They Kicked Alchemist Out, unaware He Was Feeding the Entire Country's Army 

yup like one real company they fire computer maintainence guy and within one week company collasped lol

Hey IT! Why am I even paying you? Everything works anyway! Hey IT! Why am I even paying you!? Nothing works! Eternal struggle of misunderstood positions. Same goes for Project Managers: you learn about their importance only when there is a switch from competent one to incompetent one, or the other way around, otherwise 90% of employees consider it 'just another high-salary useless dork". Also your comment kind of clicked something in my brain - comparing kingdoms to companies is really a common trope. And MC defecting to Demon Lord(ette) usually is an equivalent of switching to competent boss who cares for employees. NOW I CAN'T UNSEE IT! :D I get that very few mangakas would know how European style kingdoms would function... But just how many of them experienced working in black companies?! Edit: Now I recalled there is a literal manga series in which Demon lord specifically isekais a PM... AND GOES THROUGH HIS RESUME POINTING OUT HOW GOOD HE IS.

I’m just impressed how all of these competent protagonists keep winding up under the thumb of pretentious mongoloids who throw them away after somehow not understanding what the protagonist brings to the table despite directly benefiting from their skills. Then There is ALWAYS the one guy who understands what an amazing unicorn tier outlier the MC is but is ignored.

Namely Apple, Panasonic, Phillips, and so on...

I know right

Rip the prince for incompetent subordinates

​@@ascrein5247 nah they are corrupt Just like our politician

@@ascrein5247 eh it's better then incompetent superiors

I get so tired of the trope that is so overused.... Corrupt king screws the MC over, ending up regretting it.... Or an incompetent prince, who ruins everything for the sake of their greed....for the MC to ruin their life. So, a story like this is much liked.

@@GOKUISTHEBOMB Doesn’t make it much more unique tbh

Also "Armies win battles, logistics win wars".

who?

@@swordsnspearguy5945 I've seen it attributed to Napoleon, but the actual quote may be older than that. Or, if you meant Norman Borlaug (spelled it wrong at first), he was a food scientist who's work helped to increase crop yields and is considered to have saved over 1 billion people from starvation through that work.

@@justinweber4977 You're a good ass dude. You spit some esoteric knowledge, and when someone asked you didn't give a douche answer. It's a rarity on today's internet. Keep up the good work my dude.

Yeah, it turns out that "LOL just loot other countries' food when we invade them" isn't a a great way to keep your army fed.

I would've went with Harbor Bosch but I get what mean

Looks like a good leader is sitting on the throne. An anime where this kind of story of an MC being thrown out has been running rampant for a while, it’s good to see a genuinely logical and smart character being present on the side of those who fired the MC

Shield Hero does have a competent royal, but they were unfortunately away and the job was left to an idiot.

​@@richardquinata76actually she left someone else in charge then they died during the first wave

He is incompetent. The person in charge of his "Savior of the empire" is an incompetent idiot that also fired the most important person in the empire. The fact that he didn't put someone else in charge, or at the very least informed the "management" on the value of these workers says it all.

Yeah like literally I am watching this manga all because of that 😂😂😂😂😂

"Get him back, or I'll use YOUR BLOOD to fertilise the soil!"

@@melkiorwiseman5234 that probably won't be a good fertiliser

@@redeye5515 You think it's just a product of my fertile fantasy? 😄

​@redeye5515 it's actually quite a good fertilizer. Blood meal is very high in nitrogen and it is used in agriculture

Bro could use the bone too​@@joshgoetting2608

And it was the appropriate reaction let's be honest if you had a man like him who could endlessly grow food even in the most depleted of soil you would have a endless amount of food to feed a constantly expanding empire it's no reason why the prince was mad

(Soon to be replaced) Lead Alchemist: I fired him for not working on magical weapons! (Actually intelligent) Prince: Are you an Idiot?!?! Logistics is the backbone of everything, and you just fired the guy responsible for solving our main issues!

