153 5.42 Revenge At Its Sweetest And Jiyu Residence aka Freedom (1/2)
”You hear that grovelling pig said about those men? Treating them as if they were rubbish. We are all humans and we bled red on colour when we cut ourselves. This pufferfish ball thinks he is so damn mighty like a Lord is it? Looking down on others as if they were like dog shit at the side of the roads while he himself is much lower than the lowest he had looked upon.”
”Even if we can't help everyone, but we could help some that would be better than none at all. You should know my character by now, Sensei... Why I never take action when the girls mentioned they were ill-treated by their employers. First is that I never knew who their employers were. And secondly, I do not judge others by means of hearsay.”
”But if I were to hear from the mouth of the person, belittling other humans, I would take actions not now but when the right time comes. Just because he had the power to engage their services, so what? Does he think he's the Emperor? In my past life, I had mingled with people with the highest authority just like the Emperor but they were just and full of compassion with their people. Because when they take care of these people, they will stand before you and protect you, not standing behind you and pushing you towards the enemy.”
”I don't know what my mission or task that I had to achieve in this series of this novel, but one thing for sure is that I had changed your life and you had changed mine too. If not, I would have joined the Imperialist in 4 years time, and goes against your principles of not gaining fame or profit or even upholding the law, by following others instructions into blindly killing, and not realising the actual reason of being the next heir of Hiko Seijuro the Thirteen.”
”A twist of fate that had brought together as we believe in not for working for others but working for ourselves towards our goals and dreams and making a reality and not just following others blindly. That's why you quit the samurai shogunate and wanted to just retire, drink sake all day without getting drunk, and make pottery as you have an eye in that art.”
”Hey, kid. Are you done talking? Look... Even Hiko is getting sleepy and entering his own Realm of Mind himself. Look, look, his eyes dropping Liao! Shut up and continue with the series and stop confusing the readers!”
A voice offscreen sounded as it directed to a fat mass of blob sitting on the Director's folding chair that seemed to grow out of his ass. Max was beside him and was shrugging his shoulders as he can't defend me in saying anything. I hate that fat blob for starting this series by half burying me in the snow.
”Sensei, you do understand what my heart and mind and my filthy mouth were saying right? I had made a solemn swear that I would not hurt anyone, animals or plants without just cause and u uphold it till today.”
”Vavavoom... Hope you are able to absorb everything just like Sponge Bob Square Pants.”
”Yes, I understand every single 500+ words you said the moment you started this chapter. You knew so much about me like as if you are my clone. You are my idiot disciple, my friend as well as my adopted son even though I'm just too young to have a kid your age. It's as if I started banging chicks and got them pregnant at the age of 11 or 12 to have a kid if your size. Hahahahahaha.”
”So what you gonna do next? Any plans for now till before the end of the workers working hours?” Let's buy a barrel of coconut and olive oil plus lye and make a batch of Detergent. I will show how it is done. Let's go to our Realm of Mind and find peace there.” as soon as I've said that we entered the bedroom and checked the time. We should be able to have 2 hours of fun in the Realm of Mind.
Soon we entered our meditative state and arrived at our Realm of Mind. There I showed how the process of the Detergent and my plan to cake the Scented Soap in square drying trays 1mx1m with a depth of 3mm. I explained how the process of caking it and Hiko-sama understood. The shallow tray allows the hardening process for the Scented Soap to ready within 72 hours.
I showed him the conventional oven that I had to visualise from my world and showed the end results for the baking powder that had been removed of some molecular structure when they are heated at a certain temperature and at a certain duration. I explained that this process takes 5 minutes only.
Lastly, I just explained to Hiko-sama that we would distil the lemon by squeezing them first and lay the skin that would be sliced thinly on top of the cloth. There won't need to have so much water, just a quarter would do of the glass bowl.
I told him the whole process would be to blend the thin rolled out soap that had been Scented and mix with the baking soda that had turned into washing soda and make them if possible to be fine or just coarse grain like the one that I had made yesterday.
