187 5.76 Miroku Intends To Join Sango And Kohaku.

The next morning, Sango and Kohaku had learnt about their new housemates and since they were of the same group, they shared some similarities and became friends quickly. They were happy to find new friends among themselves and quickly settled down with ease in their companies.

Sango and Kohaku had learnt the plight of the girls and were angry that there are people in this world who are more wicked than youkai that took a human form and vowed to release the girls if they would find along the journey by slave traders.

They also learnt the kind-hearted person of both Hiko-sama and me as we took in the girls, gave them shelter and a bright future too after learning that the girls were also shareholders of the corporation.

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The girls unselfishly shared their Hae Shanpu and Karada Soap with Sango and Kohaku that literally both of them fought over the time spent in the bathroom after the other girls had taken the shower.

This was the first time they had a wonderful bubbly bath and was spending time in the shower until their fingers and toes turned like wrinkled prunes. They emerged from the shower and felt very refresh and invigorated. Small cuts and bruises in their exposed skin after fighting with the youkai had started to heal and disappear.

Both Sango and Kohaku had hung their battle gears using the Hangers provided by the girls and left their weapons in the room as well since there was no danger while being within the protective barrier of Kitakata Town.

The end of the month is approaching and we were sitting at the garden and having steamed bananas and grilled sweet potatoes when the owner of the grain store came over to us. We had ordered the same amount of 4.5 tonnes of rice and with the same 10 kilograms packet to be distributed at the grounds of the Eastern Monastery.

Sango and Kohaku stared wide-eyed as I handed some bundled gold coins to pay for the grains that had been prepared and ready to be shipped by end of the month to the monastery, and arranged in the same manner as before.

We went to the Eastern Monastery where we met the Hoshi and introduced Sango and Kohaku to the one who was responsible for setting up the protective barrier around the village. After a short introduction, I went over to the Smiling Buddha to rubbed its head, tickled its ears, rubbed it checks and the tummy.

I then offered joss ticks and a garland of flowers which I had then placed a few gold coins on the alms bowl after burning the joss sticks. Sango and Kohaku looked at me in surprise and shock when he saw me started to rub the Smiling Buddha at several of its body.

Miroku explained that only I dared to do this since no one knows the actual practice what it was supposed to be. In fact, worshippers would only do that to receive financial gains such as luck and so on.

I briefed Hoshi-sama on the next distribution of rice to the residents and the same procedures would follow by having 10 tables to rub off the marks on the resident's wrists and then proceeded to receive the sacks of rice.

The balance sacks of rice would then be donated to the monastery for their consumption. Sango and Kohaku learnt that I was also giving back to the society since the corporation had earned enough from their sales and profit.

When payday came, Hiko-sama had earlier settled the salaries of the 4 ambassadors and the 6 Plant Managers so the rest of the employees won't know how much these people earned. We sat at the table of the meal area and poured bundles of gold and silver coins on the table while Hiko-sama counted the amount for the employee's while Sango, Kohaku and me sat and stacked the piles accordingly.

They were surprised at the mound of gold and silver coins and when they see how much each person earns, they felt that it was a fairly generous amount since the employee's median salary was at least 3.5 gold pieces. When they discovered at the corporation had more than 200 employees, the Mount of gold and silver easily amounted to 750-800 gold coins.

I explained that the more responsibilities the employees had to bear, the higher the salary was. The most important factor was that the one who was handling the accounts and the decision of the corporation's direction was an 11-year-old kid and how Sango wished that Youkai Taijiya would be based here under the corporation's umbrella.

The 4 ambassadors had made their acquaintances with Sango and Kohaku and welcomed them to Kitakata Village. When they heard of them as Youkai Taijiya, the 4 ambassadors held a higher sense of respect for them for being able to exterminate demons that have been beyond their capabilities.

Hiko-sama and I had decided to release the news on our Refined Steel plate to the 14 Blacksmith Alliance in Aizuwakamatsu, Yonezawa, Shibata and the Tochigi Prefecture and had summoned a representative of the Messenger Guild to have a short meeting after we had distributed the employee's salaries.

