164 5.53 Providing All The 3 New Towns With Supplies (1/2)
+-==Meanwhile in Aizuwakamatsu==-+
The ambassadors had finally delivered the [Refined Iron] to all the blacksmiths that had ordered from Hide and Toshi and was told bring the same amount every week unless they decided to increase the amount for any particular week.
For 3,750 Refined Iron plates, the ambassadors had accumulated a wealth of 18,750 gold coins and proceeded to deposit 18,000 with the treasury and they received a slip of cheque and Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha as the payee. Even if this cheque is dropped, no one is able to deposit it without the corporate account book.
The went to pay the down-payment of 300 gold coins to the property agent, signed a contract term of 60 months and gotten the key to the locale. In the next few days, they would be busy maintaining, painting a fresh coat of paint, and adding some office furniture into it.
They would need to get a banner and place it in front of the glass front display and at the same time to get someone to draw the STM on 5 billboards so that it could be placed on the display of the showroom instead of leaving them bare.
After settling their business there after taking a quick dinner, the 6 men headed back to Kitakata.
+-==Meanwhile in Kitakata==-+
I sat down in the garden and discussed the matter at heart with Hiko-sama. We discussed that since we have 4 upcoming showrooms, we would need 5 informational billboards to set up in the bare showroom with the picture if the machine is carefully drawn.
I also have to prepare 4 informational clipboards on the cash price and instalment scheme to attract the customers. The Kurin Detergent packet would be placed there beside the clipboard with a set of Hangers. We can also hand a pair of men and ladies kimono so people would be able to see its the hanger uses.
Once we find out the base cost, we need to calculate the cash price, 6 mths, 12 mths and 24 mths instalment scheme.
This means I have to draft a proposal to the Treasury bank to actually pay us the whole amount into the corporate account and then work out the instalment scheme with the treasury themselves. Our part to settle the payment had been completed and its just the repayment of the instalment scheme plan by would-be clients.
I had to work out based on the cost first so that we could have a figure to play around with and present a proposal to the Treasury. This would also be worked out with the rest of the 3 treasury and made an offer they could not resist.
I called to the messenger that happened to pass by in front of the house and made a note for him to deliver to the tailoring house to make 4 banners for Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha with slightly shorter length of 2 meters. I paid for the messenger and left.
”Sensei, we would need to draft a proposal letter to the Treasury in the 4 towns including ours. We would make a draft proposal in this sketchpad and then can we get someone to write it properly and have it in a form of the scroll? The 4 proposals would be generic with a few spaces blanked out so it would be easy for us to fill in the blanks later on like the figures for the instalment scheme for the 3 plans.”
”Sure, kid. I think there is someone in the trading district that would be able to write such proposals set in the scroll to present to the Treasury. Draft it out and I can send it for someone to work in it. And once we can get the costings for STM we can work out on how it would be.”
”Thanks, Sensei for your kind help.”
”No worries, kid. Seeing thousands of gold now is like bronze to us. Hahahahaha. We should not forget where we come from, kid. Always remember that.”
”Definitely Sensei, that's why I had the statistics for the outer clusters before. I think I had written it somewhere in the sketchpad here.”
+-==Estimated 2,218 residents living in 440 households in 147 houses with an error margin of 5%.==-+
This is the figure that was given by Hiko-sama when he went to the National Statistics Office to get the estimated figure for the pleb District.
We need to distribute all the [Refined Iron] plates first so that we could generate enough float cash to go about for our other ”activities”.
It was evening after 8 pm when the ambassadors from Aizuwakamatsu had arrived. The men parked the wagons at the side of the warehouse just behind the Jiyu Residences.
The horses were returned to their former boss and left for home. The storekeeper updated his ledger and saw that there is more to be done later tomorrow and left for home. Luckily the guards were not affected for the work schedule
Hiko-sama updated the overtime for the 4 men and recorded accordingly in the workers' timesheet. The men did not know about being paid overtime so they went about their duties as normal.
The ambassadors passed the slip to bank in the next day at the treasury, and handed Hiko-sama the balance of the gold coins, after paying the down-payment. Hiko-sama passed me the coins and I just placed them in the coin wooden chest that I received from Hiko-sama before.
The contract for the lease was completed and it was kept by Hiko-sama and noted of the monthly payment. Although a big sum of down-payment had been paid, the monthly payment can be said as ”close one eye” and forgo until accumulates for several months before we pay them off. '
The ambassadors will accompany the others as to know how the arrangement like for the other two towns so at least they knew who to meet and could delegate and distribute their work accordingly. At least those attending to the trade-in Aizuwakamatsu would also know the trade-in Yonezawa and Shibata.
