Chapter 29
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Followed by his new guards James decided to move towards the advertising board to show a posting about his school he will be opening; ideally, he needed to get the word out in as short a time as possible. After listing the ad, he paid several people to spread the information as much as they could. He needed his school opening to be a big success to spread his name as far as possible.
After he had done all he could to advertise his school James went to fulfil his promise of getting new weapons for these mercenaries, James had long since prepared weapons for whatever guards he was going to have so he had steel swords arranged.
He had also been able to have his employees make three crossbows in their time between making spears. The ranged mercenaries were very interested in this crossbow, but they decided only to take two of them and still leave one man with a bow, for that James pulled out a recurve bow his carpenters had made. James just had one of these, so they decided the most experienced archer of the group should have it to use it to its maximum potential. Naturally, all of his designs had already been patented long ago.
There was something that had been bothering James about his whole production line, and that was he had skilled apprentices preparing the steel for themselves, this was wasting a massive amount of resources over all of his smiths. To remedy this, he decided to purchase a warehouse-like building on the outskirts of the city that he had managed to find. For this building, he hired a large number of healthy men from the lower district to work in it, most of the work had low skills requirements, and all they needed was decent stamina to use the bellows.
He had managed to set up a production plant that was capable of outputting enough steel to fit all of his needs daily and begin to stockpile some for his later projects. He would now be able to finish all of his spears within a few days let alone a week; he had reached a new level of efficiency. James had been stockpiling the spears so far, and after he made the change to the steel production, he found his stockpile filling exponentially faster.
He had gone from around 25 to 45 spears from each smithy daily; he had nearly doubled his output which was amazing for one small change to the production line. The best part about his steel production was that the salaries for labourers were quite cheap and averaged around 3 Leones a month.
James was offering 4 for his workers, so he immediately filled all of his empty slots for workers, and if he found that any of his men weren't up to par, he could immediately fire them and have someone fill the role within the next hour.
With the increased work rate it should be just over three days for him to get all of the necessary spears made, ready to ship out to the nobles.
Now that he was sure he could easily have all of the spears ready James was left with no immediate plans, there was something James wanted to do that he didn't realise would come so soon, and that was controlling all of the blacksmiths and carpenters in the entire outer district. He decided that if there were anything that would increase his status it would be managing the leading suppliers of a lot of things needed by the kingdom such as weapons, armour and other necessities, also the furniture and tools made by them were things that would be required by everyone.
James had initially decided to wait to find a large building that suited his needs, but instead, he chose to just directly buy a large area of small buildings from Fletcher, all of these buildings together would be the first significant change James made to the structure to the outer district. He had decided to create a new area he called the Artisans quarter.
Each small building he bought had cost him on average 75 Leones, and he had bought 40 of them, he had spent 30 Cedi to purchase these buildings, it then took about 50 Leones in costs to outfit each one for its respective trade. This cost him another 20 Cedi to do, in his mind, it was all worth it for his possible profits.
There was one final purchase James had made, and that was for the largest tallest building he could find in the outer districts. For this building he had to pay 50 Cedi which was the same cost as 40 other buildings and their refurbishment altogether; the price was astounding. All of this had been for one reason, and that was his next plan to control the market of the outer district — a general store.
At the moment there was no central area to go to buy everything you would like, you would have to go to each store to get whatever you needed. This general store would draw in most customers from every store just for the ease of being able to locate everything in one place directly saving them hours of travel time between all the shops in the city.
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Followed by his new guards James decided to move towards the advertising board to show a posting about his school he will be opening; ideally, he needed to get the word out in as short a time as possible. After listing the ad, he paid several people to spread the information as much as they could. He needed his school opening to be a big success to spread his name as far as possible.
After he had done all he could to advertise his school James went to fulfil his promise of getting new weapons for these mercenaries, James had long since prepared weapons for whatever guards he was going to have so he had steel swords arranged.
He had also been able to have his employees make three crossbows in their time between making spears. The ranged mercenaries were very interested in this crossbow, but they decided only to take two of them and still leave one man with a bow, for that James pulled out a recurve bow his carpenters had made. James just had one of these, so they decided the most experienced archer of the group should have it to use it to its maximum potential. Naturally, all of his designs had already been patented long ago.
There was something that had been bothering James about his whole production line, and that was he had skilled apprentices preparing the steel for themselves, this was wasting a massive amount of resources over all of his smiths. To remedy this, he decided to purchase a warehouse-like building on the outskirts of the city that he had managed to find. For this building, he hired a large number of healthy men from the lower district to work in it, most of the work had low skills requirements, and all they needed was decent stamina to use the bellows.
He had managed to set up a production plant that was capable of outputting enough steel to fit all of his needs daily and begin to stockpile some for his later projects. He would now be able to finish all of his spears within a few days let alone a week; he had reached a new level of efficiency. James had been stockpiling the spears so far, and after he made the change to the steel production, he found his stockpile filling exponentially faster.
He had gone from around 25 to 45 spears from each smithy daily; he had nearly doubled his output which was amazing for one small change to the production line. The best part about his steel production was that the salaries for labourers were quite cheap and averaged around 3 Leones a month.
