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The Youju Empire was located in the lower dragon jaw of the continent. In Count Vassari’s territory, Juliano Gavino Vassari succeeded his father’s position after his father died from illness when he was 14.

 

But, it was Nagai who was possessing Juliano’s body now.

 

As the lord who governed this territory, he was the number one person in the territory.

 

Nagai, who was always seeking to be number one, used his power skillfully. Nagai had Juliano’s memory. Hence, he was able to perform the duties of a lord without any incidents.

 

A week had passed after Nagai, who became Juliano, began his rule over the territory.

 

Up till now, there was no particular pressing problem. If there was one thing, that would be confining Juliano’s mother and brother in one room.

 

Now, Nagai was busying himself with reports in his office. Then, a man knocked on the door.

 

“Enter.” Nagai stated.

 

After Nagai gave his permission, one of his vassals entered while excusing himself.

 

This was the person who he gave a special assignment to.

 

Nagai stopped what he was doing, leaned his body back let out a deep breath, deciding to take a break.

 

“How is the town? Has it been cleaned?” Nagai asked.

 

“Yes. We have removed the waste on the streets and the back alleys to the side gutters.” The vassal reported.

 

“Alright.” Nagai nodded, satisfied with the vassal’s report.

 

The contents of the report was about the public health of the town.

 

As the people in this continent had insufficient knowledge regarding sanitary issues, in the castle town, excrements were scattered everywhere, and the drainage gutters were clogged. Thus, when it rained, the water would overflow, and the town would be covered in sewage.

 

In addition, livestock were strutting around the whole town. The residence in which Nagai lived in was no exception. In fact, there was a terrible stench coming from the mansion’s garden.

 

Nagai, who had lived in Japan, couldn’t bear it at all. In addition, it was common knowledge in the previous world that unsanitary places would lead to outbreaks of disease.

 

In fact, whenever Nagai patrolled the town, he would see flies around everywhere. It made him frown since they were vectors of disease-causing germs. 

 

When Nagai saw how bad sanitary conditions were in his territory, he immediately issued an order to improve public health.

 

Now, let’s return to the main subject.

 

“However, even if the town has been cleaned, would the townspeople not make a mess and return it to the previous state?” The vassal questioned.

 

The vassal’s question was, indeed, justifiable. For the time being, thanks to all the townspeople’s cleaning, there wouldn’t anyone polluting the town for the time being.

 

This would be due to the immorality of staining beautiful things, and the sin of destroying everyone’s achievements. All these would be enough to make someone hesitate in polluting the town.

 

However, someone will eventually pollute the town once more, and with that as the start, it was easy to imagine that the town would be covered in filth again.

 

Nagai then took out a piece of parchment from the desk’s drawer, and handed it over to the vassal. The vassal received it carefully and looked over it seriously.

 

On the paper were the punishments Nagai had thought up for those who polluted the town.

 

“Please inform all the townspeople one week from now regarding this. Place it outside of the castle gates so that even the people coming from outside will know that there will not be an exception.” Nagai ordered.

 

All the penalties could be said to be severe. The vassal who was looking over it seemed a little gloomy. It was because the vassal himself had also contributed quite a bit to polluting the town and the mansion’s garden.

 

“Is this not too strict?” The vassal asked.

 

“What are you saying? If we give light punishments, it will not accomplish anything. That is why it would be natural to give a severe punishment. Otherwise, the people in the town are digging their own graves.” Nagai stated. “In the first place, as long as they throw the waste in the predetermined places, there shouldn’t be any problems, no?”

 

The vassal doesn’t know what to say after listening to Nagai’s words.

 

There were plenty of places in the town where waste could be discarded. But, the townspeople were too slovenly, and didn’t use them.

 

The vassal could agree and leave the room.

 

However, Nagai didn’t know at this time that with just severe penalties, the town would not be clean. Even in medieval europe, despite having penalties reaching up to capital punishment, there were still cases where the towns didn’t become clean. The townspeople would simply stealthily scatter the waste under the cover of night so that no one would know they did it.

 

But, Nagai, who was already used to the clean world of modern Japan, didn’t give up. He struggled hard everyday, and it continued for a while in the future.

 

Well, public health did not just include the public places of the town. The hygiene of the people also needed to be managed.

 

In this world, commoners do not have the habit of washing their bodies, so it could be said that most people were filthy and smelly. Just like medieval europe in his previous world, they had the misunderstanding that diseases came from water. Thus, people avoided washing their bodies with river and well water.

 

However, there was definitely a difference between medieval europe and this world, and that was the existence of magic.

 

The water created by magic was said to be clean, so wealthy people who had plenty of money would cleanse their bodies with that water.

 

In other words, the reason why common people did not wash their bodies was because they felt that it was waste to use expensive water, that was supposed to be used for drinking and cooking, to wash themselves.

 

But, Nagai had already prepared a countermeasure for that.

 

One day at the office...

