The Best Assassin, Incarnated into a Different World’s Aristocrat
Episode XIII: Assassins Become Merchants
The moon was early, six months after Tart and I came to the city of Murteau.
The port town on Murteu territory was another name until a few years ago, but the lord likes it and has changed its name to his own to Murteu.
I have spent my time as an ilg of the Baron of Towaharde's house, not as a lug of the Valor Chamber of Commerce.
He dyes his noticeable silver hair black and wears glasses to keep him from realizing that he is a Lug.
Furthermore, the outfit has changed the appearance, even the tone, the voice, the tricks and the expression, and nothing thinks Illug and Rugg are the same person.
... There was also a lot of confusion at first.
What is more, Though Towahade flourishes by medicine, it is only a matter of lords and their divisions, and the territory itself is a rural area of agricultural subjects.
Everything here was too different in scale.
Where things gather, all talent gathers.
There are merchants, carpenters, alchemists, blacksmiths, pharmacists. With a wide variety of talent, things will naturally come into being and the economy will improve at an accelerating rate. In that case, it develops and swells more and more in the virtuous circle of bringing people together even more.
I spent nearly six months and liked this city.
If possible, I'd like to use the city as a Lug Towaharde.
Build a store in this city and commercialize the world with your opponents so you can enrich the territory of Towahade more.
To do this, I have to make a specialty of Towahards, but I have a rough prediction of what I can sell if I spend six months in this city.
... Though Thouahade makes a living from medicine and assassination operations, he also thinks it's important to make other income.
If you do an assassination operation, one day you'll be cut off. It will be necessary to secure new sources of income because of the end of that role.
I got to my destination. The office of the president of the Chamber of Commerce at the headquarters of the Barroll Chamber of Commerce. Let's keep thinking.
"Father, it's late."
"No, I'm sorry to call you so suddenly"
For six months now, he bows his head to the Lord of the Barroll Chamber of Commerce, who became his provisional first father.
I don't know where people's eyes are. So we're always dealing with each other as parents and children.
"What can I do for you today?
As Ilug, I was the concubine's son and was supposed to be out so as not to damage my real wife's mood.
And because my real wife's son is falling ill, it's set to be educated rapidly as a spare when something happens, as a merchant.
Not ashamed of the setup, Balor thoroughly slammed Iroja as a merchant into me.
Firstly, in the first three months, he worked as a clerk at one of the most prosperous stores in the Barroll Chamber of Commerce, experiencing a busy battlefield.
I was yelled at many times at first, but it became recognized from around me that I would learn to work, use my previous life's knowledge to improve and do my job smoothly.
As such, I moved to headquarters after being able to carry out my work in the field.
The Barroll Chamber of Commerce has several retail outlets in Murteu. Products lined up in those stores are about the same.
HQ is anticipating demand and deciding what to buy from each store. This improves the sales of all stores.
Either that or the work at headquarters is more suited to sex.
While using distribution and information networks stretched around the world, it is terribly difficult but inexorable to take all means to gather information and analyze them to predict demand.
I'm excited to find a new attractive product that will grow and negotiate with the supplier.
Because I like it, I have improved quickly, and now I am allowed to assist the Director General.
This position is good. Without exaggeration, information from all over the world is available. By then the information network of the Barroll Chamber of Commerce had been widely and deeply stretched.
The world looks good when you look at the flow of things and people. It would be clearer if we negotiated with people from all over the world.
"Ilg, you're doing really well... that's so much that I want to entrust you with the Valor Chamber of Commerce"
"That's impossible. Master Beruid is on his way to recovery. You'll never see me again."
"That, too, is because of Yilg. Raising you was to pay Kian back his debts... but when Ilgu-kun is so competent as a merchant that he has even had his son's incurable illness healed, I am rather gaining. On the contrary, I owe you more."
Since I've been here, I've taken on another job besides learning business.
Barroll's son, Beruid's treatment. It was true that he was ill.
When I checked, I had cancer. Because of the early stages, resection of cancer cells is leading to recovery.
The standard of care in this world is low, only Towahade performs surgical surgery, and cancer is considered incurable.
It is assumed that cutting to heal is impossible.
The condemnation of surgical surgery itself by the bishops of the country has also made surgical surgery an incurable disease that cannot be cured without even the cecum being towaharde.
To be complained of by the bishop, Towaharde was painfully forgiven for his overwhelming track record, and he had performed surgical surgery on his opponent who wanted to receive such treatment even against the bishop.
"Father, never mind. What I got in this land is huge."
I have seen things that I would never see in my life if I had spent my time as a nobleman in one country.
… Besides, they use their distribution and information networks to gather the information they need personally and make them purchase things.
One of the leading chambers of commerce in the largest port town in the world, with its distribution network, you can also get what you've never thought possible.
