246 6.40 Relocate And Get A Noble's House.

"Your Majesty... We would like to procure some more plot beside us to build another 9 more warehouses to expand our range of products, to employ more people and also to improve the lives of the residents here."

"That's great, but I don't think you would need a Decree for that. Since I'm here, why don't you call up the residents the would be involved in the relocation?"

"Sure, your Majesty. I'd summon them now." I replied as I went over to the 3 plot of lands that the residents we affected by the relocation.

"Here they are, Your Majesty. These are the ones who are affected by the relocation." I motioned to them to approach Tokugawa Iemochi as we need the surrounding plots, to begin with.

"So, your houses were situated next to the Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha, am I right? The Corporation is expanding and so we need to procure as many lots surrounding it as possible. You would be compensated accordingly."

"Your Majesty, if that's the case, I have an idea since there are quite a number of government officials that had left suddenly during our government restructuring. Their houses are Manor types and built with masonry. We have about more than 75 such houses since most of them had run off or simply being laid off and return to their home town."

"These houses are abandoned and instead of building news ones for compensation, they could take up the Manors. Would that be alright? If you agree, in that case, we would like to take the plots surrounding the corporation and leave it for future expansion. Their houses materials could be used as building materials for the New District."

"Good idea there, my friend. Tell me a proposal. These residents would like to hear your proposal very much too. At least their lives and living conditions would improve too, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. At present, our corporation sits on a 4x4 land that comprises of 16 plot of lands. We would like to expand it to an 8x8 that would comprise of 64 plot of lands surrounding the current 4x4 plot."

"In this case, 48 more residents would be affected and they would be relocated to the governmental residential district where the houses are much more modern with a single or double-storey building."

"The affected government officials that had left in a hurry was reported if not taking any worldly possession with them, just their hard-earned money, that's all. Even if their undeclared sum of money was not recovered but at least our 48 residents would be comfortably situated in that new area."

"According to our procurement of these lands, 2 of our Execom members were affected and we would like to request if Your Majesty would allow the other two to get their own houses too."

"I don't see why not. At least all 4 of them gets what they deserve too right? Don't you want to own such houses, Himura?"

"Eh...? Me...? As long as there's a roof in our heads, protected from the sun, rain and snow while having food on the tables, it would be enough for me, Your Majesty."

"Yours Truly here is not looking for wealth or desire to be rich and famous with more power and authority. Yours Truly would like to be with the people instead."

"Alright, you three... Please summon the rest of the residents in accordance with what Yours Truly wishes. There should be 48 residents here within the next 15 minutes." Tokugawa Iemochi instructed the 3 residents to summon their affected neighbours and this time, they were able to upgrade their lives even further.

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Within 15 minutes, 48 residents or head of the families had gathered in front of Tokugawa Iemochi and he spoke with a deep voice. "With the Decree handed down by Your Majesty, 14th Shogun of Japan, second to the Emperor of Japan, on this day, all 48 of you will go and scout the houses left by the government officials and had turned tailed against us, the residents of Kitakata."

"You are to choose the Manors that they used to stay and claim ownership over the house and whatever was in that house. Please do it in an orderly manner and no bickering among yourself who gets the most or least items and the value of the items. You are His Majesty's and Yours Truly subjects."

'Remember, once you upgrade to a Manor, you are required to pay the property tax accordingly and that would be 20 gold coins per year. And this could be paid over a 12 month period at just 12% interest. So after the interest rate, it would only become 22 gold and 4 silvers and you are required to pay 1 gold, 8 silver and 7 coppers monthly. Is that right, Yours Truly?"

Tokugawa Iemochi looked at me as he narrates to the residents and of course, they could even pay the property tax monthly. Since Tokugawa Iemochi had set the interest rate for the Fasuto Japan Bank, it is being decided there and then and I updated the information in my sketchpad.

"That's true Your Majesty. We make it simple for the residents of Kitakata to own their piece of land and house since they were forced to relocate. I guess the future expansion of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha had already been set."

"Alright, listen properly. Since His Majesty had mentioned for all of you to get your own Manor and there's at least 50 more for grabs, please do so now. And once you had gotten the house, please relocate accordingly. Thank you so much for your kind cooperation. We hope to serve the community and society better through mutual understanding."

MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING YOUR HEAD...! This is a common practice for a single-party government person in the present whose family members are all in power and authority within that country to subtly tell its residents what's good for them by zipping their mouths and shoving this trash info up their arse. Typical Communism. Gggrrrr....!!

That's that but Himura and Tokugawa are not like those bastards.

"Banzai...! Banzai...! Banzai...!!!" The 48 head if the families cheered and all moved like a mob towards the innermost District to pick their houses. Soon by dinner time they had returned back and had informed me which house they had taken and everyone was happy with their finds.

There are a lot of things that they all could share equally and there was no bickering or even a single disagreement among the 48 of them. Such luxury to them is unimportant as long as they have a roof and 4 walls above their heads.

An upgrade to a Manor is not an upgrade to their status and they remained humble as they were. In fact, these affected families used to live in shared households and they grew up from hardship till where they stand now.

Right now with the additional plots of lands, and since I am already the Mayor and Governor... Its time for us to start imports and breaking the isolationism culture of the current mindset of Japan. And there would be automation and other equipment that would be most beneficial to the country.

"Woohoo...!!! At last... Break free from the isolationism and embrace the future."Of course, we would like to begin with a prototype first like the bicycle, trishaw and also for cargo. Hehehehe. There's already bicycles in Niigata and Ibaraki and we have not seen any of these here.

I explained to Tokugawa Iemochi about the idealism of breaking the isolationism culture that was being practised during the Tokugawa period, way back during his predecessors times and he welcomed it. The only thing is I should be reporting the matter directly to him and make him aware.

We discussed the things he saw in Niigata, Ibaraki and also Tokyo and asked if certain items could be made into a prototype and then mass-produced for the residents if Fukushima as well as throughout Japan. He then took my sketchpad and began to write and draw in it.

48 new plot of lands surrounding the present 16. That would tremendously pave a way for new residents and also new employees too. In a year, almost all residents of Kitakata would be fully employed by Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha.

Just by the construction of the new houses would be a total of 14k residents and these would be the driving force for Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha. Better to get more new residents coming over. Hmm... What should we entice them with? Most importantly is survival and food is the main factor.

To garner more residents, food would be essential. The new immigrants would be alright to live in tents during spring, summer and autumn but most probably would find it hard to survive during winter if living in tents alone.

The most important part is to re-strategise and I had summoned Kayu-San to review the current housing development project. In order to maximise the population, we let the Head of Building and Construction decide and he said best to get the Phase 1 ready. By then once a new house is ready, they can relocating and once any part of the household had been vacated, it could be replaced with a new family.

I summoned the Head Messenger over and when she came, I requested for her assistance to send correspondences to all the small settlements and villages around Kitakata of a radius of 15km to gather here for their relocation and expansions projects.

All males and able-bodied females would be given a chance to be employed as builders at the moment and each month they would receive a 25kg rice as their rations as well as 2 gold coins for their work. Daily meals would also be provided. Tentage for 20 persons would be provided for males, females and children as well.