Fushi no Kami: Rebuilding Civilization Starts with a Village - Vol. 7 Ch. 31 - A Day Blossomed with Smiles

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This was a refreshing read after coming home from volunteering!

Pro Tip: If you're ever feeling down, nothing turns it around faster than helping others. Even if you're doing it for your own sake the results will be for others, which is way better than the alternative of brooding alone.
 
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Kind of boring that the cause and solution to the problem was bureaucracy. Not even logistics or crop failures.
 
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Any of you WN/LN readers know how far into the story we are or got left still?
 
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These guys are alright. Other manga’s nobles wouldn’t let a villager commoner boy get all the limelight.
They kinda live in a poor territory/frontier to be fair, in those kind of stories nobility from poorer regions/frontier tend to be more down to earth and close to the people since they have to cooperate more to "survive", it just that for once we follow the story of someone in one of those domains instead of some guy reincarnated in some rich territory or someone who magically has all modern knowledge in his head (how many time did some MC pulled the "I've seen some documentary on the History Channel and now i know all the details on how to do this complex product due to the photographic memory all Japanese Isekai candidates teens seem to have").

I'd like to see some more closer to the capital territory to see how far ours is lagging behind in development.
 
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This series overall has a lot of domestic policy fixes (or rather that’s the main theme), which I think is not easy to tell a story of because how plain it can be.
However, they are quite reflective of real life, like how many times we see in any society that there’s some ridiculous situation that could be solved if we just work together and get the process right or more efficient.

So IMO this series is the escape to see bureaucrats and societal leaders actually fixing things. (Not everyone’s cup of tea, I know)

I also quite enjoy that our MC doesn’t and can’t do everything himself. Maika is literally the one taking care of the politics and everyone else is doing their part in the logistics.
 
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Makes me wonder what Ash was in his past life. Maybe a really sincere and diligent public servant?
 
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They kinda live in a poor territory/frontier to be fair, in those kind of stories nobility from poorer regions/frontier tend to be more down to earth and close to the people since they have to cooperate more to "survive", it just that for once we follow the story of someone in one of those domains instead of some guy reincarnated in some rich territory or someone who magically has all modern knowledge in his head (how many time did some MC pulled the "I've seen some documentary on the History Channel and now i know all the details on how to do this complex product due to the photographic memory all Japanese Isekai candidates teens seem to have").

I'd like to see some more closer to the capital territory to see how far ours is lagging behind in development.
That doesn't really matter. Often enough, a territory is poor exactly because the lord is a corrupt bastard. As a result, he is a rich tyrant, but the people under him starve.

Corruption is common. It may be an unpopular opinion, but corruption does not necessarily mean mismanagment either. A corrupt lord with head on his neck can rob, say, 20% of the territory's income, but because he's actually great and motivated at doing his job (cause of these 20% he takes for himself), the remaining 80% may be significantly more than if someone was not corrupted and the territory got 100%, but said person would be unskilled or unmotivated.

So long as the corruption does not cross a certain point, it can as well be considered 'costs' from a business perspective. Well, as long as said corruption only affects the economy. Legal corruption is another matter entirely. If an innocent person is being persecuted for no good reason, how good of a manager the lord is doesn't mean jack squat after all.
 
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Makes me wonder what Ash was in his past life. Maybe a really sincere and diligent public servant?
I presume becoming a reincarnator gives you all the positive traits in Crusader Kings: Genius, Beautiful, Herculean, Diligent...

Thank you for translating the chapter!
 
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Scrolls in a basket. scrolls rolled and stacked in pigeon holes or on shelves. These were the norm for information storage long ago. The pigeon hole desk system was a huge innovation, allowing curled up paper to be sorted into like categories for retrieval with related items. But at some point the volume of information being generated by an organization, especially a government, overwhelmed the limitations of the system. There was an article, I think in a woodworking magazine, actually, about this transition. It was background for instructions on making a roll-top desk.

Part of the problem was that the size of paper was not standardized. Trying to stack papers of different dimensions was impractical, and so rolling them was a flexible way to reduce their size into one that could be managed, even if the paper was longer than usual. Standardized sheets make it possible to file papers flat into filing systems that we are familiar with today. It may be that part of the administrative backlog comes from the state of the information load being in this transitional phase, where older filing and retrieval methods are beginning to lose ground.

There are so many things that make the modern world that Ash remembers possible, and some of those things appear to be really minor. His foray into cartography illustrated one such issue, and the food distribution crisis illustrates another one that unexpectedly stems from paperwork.
 
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Makes me wonder what Ash was in his past life. Maybe a really sincere and diligent public servant?
He could have been any office worker with a decent public education. In an isekai-style fanfic, the MC remarked to himself that his Japanese high school education probably made him the most knowledgeable person in a room full of military generals. Certainly there are some manga in which the MC applies to join the Merchant's Guild, and finds that the 'very difficult' exam included elementary arithmetic.

By the time you leave high school, you already know that other continents exist and that citrus fruits can prevent scurvy. You might know both integral and differential calculus, and the scientific names of beings animalculus. In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, you are the very model of the modern major general.

cough uh, sorry.

You would know the history of your country, including the notable downfall of foolish kings. You would have learned that weights and measures should be standardized and that cobblestone roads need to be crowned to let water run to the sides and not pool in the middle. You might have heard of the hub-and-spoke model of distributing goods and mail, and the historical importance of a professional civil service (which can keep a nation running even if the king is insane). You might even have learned some of the basics of celestial navigation, which can revolutionize both naval power and international/intercontinental trade. There's also germ theory and public sanitation, including how to develop an urban sewage system that can prevent cholera outbreaks.

For that matter, knowing the principles behind the Rocket Stove would be a lifesaver. Its design, once refined, can burn wood much more efficiently while greatly reducing smoke and smoke-related respiratory illness. Efficient wood use can be of benefit to the poor, who struggle to heat their dwellings, and also reduce deforestation. Also, if it is less expensive to heat water, people can safeguard their drinking water by boiling it, greatly reducing disease. This design is not taught about in schools, but anyone might happen upon the design by viewing enough YouTube.
 

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