@@SkyEcho751tbh, a logical character in this type of story is genuinely refreshing and amazing

I mean, army march on it’s stomach

​@@theplayer52o95 that was said by Napoleon Bonaparte

Quite literally.

Can't work on an empty stomach, so nice going head alchemist. 🤦‍♂️

More literally than the prince would like to admit and or teach the chief reporter

Some people learn that lesson the hard way.

Civilization?

and a soldier cant march on a empty stomach so it ties together

@@josevillanueva2944 pretty much every war tactics napoleon seems to be the one that make it even more obvious

For every ONE soldier in combat there are five more in support.

that's pretty much like any War Logistics are extremely important without that you can't win Wars or battles. without stating Supply materials everything will grind to a halt

The official is obviously an enemy spy/traitor who found the most important person they could actually fire and got rid of them. He wants to insight rebellion and choke out supply lines by having soliders remove food from the people by force and cut off logistics etc.

He's a "money man" type of manager. He doesn't understand the business he's in charge of, and thinks that his MBA that taught him that business is business and that the immediate bottom line controls reality rather than reflecting it. Thus, he gets rid of things that are necessary for the ongoing well-being of the company that create short-term appearance of bottom-line improvement. Cut the pay and resource consumption of this alchemist who isn't producing the one thing he sees as money-making, forgetting that money is not infinite and peasants aren't a limitless resource.

And even if his logic is sound, He's ignoring the fact that seizing the food requires a manpower investment, manpower that is being allocated from the armed forces, aka frontline or support troops. In contrast, extracting additional kcalories from each parcel of land with the same worker investment increases the ability of an army to sustain itself while not diminishing its combat potential. It isn't even resource optimization, it's crippling production of everything else for marginal increase in tool production.

Very appreciated...though I can only find it on websites requiring payment first.

@granoonis2080 you're lucky you can find that, all I found were sites where I can buy the saw Japanese version

@@binomialhydra1615 Yea. This one only seems to have started early last year, so I expect that it'll be a year or two at the least.

@@TrueInvisible as much good as it will do there is one that's translated upto ch11 in russian

Only reliable one I found was at Rawkuma, but it's in Japanese.

The idiot fails at both - sun tzu

Sounds like a kind of arbitrary quote.

@@Clouded-Logic You have no idea how little amount of people know that....

​@@Clouded-Logic logistics wins all major conflicts, period

@@SquirrelGamingProductions I mean, the quote is basically making an argument in semantics.

To be fair, it's a realistic trope for a reason. Key staff are a known fault in business, typically because Key staff aren't paid well, but they handle work that no other staff can. They can't train replacements quickly, and their knowledge is either proprietary or has no extrinsic value, i.e. replacing them, means replacing the heart of the business. A good example is Airline booking systems, which used an old mainframe from the 1960s that you have to enter text commands into to check flight status into. PARS and SABRE. Replacing it is a nightmare task because you have to change all the airlines using it at the same time, and flights don't stop. So those maintenance and coding staff are vital, and most of them passed away, their jobs are obsolete. But those computers still exist, even though SABRE is trying to move everything to Google, the mainframes still operate to handle global flight bookings despite the difficulties. The websites just hide that they're feeding everything into a virtual terminal instead of a keyboard and screen built in the 1970s. Various alternatives to SABRE and GDS's now exist like Amadeus, Altea, Sabresonic, aircore, radixx, etc. which allow booking websites to get quotes from multiple airlines and book tickets. This seems obvious, but it took from 1965 to 2015 to get rid of the old mainframes and having to dial into a location to make seat allocations and bookings. Some companies still have the old terminals for emergencies as they still wire into phone lines if the internet is unavailable. If you try to promote them, they aren't good at their new position, so they get fired, and now the company starts to stall. Part of this is also tied to the way Enterprise works in Asia. Most social culture is still based heavily on village politics and respect for elders. But in turn, the village also maintains the group and the employees. These village systems also built homes and families for the workers, including slaves as pseudo-family workers, i.e. they were part of the company / household. Not so much in the corporate / western philosophies. There's almost a fundamental social difference, i.e. disposable staff are a 'new' concept and there's often friction between the tradition and modernity. The JP model of Village Corporation, i.e. everyone's part of a family is the Zaibatsu/ Keiretsu model which emphasises a clique. China has their State Owned Enterprise/qiye jituan 'conglomerates, while Korea has the Chaebol / Enterprises. The people who end up in middle management aren't there to help the company, they're there to stay employed and make things efficient, from their POV. Not every company can comprehend their 1% staff, usually because they fall through the cracks in reviews. So when a key employee is removed, it takes ~30 people to replace their job.

