Santairiku Eiyuuki

That was when autumn began to deepen.

"Hmm, not enough money"

"Ha... not enough money, is it?

During lunch, Elquille shrugged unintentionally as she was dining alongside Carolina, Lunarier.

Carolina tilts her neck to Elquille's whining.

"Huge contribution payments to Farth stopped, didn't they?

"Well, yeah"

"We also got quite a bit of compensation, didn't we?

"Well, I did get a lot of compensation."

"Proprietary coffee and bone ash porcelain are also sold"

"It's for sale."

"Tax revenues have not diminished either"

"Sort of."

Instead, income should be increasing.

Not enough money, it shouldn't be.

"Why don't you have the money?

"That's..."

When Elquille tried to answer, Renalier whined, using an unfamiliar knife and fork and fighting with the food.

"More spending?

"Well, you know what?"

Elquille nodded loudly.

"... is it His Majesty's Arc de Triomphe?

"That's the thing I put up in compensation. It doesn't matter."

"So it's the construction of a colonial city on the Taurica Peninsula?

"That's compensation too."

"A large-scale water remediation project started in the province of Mistle…"

"That's compensation too."

Erkühl used the compensation he received from the Kingdom of Fars primarily for public utilities.

The money loaned to the Kingdom of Hayastan is also from compensation.

Others include the cultivation of the textile industry, the expansion of new agricultural land and the development of mines…

Used to invest in the development of various industries.

Compensation was only obtained temporarily, because it is foam...

Every year, it is not suitable for businesses that would require significant maintenance costs.

Conversely, it is suitable for undertakings that will need large sums of money at one time.

That's why Erkühr used the compensation for the above business.

"So what else did you spend the money on?

"Survivors' pensions and orphanage construction? And then there's a new increase in the size of the bureaucracy... it's more expensive than we thought. The military expansion budget squeezes out."

"... I understand the increase in the number of government officials, what do you mean by pensions and orphanages?

"It means the way it is."

This time, Erkühr rarely got his hands on social welfare, the thing.

Survivors' pensions, in short, are a system of paying pensions to wives who have lost their husbands in war, to children who have lost their fathers.

Until now, large sums of money had been paid to survivors at a time in the form of compensation…

In this way the money was quickly exhausted, and there were many in need.

Moreover, the number of members of the family was not taken into account at all, all in the same amount and unequal.

In some cases, they were not paid because of financial difficulties.

So Erkühl renewed the way he had done so far and decided to pay a quota on a yearly basis according to the number of people the war dead were dependent on.

Also...

A system of flat-rate pensions was also introduced for wounded soldiers and their families (depending on the extent of their injuries).

Together, it is a soldier's pension system.

Erkühr introduced this system for several reasons.

Realistic reasons include: to prevent a deterioration in security.

The aim was to prevent remaining survivors from committing crimes for their livelihoods or from committing robberies aimed at large amounts of compensation paid at once.

Also, the state will compensate us for the lives of the families left behind... then the soldiers will also fight without fear of death. Instead, he would fight desperately for his family.

There is also the aim of morale boosting that

Pre-construction reasons include humanitarian reasons, to reward soldiers.

Well, there's no reason to explain this. It means the same thing.

And last but not least, as a personal and emotional reason for Erkühl…

There was a situation where the families of soldiers who fought with me risked their lives would be in distress - their wives would prostitute themselves, their children would work to steal them, and in some cases they would be sold as slaves - which was unbearable.

A man named Erkühl is a human being and also a dependent man.

For a man named Erkühl, the cutest (besides those close to him, such as Carolina) are soldiers who follow their orders faithfully, fight and die, and their families.

It is natural to entertain such cute, lovely soldiers and their families.

The next cutie, by the way, is the bureaucrat who works with me.

It is Elquille who is moving that bureaucracy who knows better than anyone that it must be the hard work and loyalty of the bureaucracies to rule the vast nation of the Lemurian Empire.

As a monarch, you will naturally want to reward loyalty.

Bureaucrats, civil servants - especially tax collectors who collect taxes - are always an abominable profession, but when I saw a bureaucrat hated by the people, it was the human psyche called Elquille that made me want to be more and more adorable.

It goes without saying that he is a citizen of Nova Lemuria, a small May fly, to the habit of not paying taxes in large part, which he most dislikes Erkür, by contrast.

The orphanage...

Well, I wouldn't even have to explain it.

This is also humanitarian before construction, and the real deal is for security measures.

However… the personal idea of Erkühl is that 'human beings need not be equal, but they should be as fair as they can be, and equal opportunities should be given'.

I do not believe that all children should be educated equally…

Still, at the very least, he thought that 'upbringing' should just not be criminalized.

Expansion of bureaucracy will be discussed later.

"As far as orphanages are concerned, I'm glad we've done enough to support churches and monasteries... but it's surprisingly costly to have a pension."

