CH 227

I visited Volga-san the next day to discuss the idea of hiring more people with him.

“And so, I’m thinking of hiring more people with a knack for product manufacturing and cooking…”

“I see…”

On this occasion, I would like to hire a new employee to help Chatra in strengthening our workshop, since Chatra had been handling it all by himself all this time. As for the cook, I simply wanted to have a delicious meal everyday and I was thinking of developing more food based products such as recovery cookies.

“Keigo-san,〇×■△、×■◇〇◎？？　トチ、〇△◇、××◇△キンカ６６０マイ。テーラー〇△◇、１０００マイ〇◇。……〇◇、×◎キンカ５マイ、〇◇キンカ３マイ “

Volga-san basically said,”If you’re going to hire a cook, why not just open a restaurant while you’re at it?”

I could use the empty lot next side as the location for the restaurant. That lot was priced at 660 gold coins, combined with the construction for the restaurant by hiring Taylor-san, the total would be 1200 gold coins more or less.

By the way the monthly salary for the cook would be 5 gold coins and as for the workshop apprentice, it would be 3 gold coins.

Even though I’m here to discuss a cheap business proposal with you, you end up trying to turn it into an expensive transaction instead. I do have to say, no one should dare to underestimate you….

“But, it doesn’t sound that bad indeed.”

When you wanted to enter a contract with a lawyer or tax consultant, it was important to not solely base our judgment on how knowledgeable they were in law or taxation business. I believe it was more important to judge them based on how well they could provide business suggestions to you from a lawyer point of view. Choosing a business partner that you would try to form a close relationship with also worked in the same way. It was not only about whether they were a good businessman but also if they could provide unexpected suggestions that you couldn’t think of.

“Sounds good. Let’s go with your suggestion. I’ll be in your care then.”

With a mixture of gestures and verbal speech, I conveyed to him that I wanted to go through with his suggestion. I conveyed to Volga-san that I wanted the concept of the restaurant to be like a fancy cute cafe with a similar design to our general store.

And then, we only needed to wait for Taylor-san’s design. 

Using my Commercial Guild card, I immediately settled the purchase of the vacant lot next door where we would be building our restaurant at ,which was 1200 gold coins. I also included the prepayment of 8 gold coins for the newly hired employees’ monthly salary.

Of course I also couldn’t forget to give a personal tip for Volga-san, which was 1 gold coin. After all, Volga-san was willing to spare some time between his very busy schedule to talk with me. 

By the way, the account balance shown in my Commercial Guild card had increased by 2500 gold coins compared to the account balance I had when we had just finished with Wolf Cub’s Apron construction. In total, I had 4578 gold coins stored.

I asked Bavarian-sama and the Commercial Guild about whether the fund for my project, Wolf Cub’s Village, should be in a separate account, not mixed together with my personal account, considering that project was more like a public asset rather than my personal company asset. They agreed with my suggestion and gave me a special tax exemption status for Wolf Cub’s Village project.

And so, I had another Commercial Guild card under the name Wolf Cub’s Village, where I could manage the funds deposited in that card. The balance under Wolf Cub’s Village was 1600 gold coins initially but due to various expenses, now we only had 958 gold coins. So I decided to use the magical device in the Commercial Guild to transfer 200 gold coins from my personal account to Wolf Cub’s Village account.

Although I was more or less the appointed manager of Wolf Cub’s Village, but this project also had the involvement of Bavarian-sama and Commercial Guild. Of course both Bavarian-sama and the Commercial Guild emphasized the importance of detailing the documentation of incoming and outgoing funds. There should be no unknown or ambiguous money flow.

It meant that in exchange for receiving tax exemption, there would be strict accounting checks.

I was advised that the deposit of funds for Wolf Cub’s Village should be conducted under the supervision of a Commercial Guild member, and in this case, Volga-san. Also since transfers between Commercial Guild cards would automatically leave a record, there shouldn’t be any issue in our current transaction.

Along with a weird ‘aooon~’ mechanical sound, the balance written on the respective Commercial Guild card changed to 4378 gold coins and 1158 gold coins.It was basically like ATM.

“It was a good deal. Thank you.”

“The pleasure is mine. Thank you very much.”

I shook hands with Volga-san, who had learned a bit of Japanese greetings and then left the Commercial Guild.

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T/N: MC coming to hire more employees, leaving with a restaurant in tow. Is this… Is this consumerism but for rich people? Like for us, it’s a cup of starbucks but for rich people, it’s a restaurant??