Year 7446, Month 7, Day 6A short while after we descended from the outer crater of Baldukk we took a break for lunch.
All of the newly purchased slaves ate as if they were devouring them.
"Hey, don"t hurry and slowly eat it. There"s still some left."
"Oh, was the mustard too strong? Sorry about that. I"ll give you a new one."
John and Terry have already built up enough stamina that this level of march is nothing and they"re wearing rubber sandals so they were helping Giberuti make hotdogs and preparing the beans for tea.
He must have given it his best to carefully draw it.
We already guessed that moving would take some time that"s why I was thinking of having everyone ride the pa.s.senger carriage but including Zulu all of my slaves said, "The start is crucial" so we did it this way.
All of the brats are worn out.
Both of them were covered in sweat and their hands were dirty as well. They must have been counting the inventory.
The corners of the store are already filled with luggage and boxes ready for the move so I thought it would be troublesome if they couldn"t fit.
Rather than Bakuddo there"s a lot more cheaper things in the capital after all.
I don"t think even our house dealt with this much money before we started the rubber business.
It should have been about the same for Myun as well.
It"s something like a bonus for the squire family that goes to the capital every two years and limited to just a measure for a squire family from Bakuddo to be employed by Greed Company.
Putting aside Cathy that way Basutoral can relax as well.
"I see now..If you put it that way then, I guess so. Their master is no one other than Al-sama after all."
Luke said it made sense and nodded as well.
"For a short while, have someone eat meals together with the slaves. I don"t mind if you take the cost of the meals out as an expense. But, it"s not like they"re going to be living together with me after all...It"s necessary for them to learn how to use money...Starting tomorrow all the way until next week give each of them 500, no, 600 Z a day. The week after that make it 4,000 Z per week. If there"s anyone who uses up all of it then it"s fine to give them 1,000 Z but on the next week subtract 1,000 Z. Starting next month I guess it"s fine to pay weekly as well..Well, I guess it is. I"m leaving it to you."
"Yes, please leave it to me. I"ll hand it over to the Donneoru family when they come at the end of the month as well."
A 20,000 Z monthly salary huh? Honestly when it comes to living in Rombertia then including meals it"s barely enough.
Even if I say that"s no good I"m sure Cathy would pay out of her own pocket to feed them so I"m not going to forbid it.
On the contrary it should be fine if I just tell Cathy to ignore it as long as it doesn"t get too bad.
However, Miduchi whispered something to the dark elf receptionists and was allowed through to the back right away.
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Right away, we decided to bring along the slaves to the factory.
In a hurry we setup the mincer just as Basutoral instructed. The factory already had desks, buckets, and a large smoker prepared. After that all we need is the stove magic tool, magic stones, pork, spices and ingredients and we can start operations right away. I intend to go to the magic tool shop Splendor tomorrow to buy the stove magic tool.
I really wanted to go today but I didn"t know what size would be needed so it was necessary to take measurements.
Zulu and Angela were a great help doing the work of trying to setup the heavy mincer in the sweltering heat. I"m really glad I brought them along. Basutoral and Giberuti were making difficult faces while looking at the layout of the factory and discussing something. Cathy was giving a simple explanation to the slaves of what they"ll be doing. Miduchi and I were holding strings and tying knots to measure things under Basutoral and Giberuti"s instructions.
While doing those sorts of things it started to get dark out. It"s impossible if we don"t turn on some lights soon but let alone lighting magic tools we still hadn"t bought any lamps.
After throwing their change of clothes and few belongings into there, we all went out for dinner.
We entered a random restaurant and got some meals.
The price was around 300 Z per person a decent amount.
Tomorrow we"ll go to buy daily necessities for them. Each person gets three changes of clothes. Underwear is one weeks worth of six pairs.
We returned John and Terry to the factory but it"s summer and they get private rooms, so I told them to endure with just a towel until we can buy beds tomorrow.
Year 7446, Month 7, Day 7
Today is Tanabata.
The change of clothes and underwear, daily necessitates, I left to Miduchi and Cathy, I went to buy the remaining stove and after setting that up went to buy a huge pot.
We"re going to be buying from a total of six dealers. The spices and such was plenty dealing with just one specialized dealer.
We"re also negotiating to increase the amount of kazotto(a.n.a.logue cheese) as well.
It was necessary to lower our heads to get them to sell as much as they can.
If it"s this stock amount then we probably can"t make very much, I wonder if it will become a popular product with a premium feel?
Also we gained the prospect of stocking up on catgut from livestock while negotiating for the other stuff.
Everything that had a fixed price and could be paid like the inn fees I paid for three months ahead and already finished negotiations on the meat and other ingredients that will be paid for whenever they"re delivered to the head office of the company.
In reality I wanted to return to Baldukk today but it was impossible.
Tomorrow we"ll quickly return and then we need to buy the required materials for making the teleport room on the 8th floor into a base.
At that time I need to report that we cleared the 8th floor and started advancing into the 9th floor as well.
However, something like that will end in a single day.
Just in case brother and the others intend to stay in the capital for about two weeks to help out with transferring over the positions and such but..there"s a lot of stuff that is no good if I"m not around after all~
Here is a time to hold out.