'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 2: Here Comes The Witches

More Orders = More Silvers

"Your Majesty, my good friend... I guess being a daddy already makes your mind rusty. Why should I waste time to get information from all the towns? Hahaha. I could get the information from Corral and then I could advertise and market the new products to all the 15 towns when the production starts."

"This time I would set a minimum order quantity to be able to meet the supply and demand. Plus I think you might need to expand the factory workforce pretty soon. But we talk when we get to the place."

"Besides, we would set a contractual kind of agreement like the supply of bread. Instead of the main distributor, we target the merchandiser and solely appoint two merchandisers in town. One in the lower marketplace and the other in the upper marketplace."

"Before you ask, I already have their contacts, address and other details. Haha. So... I'm well prepared because I'm not an old man like you haha."

"So when you are about to kick off the production, I could make use of that German guy named Gutenberg to make use of his machine to print text using those lettering blocks stencils."

"It's only 8½ hours to Leeds. At most I would have calluses on my butt cheeks. So imagine yourself, an advertisement and marketing for your items for all the scents. Placing a reservation and cash on delivery when the goods arrive."

"If your alchemist could make like 10 perfumes, 10 Hungary water, 10 essential oils and 10 scented candles, just imagine 15 towns orders 50 for every item and for every scent?"

"How much would your treasury takes in by then? 50 quantity for 4 kinds of items of 10 varieties, that would easily make up 2,000 silvers per town and up to 30,000 silvers for all the 15 towns. That's equivalent to 600 gold coins in a single transaction right?"

"You... I mean... Gracehaven would be brimming with gold coins and wealth. Even if it is not good to count the eggs before the chicken lays them, but its a positive and optimistic approach to get you worked up and get going right?"

I looked at Marcel and took a sip of tea that had gone cold but I loved how it tasted with a scent of screw pine leaves and taste of calamansi extract, making it taste like unique instead.

"Hmm... I love this new refreshing tea. Who made this new concoction of tea? Would this tea taste nicer when chilled?"

"Hahaha. There's already a chilled copper dispensing tun downstairs. You can have them hot or cold, both are downstairs near the standby rooms."

"HAH... Little things I don't even realise it till you mentioned them. Alright, let's head to the grounds." I motioned for Marcel to follow me since Eagle had summoned his engineers.

When we got to the grounds where the shampoo/soap factory was, Eagle and the engineers were around waiting for our arrival. The engineers knew that there would be some new assignments for them soon.

"What can we do for you this time, Your Majesty?" asked one of the engineers with a glint in his eyes.

"There are 3 things that need to be constructed at your own time. This time, there was no hurry because their areas of work could be shared for the time being. We would like to have 3 exact sized factories like the ones you had built and set it along over here."

I explained slowly as I pointed out to the area next to the stables instead of alongside the current factory.

Right now the stable and factory were built along this path so the next 3 factories would be built perpendicular to this path instead. There's no main entrance but side entrances instead."

"Elevated openings near the rafters would be installed to allow proper ventilation. The factories would have the same size and interiors as well for production, holding and elevated staging areas."

"Got it, your Majesty. So we would not have the main sliding door but side entrance instead. So the construction would be as such then." the said engineer took a stick and scratched the ground to show the location of the new factories.

I nodded my acknowledgement as Eagle sauntered over and asked whether I am serious on having 3 factories instead to be built instead of one.

"That's right, Eagle. Right now, we have the 4 shampoos and 4 body soap production going on a single production scale based on 20 workers. Very soon, another line would be introduced to have another 20 workers on it."

"Each line would be producing shampoo and body soap each. But it would all go down on a well-planned diagram soon after Heather had regained her strength and ability to move about the grounds on her own."

"In the near future, this area would be producing products on a huge scale for beauty and cosmetic products. I am sure of it since we have about 3 more new products that would be introduced soon."

If world domination comprises of control over settlements, towns or cities... Our tactics would through their economic structure. What's the use of controlling an area, to feed them but in the end burdening the progress of a growing kingdom or empire?

It had to be counterproductive and only through the control of the economic structures would one able to progress. Gracehaven would be able to garner more land which would be a mile in all 8 directions based on a centre pivotal point of the courtyard. We would then need a cartographer to begin charting the lands properly by this few months.

I explained it to Eagle and he nodded his head. A full one mile by one-mile town is still one square mile all around it. Originally it was based on that but what I had in mind was acquiring land based on 1 mile from the centre point, making the land area to be 4 square miles instead.

That's why an invite was sent to the Marquis and Marchioness dignitaries who were ambassadors from House of Parliament and Administration in London based in Beverley at the moment.

Drumroll.....

It's time for Gracehaven to have inner limits, outer limits as well as external perimeter limits of a fully functioning town. At the moment, we would emphasise on the inner limits that would be made ½ mile all around from the centre point or simply said, a one squared mile town.

I scratch the ground and pointed out that each cluster would be a ½ mile radius and there would be 3 clusters altogether. I drew on the ground and made some calculations as Eagle understood what I mean.

"Are you going to stop at 3 clusters? Would the land acquisition be affordable with the tax that you need to be paying to the King and the Sheriff et cetera?"

"Let me share with you a vision, the centre here would be the trade and commerce sector filled with livestock and crops as well as our domain smack right in the centre. There would be a few more buildings such as a church soon for baptism, marriages as well as a place to preach. Plus there would be a permanent arena for a sporting event that would be twice the size."

"All the current residential lots would be pulled out along with the privy to the second cluster. All around the second cluster would be made up of the same thatched homes or would you prefer a prefabricated wooden or stone double-storey houses?"

"How about the third cluster? Do you have any plans for it?" Eagle asked as the engineers all looked at my simple yet workable drawings on the ground.

"The third cluster would be for the Immigrants. These would be the prefabricated bamboo thatched houses, something like what Darlington used to have, cruck houses, but our houses are of better standard and durability too."

"Same order applies, no livestock or private crop fields within or outside then cluster limits. By a few years time, we would like to see this town to be a city soon. With River Ure running in the middle of it."

"Pretty soon, the clay production areas, bamboo production area and the weaver production areas would have their own proper factory buildings."

"Once the houses and privy relocated to the third cluster, the plot of lands would be turned into crop fields and this would, in turn, be able to feed thousands of citizens soon. As for the current citizens, they would enjoy an upgraded version of the house. By this time we would need a stonemason and I knew of someone here before."

"The Charlton household, the man who used to be a builder and stonemason together with his son in Darlington. He got a daughter, 12 years of age this year in suppose. I guess you still remember him that got picked up near Bedale."

Eagle snapped his fingers and remembered the time when he last visited Darlington where he met with a group of people they had been roaming around the vicinity looking for a town with inhabitants nearby.

"I guessed Your Majesty didn't become too old since becoming a daddy, yeah?" I smiled as I patted Eagle's shoulder as we concluded the plan where the engineers would come up with a draft on paper and ink soon.