155 5.44 First Day Of Work Commences For Jiyu Residence.

The next morning I woke up fresh and saw the girls had already been up and about, some returning with firewood on their hands as they made breakfast, I presumed. I call them out from my window and saw them wave back excitedly and asked them how was the house, their showers and their sleep.

They replied that the condition of house was the best thing they had ever experienced, and they barely able to sleep after the shower because they had not taken a shower for quite some time and after the shower they felt very refreshed and invigorated that they stayed up all night engaging in small talk.

I said that's good and they offered to prepare breakfast for us and I told them to help themselves with the yam, sweet potatoes, sweet corn and bananas that I had placed at the side of the house.

I asked a favour from them to make extras for 11 workers for today tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. They replied affirmatively and began to bring a basket to place the items and I told them to prepare 2 varieties for each day.

I closed the window and went for my shower and prepared the water for Hiko-sama as well. Today I changed into a gi and hung the pocket watch on my neck. Hiko-sama stood at his doorway and I told him that the girls were preparing breakfast and tea breaks for the workers and was delighted that they had taken the initiative to do so.

I told Hiko-sama that I had taken my shower and would be asking the girls to carry the papers I had set aside at the main door to bring back to their house. In that manner, their movement would be restricted at our main door only.

When the girls served breakfast at the garden, I asked them to carry the papers back to the house. Later I would demonstrate how to glue and fold them and they all would try first before perfecting it.

After they had practised with a few papers bags and I find it quite satisfactory, I told them to get ready to follow Hiko-sama to get some clothes for themselves and they were overjoyed at hearing it and finally they could fit into fresh and new clothes.

I told them not to throw their old clothes but turn them into stripes of cloth to make a kind of binding rope to secure the bags into a bundle of 50s. They nodded in agreement and started to tear their clothes right in front of me exposing their young and silky smooth skin that looked so tantalising that I wished I could plant my lips and kiss every inch of it. Hahahahah. In your dreams you pedo Mr. Director, you!!! Stop changing the script!!

Soon we all had breakfast in the garden and I passed the coin pouch to Hiko-sama to settle the new clothes and other niceties. The girls smelled fresh and great after they had used the Karada Soap with the lilac scent. I asked Hiko-sama to see if the watchsmith had 4 more of the timepieces and to make orders for it.

Hiko-sama had the girls to carry the 2 baskets that had filled with the 24 New scent of Karada Soap so he would visit the cosmetics after the girls had bought new clothes and changed into them to make them more presentable to the eyes of the client.

A while later the workers and their foreman arrived and the foreman was rubbing his forehead as he approached. He had fallen a trap and an abyss that he could not get out from. We exchanged bows and they immediately resumed their work.

The workers were told by the foreman that they would be absorbed my me to be fully employed as permanent staffs and the workers worked with such enthusiasm that they were able to complete the rest of the skeletal structure plus the moveable overhead beams with the pulley system before the mid morning was over.

The workers didn't believe their luck had turned around for them and their future, and when they confirmed about their great news and they told their families about it, their wives wanted to meet Hiko-sama and me to relay their appreciation to us.

The workers even told that the house they built were to shelter 6 girls that had been mistreated by their employers. They never believed their luck to meet such kind hearted Masters.

However, the foreman was feeling down on his luck for committing such a exorbitant amount of orders that he had not seen a single piece yet. I approached the foreman and told him not to worry, as once each product had been made ready, a messenger would be sent for him to acknowledge to receive and make payment. So its not a one time payment but a gradual one.

I made him envision of having 4 more bitches on top of his existing one and his wife and the joys of them receiving such gifts from such a Lord God like him.

Greedy pig! Women and wine. Corrupts the soul and mind. But benefits our Corporation. Thank you very much, and have a pleasant day! Oink! Oink!

I soon walked away after playing a psychological mind games with the foreman. I stepped into the warehouse and was amazed at the size from within. Luckily I had discussed to make an elevated staging area so that we could use it to store the STM.

Another section could be made to store the Detergent on a pallet while another would be for the clay bottles of the hae shanpu that would be the size of a palm and the thickness of a thumb.

