212 6.6 The Start Of Invasion For Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha (2/2)
”Hah...!!! Where you gonna head to with the 10% of shares that you have?!”
”In case you would like to know, gold coins are very hard and cumbersome to carry and I would like to smelt them and carry them like a Refined Steel plate instead. Hahahahaha. This would be the birth of a gold bar in the near future.”
”Hahaha... I don't think it would be accepted by the Treasury because of its weight and value once you smelt them. Sometimes you have a lot of crazy ideas, but most times they are workable.”
”Yup...we might even take this industrialisation era one step ahead of other countries. Just that, I am not an engineering or mechanical student so I won't know how to design something that would be most beneficial to the economic structure of Japan.”
”By the way, read this letter and let me know what you think. I should have present it to you before I mass print but I think this offer that I made for them would be beneficial for the shop owners if they come by ship, landing in Ibaraki and Shibata.”
Hiko-sama took a leaf of paper and read and was satisfied with the explanation. He pointed out, what's the use of having so much money where its best to give back to society. I nodded my head in agreement as what I used to say before.
Some 25 minutes later, the Head Messenger from the Messenger Guild came over with an assistant. We explained to them that we need to send these letters pronto and asked her to calculate the total amount for the trouble.
After some time, she said the amount was 1,044 gold coins and the furthest Prefecture which was after Nagasaki would receive the letter by 14 days max. I informed her to hang on while I took the bundles of 20 coins and passed 52 bundles and 4 gold coins.
She counted a bundle and made the rest lined up and trusted me with the amount after about 5 minutes of measuring them up I signed a receipt and said that the couriers would be giving me an acknowledgement slip once the receiver had received the letter so that we would know whether their business is still up and operational.
Their way of doing things was rather systematic and we both liked the idea since she had implemented it for the Blacksmith alliances before...
Suddenly a dark cloud emerged just above my head and a streak of lightning and ear-splitting thunder roared afterwards ...! It wasn't a lightbulb anymore, folks...! I had a tremendous idea. I recalled back the list of the calculated cost for each Prefecture. The Head Messenger wrote down of the cost to the main Prefecture and then left.
Right after she had left, I summoned for Hachi and Hoshi-sama to the garden as the duo had not been actively involved much in our conversation in improving the economy.
”Hmm... I saw the dark clouds forming over your head and I thought you gonna die when you get struck by its little lightning... Hahahaha. You had another creaking idea again, right? And from the smell of the hair that was singed by the lightning, this is gonna be good news...!”
”It's gonna be a piece of God-damned good news if they agree on my proposal,” I said as I rubbed my hands excitedly.