Chapter 326 - A thousand people are unemployed!

As they were casually just sitting in the dinning room, King Zar eating a piece of the delicious Striped Marlin meat brought on his plate thanks to the special deal with Gaster Kingdom, along with 5 boiled Chicken Eggs set on the middle of the table for anyone to grab.

His personal assistant, Seer seems a bit troubled. Slicing a piece of bread with the silver knife on his hand afterwards just lightly nibbling on it, he decided to speak. "I think Pameres Kingdom is doing great but we just aren't getting enough profit."

That at least explains what has been troubling him, odd at the same time since Pameres Kingdom remains as the most powerful in the triangle of Domains. Swallowing his bite, King Zar answered. "You have a point there, but also don't."

The answer came in a bit rough and Seer felt like he accidentally offended the King's capabilities of ruling a Kingdom, so he tried to ask for more detail to determine if he should apologise or not. "What do you mean Sire?"

"I think I know what he means." Added Maleesa, sitting along in the dinning room here along with the King and his husband, carrying a rather abnormally big stomach with her. (Abnormal compared with the rest of her body shape at least.).

"Please enlighten us Misses Delegate." King Zar answered with aims of teasing, because now that these two love birds are married, she has taken Seer's last name with her.

"Gladly." She smiled and ate a whole boiled egg at once, "I think the King means that we are getting enough profit considering that 20 thousand are being spent on the Army."

"Excellent." The King slightly yelled, although still trying to mess around.

Maleesa is 5 months pregnant, they are expecting a baby in December and the father is of course Seer. Thanks to that reason and due to the fact that it has become overwhelming, the King hired 10 Official coin counters to prepare salaries but at the same time placed more Guards there so theft wouldn't be possible.

These Coin Counters were hired a bit late but at the same pace just in time because their 200 Gold Coin salaries will be earned along with Migraines. Because, "I understand that fact, but my point here is that there just aren't enough employees who bring actual profit."

Trying to explain his point better, seeing that he grabbed the King's total attention. He added, "Don't get me wrong, the Kingdom is stronger and more beautiful than ever. But if it wasn't for the recent tailoring, furniture and Wagon making business, our Budget would eventually fall flat."

To give a final blow to his point here which might ruin the King's appetite, he explained. "We have monthly expenses of 63 thousand Gold Coins! We could use more employees that bring in more profit."

"Yes but at the same time thanks to all the businesses we still earn a profit of 37 thousand." King Zar insisted, explaining the key point here. The recent businesses have been really working over time.

"Indeed, that is great. But I have registered many complains by the people, even the experienced men and women feel like their salaries are too low to cover the costs of living." This explains another key part.

"What are you getting at Seer, you are giving mixed signals here. First you say that we don't have enough profit now you want to lower the profit." It indeed became confusing, since Seer has countless thoughts going through his mind at once.

"I recommend a 40 Gold Coin salary raise for anyone who earns under 200 Gold Coins." Such a bite is hard to swallow alone, but to make it harder he made another recommendation. "I also recommend to hire 400 more people."

Finally, the King almost started choking on his dinner. Beating his chest like a primate, he cleared his throat by dropping the food on Seer's mint tea. With his eyes in tears due to the fact that he almost choked, he answered. "Do you realise how risky that is for our budget?

"I do! But in other terms this is the perfect time to take risks." Knowing that Seer mostly brought great ideas, the King decided to listen out towards what he has to say.

"The gr.a.p.e Ale project will bring us a big profit, we have developed good relations with the Zamerians. On top of that, we can easily convince our people here to pick up a craft if there are better salaries under topic." Finally finishing it off with a smirk, he added. "Hiring 400 people will double if not triple our profits. There are 1,000 unemployed people."

Able to think a bit more straight now thanks to the fact that she ate an unholy amount of food, Maleesa decided to back him up not because he is her husband, but because she handles every doc.u.mentation about Employees and knows what she is talking about. "We have around 500 Employees, yet our profit is 37 thousand regardless of half of the Employees not bringing in actual profit. Imagine if 200 more of those bring profit!"

"You both have great points here, but do we have enough budget to handle it?" King Zar exclaimed, worrying about the most important part here. If the budget went flat, the Kingdom would be doomed towards failure.

