episode_0043
by fnovelpiaIf just bowing my head for a moment could secure budget and time, I was willing to bow my head no matter what.
That’s why I’ve now been able to secure a satisfactory budget and time.
It seemed like Melania would give us as much time as we wanted.
No matter how much of a dragon it is, it is ultimately a female.
Even if the paper is wrong, she must feel it too. That she has an unreasonable attraction to me, an alpha male.
There’s nothing I can do.
Because this is an alpha male.
“Where will this budget be used, Department Head?”
Erica asked me politely.
It’s no longer strange for her, a knight, to treat me this way.
Having shown my achievements, I am no longer a breeder. I was just a temporary head of a department, but not anymore.
Erica, a commoner, was clearly inferior to me. If she had been a noble, then it wouldn’t be different, but since Erica was a commoner, I could say that I was superior in terms of actual rank.
That doesn’t mean I intend to treat Erica like my subordinate. She’s almost the only one who believes in her position so much that she doesn’t attack me or anything.
That is to say, she is a female who knows her subject. And I don’t hate such females.
Moreover, his abilities as a knight are superior to Ertia’s.
“Let’s take one box each.”
“What is this? It’s a gold coin, right?”
Each box contained a whopping one thousand gold coins. Erica held onto the box, trembling under its weight.
It wasn’t because it was too heavy for her.
I was trembling under the weight of that money, knowing what I could do with it.
“Elisa, please help me too.”
“… Ugh-!!”
Elisa tries to push, but the box doesn’t budge. It’s not the weight of the money that’s weighing her down, it’s the weight of the box itself…
“Oh my. How can a nobleman be so weak? I will carry it.”
Helen, an investor in our department.
Although Helen is an investor, she is someone we work with here, so much so that we could almost call her someone from our department.
Luzenda was also on standby in our department at all times.
“You are insulting the nobles on the topic of commoners?”
“Should I stop? I’m being a loser. I can’t even get a gold chest. It’s pathetic. Pathetic.”
“You can’t hear that either!!”
Luzenda carries the box for you.
Elisa was indignant at her rude response to a nobleman, as expected of a rough mercenary, but Helen stopped her appropriately.
There was also the fact that Luzenda and Helen were secretly close, and there was also Helen’s tendency to always go against what Elisa said.
“Let’s go.”
I ignored the two fighting and continued walking.
A whopping sum of 3,000 gold.
What can I use this for? Of course… it was a bribe.
The first place I headed to was the training grounds where the Knights were training.
Excluding Ertia, Erica, Elisa Soryu, Helen Wagner, and Luzenda move.
It seems that all the key executives in the department are moving, but there is nothing we can do.
Because our department has a chronic manpower shortage.
“That kid… ”
“Just look at all the girls running around.”
“I’m unlucky.”
As soon as I arrived at the training ground, each of the knights who noticed my arrival blurted out a word.
This was my karma. I was the one who took away the budget by exposing the evil practice of embezzlement, which the reporters had been secretly pocketing.
Because of that, Leona challenged me to a duel, and there was no way the knights wouldn’t know.
“Everyone be quiet!”
Leona shouted and urged the knights on, as if she didn’t like them.
Gently, gently.
But her angry tail was wagging madly to both sides like a puppy that has met its owner.
“What’s going on?”
But no one suspects the relationship between Leona and me. They are fooled by Leona’s acting, who immediately crosses her arms and looks at me coldly.
And the knights, in other words, are ignorant. Right now, Ertia and Erica are showing a terrible talent for paperwork.
Their craftsman Knight Commander Leonardo even hires an administrator separately from the Knights’ budget to write the documents.
That is, they do not know anything about the characteristics of the number of people.
Do you think they would read books diligently? Even if they did, they would probably be in the romance genre.
“…? Who is that tail wagging so happily?”
Of course, the smart Elisa Soryu tilted her head as if it was strange.
“Haha. I think there has been some misunderstanding between you and me.”
“What misunderstanding?”
“Please take this first.”
Erica handed over the box thoughtfully.
“This, this is… !”
Leona continued to open the box with a displeased expression, then her eyes began to open wide.
“This is provided by our department. Feel free to use it in your knighthood.”
“Oh… Ohhhh!!”
The knights began to get excited at the sight of the gold coins emitting a brilliant light from the box. A thousand gold coins was quite a large sum of money.
