257 Dealing with affairs (1/2)
28th July 1574
”Everyone! I'm Mike Leliwa of Tarnow, the owner of all… or rather, most of the projects, buildings and manufactories that you guys are all working on. While I can't call myself a lord of this lands as this honour goes to the respectable sir Jan, the governor of this province, I'm still the highest instance in terms of decision making for this entire place. And first thing first, I wish to congratulate everyone!”
Standing at the huge balcony facing the outside of the town, I glanced down at the huge crowd gathered behind the Town's walls. Despite this entire place being already ready for use, with the strict social norms of the time forcing my dear subjects to hold the opening of this new pearl city of the commonwealth, I had to abide by those rules as well, and postpone the grand opening and housing auctions for the tomorrow, forcing everyone but the highest managers to listen to my words from behind the walls.
”When I first set my foot in this place, I never imagined that we could turn it into such a thriving community in such a short period of time. Yet as great contribution the first settlers of this place made, I will never dare to deny all the hard work that everyone else put to shape this place to how it looks today!”
With how I was already on the verge of straining my lungs from all the shoutings I had to do in order to make sure that at least a small part of the audience would hear me, I knew that all the most important points had to be brough right at the beginning. What's more, just like I acted back during the coronation ceremony, I knew that in reality, only selected few would be actually interested in my flowery words if they wouldn't directly affect their lives!
”That's why, as soon as the next transport of the gold that I earned by selling the wares produced in our wood factory will arrive…”
As important as hastening my words was, I just couldn't stop myself from making a short break to let the tension build a bit. Additionally, doing so would have some chance of pulling the attention of the audience back to my words, rather than the incredibly interesting shapes of the clouds above their heads!
”... every single manager will receive five red goldens of bonus, unwarranted pay. Every single supervisor will receive two red goldens of bonus, unwarranted pay, and every single of you, simple workers, will be rewarded with half of the red-golden for your great efforts!”
As if a meteor struck the earth right in front of everyone, the formerly passive crowd, as soon as the information managed to thoroughly penetrate its entirety due to everyone whispering the message further and further away to those that failed to hear me, turned mad.
”But that's not all!”
After waiting for long enough for the crowd to calm itself a bit, I picked up where I left, moving on to the next topic.