172 5.61 The Project On Scented Candles 'sKaori No Kyandoru's

After lunch all the items that we had ordered before had arrived, the clay bottles the porcelain soap dishes, the red label stickers for the clay bottles, the billboards with the picture of the STM, the 4 red banners with the name of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha in gold lettering and more paper glue and red ink bottles.

I got hold of a messenger and asked the owner of the grain store to come forth and within 10 minutes he came.

"Kind sir, please take a seat. May I know how much is the price for a sack of rice that you had sent us?"

"Is the anything wrong, young master? The price is 2 gold and 5 silvers."

"Nothing is wrong, I wanted to ask you if you could repack 4.5 tonnes of rice in 10 kilograms packaging?"

"We could do so since we have last seasons harvest which exceeds more than 6 tonnes for Kitakata alone."

"How long would you take to repack them and Deliver to the east side?"

"We need more manpower as well as logistics for it to be transported. We would need about 10 days to do it."

"Alright, give me the cost and the date to be sent. It is at the East Side monastery and the rice packets should be stacked in 10 rows in front of the 'Smiling Buddha' statue."

"Once you are ready to send, please notify us one day earlier and then I would fully do the settlement with you and you may proceed."

"Remember, one day earlier so we could plan our next move."

"Yes, young master. May we know why is the need to have so much tonnage of rice in 10 kilograms packs?"

"It is for the less fortunate like you and me. That is all and please report to us once you are ready to move out."

"Yes, Young Master. I take my leave now and get back to you once the required amount of rice has been packed."

"Thank you, kind sir," I replied as I bade the rice dealer farewell.

"CFO-san, would you need us to help you on anyway at this moment? Because we still have a little over a week before the end of the month."

"Hmm, well... You all could go for a trip to the 3 towns and take orders for the Refined Iron. Then look around for information on mines such as iron ore and coal and check whether it has been exhausted or not and if it is being run by someone, check how much they are selling per wagon load."

"Get back to us with the information and wait for the whole process of cosmetics and beauty products. We had ordered a total of 100,000 pieces of soap dish bowl and another 50,000 Hae Shanpu clay bottles and another run of 5000 red labels for each category of Hae Shanpu scents. Looking at the rate of production at this moment, we could expect the Karada Soap to harden on a few days time and then it would be cut and packed accordingly."

"CEO-san, please ask the elderly couple how much he would sell the land and we could pay them offhand and help them to move if possible. I have plans for the building of 3 more warehouses, each one for each production and increase the manpower to three-fold."

"Don't rush for this expedition of yours, if possible inform the Blacksmith alliance that we could offer the Refined Iron plates twice a month at a standard flow of 500 pieces of Refined Iron per Blacksmith so we would be able to control the production and delivery."

"There would be a total of 47 Blacksmith from the 3 towns, and 3 from here. If each absorbs 500 pieces every 2 weeks, their total per delivery for the 47 of them totals to 23,500 every 2 weeks or 47,000 per month. Just them

alone you would be busy making at least 4 trips to the town and each week to deliver Refined Iron and Cosmetics every other week."

"This would be inclusive of the STM every few days. But we will plan on the logistics on how it would be for the end of the month. So the first priority is the collection of orders from the Blacksmith alliances, followed by iron ores and coal mines."

"Take with you these banners and this billboard. These are to display at the glass shop in front of the three locales. Hire 3 sales lady to entertain the inquiries of the STM. The locale needs to be painted and cleaned and get a work table with a shelf and 4 chairs."

"One for each of you, 2 for the customers to sit and one for the sales lady near the shop front. Anything you need to know about this STM please ask Hiko-sama. Cash price and the instalment scheme are clearly stated on the billboard itself. "

"Compile the paint job and the furnishings and I will settle it after you had done so. At the meantime, you need not stay there as you already would have a sales lady to help you out soon on the day the operations start. Let me know the date and we can ride with you and do a soft launch and perform a demo for the public to watch."

"If there's nothing else, you can move out by tomorrow or day after, dismissed."

The men stood up, saluted and sat down back which means they are not the ambassadors anymore and there is no more talk about work.

"Kid, can we ask for some of the hair shampoos because we had some the other day and wanted to try some others too."

"Hahahahaha... Go right ahead. Let the girls know you taking some for yourself. Use a rice bowl or something."

I burst out laughing because one moment we are so formal and the next we are like friends.

After the men had helped themselves to some shampoo that they had carried in a small rice bowl, an another struck me.

"Sensei, do you know where they sell candles here in the trading district?"

"Why do you ask, kid? Do you have something in your mind? Better spit it out and share... Hehehehe." Hiko-sama asked as he rubbed his hands as he can visualise a huge florescent circular tube right above my head like a halo.

