Chapter 05: Lessons

    "Chief, why did you accept the priority on this small project? We have many big projects here and are pressed hard to finish them before the inauguration," asked the head architect Davidson as the carriage began to roll.

    "We should take care of our big client, Davidson," Valentina replied without turning from the window. "House of Silver is a big client, but he is just a bastard of the house, who had been plotted against and thrown here to the outskirt of the empire," said the old man.

    "I am not talking about the house of silver," she said as she finally turned, her words clearly surprising the two old man sitting in front of her.

    "You can''t be meaning him? I don''t want to badmouth him, but I don''t see any big client potential in him," said the old man.

    Valentina did not say anything; she just smiled and looked back at the window while remembering the first time she had seen him.

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    A few minutes later, the door opened, and Carla walked in after dropping them off at the door. "What do you think about the changes?" I asked as she sat across me.

    "They are good," she replied.

    "Your real thoughts," I said and gave her a look, "They are risky," she said. "You have removed all the business rooms from the first floor and expanded and merged a few rooms on the second and third floor; now we only have only twenty-six rooms for business,"

    "The conventions said we should have at least as much as rooms as women we have in the house, which means we are short on eleven rooms," she said, and there was a hint of anger on her beautiful face. It is clear she was angry; I should have consulted with her before finalizing the changes.

    "We will not be selling just sex, Carla; the rooms we have is sufficient," I said. "Master Remus, we will be running a brothel. It means selling sex; it does not mix well with the other things,"

    "You have also postponed the day of opening to the inauguration, which is a month away; it will make us lose us, wealthy, powerful clients, who have already started to trickle in for the inauguration," she said, and her voice was a little pointed, but I did not mind it.

    "What do you think about my plans on the first floor?" I asked, ignoring what she had said. "Unwise, you shouldn’t have taken out all the business rooms on the first floor," she said, and there was a hint of admonishment in her melodious voice.

    "About that, miss Carla you are very wrong," I said and looked directly into her beautiful green eyes. "Sex is the greatest of desires, and it can mix with everything," I said.

    Ask any advertiser on earth, and they will bet their soul on it.

    It is common knowledge on earth that sex sells, and advertisers use it to sell everything. I am running a brothel, so selling sex is natural, but it will be only part of what I will sell through my establishment.

    What I am trying to sell is obvious desires.

    The whole day passed, and by the evening, more people from the Nielson guild came. They emptied the whole room of furniture and already started breaking rooms on the first floor; I could hear the sound of it from here.

    The removal of the rooms will be finished by tomorrow morning, not just on the first floor, but on the second and third floors, where I expanded a few rooms by combining them. The overall rooms may have lessened, but it will aid the business, not constrain it as Carla is thinking.

    Though more rooms are always a good thing, we do not have the space to create them.

    An hour later, I ate dinner and made the round of the establishment as I had done in the afternoon and was again got surprised by the progress these people had made. It would have been quite hard to make such progress back on earth, even with all the advanced tools and machines.

    When I returned, I resumed my work and only stopped when I finished at late midnight, before sleeping.

    The next morning, I walked into my office, and aside from the newspapers, there was nothing else on my desk.

    "Good morning, Master Remus," she said, "Good morning, Carla," I replied as I sat down before taking out a page from the drawer and sliding it toward her.

    "I need people in these fields who are specialized in teaching," I said

    She took the paper, but soon a shock couldn’t help but appear on her face. "A..are these for girls?" she asked hesitantly.

    "Yes," I replied.

    The new business model I have in my mind does not only require changes in the building but also in the women.

    I am going to bring in the teachers who will teach them the required skills, it will be expensive, but I am willing to pay the price.

    The level 20 and above teachers should be able to impart to them with basics of skills they need to work under my new business model.

    "Do you have any suggestions or want to add anything?" I asked Carla, who was still staring at the paper. "No, you seemed to have thought of everything," she said as she placed down the paper.

    "With your requirement of them being level 20 and above, these teachers are going to cost us a lot; many of them wouldn’t be available in the city,” she added.

    "I have already mentioned the budget there; it should be enough for a month," I replied. I have already written what I am willing to pay for each teacher, and I am not holding back on it.

    I did not get anything other than the establishment as inheritance, but I did get half a million crowns from the head of the house of Silver; every direct descendent gets this amount after getting their class.

    Every direct member of the house of Silver gets this amount after getting their class.

    I have got another three hundred thousand crowns from selling everything I have owned.

    There are also a hundred thousand crowns my father had left to the establishment name as operating expenses. So, in total, I have nine hundred thousand crowns.

    I have already spent half a million crowns on renovation, and teachers would also cost me around fifty thousand crowns.

    With this, I have three hundred and fifty thousand crowns on me; I hope it will be enough for the things I want to do.

    "The girls would be grateful for this opportunity; many of them had the desire to learn but never did get a chance in their lives," she said.

    "I hope they learn with a complete heart," I said, and I really hoped they would learn the skills they needed because their, mine, and the establishment''s future depends on it.

    "They will," she replied with confidence.

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