After the horizontal beam and pulley system had been installed I tested it out. The pulley is able to move the whole length of the beam, which was the length of the warehouse. Then I pulled the pulley and it rolled closer to the staging area.

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"Perfect! This eliminates the use of human strength to lift the machines up one by one by hand. Very practical indeed." I though to myself. I looped the rope under my buttocks and held the free end to the main rope and I sat down to test its strength. I swung from end to end and side to side and it was almost frictionless.

The workers may be thinking of me playing the fool but in actual fact, I AM!!! What could you expect from a kid?

At the same time to test the strength of the whole system. I noticed a vertical ladder on each ends of the wall, in case the need for maintenance of the beam was required.

I noticed that the workers had hastened the construction speed a notch and completed the staging area, 24 pallets and 10 sets of 3 tiered shelving and they asked me where to place them. I told them to areange according to there I need them which was underneath the elevated staging area and it fitted nicely.

I told them that I need them to construct for us a table and 2 high back chairs and 2 stools. Plus, if there's enough materials, they could construct a shelf that fits underneath the elevated staging area for storing of files.

Soon it was break time and the workers went to eat in pairs. I walked out and saw that Hiko-sama and the girls had returned in their new clothes that they wore and bundles of other stuff and the two baskets of the Karada Soap.

"Hey, kid! Good news for us. The lady boss of the cosmetic shop had not reduced the order and have increased the orders instead for 150 pieces for every type because she said that the girls smelled like they were showered in perfume instead of dabbing it on their nodes."

"The lady boss said that she would be okay if she starts to receive batches of the Karada Soap and would be paying gold coins for every transaction. That means the gross income for just that particular shop has reached 4,350 coins."

"I told her about the upcoming new product for hae shanpu and she told us to bring 50 pieces for each scent at an offered price of 5 gold pieces each and the gross income for the hae shanpu alone would be at 2,500 coins because she thought that the girls were using hae shanpu and she smelled their hair was super delighted!"

"From that shop alone we could generate an income of 6,850 gold coins! I contacted the pottery shop and was shown several clay bottles and I saw one that looked like the one you describe. The soap holders actually looked like an oversized dipping dish and I ordered a sample to be made large enough to hold the soap in place."

Hiko-sama took my sketchpad and drew a rough design with a fairly large mouth which he said can be used to cover it with a cork stopper. Hiko-sama also drew the estimated shape and dimension of the soap holder. "The cost for the clay bottles was at 1 silver each and I told the boss that we do not need any glazing, and the surface would be slightly rough. A standard default color would be light gray and a Potter could make about 8 to 15 pieces per hour and they had 4 potters on hand. The soap holder would be made of plain white clay with no designs on it and a sample would be made so I could see how it looked like."

"With such a simple design with no other works following the basic foundation for the material would be a second tier of quality that is light grey and they have abundance of it, enough to make 5,000 pieces. Since it would be used to contain liquid I told them to dry them as leather hard, which contains about 15% moisture."

"Then the clay would be processed by Ram Pressing, a method used to shape ware by pressing a bat of prepared clay body into a required shape between two porous moulding plates. After pressing, compressed air is blown through the porous mould plates to release the shaped wares."

"Once the design had been shaped, it would be placed in a kiln and fired up for some period of time and then it would be removed and immediately be smothered in ashes to produce an anti slip texture. And you know how much the boss charges us for each clay bottle? 3 bottles for 1 silver only! I ordered 1200 bottles for the cost of only 40 gold coins! Here's the receipt and they are COD. The clay bottles would be placed in a crate of 20 bottles each and would be lined with hay. Any breakages would be replaced for free."

"Thank you, Sensei. You had done very well. You managed to strike a wonderful sales deal and at the same time to get a great discount for the bottles. Luckily you are an expert on these field."

"All the new stamps had been ordered and would arrive here in a few days, here's the receipt."

"By the way, just now when I entered the watch shop and seeing the girls follow me, the guy remembered me and since he saw an Entourage of 6 girls with me all neatly dressed up and smelling all nice, he thought the Emperor was in the village. Hahahahaha. He said the 4 pieces of pocketwatch would 32 gold and could be collected next day."

