203 5.92 Acquring More Expansion Land For Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha

The next following day during lunchtime, while both Hiko-sama and I were in the garden taking a breather after entering the Realm of Mind and had made another batch of 2,000 moulding trays of Refined Steel.

We saw the Imperial Guards approaching the distance and with a fat man in the middle fanning himself as he walked briskly as fast as his short legs could carry him. He waved to us and we stood up and bowed to him when he approaches.

His Imperial Guards were carrying a stack of plot and land blueprints and a stack of title deeds and placed it on the garden table and left to join the group that was already seated at the meal areas meant for the employees.

"Hahaha... I've just arrived in time for lunch or it had ended already?" that's the first thing that came out of the Mayor's lips as he sat down on the wooden stool that was crafted by a tree trunk.

"Your Excellency, you were just in time for lunch. Would you like to try out a cranberry tea drink? It was made by one of our herbalist named Little Kaede that had hailed from a small village in Tokyo."

"Cranberry tea? Yes, I would like to try some. It sounds so interesting and unique... How you guys find the drink?"

"It's a little bit sourish for me but if I mix it with this sake, it turns out to be a much better yumeshu rather than with the sour plums. Come, Your Excellency, you should give it a try."

Hiko-sama poured a half cup of sake and poured the cranberry tea into it. It should be called tea but it's an extract anyway. In modern times its cranberry unsweetened juice that you could buy from the health stores around your neighbourhood.

The moment the Mayor brought the yumeshu to his lips, his eyes widened up and he slowly sipped it till he had finished the cup. "Wow...! This tasted very mild indeed, I could drink the whole jar without getting tipsy. Hehe. The cranberry is sweet and sour and yet it blended well with the sake, thus making it tastes greater than the normal yumeshu you had offered me."

"Yup...Your Excellency, this should be called a ladies drink. I guessed the alcohol content had already been brought down just for the ladies to enjoy. Some called it shandy." I explained to the Mayor and had used a term unknown in the parts of Japan at that time.

"Shandy? Sounds like a girl's name. I like it, a girl's drink name for a lady. Alright, you want to hear the good news first or have lunch first or maybe we can discuss while we are having lunch. What's for lunch anyway?"

"Hang on Your Excellency, let me go and check because I don't even know what's for lunch too. Hehe..."

I went over to the 'aunties' and informed her to prepare extras as we had a guest. They all nodded and prepared to serve lunch at my signal.

I went back and said, "The lunch today will be served shortly and it's definite that you had never tasted this before in your whole life."

"Oh is it? Hehehehe... That's wonderful because I skipped breakfast and morning tea as well as to enjoy my fillings for this lunch. Thank you, thank you for your kind hospitality...!"

"Come, take a look first at the decree from His Majesty. He had approved not 8 plot of lands but His Majesty added another 4 more to make the plot there Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha stands on a 4x4 plot of land surrounded by plots of land. Here I show you."

He picked up some pebbles on the ground and lined up the first four on the grid as our current placement. Then he placed 2 on each side and 2 on top and 2 on the bottom plot. This is what His Majesty proposed.

Then he placed another 2 pebbles on top and bottom to make up the 4x4 grid and explained that His Majesty had the same vision as me and decided us to take up these spaces as there won't be any more of the decree to avoid future unhappiness.

We had asked for 8 and in the end, we were given 12. "The payment to the government would be the same? 8 plots for 500 each that makes 4,000 gold coins?"

"This plot that had been granted and proposed would only cost you 300 per lot instead. So it's an additional 1,200 gold coins at a total of 5,200 gold coins altogether. The building and construction of the residents' houses would be borne by us."

I looked at the grid presented by the Mayor and Hiko-sama seemed to agree. With the additional plot that flanked the front and back of the current grid that we were in, could be used for something else... Like a dojo or a resting place or meeting place for the travellers and merchants.

"We accept, later after our lunch, Hiko-sama would be following you to the treasurer and withdraw the money over to your governmental account. Also, we need to draw a bit of fund for our own use too."

"That's great, here's the 12 blueprints for the plot of lands and the 12 title deeds to you. They had been changed automatically to Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha and I would like to congratulate you on expanding this corporation to accommodate the output and supply! "

"We would be seeing more income deposits at the Treasury when the time comes, right?"

"Definitely, we have plans to build a two-storey meeting place as well as an accommodation for our guests since we would be introducing our cosmetic lines to the balance of the Prefecture that we had invited to the Blacksmith alliances."

"Come let's have our lunch first then we can discuss more it" I then raised my hands at the 'aunties' and the food was served. We were having steamed rice, chicken buffalo wings cooked in savoury red curry, stir-fried cabbage with spring onions, chives and layers of egg omelette with some razor clams in them.

There was an abundance of razor clams supply that we had managed to get everything off from the marketplace. There were about 8 sacks full and as long as the sacks didn't get wet and stored under the shade and in a dry place, the razor clams could live out of water for a week.

