Chapter 356 - Biggest income ever

Yeast! Do you like it? Well if you can cook then you probably know this ingredient, Commonly used on bread but now we are going to continue what was planted on Volume 3, literally!

On Volume 3, 500 roots of Black Gr.a.p.es have been planted a bit away from the right walls of the Kingdom, come to think of it the second wall will even be built over that farm.

What does it have to do with yeast you might ask? Well it is one of the ingredients required to make Gr.a.p.e Ale. Apart from that, it also requires Wheat Grain. But thanks to the continues import of Wheat Grain in the Kingdom coming from the Zamerians, covering that part of the ingredient was the easiest task.

The yeast on the other hand, since a kilo of it sells for 10 Gold Coins and considering the fact that 2,000 Kilos of it were required to perfectly tackle the large quantities of Ale they will make in a span of a month, 20,000 Gold Coins were spent on yeast alone.

40 Farmers were hired in the beginning, when this Gr.a.p.e Ale project was thought of and brought in to motion, they expected the trees to give their fruits on late September but instead they were ready in the middle of October.

Clay Bottles became an issue in the very beginning, because they had to buy them in mass quantities and each bottle costs 2 Gold Coins. This meant that the bottles alone would cut in the profit big time, but thankfully King Zar came up with a rather smart solution.

The idea was based on one fact, that after the Farmers planted the 500 roots, they would literally have to wait around until the harvest season because the work in between it was extremely minimalistic yet there are 40 employed.

So, the solution became to make the Farmers become Clay Sculptors, specifically they had to sculpt empty Ale Bottles. This move, saved a lot of profit especially since half of the Clay was used from the local farms here, while the rest was shipped from the Zamerians.

In the beginning, being the experienceless workers they are, getting a few badges shaped badly or mildly good was inevitable. But after 20-50 Bottles formed, they managed to perfect their techniques.

Considering the required Bottles(50,000) to be made in a span of 7 months, they were fairly at least 10 workers under staffed. Tackling the whole order in this span, was fairly difficult. Even if they did manage, the bottles wouldn't have a good quality.

So as a solution, King Zar requested for each individual to make 150 Bottles a month each, it sounds good enough individually but when multiplied by 40 it equals to 6,000 Bottles made. Hell, even if they sold the bottles without the Ale, they would have made a good profit.

When we multiply the above mentioned amount with 7, they are still 8,000 Bottles short. But since it would be practically impossible to fill 50,000 Bottles in one month, they have time to make the other ones while the gr.a.p.es are in the process of brewing, or best called sugar extraction.

The work they have to do might sound expansive, but their pay isn't the worst either for people who got a job without a single day of experience. They started it off with a salary of 100 Gold Coins and now earn 140 due to the 40 Gold Coin increase made possibly by Seer and Maleesa as an aid too.

As you might have figured it out, this yield will fish out an estimated 50,000 Bottles of Gr.a.p.e Ale. But you might be wondering about the math behind it.

Well since this is the first year of production, meaning the roots were planted 7 months ago and grown quickly due to 14-16 hours of sunlight a day, the yield didn't neccesarily reach full potential.

For example, the roots aren't full grown just yet. So at every individual Gr.a.p.e Tree, two small crates can be harvested. Each Crate isn't really heavy and can be lifted by a child. But when you do the maths, 100 Gr.a.p.e Ale Bottles can be extracted from these two crates.

When we multiply that by 500 trees, it neccesarily adds up to 50,000! The math is quite simple, although the work expansive and tricky.

How can it be tricky you might ask? Well since there are 500 Trees planted, it neccesarily means that they need a lot of Ale brewing Kits in order to prevent Gr.a.p.es from going rotten.

To handle such a brewing task in a span of a month, 200 brewing kits had to be installed before time and placed near the farm or best described near the walls.

One of these brewing kits fit 5 Crates of Black Gr.a.p.es each, when we multiply that by 200 it equals to 1,000. Neccesarily, it covers all of the estimated Crates from this Harvest.

Management was a little issue due to the fact that even though they are 40 people, they are still under staffed. There are clay bottles to be made, gr.a.p.es to be harvested and brewing kits to be managed.

