Chapter 136 - The Gr.a.p.e Ale Project(3)

As King Zar was walking out from his personal training room, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his handkerchief and dripping perfume over his body out of a clay bottle to fight of the smell sweat would bring, he saw a sight that he is getting used to. Seer walking towards the throne with a thick pile of doc.u.ments.

"Looks like we got more than we bargained for, Seer."

"Indeed. The word of mouth at first was considerably slow, but it picked up at day 2. Me and Maleesa interviewed 38 Farmers, and filtered out 18 of them choosing the most able bodied ones since the most fragile men and women are already in the Castle. "

Said Seer while browsing the doc.u.ments.

"With Maleesa ha?"

With a lightened mood asked Zar. "These recent events made me forget to ask about your date. How did it go?"

"Well right after the date started, 3 men tried to rob us. 2 were arrested, 1 man died. Heck of a first date."

With Sarcasm Seer explained the situation but it got Zar in rather great shock. So many job opportunities and they still run around trying to rob people? It is a good thing he asked for any employer to not have a criminal record here in Pameres Kingdom. Even if he or she spent 1 hour in the dungeon, they would lack the qualifications.

But hiding that concern he proceeded with another question.

"Did it end there?"

"No no, not at all. I invited her at my house for some tea."

Said Seer already knowing what to expect next.

"Tea? Did you...."

"Hell no. What difference would i make from a predator like that. We exchanged deep emotions and scars. Which rather worker well. We are closer than we ever were."

He said with a sigh expressing love.

"Good for you. When you two are ready for marriage, you can do the ceremony in the castle all expenses paid by me. Just get that lady. She seems nice."

The amount of time and effort Seer contributed to Pameres Kingdom, this is the least Zar could do as a reward.

"Thank you for your constant generosity Sire. But may we get back to business?"

"Certainly!"

"The Farmers we got are perfect for the job, and even though experienceless they won't cause colossal trouble to the productivity rate.

If we plant the Gr.a.p.es today, our lands might make it possible for fruits to be picked at the end of September."

"Well what's stopping you all? Plant them."

"Indeed we will but I gathered some information which will respectfully be the best way to plant these Gr.a.p.es and i need your approval to start with this method."

"Oh did you? Well do tell Seer. I'm open for better ideas."

"Certainly. While buying branches from several people in town who had already planted White Gr.a.p.es in front of their homes, I noticed one key characteristic. The Gr.a.p.e Tree grew long and slim."

Explained Seer while using his arms and hands to better describe what he saw. But Zar saw gr.a.p.e trees for himself before. They aren't as rare as gold.

"So you think that this project will require more space?"

"We can get a profit by planting a 1 mile long and half a mile wide land with these Gr.a.p.es, the profit will even increase next year when these Gr.a.p.es are bigger. But they require at least 10 meters of space before the Gr.a.p.e in front is planted and 5 meters of space on the sides if you don't wish Farmers to trip while carrying crates."

"Hm. That is indeed a lot of space. Being this long, they will be no doubt heavy, so assure that the Construction Workers make very stable support planks."

"I was about to say that as well.

But moving on to the first year profit from this project, 1 tree will be able to provide 2 Crates of Gr.a.p.es.

1 Crate can be hand carried by anyone and it provides enough Gr.a.p.es to make 50 Ale Bottles."

"Seer. Do you realize how many Ale Bottles those are. You heavily miscalculated the overall profit from this project!"

Said Zar with his kind tone turning into an angry one in a heartbeat.

"What do you mean Sire?"

Said Seer with sweat appearing on his forehead.

"I'm not great at calculations. But the profit will be a lot more than 10,000 Ale Bottles. How many Gr.a.p.es can we plant in just one line for a mile, considering the support planks being 10 meters apart?"

"That would be around 160 Gr.a.p.e trees Sire."

"Do you see the issue here?"

"By the 8 sources. You are right. At this case even 200 Farmers won't be enough!"

"I will not tolerate such miscalculation again Seer. We could of lost so much Gr.a.p.es due to being understaffed."

"My apologies Sire. But what should we do now? 1 mile is definitely too long for us to handle at this period of time!"

"If we cut 75% of the planned land for this project, how many Trees will there be planted? I don't want another miscalculation to such big project!"

"Give me a minute to Calculate everything Sire."

Reaching out for many parchments. He started counting, multiplying, dividing for 30 minutes and he even had to triple check everything to avoid miscalculations at any cost necessary. At the end, he came up with a stable result.

"Sire. Around 6,400 Trees, will be planted. This is still an amount we can't manage without at least 100 Workers!"

"Goddamn it. Alright, Plant 500 Trees. This should be very easy since the land doesn't need to be cultivated. We almost made a big mistake here. How many Gr.a.p.e Ales can we make from 500 Trees?"

"Oh that's easy to calculate. 50,000!"

"Perfect. Hire those remaining 18 who applied, try to get 2 more so we will have 40.

Since this project seems to be paying double of what the entire Kingdom earned so far, we can invest more in Farmers. Don't forget to buy what we need for 40,000 more bottles. Thank god i noticed this miscalculation, otherwise we would have faced great losses. Or we could of caused a Bee invasion!"