Kokugensou wo Item Cheat de Ikinuku (LN) Volume 1 Chapter 1.3

The work of an a.s.sistant secretary is quite boring.

I am the a.s.sistant of secretary Lyle, I’m making a copy of official doc.u.ments and detailed reports, the quant.i.ty is not a big deal for me.

The village of Ross has the quant.i.ty of almost 200 located on the edge of the mountains.

There is also an iron mine managed by the country in the outskirts of a village, Mineworkers and blacksmith lives there, there are around 300 people including the adventurers like Louise.

It’s a really small miniature village.

It’s also safe to say that the official doc.u.ments of the village is a small matter.

Lyle-sensei who had a free times also work as a teacher of the students.

However, there is also a benefit working in these boring doc.u.ments.

By checking the reports to the King and various Feudal Lord, i was able to know the geography and the feature of this village.

I thought that it was a remote country side but the distance to the capital is not that far from the village if you ride a wagon it would only take you four days.

I want to go to the imperial capital of s.h.i.+rejie, sometime soon.

But, i’m more interested in…….

「Secretary Lyle, is there a hot spring in the village?」

As a j.a.panese, i love taking a batch and something like that cannot be overlooked.

「You can enter the hot spring if you want to, but you must dig it with a shovel.」

I was told that the hot springs are not convenient. Nevertheless, If i want to enter the hot spring by the river located in the outskirts of the village i have to dug a bath with a shovel.

Something’s strange. A hot spring by the river.

「Then, shall we go together nest time?」

「Wel……, it’s a little bit unpleasant for me to enter together a bath with other person. 」

Oh, he made an unpleasant face. I see, so it’s impossible to enter together huh.

Lyle-sensei is hiding some secret about his body, isn’t he?

I’ll stop since our secretary’s mood has worsened.

leaving that aside, what’s bugging me isn’t that thing.

「 Secretray Lyle, is there a sulfur in the hot spring area.」

「oh, i know well. there is an area where sulfur is exposed.」

Is that so. A hot spring always comes together with sulfur, that means the heat pressure being release is from a volcano where a sulfur mine is naturally made.

Lyle-sensei who has a full desire to learn seems to be also a beginner cla.s.s alchemist, seems likes he also studied the mineral resources in this area.

Let’s listen to details of the location later.

「Is there also a saltpeter mine?」(TN: Saltpeter is another term for Pota.s.sium Nitrate. )

「Saltpeter? I don’t think there is in this place. If you want it by all means, you have to obtain it from the capital, or make one yourself.」

If i’m going to order the saltpeter from a distant place, i think it will be over my budget.

No, I shouldn’t be limited into different mineral resources. Saltpeter can be use for fermentation. I should be able to create it by boiling dirt or human urine. (TN:  )

Sulfur, Saltpeter(Pota.s.sium nitrate), and if i can make charcoal it will be possible to create a gun powder.

「By any chance….. do you intend to make a black powder?」

「Oh, you noticed?」

As expected of an alchemist. The gunpowder isn’t popular in this world but he knows it.

Well, I will quickly make gunpowder, i expect the development to be great, Could it be popular in places where they use gunpowder?

thoug, i thought i could jump into fame with my original technology.

because i don’t understand the circ.u.mstances of the locals, i want Lyle-sensei to tell me.

「I have not made gunpowder or either seen one. It was used in the war of a far empire, i know it because i’ve read the history book.」

「I see, it was used for war.」

Lyle-sensei who knows about the gunpowder doesn’t have an experience in making one so that means the black powder isn’t being use in s.h.i.+reijie Kingdom.

Even if it has been invented, they are not aware of the effectiveness of it.

If that’s the case , then it can be good as an original project.

I was afraid to obtain the idea by fraud, so I decided to completely talk about it with Lyle-sensei.

Lyle-sensei took care of me very much and i don’t mind if Lyle-sensei will be the one who gets the acknowledgement.

「A big bomb can be made with gunpowder and i think i can sell in the iron mine. Do you know about dynamite?」

I rip a part of an old doc.u.ment and began to explain the diagram.

「I see, it’s the reason them makes them explode and make a hole on a bedrock. An amazing idea…… I’ve never heard of such method. Did Takeru-dono think of this?」

That’s right, it’s an original craft.

The materials for the gunpowder is all in a mine. It’s natural to think of it if you know some engineering.

So stop looking at me with a sparkling eyes filled with respect, i feel embarra.s.sed Lyle-sensei.

It’s the knowledge of a different world, well, i can’t afford to say that.

Of course, production of it also takes time and effort, and i also don’t know if it can be sold but if it goes well, it should be profitable.

「Lyle-sensei. If it’s okay could you help me with the production and sales of the gunpowder product? I would like to express my grat.i.tude for helping me 」(TN: not sure on the last part of the sentence.)

「I don’t mind. I’m able to have free time and manufacturing gunpowder is interesting. I don’t particularly need the money.」

I wanted the knowledge than money that was Lyle-sensei trying to say.

Well, he’s a person higher than the village head. so he doesn’t have any trouble with money.

But of course, the one who owns the iron mine in this area is not the feudal lord of this place, it belongs to the [s.h.i.+rejie] kingdom. So i want to use the popularity of secretary Lyle who was dispatched by the kingdom when i sell it in the mine.

It will be good if i’m not doubted as a person of unknown origin.