Elite Club Under Construction

Chapter 38 Elite Club Under Construction

"Good afternoon, Mr. Nine, I'm Toto. I heard from the guild, you are interested in my mansion."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Toto, that's right, I'm interested in buying your mansion. What price do you want for that mansion?"

"Hmmm, I think 27 white gold coins are a fair price for that mansion, Mr. Nine."

"Mr. Toto, I don't think that mansion is worth that much. 17 white gold coins at the price I offer."

"That is too cheap, Mr. Nine, even though the mansion is not too big, but everything is still good."

"That's why the price of 27 white gold coins is too expensive, the mansion is smaller than any other mansion currently sold. Although everything is still good, but your mansion is far from the center of the area. I will raise the price to 19 white gold coins."

"Mr. Nine, how about 25 white gold coins?"

"I heard from the guild, right now you really need money. Judging from the situation of this town, I'm sure no one else will buy your mansion, Mr. Toto. Let's take the midpoint, this is my final offer, 22 white gold coins."

Hearing the offer from me, Toto seemed not satisfied. But because he really needed the money, he couldn't help but accept my offer. "Alright, Mr. Nine, I accept your price."

I paid for it and, with the help of the guild by giving them commissions, we completed the transfer of the ownership of the mansion in no time.

'Either here or in the previous world, if there is money involved, everything can be finished quickly. Luckily, I have a lot of money here, if everything can be resolved with money, I can live easily.'

The first step is to get an elite club started, buildings with suitable locations have been obtained. The next step that must be done is renovation.

The first thing to renovate from this mansion is to remove parts or walls that are not needed to make the inside of the mansion wider. This mansion has two floors, the ground floor will be used by club members later, while the upper floor will be made into a staff room. To do all these renovations, I had to employ several builders.

"How long did it take to complete the renovation of the interior of this mansion?" I asked the leader of the worker I hired there.

"About a month, Mr. Nine. To make this building stronger and safer because some of the walls removed will require a lot of lime mortar to make several pillars. If you want to finish faster, we can increase the number of workers to speed up the making of lime mortar and cut stones."

"Alright, you can hire more people. I want this building to be renovated quickly."

Besides renovating the inside of the building, I also ordered the builders to raise the fence that surrounds this mansion.

How to make a building look luxurious in the middle ages. I searched for many references on the internet about medieval luxury buildings. I saw many pictures of medieval luxury buildings.

'Even though there are "Luxury" words, all these buildings look the same as buildings in this world.'

'Well, this is the medieval definition of luxury. Same era, same taste although it's a different world.'

I did not feel comfortable with medieval references after looking at photos on the internet that looked not much different from Count Llyne Manor. If I decorate this club with current luxury standards, I won't amaze the nobles because they are used to this atmosphere.

That's why I decided to look for modern building references and try to apply some things to this mansion to make it look different from the luxurious atmosphere that the nobles usually felt.

There are several characteristics of modern buildings: first, most building structures are made of steel and glass. It is not possible to replace the structure of this mansion with steel because it will require modern equipment on a large scale and requires workers who can use it. The use of glass can still be done if it's only for windows.

'I am not too satisfied if only that small window is replaced by glass although it will amaze the nobles because the precious clear glass is used as a window.'

'I have to destroy a few more walls and replace them with large glass windows, like those used in cafes or shops. Let's make it grand.'

To install a window like that, I need a frame, I decided to do it later after the workers finished their current work.

In addition to steel and glass structures, modern buildings have excellent lighting due to the presence of lights. Again, it can't be done here because it would be very suspicious and cause problems if I installed an electric generator here.

Because the era of this world right now will cause problems if I use modern tools in public places. If it's only small things, I can make excuses for it, but if I use tools like generators or other machines, I can't make any logical excuses. That's why as much as possible I use modern products that can be explained logically to people in this world.

Like glass because there are already glass products in this world even though they are not transparent and inferior, I can reason by explaining to them "In my original place, we use different types of raw materials and different techniques, that's why we can make a transparent glass product." When they ask me how to make it, I just say "I don't know because it's the secret of the craftsman, I'm just a merchant."

"I'll think about it later about what should be changed from this mansion."

In Le Réseau.

"Nine, from the report I received from the warehouse manager, some items will be used up when the new store starts operating, especially the food seasonings. Besides that, Argus also asked whether or not the beer that will be sold in the new tavern has arrived."

"I forgot to tell my business partner at Port Sandlight, I will send it a letter. If we are lucky, there is a merchant ship that arrived there carrying beer, we can start opening a business within two weeks. If not, we have to wait longer until a merchant ship brings it."

"I'll explain it to Argus later."

"Tell him to be prepared, if beer is available, it will be sent here at the earliest 2 weeks."

Because Selvi didn't really understand the situation in the other town, she didn't ask anything about that.