Quantum Leap Vol. 7 Fausto japan KabushikiGaisha

C015 Over Friendly After Seeing Our Bank Account Statements. Greedy Pig...!!!

1 load of coal was provided to the 'aunties' to be used as the main fuel for cooking and used wood only for kindling and four of the rocket stoves had a small bellow attached so that the coals would be constantly heated up to prepare their meals faster as they had to prepare meals for 200 hungry mouths to feed.

Our STM had been delivered constantly in 4 of the aforementioned towns and orders had been trickling in too, since word of mouth had reached on its usefulness and the price that they need to pay for each month was dirt cheap and affordable.

We extended the services only in Kitakata by providing 24 months instalment scheme to the commoners and 36 months instalment scheme for the outermost District since 200 families had been fully employed and lives had been improving. Their living conditions and statuses had improved tremendously, and the outermost condition could be regarded as close to a commoner.

We had prepared a basket full of gifts that comprises of several Karada Soaps, Hae Shanpu, Kurin, Feroa Kurina, Porcelain Soap Dishes, Kaori No Kyandoru and Hamigachiko and a small tassel with bells and a small tag that stated: "Longevity and Progress forged through Trust and Friendship". This basket of gifts would be presented by Hiko-sama, the 4 ambassadors and I and it was meant for the Mayor of the Town.

It had been about 10 days since the Confrontation had ensued at our courtyard and I assured the guys it's better to make friends with our common enemies so that they would hesitate on taking any actions against us and we could also be aware of their intended heinous actions towards us.

We walked through the trading district and was seen by the lady boss of the Cosmetic shop and was struck by the idea of making a basket gift like us for good wishers. She says she would exclude the washing powders but instead include in a mix and match range of products for baby showers, anniversaries and other occasions. She thought that it was a very ideal and innovative way of the quicker distribution of the products.

We laughed at her since she would also be following our example that could improve her sales as well as ours. We then proceed towards the grounds of the castle in the sky. Hahaha.

We were stopped by the guards, and the announcement of our arrival was made to the Mayor. We were frisked by the guards to ensure we do not carry any concealed weapons and the basket of gifts was scanned by a handheld metal detector. Nope, that part was made up by the stupid Mr Director.

We were ushered by the guards and the moment we were in the reception hall, we bowed deeply and the Mayor jumped down from his Rosewood High Back Armchair that had two dragons adorned as the arms rest and quickly welcomed the 6 of us. His attitude towards us was not a bit hostile and we were treated as his kind. He walked to us and ushered us to his secret chamber where he had most of his fun after hours and being entertained by a few working ladies

He served us tea and sat down among us like drinking buddies as we presented the basket of gifts to him. He was excited because there are a few scents of Karada Soap that was not in the collection of his 24 toilet and bathrooms in his castle.

I wondered why these people have so many toilets for. Maybe s**t and pee in different toilets or each toilet and bathrooms represent the days of the month or plays hide and seek with his working ladies. I don't know.

I had been to a castle before and the damn taps, cistern handles, doorknobs were made of gold. Even the ashtray, and whatever was made from stainless steel were made of gold.

Damn that Sultan of Brunei whose descendants were Pirates of the Sea. I'm not joking. And the resident of the Floating Village, I tell you... The women there adorned gold bracelets from their wrists right up till their elbows. If one lady falls into the sea, that's it, man... She'd sink like a bloody rock!

We exchanged small chat and after our tea, we decided to leave because the Mayor's mouth is full of shut and had not been properly cleaned by using toothpaste.

Now that we knew about oral hygiene, a sight uncleaned teeth and wafts of bad breath that smelled like a donkey's butt hole would simply put us off. Hahahahaha. Have you ever smelled a donkey's butt hole before? Yeah... That's how it smelled!

As we walked me joked about bad breath as Kami made an impression of him pouting his lips and slithering his tongue out for a kiss that made us shriek in uncontrollable laughter that had us in stitches as we made our way back.

"That Mayor looked over-friendly to us compared to the first time I saw him. I wonder what made him have a chance if the attitude towards us. It is not that I don't like it but then it was like a sudden change we had never expected."

"Kid... I think he asked the Head Treasurer of our corporate account status, that's why. Imagine fortnight deposits of over a million gold coins, who would not be delighted to see them?"

"At most, what we deposited in a month would be equivalent to revenue of 6 months to a year based on the richest man in Forbes or Fortune Magazine."

"We even topped off Microsoft giant as well as Mark Zuckerberg. Furthermore what we had deposited had not been withdrawn at all and we keep making slips of deposit into it. "

Mr Director changed the script again to confuse the readers whether we are in the Edo period or the present time!