Either way, I want to be available even if I'm not in the position of assistant director general.
"Good for you then. I am a merchant. Because it's a disgrace to have my son saved, to be helped at work, and to have nothing to give back. It makes me feel easier if Ilgu-kun is getting something. … although I am prepared to return the increased debt in a different way. Well, that's a long time ago. I called you here today to entrust you with a new job. This way."
That said, Valor gives me the map and the building drawings. Located a short distance from the city's main streets, it is about the size of a large convenience store.
If you want to get a store with so many good terms in Murteau, you will either pay a rent that allows ten families to live on a month or pay that lifetime wage to buy it.
"It's a good store. This location, this size. I think I can do anything."
"Yeah, you actually crushed the store that was there. In addition to the stores that mainly deal with groceries and foodstuffs that Ilgu-kun was involved in, the Valor Chamber of Commerce has restaurants, stores that deal with weapons and protective equipment, stores that deal with medicines, and different stores."
Valor is not a store, it's a chamber of commerce.
It owns and expands different types of stores.
"Ilg, the store I had here was one that specializes in alcohol, but it didn't work and I had to close down"
The Valor Chamber of Commerce doesn't have a store like that. That means......
"I see, this store is a model case. Does that mean to try a different route from an existing store?
In addition to increasing the number of existing stores, the Valor Chamber of Commerce is also pioneering new areas. This would be part of it.
Just increasing the number of existing stores will sooner or later saturate demand.
So get your hands on a completely different area and if you fail, retreat while the wound is shallow.
If we succeed, we will model it and increase the number of stores.
A chamber of commerce is something that moves on this scale. (i) The success or failure of a store makes no fuss.
"Yeah, that's right. Stores selling food and groceries are highly competitive and bothered, arms are sold less because there is no major war, as are medicines.... Well, there's been an increase in the appearance of demons lately, and if you're in this way of increasing demons, the Demons will be back soon. That would boost sales of weapons at once, but you can't expect to do anything about it. We, the Balor Chamber of Commerce, need to move into areas of high growth as soon as possible. Even so, it's a three-time losing streak. No, it's tough."
With that said, I heard about one of the executives being moved left.
Perhaps the failure of the model case sounded.
"Are you sure you can count on me to leave this store to you that I called you on this occasion?
"Yeah, you'd blow in a new breeze. I feel that way."
"It's been six months since I've been here."
"I wouldn't ask for it if it was normal. But what you've done in the last six months is not normal. Let me tell you something good. For merchants, the ability to read demand and markets, negotiation techniques and customer service techniques are important....... but more importantly, what you need is an eye for a person. We're not gods, we know what we can do. Still, if I have the first eye for spotting people, I can do what I want. Find someone who can do what you want and just leave the job to them is enough. That's the superior merchant."
It's a heavy word.
In fact, a man named Valor has done so.
If I had only confined myself to moving my own hands, I would have ended up just flourishing one store.
But this man gained a hell of a fortune by leaving the store to people, choosing people who would entrust more than one store, and running dozens of stores that way.
The scale is too different.
"Father, you will learn. Readiness period, budget, any good personnel to use for that?
"Right. One month for the plan, two months for the renovation work. I just like the budget. We'll have the personnel we need."
I can't help it, my heart jumps.
I came here to feed on the assassination, and to qualify myself as a merchant in the name of Ilg.... If we succeed in this project, both of them will come true.
If one brand is entrusted, the information network and distribution network can be used even if it is no longer the secretary of the General Manager, and if the new brand launch of the Valor Chamber of Commerce is successful, there will be no more foil attached.
"Let me show you."
"Good luck. By the way, if we succeed in this project, we will increase the number of stores that have become models. And you will always be paid 5% of the advance that Headquarters collects from each store. This is no special treatment. Because it is the Balor Chamber of Commerce's stance to reward those who have opened up new markets."
"I was more and more motivated"
When it comes to money, it doesn't matter how much it costs.
Procurement of goods, as well as gathering information and using people.
It sounds like no big deal if you ask 5% of the payment, but it could expand the chain and increase by dozens of stores.
It would be an amount that an individual would not be able to earn if they were paid 5% from all of that payment.
"Well, I wish you success. My other son."
"I'll take care of it. Let us succeed."
"Well, you already seem to know what to start"
"Naturally. I haven't been in this city for six months, and I don't have a merchant who doesn't think about what kind of business I'd do. I've been planning for a new store for a long time, and I was going to submit a plan even without this one."
"... I really regret not being able to succeed Ilgu-kun. Suitable for the merchant who makes it"
Thus, he received the dossier and a large budget and left the scene.
He wants us to charge extra if we don't have enough for the budget.
Make this new store absolutely successful.
And let's just get the character known by the name of Ilg Barroll, not as the Barroll Chamber of Commerce.