The powders would then be evenly mixed and be brought up by using the lye's gunny sacks which were 5kg each and then a few girls would weight 250 grams while a few would seal the onion skin papers.
The modern scales here are meant to be used in the Realm of Mind and cannot be brought up to the real world. If it could, definitely it would save a lot of our time. Now we need to look for 3 scales so that 3 will work on weighing and 3 will work on packaging them.
Hiko-sama nodded and said present-day scales of the Edo period were being sold to those pharmaceutical establishments that sell opium, herbal medicines as well as gold.
The had a long handle and a dish at the end and a weight that would be adjusted accordingly to the grooves and it would be mounted on two stands on both ends of the stick.
Hiko-sama said that the scales may be maxed out at 100g at most since he was not sure and just bullshit his way around. That's fine, no one is perfect.
We stepped back and I swiped the background and it went to the Blacksmithing part. I showed him and explained that there were no other changes except when it's time to do [Purified Iron].
Another furnace would be added at a lower height. I showed the example of 1st taking the slag out and pouring the top smelting pot into the other smelting of the same size just like aerating it and removing the slag once more.
This would remove the impurities to about 99% and the same moulds would be used, and then the other type of prodder would be pressed to leave an imprint of [FJKPI99%].
Once we had made a piece, Hiko-sama would bring it to be patented and at the same time to bring and introduce it to Kuro-san whether he interested in an investment of a one-time purchase of maybe, 500 pieces?
Price is set to 15 gold coins and they one-time purchase would cover a total of 7,500 gold coins or the export business would acquire them at a reduced tax rate for 6,750 gold coins which are still a profit since the material is FREE!
Actually just by doing the plates would make us little tycoons but then there is no purpose having so much money so that's why I explained to Hiko-sama that we expanded the horizon and diversify our trade. We win some and lose some.
I reminded Hiko-sama that the minimum order purchase from the export business department would be raised to 5,000 pieces. So in this way, it would psychological impression that we are a major player that could commit up to 5,000 plates. I decided to change the payment to 30/60 while the 10 is to pay tax on it. On this way, the government is the one that owes money BIG Time.
So the changes would be 5,000 for [Refined Iron] and 1,500 for [Purified Iron] while steel would be projected at 1,500 for [Ordinary Steel] 1,000 for [Refined Steel] and 500 for [Purified Steel] that would be priced at 15/25/35 gold pieces respectively.
”Hopefully, before the end of this fine series, we would be earning as much as 500,000 gold coins and my wish is to run for Mayor and you to be my Vice Mayor.”
”And we turn this economy upside down by abolishing the high export tax where 10% already had gone to the funds and maybe they add another 10% to their profit. Not fair right?”
”Thinking about themselves but not helping others and we build a welfare system to help the poor and teach them some livelihood where in turn, they would be helping us in the production of Karada Soap, Kurin Detergent, Pafekuto Cleaning Agent and Hea Shanpu.”
Alright, time to head back to the real world as we logged off from our meditative state and arrived. We had been gone for about 2 hours and I went to the kitchen to boil water while
Hiko-sama went to the garden and hugged his jar of yumeshu. I returned a while later to put the kettle of green tea in the garden. ”Come, let see what they did to the new house.” and we walked eager and entered the house.
”Ojama shimasu!” Hiko-sama said as he opened up the main sliding door and he was surprised at the size of the 3 bedroom house. The floor was waxed and shiny, the rooms were equally sized and were larger than mine that could fit 2 people inside comfortably.
The house was fully furnished and everything was in place as what kayu-san had noted for the kitchenette, bathroom and the three rooms. At least from what we saw, the girls would be happily settled in when they see this.
The house smelt fresh and very welcoming and entering the house was like entering another era. I guess the moment the girls saw these room they would be climbing all over us.
We closed the door and walked to the ground that they were working on and even though at 4:45 pm, the basic skeletal structure was already settled and even the ventilation roofing had been installed.
The foreman met us and explained the next procedures for tomorrow. ”Have you seen the house yet, Senior and Young Master? Are you satisfied with the house?”