Sounds like Sung jin woo to me

The Legendary Dragon-Armored Knight Wants To Live A Normal Life In The Countryside

​@@lichmaster2that's just Skyrim

That's already happened multiple times every story where the Mc is kicked out of the hero party shows that Mc is actually the strongest one in the party/keeping the party stable and the only one with the Capability to beat the demon king = preventing human extinction.

Ironically enough, this is one of the most realistic situations from these types of series. Bad government leaders have repeated this exact situation of getting rid of farmers because they don't understand their value. Of course our boyyo here has crazy power, but that's just what you get from these types of stories.

"An army marches on its belly "

@@nunyabisnass1141 that's why Russia's scourge earth tactic during WW2 was very effective against the Germans, they practically starved the German army who was invading their land

Unless you are a necromancer. Which the arrogant administrator is not lol

@@simbriant extensive malnutrition damages the bones too so not really even then

This stance goes back to the administrator's view that if more food is needed they can just seize it. The idea that there is a finite amount of it and they may run out before they can take more from someone else doesn't really process in the administrator's mind. He really believes that strength of arms will solve all problems.

I want see that too...

Kaikosareta Kyuutei Renkinjutsushi wa Henkyou de Dai Nouen wo Tsukuriageru - Sokoku wo Oidasareta kedo, Saikyou Ryouchi de Slow Life wo Ouka suru, can't find anywhere to read it though

​@@3AMCaffination probably the channel picked the Japanese raws and translated, in Rawkuma there are 15 chapters, but apparently there is no one translating it.

​@3AMCaffination I have a app that you can't find in the app store that has all the manga on it. So I'm good

Yeah, I've seen this happen so many times that I can practically write a formula for it. The MC gets kicked out for (mostly dumb) XYZ turns out whatever the MC have is actually overpowered then saves a damsel in distress (mostly a slave) then the ones who kicked them out end up struggling without the MC, and either realize their mistake and want them back, or they don't and even blame the MC. Sometimes or most times they might even attack the MC only to get wrecked instantly. This is just the minimum of the formula, yet so many stories follow this pattern. Sometimes I just want to make my own manhwa or manga instead of waiting for one that breaks the formula. I know some stories have broken it, but they are so few and far between. Sorry, just venting a bit.

The guy in charge of weapons is not always in charge of agriculture, or might think there are cheaper options. That and didn't he claim the soldiers could just pillage to feed themselves. Logistics is more recent a development then most realize.

Look into russian collective farming. Real people are also that stupid.

I mean its sometimes the reality

I think what gets me is the, "if we need food then we'll take it by force," mentality. So many ways that can go wrong, whereas growing your own food generally doesn't come with any downsides.

