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"Okay, we're going to do a land inspection."

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"What's a land inspection, Ars?"

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"After all, a cadastral survey is a cadastral survey, brother Byte. It means to properly survey the size of the land and find out how much yield there will be."

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"Hmm. I'll pass. I'm not good at math like you."

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　This was after I had finished spreading the word about brick making and the cultivation of magic mushrooms to give work to those who had no land to farm.

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　For the time being, I don't think I can grow magic mushrooms right away, but I can make bricks as long as I have enough magic power, and I can earn some money.

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　So, we have decided to leave the people without farmland aside and deal with the people with farmland as well.

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　Those with farmland will probably continue farming as they are.

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　Not all of them want to go to the battlefield just because they can use magic, but many of them would rather farm to their heart's content now that they have magic for farming.

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　But here is the problem.

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　The very fact that the harvest will increase dramatically if you use the magic I have given you, [Soil Improvement], is the problem.

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　In the past, the village head would collect and store the village's harvest and hand it over to the tax collector.

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　But there is no way you can pay me the same amount as before.

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　It is only natural, since the amount of the harvest will undoubtedly increase.

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　But this does not mean that I should simply increase the amount of wheat I pay taxes on.

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　After all, farmers do not want their wheat to be taken away by those in power.

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　What would you think if the amount of wheat taken away from you increased immediately after I became the ruler?

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　Even if there is a fact that the harvest is increasing, I doubt they would look at it in a good way.

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　So, I decided to conduct another land survey.

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　The purpose of this is to show that the amount of wheat to be delivered from the next harvest will be changed by checking the area of the farmland and clarifying the amount of harvest from it.

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　However, there is also the fact that I do not have the data of the farmland without actually checking it out.

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　I will have to do it, after all.

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　However, I realized that I am at a loss how to measure the size of the land after I decided to do the land survey.

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　I did not even have the surveying skills to do a land survey.

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　What should he do?

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　Should I make a tape measure to measure the size of the land, but then I asked myself how long a piece of string would be needed?

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"What ......, brother Ars, is that what you are worried about?"

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"Don't say that, Kyle. I look like I'm really stuck."

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"Because it's not that easy. I think you can easily tell how much farmland you have by how many times you've cleared it."

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　But the answer to my problem was solved in a flash by Kyle.

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　Kyle told me clearly that the [land preparation] process always produces the same size of land every time, no matter who can use my magic, so there is no mistake if I use that as a standard.

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　It may be true.

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　Based on my memory of my previous life, I made the incantation [Seji] with the image of leveling a square of land with 10m on each side.

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　Incidentally, since I also made the spell of [soil improvement] based on [land preparation], the area was the same for both spells.

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　The land survey was completed only by checking how many times the spell could be used to fill the area of each farmer's farmland.

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　Furthermore, even those without special measuring skills could measure the area.

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　Thus, the area of land in the territory of the Knights of Barca was counted as "a piece" once the area affected by the [land clearing] was done.

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　The area of land in the Barka Knight Territory is counted as "one piece" when the area is affected once by [clearing].

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"Kyle, while we're at it, let's decide on a unit of length."

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"Unit of length?"

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"The length of one side of a piece of ground divided into ten equal parts is one meter, and the length of one side further divided into one hundred equal parts is one centimeter. No objections are allowed."

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"I guess it's okay. I don't think there will be any objections.

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"We should also decide on the weight and so on. I'll put it all together in a list.

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"Okay, okay. I'll let everyone know."

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　Once the unit of length is determined, other units can be created in conjunction with it.

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　For example, the volume of water of 10 x 10 x 10 cm is 1 liter, and 1 liter is 1 kg.

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　This is all it takes to create a unit of volume and mass.

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　Let us further assume that the temperature at which water boils is 100 degrees Celsius.

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　In this way, we have a unit of measure that is familiar to me.

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　Thus, the units of length and weight that would become common knowledge in Barka appeared.

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　The people who had been counting things in a rather lax manner before found it relatively easy to understand the numerical values based on the things produced by their magic, and this unified unit of measure became widespread in the territory of the knights of Barca.

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