I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle - Chapter 88

Before I opened the Free City, I had to work on one thing.

It is a new road construction.

This time, we will build a new road from Balkan village to Kawakita castle, which was built to the south, to the city of Fontana.

Why do we build roads outside our own territory? That's why there was such an arrangement.

One of the terms of the ceasefire agreement with the Fontana family was to lay down a road connecting the castle to the city.

For me, the road is a convenient way to speed up travel.

But from the noble side, which governs the war-torn lands, there is another meaning.

It is an army invasion route.

The extensive roads built speed up the movement of the army.

Conversely, it speeds up the progress of the opponent's army.

As a result, many aristocrats often do not dare to build roads inside their own territory, even when they are at the border with other houses.

Without roads, it is important for defense to slow down the progress of the army from that point on.

The Fontana family ordered me to lay the road, so I would build it myself, and if anything happened, I would reverse it and invade.

I'm still alert to the terms of the truce so I can minimize the number of troops I can deploy to Kawakita Castle.

The story of this castle in Kawakita was also the most challenging with Carlos.

After a lot of questions, I made him acknowledge ownership based on my statement, "I can build a new castle anytime in a few days."

However, even with me, I don't dare to make my relationship with Carlos worse.

I think that this castle in Kawakita will become a gateway and post town between Barca and the city from now on.

But it's also good for me.

Because it's much easier to get around than to get to the city with a narrow path that you can't call the road before.

If the Barca Knight Regiment is going to do business, above all, we need to secure a route to the city.

This road construction meant a lot to the Fontana family and to me.

Now, there are a lot of magic in the Vulcan Knight Regiment.

Among them, the man with his own farmland was sent home, and instructed to immediately [leveling] and [soil improvement] the farmland.

Then, they bring in those who don't have the rest of the farmland to carry out road construction.

I can cut off a portion of the money I raised from my old man as the land cost and make him work as a day worker.

Construction proceeded smoothly and without much confusion, as they had only been building roads once.

If the magic amount is small, I will have leveling spread out the narrow road, I will build a landmark, and then I will lay roads with the rest.

Thus, it was completed that the streets that took about three days to travel from the village of Vulka to the city of Fontana could be significantly shortened.

"Boy, are you sure you want to do this?

"Well, that's good. I have to make sure the ones who don't have their own farmland can earn it."

It was shortly after the city of Fontana and the Barca Knights were connected on the streets.

I've had a lot of trouble, but I've decided to make some decisions.

Some of the people I gave magic to have farmland and others don't.

However, the ratio was overwhelmingly higher without farmland.

That's because I only gave magic to what I fought for.

When I first gathered the number of people in Vulcan village, I gathered them aloud, and I had farmland like my father.

But most of the people who stuck together when we made Balgas our buddy in the neighboring village and gathered after victory in the field were farmless.

It's only natural that people who had to become shady, such as the third son of a farmer, gathered like insects lured by the light of fire.

I had to make sure I could eat these guys any way I wanted.

Those who didn't own their farmland suddenly gained the power of magic.

But what happens if I don't get a job satisfactorily even though I got the magic?

It will probably become a group of rubbish trying to solve the problem by empowering them.

I will prepare people to maintain law and order, but I don't think it can be controlled.

But if you were given a job and could eat with it, the crime rate would still be better.

I had to create a job to keep the territory safe.

The land I developed and spread out in the northern forest.

As my space, there is a four-kilometer square of land that has created walls, but in fact there is more land that has been laid out further outside the walls.

It was because the remainder of the land that had once been developed was also outside the wall.

Several lodging buildings were built on a part of the land outside this wall.

That's how the Hope gave him the right to live in this building and give him more work.

There are two main job descriptions.

I used to make bricks and grow magical mushrooms.

Brick making is a business that can be done from scratch.

Anyway, everyone can use my magic.

It can be crafted every day instead of consuming magic.

But things were different when I was making bricks.

At that time, exterior walls were being constructed in the city of Fontana, and there was a special need.

But now it's over.

That's why I chose to make bricks.

They had to make and sell hardened bricks that would never be available on other lands.

If you try to make this by yourself, you will need the magical relationship between the big pig's fangs and the corners of Valkyrie.

Items that are only available on a land called Barca, which are not available in any material sense.

I think there is considerable demand.

And it was the cultivation of magical mushrooms that I allowed with my colon in mind.

This magical mushroom is definitely lucrative.

So I lay down as much as I could and raised it myself.

However, as I learned later, the most important thing in the cultivation of magical mushrooms was to [inject magic] into logs.

[Magic Injection] If you don't make it, it won't be fruitful even if you grow it, and once it is taken, it won't be possible.

However, if you do Magic Injection properly, a lot of magic mushrooms will grow in the same logs, and it can be collected from them for several years.

So I decided to teach my people how to grow it.

If they are the ones I named, they will be able to [inject magic], so they will be successfully cultivated.

It is also expected that I will be summoned to the Fontana family eventually.

If you grow and harvest a lot of magic mushrooms, you can also make and stockpile magic healing medicine.

The more magic healers you have, the less magic you care about the rest of the building.

I think this will greatly increase our chances of survival.

I have the disadvantage that my direct earnings will be reduced, but I have decided that the benefits will be greater in the long run.

Thus, the Balkan Knight Regiment quickly turned into a land of new specialties.