C002 Completing The Community Building
1973 Words
I took my sketchpad and wrote:
+-==VACANCIES==-+
3,600x female production workers
Aged 14 and up
1st Shift 645am to 3 pm
2nd Shift 245pm to 11 pm
3rd Shift 1045pm to 7 am
3 workdays, 1 day off
Salary 2 gold coins per month.
36x female cooks and assistants
Ages 30 and up
Single Shift 5 am to 7 pm
3 workdays, 1 day off
Salary 2 gold coins per month
+-==Register Now==-+
I made 4 copies while others watched what I had written. Once I'm done, I gave each one to the passing messengers and told them to announce it to the outermost residents who are unemployed as well as those who had just migrated here. I paid some silvers to all 5 messengers which I had taken from the charity box.
Once they had gotten their services paid, the messengers went about and asked every household in the outermost district who were not working to come and register to be part of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha.
I went to the house and took out 3 lined pads that looked like the modern-day foolscap paper and got my reed pen ready beside me. Each page has about 36 lines and I separate them up with a wooden ruler and made 3 columns that would consist of their names and age.
On the cover, I wrote in bold for each shift so the would-be employees would be assigned to their shifts and would be notified of the commencement date. Since everyone knows each other in the district, I would put an asterisk next to the names of those new immigrants only.
The members of the Wonder 8 looked at me in amazement as I managed to organise my work even through lunch. Once I had set aside the foolscap pad, I continued my lunch and I smirked at them when they looked at me.
Hiko-sama who was sitting beside me tapped my shoulders and poured me a cup of yumeshu and I finished up my lunch and burped in front of them without covering up my mouth. Hahahaha. Damn rude...! I then took a sip of the yumeshu and sighed outwardly.
Since I was assigned back to this body and era in this Leap, might as well put the business back in order and on the fast track...!
I summoned Kayu-San, the head of buildings and constructions as well as the foreman for this humongous project. He came hurriedly as he had just completed his lunch and asked me if I needed anything from him.
"Kayu-San, how was the construction of the houses for the relocation of the residents here to their new place? Could you kindly give us a progress report on that and the usual stuff as well?"
"Ah, Young Master. We have 20 men assigned to each plot of land and had gotten 240 men working in the 12 projects at this moment and also about 120 men working on 4 plot of lands for the new development simultaneously."
"The 240 men working on the relocation plot would complete their work around 3 days time as they would be doing some touch-up works as requested by the relocated residents. Once they had completed the project, the next thing they would do is to demolish the houses, clear the land and make a layout for the 3 warehouses, a quad outhouse, an outdoor seating for the meal area and prep and dirty kitchen."
"Once the workers start their work on the intended plot of land for your restructuring of the expansion, it would take a week or less for the completion. Rest assured, the work would be completed in due time."
"I also need a few buildings to be built on this plot of land... A dojo on this end, a 2 storey conference business building, and a 3 storey community building in this plot of land. This land, however, would be left empty except for the water tower that needs to be shifted. There will be a marked area for a small plantation plot within this area."
I pointed to Kayu-San of the projected area and to leave it blank first as the construction of the warehouse has to be prioritised. He acknowledged and would let me have a look at the blueprints of the intended houses that I want to be constructed for the dojo, conference business and community building.
He excused himself and went back to his projects and ushered the men to work faster since there would be more projects going on after the villas that the replicated residents were constructed.
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Over the course of about ten days, Hiko-sama and I were kept busy by noting down of all the new registration of employees that would be working in the new production lines in the new warehouses.
Once we had the names compiled, even though it wasn't complete to hit the 3600 number of employees required, we managed to split everyone into their respective shifts.
Another 1,188 personnel needs to be filled in as the new immigrants had started to fill in the households and since there are quite alit of vacancies left, there is no worry to have it filled in the following month or so.
At this rate, almost everyone currently in the outermost District was employed by us. The commoners' District had already been sufficiently employed and deployed and were working mostly on the business, trading and marketplace while most were working on their own as individual messengers or in the messengers guild. Within the business, trading and marketplace, an estimated 3,000 of the commoners were employed there.
We had summoned the owner of the supplies responsible for the cauldrons, wrought iron stands, rocket stoves and such. All the operational items needed per production lines were supplied by him and had been paid fully.
The glassmaker and Potter were summoned on separate timings and were told to supply us the required containers for our products. Since the containers were being ordered three-fold now, the two industries were now under our contract in serving us with the quantities required.
The supplier for the spermaceti had already been contracted by us as well and would be supplying us 30 barrels of 50 gallons of the spermaceti to make the Kaori No Kyandoru every month instead of 2 months now. He too was contracted by us to consistently supply the blubber oil.
