Reincarnation of Audemars - Who Am I...?

Workforce

"YOU THINK THIS IS A TOY STORE?" I roared once again through the hard cardboard megaphone that I had used during the battles of the party raids in the past series and this time I directed the come directly at the two merchant faces.

I regained my composure just as quickly as I lost them and I said, "OUR products are exclusive and one of its kind. Even if you can find similar products in the market somewhere in town but it's comparable to what you might find inside it."

"The wizard and Ruler of Aermagh acknowledge the value of these products. Just because you carry a huge pouch and containing a large number of credits doesn't mean you can take us as your bloody fools."

"Just you two are working only for yourselves and you do not have mouths to feed. Do you know how much mouths we have to feed for two weeks? You don't have the faintest ideas and you shirk at the ideas of learning from my appointed supervisors here."

"In time to come, they would be Plant Managers and would be running the whole show by themselves. What...? You think it's not possible, is it? We believe in our products and right now we have more than 100 employees working with us to produce these products with the highest quality."

"You two Bastard just offered us 20% out of our prices and you'd be taking the larger sums for your self. It's damn outright greedy little pigs, aren't you? What... Your parents taught you to be this greedy and think about your puny assholes?"

"Huh...? Answer me... Why are you keeping mum after I said this to you? Are you the same offsprings as that yellow-bellied motherfucker that calls himself the Director here, huh?"

"Thinking of oneself instead of others. Might as well I hire travelling merchants on our own and let them do their own advertising, marketing and promotions instead."

"How many people have you manipulated so far in this scheme of yours, huh? Goddammit, you damn dumb fucktards, get out of my face if you are not answering me. I should be running my own travelling merchants, yeah... Thanks to you guys, you've given me a good God damn idea...!!!"

"NOW, GET OUT IF MY FACE AND PROPERTY..." I used the cardboard megaphone once more to holler at them and I think I used it too many times towards them and they had turned temporarily deaf by it.

Patricia, Prius and Rebecca were dumbfounded when I reacted that way and they never knew that the odds the two merchants offered were truly against us. They sat there, clenching their knuckles and gnashed their teeth at being taken as fools.

Yeah, the merchants tried to pay peanuts to get monkeys but in fact, King Kong has emerged before them. They immediately scampered off from the bench and walked hurriedly without excusing themselves and went to their respective caravans and started off.

"Audemars... Err... When did you become this fierce all of a sudden? I was totally shocked by it. Are you going to scold me that way if I made a mistake?" asked Patricia as she was worried that I had some sort of split personality and rage that's uncontrollable.

"It's in my nature to be this fierce, Trish. I have lost a lot of friends along the way and it kept bottled up for the past many series and chapters already. Don't worry, I won't scold you if you made a mistake. All I will do is to bite your pretty, firm cheekbutts instead."

Hearing me wanting to bite her cheekbutts, she blushed because one thing would definitely lead to another after the bite. It is like getting a bite from a werewolf and don't have to wait for the full moon to show if one is inflicted or not. Hah hah hah...

"Prius... I want you to bite my cheekbutts as well. If Audemars can do it, so can you, right? Or get some MR P to work out an appetite. Would you like me to smear some apple sauce or strawberry sauce on it while you bite it?" Rebecca was hinting to Prius about tonight's nocturnal activities that would end up with lots of 'Piak! Piak! Piak! Piak! Piak!'.

The children were bashful when they hear these adults talking about biting cheekbutts like as if they were biting into dumplings. It's already past midnight, children... Don't you all want to go back and sleep?

"Come on... Let's head back. Trish just handles the accounts and keep a record of today's takings. We had worked far too long and we are all tired. These two had taken their dinner but we and the children have not taken theirs. Come on..." I gestured to everyone as we went back to the Great Hall and pushed the trolleys behind us.

Another day and another kind of adventure and people we meet. There are 3 more products that would be introduced into the store by stages and the best model to do the marketing would be Patricia.

She would be wearing the basic foundation makeup, eyeliner and lipstick. Now I have to find another 2 more plants to produce 2 more products and that would nearly complete for a beautiful transformation of a plain Jane to an exciting one.

Presently the name of Beauty World starts to spread far and wide within Ingmery and people started to stream slowly to purchase these products. One way or another, the well being of these citizens were uplifted as they now shower once to thrice a day just to feel and smell nice.

In doing so, the Infirmary and Pharmacy have lesser ailments to attend to as the citizens are getting cleaner each day.

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"Mister Macleod... How nice of you to drop in our Council Chambers again." Angus greeted me as I entered his office and previously he had only a gold chain to support his spectacles and now he had all this bling bling hanging from his neck and around his wrists that made him look like a Thug boss.

"I'm here to get another 2 more farmlands, do you still have any abandoned ones left?" I asked and by looking at the local map on the wall, it seems that I had bought all the empty farmlands.

"Ahem... Let me see... There are no more farmlands but there are these two large abandoned houses that you could take over. I know that you are doing business and sometimes a business needs to expand."

"There are certain risks involved and rules that could be bend until its breaking point. How about if I offer you these 2 abandoned large houses and lot so that you could build your production plant in it."

"The plot size is smaller than the farmlands of course at 18x10 course for a 180 square meters. I'd be willing to let it go at the same price as the farmlands if you may..." Angus spoke and finally concluded his speech as he tries to bend the rules to his own advantage.

Furthermore, getting these new employees to Ingmery also helps the economy and raises the GDP significantly.

"How does 400,000 for each lot and barn of 18x10 to cover the whole area? It would be ready in 24 hours and you could get it to be operational in time to come? Angus offered and I am sure that he would siphon some of the money into his own pocket.

If not how the hell he would afford all those bling-bling and flaunt it in front of his co-worker? It's the Council Chambers and its part of the governmental system.

"300,000 each Mister Angus if you could reduce to that price. Since its a smaller lot, it is pretty hard to get a lot of employees to gather inside. Furthermore, these employees are helping the economy right? Who else pays a salary every 2 weeks?" I implored and hoped to reach some kind of agreement.

Angus took his draft and order form and duplicated the design of the barn that I had ordered before and inserted in the plot number for both abandoned houses. He checked his calculator and at last, he spoke up, "640,000 for both barns and lots, and we will close the deal, Mister Macleod. How does that sound to you?"

"What is a sacrifice of 40k if I could get what I needed to start the operation for another 2 more products and 60 more employees, right?" I thought to myself and I saw everything is in order and then I put down my John Hancock at the agreement form and automatically, once again 640k credits had extricated itself from my funds. I took a peek at my balances and it showed I've got 1,400,000 credits left.

With a total operational of 7 production plants, the workforce had increased to 220 including those from the HQ and it would take 154k monthly just to pay their salaries per month since I had increased their base salary to 700 credits per month.

Earning credits and spending them is like turning on a tap and watch the water flows down the sinkhole. Well, at this moment, let's see how I would be able to survive on my remaining credits without going through the hack from the help of those Fusion Chambers from the Realm of Mind.