Chapter 87: 88

Chapter 88 - Land Inspection

 

"All right, we're going to do a cadastral survey."

"What's a cadastral survey, Ars?"

"Whatever you call it, the cadastral survey is a cadastral survey, nii-san. It's the process of properly surveying the size of the land to determine how much yield there will be."

"Hmmm. I'll pass. I'm not good at doing calculations like you."

　This was after I had finished spreading the word about making bricks and growing magic mushrooms to give jobs to those who didn't have land to farm.

　For the time being, I don't think everyone can grow magic mushrooms right away, but they can make bricks if they have enough mana, and can make some money.

　So, we decided to leave the people without farmland aside for the time being and deal with the ones with farmland.

　Those with farmland would probably continue to farm.

　Not all of them would want to go to the battlefield just because they can use magic, but many of them would rather farm to their heart's content now that they have magic meant for agriculture.

　But here's the problem.

　If they use the magic I've given them, such as [Soil Improvement], they'll be able to dramatically increase their harvest, and that's exactly the problem.

　In the past, the village chief collected and stored the village's harvest and handed it over to the tax collector.

　But it's impossible for them to pay me the same amount as before.

　It would be natural, since the amount of harvest would definitely increase.

　But that doesn't mean that I should simply increase the amount of wheat they pay taxes on.

　After all, farmers don't like to see their wheat taken away by those in power.

　What would they think if I became the ruler and the amount taken immediately increased?

　Even if there is a fact that the harvest is increasing, I doubt they would be happy about it.

　So, we decided to conduct another land survey.

　The purpose of this was to show that the amount of wheat to be delivered to the farmers would change if the area of the land was surveyed and the amount of wheat harvested from it was clarified.

　However, if I don't do the actual research, I won't have the farmland data on hand.

　I'll have to do it, after all.

　However, after I decided to do the land survey, I realized that I was at a loss as to how to measure the size of the land.

　I didn't even have the surveying skills to do a land survey.

　What should I do?

　I wondered if I should make a tape measure to measure the size of the land, but then I had to ask myself how long a piece of string I would need.

"What ...... Ars-nii, are you worried about that?"

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"Exactly, Kyle, because I'm seriously stuck looking like this."

"It's not that hard, you know. I think you can easily tell how big the farmland is by how many times you've done [Leveling]."

　But the answer to my problem was quickly solved by Kyle.

　Kyle made it clear that anyone who can use my magic will always get the same size of land every time, so there is no mistake if one uses that as a standard of measurement.

　It is true, if you put it that way.

　Based on my memories of my previous life, I created the spell 【Leveling】with the image of leveling a square of land 10 meters on each side.

　Incidentally, I also created a spell for "Soil Improvement" based on "Leveling", so the area was the same for both.

　Just by checking how many times each person's farmland could be filled with that area using the spell, the land inspection would be over.

　What's more, even those without special measuring skills would be able to measure the area.

　In this way, the land area of the Barca Knight's Domain came to be counted as "one piece of land", where each piece is the size of the area that is affected once the [Leveling] is done.

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"Kyle, while we're at it, let's decide on the unit of length as well."

"Unit of length?"

"The length of a side when the ground is cleared is divided into ten equal parts, which is one meter, and another hundred equal parts, which is one centimeter. No objection."

"I don't think it's a problem. I don't think there will be any objections."

"Let's decide on the weight and so on. I'll make a list."

"Yes, I understand. I'll let everyone know."

　Once the unit of length is determined, we can create a standard unit for other units in conjunction with it.

　For example, water with a volume of 10 x 10 x 10 cm is 1 liter, and 1 liter is 1 kg.

　This is all it takes to create a unit of volume and mass.

　Let's also assume that the temperature at which water boils is 100 degrees Celsius.

　In this way, we have a unit that I am familiar with.

　In this way, the units of length and weight that were common knowledge to the Barca people appeared.

　Even those who had counted things in a rather lax manner up to that point found it relatively easy to understand the values calculated based on what was produced by their own magic, and this unified unit of measurement became widespread in the Barca Knight's Domain.

CadmarLegend To those wondering, yes, Ars did do a bit of math. I won't convert stuff cuz my brain is set from TL-ing rn and not doing maths... If a kindly reader could do that, I would be most thankful... and, what I translated as 'Cadastral' survey (by my knowledge) is the closest translation to what Ars is doing. It's not a perfect translation, though. Usually, Cadastral is referring to measuring the size of your property instead of predicting yield... or so Google-sama says... if you have any other translation ( or word, in general) that could summarize what Ars just did (predict yield) please tell me... please. Please. I beg of you that. *Pathetic begging starts*

 

Ahem, anyways, uh, this is the 2nd release for the day!

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