132 5.21 New Found Wealth And Some Ongoing Projects.

"So what is your next plan, kid? Are you going to get all those metal parts and forge the [Refined Iron]?"

"Sensei, it would take too much work to forge from broken parts. I would use their pig iron instead as it's faster in that way. The pieces you got for me would be used to produce my projects at home instead."

"I see, so basically you would head to the Blacksmith to do the forging instead, yes? I agree that the smelting would take some hours but the thing is that in your Realm of Mind, 3 hours would be equivalent to 1 hour in the real world, right?"

"That's right, Sensei. It would be just an hour over here in our real world. Furthermore, I don't want to waste resources. Using their equipment would yield the same results as the Realm of Mind and once I had hit the threshold of the [Refined Iron] I would be able to forge [Purified Iron] next."

"I have not tried using the steel yet. It needs a higher core of temperature and I don't think the current equipment at the Blacksmith would suffice. Only it would be possible at the Realm of Mind instead."

I explained as I spread out my hands, to show the seriousness of being in this Blacksmithing business. Furthermore, I would like to take one step at a time and being able to forge steel equipment would cost much higher than iron ones although the repairs would be cheaper.

I explained that the higher the grade of iron that had been forged the more expensive the maintenance of the weapons and armour.

Hiko-sama nodded in apprehension as he too had some steel armour and the repairs would tend to be much higher in terms of maintenance and care.

For those warriors who owned epic items, the cost would be much higher and they have to find the right Blacksmith to actually handle their items or it would be destroyed in the process. It all depends on the skill levels of the Blacksmith after all.

"So what are you going to do with the gold coins? Would you like to open a savings account? There's a local treasury here and there are two kinds of deposit. One is savings, while the other is a time deposit."

"The interest rate for the savings account is much lower than the time deposit. Time deposit would be like a term of 1 year, 3 years and 5 years. The longer you keep the better the yield would be."

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"Can I open 2 separate accounts, Sensei? I was thinking of depositing 190 gold coins in the time deposit account, while the balance would be in the savings account."

"Let me give you a treat, Sensei. Let me purchase for you 12 jars if sake for you to enjoy. There is no other perfect gift that would make you happy."

"Ahh... it been a long time since someone gives me a treat. Fine, 12 jars of sake it is. Furthermore, don't forget ya... October is my whole month's birthday so you would treat me to more sake! Woohoo...!"

Hiko-sama was ecstatic as he realised that I was going to him a treat. On top of that, it would also his favourite one. After settling dinner at the inn, we walked to the sake house and ordered 12 jars of additional sake for Hiko-sama and this time I paid up for it.

The delivery boy promptly delivered it and Hiko-sama informed him to send it right inside the house, rather than leaving it outside on the terrace.

We walked back to the house and found that the delivery boy had just left and had delivered accordingly to Hiko-sama's instructions.

In the middle of the house stood 12 jars of sake majestically lined inside the living room. Fortunately, the house was large enough to store these 12 jars if not there won't be any space to walk around already.

I had gathered the arrowheads which were placed outside in a bucket and placed it into my small bedroom. I intend to make a few hangers and will visualise the mould set for it.

As for the wall mounted hook, I had disbanded the idea totally as it uses quite a lot of metal scraps, so I would find a thin bamboo instead and use it as a supporting pole by the corner of the room. It should work just fine.

Since Hiko-sama was engaged with a jar of sake, I did not invite him to the Realm of Mind as its just a small project. I went into my meditative state and soon arrived at the Realm of Mind.

There stood the whole complete set of Blacksmithing tools and I visualise two mouldings set with ten thin grooves of a depth of 5 millimetres running about an arm's length. In this way, I would be able to smelt and forge 20 thin wires for the hangers.

I placed the smelting pot in the centre of the bed of coals and placed all the arrowheads in the smelting pot and I started to pump the bellows. The bed of coals soon heated the smelting pot and the contents started to sizzle and melt. After some time, all the arrowheads had been melted down and the contents were gurgling inside the smelting pot.

