Chapter 349 - Productivity Theory

One thing that has saved Seer's behind as well as the whole Kingdom come to think of it, is the fact that a main profit of 64,000 Gold Coins has been established. More precisely, the Zamerians have accepted the Iron Shield mass production offer, but have shifted it to another domain since Lav Kingdom can only afford so much at once. Either way, it is making all of them very wealthy.

Now, this main income alone can only cover 1/3 of the monthly expenses, but when combined with all the other sources of profit including the new Boar Leather Clothing deal which brings in a profit of 42,000 Gold Coins, the Kingdom managed to finally build up a tremendous profit.

The profit, after all of the expenses paid off, is 42,628 Gold Coins! The move of hiring 400 people was indeed great, because it opened doors towards other opportunities such as the ability to increase the food prices to market value.

Based on what they have earned before ever since starting the evolution, the profit they make now is record breaking even though the profit from sold food has just met a 20% shift upwards. This points out that people tend to buy less when prices rise, or at least buy more responsibly. Either way, it didn't really damage the profit.

Now they will need this current profit to be ongoing at least for a few months, they need to build up a budget. At the start of the Revolution the Kingdom only had 200k on the budget to start new projects, it isn't a small sum but compared to how much the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance has under its possession, it isn't a lot.

Come to think of it, BaleTown currently has more Gold in the Budget even if they don't even have half of the assets of which Pameres Kingdom has. All combined, this triangle of Domains only has a total of around 1.1 million Gold Coins all together. It can't really oppose the Alliance, just Crutal Kingdom can out compete it now when they are practically recovering from an economic nightmare.

What does all of this lead down too? Well it is a clear sign that Pameres Kingdom primarily needs a bigger budget, meaning they need to pile up more sacks of gold. Because with more gold on the Castle saved up, they can afford it if a future business move possibly fails.

Sure Seer pulled it off this time, but if he didn't the Budget wouldn't be able to maintain the expenses for more than 4 months, it would have gone flat bankrupt.

Apart from being able to manage business deals in the future better, a larger budget can be dependent upon if sudden military expenses have to be executed. Military expenses haven't given the Budget a good brake as you know!

40,000 of it is spend in the army in a monthly basis and a huge sum of money was given to buy Ballistas and Catapults, not to mention all of the Compensations given to the families for losing family members in the last battle, specifically losing Guards.

It is easy to understand that after all of those expenses made to keep this Revolution alive, the Pameres Kingdom Budget needs a break, to prepare against any misfortune that might be thrown upon the Kingdom.

At the moment, there are 340,000 Gold Coins saves up in the Pameres Kingdom treasury room, better specified that is their budget at the moment. To cut possible future bankruptcy or invasions chances in half, they need to save up at least 1 million Gold Coins.

As for keeping the Revolution alive, they need to have at least 600k. Be it for emergency military expenses or be it for major business deals, 600k would be a sum they can easily depend on.

Short said, Pameres Kingdom along with the entire revolution need at least a year to prepare against anything that might be thrown against them. In a span of a year, at this pace the triangle of Domains would have over 3 million Gold Coins all piled together, if something doesn't go wrong.

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Back on to some lighter matters, therapy sessions. Throughout the span of a few weeks, with a hell load of gold thrown on rumour spreaders and with direct orders from the King in some aspects, the Therapy Building has found itself dealing with not one or two but over 40 people.

Some people were sad, some depressed, some just solely dismotivated and some just wanted to taste this luxury, after it was made clear that only the richer can afford it in other domains.

The smart lady in charge, miss Tedradia has managed to find at least a handful of people who show behaviour that signifies that something is bothering them mentally. Anger and stress were the two most common traits.

Upon talking it out with those stressed men, under the order of the King to cooperate if Tedradia asks them too, she managed to find one mutual reason behind many sources of stress, the working hours are too long!

Blacksmiths have it the most difficult, due to the fact that they have large deliveries to tackle, even with the second team of Blacksmiths established, their working hours are never under 10.

This can be a big problem, because apart from the fact that it makes people feel like over used tools, it will harm the production rate and is possibly stopping people from unleashing their true potential.

Originally, more working hours should equal to more products, right? Well, what would you say if I told you that during those working hours people tend to become slow, and often loose focus? It indeed messes with the production rate, big time. We aren't talking about 5% here, but far greater.

After hearing out many of these men, with the help of the three assistants she hired and pays under the limited budget of 2,000 Gold Coins. She decided to deliver this word back to the King, to see what measures he would take. I mean, most of the employees don't even have a day off.

Hearing it out, and obviously noticing that the complains are too numerous to ignore, King Zar had to take action upon it. With sentiment taking place strongly at such affairs, he has an idea in mind. A public speech.

He noticed his own productivity change with the aid of therapy, he wonders how much it would change if people had more time to relax.

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In mid day, at the very centre of the town where now all employees are on a break, he ordered for all of them to be gathered around... Hundreds of people all in one place and even unemployed civilians gathering around to see what all of the commotion is about, this can work for the best as well since they can be future employees here.

After banging on some bells to keep everyone quiet, continuously hitting the bells until some order can be attained. The King finally had the opportunity to give his speech.

"My people, my hard workers. I have gathered you all around here today in order to bring you some news which most of you may like." He started it off, grabbing their attention and with suspense they all kept quiet.

"It has come to my realization that most of you have been over worked, all of you gave in big contributions to this Kingdom, if it wasn't for all of the work you have put in then we would have never come to where we are now... Independent, wealthier if not rich but now there is only one goal to attain, we have to be happier." He was yelling enough for everyone to hear him, although half of them might have missed what he said. No matter, eventually the word will be spread to all. This here is just a political gesture.

Using the silence to his advantage he continued, "The Therapy Building is open to anyone, and I highly recommend to try it if you don't feel like yourself. I have personally tried it and miss Tedradia is amazing." Him as a King honouring Miss Tedradia, furthermore him as a King indirectly admitting that he had mental problems? Rather large indeed, but thankfully it was welcomed with a large nice cheer.

Taking nearly a minute to calm the masses down, he continued with his main point of being here. "Each and everyone one of you will get a day off in Wednesday and Sunday, meaning at those two days you won't have to work." In aims of using this silence to his advantage he quickly got the final point. "Furthermore, working hours for everyone here have been reduced to 9 hours."

Afterwards a loud joyful cheer broke out in the crowd, and this time it didn't seem like they had a sign of stopping. But it isn't a problem, he said what he had to say and once more won the hearts and loyalty over the masses.

Tedradia was on the little stage around with him, a stage built under an hour with the help of the much gifted construction workers. It only is a 4 meter wide and long platform, fancy in a sort of way but it can also be taken down quickly.

He walked towards her, and with a depending mindset he told her. "Let's hope your theory of productivity works to our advantage, if not we can kiss the 42k profit Goodbye."