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"And while we're at it, why don't we collect some rice from outside of Glugaria?"

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"What?　Outside of the country of the Glugaria?　But wouldn't that cause the front to stretch too far?　As one would expect, even with the cavalry, it would be difficult for the Orientals to wreak havoc in various places with the number of soldiers they have."

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　Thanks to Oliva's [flame-thunder arrows], they burned down the grain storehouses in the most prominent places in the country of Glugaria.

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　Even so, reinforcements from other countries have yet to arrive.

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　So, I thought of using the extra time to take more rice from the surrounding areas.

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　But Oliva gives me an opinion about such a plan.

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　Yes, it is possible, but is it necessary to go that far or can we afford to do so?

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　This time, they are declaring war on the country of Grougary because of the attempt on my life.

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　For this reason, they are burning food in towns and villages in order to capture the army of the Bulgarian army, which has opted for a siege.

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　If they get their hands on the food of other nations, even those nations that have not sent reinforcements to the Bulgarian army may resent me.

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"No, we are not going to attack other countries at the moment. My view is this. I will buy rice from other countries at a high price.

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"Buying rice?　Do we have to pay them to do that?"

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"I think there's enough to go around. As we will see, the food supply is dwindling in the country of Bulgaria. And more than a dozen countries will send their armies and reinforcements to such a food-starved country. Of course, it will be difficult to secure food for all of them. But if they don't eat, they can't maintain their armies. What would you normally do in such a situation?"

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"Normally, you would buy food from the merchants who come with the army."

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"Yes. But merchants are basically money men. If they can sell to someone who can pay more than what other countries' armies can buy, they will sell to that person. So, if they know that the Orientals will buy at a higher price from the beginning, they will naturally reduce the amount of food they send to the reinforcements. Hopefully, we can speed up our retreat.

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　An army is a large organization.

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　It takes a huge amount of food to feed its soldiers every day.

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　But basically, you cannot carry such food around.

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　Most of the food for the duration of the war is procured locally.

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　Therefore, it is the merchants who actually do the work.

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　The army is accompanied by merchants.

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　These merchants gather food and sell it to the army.

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　On the other hand, when the army invades some place and loots it, the merchants may buy those goods.

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　The same may be the case with the small armies that come to reinforce the Gulagarias.

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　It is very difficult to supply food by land transport from their own country.

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　It would be better if we could use the river, but now that the magic iron ships of the Orient Army are holding the Gulu River, we cannot hope to supply ourselves with food by waterway.

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　So the reinforcements coming here will have to buy food that the merchants collect.

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　But there is no more food in Grougalia for the merchants.

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　Then they will have to gather food from outside of Bulgaria.

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　That's what we're going to do.

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　We will buy food from a number of countries for a set price.

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　We will use the Gulu River and the magic iron ship.

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　Using the Gulu River, we will buy rice here and there, and transport it in a magic iron ship with propulsive power.

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　Of course, there is a possibility that we will lose money by buying rice at a high price.

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　If we are going to fight an endurance war, we need to purchase rice in a way that we do not go into financial ruin.

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"Are you sure about that?"

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"I'll be fine. The Barca Church has a wide intelligence network."

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"The information network of the Barka Church?　What do you mean?"

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It's the difference in the price of rice in different areas. Actually, the price of the same rice varies from place to place. It depends on various conditions, such as crop failure. Nowadays, the town of Biden in the north sells at a higher price. The price of food went up during the winter, and it's still high.

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"...... So you are saying that you buy rice in the countries surrounding Grougalia and sell it further afield where you can get a good price for it. That way, we can earn money for the war and also make sure that the reinforcements coming our way will have enough food to eat. I see. So that's the kind of lure Master Alphonse was thinking of.

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"That's what I've been talking about with Kristina and others since we built the magic ship. To be honest, Ai also said that just by being able to do that, we would have a great advantage over other countries. Well, that's because of the increase of Barca churches all over the country. We can immediately know the price of rice in each area thanks to the Barca churches, so we can use this method."

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"Good. From what I've heard, there seems to be no loss, so why don't you give it a try?

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"Good. Okay, I'll call Ai and have him make the arrangements. We will buy up as much rice as we can from this area.

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　Thus, the Orient decided to use the Gulu River to buy rice from as many countries as possible.

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　From the town of Biden in the north to the downstream areas, they brought the rice they had purchased to wherever they could sell some rice and make a profit.

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　As a result, rice became scarce not only in Gulugaria, but also in neighboring countries.

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　It was around this time that reinforcements from other countries finally began to arrive by land.

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