203 5.92 Acquring More Expansion Land For Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha (2/2)
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”How much are you selling those Refined Steel Plates for? Maybe I could get my Imperial Guards to send it to them for the military use.”
”Oh, we are selling them at 25 gold coins each and that is only for the first 50,000 pieces anything more than that it would be sold for 22 gold coins.”
”Hmm, I heard that Refined Steel is much stronger than Purified Iron if it exists in this world. It could be forged to make the ultimate weapon and armour before a normal arrowhead could successfully pierce through its thin armour plating.”
”If I absorb 50,000 pieces of plates at 21 gold pieces each, would you be able to accept it?”
”Of course, Your Excellency, it is my pleasure. Since we need to pay you 5,200 gold pieces and the plates costs 1,050,000, you just pay us using a bank slip deposit for 1,044,800. Or just round off the figure as 1,030,000 and give us 14,500 in gold coins instead. We could use the coins to pay our employees salaries as well as prepare a great sumptuous lunch and dinner.”
The mayor thought for a while and goes ahead with the decision making. For 21 gold each, he could make a tidy profit of 200,000 gold coins if he sells that to the Imperial Army in Yamanashi and Chiba. Such a short period of time and he could make such a profit.
While we were tucking in, he slipped his hands in the kimono and brought out a thick pad that contains a lot of blank Bank slips. He took two out and wrote 2 figures, one for the Refined Steel Plates at 1,030,000 while the other one he wrote 14,500 after he had gotten a further 300 gold coins discount.
He wrote the payee as Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha and handed the two slips of bank deposit after he had made a seal wax imprint on it.
”Wow... Your Excellency sure is very very efficient. I like your style, Your Excellency. I will inform the storekeeper to prepare you your 1,000 crates of Refined Steel Plates and once it is ready, you can just pull the 2 wagons out from here and replaced us with 2 empty ones instead.”
”I like your style too... Being so young and manageable in this business, you must really be from a noble family dealing in large scale businesses.”
”Hahahaha... You flatter me, Your Excellency...”
Soon we finished lunch and the Mayor made his way out back to the castle escorted by his Imperial Guards.
”Why did you inflate the price to 25? Won't he know it? You're really daring to make such inflated prices and then gave him a discount.”.
”That is the power of negotiation, Sensei. We sit here having lunch and we had a million gold coins already. The high price is an indication for him to sell, and the price at 21 was our selling price. I split the amount and asked for the balance to prepare the salary of the employees so he must be thinking that we are paying them that kind of amount for this moment. It is part of psychology to twist people's thinking into diverting to another part.”
”Hahahaha...kid. I didn't know you could manipulate our strongest ally. Furthermore, he bypasses the Blacksmith Alliance and seems they have their own forgers for the weapons and armours as well.”
”That's what it seems to be. If he knew the price he won't be asking for it in the first place.” I explained and Hiko-sama understood.
I called for one of the guards to come forward and summoned and passed a message to the storekeeper and told him to pack 55 crates of Refined Steel plate on each wagon, making the quantity to be 110 instead of 100 crates. Its another psychological game to him when he found out that he had extras and see if he was honest enough to declare of the extras.
Hiko-sama shook my head at the games that I played with the Mayor and despite losing a bit of the stock, the price was somehow being lowered further. 10 additional crates of 500 pieces would make a great difference for those who wished to gain financially.
We studied the plans and the title deeds and informed Hiko-sama to quickly deposit the slips into our account and withdraw the other for our float cash. As usual, I made Hiko-sama withdraw further taking the profit interest from the bank. After some time, he came back and handed me two large wooden chests that contain close to 20,000 gold coins which I kept first in the storage room.
Looking at the blueprints once more, we were more than satisfied in acquiring the lands as easily as spending lunch over with the Mayor.
A few days later, the Mayor had arrived with his Imperial Guards and 2 empty horse-drawn wagons. After he had received the wagon, he asked one of his guards to count it and reported that there were 110 crates of the usual 100 that he had ordered.
He came over and told us about it and we told him that he could keep the extras for himself. He smiled and thanked us for the extras that he had not expected and left the empty wagons there as his men tied the fully laden ones to their horses.
The Mayor left and returned to his castle, while his men had been dispatched to deliver the goods for the militia in Yamanashi and Chiba. We winked at each other and said that this Mayor is beginning to be on our favour more due to his sincerity.
Since it was still in the morning, we decided to dive into the Realm of Mind and produce another 2,000 moulding trays of Refined Steel Plates.
The allocation of the new plot of lands had been chosen by the residents and they were happy at being able to upgrade their homes for free and decided to make villas instead, with a garden and a small play space for their children and grandchildren in the future.
Even if they had to move close to the outermost district, they won't mind a bit since they have their own mounts which they had purchased from Kiso Prefecture.