"Well, let's go back and have lunch first while we discussed the plans that I had in mind for setting up an exchange post for Aizuwakamatsu, Yonezawa and Shibata."

"Whatever you had in your head of yours had always been good. Let's discuss over lunch then. I wondered what the 'aunties' had prepared for us this time."

We reached our garden and sat down while we were being served tea and some steamed mini dumplings with sweetmeats inside.

Since we had a large amount of float cash, we had made an extensive range of ingredients to satisfy our palate and we made a point that everyone can put in their suggestion for lunch and dinner in our suggestion box so the 'aunties' could draw a lot and made them for the whole big family.

Another 2 female kitchen assistants and 2 dishwashers were added to ease the workload and the kitchen staffs were very delighted at the addition of manpower.

Over lunch, I made this proposal with the rest of the so-called 'Executive Committee' or ExeCom as now we would be referred from now on.

"We need to expand and create a more conducive and improvements for our method of delivering the goods such as cosmetics and beauty products, Refined Iron and the STM."

"I was thinking of hiring 8 apprentices from each of the 3 towns so that they could be able to assist in the deliveries of the items instead of depending solely on our delivery boys. I was also thinking of setting 2 outposts each in between the routes and employ 2 guards each for a 1st and 2nd 8-hour duties."

"Let me know what you guys think."

"Explain to us in detail for the 24 apprentices from the town. What their roles and duties and how it would make our deliveries safer and increases productivity?"

"Alright, the 24 apprentices would be here to learn how to fix the STM in case its assembly becomes loose when it reached the customers' place. Also once they had passed the training module, the next is perform a relay of wagons as well as the order list for each wagon."

"If our delivery boys had 7 full wagons, they would meet halfway with 7 empty wagons and make the exchange and the empty wagons would be brought back here for the preparations of the next shipment in the next day."

"This cuts down the process by more than half and our guys could have enough rest. As for the 8 apprentices, once they have made the exchange, their job is to meet the sales lady and perform a transaction as well as handling the accounts. By this time there won't be any exchange if money except for transaction slips which the blacksmiths and cosmetics had prepared beforehand. As for the STM, the amount would be settled by the bank direct."

"All execom members are to fully instruct and guide the sales lady on what to do. Once the slips had been collected in the day, it would then be sent by postal service directly to us on same-day delivery."

"A record for all the daily transactions has to be made according. We don't have to worry much about the daily issuance of deposit slips from the Treasury, except for the payments of the fortnight sales."

"As for the guards at the outpost, we need to ensure that the passage is safe for us as well as other merchants. Further methods would be implemented for Tochigi Prefecture as a service for the community."

"Since there are currently plans for the two outposts, Kitakata would provide 12 guards itself while the other towns would provide 4 each."

"I need someone to find out how much is an outpost guards salary and pass the information for me soonest possible."

Kami volunteered to ask from the northern gate and find that different classes of guards were paid differently. For a melee guard, it would cost slightly higher than a ranged guard good with bows and arrows and occasionally melee situations.

"Hmm, in that's the case, we will employ and deploy 3 guards instead. 2 ranged and 1 melee which means our town would provide 18 such guards while the others would provide 6 EACH. Thank you for your speedy response, Kami-San!"

The thought on building the outpost and employing and deploying the guards was great. And we were even discussing of extending 4 outposts between towns and deploying 3 guards each and form a patrol unit from our town to the 1st outpost, relieve the men from their post and headed to the 2nd one and this continues.

So every two hours there would be a change of guards and a total of 18 guards per trade out is needed and making it 54 foot soldiers as they would be referred to now and a 3 cavalry soldiers that would move from one end of the route to another. And then they would rest for 3 hours and proceed back to Kitakata for another 3 hours rest.

"The more the merrier. Foot soldiers, both ranged and melee would be paid at 4 gold per month and the cavalrymen would be paid at 6 since they would be competent at both ranged and melee and they would be working daily and the 6 good coins also involved the maintenance of the horse, such as fuel, engine oil, gear oil and the change of horseshoes in case it got worn out."

The horses I knew that need such maintenance was Ferrari. Damn this Mr Director for having such thoughts.

I arranged for Hiko-sama to make a certain withdrawal from our corporate accounts that we now no longer handles gold coins and need them for our monthly needs and leave the balances in the treasury to ends with zeros behind it.

I showed Hiko-sama what I meant and he understood fully. This withdrawal method would be taken out once every mid-month on the 14th or 15th. So every month there would be floating cash of about 4,000+ gold coins for salaries, fixed and variable costs.