Chapter 391 - Tourists

Bale Town, we all know this place as the little Farming town that used to have Ignites only, a town that goT rich thanks to the cave found near it. The town is rich, and the employees there have attained middle class since they don't make any expenses. Yet again with the smallest salary being 90 Gold Coins and the biggest being 150, it never really is a bad idea to declare another Salary raise here.

The raise will be 20 Gold Coins now that January started, however people who earn more than 150 Gold Coins won't be getting a raise. Raising salaries here where sources of income are scarce opens up new opportunities, such as finally being able to sell food even if it is by half the market price. However they are far from monetizing food here.

Giving a salary raise here isn't neccesarily the hardest thing to do considering the fact that there aren't over a thousand employees here like in Pameres Kingdom. This salary raise by 20, which alone isn't a small amount for a salary, doesn't really make much of an impact at a c.u.mulative point of view, the monthly expenses have made a 4k gold coin gap only.

However, getting to different topics. With ten tons of coal being shipped to Zameria each month, it isn't exactly the hardest to outsource every Section of this expansive cave, or best called every discovered Section.

They are currently down at the fifth section, mining out every mineral they can. However this Section will only be enough to fill in January's order and a quarter of it can be used to fill in the order in February as well. Short said, they need more Sections to mine if they wish to earn 42,500 Gold Coins from the Coal alone.

In the middle of the fifth section, there is a little drop that leads to another bigger place, most appropriately named as the sixth Section! Bill, the wise and chart oriented is exploring this section to determine how much they can mine out of it. Such research regarding quantity is important because it can show the town if they need to move in to the seventh section (There is one thankfully). Or work at the sixth one only.

"Interesting..." Bill murmured to himself, as two more Miners stood close to him, waiting so he can write everything down. It is always better to explore caves and tunnels together just in case of a collapse.

"Well this portion of the Section should get us about 4 tons of Coal, a hundred Kilos of Iron as well." He spoke out loud, which raised the enthusiasm between these Miners because this inevitably means that there is more material to mine, they can keep their salaries. "Let's move on to this tunnel." He pointed to his right.

This Section is rather complex to put in to word, a drawing would represent it best because it would be a visual representation. Well hey, at least Bill knows what he is doing right?

After an hour or two of exploring, getting a good view of the Coal and other minerals, Bill was able to determine a heavily accurate assumption regarding how much this cave has to offer. He is even considering that deposits of Coal might or might not stretch, which is helping him get a proper number.

"Looks like this Section has anywhere between 11.5 to 13.5 tons of Coal here. There is Iron too, but we would be lucky if we get 500 Kilos out of it. It's not like we need it desperately, so it is a good bonus." Now making the hardest yet easiest assumption, which are the rocks. He stated. "Mining the Coal will get us around 20 tons of Coal as an outcome, that is if we bother to mine it. Yes, this Section is definitely profitable."

The five meter drop which allows access in to the sixth section makes transporting material a bit easier. All they had to do was build a small staircase before time which didn't really ruin the flow, they didn't have to wait in order to work in the Sixth Section.

But what we consider as the end of this winding section, there is a 20 meter drop which leads to the seventh section. Which means that the Miners have to start there in order to reduce the height by mining out the Materials, once mining that small portion, the Construction Workers with the aid of some extra hands, can make a Tower which will likely be 15 meters high.

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A rather interesting letter, something that no one in Ignis ever expected, has arrived to Bale Town from the Zamerians. The richer from there, have heard a lot about the Mines of Bale Town who rarely failed to fill in a big order.

These richer people are not offering to buy any coal, but are offering a handsome amount of Gold to come here and just look at the mines in amazement, just to look at how the process goes here. The Zamerians call this fancy work, as "Tourism."

It is a perfect way to establish a new income since there won't be any expenses over it since the Zamerians come with their own sh.i.p.s and they are willing to pay a thousand Gold Coins per person!

Zameria holds 3 million people and over half of the population can afford to give a thousand gold coins for a vacation, for luxury. So this inevitably means that several if not over ten people, will come here in Bale Town as Tourists.

If everything goes well and the Zamerians return home satisfied, this can bring more gold over the passing months. Gaster Kingdom owns a port, so according to a basic deal, they will earn the 10% of this income. It isn't neccesarily a big deal since it opens up this business opportunity to begin with and there are no expenses here.

If Bale Town agrees of course, these Tourists will be here in the midst of February!