Helping with Adventurer Party Management

Episode 398: The Aftermath of Expansion of the Shoe Business

Educational institutions are over, and territorial development plans by new officials have begun.

I have a lot to say, but I'm basically awaiting a report.

Plus, the plan execution status can be shared by the extent to which the wooden plaque hung on the wall has been turned upside down.

I was also uncomfortable arranging wooden boards on the floor forever, so I asked Gorgogo, struggling to improve his printing press, to "do something about it," and he made me a mountain or so in a matter of days with nails punched in the big wooden boards at equal intervals and smaller wooden boards sized to fit.

In short, it is a wall-mounted task management table.

Especially since the wall-mounted boards that Gorgogo shredded were much smaller in size than the original wooden boards that were lined up on the floor, the new officials were to write down their job descriptions with groans.

At that time, I was instructed here to write a control number for my work.

When the number is swinging, it will be convenient until later in transcribing and summarizing it into documents.

Even when explaining the idea of a common number system, the priests were surprised at something, but I think they should be doing something similar in the Church.

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Since the early stages of the territorial development plan were out of hand, there was finally room to break my heart into the shoe business of the main business.

Currently, shoes are made in two main types.

The first is a shoe business for adventurers; the second is a shoe business for clergy, nobility.

As for the shoe business for the second priest, the nobility, there's actually not much we can do here.

Because it is a luxury goods market, now that we have created a system for business, we take orders and make them. That is all.

They also leave the sales desk to the church and Anne, so they have a policy of controlling the number of sales there and maintaining high prices. Originally, it was ironic, though aimed at shoes that even peasants could wear as a simplified version of shoes for adventurers.

On the other hand, shoes for adventurers continue to be manufactured as protective shoes, but have not been able to relieve thin conditions.

Because of that state of affairs, the price has not been lowered below what is finally within reach of intermediate adventurers either.

I want to do something about this state.

Specifically, I want to make shoes ten times as much as I do now and lower prices more and more.

It's not Sarah's word, but I want to make shoes to make bread.

"Well, the workshop is expanding, and it's not even possible until now."

says Gorgogo. In fact, the acquisition of the house next door to Gorgogo's workshop was progressing without delay.

I was just thinking about relocating in the worst case scenario when it seemed like a lot of hassle with land acquisitions. Thankfully.

"What about the number of craftsmen?"

Even if all the buildings are bigger, the yield of the product will only be worse if the training of the craftsmen is not advanced.

Where profits have been somewhat shredded, it is nothing because it is a kind of educational investment, but it is difficult for defective products to come out into the world.

Shoes for adventurers mean they are used in life-threatening situations.

If the soles came off and slipped when they were attacked by a monster, they wouldn't be dead enough to die.

"It may be difficult to procure personnel from familiar shoe factories."

and Gorgogo show concern over the upcoming recruitment of shoemakers in the city.

Until now, we have hired extra people, such as young people and brothers, who are unlikely to be independent in the shoe factory, but the limits are coming.

Indeed, we still have nearly 30 shoemakers in the company, and including the families of craftsmen who come to help in the early morning, it is a large area of nearly 50 people.

Compared to the fact that the family-run shoe workshop, the heart of this city's shoe workshop, has only about one to three craftsmen, the number of people alone is more than ten times different.

But scale isn't the only thing that actually makes a difference. There are also significant differences in proficiency, efficiency and productivity.

Since the company is highly segregated and specialized in the manufacture of shoes, craftsmen are expected to be responsible for about two of the more than twenty processes. Besides, even though the shoes they make are slightly different sizes, they continue to make mostly similar shoes. It can't be inefficient.

Besides, shoes made by incorporating modern shoe technology exhibit unparalleled performance in terms of functionality, comfort and robustness, while shoes produced in factory handicrafts also vary greatly in terms of productivity.

In a nutshell, although it is the customer base that is not overlapping at the moment, lowering the price of shoes any further could result in sweeping away the existing shoe workshop.

Sent me ahead, face to face with the city's shoe guild.

That solution had been called for.