The next morning was a bit chaotic as the 6 men brought 6 horse-drawn wagons to the district and had no space but to allow one wagon each to enter and load the crates from our warehouse.
2 men worked to store the Refined Iron plates while the 4 worked to load 50 crates in the wagon until they had loaded 295 crates altogether. They made a last count to ensure that it was exactly 295 crates altogether, and not a crate less or a crate more.
Once they are satisfied, the storekeeper made an entry to state 295 crates were brought out. The 6 men comprises of 2 storekeeper, 2 delivery boys and 2 guards plus 4 horseback ambassadors equipped with katana on their sides.
They take no chances in this kind of situation as no one would know what would happen in a split second. So they rode 2 manning the front and 2 manning the back as what was discussed with me. Luckily no one remarked why should anyone take order from a kid like me. Hahahahaha
Once the stock had be confirmed, alot if curious onlookers asked where they are going and the ambassadors mentioned they are going to meet the Emperor. Hearing the word Emperor made the local citizens tremble and the ambassadors said that the Emperor needed some help from the CEO and CFO of the Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha to send some plates. Thinking the plates were for dining, the onlookers thought nothing of it.
Soon shouts of PROGRESS! rung out 5 times in succession as they moved forward and headed to Shibata. It was just 9 am in the morning. The girls had cleared the last of the Karada Soap and were sweeping the floor and arranging the empty pallets aside.
The Karada Soap had been kept all inside the crates and left outside the staging area. The tables were turned upright and placed against the wall. The workspace had been cleaned and now to get ready the next phase.
I told the girls to bring in their laundry since it had been left to dry and it smelled great. I told them that there was a pile of our clothes on the terrace if the house and the ly could use it to demonatrate to the onlookers they had been gathering there since 8 am.
This time, we took the opportunity for the girls to laundry our clothes as we brought up all the ready Essense in the distiller up to the real world. Luckily we didn't blend and put all the blended contents and heat them or else it would turn into a jam.
The Essense smelled great and we stored them in jars first before labelling each jar according to fruit. After that we set them in a pallet and brought it up to the real world.
We leave the jars inside the Ops Room and later would use a crate and placed them in before transporting it out because we do not want any mishap handling the glass jars.
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We closed the Ops Room and closed the warehouse behind us. The warehouse seemed quiet since there was no one else on the grounds.
The girls had showed the onlookers how to do an initial rinse, then a tumble wash, followed by a rinse and tumble dry. The whole process took slightly over 20 with the explanations and some tryout by the onlookers.
The amazing thing is when the clothes were brought out from the tumbler, and flipped a few times to get rid of the excess water. No one could resist the pleasant smell of lemon fresh that made their eyes nearly popped out. Their laundry never smelled like that and this laundries smelled like it was soaked in perfume.
I went over and asked the ladies,"Good morning, my fine neighbours who loved to do Laundry." I started first and some of them laughed at my silliness.
"If you can afford the figure that I am going to propose to you, will you write down your names and address and places the order here based on a 12 month instalment?"
A murmer went round the crowd and was wondering what this kid is trying to imply.
"Can you show me 4 coppers and 4 bronze please, my dear ladies?"
I asked a psychological trap question. And only a few could show me 4 coppers and 4 bronze coins while some held silvers and gold coins.
"I am merely asking 4 coppers and 4 bronze and yet many of you showed me silvers and coins. Let me ask you this, is 4 coppers and 4 bronze too dear for you to own this machine?"
"What?! Impossible! How cna this machine be so cheap?! What are you implying?"
"Simple, our main objective is to make this machine available in every household. What do you think? Is it fair for us asking you a mere 4 coppers and 4 bronze to pay for this machine daily for 365 days."
"Ah... I get it. He breaks down the price so it won't look to expensive, right?"
"4 coppers per day is cheap. We can't get much from coppers, nowsaday. If we go to the market, we would definitely spend a few silvers. And this young man was merely asking for 4 coppers per day!"
"Yes, my ladies. Do you want to pay 4 coppers for this machine or would you rather spend a silver daily? If not, then please come forth and write your names here and order the items. These items would be made available and payment would start once you keep your coppers daily and pays them monthly to the Treasury. "
"Come, its better to get one now rather than paying for a silver each daily in the future. I am sure this machine would be more expensive in the future and if we don't get it now, when would this time be?"
"Ya... Ya... Ya...i want to get one too for my household. Its so practical and I have 4 kids and a husband and me and with our clothes alone, I have to spend at least 1 or more to do them everyday."
"The clothes that came out is so clean and fresh and smells wonderful. Does it come with the poweldwr that you had put inside?"
