215 6.9 Improvements Around Kitakata

After we had settled the shopping spree in the trading areas for the usage of the Tanuki to make their stay comfortable, we headed back to our home. Its been quite a while since we had entered the trading district at night.

From the distance, after we had passed the trading district, we can see the skeletal frameworks of the 3 storey community hall building that was underway. It was a towering silhouette that looms from the residential district that represents our landmark.

We had made proposals for the extension of the yatai service to our community buildings and they agree since they don't need to push their yatai much anymore to ply their trade to their customers. Now they could be at one place and operate on themselves or other representatives from their family members around the clock.

Aircrewman or affectionally known as ACM will be able to forge new business ties and spread the influence of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha throughout Japan, using the willing Tanuki as part of the floating gourd as our latest mode of transport.

We passed the items needed by the Tanuki and they gladly accepted it. When we arrived the Wonder 8 took their leave while Riko showed the Tanuki their temporary holding area while waiting for their new home to be ready.

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Over the period of several days, we had received quite a number of responses from the cosmetic shops that we had not contacted them and they hailed from Aizuwakamatsu, Yonezawa, Shibata and Tochigi, Yamagata, Miyagi, Gunma, Saitama and Ibaraki Prefecture.

The total number of 225 cosmetics shop owners would be arriving in stages over the next few days and we were ecstatic over the overwhelming responses that we had. Even if our ACM would account to only 15 and all from Kitakata, we won't mind it because of the travelling distance between one Prefecture would only take about slightly 5 hours.

Shouldn't be too shabby in adding our value-added service to our customers. Furthermore, since this would be their first trip, we have to set aside several logbooks just for cosmetics for these prefectures.

We wondered what kind of overwhelming responses we could get from these cosmetic shop owners since we had not been attracting them with our products much especially the new ones that we had recently begun manufacturing.

We sat down in the garden after informing the Tanukis of the meal timings and so on, as right now there was not much for them to do except to wait for the customers to acquire their air freight services. It would be a revolutionary way of travelling now, thanks for the Tanuki.

"Come join me for a cup, kid. We have made tremendous advancement in this business and I didn't know you would be able to think so far ahead of everyone. If not for Hachi and Hoshi-sama, we would be able to achieve this feat."

"Yup, sure... Thanks for the offer. It happened on our first expedition. Hachi didn't mention to us that he could transport us easily to our destination and we were in the door and made 5 stops altogether. After the first encounter with the turtle Youkai, then did he mention about transforming into a floating yellow gourd to reach to our second destination and then head back thereafter."

"When I was just sitting and thinking how to get the merchants to travel back safely and quickly, I remembered about Hachi, that's why I summoned them both. Luckily there is a family of Tanuki that lives here in Fukushima, and if one exists here, then there might be several around in Japan too."

"We let these first 15 to become the first pioneering air freight transports, once the other Tanuki saw, we might as well pooled them in as Fukushima being our base of operations."

"I agree, kid. It's one of the fastest modes of transport if you asked me. You don't need to follow the trail, you just made a beeline directly from point A to point B. With an accompanying Youkai Taijiya that is under our payroll, at least the Tanuki would feel safe and avoid encountering other hostile Youkai."

"Uh-huh... That's right. At least we have such a huge deposit account and it's not being channelled anywhere. By the way, how much have we achieved so far?"

Hiko-sama took out the corporate deposit book and when I saw at the end of the entry, I was in for a shock of my life. If this is in dollars, we had already been millionaires and the total was more than 16,000,000 gold coins altogether...!!! Just within a span of 4 months coming to 5, we had hit that much of a savings and achievement...!!!

I handed the corporate accounts book back to Hiko-sama and my hands shook a little. I didn't realise that we had managed to accumulate so much wealth before and was thinking it was like 4,000,000 or something. But the figure came above 400%...no wonder the Emperor was very pleased and could pass down the Decree without many hoots.

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"We had so much in the corporate accounts already? Waaaahhh... I thought we had a little over 4 million gold coins by now... But I never expected that we had gained so much already... There's no need for us to save this much right now... 16 million gold coins... This would make the entire residential districts to be able to upgraded...!"

I was thinking that it would be High time to upgrade the residents' lives for those who lived in the outermost districts. At least better-living conditions would have better health benefits too.

No sense at all having so much money since we won't be able to finish that wealth even if we splurge it for ourselves. My God... 16 million gold coins... No wonder the smile on the Mayor was from ear to ear... Hahahaha.

I sat down with Hiko-sama and from he findings from his sketchpad we had hit slightly over 75% Operational status for all the production lines. Just about 1250 more new employees to fit into all the 36 warehouses for the 3 shifts would bring about 100% of the operational status.

I checked that the average salary on the employee's had now had reached 6 golds and 7 silvers across the board with the occasional 3 extra gold coins as their quarterly bonus despite those new or present employees.

"Let us walk the grounds with me, Sensei. I need to check on somethings first."

"Sure, kid. I think I can envision what you had in your mind right now. But I just bring my sketchpad along with me then."

As we walked along with the residential cluster that made up of 12 layers of the district. Each innermost District would have at least 45 plots per layer and it made up of approximately 540 households for the families of the militia, Imperialist and so on.

The next cluster was the commoners and they made up of 18 layers and about 60 plots per layer. That itself made up of 1080 households. Majority of them had been properly employed and their houses ain't too shabby as well.

Their houses were part masonry and the top half would be of wood panelling and painted over to give each and every house a burst of vibrant colours. It was like one of the towns I had visited in my time where they hung umbrellas of multitude colours all over the streets.

Next after the commoners' houses were the so-called plebs housing. There was a total of 30 layers and each layer consisted of 135 houses that comprise of an average of 3 households per dwelling. These alone had 4050 houses for the outermost dwellings.

The new lots that had been marked out for the future development of the outermost districts had come up to about additional 8 layers of 135 more houses per layer. This means 1080 more houses and approximately 3240 more new residents.

By the end of the construction, there should be a surge of a total of 5300 more residents and that would bring in the population of almost 16,000 residents in Kitakata Town.

Not bad... Not bad at all... I looked at the ground and found that once visitors enter from the southern gates, they would have difficulty travelling to our corporation due to the wet, muddy grounds before they reached the commoners District that were gravelled.

I noticed that the path that was leading from the southern gate right to our corporation was a single line path that would fit 2 carriages side by side. It was about 5-6 meters wide and the distance would be like600-700 meters from the corporation to the southern gates.

I reached down and took a handful of mud in my hands. "Sensei, can this be made into bricks with some added ingredients to make it stronger?"

"You got to be kidding me, kid. This is worthless mud or dirt, how could you turn this into bricks? Bricks are made from cut stones or masonry... What do you have in mind, kid?"

I searched my memories on the way they made the walkway path in some of the tourist attractions and found that it was made of concrete and then a shaping mould was placed on it to give it a distinctive look.

No, that's not what I wanted. I searched again my memories and I fondled the mud in my hands together with some straws when I suddenly find the solution.