"Seer. Finally. I haven"t seen you in 2 days!"King Zar has been awaiting for 2 days with the greatest antic.i.p.ation for the new Blacksmiths and Hunters.
His plans were slowly getting together. If he Manages to strike a deal with the Zamerians, he won"t just sell Iron Swords, he can use the opportunity to offer them different items that aren"t iron related. Such as fur and leather they have to spear or even crops.
Zar has more plans of expanding anyway.
"I have what you are looking for sire. But I don"t have decent results.
Also. Don"t you think we rushed this a little bit? You still didn"t strike a deal with the Zamerians."
Said Seer. Seer is definitely over qualified for this sort of job. He has watched King Xakro ill.u.s.tratio lll expand his Kingdom from up close.
Although Xakro is no doubt a madman, he sure knows how to handle a budget.
"I suspect that there weren"t many applyers, that would be the worse case scenario, right?
Regarding the rus.h.i.+ng, you do have a point but our main goal was the port.
Who we sell our Swords too is an easier process. But without the port, we would he sitting ducks."
"That does make sense. But we still will need to cover the expenses before we start earning from this project. You offered every experienceless applyer, 50 Gold Coins.
We have saved up 200,000 Gold Coins so those will prove useful especially now that we need to pay the Blacksmiths 9504 Gold Coins each month. It"s not a small amount."
He paused for a quick breath and added
"Speaking of expenses, using the stones the miners dug out and forming them into a foundation was a brilliant idea. You didn"t have to pay for anything."
"It is brilliant. But setting the foundations is taking to much time i a.s.sume.
Do they seem like they know what they are doing? A foundation has to be all flat. If it isn"t, it can lead to building difficulties or even a collapse!"
Zar wanted this project finished as fast as possible but he doesn"t want to put his Citizens in danger. n.o.body wants to die with planks and nails on their head.
"They Certainly seem to know what they are doing sire. Even the experienceless seem very inspired. They are working overtime as well.
But it is sure taking a lot of time. Without the foundations being built, the Construction Workers, can"t work."
"Well i was worried about that. They have 100 foundations to make but they are only 20 people. Are the Construction Workers at least helping them? I"m not paying them to sit around all day."
"Some of them are offering help yes. A part of them bring more rocks from the mines while a portion have taken over the responsibility to shape the rocks in an approvable manner under the experienced Stonemasons guidance."
Seer was inspired of this scene really. If he wasn"t busy dawn to dusk, he would get dirty with them.
"Very pleasing. Perhaps i should join and help soon as well. How many foundations have they managed to make so far?"
King Zar was pleased of this sight as well. Even considering his status, he wouldn"t mind putting in free work to help speed up the process. Not to mention this would portray a good example for jobless people.
"With the constant help of the Construction Workers, they managed to build 3 foundations in a week.
When the foundation was built, a portion of the Construction workers started building the house while the bigger portion helped the Stonemasons.
Since building the foundations in general was slow, the Construction workers didn"t speed up their work which is generally leading to better results.
I have to say that the houses look nice as well. Rain is for sure not to enter and it blocks most of the cold. That"s how well sealed the houses are."
Since there are 35 experienced workers in Construction, building houses of decent quality is no sweat.
The Construction workers have a decent building plan.
They put thick lumber in four sides of the houses as support beams and using that as direction, they start putting planks horizontally. The lumber/support beam is thick enough to support 3 layers of planks. It consumes a lot of time but there is no rush and it is worth it.
"With such progress, poor immigrants with have houses only the rich can afford. This pleases me a lot. Let it be slow, I doubt that anyone will attack us before the wall is built.
Make sure for everyone who works over time, to be paid.
Your hands are already full, so don"t take it over you as a responsibility to handle all the payments. Hire who you think meets the requirements and pay him or "her" 250 Gold Coins."
Why did he quote "Her" you"ll see.
Certainly certainly. Thank you for your consideration and patience towards the workers Sire."
Said Seer while swallowing his spit. He knew what Zar meant. Seer is a 48 year old man who didn"t get married yet.
He had plans of marriage but the woman he loved, met an unfortunate end.
He didn"t love anyone for years, but recently a woman close to his age has caught his eye.
"Now considering all of that is cleared out. Will you be kind enough to show me the results lover boy?"
Said the King with the clear intention of teasing Seer.
"Certainly. We managed to get 3 Blacksmiths with over 5 years of experience. It isn"t a big number but with their level of expertise, we can teach the experienceless quite decently bit by bit."
"Not the result I was looking for but it is better than nothing!
What about the ones with under 5 years of experience?"
"A rather different number. We got 16 of them.
I didn"t expect this much honestly! I expected 5 at max. The people here are quite experienceless. No offense of course."
"None taken but that"s very decent. What about the experienceless? Did the bonus attract them?"
"When they heard about the 50 Gold Coin bonus, they rushed in the scene. That"s why I have been so busy these days. I interviewed 35 Experienceless men.
That will take a little bit from the budget but nothing we can"t afford!"
"Perfect. Put them in to work right away. We need a s.h.i.+pment ready to show the Zamerians we mean business!
Now tell me about the Hunters!"