Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru

"... Oh, I'm sorry. I just wanted to say."

As he solidifies as he looks at the beeball peeking through the mouth of the bag, Ichigo apologizes with an unpleasant sweat on his forehead.

"Or, Mr. Kazra, this obsidian called a bargain sale..."

"I'm really sorry, forget about the bargain sale crap. It is an obsidian named Beeball made in the kingdom of God. I call it glass."

Apparently, the word bargain sale doesn't work by itself, and Zirconia mistook it that the beads in the bag belonged to the name bargain sale.

This is good but totally bad.

"Glass...... you have all kinds of colors mixed in the transparent. Can you also make something like this in the kingdom of God... it's similar to the plastic you showed me before"

"You can have a look at it for your hand. So, how much are they going to sell for? Is that how you're going to manage your most recent financial resources?

Recommended well, Zirconia and Narson gaze at the beads with a shine to their hands.

If colored obsidian were very expensive, glass balls like beads would also be of considerable value.

"Right...... I can't say for sure on this occasion how much it will be, but I think I can sell it for a fair amount of money. But these are too rare, and it's a little tough to sell them by saying they've been mined in a mine... a complete sphere on top of a mix of colors in the transparent can be a lot of attention"

"Well... it would be nice to get some temporary financial resources, but someone is going to show up later to explore"

"Mm, is that right? I wonder if color glass is better than beeball"

I see, and a good thing he's nodding, Zirconia staring at Beeball next door looks at him.

"Do you also have colored glass?

"I do. It's called crystal glass, but unlike its beads, it's clear glass with a variety of colors, not something with colors in it that's transparent. Perhaps something similar to the occasional obsidian in this country."

A good word is crystal glass, which is the color glass used in glass crafts.

You can get as much as you want if you go to a store that handles Japanese burner work products, so I was thinking of sourcing it.

"The next time I return to the kingdom of God, I will procure it, so sell it and make it a financial resource. Do you have any color hopes?

When Ichiyoshi said so, Narson put Beeball back in the bag and turned to Ichiyoshi.

"Thank you. Now would you like something yellow green or light blue that has been on the market as well? Besides, I think it would be better to have something that is shapeless and crunchy than this one with a sphere like a bead."

"Okay. Bring some appropriately, and sell it off well. With that money, make up for the lack of financial resources for the businesses in the territory. And then we have to use that money to good offices utilities to make sure that money falls on citizens too"

I don't know how much money you can get with the crystal glass you plan to bring in, but as far as Narson's concerned, you'll get quite a bit of money. If you decide that you produced it all together in the mine, you shouldn't be suspicious even if you have some amount.

"The immediate financial resources are fine, but the problem is securing financial resources after the food situation in the territory has stabilized. When I spoke to Mr Narson before, I was explained that the territory is chronically underfunded, but that the prospects for improvement are not standing at all?

"No, if the barn zone is to be fully revived and yields more than before, some financial resources can be secured. However, immigrants from other territories come on an annual basis in thousands, so the premise is that free aid for that amount of food will continue from other territories. I don't have a problem with support from the southern milling territory, but I'm worried about support from the western Gregorn territory..."

"Uh, speaking of which, there were some stories... you were gathering personnel in anticipation of a resumption of war"

Earlier, Ichigo had been briefed by Roslu, who was accompanying him, on the population growth in Istel territory when he visited Istelia for the first time with the Vallettas.

It was said that we were gathering personnel in anticipation of a resumption of war, but the growing population on a thousands basis each year would make it impossible to keep up with food production if we did not expand agricultural land in a hurry.

Food aid is provided free of charge from other territories, but a previous story from Narson and Zirconia suggested that the amount of support from Gregorn territory in the west was rapidly depressing.

Food production must be increased somehow, as a result of the acceleration of food shortages in Istel territory.

"Now let's expand farmland beyond the current barn zone. I'll show you how to make a tool called a hand pump that pumps water up to heights. We should be able to expand our farmland with that."

