257 6.51 Show And Tell Children... (1/2)

Later in the evening, the men that we had sent off earlier came back. Townsend Harris was waving his hands as he had 10 men with him as described at what we had needed from him earlier. The tanuki having his youkai's temporarily being able to be manipulated within the protective barrier of the town landed gently near the business conference building.

I paid for the services rendered by the tanuki and he bowed and left. ”How was the trip, Gentlemen?” I asked as they finally stood up on the solid ground. ”Glad to be alive...” someone spoke up. Well, what do you expect since they are exposed to the elements of nature, the sun and the wind? However, they were glad to be in one piece, after all.

”Your Fasuto Japan Airways is fantastic! Not only it is fast, but it is efficient too. Its a straight beeline from here unlike using the roads that would be curvy and treacherous for the horses and carriages some times.” Townsend Harris complimented on his trip as it was his second, after all.

”I'm glad you liked it, Mr Townsend. Since its dinner time, please... Be our guest and gather inside. Dinner would be served very soon.” I invited the men inside and the 4 Execom had just finished their presentation and collected the orders from the ladies.

They gave me a final figure and then headed to pass the orders for the storekeeper to prepare 18 wagons filled with the appropriate orders. 4 were repeat orders, while 14 were the new ones. Their total sales figure for today was more than 5 million gold coins.

”Well done guys, come join us for dinner... The more the merrier. You may send these ladies up to their rooms first and if they need anything else like food, they should know where to head down... To the 3rd floor of the community buildings.”

I said and the 4 Execom showed there their rooms were and told them that these men would also be joining to stay. There would some guards stationed so they won't be trying to pull a fast one on the ladies.

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The 'aunties' were busy serving up dinners and were assisted by the plant supervisors and trays of food were brought in. We're having yakisoba tonight and supper was served as well. It was this glutinous colourful layered pudding that was prepared by the 'aunties' and a tray of those were brought in.

The pieces of layered pudding cake were deftly sliced and distributed on an oval stoneware and several wooden picks were placed on top of it. This time, the slices were in perfect 2x2cm squares. Each piece had a wooden pick on it.

Also, there was a pineapple drink that had been prepared by them. Chunks of pineapple slices were placed inside several jugs and it was sweetened with white sugar. There were also grilled sweet corn, grilled sweet potatoes and steamed yam to accompany our light dinner.

After dinner, and after the aunties and plant supervisors had cleared the banquet table, we all sat back inside and made ourselves comfortable. ”Mr Townsend, you wanted to show us something earlier?” I opened up my speech as I saw that the contents of the caravans were nearly forgotten.

”Ah... Hang on, Your Excellency, I'd get the men to help me hoist these things over...” Townsend Harris gestured for some of the mechanical engineers to follow him as he went to fetch the steam engine out from the caravan.

After a while, he set it up in the courtyard and we all went there for the demonstration. Some of the employees had helped to light the lanterns around the perimeter and it was bright enough for us to see.

”As you can see Your Excellency, this is a steam engine that.....” Townsend Harris began to narrate and was rudely interrupted by me.

”I know what is a steam engine and I know what it does... But what I want to know is, could your Mechanical Engineers do this? Come... Take a look at my cartoon drawings and you get the picture.”

I showed them my drawings and my idea and they looked at it and felt dumbfounded. It was like their very own back in their hometown and it was used to draw up water for land fulling and also to grinding corn and wheat. They even asked how I knew about it and my design seemed to be better than their current models at home.