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Chapter 113 - Job Training Center

 

"Gran, please teach them well."

　I murmured as I watched Gran's back from afar and as if saying a prayer.

　Right now, Gran is in a job training center that I built in the southeastern area of Barcania.

　Naturally, Gran is not the one being trained, but the one teaching.

　Because this job training center, which was built together with a church and a school, was supposed to teach manufacturing.

　There's a reason why I decided to build such a thing.

　It was to give jobs to the people who had moved to Barcania.

　Originally, this new city was built on the land I had cultivated in the northern forest, and the only decent residents were me and a few of my relatives.

　However, after I became the ruler of the Barca Knight's Domain, I allowed other residents to live there.

　At that time, those who came to live inside the fortified city of Barcania were those who lived in the village of Barca and those who fought with me in the neighboring villages and had the Barca surname but did not have their own farmland.

　As a result of me telling them to make Hardened Bricks and grow magic mushrooms, they began to earn a good income.

　And thanks to the increase in the number of those with money, some of the merchants also began to buy and live in the ready-made houses I had built here.

　However, it was the rest of the people who became a problem.

　In fact, there were poor and uneducated people who did not have the Barca surname and therefore could not use magic, nor did they have a good amount of savings like the merchants.

　The reason why there are such people is simply that those who are in need of food have gathered in Barcania.

　Once, I fought on the battlefield against the Fontana family and won.

　Some of my allies immediately came to me and joined my ranks and received magic from me.

　They were very fortunate to have received the surname Barca and to have been able to use magic and yet were able to reach a ceasefire agreement without them ever having to fight.

　The story seemed to have gotten around in a strange way.

　For some reason, the urban legend that if one went to Barcania, they would be able to use magic spread.

　In this way, people who had trouble making ends meet in other towns and villages came to Barcania, hoping for a ray of luck.

　However, this is not the case.

　I didn't want to give them the Barca name in an uncontrolled manner anymore.

　I had already reached an amicable agreement with the Fontana family, and I also owed the church debt of gratitude for using the naming circle without permission.

I couldn't just forget about that and give magic to new people.

　However, to the people who came here, such a thing would be "different from what I've heard."

　They could only be stunned that they had come all the way to a faraway place and had nothing to gain.

　Speaking only of my feelings, I didn't care about those people.

　If it turns out that the story isn't true, I'm not the one who spread it.

　If you find out that it's not true, please leave.

　That's what I was thinking, but that's not what happened.

　In the first place, they came here with no food, no land of their own, and no jobs in the city.

　When they found out that they couldn't get magic, it wasn't a reason to turn back.

　If they didn't have magic, they would just have to make do with what they had here.

　That's what they thought and started trying to settle down in the land outside the city walls.

　When I received this report, I became agitated.

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　Of course, it would be so.

　I wondered what would happen if they were left alone.

　It was scary to imagine, but a slum would definitely be created.

　There was no way I could allow the city I had worked so hard to build to quickly become a slum.

　I had to do something about it.

　But that didn't mean that I had to get rid of them.

　It wasn't that they were doing anything wrong now.

　I don't like the idea of forcibly removing them by force.

　I don't want bad rumors to spread about the newly established Barca Knight's Domain.

　So I decided to give the people who tried to settle outside a simple job.

　That job was building using Hardened Bricks.

　Just as the problem of immigrants began to arise, I was working on the outer walls, so I had the people with my surname help me renovate the walls using Hardened Bricks created using magic.

　I pushed Baito-nii, Vargas, and others to do the work and gave them wages.

　I also gave them permission to live within the walls if they were diligent in their work.

　Most of the outsiders listened to these conditions and worked diligently.

　Thanks to them, the renovation of the outer wall was completed without any problems, and over the winter, they were allowed to help with the construction of the castle, which was also completed.

　But here was the problem.

　They couldn't continue to work as day laborers doing nothing but building.

　There was no work to be had here in Barcania.

　They need to get a job while they still can.

　That's why we decided to build this job training center.

　There are surprisingly many things that I want them to learn how to make, such as how to make furniture from wood harvested from the forest conservation area.

　Charcoal making could still use some help.

　Saddles and stirrups for the Valkyries also need to be made.

　The things I wanted to see made were not limited to woodworking.

　I also wanted glassware.

　The windowpanes were spellbound, so there was no need to make them by hand, but glass plates and glasses could be made by someone.

　The stained glass in Barcan Castle has made Barca's glass products rather popular.

　However, what I would like to see more than that is someone who can make glass lenses.

　All of this was Gran's fault.

　He's a very good craftsman, and he's made many of the things I've asked him to make, which has been very helpful.

　However, Gran is the type of person who is passionate about making new and difficult things, and he had no intention of continuing to make what he had created.

　He was a man with high development skills, but no production skills at all.

　In other words, this training center aimed to increase the number of people who could make copies of the new products created by Gran.

　As I watched the immigrants listening with rapt attention to Gran's passionate talk about manufacturing, I continued to pray that they would somehow acquire the skills and take root in this city without dropping out.

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