Chapter 390 - 200 People are unemployed!

Pameres Kingdom, we all know it as the most assetful Kigdom here in the triangle of Domains. King Zar has managed to build up a tremendous budget accompanied by a strong profit. But one thing he realized throughout his work here is that hiring a mass amount of Workers at the same time, helps.

This idea in his mind was pushed in by his Personal assistant Seer who a few months ago hired 400 people of different crafts and accompanied it by a 40 Gold Coin salary raise, inevitably it became the most profitable idea they had, the Budget just exploded for the better.

Through December, he decided to make a similar investment with the most profitable craft here in Pameres Kingdom, he hired 300 more experienceless Blacksmiths. At first glance it sounds dumb doesn't it? Such an amount is double the Blacksmiths Pameres Kingdom hired after the Revolution started and they can cause disorder.

Well, let gold be their motivation to stay in order. As absolute beginners who barely have any ideas what they are doing, they will be paid 120 Gold Coins a month! Considering how people here used to earn a lot less or nothing at all, this can be considered the entrance to middle class.

Hiring these 300 people will make a tremendous difference in the monthly expenses here in Pameres Pameres Kingdom but it is in all ways worth it! From now on (With an upcoming Salary raise unincluded.) 36,000 more Gold Coins will be taken away from the Budget to pay these Blacksmiths.

Considering the profit they can bring as apprentices, not to mention as experienced, this is a small sacrifice of gold. And furthermore another intend behind this mass employment move is to reduce the unemployment rate as much as possible.

By doing so, he can grow another source of income, of course here we are talking about taxes. With so many people hired and with Salary raises becoming more and more common throughout this developing Budget, it wouldn't leave anyone without food if the monthly home rental tax was raised to a total of 100 Gold Coins per house.

This is a big price for the poorer it takes more than half of the salary, but the poorer can't even be considered poor due to each house brining in at least 2 Salaries in their house, some even bring 3 or 4 while in rare cases they bring 5.

Look, this is a small Kingdom with a tremendously large employment rate, it is as if every member in a house works. Each house brings home somewhere between 250 - 1,000 Gold Coins. The Coin of which these people have piled up over the year has helped them escape their title as poor and homeless people.

Raising the tax to 100 won't damage them, and it definitely won't make them starve especially since they have Gold piled up, and salary raises are common. For a while, the monthly resident rental tax will freeze to 100. For now, it bringing in a stunning income of 40,000 Gold Coins is enough and with new residential projects close to starting, it has chances to bring in even more coins.

With so many Blacksmiths hired and with a hell load of Ore being shipped and sold to Gaster Kingdom, hiring Miners has become inevitable. In this project it is the easiest part I suppose, and it barely tempers with the monthly expenses.

King Zar has hired 20 new Miners which when piled up with the previously hired ones, it sums up a total of 40 Miners. They will help tame the daily requirements of Ore throughout Pameres Kingdom, but they inevitably have to work a little harder.

With the recent 320 Employees hired, and after looking through some charts with Seer it has become rather clear that they are running out of people to hire. Considering that 30% of Pameres Kingdom are either elderlies or children, it doesn't really let King Zar hire all 2,300 people in his Domain.

Having no more people to hire isn't neccesarily a problem since he has developed an amazing Budget which will grow bigger over the months due to a lot of employees still being apprentices.

The biggest problem here is that he will need these 200 remaining unemployed people for the Outposts he plans to build all the way across the Continent, which will force salary raises and income to grow slower.

Nearly 80,000 Gold Coins a month are already put in the Army which sums up a stunning 20-30% of the income, yet still King Zar wants to invest more in it. With so much invested in the Army just for the sake of Safety, Pameres Kingdom will most definitely grow slower.

So now after considering that fact, it makes it clear that he soon will need to ask the other two friendly domains near his, for financial support. As long as this support covers half of the expenses from the men and women sent to the Outpost, Pameres Kingdom will be free to grow a bit quicker.

Apart from that fact, accompanied by a business offer he has sent the King of Lav Kingdom a request to bring in more homeless people if there are any. The 500 homeless people that were sent to Gaster Kingdom helped build a tremendous profit there, and he can only imagine how big the Budget would be if 500 more people lived here in Pameres Kingdom.

Of course, to support more people living in his Domain, Zar would need to order for more houses to be built. And with the hired stonemasons a few months ago this has become easier than ever. All the 300 old houses in inbetween the walls have been renewed and they have already started building a badge of 100 more.