I took a tong and slowly lifted the smelting pot and poured the contents into 2 of the moulding set. All the 20 lines had been carefully filled and I replaced the empty smelting pot on the floor and then I meditated off and return to the real world.

The whole process didn't take more than an hour and when I came back, I still had time to change my gi and hakama into my yakata and slipped on the tatami mat.

Early morning tomorrow I would prepare breakfast and then head to the marketplace to look for a carpenter to make a stand for my Odachi and Kodachi. I think they should have fabricated mass produce stands so I could just buy one off their shelf.

I would then planned to go to the city's registrar and register myself as a resident of Kitakata so that I am able to open up a time deposit account or just a savings account or non at all. Maybe I could just buy my own piggy bank and deposit it at home instead. In that way, I would be able to account for myself how much I had spent and saved.

Since the rate is going for 1 gold coin is to 10 silver coins and I had spent 2 gold coins earlier for the dinner and the 12 jars of sake for Hiko-sama, I still have a balance of 198 gold coins and 32 silvers.

After an hour of lying down on the tatami mat, I returned to the Realm of Mind to take back the 20 strips of metal and then bend them in my bedroom instead. All I need is to visualise a pair of pliers back then and return with it.

The 20 strips of metal were now in front of me with the pair of pliers. All I need to do is to bend them accordingly on both ends and made on end to loop against the other while the other end was made into a "C" shape.

After a while, I had successfully made 20 hangers of equal size. I took one part of the broken short staff and jammed it at the corner of the two walls. I then took my clothing and used the hangar to hang them instead of leaving them folded on the floor.

It was a perfect fit and I hope that this would be a growing trend. One hanger could be used to hang one hakama and one gi or kimono. I used about 6 hangers and intended to hang all of Hiko-sama clothes tomorrow.

At least one thing for sure is that the clothes would be in order now. I would then be using several poles to support the lines of the clothesline so that it would be taut and won't be affected by the weight of the laundry or else it would all be bunched up together.

At least, what I would be doing should improve our lives a bit. Next was the making of a manual washing machine. I need a bucket and a lid. I also need a frame to fit the bucket. Now I was thinking of using a cogwheel somewhere and a hand crank. There should be a differential gear or belt driven somewhere so in one crank, it would turn the tub several times.

I went to the kitchen and found the paper bag that was used to carry the fruits in the market and then I took a piece of charcoal and made a pointed end. Then I draw up a simple design in my head before I drew it on the paper.

This would need some help from the engineering department or so in the village and I wonder if they do exists. If not I have to head to the Blacksmith and get them to forge for me the things I need them. I don't have the engineering knowledge so I won't be able to use the Realm of Mind to help me out.

At least now the first project had been done. I looked at my messy drawing and found that all I need was a triangular frame or an "A" frame that would support the bucket, then a large crank like the bicycle, attached to a small cogwheel at the base of the bucket. The bucket would be tilted at a 45-degree angle.

At last, I scrapped the frame totally but used a kind of support just underneath the bucket instead. And it's semi-circle support for the top and bottom of the bucket. In between, it would be ball bearing rollers. I do hope that ball bearing exists in Kitakata village.

However, due to not having any engineering knowledge, I scrapped the whole paper and threw it in the kitchenette.

"Omaiga... How come it's so hard to design a hand crank washing machine. This should speed up my washing in just 15 minutes only!" I thought aloud to myself and walked about in the kitchenette. I flared up the stove burner and heated some water in the steamer and placed some bananas and sweet potatoes in them. I made sure I had the water filled near to the brim and stoke up enough wood and then I went back to my little room.

"Kid, why are you not sleeping? I heard you waking about and murmuring to yourself. What makes you unable to sleep?" I heard Hiko-sama talking to me and I went to the kitchenette to get the paper I had thrown and shown it to him.

"This is what that makes me hard to sleep. I intend to design a hand-cranked washing machine so that I could perform laundry in just 15 mins. Our clothes are not caked in mud or anything, so using this would save time and water."