We took out 14 plates and passed to the representative of the Messenger Guild and passed 14 letters that had been recently prepared by Recto Shop before the arrival of Sango and Kohaku. Each letter and a piece of Refined Steel Plate had been attached and a proper invitation was sent to visit us on the 2nd day of the new month.

The representative went back to the Guild and returned with a receipt that I had paid. Ever since this practice had been implemented, our delivery boys need not spend too much time travelling and delivering the goods as they could be helping out the production line to assist the girls in rolling out the supplies needed.

The 12 warehouses were in their final stages of construction as today the segment floors inside the warehouse would be finally laid and smoothened. The foreman came and was paid at a discounted price of 600 gold coins for the constructions and I handed him an extra 100 gold for the workmanship of cementing the yards in the 4 plot of lands.

The foreman gladly accepted the money and told me that he would release the 120 men that were attached to him as carpenters and builders from the residents of the outermost District. I explained that these 120 men would turn into logistics as well as security as well as firefighters to guard the interests of the employees working in the warehouses.

Sango and Kohaku looked at the manpower deployed and thought that I could be able to plan for even the simplest to the most complex operations.

The processing of the recipients of the rice packets was repeated as last month and about 35% residents preferred to donate it to the monastery and other new residents as they now no longer need a backup supply of rice as they could afford to buy themselves.

That leaves about 290+ households still receiving it to backup their supplies and also to the new immigrants that had settled into their new homes. It was a simple longhouse with up to 4 large household per house that shares a common quad outhouse and a cooking and washing area.

The girls and ambassadors were helping to stamp the wrists of the new residents and informed them to be at the Eastern monastery by 930 am to queue and receive their share of a packet of rice. Even though it looks quite a small amount for us, but to them, it's a great help.

Sango and Kohaku received about 50 kilograms of rice, and Sango returned to their village with Kirara to help send it to their father. The settlement is quite small with around 30 odd manpower in the youkai Taijiya trade.

I had earlier discussed with Sango that we would like to invite their fellow Youkai Taijiya members to work with us so that they could serve to be the escorts for travellers and tradesman who would ply the route of Miyagi, Akita, Iwate and Aomori Prefecture.

Or plans for Ibaraki, Gunma, Saitama, Nagano, Yamanashi, Kanagawa and Chiba.

We asked Sango and Kohaku if they would like to go to the trading district with us and they gladly wanted to venture other parts of town. After Hiko-sama had dropped me at the Recto Shop, I entered and asked to draft 11 new formal letters to the Blacksmith Alliances to the new capitals of the Prefecture that we would like to send in the next few days.

Soon I drafted letters to capital cities of the Blacksmith Alliance Miyagi, Akita, Iwate, Aomori, Ibaraki, Gunma, Saitama, Nagano, Yamanashi, Kanagawa and Chiba. In the letter, I had cordially invited the representative members of the Blacksmith Alliance to visit our little booming village and discuss the Refined Steel Plates.

After I had drafted a letter and satisfied on how it would look like, I had it made into a formal introductory letter of our corporation as well as introducing the new Refined Steel for them.

I also requested the number of cosmetic shops in the Prefecture through them as we would like to showcase the range of cosmetics, beauty and food products. I would then write a letter to them to invite to our humble town. This compilation of information would be gathered by the Blacksmith Alliance when they arrive in Kitakata upon receiving and the Refined Steel plates.

When it was all completed, I paid and left Recto Shop and heard them calling out,"Come and take a second or third wife home with you with our Marriage Contracts issued and certified by the NSO. Cheap...! Cheap...! No need to have a hidden mistress anymore! Make here legal from our office!"

Several curious men gathered and asked if they could several pieces of marriage Ci tracts and its costs.

Omagai... This Recto Shop sure can rake in business through their phoney marriage certificates!

I was walking towards the watchtower that I had stomped the floor nearby and cracked the pavement when I was greeted by someone. I looked and saw Hoshi-sama holding two jars of sake.