These houses are warmer, better looking and have been built by professionals. But most importantly, each can fit 3-5 people based on preference without the invasion of personal space.

Pameres Kingdom already has 100 houses to spare which are located out of the first walls, located to the west of the Kingdom or most appropriately called the right side of the wall. These houses were built with an intend to sell them, but they proved as a worthy temporary residence for people having their houses renewed in between the first walls.

Now these 100 houses can support 400-500 people, and since all the employees have nothing else to do now after renewing the 300 houses in between the first walls, Zar doesn't see it as a bad idea to have more and more houses built just in case.

At the moment, he has ordered them to build 300 more houses out of the first walls of course and close to the 200 houses built out of the walls, this will allow bringing more people here which will inevitably equal to a bigger income.

King Zar made all of this preparations happen in the midst of December, so now in the midst of January he has recieved a respond towards two topics. Population, and a the new deal offered regarding Blacksmithery.

About the request for population, the King of Lav Kingdom has written. "Please request as much as you can handle, they are flooding bigger domains now for help and no one would want to blow a Budget on people who won't work due to all the job positions being filled. Like last time, I could ship 500 people towards you and I hope they come in handy. Please tell me if you need more people, I can have another 500 shipped to you by next month."

And it looks like the King 1,400 km across the sea didn't fail to deliver these 500 people now in January. They have all arrived here safe, sound and a bit hungry. But King Zar will inevitably use them to grow the Budget, now that the Kingdom has 2,800 people living in it!

They won't be taxed at the moment due to the fact that they have no jobs here for now, but no one remained in the streets of Pameres Kingdom and although 30% of them are elderlies, they can still contribute a tremendous amount.

In the meantime, the Construction Workers and Stonemasons are more than capable of building 100 new houses before the midst of February where King Zar has asked for 500 more people to be delivered here. Considering the quantity of workers that specialize in this area, it will be to their aid.

However, getting to the second letter. With the 300 newly hired Blacksmiths, King Zar gave Lav Kingdom an offer regarding Iron Daggers since they are the easiest to make for an apprentice, and one can make around 16 Daggers a month!

Lav Kingdom's lord responded with. "Buying Daggers would be a bad investment for me at the moment due to the fact that Gaster Kingdom is providing them and that many Domains here make them as well which tends to cut in our income. But I have established a business route with the Continent behind you, Ratan. They claim that they have 40 million people living there, so I don't think they will ever get enough products from you and me. So I will buy your Daggers, but I will ship them there. So you should be quite proud as a ruler, you are indirectly working with Ratan! If your Blacksmiths can manage it, I want to purchase 4,500 Daggers a month for a span of 6 months, this will make your Domain very wealthy."

It would be stupid for King Zar not to accept this deal since the new Blacksmiths can make a few hundred more than that, but at least like this they can fill the orders with a chance to breathe a little bit in between and focus on being precise instead of fast for a while which will inevitably make them become better Blacksmiths one day!

With this new deal made, King Zar decided to push the Kingdom through another salary raise but this time it had lower standards to help the poorer catch up and pay rent easier. By that I mean, he only gave a 30 Gold Coins salary raise to people who earn less than 150 Gold Coins a month instead of people who earn less than 200. This raise won't grasp everyone, but it is at least easier to comprehend profit-wise.

Thanks to it, most of the employees are actually a similar raise away from earning at least 200 Gold Coins a month! Considering that progress, he can focus on giving better salaries to the new badge of 500 Civilians here and plans to maintain the food at half the market price since he can't really sell them how everyone else here does. To do that, each employee here has to earn at least 200 a month, it sounds reasonable.

Getting back to the profit from this new project, since one Dagger costs 30 Gold Coin here, this project will bring 135,000 Gold Coins here in Ignis! Since the transactions will be handled through the port, Gaster Kingdom will take 13,500 Gold Coins from this income as a 10% tax. And Pameres Kingdom will take the rest of the 90% (121,500 Gold Coins.).

This is inevitably the biggest profit yet, and it proves that King Zar was smart to invest on so many Blacksmiths. Now, with all expenses discluded, after February starts Pameres King will earn a ground breaking profit of 151,035 Gold Coins.

A large amount indeed, in fact the biggest ever. And rest assured that these calculations were made after all the salary raises were included, so that won't take anything more from this profit. If King Zar continues towards this route, even Crutal Kingdom with the support of practically two Countries, won't be enough to face Pameres Kingdom and with all the new people brought here who can be hired, only time will show us how rich this wonderful domain will be!