The miners for iron ores, coal and limestone had jumped from 18 to 72 workers to keep up the supply to produce Refined Steel consistently. Their output alone to the Refined Steel Plates were already 216 gold coins for their salaries and incentives for each handcart load of iron ores remained at 2 gold while limestone and coal remained at 1 gold each. They contributed at least 1 carts of each variety each day.
The supplier for unscented coconut, olive oil, lye mixture and baking soda had also been tripled each day and they too had been directly contracted by us. So their shipment would directly come from the main supplier directly to us.
At a consumption of 500 l****s of unscented coconut and olive oil per day, the 3 warehouses that were producing 29 scents of Karada Soap alone makes the smiles permanently etched on the suppliers face.
The amount above was not included for Hae Shanpu, BodiRoshon, Kurina and Feroa Kurina that uses about 250-300 l****s per day.
All our 36 warehouses were running at 66% rate and the employees were given a day off every 3 days of work. A total of operationally Plant Supervisors and Assistants were working as per normal and had reported to the Plant Managers of any shortfall of supplies and were immediately replenished by the 36 storekeepers.
The current 4 plot of lands were left empty first and we had gone through several designs and were choosing which one that suited them most.
The Plant Managers and some of the Supervisors had chipped in on that they would be expecting for their community building. The first floor would consist of the following RnR rooms such as:
Incense smelling game.
This game consists of a wooden box with burning charcoal in the centre. 4 portions of incense were smelled and burnt, while each player has to guess which is which was burning. A total of 10 incense were served in small containers and its a game for 4 people.
As the incense was infused with Psi Energy Healing Spheres, everyone felt invigorated and refreshed when playing them.
Poem Game of 200 cards.
Everyone would have 10 cards each and out of these 100 cards that had portraits of the writers, they have to match the portraits with the famous phrases and if one does not have the right portrait or phrase has to draw a set of cards each.
The player who has no cards left on hand is the winner. Plays by 4 to 8 people and variants of the game are available.
Picnic set.
A set for 4 or more people where they brought their own potluck and arranges in the picnic set. This setting creates an atmosphere just like modern-day potluck gatherings but was prepared in intricate picnic sets.
Tea ceremony.
A set for 4 or more people. These setting includes special objects and rituals to upkeep the traditional practise of tea ceremony on special days. These tea ceremonies would be held in rooms booked in advanced.
Calligraphy rooms.
A place where one could express their thoughts through writing and drawing using large paintbrushes and pots of black ink on stretched cloth.
Ikebana Rooms
It is a room designed to seat 4 people and they could arrange plants and flowers on vases as part of their past time. They could bring that completed ikebana or put them on display in the community buildings with their name on it.
Outdoor Kyudo
This was Miko's ideas to instil people who are interested in archery to take up the sport. It would be placed at the side of the building and was backed by a high wooden fence so the archers would not shoot their pesky neighbours. 10 archery lanes were introduced with standard bow and a quiver of arrows.
This outdoor kyudo would be placed outside the planned Dojo.
Cross Stitching Rooms
A room fit for 4 people for cross stitching to create artwork to adorn the walls of the community or for their own personal use such as a small Takamura or pillow.
Origami Rooms
Seats 4 people at a time and this quiet and serene room enables a person to create origami using a standard 4inch x 4inch coloured paper. It could be used to decorate the community area as well as their homes.
Wood Carving Room
This room also seats 4 people and they could bring their materials and do some carvings and chipping or whatever they like with their tools.
Silent Reading Room
A collection of books were in place in the general area like a library, they come and choose what they like and sits in the silent reading room to have some peace and quiet while sipping tea.
Massage Rooms
There are 4 rooms each for the male and female masseurs to help tone down tired bodies
Kayu-san sat with us and try to visualise the structure of the 3 storey community building and we ended up having 20 rooms on each floor, while 8 rooms were reserved for masseurs, a small reception table right in front of the main sliding door, and an open-air concept with seating of 6 on the rooftop which they could see the whole town from there.
There would be 10 yatai stalls and 12 sets of seating areas with colourful umbrellas in the middle of the table so they could smoke and dine after they had their activities. The rooms were rental free, while they could support the livelihood of the sellers on the open-air cafe.
The plan for the public community building to be opened 24 hours were very much welcomed by the residents and employees. Kayu-san had 3 sets of papers with him and each paper denotes each floor. The 1st-floor foundation would be made of masonry, while the 2nd and 3rd floor would be of pinewood.
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