You Were Aware?

The first thing to do when building a cigar factory is buy the land and construct the factory.

Well, that isn't really a problem.

After all, it was the reward Duke Stellaraim had given me, so the land for the factory and the fields for growing tobacco had already been provided.

"Then the first thing to do is..."

The raw material for cigars is tobacco leaves.

I vaguely remembered that the plant had its own particular name, but there was no way someone like me could remember every detail, so let's just call it tobacco leaves.

In any case, tobacco was an extremely difficult plant to cultivate.

It was poisonous, making it difficult to grow, and the sap was toxic even when harvesting, so that was difficult as well.

On top of that, it was a plant that drained an incredible amount of fertility from the soil.

In other words, it was difficult to cultivate and harvest, and it also required plenty of fertilizer...