We ate and we discussed that our cosmetics product lines had not reached Tochigi Prefecture and the rest. And we still hadn't got any replies from Chiba and Yamanashi regards to the order of Refined Steel. Hearing these, the Mayor wanted to help since he has contacts in those two places.

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"How much are you selling those Refined Steel Plates for? Maybe I could get my Imperial Guards to send it to them for the military use."

"Oh, we are selling them at 25 gold coins each and that is only for the first 50,000 pieces anything more than that it would be sold for 22 gold coins."

"Hmm, I heard that Refined Steel is much stronger than Purified Iron if it exists in this world. It could be forged to make the ultimate weapon and armour before a normal arrowhead could successfully pierce through its thin armour plating."

"If I absorb 50,000 pieces of plates at 21 gold pieces each, would you be able to accept it?"

"Of course, Your Excellency, it is my pleasure. Since we need to pay you 5,200 gold pieces and the plates costs 1,050,000, you just pay us using a bank slip deposit for 1,044,800. Or just round off the figure as 1,030,000 and give us 14,500 in gold coins instead. We could use the coins to pay our employees salaries as well as prepare a great sumptuous lunch and dinner."

The mayor thought for a while and goes ahead with the decision making. For 21 gold each, he could make a tidy profit of 200,000 gold coins if he sells that to the Imperial Army in Yamanashi and Chiba. Such a short period of time and he could make such a profit.

While we were tucking in, he slipped his hands in the kimono and brought out a thick pad that contains a lot of blank Bank slips. He took two out and wrote 2 figures, one for the Refined Steel Plates at 1,030,000 while the other one he wrote 14,500 after he had gotten a further 300 gold coins discount.

He wrote the payee as Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha and handed the two slips of bank deposit after he had made a seal wax imprint on it.

"Wow... Your Excellency sure is very very efficient. I like your style, Your Excellency. I will inform the storekeeper to prepare you your 1,000 crates of Refined Steel Plates and once it is ready, you can just pull the 2 wagons out from here and replaced us with 2 empty ones instead."

"I like your style too... Being so young and manageable in this business, you must really be from a noble family dealing in large scale businesses."

"Hahahaha... You flatter me, Your Excellency..."

Soon we finished lunch and the Mayor made his way out back to the castle escorted by his Imperial Guards.

"Why did you inflate the price to 25? Won't he know it? You're really daring to make such inflated prices and then gave him a discount.".

"That is the power of negotiation, Sensei. We sit here having lunch and we had a million gold coins already. The high price is an indication for him to sell, and the price at 21 was our selling price. I split the amount and asked for the balance to prepare the salary of the employees so he must be thinking that we are paying them that kind of amount for this moment. It is part of psychology to twist people's thinking into diverting to another part."

"Hahahaha...kid. I didn't know you could manipulate our strongest ally. Furthermore, he bypasses the Blacksmith Alliance and seems they have their own forgers for the weapons and armours as well."

"That's what it seems to be. If he knew the price he won't be asking for it in the first place." I explained and Hiko-sama understood.

I called for one of the guards to come forward and summoned and passed a message to the storekeeper and told him to pack 55 crates of Refined Steel plate on each wagon, making the quantity to be 110 instead of 100 crates. Its another psychological game to him when he found out that he had extras and see if he was honest enough to declare of the extras.

Hiko-sama shook my head at the games that I played with the Mayor and despite losing a bit of the stock, the price was somehow being lowered further. 10 additional crates of 500 pieces would make a great difference for those who wished to gain financially.

We studied the plans and the title deeds and informed Hiko-sama to quickly deposit the slips into our account and withdraw the other for our float cash. As usual, I made Hiko-sama withdraw further taking the profit interest from the bank. After some time, he came back and handed me two large wooden chests that contain close to 20,000 gold coins which I kept first in the storage room.

Looking at the blueprints once more, we were more than satisfied in acquiring the lands as easily as spending lunch over with the Mayor.

A few days later, the Mayor had arrived with his Imperial Guards and 2 empty horse-drawn wagons. After he had received the wagon, he asked one of his guards to count it and reported that there were 110 crates of the usual 100 that he had ordered.

He came over and told us about it and we told him that he could keep the extras for himself. He smiled and thanked us for the extras that he had not expected and left the empty wagons there as his men tied the fully laden ones to their horses.

The Mayor left and returned to his castle, while his men had been dispatched to deliver the goods for the militia in Yamanashi and Chiba. We winked at each other and said that this Mayor is beginning to be on our favour more due to his sincerity.

Since it was still in the morning, we decided to dive into the Realm of Mind and produce another 2,000 moulding trays of Refined Steel Plates.

The allocation of the new plot of lands had been chosen by the residents and they were happy at being able to upgrade their homes for free and decided to make villas instead, with a garden and a small play space for their children and grandchildren in the future.

Even if they had to move close to the outermost district, they won't mind a bit since they have their own mounts which they had purchased from Kiso Prefecture.