30 Farmers are currently harvesting, 10 are managing the Brewing Kits and as for the 8,000 Clay Bottles they have to make, there is no complete rush with it because even the Zamerians can't order 50,000 Bottles of Ale and sound logical doing it. Gr.a.p.e Ale Bottles take at least a year to go bad, their only problem now is making sure that the Gr.a.p.es are harvested and brewed in time, preferably under a month.

Now, the part that you might be most interested in, I know I am. The profits! How much Profit can they make from all of this? Well if they managed to sell all 50,000 Ale Bottles in a month or two, they would earn a total estimated income of 400,000 Gold Coins since a bottle of Ale costs 8 Gold Coins.

Truly a tremendous boost in the Economy if it was possible, but at the same time it can't be possible because no one in Ignis or beyond would buy 50,000 Gr.a.p.e Ale Bottles in a month but when spread for 10 months as an example, the monthly income would be 40,000 Gold Coins! After all Ale takes time to go bad so it is highly possible, their only issue is harvesting and brewing everything in time.

As for where they would sell all of this Ale in a year if not 10 months, The Zamerians for a start have made a order lasting 6 months. Throughout each month, Pameres Kingdom is to send 3,500 Ale Bottles.

Apparently they will split it between three domains there, as both profit and pleasure best put in to word. Regardless of what they do with it, King Zar wouldn't even bother to care as long as the Gold is delivered.

Like in other projects, this order will last 6 months only since the Zamerians want to test how good Pameres Kingdom is with this task. If they succeed to impress, next year's order can be bigger. For now, they can enjoy the monthly income of 28,000 Gold Coins from the Zamerians alone.

The word about the gr.a.p.e Ale production has reached Gaster Kingdom and BaleTown with a letter, naturally both wanted to taste this middle class product and they can both fairly afford it, but the word went the most wild here locally. It could be the second biggest income from the Gr.a.p.e Ale project.

Let us start with BaleTown, their population is around 300 people (With the Pameres Kingdom Platoon included.) So they can't order as much as the Zamerians, they don't need drunkards and they don't need the budget majorly involved to it either.

So they made a year around order, which is good in a way since the income would last for a year, but this income might not be the largest from this project. They order 300 Bottles, it could be considered as one for each but there are people who don't drink, half of which are children. I suppose these people aren't too attached to Ale, so they won't be drinking 30 Bottles a month.

This isn't the biggest profit of the project, but hey who would give you 2,400 Gold Coins these days? That's 10 salaries here at Occidentis Ignis.

Moving on to Gaster Kingdom, they have met a recent population boost. Since they have 830 people there, and Ale being commonly uncommon, they have ordered 500 Bottles each month. However, this order will last only for 6 months.

King Michael doesn't want to blow too much Budget on it, and wants to see how they sell with the price being 10 Gold Coins so they make some type of profit from this, they will likely sell fast though.

Either way, Pameres Kingdom will earn 4,000 Gold Coins from this third most profitable source from the project, now moving on to the second most profitable. It might already been made clear, the local income.

In Pameres Kingdom, once the first few badges were made they ended up being sold in a short period of time at a break of November, basically sold in two days.

Now this is just the start and the sales will reduce, but to sum it up with an estimated 800 Bottles sold here year around, the title has been earned as the second greatest income from this Gr.a.p.e Ale Project.

Like everything else here recently, the Ale is sold at the Market price, 8 Gold Coins per bottle. When all calculated, it sums up to around 6,400 Gold Coins a month!

When these 4 Sources of income are all combined, they calculate to 40,800 Gold Coins. A bit more than they expected, and until May an estimated 30,000 Bottles will be sold. Hey, that's a bit more than half in half the time. But if the Zamerians don't make another order after 6 months, around 25,000 Bottles of Ale can remain unsold!

With all of those specifications aside, how much will this Gr.a.p.e Ale Project aid the Budget? Well, the monthly profit (Not to be confused with Monthly income.) has bounced to a bit over 78,000 Gold Coins each month!

Tremendous profit isn't it? This will definitely aid on building up a big dependable Budget, they have to do a hell load of work if they are to be indomitable from the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance, but this is indeed a big boost. Quite frankly this is the biggest profit they ever got ever since the Revolution has started.