The Thousand Year Dynasty
24. Preparations Towards Zeraza
The next morning Nata, Aksa, Lily, accompanied by Cornelius, and Dirk were seen touring the city. Lucia could not accompany, because besides being troublesome because she had to bring a lot of bodyguards, Lucia also had to go to the palace with Orland to take care of the auction of the castle in the western region that she would receive after this.
"In this city there are several trade groups that handle several types of merchandise" said Dirk gave information while they were in the city market.
The place called the market was much larger than the city markets that Aksa and Nata had seen so far.
The width of the market area is approximately two blocks or covers the area of two alleys. Which per alley is four houses lined sideways and two to three houses backward.
"What is a trade group, Mr Dirk? Are they some kind of merchant-merchant who makes cooperation to sell and distribute goods?" Nata asked while breaking up the crowd on the streets.
"Truely they are traders who hold cooperation to buy and sell commodities from various places in the Elder's row" explained Dirk who is still running.
"Oh, Corporation" murmured Aksa.
"They were formed together or there was one person who made it, then only followed by other traders?"
"The trading group was indeed formed by one or two traders, and then they were looking for other traders to cooperate"
"Do you have to have permission or guarantee from the ruler or the kingdom to create a trade group of Mr. Dirk?"
"Actually not Mr. Nata, but for early traders it will be difficult to attract members if they have no guarantees. Either only to witness their covenant, so that no one violates, or when in violation will be given the right kind of punishment, or to ensure that the ruler does not idlely interfere with their trade routes"
"But it is not necessary that the maker of the trading group is a noble?"
"really so. Therefore almost all trade groups that sell goods that are profitable or have high demand, formed by the nobles" explained Dirk later.
"As it turned out. And if for your trade, Mr Dirk, what garment do you sell that's finished, or do you have the workers to make it?" Ask Nata again.
"Mostly I take finished goods from craftsmen in the corners of this kingdom. As for clothes, I have at least fifteen tailors. It's also special for making the clothes of the nobles"
"Oh, and did they sew the clothes manually?"
"Right" Dirk replied quickly.
"How long does it take to finish one of Mr. Dirk's clothes?"
"A little over a week" Dirk seems to have begun to suspect about why Nata asked how and when to make the noble clothes.
"It should only be for nobles. That shirt must be expensive"
"That's what Mr Nata is, and why do you question that?" Dirk asked finally for impatience.
"We have a method of making clothes and all other forms of clothing more efficiently" said Nata who made Dirk smile.
"really?" This is what Dirk has been waiting for.
"True, at most we need a lot of raw materials and workers to make them" Nata explained.
"I will try to do this" replied Dirk directly without thinking.
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Now they're in the south square of the city.
"I think we can find them at the Service Exchange Meeting Hall" Dirk replied as they started sitting on the bench in the area. Tired off.
"Is there a guild or a group for witches?" Nata changed the question.
"Not anything like that. But they have a witch association in this town. This association is more of an institution that gives exams and assessments of the level of one's magic skills before finding a job" explained Dirk.
"Oh, the appraisal using that Hexe crystal?" This time it was Aksa who spoke.
"Yes, that's one of them"
"Alright then I will ask the princess to connect us to them" Nata said later.
"Contact the witch association? Wh-wh-what for? The reasonable portion of the magicians in a group of fighters is three. The cure is two. The rest won't be efficient, Mr. Nata"
"I don't need witches to fight. We are going to tear down the wizarding paradigm in this world" Nata exclaimed with a fiery look as he clenched his hands in the air.
"True, Jaya always!" Aksa followed Nata by clenching her hands into the air
While Lily just smiled at the two of them as Cornelius and Dirk looked scared and worried to see the behavior of Aksa and Nata.
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The night after dinner they returned to the meeting to report each other's activities today.
"So for the castle on the west coast we can not auction. Because there are various settings that must be completed first. It probably took about half a year at most" Orland explained.
"So afternoon we got a response from Lugwin about Dracz metal" Lucia added. "For the initial preparations he needs another three months. And after that we will discuss about the price and the amount" he continued.
"I understand. And one more thing, can we contact the sorceress association of the princess?"
"What's Nat for?"
"We need a lot of witches, especially those who are good at manipulating land and fire. We need to build roads and bridges"
"Make witches do the building work? Who is the witch who would want to do the work of artisans and construction workers like that?" Cornelius said.
"Then from that I need the influence of the princess. Or maybe Lily can help. With the fame Lily certainly not a few who would be interested"
"I'll help" Lily replied quickly.
"Well then, tomorrow before we leave for Zeraza, Miss Lily and I will approach the witch association first" Lucia said later.
"Alright then, we continue" Orland said starting his other report.
And the meeting continued until late. The content of the rest of the report is that the four noble families have already begun to prepare everything they need while waiting for Lucia's entourage to return from the city of Zeraza.
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