"Oh, you mean the Kurin? You can get them at the cosmetic shops, they have a soap called Karada Soap meant to wash your body, face and hands clean. The smell is so ooooo refreshing, revitalising and invigorating after you had used them. Please go to the cosmetics in a day or two to get your own scent of Karada Soap, ok? "
With the closing speech, I took the orders from a total of 36 household families from that morning and an hour later another 29 came and wanted to order theirs too. Before lunch we had another 45 names and by the end of the day, we had gotten a number of 110 orders for the day. Luckily it was written on another sketchpad and I name it STM orders.
I mentioned to Hiko-sama that we would pass the money to mesen-san for the development of the 4 machines that he is going to manufacture for the showrooms. And subsequently would pass him the cash for the 110 STM orders in Kitakata alone.
Hiko-sama looked at me and said "Hitokiri armed with a reed pen" and we both laughed.
"Sensei, we will go to the Treasury, meet the head of treasurer and made 2 deposits and after that pass him the proposal. In this way he should be able to see how stable is our financial capacity and would obliged to follow and also write in recommendations to Aizuwakamatsu, Yonezawa and Shibata treasuries.
The treasurer will definitely see our proposals because we make them earn 6 gold coins per 10 that they had given out to us and now they had earned 660 gold coins in an instant just in Kitakata.
I will show the list of the orders and he would be damn surprised and sure want to get involved and getting free money.
"Wah kid, alot of readers sure can learn a thing or two from reading this novel, from cooking right to psychology and sociology."
"Hahaha... Just sharing knowledge, it's a vast world out there, Sensei."
A messenger passed by and we stopped him and left a note for the machinist. Meet here for STM debrief. Urgent. And paid the messenger and he left.
I explained to Hiko-sama that we would have to pass him the cash for the 4 machines that he is going to manufacture and then for the 110 STM that he would gradually produce with a group of 3 other men that would hit a production of 10-20 per month.
I also expected a turn aroind of 24 hours operations for the production. Once the rest of the beauty products hits an all time high, we would be expecting an 24 hours operational for the girls' side as well. Each 2 would be on an 8 hour shift with at least 6 more workers per shift.
In the end we would have 18 more ladies joining the workforce to prepare all the soaps, shampoos, Kurin and Feroa Kurina. Since the girls had done our laundry, we broke for lunch and after that I gathered the girls for a short meeting.
We told them the plan of making a 24 hours production and will break the girls up for the è shifts and they will choose who will take the 1st, 2nd and 2rd shift respectively and gave me their names. Then, I want them to go the the plebs District to look for girls their age who are not in school and were somewhat like their conditions before.
The reason is that we need to find 18 girls above the ages of 14 - 18 and unmarried. Our plans is to have 6 girls per shift to help out in the general production already. And once they come back, there would be a new product to do.
The girls were delighted at the idea of running a 24 hours production line because they knew we would be supplying to the other towns as well. Soon, all the 6 girls went down to the outer district to look for working girls...
Ahem... That's not what we meant. What we meant are girls who are interested in working. Sheesh... Wrong choice of words definitely be misunderstood,
A short while the machinist came and asked what's the urgent matter. I looked at him and said, "When did we call for you?" he looked at us, scratched his head and was about to turn back and leave, when we laughed and call him down to sit. We said it's part of a joke when we asked him when did we call for you. He laughed too because he thought we were a serious bunch with Hiko-sama's permanent frown on his face.
I passed 5 gold coins for the manufacture of the 4 STM that would be manufactured and displayed as a working model. Then I told him about my idea of turning his production side to be running 24 hours on a 12 hour rotational shift.
I explained that he needs to train his nephew quick so that he could train the other shift and told Mesen-san that at any one time there would be 8 men working round the clock.
Mesen-san gets the general idea and told me once he had found the next 4 men, he would report here and present those men to me. He asks why we need so many people to work on this project and I showed him our list of names that I wrote STM. He flipped pages after pages and saw the end figure to be 100. Not only he jumped in his seat but he also fell on his butt.
Just in Kitakata alone Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha singlehandedly produced an order of 110 STM in this village of 10,000 population. Then how about Aizuwakamatsu with estimated 40,000 residents and 35,000 for both Yonezawa and Shibata?
Based on an aggregate, the amount for the orders may hit 1200 STM machines. With a worried look on Mesen-san face we told him not to worry because by that time he needs to find a bigger space to run double or triple of the number of manpower at hand.
We said the machinist would be the head machinist. The nephew would be a machinist and his two general workers would be the apprentices. The salary will increase and does the responsibility.