"He asked for you and I told him that he was busy executing for the decapitation of some nobles' head for double crossing him and he shuddered at the thought. Luckily the girls acted demure but the moment we were outside, some of them asked who the old guy was looking for and I answered it was you."

"Some of them said I mention silly things as you were executing the decapitation of some nobles' heads. Someone also remarked decapitation was like cutting the heads of chicken. We laughed mid-way till here. Hahahahaha."

"Hahahahaha..... Right on cue. Hang on, I prepare the necessary coins for you to settle the amount when the pottery arrives and you go and get those pocket watches before lunch as a gift for the services they had done for this country as well as the contributions for the corporation."

"Alright, I will attend to these girls first and pass them 60 Hangers as they have a hanging horizontal pole in their bedrooms originally for the towel rack. Then I stay back to do the structural plannings for the seniors. Come, Sensei follow me to receive the coins to purchase the pocket watches."

Soon I passed 32 coins to Hiko-sama and he went back to the watch shop to purchase the pocketwatch after he had rested a bit, drank some yumeshu and left.

I called the girls to the front of the house to take the 6 bundles of Hangers and showed them how to hang the clothes. After that they could do their own tasks, either to prepare lunch or to fold the Kurin Detergent Laundry paper bags.

I sat at the garden and took out my sketchpad and marked out what had been completed and what is yet to be performed.

-==Completed tasks==-

2. Prepare the new 24 fragrances in the jar and label it.

3. Mix 400 cc of each of the fragrances into the mixing bowl that had been clearly marked

5. Visualise 520 more moulds for the total of 300 bars of soap for each 24 scents. (Awaiting curing process)

8. Collect orders from the cosmetics shop for all the 29 scents

12. Recompile the orders for the cosmetics and confirm if they wanted to buy 100 bars of soap for every 29 scents at 1 gold piece each. Total is 2,900 bars of soap. Now increased to 150 x 29 = 4,350 pieces

22. Make Shampoo bottles. Mass produced and stamps for each scent be made. (3 for 1silver for a total of 40gold coins at 1,200 pieces)

25. Design soap holders (awaiting sample)

-==To be completed==-

23. R&D hae shanpu (already been placed at an offered price of 5 gold coins each for 50 bottles per scent 5x50x10 a total of 2,500 without even looking at the product)

24. R&D floor cleaning agent/laundry. This is the same process to make. Laundry Detergent would be lemon scent. Cleaning agent would be citrus and pine.

I made notes to those in process so that when I referred back, I knew what to expect since I would not be able to remember alot of information at the same.

I flipped to a fresh page and wrote the following order in a hierarchy flow chart.

1. Fukushima Prefecture

*Aizuwakamatsu

*Nishiaizu

*Kitashiobara

*Bandai

*Aizubange

*Yugawa

2. Research

*Population

Number of residents

Number of clusters

Statistics for per household per cluster

*Mayor of Town

Name/ mission statement / vision

*Business District

Familiarisation of each department

Operating a branch office

*Trading District

Primary trade

*Treasury

Exchange rate

*Corporate Account

Ability to make daily deposits to main corporate account in Kitakata

*Rental of locale

Glass shop front

Size of locale

Single or double storey

Per year rental price

*Blacksmith Shop

Number of shops

Offer [Refined Iron] and bring sample

Offer [Purified Iron] and bring sample

*Beauty Shop

Number of shops

Offer the following

Karada soap

Hae Shanpu

Soap Dish

Laundry Detergent

Floor Cleaning Agent

Some of the researches need to be on-site while others could just be researched at the comfort of one's home. Seems we need to have a blackboard or a flip chart so that I could explain to the seniors of what to expect in the days to come.

It also seems that we would need a more private space to hold our meetings so that passerby would not eavesdrop on our discussion. "Hmm, we jave to more tact on handling these matters after all, furthermore its regards to safeguarding company secrets."

I closed my sketchpad and also closed my eyes awhile when Hiko-sama tapped my shoulders as he showed my 4 paper bags of pocket watches. I opened them up and wound the knobs and checked whether the timings were synchronised accordingly. I told Hiko-sama that he would each hold the box as I hung it around the seniors neck like a presentation of an award or something.

