Otherworld Nation Founding Chronicles

After hearing Ains report of "Successful Alliance" and confirming its authenticity ...

I officially decided on a full-scale intervention in this war.

Discard the original purpose of securing the Mercina Strait ...

It has established a new objective of stabilizing the southern border and securing control of the Tethys Sea.

With my official Persian alliance, Pofenia negotiated.

Lymonds may have realized that war is inevitable anymore.

Despite dissatisfaction ……

He joined the main sect.

The national theory of the Romanian kingdom was unified again.

Good, good ...

No, not yet.

"Your Majesty, your treasury is already empty. What do you do?"

"Well ... what to do ... but we still need more money."

Originally, Japan had considerable reserves.

They had set aside reserves in the national treasury for any major war, famine, or disaster.

However……

All have been released to build a large fleet.

"How many are you now?"

"A total of 150 ships, including the old ships .... General Alexius said at least three hundred, right?"

"That's right ..."

Originally there are some ships in the Romanian kingdom, or the Romanian Federation.

At most dozens of ships ... but once there was.

But that's not enough.

So, Japan was embarking on a large fleet.

The season for natural truce has already passed ...

The height of summer.

Construction of the ship continued.

Pofenia seems to be building ships again in line with the movement of building a large fleet in Japan.

From winter to summer, he has already built more than a hundred ships.

This is because I scattered a lot of silver from the national treasury.

Divide parts into teams ...

The best performing teams are rewarded.

In this way, the parts are mass-produced and made into ships according to the standards.

This allowed the ship to be built several times faster than Pofenia.

I did ...

"After all ... Is there a tax increase ...?"

"I don't want to take that, Majesty."

Tax increase.

In other words, it collects taxes and secures funds.

There is no better way than this because the national treasury is so simple ...

No, wait?

There is still a way to go.

"What's wrong? Your Majesty"

"I will borrow money from the people"

"If I gather only this, I can make 50 more ships."

Debt from the people.

I survived this financial crisis.

What do you mean?

So ...

I will return after the war, so pay XX per person now.

And forcibly borrowed money from the people.

Well, it's almost the same as head tax.

But unlike heavy taxes, they are debts and will eventually be repaid.

And I want you to win the war.

That's why I got a lot of money without much dissatisfaction.

"But your Majesty ... what about another hundred?"

"... I have to borrow from a merchant."

I don't want to use debt too much.

Especially in war.

Debt to secure funds to expand farmland.

In the end, you get a profit.

But the war ...

If you do poorly, you may run out of national power and end up.

In other words, it is suspicious that I can return the money.

But ...

It was me who decided the full intervention.

I would have to do this.

"I don't need interest, your Majesty"

When I invite a Christian merchant to the palace ...

They said surprising things.

… I do n’t need interest?

Merchant?

Money lender?

You don't take interest?

What do you want instead ...

When I'm ready ...

"My Majesty, we hate Pofenia. If we can defeat that hatred Pofenia ... please, there is nothing more than lending money temporarily. No interest is required. Victory. We demand victory as interest. Please win. "

Merchants bowed and said so.

These guys……

"We're Christians, but we're also Romanians. We don't want to lose our homeland anymore."

The merchants said.

Yeah ... these guys ... merchants who fled the Romania from the Greek Peninsula! !

So that's it……

Then you can understand.

"... Thank you, I have to return it to you with interest, even if you aren't able to do it, but ... unfortunately, Japan's finances don't have that much leeway. I will accept it. "

Alright ...

Now we have the funds! ! !

"Row !!!! Just row!"

In the waters near Lezad, boat training was conducted every day.

Mainly rowing boats are...

Fifty rowers are mainly driven by about 100 rowers and about 100 combatants.

Regarding combatants, he was planning to carry heavy infantry from the Kingdom of Romania and the Commonwealth of Romania.

And the rower in question ...

We decided to recruit from unborn children and peasants who could not procure weapons.

In Japan, soldiers' weapons are self-sufficient in principle.

Thus, heavily infantry can only be humans with a good fortune.

But the rower only rowes a paddle.

In other words, it can be a birthless citizen, a person with no assets, no weapons.

Above all, they are "unborn," so training for a long time has little effect on the economy.

Rather, security is getting better.

The rower is the heart of the ship.

If there are no rowers, the boat will not move.

In addition, newly formed infantry infantry ...

I am training to fight on a ship.

Recently, there have been reports that we are not sure if the number of people who are seasick has decreased or not.

Well, most of the people who are looking at the sea for the first time since their birth have reduced seasickness.

"Your Majesty, it's a shortage of ship navigators ..."

The Christians, who were building a fleet in Lezard, say incomprehensibly.

Shortage of pilots and navigators.

This is a major problem that has arisen from building large fleets.

Any rower can be trained.

Fighting on a ship ... well, not bad.

But ...

Pilot and navigator.

These two are special skills and cannot be grown immediately from scratch.

"Sorry, the worst number per ship ..."

"No, His Majesty. In fact, it has been resolved."

e?

Settled?

"Accurately ... Is it okay to say that it's going to be solved? The merchants have given their name ... I'm going to make it somehow."

"What are the merchants?"

Merchants are probably those who have gone out to sea and engaged in remote trade.

I see ... they ...

They lend money and become pilots ...

I'm exhausted.

Once upon a time, the Christians who rebelled against me and revolted.

It is now glad to cooperate with the war despite saying nothing.

no doubt.

This country is ...

It is becoming a Romanian kingdom, not an Adernian kingdom.

somehow……

I was happy.

On the other hand ... in Pofenia ...

"I'm telling you to bring in your budget soon! You will know the construction of a large fleet in the Romanian Kingdom!"

"There will already be a fleet. If we build a new ship as it is, there will be three hundred. There is no national strength to build three hundred in Romania!"

"You shouldn't underestimate the enemy! It's 400 ships for the best!"

"What are you saying? If there is unlimited money in the national treasury? No more contributions are possible !!"

In the Senate in Pofenia, a fierce battle was fought between Azul Hanno and Sial Barka, who returned from Trisiceria.

Pofenia was on the verge of division, rather than unity.

The national administration has stagnated ...

The stagnation also had a significant effect on the number of fleets.

In the fall, the Romanian kingdom floated three hundred fleets on the sea as planned ...

Pofenia was able to collect only 280 ships below schedule.