"That's... well, I guess so"

It costs a lot to feed each person for a year.

It would naturally take a huge cost if it were to be thousands, tens of thousands...

"I mean... military expansion, are we going to add new infantry?

"No, now it's a cavalry. The infantry's on time."

In his battle against the Farse kingdom, Erkühl deplored the lack of cavalry power.

If you do it badly, there's even a chance that they've decided on the art of war.

The total number of cavalry in the Fars kingdom is around 80,000, so...

At least 40,000...... was Erkühl's goal.

"But... the Long Ear Clan (Elves) have already mobilized 20,000 in the heavy cavalry (Cribanarius), the Longbow unit, right?

The total population of the long-eared group (elves), including the pureblooded long-eared group (high elves) and the mixed long-eared group (half elves), is about two million.

Apart from war, the spiritual arts of the Long Ear Clan (Elves) are used in a variety of industries…

Too much mobilization into the war will have a negative impact on a variety of economic activities, including agriculture, mining, forestry and aquaculture in the Lemurian Empire.

Note... Since the total population of the Lemurian Empire is 20 million, the Long-Eared (elves) will represent only 10% of the total population.

Because fertile long-eared (elves) are less likely to have children and that's how slowly the population recovers, an increase in the number of deaths in war can shake the nation itself.

Incidentally, it doesn't really matter here, in fact, until recent years the population of the Lemurian Empire was around twelve million.

Eight million will have increased in the last few years.

What the hell?

I mean, it's easy.

Eight million newborns were born.

... is just a joke.

The fact that Erkühr abolished the headcount tax only made it clear that the human being who said he was not there a few years ago at the time of the census said he was actually there in the post-abolition census.

As for Elkühl, it felt that he did not know whether to lament the decrease in the proportion of the total population of the long-eared (elf) population, or whether to rejoice that the total population had increased.

gossip.

"Tens of thousands more, and I don't think it's as big an impact as mobilizing it."

Cavalry takes time to cultivate, and maintenance costs are huge.

But its mobility, its breakthroughs, cannot be substituted in other military disciplines.

Therefore, the Lemurian Empire had developed the most trustworthy, long-eared (elves) as cavalry and put them on the battlefield.

Only the main power of war is the Long Ear Clan (Elves).

It continues to uphold the great principles since its founding.

Erkühr is also going to follow that to some extent...

In some cases, he thought it was necessary to change it.

"Is it the Heavy Cavalry (Cribanarius) that increases?

"No, it's a medium cavalry (catafract). The destructive power of the heavy-duty cavalry (Cribanarius) is certainly great... but for that matter the mobility is inferior. Flexible military operations require a medium cavalry (catapult)."

Heavy Duty Cavalry (Cribanarius) and Medium Duty Cavalry (Catafract).

Both are a type of heavy-duty cavalry, but there is a subtle difference.

The heavy-duty cavalry (Cribanarius) also wears iron armor.

On the other hand, the horses of the Medium Cavalry (Cataphruct) are not wearing armor.

In other words, heavy cavalry (Crivanarius) is heavier, more destructive, and dull for that matter.

That's why.

"... How much does a cavalry cost to maintain?

Renalier asks Erkühl if he can't follow his story and feels alienated.

The Kingdom of Hayastan also had the effect of being banned from arming for a long time, and Renaliye lacked the knowledge on that side.

"Um, right. Lemuria, about a piece of gold coin called 'Pea'."

"... uh, I mean... about a Farth silver coin 'bacon'..."

Renalier counted his fingers, and opened his eyes.

"... expensive"

"Well, it also depends on whether you're a heavy or light cavalry. That's how much our heavy cavalry (Cribanarius) hangs."

It takes a lot of feed to maintain the horse, so the maintenance costs are really high.

"So how long do you want to align the cavalry (catafract)?

"One legion first. But it's not enough."

"I see... well, if you do want to counter the cavalry of the Farse kingdom, at least three legions want cavalry, right?"

Carolina is also a martial fame, daughter of the Galeanos family.

It is fully understandable that that much cavalry is needed to ensure the security of the Lemurian Empire.

Lunarier, on the other hand, was relieved.

"Lemurian gold coin 'Pea', Farth silver coin 'Bacun'..."

That is an amount that the Kingdom of Hayastan cannot squeeze out even if it stands upside down.

Remlia, Renalier reaffirmed once again that Farth is a superpower.

"So, Your Majesty. Anyway, you've already figured out a way to do something, haven't you?

"Oh, you got it."

"Well, we've known each other a long time."

When Elquille speaks of her troubles with sighing from herself...

We already have a solution, and it's nothing short of an appeal: "I've come up with a way to break this difficult situation, too."

"So, how?

"A second tax reform and…, I'm going to hire an expert"

Erkür grinned, niggling.