Hiko-sama looked at the drawing and it looked like a weird little contraption and he scratched his forehead. I explain to him elaborately and he understood. He had never seen this before but he is sure he could get some people to actually design it.

In Kitakata, even if the Mayor practised isolationism from outside influences, but if the ideas were good, then the Patent and Trademark department in the governmental District would approve for mass production.

"Don't worry, kid. Let me settle this one for you and let you know the cost. However, since you are doing it for us first, let me bear the costs. If you intend to put it to the Patent and Trademarks Department, then I would help you do that as well."

"Maybe you are fitting to be an innovator instead of a Battousai. You have a lot of ideas and I saw your clothes all neatly arranged. Can you show me the thing that you used to arrange your clothes?"

I went inside my room and handed Hiko-sama the rest of the hangers since he had more clothes than me. I showed him how I fold the hakama into the lower rung of the hanger and then I draped his kimono over it. I then used the other piece if the broken staff and jammed it in the corner of his 2 walls and then I hanged it.

"Wow, this is neater than ever, kid! One piece of the metal hanger I can choose which hakama and kimono design when I hang it and if I need to change, I just take this hanger alone. Not bad... Not bad... Not bad... I have never seen this but once you use it, people would start asking for it."

"If I use this for laundry, I would use 1 hanger for each piece of clothing. It's simple, once I wash I hang it on the hanger and once dry, I just hook the hanger at the corner of the room. We don't need to fold the clothes anymore and rummaging through the clothes sometimes is a headache as it usually ends in a mess."

"That's right, so this hanger makes one life a little easier and the house less messy, right?"

"That's right if the portable washing machine could be made, our lives would be much easier too."

Suddenly I had a flash of an idea. I took the paper and drew a bucket with a lid that could be sealed in order to prevent water spillage. Then the bucket is connected with a spindle in the middle and a hand crank on the other side. It sits in a frame with a large base. A detachable hand crank would fit in the other hand. I drew it elaborately and when I showed it to Hiko-sama, his eyes lit up!

"This design is the simplest I had seen. The bucket is suspended and supported by a spindle in one end and a crank at the other. Put the clothes in, add some water and some soap then turn the crank. The bucket will also turn and the clothes inside will tumble right?"

"Wow, Sensei...! You've got it right the first time! Wonderful... As the bucket turns the clothes tumbled inside. We better make the bucket lengthwise and add some fins inside so the clothes would be like being washed by several hands."

"How many fins you want to put inside? And what are you going to call this so that people would easily remember its name?"

"6 shallow fins placed intermittently should do the trick. And we call it Seijuro Tumbler in honour of you, Sensei!"

"Haa... Haa... Haa... It is too much you know! But I accept, in the honour of Seijuro Tumbler, kid! Ok, I find someone in the governmental district to draw a blueprint, then I bring it to Patents and Trademark Department to patent this under Seijuro Tumbler brand. Then we can do our advertising and marketing for the whole of Kitakata's household."

"I bring these hangers also and make it as a patent also. There should be more than 2000 households here in Kitakata, you could be a tycoon soon!"

"If this is a success, I divide the profits with you 60/40 and you take the bigger amount. I will take out the amount for manufacturing and the first few customers would be your Comrades, Sensei!"

"Yes... Yes... They could buy first. Well, we sleep on it tonight. Tomorrow after breakfast, you go ahead and perform your daily tasks while I head down to the Governmental District ahead of you. Meet at the house to break for lunch and I will update you the progress."

"Ok, Sensei. I am steaming the bananas and sweet potatoes. We can have that for breakfast first and then we both head for our own tasks then."

"Yes, kid. We take a rest now. Good night then. See you at breakfast on the first rooster's crow."

I bade goodnight to Hiko-sama and headed back to my bedroom. The moment my head touches the Takamura, it took not even a minute for me to fall asleep.

Goodnight readers, I too, want to sleep as well. Hehehehe.