156 5.45 Aizuwakamatsu, Yonezawa and Shibata. Battle Starts!! (1/2)

”Seniors, How was your feeling as the first day of being a normal resident at this moment?

”After I reached home, I changed our gear and the first thing I saw that the house was very clean and tidy and all our clothes have been arranged neatly. There was no smell of mustiness unlike before when the clothes were folded and sitting on the floor. This creation was simply genius!”

Miroku praised at the idea of using Hangers for the clothes and was thankful that I had performed a good job maintaining his house.

”Then I took a shower using the soap and the smell was super refreshing and invigorating and I felt that we had just been awakened from a very deep sleep with no signs of fatigue or soreness in our body. I spent a long time soaping myself and used the brush to scrub everywhere. The feeling is simply beyond words!”

Hide added that he enjoyed his shower more than ever and he wished that a lady was with him last night sharing the bath and scrubbing his body and engaged in a woo session afterwards.

”Same here. After that, even the feeling of tipsiness had gone away like as if I had never drunk a drop of sake yesterday. When I lie down to rest the smell from my head to my toes felt so nice and it is like I had bathed in perfume instead of water.”

Toshi explained how he felt after the shower and he felt as if he was lying down on a bed of flowers.

”Same here too. I had some cuts and bruises and this morning I noticed that they had healed overnight. This Karada Soap is a miracle soap and it is as if it has its own healing properties. My face is no longer oily and I felt so clean like a newborn baby!”

Kami praised the product and nearly guessed right that the soap happened to have its own healing abilities.

Hiko-sama looked at me and smiled that they had so many good comments about Karada Soap.” So now it seems that our managers here have the first-hand experience of this miracle Karada Soap that has its own healing properties, right? Hiko-sama began as he knew that this would be a great selling point for Karada Soap.

”We believe that this product alone would be a success. I have so much faith in this fine product.”

”Don't worry, all of you could have 3 bars each of your own choice of scent every month, once the product has been packaged.”

Hiko-sama reassured them that they could receive our products for free since they were our key personnel in creating opportunities for the corporation.

”Furthermore, we are glad that you have put so much faith in this product. And what you said is true. Just look at the orders from our local cosmetic shop here in Kitakata that has only 10,000 residents.”.

I showed them the orders and they were so surprised that the lady boss had simply ordered 150 pieces of each 29 scents for the Karada Soap alone. And they gasped at the amount since this is the shop's first order.

”4,350 gold coins in one order! What if the lady boss order just 50% more for the next order... Wow! All the gold coins would soon trickle in!”

They looked at the order and found that this product alone would push the corporation up.

”We believe in diversity, if one only just depend on a single trade, once the trade becomes redundant, the chances of survival would be next to zero, am I right? If a person can't survive, then how is the person going to move on? If the person can't move on, they would have to take the easy way out and that is to rob.”

I spoke to emphasis on why certain villages had more crime rates than others.

The managers nodded their heads as they listen and figured why people turn to be robbers not because they wanted to but their situation made them turned that way.

”In order to survive, we have to create and innovate so that the situation around us would revolve and evolve.”

The managers were deep in their own thoughts, as they had never expected the boy in front of them, can speak in a very professional and mind provoking way.

One of the workers signalled to me that they wished to speak to us. I motioned him over and he reported, ”Excuse me, Senior and Young Masters, please forgive me for disrupting your discussions. We wished to report that the works for the warehouse have been completed. The foreman had gone back and informed us to report to you instead of for the next instruction.”

”Gather all of them over here so I could talk to all of you.”

”Yes, Young Master.” he placed his fingers in his mouth and blew a sharp shrill short whistle and everyone came over immediately.”

”These men here are our Regional Managers and were from the Samurai Shogunate. From now on, you may call them Seniors. They would be responsible for matters outside Kitakata and if they happen to need your assistance, please do not hesitate to render your expertise, is that understood?”

”Yes, Young Master. We will render assistant to our Seniors whenever they require our expertise.” one of the workers replied and everyone bowed deeply. They may have noticed the ”medallion” that hung from our necks and thought they were some kind of award from some officials.

”Do you know what to do tomorrow?” I asked as I have zero tolerance for skiving and malignancy.

”We will report here by 6 am and await your instructions.” one of the workers replied.

