152 – Marquess Administration (5)
First of all, Lucy was quickly sent outside. Lucy keeps calling her younger sister, so when someone tells her that it won’t happen if she watches, Lucy rushes down.
I thought I had grown to some extent, but…… Looking at him like that, he was a young kid again.
Should I say that some kind of cognitive dissonance is coming?
Xianne dressed faster than she took off her clothes, and her hot mood was destroyed without fail.
“Luvern.”
“Yes, Xianne.”
“Will the two of you go on a trip somewhere next time?”
She added with her face still flushed. Goosebumps ran down the back of her neck at the sight of her smacking her lips.
In fact, as soon as the first bluffing was discovered, unlike Petra, I dragged it all the way. Cianne was leading from start to finish.
I think it was the first time I thought of the clumsy movements I showed in between, but I was so full of energy and approached aggressively that I was shrunk without even realizing it.
‘Is the leader of Rupel’s knights a monster? … !’
Was Xianne originally such a character?
Although she acted stupid sometimes, wasn’t she the leader of the knights with a neat and restrained attitude?
However, the present state is—.
“Every time it ends like this…… I really won’t let you go next time.”
The incarnation of lust.
I still felt the pressure wrapped around my lower leg. Maybe it was because Lucy came at the right time that we were able to survive.
It’s not even in the dating stage yet, but it’s already a mandatory defense battle.
Lubern Jr. Has shrunk just by imagining it.
I definitely don’t mean that Xi’an is unattractive, but the moment she starts to think that this is her ‘duty’, she feels something strange.
‘But…… Um, uh…….’
It was regrettable. I squeezed and opened my fingers, recalling the touch of the soft and soft parts that I couldn’t fully contain in my palm.
‘… ….’
Sianne and Lucy disappear and are left alone in the room. I glanced over and closed the door with the lock broken horribly.
“Freezing.”
I used really basic magic to slightly freeze the hinge part. Wouldn’t it function as a proper lock for about 10 minutes?
Then, sitting at the desk in the office, I recalled the scene from a while ago.
“Big, uhm… ….”
I haven’t even gotten married yet.
The feeling of being married was quite strange.
***
The Marquis of Karahan was rapidly stabilizing day by day. It’s only been a few years since the once prestigious estate began to deteriorate.
As the current lord, Saxony Karahan, fell ill, and his son, Farneri Karahan, took over as lord’s deputy, a dark shadow was cast over the territory.
In other words, it means that there are still competent bureaucrats from the Saxon Karahan period in the territory, but it is the same thing.
Lubern Alroy quickly summoned those officials and reassigned them to the right place to normalize the administration and operation of the territory in one shot.
It wasn’t too difficult.
The quality of life of the territories living in the Marquis of Karahan has changed even though they have simply banned corrupt customs that remained implicitly and stopped plundering knowingly or unknowingly.
“So you’re saying you want to change the rock salt supplier!?”
“Yes.”
“No matter how much you are running the Marquisate under the regency system, isn’t this too unfair! It’s all about contracts and procedures…… !”
A merchant with a distinctive mouse beard raised his voice.
After Farneri Karahan became the deputy lord, he pushed out the guild that was in charge of the rock salt trade and took over the position.
The merchant guild, which has no history or tradition, has taken care of the business that accounts for most of the income of the territory.
This is a straight-forward estimate even for an idiot who knows nothing about the economy or business.
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“Looking at it, when you took over the rock salt business, you went ahead with all the procedures.”
“That…… That’s all……. It means that the existing company was stealing some of the income and embezzling it!! Moreover, it is unreasonable that you recklessly retrieve the authority you received through the legitimate competitive bidding process!”
You’re a shameless bird.
Lubern Alroy muttered to himself and let out a deep sigh. What he held in his hand was a thin sheet of paper.
“What is unfair is that the bribes you have taken so far are unfair. How on earth is 1 kg of rock salt the price of 50 kg of high-quality iron ore produced in our estate? 5 Gold coins per kilo? Is there any gold embedded in rock salt?”
Even rock salt was always a raw material. To make it into salt, it had to go through a series of processing, but it was sold for 5 gold coins per kilo.
“At this price, I could just put it in a stew. Jjangdol Stew. It looks delicious.”
Obviously, the tone was sarcastic, but the merchant made no reply. Because it was an unbelievable price.
