"You seem very concerned about being able to loan the money out?"
"Of course." Ren nodded. "Merchants chase profit. If they're willing to take on loan interest, naturally they'll try to earn it back—they'll want to earn many times that back. Otherwise, wouldn't they be working for nothing? In that state, they're the group most likely to produce change."
"Whether it's minor nobles or small-to-medium merchants, if they want to earn more money, what's the best choice right now? Isn't it our magic conductor technology?"
For entrepreneurs, loans were startup capital. With this money, they could recruit talent, purchase equipment, prepare facilities, and produce and sell things.
For merchants who were already established, they could expand their scale, transform their workshops, switch from manual labor to machinery... they could do even more.