”Only for tomorrow, I don't need you to report so early, be here by 830 am would be fine. As for the remaining of the days, you will report to work and be assigned to your roles by our Senior Master.”

”Please take note that your roles would be rotated accordingly so everyone has a chance to learn something new. If you are unsure of ANYTHING, you are greatly advised to APPROACH us for advice.”

”Never presume and assume, because we do not wish to be an ” Ass U Me”, do you understand that term? If any of you do not understand, it means to not be an ass, and complicate matters for you and for me.”

”Yes, Young Master, we will ask Senior or Young Master if we are unsure of our roles and duties.”

”Thank you for your understanding. We have to clear our doubts before we could take another step. Does anyone of you here does not know how to read or write?”

”Everyone here knows how to read and write, Young Master.”

”That's good before you leave, there is a little something for your job well done. We thank you for your efforts for building this shelter and the warehouse. The curing for the cement would take 24 hours?”

”No, Young Master. We had added a hardening agent into the mixture which we are not supposed to do to speed up the curing process because it is very expensive. It is liquid form and I heard a bottle cost about 1 gold coin and we had used 10 bottles for the flooring. The reason that we had done so because we wanted to get back at the foreman as he does not pay us today for our work as it was not a complete full day's work. That cement floor would be cured in 8 hours.”

”Very good! Tomorrow, at 830 am. Report here straight for your 1st day of briefing towards your future and lifetime employment with Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha. The first of many to come. Now please hand out your right hand over your left hand like this.”

I briefed them of tomorrow and showed how to hold their hand when I told them to do so.

I then took a gold coin each and pressed into their hands.

”This is not your salary but this is a way of a reward system for a job well done. Go and spend it for the family and do not ever gamble your money away. Is that understood?”

The workers had never expected to receive anything for their work from the owner of the land or project manager, except for the salary from their foreman. It is like heaven-sent when they received the reward and this could at least feed their families for at least 7 days ahead.

The workers thanked us and bowed deeply before we dismissed them from the site.

The managers were looking at me from head to toe and seemed that it is a normal everyday thing when I passed down instructions and it seemed to them that I had ever served in the militia before. They had learnt something new today, which is (ASS U and ME), go figure!

”Well, right now that we just discussing how to create and innovate so that we would revolve and evolve, am I right? So let's began the first order of the day. I am sure that you have a very strong mind as well since we would be needing you to remember a few certain things.”

I began again after the workers had left.

”The next time around, we would provide you with sketchpad and reed pen so that you would be able to take notes during the meeting. No one can recall everything.”

”Seniors, can anyone tell me how many villages or town are there in our Fukushima Prefecture since you had been around these places for quite some years?”

I asked them since they had years of experiences in expeditions and should know the area quite well.

”CFO-san, if I may recall, there are 6 villages that are around Fukushima Prefecture excluding our village here. They are Aizuwakamatsu, Nishiaizu, Kitashiobara, Bandai, Aizubange and Yugawa. These villages or towns are slightly more developed than us since there are mainly near the other borders of Yamagata and Niigata Prefecture.”

Miroku spoke first regards the general geographical of our prefecture

”That's very good. Out of these 6 Town or villages, which are the ones that you think are more prosperous, densely populated and equipped with more technology that we can harness than Kitakata?”

”CFO-san, the most prosperous one would be Aizuwakamatsu Town which had about 40,000 residents, followed by Kitakata Town at about 10,000 residents and Aizubange Town at 5,000 residents. The rest had about 400 to 2,000 residents at most and they are less develop villages.”

Hide answered the second question.

”Yes I agree, CFO-san, on the estimated figure given and Aizuwakamatsu Town is the most prosperous of all. The trading business is booming and they had 4 lakes, 4 rivers and 2 hot springs. They had 11 ooaza within that town Itself. We would normally visit there if we are near its town.”

”The distance between Kitakata and Aizuwakamatsu Town would be about 4 and a half-hour by foot or slightly 2 hours by horse.”

Toshi added about other factors.

”So Aizuwakamatsu Town has about 40,000 residents, that are 4 times as much as our town. Please take note that we are going to set up camp there.”

I informed Hiko-sama that Aizuwakamatsu would be targeted next for the advancement of our plans. Preparations have to be made well ahead.