Tearmoon Empire Story

Episode 71: Ludwig, do

“If you are transporting from overseas, you will be pricing your share, but what do you think of the area?

Marco said to get his own guess backed up.

In response was Ludwig, a youth civilian who had refrained behind Meer.

“This will be the specifics of the contract”

When he saw the parchment handed to him, Marco roared again.

– This is…, exquisite pricing.

Meer with a hock-face when you can buy wheat cheap. However, there had been a definitive discrepancy between her and the average person’s senses.

What does Meer consider cheap pricing compared to?

Yes, at the time of the great famine, it was the price of a crazy era when a bag of wheat was said to be able to buy a castle.

So, what happens when you look at the “cheap price” Meer presents, in a general sense?

– Even if you think about transporting it from a remote location, it is still priced disproportionately, right? This will make money, unless the purchase value is soaring as much.

Marco recognized that Meer’s proposal was a kind of exchange condition.

Usually, instead of paying extra money, the deal is to help in times of famine.

That, to put it, is a concept close to “insurance” which has not yet been born in this world.

– No, that’s not all…

Marco, a competent merchant, further read what was included in this proposal.

He realized the biggest benefit he would gain from riding Meer’s proposal, “Maintaining Distribution Routes.”

In the first place, why is food expensive in times of famine?

It is, of course, a balance between demand and supply, but if we subtract that, the price of wheat still has to be higher.

Because it’s actually costly.

Assuming that wheat not normally handled is attempted to be imported from abroad. In that case, the Folk Road Chamber of Commerce must start by getting a referral to a farmer growing wheat abroad.

Also, what should transporters look like?

What should I be aware of when transporting?

In the case of wheat, you may not need to be so concerned, but still, you will need a lot of know-how, and you may need to hire a knowledgeable person.

If we’re going to get distribution done from scratch, we need to cost it.

When it comes to creating non-existent streams, it takes a lot of energy.

But even if it’s fine, what if distribution could be maintained? Isn’t it easier to expand the thin flow than to revive the constant flow?

– If only distribution routes could be maintained, they would be able to be transported smoothly and at lower cost faster than anywhere else in the event of various famines.

The reason why we can’t keep it is also a matter of cost.

unreasonable, such as continuing a sales channel that only generates profits in times of famine.

If you prioritize making money, naturally, you should cut it and throw it away.

– Will Princess Meer take charge of that?

Ordinary interests are guaranteed by the Empire and a distribution system that ensures food supply in the event of famine.

When famine strikes, even if you sell the promised goods to the Empire, you can sell food ahead of other chambers of commerce.

– I didn’t know that it would benefit me, as a business partner, while building a system that wouldn’t starve the people of my own country……, what is it?

Capturing Marco was an emotion that should also be called fear.

– Chloe, what did you make a friend of…

With admiration, Marco bowed his head.

“The Fork Road Chamber of Commerce will make a covenant with Her Royal Highness on this condition”

When she heard it, Meer laughed with satisfaction.

– Master Meer’s mind doesn’t know it’s going to fade…

While watching Marco bow his head, Ludwig was putting his thoughts to Meer’s further aim.

Meer’s crushing words “friend price”.

He had found a special meaning there.

– Lady Meer prepared a reason for the nobles to be satisfied by denigrating themselves.

Speaking of wasting “to keep the people from starving,” the nobles rebel.

Because they don’t understand what a noble will is.

Whether the people starve or die, they are not interested. So I get no understanding, no empathy.

But to benefit a friend, what do you say?

Then the aristocrats can understand. Because it’s something they do well themselves.

Indeed, if those who blame themselves for their wrongdoing were themselves working wrongdoers, they would buy disharmony. However, that selfishness can be done with “the arrogance of the Emperor’s blood clan”.

In their noble common sense, that degree of arrogance is perceived as “naturally to be forgiven”.

– No, Meer, if you are, or…

Ludwig was confident in the work Meer had done while going to school.

But it’s not that I feel too tight. Feeling that, Mia took the initiative to loosen the reins that she would be okay with this level of benefit by working wrongfully herself.

Politics can’t just be clean and white.

Candy and whips, gas drained by their use.

– How many strategies are there in this man’s head?

Needless to say, it’s not like that.