”Yes, you can collect the payment afterwards” even though I was smiling outside but I was spouting those words filled with poison.
”That's good Senior and Young Masters, come we discuss on what's going to happen tomorrow. Considered that tomorrow is the first day for the construction of the warehouse.”
We went to the garden and sat while I held the sketch pad in my hands ready for my onslaught of the brutal murderous intent on this fat little pig.
”Senior Master, could you bring the blueprint for the STM, the 24 newly acquired Karada Soap, the printed Detergent paper and the full payment for the house? Thank you so much and I'm sorry to trouble you.”
Hiko-sama nodded and knew I'm going to make this little pig squeal on delight and pain at the same time.
”OK now, tell me your plan for tomorrow.” I just wish they I am deaf so that I won't hear him talk so much bullshit at this moment.
”Tomorrow, the workers would resume on the building of the reed bamboo roof, then another some workers would be doing the panelling of the 4 walls and some workers would be putting up the staging area at an elevated height of 2m with a platform width of 1.6m.”
”There would be 2 staircases at both sides and one before the room that you had sketched out before and one staircase in the centre. A horizontal beam in the centre while 2 more beams would run the whole width of the warehouse.”
”The single horizontal beam would have 2 rollers on each side with a pulley system that would run within the beam so that it can be pulled along it. The safe workload for the pulley is the weight of 8 men so you can hoist goods from any point and just slide the beam left or right, forward or backwards.”
”The staging area would be as a close fit built with 2-inch planks so that it won't snag when you drag anything heavy on it. There will also be 10 sets of 3 tiered shelvings and 24 pieces of wooden pallets measuring 1.2mx1.2m.”
”Once the main structure has been completed, the pouring of cement and curing would take place for 24 and it would be polished cement instead of the usual rough ones.”
”As agreed, I will loan you 1 horse-drawn wagon, without the horse of course with full contents of the junk from my warehouse for an infinite period of time. Once you had depleted the junk, just send me a note and I will do a one to one exchange and deliver you a full load. ”
”By the time the curing of the cement is complete, all the 10 men would be at your disposal, which means another 2 days from now.”
All the while I was nodding my head as I had plugged my earphones and was listening full blast of music from System of A Down of Chopsuey and Toxicity. After I noticed his lips had stopped spewing all those shit that I don't want to hear, I unplugged my earphones and smiled to him and said ”Perfect!”. I hardly noticed Hiko-sama was sitting beside me as he was playing air drums and headbanging to the music that I was listening.
”Now back to business. Come smell this and cleanse your soul. This would make a fine collection for your wife and mistress, right? You are a Lord why not have another 4 more mistresses?”
”You could have them on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. You can also name your whites after those days! Plus everywhere you go soldiers will gun salute you and people will kowtow to you being a Lord God! Really, it's going to be the highest honour.”
”To show how much wealth a Lord God has, you can buy all these 29 Scented soaps at 20 pieces for every scent and give it to all your mistresses! You will be showered by them every day!”
”Also, you can buy these STM contraptions so that they no longer need to scrub their clothes to wash every time. Look at this design, just turn this crank and the washing would be done inside the barrel and people say 150 gold pieces for one of these is very cheap!”
”The fingernails will never get cracked and their hands will remain smooth and silky and when they bathe together with you..... Ooooooo the sensation is so nice and tingling, right? You want that do you? 6 STM for 5 bitches and your wife? How that sounds?”
”Not only that, you could buy the hair shampoo for them and the Detergent to wash their clothes for 2 gold pieces pop and I have orders that they bought 10 bottles from each of our scent and 20 Detergent packs.”
”You lie beside them and their hair playing sensuously on your face, body and legs and the sweet smell of fruits would make you go on and on and on and she will be satisfied and so do you!”
”So let me take the order for you first but before that, I want to congratulate you for being a Lord God with 5 bitches to call upon every night! I salute to you! Come, drink up!”
With that, I served him a cup and hope he gets poisoned and dies right after he passes his money to us!