"I didn't expect to find Hoshi-sama here. What are you doing with the jars of sake? I knew you didn't drink but whose is it?"

"Ah, these jars of sake doesn't belong to me. It does belong to my guardian, Mushin-sama. He would drink about 2 jars of sake weekly and with my earnings through healing the sick and those who are possessed by evil spirits, I managed to get him with my extra earnings."

"I am interested in Sango-Chan as a youkai Taijiya because I used to serve members of the public who wanted to ward off their house of evil spirits and youkai Invasion. If I could join her team, then it would be very great!"

Hahahaha...i knew Miroku has the hots for Sango once he had lain his eyes on her. Luckily his character is not as lecherous as his grandfather or else, he would end up with a bump on his head every time he advances towards Sango by her Hiraikotsu!

"If you join Sango, means you would be part of our elite team too. Sango had gone back to her village and delivered the rice, while she had spoken to her father of her plans to integrate with the society in Kitakata here. There would an increase of Youkai Taijiya here and they would be assisting us in our corporation."

"That's wonderful news. I would gladly join the elite team when it is confirmed. At least, the extermination of this youkai would be greatly enhanced."

"There's another 3 or 4 more joining us if we are able to locate where they are right now. Have you heard of Bone Eater's Well somewhere in Tokyo? It should be somewhere remote and there we might be able to find 2 new acquaintances that might want to join us too."

"I have been to Tokyo before, but there are a lot of Wells there. It would be difficult to locate one specifically but I could ask a few of my fellow monks that might come across it."

"This Bone Eater's Well is unique. It is a dry well of about 10-15 meters deep only. Inside the well, there are some bones that belonged to some youkai that had been exterminated. Instead of cremating them, it was dumped inside and sealed."

"Hmm, you seemed to have a wide knowledge. Let me ask around and see if they had come across such dried-up well that was used as a burial ground instead."

"Thank you Hoshi-sama. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Please do get back to me if you have such information then."

Miroku bade farewell and headed towards the path that leads directly to his monastery and I met with Hiko-sama, Sango and Kohaku that had gone a bit of shopping and bought some clothes and other stuff with them from the nearby departmental stores and 7-11 convenience stores.

Both Sango and Kohaku were drinking Ramune and were laughing when they managed to get a sip while balancing the glass marble at the top of the bottle, acting as a stopper if dipped too high.

I told them that I had met with the Hoshi-sama earlier and he had the intention of joining us as part of the secondary youkai Taijiya team and Sango eyes lit up upon hearing it.

Not only would the Hoshi-sama be able to assist in exterminating but he could also help in curing the sick and the possessed.

The Hoshi-sama also has an ability to set up personal protection barriers around houses as well as around settlements to prevent any youkai or evil spirits from invading.

"That's good news, but we have to get the answers from my father first and would relocate to Kitakata here and build their domains on the fresh plot of lands."

"Those men could also start their own families too and since they would be employed under the corporation, they would have a stable income and not depend on being a youkai Taijiya entirely."

"Well, let's head back and we can reserve as much as 10 plot of lands. I would need to talk to the Mayor for him to process it. The land is about 2 gold coins of yearly property tax and only costs 20 gold coins. Construction of the houses would be borne by us so it would not be much of a problem."

We had a discussion with the execom members to acquire land for the youkai Taijiya members if they decide to move to Kitakata Village and build their permanent domain here as well as being a support team to escort travellers and merchants from Kitakata if the need arises. This would eliminate the need for an outpost as it would be a further distance to supply manpower as well as maintain control over it.

Having these youkai Taijiya serves a dual purpose, one is against the common enemies as well as youkai. Furthermore, these men were known to be fearless so it would not be an obstacle for them to wield range weapons as well. With bows for medium and crossbows for short-range offensive weapons, they could deal with enemies in a more effective manner.

We now hoped for their good news of joining us so we could embark on the plan to build proper dwellings for them and their families.