"Hand Pump...... that's a tool I've never heard of either, but not on the water wheel I'm using right now? Although there are problems with the accuracy of the parts, they are already in the mass production system, so it would seem easier if we could count them."

"(Um, I thought you'd be eating up soon. I wonder if you care)"

Ichigo clapped out a little to Zirconia, who didn't immediately devour the proposed new tool offering.

Even if Ichiyoshi had been Zirconia's position, he would have jumped if it had been proposed to provide advanced tools.

I wondered if I was even afraid of the continued provision of tools and knowledge over the past few days.

"... if you need a water wheel, that's fine, but the size and nature of the operation of the water wheel make it a limited place to install it. Compared to that, the hand pump is compact and you don't have to worry too much about where it's installed, and it's more than five meters tall enough to pump water up… it's easy to pump water up to places that are higher than the walls outside the city. However, unlike a water wheel, you need people's hands, and the amount of water you can pump up is considerably less than a water wheel."

When Ichiyoshi explained, recalling what he had examined using the Internet when he had previously returned to Japan, the three non-Narson voiced "oh".

The water wheel installed in the river has a diameter of about four metres, allowing the water to be drawn up to a considerable height, even if the area bordering the water is subtracted.

However, the hand pump described by Ichigo is capable of pumping water much higher than its water wheel.

A little hill would allow you to send water without any problems, plus a hand pump across the relay point where you store the water. If you use it in combination on many steps, you would be able to pump water up even higher.

Conventionally, building a storage pond at height would have drained the water to the ground if you hadn't made it with the utmost care, but it shouldn't mean that if you made a mortar storage pond using lime that can also be procured in this world, the water would have drained out.

If you don't need to do that much, you can even make a simple water reservoir like a larger crate.

"That's a great tool. We will arrange personnel and tools, whatever you need, with the highest priority."

"Yes. I know you're going to ask for a lot of things, thank you. I will bring a paper later from the kingdom of God describing the sample hand pump and how to make it, so the production is from then on."

"... Lord Kazura, I'd like to ask you one question."

Narson opened his mouth thinking with a somewhat difficult look when he heard a good explanation and a good smile back at Zirconia smiling happily in a convincing manner.

"Is that tool called a hand pump an object that can also be installed in a narrow place like a pit?

"Depending on the size, it's not that big of a thing, so I think I can. That's about the size of it… put a long cylinder on the bottom side and keep it on the water to pump the water up."

Ichigo says so and shows the size of the hand pressing pump with his hand "probably about this much".

"Hmmm... Lord Kazra, with that hand pump, you may be able to dramatically improve the mine's productivity. I would also like to use some of the finished folds in the mine."

"In a mine? What do you use it for?

In contrast to Ichigo, who asks like he doesn't know exactly what the purpose is, the other faces became stiff.

"It's groundwater drainage. In the northwestern mountainous areas, besides open-air digging, pits are being drilled directly next to each other, but often groundwater springs up during mining operations. If there's some water, I'm letting it draw out in a handkerchief, but if there's too much groundwater, I had to give up the ore in that place. But when you can use the hand pump..."

"So all the ore that was submerged and couldn't be dug out will be mineable?"

To Narson's explanation, Ichigo nodded in an impressive way.

I just got an explanation for a hand pump, but is it something like a lord that immediately turns his head for non-agricultural uses?

"Besides, I was wondering if it would be possible to store large quantities of water in one place via a hand pump and wash away all around the deposits that are likely to be able to mine open-air at once. Depending on the amount of water flowing and the momentum, you should be able to expose deposits near the surface, so you will also be able to discover deposits you have never been able to find."

"(... what an amazing head loss this guy is)"

Yiliang snorted at Narson's story, but he was inner to his imagination and the speed at which his head spins.

Because Ichigo had never worked with Narson much before, he only had the image that he was constantly busy being chased by clerical work against Narson.

