Payne's POV
Progress was everywhere one looked in the city.
Payne had to hand it to Baymard for knowing how to conduct business.
Baymard had a Spice subscription package for business people like themselves where for 15 Bays a month, they got a briefcase style load of spice samples sent to them no matter where they were.
So every month, they had the advantage of getting newly developed spices from Baymard.
It's because of this that they knew what spices they liked and those they didn't.
I'd also because of this that they succeeded in developing their unique sauces too.
So after knowing what spices they liked and didn't like, they could then order wholesale rates, completely sure of their purchases.
Payne had to admit that in just 1 year, the economy has improved so much that it made his eyeballs pop out when assessing it all.
The death rate was drastically dropping, the amount of starved people on the streets also dropped considerably.