Chapter 185 - No Gender Restrictions!

To get the Staircase construction started, Gustav Iron had to assign around 20 unemployed men as an aid on other tasks, in order to spare some professionals for this one. A 10 meter tall Staircase would be too risky to be trusted primarily on the Experienceless. People will walk up and down these Stairs for months to years depending on how big this cave actually is, it could be predicted more accurately after searching down deeper sections.

So instead he trusted the responsibility on 5 Construction Workers that came from Pameres Kingdom, they are quite experienced and can for sure be reliable for such a potentially dangerous task. Apart from the 5, he also put 2 of the newly hired apprentices. Best described, experienceless (On this Craft.) men from BaleTown. But compared to the 20 Farmers who have no experience at all in Construction, they can prove a bit more useful. The Farmers are doing these tasks just temporarily after all.

A portion(3) of the 20 temporarily hired, were put in the Staircase Construction team. It isn't a big team Quantity-Wise but with proper guidance they can prove quite useful along with the two apprentices. Since the entire Construction team has around 5 projects to work on, it wouldn't be considered fair to put half of the experienced in one project and let the other 5 fare with Guiding around 20 experienceless. This has to be done because without the Staircase, this Mine is quite useless.

The newly established team of Miners however, they will need to work on the first Section of the Cave for now and Mine out whatever amount of Coal they can. This Section doesn't nearly have enough Coal to compare it with the second, but they can still fill a few Crates before the Staircase is built. In fact they might be done way before, since there are 5 Miners assigned. These 5 will work here until the entire Coal here is completely depleted, their positions here aren't exactly temporary or short lasting either. They can make a fortune under a couple of years if Gustav Iron decides to impactfully raise their salaries.

If the Miners are done with the first section before the Staircase is built, they have to lend a hand in order to speed up the process. They won't be hammering nails or using any Construction tools in general, but they can lend a hand with carrying the Planks, it would inevitably speed up the Construction. The Salary for the Miners will be 45 Gold Coins. Gustav told them not to worry about the first month's salary too much, because once they manage to get a regular buyer, all of the salaries will increase regardless of Craft. With the amount they will be able to Mine out of the Second Section, the Salaries may remain handsomely high for a long time (For other Crafts.) even after the Mine depletes.

Building the Staircase however, will be astoundingly difficult because of two main reasons. The drop is ten meters deep, and the Cave is mostly made out of Rock and Coal. They won't be able to bash a thick piece of Lumber through dirt in order to make a good firm foundation, they can't push Lumber against the Cave Ceiling either. That's just playing stupid, basically asking to be burried alive. That's why Gustav trusted the most experienced with such a complex project.

Getting back to the Miners. They will finally be able to put in some work, since the Town officially has 6 Blacksmiths now with an official Forge constructed too, they were able to make a few Pickaxes. 4 to be exact! In a single day. Not enough to equip every Miner but its still better than working with one pickaxe or worst yet, working with none.

The Miner without a Pickaxe can either lend a hand on carrying the Crates that fit 50 Kilograms of Coal so the Miners can just concentrate on mining. Or he could lend a hand to the Construction Workers. There are countless ways to be productive with so many projects going on thanks to the adjustments the newly arrived Governing team made.

He will need to know where to put his time in the first day only, as for tomorrow there will already be 4 more Pickaxes ready. He doesn't have to worry about that and it will be even better for the team to have 3 spare pickaxes. This plan is slowly building together into a financial masterpiece.

Another request that Gustav made from the Blacksmiths, is a solution to the Cave's lack of illumination problem. He asked for Iron Torch handles! A bit confusing to describe, but not quite! Their main purpose is to hold a Burning Chunk of Coal. This way, the handles will sure be reusable unlike Wooden handles.

A rather interesting Tool, economic too. With Lumber being in high demand thanks to the many active construction projects, Iron is a great expensive substitute. Because once a Chunk of Coal burns out on the handle, a Miner can simply replace it with another and Ignite it. It's as simple as that and can be used dozens of times while a wooden stick can only be used once, in rare cases twice.

"You've got the entire town on their feet with these Projects. I'm Impressed, you certainly look like you know what you're doing." Complimented Guard Commander Delrus Aze as they left the sight of Crate Construction, aiming to go to the Guard's building and sip on some fine quality hot black tea. He continued with another genuine compliment. "Putting Women to do the Crate Construction is simply raw genius. They seem very perceptive and careful with their steps of Construction even though they are complete beginners. I wish that new Guards were anything like that! They are a hassle."

"Thanks. I honestly thought that more authorities would disagree, then I remembered that I'm part of the authorities." It was a busy day okay, he forgot about that fact completely. He was so focused on helping this town that he actually forgot such an important fact, he didn't seem to have shame on expressing it though. "Considering some traditional ways, I thought about the men who would easily disagree for Women to work on such tasks, a few women elderly disagreed as well." But it looks like he got the situation quite under control, when reasoning didn't work he used fear instead without getting hostile that is. With a wide smirk on his face he continued. "Then I reminded them that they won't let old traditions (Work-wise.) get in the way, the town agreed to the Contract after all." It's not like he wants to put these people in uncomfortable positions, the Town needs everyone to contribute if they are to achieve an impactful progress.

"That's very smart, it's the only way to convince the older generations. You didn't give them a negative strike did you?" Such a threat should be used as a last resort in a bluffing manner even, they still need to go on with this Contract after all. Especially for Gustav who will get 5% of the monthly income. Money didn't matter until now and it still doesn't for him, but it isn't bad either to make a few thousand each month as a side profit.

"Of course I didn't. Why would I want to break this Contract considering how much of an impact it can make against the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance? I'm not dumb." That's at least one personal benefit from this entire project! Well it can't be considered entirely personal. 350 people in this Town hate the ill.u.s.trarian Alliance, even ill.u.s.tratios. Not to mention the two other Domains!

"Your hate against the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance is deep rooted my friend, normally I would advise against using this Town to aid our beliefs, but this Town hates the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance as well. They would gladly help King Zar and his revolution by adding their own contribution." Thankfully Delrus Aze shares the same thoughts, he stood in solitude with King Zar ever since the start of the Revolution.

"That's my point. With the Coal mine to our aid, we will able to impact three domains for the better, corruption isn't our intend of course but selling our Coal to Pameres Kingdom and Gaster Kingdom will massively increase Iron tool production, the Coal King Zar has is imported from Zameria as much as I've been told." A great idea from Gustav Iron no doubt, but here it wouldn't prove much effective since he isn't well aware of the two Domain's sources.

"Some of it is, he has discounts from the Zamerians plus the Mines there provide half of the required Coal as well. We won't be able to sell anything at Pameres Kingdom, I'm not sure about Gaster Kingdom though." They would need to find different Buyers no doubt, but it wouldn't be too difficult considering the amount of Coal they can mine out.