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"Hideous ....... The first thing you do is take money from me. That's too much, kid."

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"I'm not a monk anymore, old man. I gave you the land for it, so think of it as payment for the land."

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　The first thing I did when I got organized.

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　The first thing I did was to ask the old peddler for funds.

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　I had to pay the church for naming the magic circle, but I had already paid the amount.

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　I was able to pay it with the money that I had been saving up like a navel.

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　However, Bishop Paul was very surprised to see the money I gave him.

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　It seems that the amount of money was not small even from his point of view.

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　The reason I was able to pay that much was because of my business with the old man, such as the sale of the beast of burden.

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

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　The old man had accumulated so much money that I wondered why he had been peddling all this time.

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　The old man had paid me a good amount of money for the land from his money.

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"Well, I'll just say that I made a donation to the lord of the knight of Barca. But are you sure about that?　It seems like you've suddenly taken on the position of a nobleman and organized yourself, but I'm sure it's tough to make ends meet."

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"Yes, it is. For now, we need to create a system to make money.

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

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　I know that without being told.

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　If I were the head of an ordinary knighthood, I might not be so worried.

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　But my position is not normal.

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　I am a peasant by nature, and from there I rose to the position of a landowner by force.

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　I have a certain amount of interest in Carlos, the head of the Fontana family, my closest relative, so I would like to think that there will be no immediate problems with him.

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　However, most of Carlos's men will not think well of me.

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　Maybe I will be thrown into a fierce battlefield when I am mobilized, or I may be used as a pawn.

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　Or, if the administration of the territory is not going well, there will be those who will make it difficult for me and advise Carlos to take the territory away from me.

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　Therefore, I cannot just rule this territory in a mediocre manner.

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　I must make the knightly domain of Barca strong and prosperous.

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　Making money is only the first step.

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"Well, that's why we need to make drastic improvements. Specifically, we need to get out of barter. ......"

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　That will be the first problem.

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　There are nearly 300 people in the Barka Knight Territory who can use the magic of "land preparation" and "soil improvement".

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　Therefore, I am sure that the self-sufficiency rate of food will improve dramatically.

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　However, it is not good if we continue bartering only forever.

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　If that is the case, there will always be no income other than from the sales of my messenger beasts and the cultivation of magic mushrooms.

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　First of all, let's make sure that all of our residents can earn money, not things.

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　What is needed for that is, of course, the presence of merchants who are not in this area.

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So we are going to open up the market.

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　Thus began my economic reforms.

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　The old man traveled around as a peddler.

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　I had heard his stories, and it was surprisingly difficult for him to be a merchant.

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　First of all, in today's world, it seems that just moving from place to place is quite a hard job.

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　If one tries to go to another place through the territory ruled by each noble family, it is not possible to carry goods in a casual way.

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　There is a kind of barrier at each place, where tolls are charged.

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　A further problem is the existence of guilds of merchants in each area.

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　It would have been easier to understand if a single merchant guild was in charge of merchants in each area, but this does not seem to be the case.

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　However, it seems that this is not the case. There are guilds for each region and each product, and it is not possible to ignore them and do business on one's own.

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　If you try to do so, you may be erased from the market without being noticed.

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　But I am not so happy with this system.

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　The movement of things is restrained by various reasons, and the prices inevitably go up.

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　This may not be able to send the money to my fiefdom.

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　In order to keep the price down to a certain extent so that even common people can afford to buy, it is necessary to have price competition among merchants.

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　For this purpose, I think to create a free market.

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　Without any guilds, I will open a market on the land I have prepared, where people can freely buy and sell whatever they want as long as I give them permission.

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　Such a place would improve the flow of money.

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No, it won't work like that. Who is going to come to such a remote place in the north? They'd have to pay tolls in other territories to get here, so I guess it's all the same in the end.

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　When I told the old man what I thought, he immediately responded with a rebuttal.

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　I guess he must think it is difficult because he has been in this business for a long time.

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　But I guess it depends on how you do it.

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　A system that allows merchants to gather voluntarily from the other side.

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　Thinking that if I could create such a system, the free market would become more crowded, I began preparing to open the market.

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