 

“Here.” A map of the town was opened in front of them, and Nagai pointed at a certain place. “Make a large public bath here.”

 

“Ho-However, to vacate the townspeople and the costs...” One of the vassals stuttered.

 

“I don’t care. We can silence the townspeople who need to leave with money. I’m also planning to sell all the expensive art pieces in the mansion. We can use that to cover the expenses for the eviction and construction cost of the bathhouse.” Nagai decided.

 

Nagai was planning to construct a large public bathhouse in the town. By employing water and fire magicians, he could make them pour hot water in. If there was no bathing fee, all the townspeople would want to take a bath since everyone would prefer to be clean than to be dirty.

 

[TL: Free bath? That is not a good management.]

 

Like this, Nagai made another goal for the public health of the castle town. He didn’t make any hygiene management plan for the villages as it was not necessary to worry about them in particular. After all, if there were fewer people, there would be fewer waste to manage, and that amount could be returned back to nature without worry of pollution.

 

Thus, a considerable amount of assets had disappeared just for this case. Even though there was still some savings, if he continued with the reforms like this, he would run out eventually.

 

For that reason, Nagai immediately began with the next policy. The next goal was to make money. In other words, it was to develop new businesses.

 

Looking at the documents everyday, Nagai began paying attention to the paper.

 

Speaking of the paper on this continent, what they used was parchment paper. Just one sheet of parchment was about 1 new barbanil silver coin (about 2,800 yen). It could be considered a luxury item. When it was used for making a book, the cost surprisingly exceeded 500 new barbanil silver coins (about 1.4 million yen), including the transcribing fee.

 

Nagai thought that he would be able to make money by introducing inexpensive paper instead of parchment in this world. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know how to make western-styled paper. However, he did have some knowledge about making Japanese-styled paper.

 

Also, because the raw materials were plant-based, it didn’t cost very much in particular to develop it. At best, it would only be personnel expenses, as well as the time needed for trial and error.

 

Nagai gathered people and started the development of paper immediately. He told the craftsmen what he knew, and participated in the experiment himself when he had the time.

 

The paper development came from Nagai’s own pocket, and it was done over a long period of time.

 

The reform of the territory was going forward by Nagai’s own hands. However, Nagai didn’t participate in the territory’s politics. Instead, together with the territory’s reform, Nagai tried to gather people who were from the same country in the previous world.

 

“I want to recruit people who know of the country called Japan.” He declared in his territory. He also announced that these people’s origins were not restricted, be it domestically or overseas.

 

Although Nagai had excellent knowledge, it was only limited to that of a high school student. Nagai wanted someone with more specialized knowledge, and he also wanted to prevent the leakage of technology from the previous world because of the wealth.

 

However, searching for people from another world was difficult. Even a year later, he still couldn’t get any information.

 

He had even thought that perhaps, he might be the only one who came to this world. But, Nagai still made his vassals continue searching.

 

And then, two years had passed since Nagai came to this world. It was during early summer of that year when he finally found the first person from another world.

 

A girl was brought to Nagai’s office. She had slightly chiseled features, and the black hair that was particular to Japanese people.

 

[Are you Japanese?]

 

[TL: he is speaking moon run- I mean Jap.]

 

It had been a long time since Nagai spoke in Japanese. Upon hearing him, the girl shed tears. They were tears of joy.

 

After listening to the girl‘s story, he understood that the power the girl gained was [Sword Talent] [Average] [★★]. However, as her personality is awfully timid, it was impossible for her to earn money with it. Therefore, she was working at a commercial firm as an assistant.

 

Because of the god’s power, there was no inconvenience in writing and reading the characters of this world, and because she could do calculation, she wasn’t troubled by the job. However, she couldn’t help but feel lonely, so when the girl saw the paper, she immediately came to this place.

 

When one person was finally found, the second and the third person also came.

 

From everyone’s story, it seemed like there was a difference between the time they were sent to this world as compared to Nagai.

 

The card Nagai obtained was “become a lord”. If someone had to die to for him to become a lord, Nagai thought that the time when Juliano died was the reason why there was a time difference between his transference and the others’. When everyone was being transferred, there was probably no lord who conveniently died at the same time.

 

The power of the people he gathered also varied.

 

[Dog] [★] [TL: umm.... What? Ah it probably the pet card.]

[Hero’s Armor] [★★★]

[Dark Magic Talent] [Average] [★★★]

[All-cure Medicine] [★★★]

[Hard to Break Shoes] [★]

[Bow Talent] [small] [★]

[Fire Magic Talent] [big] [★★★★]

 

However, Nagai was not interested in those powers. Right now, he was a lord. What he needed was their knowledge to become a much better lord than everyone else.

 

The people from another world gathered one after another under Nagai. With this, the territory grew steadily. By now, it had been 8 years for Nagai, and 6 years for the others since they’ve come to this world.