You won’t believe that I’m willing to give this to them.
“Ahem. I’ll make sure to use this well with the knights.”
“No, no. Use that as your Knights’ budget. I prepared it separately.”
I approached the knights who were looking at us with a friendly smile and bowing my head to Leona, who was opening her eyes wide.
They were not blindly looking at me with hostility after seeing me hand over a huge sum of money, a thousand gold, to the Knights Templar.
“How could I not know that the knights are suffering? Here, take this. This is something I got permission from Melania.”
Permission has been granted.
I can use the budget however I want.
So, personally, I had no problem giving bonuses to the knights.
There are a total of 50 knights in the Viken Territory.
I gave them the money divided into two boxes.
“Thank you for your hard work, sir.”
“Oh, thank you.”
The knights who had been cursing me until just now began to look at me with friendly eyes as I took the gold out of the box and gave it to them with both hands, shaking them politely.
“Ahem.”
The women were a little more explicit in their caressing of my hand.
“We will be refitting your armor and swords soon, so please forgive any rudeness we may have shown you so far.”
“Hmm… Now that I think about it, maybe we did something wrong?”
“That’s right.”
As I began to apologize, the reporters nodded as if they had realized that their embezzlement was wrong.
“Oh! And we will provide two free bars of soap to the Knights every month.”
“Wow-!!”
“The breeder, is he a god? The breeder, is he a god?”
Even though most of the knights were nobles, when they contracted the Black Death, they had to pay a large sum of money to a priest to receive treatment.
In that situation, they even provide soap that can prevent the Black Death for free!
Even though soap has become cheaper, 30 silver is still a lot of money. Of course, it’s something you can’t help but like.
Leaving the cheering knights behind, I returned straight to my department.
“New armor and sword. Really…! No, really?”
As soon as I got back, Erica was so excited that she even made a mistake in her speech and asked me a question.
“Of course. Erika has been a member of the Knights and has helped us a lot. I will give you the best.”
An additional 2,000 gold will be spent on crafting the armor and sword.
Of course, it’s not just about making things for the knights. Considering that they’ll be making money in the future, they need to prepare now.
“Then let’s pack the boxes again and go to another department.”
I quickly urged the others on.
I need to quickly make Elisa and Erica into females who listen to me well.
I felt really bad about having to keep speaking politely to him.
Next stop was the Treasury.
The Treasury took special care of five boxes. As the department that managed money, it needed more bribes than the Knights Templar.
“Mr. Finance Minister, I apologize for what happened before.”
“… The amount is too big. I can’t accept it.”
But the Minister of Finance was not so easy. From his perspective, he probably didn’t like the various corruptions and embezzlement I had previously brought up.
Because originally, this was something they should have confirmed.
I expected it wouldn’t be easy since it would hurt their pride.
“What are you talking about?”
“What are you talking about”
The finance minister’s two eyes looked at me, as if asking for reassurance that he would be okay with receiving this.
It’s different from the articles that say even the brain seems to be made of muscles.
Even if Melania had permission, using that large sum of money for personal use would inevitably cause problems.
Well, I’ll take responsibility for it though.
Anyway, the Minister of Finance needed to be sure that I would take full responsibility for this matter.
I handed over the paper I had prepared in advance.
“You’ve made a successful investment, now it’s time to get paid for it.”
“… Hahaha!! This is a real deal. It’s an investment… That’s right. I’m getting the invested amount by properly securing the taxes that the top guys played around with… ”
The paper stated that the Treasury had invested in a soap factory, and that it was dated in the past, before the factory was built.
It is impossible to run a territory while being at odds with other departments. Now that you have the whip, it is time to give it a carrot.
“Please take care of me in the future too.”
The finance director, who saw my neat work, reached out to me first and asked to shake my hand.
“I am the one who needs your help.”
I held both hands politely.
Next, after spending a total of 20,000 gold by going around to various departments such as the Intelligence Department and the Administration Department, I was finally able to send a request for smooth cooperation with other departments.
“Then, should I start hiring people?”
“With what money?”
I stared intently into Helen’s eyes as she questioned my words.
The total amount of money we earned from selling soap initially was 40,000 gold.
Of those, Helen took 10,000 gold. In addition, the soap is still being produced. This means that there will be more for Helen to take in the future.
“At…?”
Your money is my money.
This bitch.
Now it was time to clean the streets.
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