243 6.37 First Unsuccessful Bid.

The lady boss of the cosmetic arrived and bowed and greeted me and was welcomed by Hiko-sama. She smiled at me and I saw it was pearlescent white and not the last time I had seen. "You have beautiful teeth, Boss...!" I remarked and she was surprised that I called her boss. She told me to call her by her instead and of course, she was still single despite her age.

"Please don't call me boss, Your Excellency... Just call me Shu Uemura instead. Thank you for taking the time to invite me to meet you. Why don't you stay at the Castle with His Majesty like the rest of the nobles?"

"Hahahahaha. First thing, don't call me as 'Your Excellency', I'd prefer 'Yours Truly' instead. I am not born as a noble and I am here just like Sensei, Uemura-san."

"Furthermore, I'd prefer to be here close to my people. Just because I was promoted as Mayor and Governor of Fukushima, I'd blow up my head and look down on those who helped build this Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha?"

"That's so humble of you, Yours Truly. I never expected someone so young to be so mature. And call me Shu by my first name. It'll be alright by me, is that right, Hiko?"

Hiko-sama that was sitting across her looked sheepishly and I think I saw him blush a bit. In Wikipedia and Fandom, Hiko Seijuro is a person that would avoid such situation at all cost and have no intention to meddle in such trivial matters like falling in love or being socially involved with the opposite sex.

But in this series, however... he turned out to be totally different in many ways except for the way he wears his clothes and his drinking manner, which doesn't even make him drunk. And now he got his hots for the lady boss.

"Hahahahaha...it seems months before I knew of your name, Uemura-san... It is not good for me to call someone who is older than me by their names, even if I'm a Mayor or Governor. It is disrespectful. By the way, I summoned you here because I want to find out certain things from you and your industry."

"Sure...what is it that you wish to seek my advice for?"

"Do you carry any other cosmetic and beauty products besides ours like lipstick, makeup kit and so on?"

"In fact I do, Yours Truly. They were all named after me and I had a full range of products. I have rogue, which you called lipstick, foundation, blushers, eyeliners, except for nail polish. I find it a hassle to find the right ingredients and also the right storage bottles."

"The process to make one would also be less profitable to be placed under the Shu Uemura cosmetic line. Why do you ask, Yours Truly? You intend to produce your own range?"

"Well, since there's a competitor, it's best to leave you with the monopoly. But since you do not make the nail polish range, I would like to monopolise on that. I use to dabble with it before, there was something called 'Hard as Nails'. Basically, once the polish is being applied, the fingernails won't be easily chipped at all."

"Never heard of it before... But I would be glad to purchase those if its readily available." Shu Uemura explained. But after some time, I decided not to increase any more range of products and decided to shelf it first.

We've got 36 warehouses running at 80% capacity right now, a jump of 5% since the last count. Right now, with just that we had a weekly sales income of 12-25 million gold coins now with the total production of Refined Steel and the whole range of cosmetics, beauty and food products.

With an output of at least 5000-8000 items per warehouse every 24 hours, we would be able to support the demand from orders and repeat orders through the whole of Japan. The initial purchases made from the merchants were of small orders, for example, the Karada Soap.

It costs 1 gold coin each and each soap has 29 variants. A first time order was 50 pieces per scent and its already 1450 pieces of soap. The soap dish bowl also cost 1 gold coins. Just these alone had raked in 2900 gold pieces per merchant.

The 4 Execom had entertained at least 30-45 merchants per day for 5 days and this figure per week would be about 185 merchants altogether. With a minimum order based on the Karada Soap and porcelain dish bowl, it's likely a 2900x185=536,500 gold coin. If we multiply 15 ranges of products, the figures would skyrocket to 8 million gold coins per week.

This figure excludes the purchase of Refine Steel Plates that makes a huge contribution of at least 300,000-500,000 pieces a week and easily rakes in 6-10 million gold coins.

Our weekly generated sales are between 12-25 million gold coins and our monthly operational costs, fixed and variable costs only sums up to only 15% to what we make each month.

So adding one more product line and 3 warehouses would not make much of a difference but would easily add another 450 new employees, 6 cooks, 10 male employees, 18 supervisors and 18 supervisor assistants. That's easily around 500 more employees or 1500 additional gold coins.

Money is not an issue anymore but the relocation of these residents would be another matter altogether. Of course, offering new land and building their house for free is another matter. Hmm... Need to find 2 more products that I had shelved so we could build another 9 more warehouses. Hehehehe.

We have only 1 food product and 1 male hair pomade so far. I would like to make another product soon, based on Srikaya that I had made back when I've got nothing much to do at home in my past life before.

My last product... Ewww... It is really hard thinking about foods when it comes to this. Since we have pinaatsubata spread and soon the Srikaya spread, why not add more spreads then, to eat with thick sliced bread and filled dumplings? Make it affordable like the pinaatsubata and everyone can have them.

"Alright Uemura-san, we have decided to go ahead with our project of making our line of nail polish. Sensei could help me out on certain things regarding nail polish.

I excused myself to the toilet and when I was relieving myself and steal a smoke from one of the offscreen crew... Hahahhaha. I had a brainstorm as I peed. Yeah... My XO Sauce that I had made in the Philippines before and sells for PHP15 for 300 ml before. Why I never think of that? Hahahahahah. Its gonna be a companion to wasabi and can be eaten with rice and ramen too.

"Woohoo....!!" I shouted in joy. After I had done peeing like a little boy, I washed my hands and brought my sketchpad along with me and joined them. Seeing them talking happily, I mentioned to Shu Uemura, I mentioned that we would embark on the mail polish project and other things.

I excused myself and sat at the employees' meal area and wrote my ideas on a blank piece of the sketch pad. This would be made into a killing soon. With 4 New products, Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha is really heading into the food business and one new cosmetic line.

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I called Izumi and she immediately joined me and sitting in my lap and starts hugging and kissing me. "Not now, Izumi... Not in this chapter." and she blushed and changed her position and sat across me. Hahahahaha