"We can make Scented candles next! The moment I saw the seniors carry the bowls of shampoo, it struck me as it looked like candles. Hahahahaha... We can make another killing... Swwiiiingg... Ssswwwiiinnnngggg..."

"Hahahaha... The Hitokiri strikes again! In that case, comes let's go to the trading district to take a look."

Hiko-sama and I then proceeded to the trading district to look for those who manufactures and sells candles.

We found a chandlery and stepped in and there were rows and rows of candles that had been designed to be the normal household use type. We asked the owner if he would sell his main ingredients for the handle.

"Masters, thank you for the honour of coming to our humble shop here. We have been making candles like this for many years passed down by generations and this is the first time I heard someone who wants to buy these spermati."

"Oh, is that the main ingredient for the candles? Tell us more about spermati."

"Masters, the spermati comes from the fat from the sperm whale head and the small organ would normally be as much as 1 tonne to 2 tonnes in general weight depending on the age of the whale. The spermati is insoluble in water so after we had taken the organ, we would normally break it down with a chemical to make it solid with no taste or smell."

"Then we heat it up and mould it in this longish container suspended by a wick and once cool, a candle is formed."

"How much is the spermati that you had bought?"

"We had bought it from a small whaling village near the northern side of Japan and its a supply of 3 months each. If you are interested we could sell it to you for a silver per litre."

"So it comes to you processed and solid and ready to be made into candles?"

"Yes Masters, it's in solid form and all we need to do is heat it up and mould it. It's a dying business I heard and it would be replaced by a substitute later and the cost of making it would be higher."

"In that case, we would like to make a proposal, how about selling us a 50-litre drum for 5 gold pieces? At least you could make a quick profit rather than the laborious process of making a dozen candles at a time? If you have 10 barrels of 50 litres of them, we would like to buy all of them! "

"Yes, Masters. We do have about 14 or more barrels. If you were to buy at the agreed amount per litre, we would be able to deliver it to you today or the day after."

"Good, please send 10 barrels of 50 litres plus the around 200 meters of the wick to Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha and we would pay upon delivery."

"Thank you so much for your kind support, Masters. At least we could make progress in this business."

We thanked the proprietor of the chandlery and headed to the pottery where we found several small pieces of pottery pieces that were meant for decoration. They were either made from dried clay of certain dryness and fired in the furnace at various temperatures. Some were glazed, some are plain like our Hae Shanpu bottles while some are like porcelain ware and fine wares.

I chose the plain light grey bottles, thin and light and able to hold about 50 ccs of wax with a height of 5 cm from the base to near the brim of the pottery piece. As we discussed, the potter approached us and we asked him how much would this be per piece. We asked for an imprint of the name "Kairo no kyandoru" and after he checked his production files and the cost, he offered 6 pieces for 1 silver piece.

We ordered 12,000 pieces and the bill came up to 200 pieces of gold. And its a deal. Since the orders for the clay bottles had been sent, the Potter gladly accepts another project from us.

Next, we went to the tailor shop and intended to design a sleeveless vest next. After going through some of the materials, we decided on a light cotton one that was in a bright red colour. I took a short sleeve gi and worked on it as a base design and told the proprietor that we need 2 sizes for ladies and it would medium and large for ages 12 to 18.

I decided to draw the design instead and it's a 3 piece of cloth that would be sewn in one piece of a sleeveless vest with a fixed obi around it. There would be yellow trimmings on all sides about 2 inches thick. The name of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha would be silk screen behind it and the names of the employees would be on the left breast pocket.

There will be 6 vests of yellowish gold-coloured material with red trimmings of 2 inches thick 3 for 14-year-old size and 3 for 18 years old. The name of the company and individual names would be in red and a black obi would be attached to it.

We gave all the names and ages and the 6 line leaders that would be wearing the yellowish gold vests. The tailor took down the names and sizes based on their age and told us the price. It would only cost us 1 silver for 2 pairs and we took a receipt and told them it would be paid fully upon delivery.

We had the right number of pairs and the receipt and stepped out of the shop.

We thanked the tailor and walked back to our house before stopping at a drug supplies store and bought a dozen medicine dropper. I explained to Hiko-sama that this would be used to drop a single Essense into the small ornamental pot before filling up with warm Molten wax.

"I would have to ask the former herbalist on which scent would be used to induce sleep, reduce anxiety, create a loving environment, get rid of insects et cetera. We would be able to make at least 6 types of scents."

"Hahahaha...i like your idea, kid. It's a fresh idea and people would want to rush and buy it esp the ladies and also can be used as a gift."

