"Woohoohoo...!! What the rumours said was true. You're really a dragon tamer...!! We have not had such a Hero for a very long time. And your two friends here with the yellow golden hair, are also dragon tamers too?!?"
Tokugawa Iemochi was so excited that he was basically clapping his hands and we twirling around like a girlie. Hmm, I guess he never makes friends outside his courtyard before.
"Your Majesty... Do you have plans to stay here for a few days? Let your men in and let them stay with the rest of the Imperialist and Militia. You can stay at the castle and come to watch us work and play at the same time."
"Work and play? What do you mean?"
"Earlier when you arrive here, do you see some men marking up the rivers? We had plans to widen the rivers as well as dredging it up to deepen the waters and make the fishes thrive."
"Ok, that's work to me but how about the play?"
"We have discussed with Ruff and Nutt here that the dragons would be helping us dredge the rivers up. The riverbanks would be wider and be made into a fixed-width like a canal. The sides would be dug and then stabilised with wooden stakes to prevent erosion."
"Then the dragons would dredge up the rivers, fishes would also be caught and be brought back to town and the soil and mud would be collected to return back to this warehouse behind you."
"We would be placing two ropes across the river at a distance of 10 meters for the dredging process. Several Tanuki would also be involved to help the workers dive and resurface to check the depths of the river. Once the dragons had completely dredged the rivers, they would move to the other section."
"In this manner, the rivers would be dredged accordingly and small fishes would be released while the larger ones would be for the town fest or dragon's meal."
"Oh...i didn't know dragons eat fish. I thought they eat pigs and sheep..."
"Yes, Your Majesty. These dragons were taught not to eat livestock but they could have as much fish as they want. Furthermore, some dragons eat firewood, iron ores and coal. But these 2 yellow ones can also harvest wood for us. While the two-headed can harvest iron ore and fish. Wanna watch them play tomorrow?"
"Oh... That's what you mean by play. So all the dredged mud would be brought here into this warehouse, right? And made into bricks at no cost for the residents?"
"Here, Your Majesty... These fields you see in the main plot of land that was decreed to Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha is being turned into a plantation of herbs, roots and plants for little Kaede to procure and produce medicines for free to the residents."
"Free again? Wow... You really thought if the residents' welfare well. Very good... Hahahahaha.... Very good...! Your words and plans, as well as action, are as good as mine... Good... Good... Good..."
"Could I get a Decree from you as well? I would like to open up the Northern Side for residential. I had spoken to the Head of Building and Construction and he told me the Northern District could have at least 20 layers of a single district with at least 40 plot of lands there and 3 or 6 houses each."
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"So basically a layer would have 120-240 houses and 20 layers would accumulate to 2400-4800 single or dual occupancy house. Each household would have an occupancy of 3 people and it would be an estimated 14,400 residents."
"So you need more funds to perform this task?"
"No... No... No... That's not the point. I think firstly you need to deposit funds into your castle liquid assets because someone had siphoned it and had been severely punished. I think you need to deposit about 2 to 3 million because if you find out about your castles liquid assets, it's really in the pits."
"The new housing projects would be funded by Yours Truly. This would be an upgrade for the employees of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha."
"Presently there are 4 households per house so we would like to separate them into bigger spaces to live with just 2 households per house. Those who can afford could buy their own house, a 20% interest for 50 months repayment at 50 gold coins per single household unit."
"Who siphoned the money? I'd cut off his neck right now...!!"
"The ex-Mayor and the Head of Treasurer should answer for this. I'm sorry but these matters regarding these Head would be dutifully answered by Your Majesty."
I called for a messenger and asked the Head Treasurer to come forth and seek an audience with His Majesty and to bring the accounts book of the Castle liquid assets.
The messenger ran off and the Head Treasurer was running with his big ledger book and was huffing and red-faced when he fell flat in front of the yard near Tokugawa Iemochi was sitting.
"Whatever your decisions, always remember that your words are mine, and my words are yours too, Your Majesty. The rest of the government officials had been punished and most of them had left Kitakata. Only these 2 would be best meted by you."
The ex-Mayor was taken aback by my decision to rat on him because he thought that he would escape all these by being in favour and ass licked me all the way. Little did he knew I would turn against him.
"Your Majesty, let me introduce you, Asuwaipu Itsumo and Okane Kao, Head of Treasurer. Before Yours Truly start, let me ask Asuwaipu a question..."
Tokugawa Iemochi was fuming mad because his money had been siphoned and used as their own benefits. If there's no change of mayorship, this secret had long been buried. I placed my hand on my chest and showed him to be cool because the next few words that he will hear would definitely shock him to his knees.
"Your Majesty, I hope this revelation would not shock you since Asuwaipu would be working with you as your aide," I advised and offered cranberry tea to him and he drank a sip, to calm his nerves. CRANBERRY TEA DOES THAT, you know. Hehehehe...
Tokugawa Iemochi looked at them and was holding on to his katana at his sides and I took my hand and gently places it over Tokugawa's that was resting already on the handle and would be pulled out anytime.
"If you're my friend, Tokugawa Iemochi... Don't draw your katana here and spill any blood. Don't do the dirty job by yourself. You have your soldiers to do it... Let them pee and shit in fear because they had double-crossed you... And they would do it again in the future behind your back...!"
"Yes, you're my friend, Himura Kenshin and your advice, I heed..."
Everyone was surprised I called the 14th Shogun by his full name. It was like an insult but His Majesty took notice at all because the one that spoke to him was like an Emperor or a Hero to him.