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"Therefore, it has been decided that the Acting King of the Kingdom of Fontana will be Rion von Graham and the Grand General will be Pecha von Einrad. I hope that all the members of the council and others will assist them and help to make this country a better place to live. With that, the Council is adjourned."

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　As I announced this in a loud voice, the participants in the council meeting left the room while discussing each other.

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　They are all powerful people in their own country and will probably hold several parties in the city of Fontana this winter to exchange more detailed information.

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"Why do you look so cheerful, Mr. Ars? What are you doing? Resigning so suddenly?

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"No, I thought if I told Leon, he might stop me."

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"Of course. How can I agree to suddenly quit if I'm told to do so?

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"But the people who came to the council meeting were reasonably happy, weren't they?"

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"...... there might have been some people like that. They probably think I'm easier to deal with than Mr. Ars."

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"They just think you're someone they can talk to, don't they?"

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Well, I'm sure you have more common sense than Mr. Ars. But there is a way of doing things. It's too abrupt.

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"Well, that's good. It all worked out. Rion's more capable than me, so go for it."

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"You're not thinking of just running away and taking a break, are you?"

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"No, I don't think so. It's not like I resigned and became unemployed. I'll do what I have to do.

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　The council meeting was over and I was about to leave when Leon caught me.

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　Well, I can see why Leon is angry.

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　Anyone would be angry if he suddenly told me.

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　But what has been decided can't be helped.

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　The future of the Kingdom of Fontana depends on Rion.

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　If he doesn't want to do it, he can force it on someone else.

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　But Rion will not do it.

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　He has worked so hard to revive the fallen House of Graham, and he has come this far to run the country on behalf of the king.

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　He will not step down from that position himself.

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　By the way, I have resigned from the office of Prime Minister and Grand General, and have been appointed Minister of Finance.

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　My main task is to make sure that the Barka Bank is well funded.

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　This is actually quite important, although many members of the council did not understand the importance of it.

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　Because in the present Kingdom of Fontana, there are several kinds of coins.

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　The silver coins I made at the Bank of Barca and other existing coins.

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　The situation is that these coins are mixed, but the ones other than the Barca silver coins are a little more problematic.

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　There was a serious incident in the Holy City and several other cities where money was turned into salt by the "Light of Judgment", and there is a concern about the shortage of money.

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　When there is a shortage of money in circulation, the economy stagnates.

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　If money itself is not available to buy goods, people will not be able to buy them even if they want to.

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　This could be the beginning of deflation.

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　Therefore, it is necessary to keep generating and supplying the amount of money necessary for the society as much as possible.

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　Surprisingly, most of the members of the council, a group of nobles and knights, did not understand this kind of economic concept.

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　Maybe it is because the basic tax revenue has been wheat until now.

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　The concept of a shortage of money itself is probably absent.

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　So, we need a person who is in charge of running the economy well.

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　I am going to do it now.

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　By the way, the first measure for that purpose is already in effect.

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　The loan to the Church headed by Pope Paul is it.

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　I have loaned a lot of money to the newly installed Pope's church, which has its headquarters in the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Probably, this must have seemed to Pope Paul as a devilish act to understand the other side's position and to take advantage of their footsteps.

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　But it is correct to say that this is one of the measures to prevent deflation.

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　The money lent to Pope Paul will be used soon.

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　It is expensive to gather the bishops from different parts of the country to Fontana in the position of temporary archbishop equivalent, and from there to reorganize and reestablish the lost church pipeline.

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　This means that a large amount of money will be supplied to the society through the Church.

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　In fact, the business of lending itself is not very profitable for me right now.

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　After all, I can produce my own raw material silver and turn it into money.

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　You don't have to earn money to produce it.

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　The reason why they went to the trouble of lending it to the church was also to give meaning to the money they created.

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　However, there are some problems with this approach.

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　One is the fluctuation of the value of silver itself.

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　I can create silver through the Tullow series, the white dog people.

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　But in other words, silver is like a piece of stone that can be made as much as you want.

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　There was a danger that the value of silver itself would plummet.

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　If silver loses its value, the Barca silver coin itself becomes worthless.

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　If that happens, it would be the same as if the banknotes were to become paper scraps.

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　Or, coins other than silver coins would rise in value.

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　We have to watch these trends carefully and act accordingly.

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　At the same time, the economy itself must be nurtured.

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　We should not have a society in which the powerful only collect the wheat harvested by the peasants.

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　We need to grow economically, slowly but surely.

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　That is why I have decided to make myself the Minister of Finance instead of the Prime Minister and Grand Admiral and to watch the trend of the economy.

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　It was never because I wanted to take it easy.

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　Thus, the Kingdom of Fontana had its strongest Minister of Finance.

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