"Thomas, how much does a linen tunic cost now?" Nalant pondered for a moment, preparing to solve the problem in the simplest, most direct way.
That was to spend money buying enough linen tunics to distribute to the serfs so they could ward off the cold.
Linen tunics were not particularly expensive. Nalant reckoned that even ten thousand of them would only cost a few dozen gold coins, which was not too great an expense for him now.
"My lord, are you planning to buy linen tunics to hand out to the serfs? That... probably wouldn't be cost-effective. Every winter is when linen tunics rise in price."
"In spring and summer, a linen tunic could be bought for only thirty or forty copper coins. But now, it would take at least fifty or sixty copper coins to buy one."
"Besides, my lord, winter has already arrived. It would be impossible to buy a large quantity of linen tunics all at once, because there are not many tailors in each territory. To make over ten thousand linen tunics... that would probably take an entire winter..."
Nalant had originally thought that, in this world, having money meant he could buy whatever he wanted just as in his previous life. But Mario's answer made him realize that he had been wrong again.
In this other world with such low productivity, even if he had gold coins, buying large quantities of supplies at once was, like grain, extremely difficult.
Take Nalant's own territory, for example. Only because new serfs had joined had the number of tailors increased to three or four.
And that was only because the new serfs he had seized had all been carefully selected.
In an ordinary baronial territory, there would be at most one or two tailors. Producing over ten