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Translated by: Cadmar

 

Chapter 157 - Place to Spend Money

"Hey, kid! If you keep this up, we are seriously going to run out of money!"

"Huh? Don't we still have some? Will we really run out?"

"Not yet, anyway. But you're too bold, you know. Last year's castle-building furnishings and the latest round of Familiar eggs have put the Barca Knights Domain on a tight budget."

"But we also made a profit from the sale of the hornless Valkyries, right? Did we really spend so much that our profits are in the red?"

"Listen, kid. Getting money is like digging with a needle; spending it is like water soaking into sand. The amount of money I've seen go away from our treasury while asking the church to name people "Reed" to spread Kyle-kun's magic is quite a bit. How much do you think we paid to the church? We've done too many other things that cost money for me to even be able to come up with a logical amount!"

"But adding more Reed family members is not the wrong choice, ojii-san, and all the other things we're doing will definitely be beneficial in the future. It may cost money, but it's something we should do now, while we still are in our growth period."

"You can't do anything if you don't have any money, you know? How far in the future are you talking about when you say "future"? Academic research facilities are fine because they'll bring profits both short and long term, but you're doing something that doesn't pay back."

"You mean the human anatomy diagrams? That's definitely research that will lead to better lives for humans in the future! I can't stop now."

"'I'm not going to stop now.' - You'd better pay attention to your current finances, kid. This Barca Knights' Domain has only been in existence for a short time. If you suddenly go broke and gain no profits, you'll lose your credibility at once. Carlos-sama may use that as an excuse to take away your territory."

"...... Really? That's not good... But as I've said many times, what we're doing now will be absolutely necessary in the future. We can't just stop doing it. We need to secure enough financial resources to pay for the projects. Do you have any good ideas, old man?"

"I want to say there's nothing convenient so that you'll think more about stopping... but I can think of one thing."

"So, you have an idea? Tell me about it~!"

"But it's a risk, kid. You have to be prepared for a certain amount of trouble."

"All right. Just, tell me what you've come up with, ojisan."

"Gambling..."

"What...? Gambling? Are you trying to get me into gambling, old man?"

"Yes... Oh, don't get me wrong, kid. I'm not talking about taking a shot at gambling. It's the other way around. We're going to be the gambling house owners."

"Owners? In other words, we're going to open a gambling house and let people place bets. Will it really be okay?"

"Well, this is something I've been meaning to tell you for a while. I think we should do it for public safety reasons."

"From a public safety point of view? Should we really do it? Run a gambling house? Wouldn't it make public safety worse?"

"To be honest, I honestly don't know, but I'm a little curious. I'm also concerned about the way people in Barcania spend their money."

　This was after I had enjoyed a mixed bath with Lilina and Clarisse in a neighboring village.

　The old man came into my room with a serious look on his face and told me that the money in the Barca Knights' Domain was not enough.

　After I came back from the war, I started to do various things again, and my spending became rough.

　It seemed that I was spending more than I was earning, and he was the first to notice the dwindling operating expenses of the estate and came to advise me.

　But the places where I was funding money were not a complete waste of money.

　The research on the Familiar eggs, the development of medicine, and the naming ceremonies of the Reed family are all things that Barca needs.

　It's not like I'm spending all of this money for pleasure. After all, making money is hard.

　So, when I asked the merchant ojiisan how I could overcome these financial difficulties, he came up with one idea.

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　The idea was to open a gambling house.

　Even so, I couldn't shake the feeling that it would only encourage gambling addiction and would not lead to a healthy city.

　However, the old man didn't think this way.

　He said vaguely that he felt that the frequency of gambling among the residents of Barcania was gradually increasing.

　This is something that he had just felt in the time he was roaming the city, and not something that he took statistics on.

　Nonetheless, the old man certainly feels that way.

　Trion was wondering why, and he started observing carefully in his time within Barcania.

　Then, he came up with a hypothesis.

　He thought it was because the residents of Barcania had suddenly become very rich.

　Most of the people who live in Barcania are poor farmers by nature.

　But some of them suddenly met am and were given magic alongside the Barca surname.

　When the Barca uprising was over, I instructed those with the surname to sell [Hardened] bricks and grow magic mushrooms.

　As a result, they were able to have a reasonably stable income.

　In this way, those with the surname were able to earn money by selling goods to the merchants who visited Barcania, even without having farmland.

　In addition, those who did not have the Barca as their surname also made paper, glass, furniture, and other products and succeeded in making a reasonable profit.

　Suddenly, people who had been bartering in the countryside came to have money at once.

　This increased money was initially used to get their own houses and buy furniture and food.

　Thanks to this, Barcania was in a booming economy where goods could be sold if they were available.

　However, it was not a time when things were overflowing like in the past.

　Once they had everything they needed, the originally poor farmers gradually lost sight of how to spend their money.

　So what did the little rich people who had just graduated from bartering, who had run their course, start to do?

　However, that is still not that important now in this story.

　The real thing was that they started to do small bets on things casually in daily life, like, "Hey, do you want to bet on what's going to happen to that person?" It seems that little bets like that are starting to spread.

　The old man sensed this on the street.

"But that's not a problem, is it?"

"No, I don't think it's a good trend. If you let it get out of hand, someone might open a gambling house themselves and collect all the money in the city. You know how dangerous that is, right, kid?"

"Oh, I see. That would definitely become a problem... I don't like the idea of anyone becoming richer than the Barca family in our very own city."

"Right? That's why we have to make the first move while we still can. I'll open a gambling house in your name. Then, we will make it forbidden to open any other gambling area without permission. It's a way to prevent the deterioration of public safety while collecting the money that's been thoughtlessly thrown away around town."

"... Yes, I agree. We should build casinos where people can play at reasonable rates because we don't want any gambling-addicted knights of Barca getting into debt over illegal rates. Let's give it a try, old man."

"All right, let's do this quickly. Let's get ready right away."

　Thus, I decided to build a public gambling house in Barcania.

 

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