I Turned Refugees into an Iron Army

After transmigrating into the body of a sickly knight, Kuno inherited not an estate but a mess: a village of barely a hundred people, owing a moneylender 130 silver coins at thirty percent annual interest, with his inheritance rights put up as collateral. If he couldn't repay the debt within a year, the land would be gone.

The land brought in barely twenty-odd silver coins a year.

Fortunately, he had a tiger tally that could send people inside and turn them into trained soldiers. But the tiger tally couldn't provide weapons or food. He had to buy the weapons himself, grow the food himself, and slowly gather the people together one by one.

Ten refugees, a few woodcutting knives and wooden forks, and a ledger that showed nothing but certain ruin, no matter how he did the math.

Other people trained soldiers with famous generals. Kuno began by learning to balance the books.