under the circumstances where he was able to strip more than 10,000 gold coins at the end of the negotiations, suffer economic hardship from their effects, and strike Mortarn territory very far beyond the mountains. Until now.

But boulders are high-ranking nobles. Various policies have been mobilised and some have been piled up so far, and reports have been rising that we are starting to show our fangs here recently.

"'Cause we've changed a lot."

"Yep. I don't have a former mortarn anymore. What we have now is a vast flat area that has also become blessed with rain. It's a chunk of potential to continue expanding now. There are many people who will want it even if it is not Uncle Raing, so depending on the political situation, there is no denying the possibility that the enemy will come together in a party of prisoners to push them in large numbers"

For more than two decades now, the reason Mortairn territory has not been attacked by Count Raing is because Mortairn territory has been poor.

Moving the army can't be free either, so if you can't expect some revenue, you'll just be in deficit moving the army. Bandit operations also require running costs. The opponent, who we know will be in deficit, is only a loss to attack.

In other words, the fact that it was a poor territory was also an important part of our defensive strategy.

However, Mortarn territory has also recently become richer here. In particular, the onset of rain has revealed an increase in agricultural productivity in Mortarn territory in everyone's eyes.

When this happens, when it strikes Mortarn territory, it becomes profitable, depending on the degree of loss.

"Why do you have measures?

"What do you think moved the mountain to the west for? If a large army arrives that we can't handle with this force... the western Mortairn will be a big burial ground"

"Scared, scared. He doesn't know that. What if we split up a few of them and split up?

"We'll have to try to slow down and call for reinforcements in the meantime to buy time. The Confederate army, starting with the Ratesh family, and the national army where my father is, will be fine first. If necessary, we'll ask for reinforcements from the Eastern Valve."

"You've built a castle in the mountains. What do you say? I have money, and I can't do it, right?

"If you make it so blatant, it will, on the contrary, stimulate the Kingdom of Voltuzara. Now it's time to consolidate the inside and build up the force. External warfare will focus on diplomacy. This has rubbed my father's perception together, so think of it as a token of our commitment."

"Diplomacy. That means you need a lot of ground."

"I know. Honestly, there are times when foreign policy has been out of date."

The Mortairn family's existing diplomatic stance is military-family valve-oriented towards equal distance neutrality.

This is because, more than twenty years after the founding of the Mortairn family, the main source of revenue for the Mortairn family was in casserole earnings. There was a unique home situation where major industries were in the staffing industry, filling the deficit in territorial operations with mercenary operations. In this case, the Mortairn family's position in aristocratic society is the military force that other houses can use cheaply and conveniently.

The existence of a wizard that can be hired depending on the money. To make it happen, there is a premise. It means that all of the nobles of the Kingdom of God are potential customers.

Being hired by a house that is unnecessarily buying grudges can be risky, so basically the Mortairn family's foreign policy was one that moves on the assumption that they don't buy grudges. Yesterday's enemies are also today's guests. In diplomacy, the Mortairns have given way to a great deal of accommodation.

The exception is the home of each of Casserole and Anise, who have bought their anger all over their youth.

But things are changing now. If the casserole is more mercenary-operated than it is taken by the national army, it will mean with the rest of the fighting force, but there is undeniable degradation in terms of quality. Sometimes it was a mistake to compare it to one-man army power, but it was also a hurry to increase the number of people.

Even if you hired a squire in the first place, it is not possible to expand militarily or otherwise rapidly because it takes time to combat, including training. We manage to gather talent, but there are about thirty professional military squire members. More than half of us are inexperienced young men.

In terms of numbers alone, it conscripts somewhat better human beings, like the vigilantes in the territory, and about two hundred is the strength of the Mortairn family. It would be a thousand or so if you recruited a healthy man from the ground up and mobilized all the troops in the territory without thinking about it later. This is the armament of the Mortairn family as it stands. Extremely common baron equivalent or rather on a lesser level than a title.

whereas it is economically quite wealthy;

When it comes to economic size, if you are also a high-ranking territorial aristocrat, you move hundreds of thousands or millions of gold coins. but these are at the same time about the same compulsory spending, which is comparable to that of the Viscounts and Counts if they are bad when it comes to net revenues of two thousand crowns. At least, even the high nobility's sense of money can be described as obvious large sums of money.

Necessary expenses have not changed so much since they were militarily weak forces, and the Mortairn family has grown rapidly economically. While I make more money.

If this happens, the size of the hostile forces to be virtual will have to grow with Don. If you are ever a weak Mortairn family, your enemies haven't really tried to crush you either. It takes a thousand military units to crush a thousand casseroles, but it wasn't expected to be profitable until we moved so many armies. Even if you can crush the Mortairn family, what you can do is dry land that you can't earn in the busy. There were no human beings to crush the Mortarns until they moved the great army because of the small amount of money they received.

But right now, Mortairn territory has become rich enough to make a net profit of two thousand crowns a year. If it were such a delicious land, there might be people out there who think that waking up 10,000 units of armies would be profitable in the long run.

The assumption of the size of the enemy has grown significantly larger than ever before.

Then, instead of maintaining equal distance diplomacy as before, we should work closely with neighboring territorial nobles and central operational units.

A policy shift in diplomacy stemmed from the same circumstances.

Whether you get caught up in foreign, internal, or other local valves by making friends with nearby territorial aristocrats or the National Army, it's a higher priority to take the actual benefits that actually help you militarily. From profit-oriented diplomacy to military alliance diplomacy for security. That was the policy shift in your home, which was exchanged between the Mortairn parents and children.

From the form of relying externally on economic compensations to exporting military power, to the form of self-sustaining and importing military power. In a way, I guess it could be called stepping up.

Diplomacy for the times?

"Yep. It's diplomacy that has so far dared to distance itself from the nearby aristocrats in order to get along with the distant aristocrats. From now on, even if other places become alienated, we will be thoroughly friends with near-field nobles. To do so, I will actively participate in socializing if necessary. At the same time, it will also proceed with the development of the territory, continue to develop and recruit human resources and move towards the creation of a standing army. It's not a vigilante, it's a group of soldiers."

From an era when both the economy and the military were at their lowest levels, we entered an era when only the economy grew rapidly. The next thing to look at as a Lordship, then, is the development of a military force that is only appropriate for the size of the economy.

Unlike an economy where you can make a lot of money at once if you get a hit, training people takes ten years. If it's going to work, it better be quick.

"Do you have any ideas?

"... that's the thing, I'd like Shiites to do a little"

Pais looking to the future strikes a new hand again.