Chapter 65 - 12525

Arriving at Zar's throne room with a 4 fingers thick pile of paper was Seer.

Seer placed sheets of paper declaring the King's recruitment request and spent about 200 Gold Coins on several refugees for them to spread the word about the recruitment.

The applyers all met with the King's assistant i  person.

Someone needed to write in their details as most of them couldn't read or write.

That's why the King ordered for Seer to pay people to spread the word by mouth.

It take Seer 3 days to fill all the doc.u.ments, he handled over a hundred people.

"My King. I have gathered up a few requests for employment that your citizens responded too."

"Do you bring me experienced workers old friend?"

"I'm afraid the number of experienced StoneMasons is very low. While the number of experienced in Construction is bigger but more than we needed applied."

"Tell me the overall statistics."

He asked with a sigh holding in temperament as well.

"There are only 5 experiended StoneMasons. 4 of them have under 10 years of experience while one has over 10. 25 years of experience exactly. He was grown with the craft but became a refugee once he fled Gaster Kingdom."

"Gaster Kingdom shall be a project for later.

What about the experienceless?"

"A few applied but not as much as you required. There are only 15 of them.

Perhaps they felt that StoneMasonry was a bit to dangerous considering your offered pay. They will be handling Large Stones after all. We are planning to build a wall here and big house foundations."

Zar sat in patience hearing out the unsuccessful task and after a moment of silence he finally said

"It is indeed a shame that we didn't get 30 of them. But do not Burden Yourself.

These people are just to under qualified.

Do the experienceless StoneMasons show promise?"

"Indeed sire. They come from rough backgrounds. They would work for 30 Gold Coins if they had too. They can not afford losing this job so they will indeed work hard. each of them has a family to raise.

Even some teenagers who just reached a.d.u.l.tery have their families to feed since their fathers are either jobless, dead or incapable."

"If you see such StoneMasons offer them longer work hours so they can earn a bit extra. The same with Construction workers."

As he finished his sentence he after added

"That man with 25 years of experience shall be the leader of the StoneMasons. Even for the ones we already had.

He shall advise the ones with less experience if needed.

With 15 experienced Stone Masons, teaching the Experienceless should be easier.

Assign one experienceless StoneMason to each experienced one since the Numbers are even."

"As you wish sire. How much shall we pay for those who work extra hours?"

"Well they have to work 8 hours a day to get their normal pay.

They will be working every day except Friday each week.

Use that to calculate the amount needed. You are way to qualified to not be able to do basic mathematics."

"Of course sire. I was just curious if the pay for extra hour was more than usual."

"Gold has to be earned. With plans to give away 100 houses, I don't plan to wipe out our entire budget.

However. These 20 new applyers are now working for me, for Pameres Kingdom.

They will be busy until retirement as I do not plan to stop at the second wall being built.

Be sure to store the doc.u.mentations in the castle and be sure each one gives a signature about accepting the job. It doesn't have to be fancy.

Also, I assume you put in the dates of employment as well so we can keep track of the passing months. So we know who we shall give salary raises too."

"Don't burden yourself sire. I have everything under Control.

I just needed your approval of employment. Also I have another question.

10 of the applyers on StoneMasonry including the one with 25 years of experience are Ignites. Considering your recent revolution plans i assume their Salaries should be equal to the ill.u.s.tratios?"

"Indeed. Equality will rule above everything. Statuses will be defined by work experience. Not the colour on their skin, Seer.

Now tell me about the Construction Workers. Did you at least bring me good results about those?"

"Actually I brought more results than I expected and more than we needed."

"Pleases my ears. tell me more…"

"It turns out that a Construction team migrated from Gaster Kingdom here about a half a decade ago.

They have been scraping to survive ever since but all of them have at least 5 years of experience in Building Construction.

Combined with the StoneMasons who can build a Stone foundation for the houses, we will be able to make some good quality houses without paying a fortune to imported workers."

"Well that is news that will turn this over populated hell hole around. I have big plans for Pameres Kingdom and this will aid my plans in a big scale. How many people are in that construction group?"

"35 Sire. They perform gracefully. With their help we can get a little boost in the construction speed, not to forget quality. Which can help us escape an economic collapse since people will enter the houses faster, start working and pay monthly tax.

The rest however are 45 experienceless men. So i suppose that helps the economy as well."

"This plan is coming together quite well even after considering the rough start.

And how much does this impact the Kingdom's monthly income?"

"That's the part that worried me a bit. But considering we earn 12000 from the monthly taxes just from the houses, we are able to escape with minimal monthly income.

The new workers will take 12525 Gold Coins from the monthly budget.

Considering the outer farms of Pameres Kingdom that give us half of their harvest, if people choose to buy the crops straight from the castle instead of merchants, we can make a good ongoing profit. September ended a few days ago after all."

"What about the mines?"

"The mines are a setback. Since we can't sell iron to the Kingdoms which take part in the Kastarian Alliance. We need new big time trade partners.

But considering that we did business with other Kingdoms before, we have 200000 Gold Coins to support your new expenses for a few months.

Our monthly expenses reach almost 25000 when the new expenses are considered. Last month we earned 27000 so we can still make minimal profit from this."

"You earned your big salary my friend. Few can handle so much information without a headache.

But i'm afraid i need to form a new alliance with Gaster Kingdom. Or at least strike some deals."