Yan Zhao did not understand what Su Wan meant by the word appraisal. She had already brought the street what was the need to appraise it? He was a bit confused and wanted to ask Su Wan what she meant by appraising the street.
However, he thought that it was a bit rude and did not say anything for a while but then his curiosity got the best of him and then he couldn't stop himself from asking, " Madam Su what do you mean by appraising the street? Are you saying that if you are not satisfied with it then you will abandon it?"
If so then he had to say that Su Wan was really reckless.
Su Wan heard his words and very calmly smiled at him. She knew what Yan Zhao was thinking in his head but she was not impatient and explained everything to Yan Zhao in great detail, " Lord Yan, I am not appraising this street because I want to see whether or not it's good enough for the investment but because I want to make plans for the future.
You might already know that the Big Ocean City is far from the rest of the cities and all the workers who can make construction material have long moved out of the city."
" With such conditions, it's hard enough for us to begin construction. After all, the closest city is one day away from our city, if we submit an order to the construction workers then they would hand us our order in a day or two which means that we would have to waste at least three days by travelling from one city to another."
" I am appraising this street such that I will be ready to purchase the construction materials in one sweep and wouldn't have to go back and forth in the future, if we start building the shops without a plan then we would end up causing trouble for ourselves.
Let's say that the construction materials ended up lesser than the demand then wouldn't we have to put the work on hold and wait for another three days for the construction supplies to arrive and that is excluding the number of days that the construction material workers would take to prepare our order. We cannot waste the time and manpower, as we are already buried in debts to our neck."
Though she was making plans, Su Wan could only hope that her plans would come alive on the ground just as well as they did on the paper. After all, she was only a human in the end, she could only work hard and whether or not the plans would work, could only be left in the hands of the heavens.
Lord Yan understood what Su Wan was trying to do but he still felt a bit uncomfortable. He thought that Su Wan was missing the point and asked, " Madam Su, did you not say that you will teach the butchers how to deal with the fish caught in the ocean when will you start with that?"
He had already told this to a few butchers and they all were urging him to ask the county magistrate when they could start.
Su Wan also knew why Yan Zhao was in a hurry but she was not in a hurry. Instead, she calmly turned to look at Lord Yan and said, " Don't worry, Lord Yan. I did not make empty promises to you, if I said I would teach then I will teach them, it's just that we need to think of the future."
When she saw that Yan Zhao was a bit confused Su Wan sighed in worry, she really wanted to ask how could a soft-hearted and muddled man like Yan Zhao became the vice-county magistrate. She said, " As they are commoners, we cannot be too harsh on them.
Because we are not from the same position as them, if we were commoners who employed them then we could have signed the contract with them and stopped them from moving. But if we stop them as officials, they would say that we are forcing them or locking them up."
" They…They would not do that, we are helping them. How can they be so unkind and ungrateful towards us?" Yan Zhao said with a frown.
Su Wan only shook her head in response and then said, " Lord Yan, the human heart is filled with all sorts of emotions, how do you know they will not change their heart and move to a city with a better condition and start selling the fish there? We cannot stop them from purchasing the fish as the ocean is not ours, when that happens then I assure you that our city will be the one to suffer.
If the people can get the cleaned fish from another city then why would they come to ours?"
" Then what do you suggest?" Yan Zhao asked with a subtle furrow of his brows.
" I suggest letting them work in the snack shop. We first need to develop the city and show the commoners that the Big Ocean City also has a chance to turn around, this way they will not think about leaving the city and will stay." Su Wan had already thought it through, if they were to hire the butchers in the snack shop then they would be workers of the shop and could be contracted.
However, if they were taught when they were free then nothing could be done if they wanted to leave.
Su Wan was scheming but she could not do anything about it, she had to show progress to the Emperor only then would she be able to deal with that woman in the imperial palace.
Her abacus was calculating but in the end, she was only thinking about the people of the city, it was not that she did not want to share her skills but from the age of twenty, she knew that it was important to fill her own bowl first to quench her thirst before helping anyone else!
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