Since wood is everywhere, there is no need to bother selling it to another town. Because itâs good enough to cut it nearby.
Itâs the same for woodworking products. Other villages can make anything that can be made in our villages.
We decided to plant trees for the future for the time being, but that wonât lead to an increase in revenue at the moment. The mountain village chiefs who thought that there would be a groundbreaking idea like with the farming group seems disappointed.
After that, I wonder if thereâs anything else âŠâŠ
Oh, what about Shiitake cultivation?
When I asked, they didnât know about Shiitake mushrooms. If it doesnât exist, the fungus might not be growing in the first placeâŠâŠ.
If we make a large amount of smoked meat and jerky by capturing enough animals, the populations of animals will soon decline and the rest wonât be able to surviveâŠâŠ
For the time being, I promise to investigate the possibility of making charcoal and Tatara Fuki to smooth things over(ăè¶ăæżă).
Also, in order to discover metal ore, I gave stern instructions to be quickly informed if thereâs anything that looks like it and handed out printouts of ore photographs to a few villagers.
By the way, I tend to confuse âTatara Fukiâ and âTatara Seitetsuâ, but they are different things. âTataraâ means bellows, and many of the early iron processing techniques use bellows, that is to say, the primitive iron making methods that are conducted in various parts of the world are called âTatara Seitetsuâ.
âTatara Fukiâ on the other hand is a special iron processing technique conducted in Japan, which creates high-quality âTamahagane(ball steel)â from iron sand. Tamahagane is the high-quality steel that becomes the blade of a Japanese sword, and it can take less than one-third of the iron made with Tatara Fuki. The remaining two-thirds or more is low quality and used for parts other than the blade portion, daily necessities, and other applications.
If you make products with the Tamahagane brand power.
Mitsuha was putting her hopes on the discovery of valuable metal ores and this steelmaking technique.(tl note: I think I translated âTatara Seitetsuâ as Tatara furnace in chapter 37. Iâm not sure if I want to change it to primitive steelmaking or leave it)
And about the marine.
The chief who was representing the fishing village had expectations.
Until now, the fishing village was treated roughly by the lord because the number of inhabitants was small and seafood canât be stockpiled nor sold outdoors or outside the territory.\n
However, the new lord Mitsuha has visited the fishing village much more frequently than she did the farm villages and mountain villages, asked various questions, and gladly ate the seafood dishes prepared by the fishermanâs wives.
And she showed extraordinary interest in the boats and fishing gear.
In addition, the Viscountâs house that had until now only hire servants from the residents of the town has hired Ninette, someone from the fishing village for the first time.
It wasnât unreasonable to have expectations.
AndâŠâŠ
âFirst of all, letâs intensify the amount of salt and mass-produce the products made by drying seaweed, also increase the number of catches and categorize our products into sun-dried, shade dried, salted dried, small dried sardines, baked, and smokedâ
âOh!â
The fishing village chief eyes sparkle at Mitsuha being more talkative than the time about forestry.
In contrast, the 2 mountain village chiefs became gloomy.
âAnd for the mass production of dried fish, we need to increase the catch rate in the first place. So we intend to improve the nets and create a new fishing boat.â
âOooooo!â
The village chief raises a voice of joy at Mitsuhaâs proposals going beyond his expectations.
For Mitsuha, the fishing industry is a delicious industry with immediate results.
Cast nets, gill nets, dragnets. Here where the coastal waters arenât polluted, we should be able to anticipate reasonable stable hauls by using dragnets on the migratory fish. Also, since the professional fishing industry is hardly developed, you can expect large hauls using nets if you go a bit off the coast. Furthermore, we can also expect catches using angling with the treasure trove of fishes not used to threads.\n\nMitsuha was willing to bring the nets and fishing tackles from Japan to start off. Otherwise, itâll take too much time to prepare. If the new nets prove effective, naturally sheâll probably look into those fishing nets to make something similar. The fishing tackles too.\nThe boat isâŠâŠ
A second-hand small boat can be brought using 20 to 300 thousand. However, the material properties of FRP are unattractive. Should the boats be built locally?
Boats are also necessary for dragnets, but it seems difficult when you consider the weight of our current boats and nets, maintaining balance during work and the number of people required to do work.
In regards to salt production, due to the small population of the fishing village, and the fact that a vast amount of land canât be used, a Ryouka(æ”äž) type salt field is reasonable. More than anything, the number of needed workers is overwhelmingly fewer than that of Nyuhama(ć „ăæ”) type and Agehama(ææ”) type salt fields.
We also need the people from the farm villages to create the facilities. And the mountain villagesâ cooperation because a lot of timber is necessary for the boiling it all down.
The chiefs of the mountain villages made light smiles too when I said that a large amount of wood would be needed as fuel.
And finally, the shopkeeper invited from the town.
This territory is at the end of the road facing the sea so there are no travelers passing through. Those with business in the neighborhood would go to the Boses Earldom instead which has a decent town.
Also, most of the goods sold to the villages are carried through the Boses Earldom, of course with higher prices than in the Boses Earldom. Therefore, only people in this territory will buy things from this territory.
âCan you close your shop?â
âââWhaaaaaaaat!âââ
At Mitsuhaâs words, all the leaders raised surprise voices.
All 678 people and 170 families will have trouble with shopping if the only store in the region is gone.
If you donât go through a store, you have to buy the things you want one by one by going to the manufacturer, for the goods from outside the territory of course, but even the goods inside the territory too. There are many goods consumed every day. Should every family rotate between the farm, mountain, and fishing villages? Itâs impossible.
As everyone thought so.
âNo, no, a store will still exist. I want to increase the scale a little and put out a lot more products. There will be the products Pez-san the merchant will regularly bring into our territory, the rare artifacts that will come from my homeland and the new products weâll make in our territory from now on. Iâm not going to leave them all to a privately owned store, so Iâm thinking of opening a store under the direct management of the lordâ
â⊠What if I refuse?â
âI donât care even if you do, but this will mean that a new store directly managed by the lord will open. Perhaps, theyâll buy the stock at a better price and sells it cheaper than beforeâ
\n(tl note: So everyoneâs money on hand increases beyond what they can comprehend and only the children are being educated. Wonât that mean that some families will need their children to manage their finances?)