I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Cas

Chapter 86 - Economic Reform

 

"Hidee ....... The first thing you're going to do is take money from me? That's too fucking harsh, kid."

"You're not a poor man anymore, old man. I gave you the land, so consider it as the cost of renting the land."

　The first thing I did after establishing a system of organization.

　The first thing I did was to ask the old peddler to give me some money, which I had to pay to the church for reasons.

　I was able to pay it with the money I had been saving up in my savings.

　However, Bishop Paul was very surprised when he saw the money I had paid.

　Apparently, the amount of money was not a small amount even from Bishop Paul's point of view.

　The only reason I was able to pay that much was because of my business dealings with the old man, such as the sales of the Familiars.

　In other words, the fact that I was able to save that much money meant that the old man was also making a huge profit.

　The old man had accumulated so much money that I wondered why he had continued to peddle until now.

　It's a good idea to take a good amount of money from the old man's pocket to pay for as rent.

"Well, I'll just pretend that I made a donation to the head of the Barca Knight's Domain1The official name of Ars' territory now is 'Barca Knight's Domain'.. But are you okay with that? It seems like you've suddenly taken the position of a nobleman and created an organization, but it's going to be hard to make ends meet."

"I guess so. For now, we need to create a system to earn money."

"That's easy to say, but can you do it? I'm telling you, making money is a lot harder than you think."

　I don't need you to tell me that.

　If I were the head of an ordinary knight's domain, I might not have been so worried.

　But my position is not normal.

　I was originally a farmer, and I rose to the position of lord by force.

　I would like to think that Carlos, the head of the Fontana family, who is my Parent2I'm now just going to capitalize the Parent when I talk about the one which has a spiritual connection with others., has some interest in me, so I won't have to deal with anything too tough right away.

　However, most of Carlos' subordinates probably don't think well of me.

　Maybe I'll be thrown into a fierce battle zone when I'm mobilized, or maybe I'll be used as a pawn.

　Or, if the governance of the territory doesn't seem to be going well, some of them will advise Carlos to take the territory away from me, using that as a reason to make things difficult.

　Therefore, I can't just rule this territory in an ordinary way.

　I have to make the Barca Knight's Domain strong.

　This is the first step in making money.

"We need to make drastic reformations. Specifically, we need to get out of bartering......."

　That's the first problem.

　There are nearly 300 people in the Barca Knight's Domain who can use [Leveling] and [Soil Improvement].

　Therefore, I think there is no doubt that the food self-sufficiency rate will improve dramatically.

　However, that does not mean that we should continue to barter with each other forever.

　If that's the case, I won't be able to earn any money other than from the sale of my Valkyries and the cultivation of magic mushrooms.

　First of all, let's make sure that all the people in the territory can earn money, not things.

　What we need are merchants, people who don't exist in this area.

"That's why I'm going to open the market."

　And so my economic reform began.

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　The old man was a peddler who traveled from place to place, and from what he told me, it was surprisingly difficult to be a merchant.

　First of all, in this world, it is quite difficult just to move from one place to another.

　If you want to go to another place through the territory governed by each nobleman, you can't just carry your goods through.

　Each place has a kind of barrier, where you have to pay a toll.

　A further problem is the existence of Merchant Guilds in each region.

　It would have been a little easier to understand if there was one merchant guild in charge of all the merchants in each region, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

　There are guilds for each region and each product, and you can't just ignore them and do business on your own.

　If you try to do so, you could be erased without anyone knowing.

　But I'm not too happy about this system.

　The movement of goods is suppressed for various reasons, which inevitably leads to higher prices.

　This means that the money may not be able to reach my people.

　In order to keep the prices down to a level where even the common people can afford them, we need to have price competition among merchants.

　For this purpose, I would like to create a free market.

　Without any guilds, we can open a market on the land I've prepared, and as long as I give permission, people can buy and sell freely.

　If I could set up such a place, the flow of money would be a little better.

"No, it won't work that way. Who would come to such a remote place in the north? You'll have to pay tolls in other territories before you get here, so it'll be the same in the end."

　When I told my thoughts to the ojiisan, he immediately replied with a counterargument.

　I guess, as a person who has been doing business in this world, he must think it is difficult.

　But I think it depends on how you do it.

　If we can create a system where merchants will voluntarily gather from the other side, we can have a free market3Free market' can also be translated as 'city'. Just a heads up..

　I thought that if I could create such a system, the free market would become more popular, so I began to prepare for the opening of the market.

CadmarLegend Late chapter, but I still got it in.