@@sjmcc13 Pillaging is a modern government factor too. USA federal govt law spcifies that in national emergency, it is legal to confiscate private hoards of materiel of which specifically mentioned are food, water, medical supplies, fuel, weapons/ammunition, vehicles, and tools. A reasonable amount may be left behind. In no documented place is the reasonable amount left behind defined, but if storm emergencies are used as an example, a 2 week supply might be left as that has been a standard delivery amount for a facility. There hasn't been a SHTF event since the US Civil War, and in those 1860's times, pillaging was basically 100%. They had logistics, but might makes right. And if the people tried to hide something, then maybe their building would be burned down in spite to spoil any other hidden items before the soldiers left. But in modern USA, it is full of self-entitled people that demand those who have stuff must share their stuff regardless of lack of preparation effort.

Thank you.

these fucking titles are getting out of hand

@@machopi they indeed are no joke

@@machopi apparently the reason is the light novels these titles give a synopsis to the reader so thats y its so long but im not sure

oh kami-sama!!

Hisage, his-ah-gey

Hisage would be pronounced Hi as in hit but without the t sa as in sa(Tay) And more importantly Ge is pronounced as in get removing the t, not gey

@@GlennCaldwell yes gey as in get without the t ge everything before that is perfect although I wrote ah as in hah without the first h not Ay so idk wat u r correcting on mine

It would make the head alchemist even worse in the "stupid manager" department, but it's possible that the instigation for firing Isagi was the Prince commenting too positively on the "lowly commoner's" research. Alternatively, the Prince assumed his authority meant he could tell Isagi what he wanted done, and that nobody would question Isagi about it, so the head alchemist didn't know the Prince's interest. Isagi assumed the head alchemist was expressing the Prince's change of heart and didn't bring it up. Or, thirdly, the Prince might've been interested and given an increase in research funds _without_ telling the head alchemist _why,_ which would be a failure of communication from the Prince.

most courts led by royals put lower nobles in charge of departments overseeing the commoners. Those lower nobles may get easily jealous or irritated and remove the commoners they don't like. Which is most likely what happened.

We never do though 😢

That's exactly it. The one you're seeing here(yt video) is taken from raws which explains why there aren't en translations.

@@M0chaCcino Yes, I gathered that much: my comment wasn't meant as a complaint to/about the vid (or channel), but as an excited heads-up to viewers hoping to read.

As far as I can tell at least half of all light novels and a third mangas have at least some bouts of food obsession, in some form or another. I mean, look at how the characters in Dragon Ball, Z are named.

Like what, one piece, naruto, toriko, etc there animes who had some episodes revolved around food

Eastern culture what can you I say, they love food.

I prefer cooking blogs over the "useless man gets isekai'd, becomes Lv99999 SSS Rank OP with harem of hot women who all have massive tits and an aversion to clothing" manga that seems to be everywhere. XDDD

The same genre template is sent out to manga authors each season.

Also known as tooth to tail ratio.

Reading it now Thanks for your work!

Logistics and supply trains, an under-appreciated skill tree.

​@@justinweber4977 But also the most vital of them all, same level of importance like the healers and weaponsmith. Soldiers can't fight with an empty stomach, untreated wounds or without weapons.

Not at all. People just like to think themselves smart when they write this slop.​@@justinweber4977

@@BlossomPathOnStage15 Very true. There's a reason that in most militaries (modern ones, at least) you have significantly more people operating behind the lines to run the damn thing than you do actual combat ready soldiers.

Yeah and the prince actually having a good head on his shoulders and being a good leader immediately knew how fucked they were the moment he learned the plant growing alchemist was fired.

Not GMO, but MMO (Magic Modified Organism).. lol

@superlazydog2183 some is better than none and he just planted a bunch of stuff as well, not every fruit/vegetable is going to be eaten some might have pest or been bitten by birds (use to farm). He might need it right now and not in a few months anyway but it's something one should always set up

@superlazydog2183 there's always going to be scraps but you cake the compost with mulch, sawdust and burnt hay/straw. It does take months to make your own fertilizer when you're composting scraps, 1-4 depending on what you have inside.

@superlazydog2183 yeah that's what I was saying in the response, that he needed it immediately but still something he should set up for the village

so far there hasnt been an translation yet