 

At this time, the plant paper developed in the territory was being mass-produced. Thus, Nagai had accumulated an enormous fortune from that.

 

However, it was hard to say that this was the start of the rise of his territory.

 

Firstly, the presence of cheap paper did not make the influential people of the church happy.

 

There was a reason for this. Up till now, the preservation of knowledge was done only by the Church. It was the Church’s means to maintain power. However, if paper became cheaper to obtain, others could also perform the conservation of knowledge easily too. The Church was concerned about such thing.

 

However, when Nagai invented letterpress printing and used it to mass-produce and sell the holy bible at a low price, the influential people of the church changed their opinions, and had a favorable impression of him.

 

Bibles that could be printed at low prices and in large quantities were the Church’s dream. Bibles, so far, were so expensive that common people weren’t able to buy one at all. However, by letting the common people purchase the low-priced bible, the Church could then gain enormous wealth and more devout believers.

 

Of course, the holy bible made of parchment that was sold till now would still be sold at the same price as before. After all, nobles are creatures that like to show off. They would not want to purchase the same cheap holy bible as the common people.

 

The territory’s breakthrough was not only limited to paper. During these 8 years, the agriculture of Nagai’s territory had shifted from the three fields

system to the four field system.

 

Although there was no one amongst them who was involved in agriculture, when related knowledge was given, and they’ve discuss about it for a while, it resulted in an agricultural reform.

 

They also succeeded in producing transparent and colorless glass. Although it was difficult to mass-produce, it was sold at high prices to wealthy people who were interested in rare curiosities.

 

In addition, he tried to make a tax reform, but the tax rate needed to be the same as the country’s or he would be scorned by other lords. If there was a big difference in tax rates in the country, people from territories with heavier tax would become dissatisfied with their lords. Therefore, the tax rate in his territory remained heavy.

 

However, by eliminating so many things, people’s anxiety about their livelihoods had been reduced.

 

As for the people from another world, Nagai treated them well regardless of who they were. There were some useless people, but if he got rid of them, it would create distrust towards him.

 

There were more than 40 people from another world who had moved into his territory. However, after a certain time, there was no longer anyone joining them.

 

Everyone guessed that the others had made their own place in this world.

 

Smoothly... Everything was going well. Since his territory had developed at an abnormal pace, Nagai’s standing in the Youju Empire skyrocketed.

 

One night...

 

Nagai was at the balcony of his mansion, alone. With a glass of wine in his hand, his gaze was directed at the castle town.

 

“It’s still dark.” Nagai murmured.

 

The light from incandescent lamps could be seen in the castle town.

 

There was no place in this continent that was the same as this place. This was Nagai’s accomplishment. While looking at the dim light, a thin smile appeared on his face.

 

(My territory is developing rapidly by my power. Everyone is praising the results.)

 

Nagai was drunk, but not on liquor. It was the sense of being the best that he had tasted long ago.

 

But, it was still not enough. Nagai thought that he be satisfied with just this. There were more people who were far greater than him at a place where he can’t reach.

 

Nagai couldn’t permit it.

 

(Eventually, I will swallow everything and reach the top.)

 

Nagai always had an image of being number one in his mind. He was confident that he could govern a country better than anyone else on this continent.

 

He got his position from God, and with the knowledge from present-day Japan, the conquest of this continent would not be just a dream.

 

Then, a small thought popped up in the corner of his mind. It was not something significant, but it still provided a strange sense of worry. It was about something that happened before he arrived in this world.

 

“I-I am sorryーー!”

 

It was the man who pathetically did a dogeza to the God inside the white room. Thanks to that, the man seemed to have received special treatment from God.

 

Nagai also did a dogeza to the God afterwards, but it was not appreciated nor acknowledged.

 

(What did he get?)

 

Nagai thought if he had been the first to do the dogeza, he might have been be able to get what that man got.

 

As to what card it was, there was a pattern in the cards they have gotten, at least from everyone whom he had met up until now.

 

Much better talent in martial arts and magic than anyone else, much better weapons and armor than anyone else, a position much higher than anyone...

 

But, what was the meaning of all that?

 

In Nagai’s territory, he had succeeded in refining gunpowder. The cannon had been completed, and currently, the development of the matchlock was just beginning.

 

Nagai had weapons that were supposed to appear only in the far future of this continent. Nagai thought that this was something which couldn’t be resisted by an individual’s ability alone. If they wanted to resist, they would need to have the power to develop weapons like Nagai.

 

However, according to the information from the spies sent to other countries, there was no place that developed rapidly like Nagai’s territory.

 

In other words, there was no one who could rival Nagai in this continent.

 

“The continents are starting to rage. In any case, there will be turbulence, and this country will also get involved in it.”

 

At that time, when Nagai was deep in thought, a strong gust of night wind suddenly blew. It was the seasonal wind from the south east called Sirocco. Occasionally, he does not mind the sand grains that’s mixed in the wind.


Nagai’s gaze was set to the far future.

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