“But what…… If you want to do it with a regular bidding competition, I will do that. We are rather neat and transparent, so shouldn’t we like each other?”
But the merchant’s expression was still dark. Being clean and transparent means that you won’t be harmed soon.
If the regent in front of me hadn’t been for Lubern Alroy, I’d have paid the right bribe at this point and it would have gone well.
If you bribe the regent who is trying to clean up the corruption that was prevalent in the Marquis of Karahan, it is certain that you will be taken as a red-handed criminal and left with more than enough.
However, the method is not completely absent yet.
“Well, then, could you tell me the list of top players who entered the competition?”
“Ah~~ Why are you threatening a small company and collusion with a suitable company?”
Hiccup.
The stabbed merchant trembled.
“Hey, I’ve been the Administrator of the Knights of the Imperial Black Lion for three years, and I’m about to be in my first year as the Administrator of the Knights of Rupel Territory. Don’t you know that? Oh, really.”
It doesn’t work to be shy. A merchant of this level was already the one who could see clearly with the palm of his hand.
If you think about what happened to the merchant who joked about collusion with the Iron Road completion merchant last time.
Lubern Alroy was also giving the least amount of consideration.
It’s always annoying to deal with these things one by one.
“Besides, it’s not even a top that you can rub against. He said it’s been less than two years since he opened a direct trade route with the capital? This is a transcontinental convoy that is decades old?”
Blue Dragon Transcontinental Convoy.
There were also ways to use other guilds within the Marquis Territory, or to create a guild under Rupel’s manpower.
As expected, the best thing was to use the existing infrastructure 100%.
Since the first happening at Jarhead, the exclusive contract has been passed on, but it is still one of the major top tier companies with a fairly close economic partnership.
The Blue Dragon Transcontinental Convoy gladly accepted the rock salt business produced in the Marquis of Karahan.
There must be a reason for refusing to open a new hole for the money to come out from the top position.
‘And if you’re going to take a bribe, you have to eat it there. I don’t even send a message to my stomach.’
Luberne Ailoy thought to herself and wiggled her fingers leisurely.
“…… Great.”
“Instead, I won’t touch anything you’ve done before. A lot of people watched this, you know?”
“Yes, I know… ….”
In the end, the mouse beard merchant had no choice but to close the rock salt business, which was the main source of income for the merchant guild, by crying and eating mustard.
What can I do if there will be a huge loss? A hundred and a thousand times better than hanging her own neck in the street.
On the way to here, it was not difficult to see the faces of merchants who were more deeply involved in the darkness of the marquisate territory, unlike myself, who took a few pennies from the rock salt business.
All of those faces didn’t have a body.
To her almost threatening words, she couldn’t even reply and had to bow her head.
As Louvern Alroy said, there is nothing better than continuing the fight.
‘This damned viscount, rip off your back from the incubus that appeared in your dreams!’
At that time, the merchant couldn’t bear to speak out and expressed his anger inside.
“…… Instead, I don’t think my dream job will be very good if the upper management company that left like this goes bankrupt.”
Lubern held out another document.
My heart sank for a while when they said that I might be using mind reading or that my dream spot would not be very good.
The merchant’s pupils narrowed.
“Can I ask what this is?”
“Don’t you know by pretending?”
“…… Portion?”
“I heard that the Marquis of Karahan was famous for potions before the salt mines were discovered?”
“Yes…… Well, my father was also in the potion business. Although he is dead now…….”
“Then it will make sense.”
The black-haired administrator said with a grin.
“Let’s do a beauty business together.”
“Beauty…… You mean business?”
“There is one thing our lord of the upper ranks does not know, but to easily enter the center, bribing high-ranking officials will not work.”
“Brain, bribery…… ! We didn’t do that!”
“Yes, we are talking about it.”
A trader who is immediately killed by Luberne’s warning. The eyes of the young local viscount shook menacingly.
“Yes. Call it a bribe, then call it a gift. Yes, a gift.”
“Present—! That’s right, a gift.”
“You can’t just pass that gift on to men. Of course, I’m not saying don’t run it, but it’s more effective than men.”
“Then…… ?”
Lou Verne Alroy snapped his fingers.
“You have to seduce her wives. In fact, the place where behind-the-scenes transactions are more active than anywhere else is the women’s society.”
In short.
“Let’s catch some married women with a beauty potion.”
It was time to get into politics in earnest.