Management of a Novice Alchemist: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 12] by Mizuho Itsuki

Author:Mizuho Itsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Hmm, you want to hire people to work for you?”

“Yes, do you have any thoughts?”

The mayor apparently had a lot of spare time on his hands, so I had been invited into the house as soon as I arrived.

Then, once he had heard my explanation, he smiled. “Not bad. You know, honestly, I think you’d be doing the village a favor. We don’t have enough cash, and I’ve needed to rely on Dudley and Darna for it so often...”

During the time when this village had no alchemist’s shop, the materials that the gatherers collected had been carried straight to South Strag more often, and so they had spent less of their cash in the village. The end result was that the mayor had turned to the two people in the village who’d had cash, giving them crops in exchange for the money he would need to pay the taxes. It wasn’t just once or twice that he’d needed to do this either.

“But you realize all that the women in this village can make are straw hats, right? Sure, they can sew, but they aren’t going to know how to make what you want.”

“The plan is for me to draw pictures they can use as a reference. They’ll need to figure out how to make them on their own, but...if necessary, I can provide some amount of guidance.”

“In that case, it sounds like you should be fine. So, how many do you need?”

“See, that’s the thing...what I was thinking of doing is a system called consignment sales.”

“Consignment? What’s that mean?” the mayor asked, cocking his head to one side.

I explained the idea I had come up with on my way over here.

First, the villagers would make the hats at their own expense, and assign a price of their choosing. I would then apply the cooling effect to the hats, add what it cost to turn them into cooling hats—the enchantment cost—to the price, and finally, put them up for sale in the shop.

Then, when the hat was sold, the person who made it would get the money.

“Because I can’t charge the same amount for a simple, practical hat as I do for a stylish one that someone’s put a lot of effort into.”

“Hmm, I reckon you’re right.”

“I’m thinking that the enchantment cost will be five thousand rhea per hat. If a villager makes a five hundred rhea hat, then it would go on sale in the shop for five thousand, five hundred rhea.”

“But if the hats don’t sell, you don’t pay? Isn’t that a loss for the villager?”

“Well—”

“Not at all, father!”

Just as I had been about to explain, a sharp voice cut me off. I looked over, and there was a woman standing there with her arms crossed.

Who was it? Why, this was the mayor’s own daughter, Erin-san.

She had been born when he was already an old man, so she was only around thirty. That put her in around the same age range as Lorea-chan’s mother, Mary-san.

Erin-san looked at me somewhat apologetically.

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