Hiko-sama liked the idea and I kept the boxes inside each of the bag as I am satisfied with the timepieces. When I closed my eyes, I had decided to forgo the addition of 2 women to prepare meals and clean the house since the workload for now seemed light. Furthermore just supplying the Karada Soap to the cosmetics had already surpassed our income for the month.

Soon lunch came and Hiko-sama placed the timepieces into his hidden compartment in his kimono. I slipped my sketchpad into the back of my obi. Hiko-sama and I walked the grounds to check on the progress of the work. By this time, rebars had been placed on the ground to be cemented.

Everything had gone according to plan. The shelving and pallets are on the staging area which would be arranged accordingly. Same goes to the table, 2 high back chairs, 2 stools and the shelf for the files.

I told Hiko-sama about using this space first to conduct our meetings as it's more enclosed and private with no eavesdropping chances from passerby. He agreed and he told me he would send someone for a blackboard, some chalks and a duster.

It seems the last thing the workers would be doing is cementing and curing it. We saw some workers had already been mixing the cement and sand with water and would be pouring the cement any minute. A pair of workers were also seen having their lunch. We walked past the workers and they bowed deeply.

We walked past the girls' house and find that they were engrossed in their work.

"Have you girls taken your lunch yet?"

"Oh... Hello Sensei and Senpai. Lunch had been prepared since morning and we would be taking turns to eat." one of them replied.

"What are you having for lunch?"

"We cooked steamed rice, grilled fish and stir fry greens for both lunch and dinner."

"Oh, alright then, we are going to have lunch soon. Work slowly and carefully ok?" I said as we walked to the garden and opened up our bento box. We ate as we discussed what had been done for the to-do-list and we now only need to make the Hae shanpu and the Detergent and floor cleaning agent. It's going to be called Furoa Kurina.

We rested a bit after lunch when we heard the arrival of our Seniors. I called out the girls and told them after I presented the pocket watch on their necks, the girls would applaud and congratulate the Seniors. The bowing and the congratulation would be on cue on the last man, commands such as 'bow' the followed by 'greet' and everyone will call out 'Congratulations Seniors, welcome to Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha as one big happy family" and walk out offscreen, OK?"

The girls practised a while and got it perfect after a few tries. The 4 men were in their kimonos now and they were surprised that everyone was there. They asked the occasion and Hiko-sama asked them to form a line.

The 4 men was surprised and followed Hiko-sama instruction. He then took a box, opened it up, while I reached and took a timepiece. Hiko-sama told the first man, Miroku to lower his neck and I quickly wrap the chain on his neck and hook it on the ring of the knob, followed by Hide, Toshi and Kami.

Their heads remained lowered and I said, "This is an award for the unsung heroes for your unrivalled services to the country and community, and a gift from Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha." I signalled to the girls and they clapped their hands.

Hiko-sama then commanded, "At ease" and then men raised their heads up and the girls chorused what they had practised and walked back to the house.

The men were awed and silenced by the fine treatment that they had received from Hiko-sama and me and regarded it as the highest honor. Even the Samurai shogunate does not have such recognition after several years of service. They knew that these gifts they received are worth at least 20 or more gold pieces and only the nobles could afford it.

Finally one of them spoke, "Thank you for your gift CEO-san, CFO-san. This is our greatest honour to receive such a prestigious award that even our Mayor cannot surpass this kind of recognition and appreciation after so many years of service. Thank you once again, we are deeply honored."

Then everyone bowed and thanked the both of us. Soon we broke into casual chat and the men was instructed to wound the knobs 8 times every morning. They looked at it and was captivated at the polished cover the mineral glass and all.

One of them joked that one day at the market, some girls would use this as their mirror to check their start preening. We laughed at the funny thought. One of them said that we had spent alot of money to buy these timepieces for them. I answered that keeping time is important so that our work is more organised.

Hiko-sama then said the price is lower than the salary of a samurai. They were shocked and asked how it is so and when Hiko-sama told the first story for the first and then second part. When he finished the stories, everyone roared with laughter and said that Hiko-sama had been influenced by a kid to be a Hitokiri just by using his tongue. Hahahahaha... 8 gold pieces for a high graded pocket watch!