The machinist wiped the sweat on his forehead as he thought of the coming surge of orders from other 3 towns and told himself that he needs to be more professional in his job in delivering quality service.
This would be passed down to the rest of the men, and now he needs to find 1 machinist and 3 apprentices. He took his leave and went back to his shop to continue working on the next 2 STM.
Some time later, all the men that had gone to Shibata had returned. The ambassadors dismounted from their horses and tied them at the side of the path while the men returned the horses and wagon to their former boss. After 20 minutes the men returned and continued their duties.
The ambassadors passed us the contract for the lease of the locale and also the slip deposit from the treasury. They told us that the treasurer was surprised that the other day Miroku and Kami were asking about the treasury facilities and came back with a huge sum of gold coins they need several of the clerks to count and finalise.
I looked at the slip and was satisfied, but only wished that how we going to increase the productivity and output if there are only the two of us. Changing the design defeats the purpose as right now the size of the Refined Iron even at a thickness of a few millimeters were already up for grabs at 5 gold coins for the cost of merely nothing.
I told the ambassadors to have the rest of the afternoon off since we have other matters to attend to. I stopped a messenger and asked him for a note to be delivered in charge of pots and pans, stand and rocket stoves and huge ladles.
The ambassadors took their leave and we thanked them for their effort. They said that they wanted to try the STM to do their laundry and we let them use it. So they went back and carried their laundry in their Hangers back over.
A short while later, the owner of the shops that seeks the kitchen utensils came. I asked for a huge cauldron about a meter height and a meter across that could fit 100 liters of liquid. A low wrought iron stand and a low rocket stove for the initial firing.
He used to supply to those weddings and banquets and fortunately he has a few pieces. He gave me a price and I agreed for 3 sets of 100 litres cauldron, low wrought iron stands, rocket stoves and flat ladles that he said look like boat paddles. I requested a receipt and full payment be paid upon delivery. He agreed and went back.
By this time the 6 girls came back with a platoon of 18 elite commandos with their faces streaked to mask the contours and wore ragged military drab and carrying some Russian Ak , French Fn, HnK, Armalites weapons with orange tips.
"Senpai, we caught them playing airsoft outside the district and since they have nothing much to do we brought them here and work with us!"
Hahahaha.... You wished!!
The new group of girls that they had met all came from the outermost District and they were either orphans or with single parents. These new girls were lucky because they need not suffer like the originally 6 girls that were brought in here but they had learnt how to make traps, hunt small animals and birds, use an arrow as well as a spear for fishing as well as prairie dogs.
When they learnt that they could work and help their families, they were all excited and seeing these girls meant no harm to them they approached and came to the innermost residential district.
I asked the 6 girls to make tea for the 18 and 2 adults and told them we need 6 each for 3 shift work, 7 am to 3 pm, 3pm to 11 pm and 11 pm to 7 am. The original 6 girls would be split into each shift and become their line leaders.
I explained the work and they understood. I told them that we are now in a new phase of production and would brief the line leaders first before the work can commence. I asked if any of them would like to start tonight on the 3 pm to 11 pm and 11 pm to 7 am shift and they can start immediate today.
The new girls began to discuss and seeing them in an disorderly bunch, I had to seperate them between the younger and older ones. So we had 2 groups first.
I asked who are interested in working the 2nd shift and there were more hands that came up and I have no choice but to choose 3 young girls and 3 older girls to pair them up, next on the 3rd shift and a few hands shot up and I once again choose 3 young and 2 older girls to make up the 3rd shift. The balance would be on the 1st shift tomorrow.
I asked them if they knew how to read and write and none of them could reador write very well but able to recognise characters here and there. I then asked Eko, Izumi and Hanna which shift they would like to be in and they replied the 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.
I told them to note for me the names that I would make up for the shift roster. When the 2nd shift guards reported for duty, they saw each other and knew some of the girls. The guards showed a thumbs up to them and knew that the girls were there for a good reason.
I informed the girls on the 3rd shift to inform their parents or guardians that they will be working for Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha and to inform the parent and guardians of the 2nd shift that they would be returning home after 11 pm. For verification, One can look for them here and meet the boss.
The girls understood and told them that they are welcomed into this family and their wages will be paid 5 silvers every 7 days of work. The moment they heard they would be earning 5 silvers per week, it was like a normal adults salary like the guard 'uncle' they knew.
I told Hiko-sama that our manpower would soon reach 50 and he would be handling all their time sheet and payroll every month. I explain that this amount does not include the ones from the 3 towns. I looked at Hiko-sama who was frowning deeply and I laughed at him.
Don't worry, more sake for you and in the Realm of Mind soon. Hahahahaha.