But even if I heard one story, I would seem to have many thoughts on what should be called a lord ruling Isteria, where as many as 300,000 people live.

"Others, if you can store a lot of water, should be able to pour water into an already abandoned pit and collapse it all at once. If you have a pit after the crash, you may still be able to pick a little ore, and you may find a new mineral vein. Mined ore can also be washed and sorted using pre-stored water, so ore mining will increase significantly."

"Well, that's a good idea. Make sure you try."

"Thank you," Narson said with a smile, acknowledging that Ichiyoshi felt something cold on his back.

"Mr. Kazra, this is the story I told you before when I was with you in the barn zone..."

Anticipating where Narson's story had come to a paragraph, Zirconia now brought the story with her.

"At that time, Mr. Kazra said he had come up with a good idea that could improve citizens' diet and make money at the same time, but would you mind telling us more now?

"Diet?...... Aah! Well, let's talk about it now."

I smelled Zirconia talking before, and the story was completely out of my mind because of my daily fatigue.

If Zirconia hadn't cut us out of the story, we'd probably have forgotten about it for a long time.

"Mr. Zirconia, have you ever heard of a building called the Ice Room?

"Himuro?... No, I've never heard that before. Does Nalson know?

"No, I've never heard of it either...... what is it like?

When I snorted at the two people who had such expressions as what they were talking about, I decided to explain the content to them.

From the beginning, I was not looking into the ice room in detail, so I can only explain it to the extent of the scarce knowledge I have right now.

"Uh, simply put, it's an ice reservoir. I keep a lot of ice cut out of lakes and ponds during the winter, and when it's summer, I take it out and use it."

"... do you store winter ice until summer?

For a good explanation, Zirconia has a surprising look on her face.

That face says, "It melts, doesn't it? He wrote:"

"You might think everything will melt by summer, but depending on how you do it, you can store ice for a long time without melting it. I'll tell you later how to make an ice room."

"Does the fact that ice can be used even in the summer mean that we should store meat and fish in that ice chamber and keep it cool?

Ichiyoshi snorts at Narson, who asks intriguingly.

"Well, that sounds like it in the mindset. The way I came up with it was to try and sell the ice I had built up in the winter in the summer. If you make and sell an ice chamber the size of a tank called a refrigerator at the same time, the demand for ice will never run out."

"Is it about Tans...... if it's about that size, you can put it in the average citizen's household as well. If the ice is cut out in the winter, it will be free... I see."

Narson nods impressively at what the refrigerator looks like, somehow imaginable.

"So, the problem is, we need a pond to cut out that ice. I thought I could use a storage pond in the barn zone to make ice, would you strain enough ice to cut it out?

When Yiliang spoke to Zirconia, Zirconia showed a bare gesture of thinking with her hands on her mouth.

"... it might be a little harsh enough to cut it out. Winter will be quite cold on the mountains, so I wonder if we can also take thick ice around midwinter if we build a new storage pond and keep the water up. Next time, I'll find out if there's a good place to build a pond."

"Please...... Oh, but next time I'll look into it with you, so wait until then to select a location. I'm going to go back to the kingdom of God and find out more about the ice chamber."

I thought for a moment about throwing a whole bunker of pond installations in Zirconia, but if you think about it, there must be a suitable place for installations and a place that isn't.

I don't know what kind of place to choose to build a pond, so I should contact a specialist once I get back to Japan and talk to them.

I'm going to honestly think that if I make ice, that's fine, but the know-how of my ancestors should exist to do anything, so I don't have a hand in not using it.

Knowledge that can be used should be thoroughly studied before being used effectively.

"(... researching again?

"Eh, that's about it for now about the ice room, what was it after... Oh, we also need to talk about the accuracy of the water wheel's workmanship, right? I need to go check out the workshop."

Zirconia glanced sideways at a good face, next to a good one reaching for material piled on her desk, saying so.

But as soon as I helped him pull out the materials, he started explaining the workshop in Isteria.