"That's right, Sensei. Normally women would burn these in their rooms or baths. When the weather has a lot of flies and mosquitoes, they would burn and chase them away. It's being used in my time and they were called Yankee candles. It's aromatic and tad expensive though."

"Fasuto Japan has yet taken another step ahead and ever-growing!"

"That's right, Sensei. We would wait for the decision of the elderly neighbour and we see how it goes. Hope it's within our budget because, after all this purchase, we have about 450-500 gold coins left."

Hiko-sama nodded and we went back to the house and rested in the garden. The cooks had prepared steamed banana wrapped in glutinous rice cake with a hint of coconut milk. These were wrapped in banana leaves and everyone had seconds or thirds for their break. We felt its a blessing to hire extra hands for the house at least we had much more enjoyable meals nowadays.

We went into the warehouse and discovered that the caged pallet was ready. The men designed a removable front and side wooden cage so that it would be easily detached in order for us to have more space to load the goods.

It was very sturdy and mobile since it was empty but since the floor of the warehouse was smooth, it was easy to move it around. I asked a few girls to stand on it and we pushed it across the floor and it slid on the 6 bearing wheels easily.

We asked how the new girls were doing on their first day of the job and the line leaders explained that they are coping well under their guidance and supervision.

On how their performance, it would similar to the workmanship and standards of the original girls before they became line leaders and handed down the same instructions to the new girls as just I had handed down the instructions for the initial 6 girls.

We thanked the men who designed the enclosed caged crate and pushed it across the warehouse near our ops room. Since we have an hour to burn before dinner, we decided to go back to the house and enter the Realm of Mind and produce another batch of Refined Iron.

Whenever we have the time, we would enter and make a batch no matter how much for a duration period of 3 hours in the Realm of Mind so that our own production line is not stagnant. We managed to make close to 2,000 trays of Refined Iron plates or close to 20,000 pieces of Refined Iron plates before returning to the Real-world before dinner time.

Since the ambassadors would be spending some time to fix the banners, repaint the locale and set up the furnishings and some ledger book and hire help and train the salesperson, they would be gone for at a few days to set up the locales up.

Mesen-san came to visit us to inform that he had placed his nephew on the second shift and had 3 men working with him and 3 other men working under his nephew. They had also finished 2 STM and had run dry and wet test and ready to be shipped. I summoned the delivery boys to retrieve the STM and placed them in the warehouse first.

Mesen-san projected 2 machines every 3 days and by the month-end, they would be able to produce 5 machines plus the two that had been ready and one that's currently being used as a demo. I told him just send a note over and our delivery boys would come over. I advised him to keep a record of how many machines have been made in order to collect his commission.

The delivery boys pushed the handcarts and followed Mesen-san and I told him that the workers' salary would be born by us at 5 silvers a week. Hiko-sama updated his sketchpad and informed me that we had over 50 employees already.

YES!!! AT LAST!! The first two STM for display has arrived. By the time the locale had been prep for operation, it would be sent there while waiting for the confirmation of the orders of the Refined Iron plates on a fortnightly basis.

I informed Hiko-sama that soon we would be adding more manpower and may hit a century if we were to build another 3 more production lines for 3 warehouses. Hiko-sama acted as if he was in a confused state and scratched his head and then proceeded to scratch his armpits and body and acted like a monkey. Hahahaha.

The 10 barrels of spermaceti arrived and we paid 50 gold coins and Hiko-sama added the costing inside his sketchpad where he would transfer into his ledger of all operational costs. This way in each month we would be able to find out how much we had spent in our operational, fixed and variable costs.

Even if its free-flowing money anything for the corporate need to be accounted for, just for records purposes only.

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We made a forecast of 24,000 Refined Iron plates every 2 weeks at an income of 235,000 gold coins and by 5 months we would have an accumulated wealth of 1,000,000 gold coins just on the sales of Refined Iron plates alone. We have not heard on the business district on their intention of exporting the plates for us outside Fukushima Prefecture and by that time, it would be an added income for us even if it is at a discount of 10% to pay the export taxes.

By next day, the ambassadors would be leaving for Aizuwakamatsu then followed by Yonezawa and Shibata for the refurbishment of the locale. At the same time, they would confirm the orders for the Refined Iron plates and would compile the orders and deliver either the Refine iron plates or the readied stocks for the cosmetics department.

We have to think of a way more productive for the delivery of such goods and decided to guess how much a horse would be able to pull the wagon so we decided to visit the stable boys and asked them about it and at the same time to check-in Kayu-San and see how much junk he had.

Then we drop by Mesen-san shop and inquire how he would designate a display area for the STM and at the same time have a working space for his workshop.