The managers were told to report back on 2 days time to prepare for the travel to Yonezawa. They saluted and left the house. The managers looked very disciplined since they regarded they are still working.
But tomorrow since it is their off, they wanted to spend time with Hiko-sama as friends and not as managers. Before they left, Hiko-sama informed them to come for dinner and supper tomorrow and inform Miroku and Kami too.
Since Hiko-sama had said that, it means that tonight we would need to bring in some more carts and knock the [Refined Iron] pieces out and make a batch of 2,000 pieces and followed by 3,000 pieces tomorrow. Hiko-sama agreed with my suggestions since we can push the production faster, why not.
We asked the girls to join us for supper and I dropped some gold coins within the charity box and kept the wooden coin chest safely in Hiko-sama storage room. I told Hiko-sama and he nodded in acknowledgement.
”It had been some time you girls had spent your time having supper with us. How was everything, the house and also your innermost feelings here?”
”People around here knows we are from Jiyu Residence and they said we are all cousins as Sensei had told some of the people asking about the house and the so-called barn behind it.”
”Yes, and some even asked what kind of business we are doing so we said soap. That's all. It would be best to keep it a secret even though Sensei and the lady boss of the cosmetics had a thing going on between them, right?”
”In the mornings when we walked out to get some firewood, the residents remarked how sweet we all smelled and informed them we used Karada Soap to shower. It would be available soon for sale at the cosmetic shops. They heard and become happy and asked how much, we said we don't know.”
”Yes, we only packed and store them. But we all can see that Sensei and Senpai worked really hard, harder than the rest of us here. Every night we can see Sensei and Senpai leave the house and went to the garden to rest and Senpai the other night, said you went to the sauna.”
I laughed at the answer when they asked me why I was so sweaty and Izumi wanted to show something as well. Hahahaha...
”Well, aren't you girls going to order anything? I asked when a yatai passed by and stop.
”No need Senpai. We just sit here and accompany you. We had dessert right after dinner just now and we are full already. It is been quite some time since we had sat here and chat, am I right?”
”Yes, yes... This scenario is so different from the other week. How time flies, don't you think?”
”Yes Senpai, if you and Sensei are hungry why don't you go and eat something?”
”It's alright, we are full too. We just want your company here.”
So the girls, Hiko-sama and I exchanged small talk and Hiko-sama nudged me in the knee and I looked at the time. It's close to 9 pm and it's time for us to dive!
We told the girls that we need to work and we went to the warehouse towards the Ops Room and secured all the doors. The 2nd shift guards were there till 11 pm so we would be able to work something like 2 hours before heading to sleep.
So, in our meditative state, we soon dived into the Realm of Mind and pushed 3 empty carts aside and felt that the plates had been cooled down. So we started to place all the 3,000 plates into each hand cart and sent them to our real world.
After sending the handcarts to the storekeeper side, we had a total over 6,000 for them to pack tomorrow and once it is done, they could start to deliver to Yonezawa, so tonight we wold make 2,000 and early in the morning we going to make another 2,000 before breakfast.
After sending to Yonezawa, we still need to manufacture 15,000 more [Refined Iron] plates and then we could process the hae shanpu after getting the fruits to make the Essense.
So many things to do with only 2 pair of hands.
We sat cross-legged in the Ops room and arrived in the Realm of Mind and started to smelt the junk that had been washed earlier by the guys in the warehouse. At least this time the slag and impurities would be lesser.
I placed the metal junk inside the smelting pot and fired up the smelting pot. I kept putting it in until I had melted about three-quarters of the contents while I kept pumping the bellows.
Hiko-sama cleared the slag and whatever stuff that accumulated at the insides of the smelting pot and dropped it into the abyss beside the furnace. After he had satisfactorily cleared away the slag and impurities, he then started to fill the moulding sets.
We continued the whole process of smelting, clearing slag, distributing them in the mould and stamp it when it's half cool. We repeated the process for like forever and once Hiko-sama said no need to refill, I knew we are nearing the 2,000 mark.
I helped Hiko-sama to stamp the remaining plates as he poured the contents into the moulding set and I waited it cooled for about 10 minutes before I stamped on it and we high fived!
We had accomplished our task, and we logged off from our meditative state and returned to our real world.
We follow up with our tasks in the real world and headed to sleep afterwards.
+-==The Next Morning ==-+
I woke up and checked the time and it was somewhere around 4 am. I wound my pocket watch and woke up Hiko-sama and he stood up. ”Time to work in the pieces, it's still 4 plus, we can get another 2,000 if you'd like.”