"It will eat up a lot of our Budget at first, but we have 2 domains at our support if things get too rough. But if we succeed, a 70 thousand gold coin profit would be estimated." Explained Maleesa, she is the best here when it comes to terms of hiring employees. Plus she takes in all the profit brought from external sources.

"I'll leave it all up to you two, numbers aren't my speciality. From now I'd like you to focus on Stonemasons, they don't bring profit but they bring protection and comfort."King Zar explained with a headache already developing, grabbing his plate and just casually walking out of the room so he can go to his personal training room he added before he left.

"I have complete trust in you two, don't let me down."

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After dinner, the debate of employees took place. Because first things first there has been many newcomers in various crafts who have escaped their titles as apprentices and have become experienced. They deserve two salary raises. One of which comes with the advancement in the craft and the other comes with the 40 Gold Coin raise.

This will be hard, because they will need to rewrite doc.u.ments from scratch and at the same time pick out which type of employees to hire. The raises must be put in as mandatory, because they will build up hype before offering jobs. It will only result better.

"I think we should hire 150 Stonemasoms as a start." Maleesa exclaimed. Making even Seer feel scared of this business risk.

"Isn't that a bit too much? What will they do when the second wall is built?" He tried to reason, and furthermore explained. "Striping them out of their title by firing them will effect the Castle badly."

"Stonemasons will always be required Seer. The wall won't be built in a day and the King wants to build hundreds more housing, housing requires a proper stone foundation as much as you told me." Ain't seer a man of conversation? He talked about Stonemasonry in some of their dates.

"You do have a point, but it still looks a bit extensive." 150, apart from being a nightmare to pay them all they would require guidance so they don't make a mess of the new constructions.

"It is, but if there isn't any work to do. They can be sent to other domains, this will only help Pameres Kingdom be stronger." Fair to say, they both carry great points.

"Alright, we will hire 150. Let's just hope it turns out how you think it will." Getting back to a point he wanted to talk about.

Seer added. "About protection, I feel like we should hire a hundred more normal Guards. We have enough Ballistaguards and Catapult operators but we still have too little ordinary Guards, that Army would have squashed us if it wasn't for those large men and women." He finished it off with a little burp, he ate his food in a hurry so they can debate this Maleesa's office.

"We already spent 20 thousand a month in the Army, would it be wise to spend more?" Twenty thousand is indeed a lot, it eats up most of the income they get from the Iron Swords.

"It is, because we can't be vulnerable now that we are richer than ever. If Pameres Kingdom falls, so does Gaster Kingdom and BaleTown." A revolution they worked so hard on, just poof. Gone?It would be worse than a bear attack nightmare. "With gender restrictions gone for any craft or work, we have the opportunity to progress faster than we ever did."

"Alright. Fair point." Maleesa finally gave in and afterwards wanted to determine another business venture. "What do you think about hiring 80 Blacksmiths?"

With a firm reaction, he came to like this idea but didn't like one thing about it. The complexity. "Agreeable, but how about we call this the second team of Blacksmiths?"

"How come?" Maleesa felt puzzled as she raised one of her eyebrows.

"It is just getting too confusing, plus we can use them to handle other orders that aren't Iron Swords. It will only bring us more profit, although we have to squeeze in experienced Blacksmiths within them for half a year if not more."

Complimenting her husband's words, she replied with. "How about a experienced Blacksmith for every group of ten? It is affordable."

"Splendid!" Yelled out Seer, glad that their ideas finally cooperated and he reached out of her forehead, granting her a kiss.

"Thanks dear." Maleesa answered with a little blush. With the rest already easy to figure out since they can only hire 100 more people, she added. "How about we hire 10 more tailors and 10 more miners?" With certainty she explained. "Both demands are getting extensive."

"Agreeable. And speaking about demands, wood is heavily required. Our stock is near 0 and winter is close. How about we hire 50 more Lumberjacks?" Wood has been known as the most important item on mankind, it is used on a lot of things regardless of the purpose.

The ideas are getting extensive clearly, but at least these are two people the King can heavily depend on. And considering how they started it, the old business ideas will increase in profit and the new ones with bring in more profit. Only time will tell to determine the value of this risk!