James was offering 4 for his workers, so he immediately filled all of his empty slots for workers, and if he found that any of his men weren't up to par, he could immediately fire them and have someone fill the role within the next hour.
With the increased work rate it should be just over three days for him to get all of the necessary spears made, ready to ship out to the nobles.
Now that he was sure he could easily have all of the spears ready James was left with no immediate plans, there was something James wanted to do that he didn't realise would come so soon, and that was controlling all of the blacksmiths and carpenters in the entire outer district. He decided that if there were anything that would increase his status it would be managing the leading suppliers of a lot of things needed by the kingdom such as weapons, armour and other necessities, also the furniture and tools made by them were things that would be required by everyone.
James had initially decided to wait to find a large building that suited his needs, but instead, he chose to just directly buy a large area of small buildings from Fletcher, all of these buildings together would be the first significant change James made to the structure to the outer district. He had decided to create a new area he called the Artisans quarter.
Each small building he bought had cost him on average 75 Leones, and he had bought 40 of them, he had spent 30 Cedi to purchase these buildings, it then took about 50 Leones in costs to outfit each one for its respective trade. This cost him another 20 Cedi to do, in his mind, it was all worth it for his possible profits.
There was one final purchase James had made, and that was for the largest tallest building he could find in the outer districts. For this building he had to pay 50 Cedi which was the same cost as 40 other buildings and their refurbishment altogether; the price was astounding. All of this had been for one reason, and that was his next plan to control the market of the outer district — a general store.
At the moment there was no central area to go to buy everything you would like, you would have to go to each store to get whatever you needed. This general store would draw in most customers from every store just for the ease of being able to locate everything in one place directly saving them hours of travel time between all the shops in the city.
Followed by his new guards James decided to move towards the advertising board to show a posting about his school he will be opening; ideally, he needed to get the word out in as short a time as possible. After listing the ad, he paid several people to spread the information as much as they could. He needed his school opening to be a big success to spread his name as far as possible.After he had done all he could to advertise his school James went to fulfil his promise of getting new weapons for these mercenaries, James had long since prepared weapons for whatever guards he was going to have so he had steel swords arranged.He had also been able to have his employees make three crossbows in their time between making spears. The ranged mercenaries were very interested in this crossbow, but they decided only to take two of them and still leave one man with a bow, for that James pulled out a recurve bow his carpenters had made. James just had one of these, so they decided the most experienced archer of the group should have it to use it to its maximum potential. Naturally, all of his designs had already been patented long ago.There was something that had been bothering James about his whole production line, and that was he had skilled apprentices preparing the steel for themselves, this was wasting a massive amount of resources over all of his smiths. To remedy this, he decided to purchase a warehouse-like building on the outskirts of the city that he had managed to find. For this building, he hired a large number of healthy men from the lower district to work in it, most of the work had low skills requirements, and all they needed was decent stamina to use the bellows.He had managed to set up a production plant that was capable of outputting enough steel to fit all of his needs daily and begin to stockpile some for his later projects. He would now be able to finish all of his spears within a few days let alone a week; he had reached a new level of efficiency. James had been stockpiling the spears so far, and after he made the change to the steel production, he found his stockpile filling exponentially faster.He had gone from around 25 to 45 spears from each smithy daily; he had nearly doubled his output which was amazing for one small change to the production line. The best part about his steel production was that the salaries for labourers were quite cheap and averaged around 3 Leones a month.James was offering 4 for his workers, so he immediately filled all of his empty slots for workers, and if he found that any of his men weren't up to par, he could immediately fire them and have someone fill the role within the next hour.With the increased work rate it should be just over three days for him to get all of the necessary spears made, ready to ship out to the nobles.Now that he was sure he could easily have all of the spears ready James was left with no immediate plans, there was something James wanted to do that he didn't realise would come so soon, and that was controlling all of the blacksmiths and carpenters in the entire outer district. He decided that if there were anything that would increase his status it would be managing the leading suppliers of a lot of things needed by the kingdom such as weapons, armour and other necessities, also the furniture and tools made by them were things that would be required by everyone.James had initially decided to wait to find a large building that suited his needs, but instead, he chose to just directly buy a large area of small buildings from Fletcher, all of these buildings together would be the first significant change James made to the structure to the outer district. He had decided to create a new area he called the Artisans quarter.Each small building he bought had cost him on average 75 Leones, and he had bought 40 of them, he had spent 30 Cedi to purchase these buildings, it then took about 50 Leones in costs to outfit each one for its respective trade. This cost him another 20 Cedi to do, in his mind, it was all worth it for his possible profits.There was one final purchase James had made, and that was for the largest tallest building he could find in the outer districts. For this building he had to pay 50 Cedi which was the same cost as 40 other buildings and their refurbishment altogether; the price was astounding. All of this had been for one reason, and that was his next plan to control the market of the outer district a general store.At the moment there was no central area to go to buy everything you would like, you would have to go to each store to get whatever you needed. This general store would draw in most customers from every store just for the ease of being able to locate everything in one place directly saving them hours of travel time between all the shops in the city.
