147 Chapter 145: Future Plans

"Well, let's start the next round in the meeting this time," Ars said seriously as he stared at his friends then the look in his eyes turned towards Hashirama, "How is the paper bomb-making project? How many paper bombs have been solved?"

"At present, there are 10,000 thousand paper bombs that have been successfully made," Hashirama said, "At least at the current manufacturing speed. It is likely that tomorrow afternoon or until the evening, the entire paper bomb can be finished and ready for use"

"If that's the case, we will attack the World Government more precisely destroying Uranus on February 23 to be precise at night. So that they can also send us extortion money right on February 24th"

"Ars" Eina suddenly called out, "I heard from Rin that this plan to destroy Uranus would involve Hashirama, or rather Hashirama would turn into one of his subordinates. Why not just use Ulquiorra? After all, at the moment we have no certainty to summon any of the subordinates from Hashirama into this world while Ulqiorra is already in the plan"

"I think Ars' plan regarding the use of people other than Hashirama or Ulquiorra is a good plan," Shiina said, "This plan itself can deceive many parties, especially deceiving the World Government."

"Deceive the World Government?" Eina asked in confusion.

"In the next few days, Ars's previous plan, he will call Ulqiorra to come to this world. With the arrival of Ulquiorra, the combat troops owned by our kingdom increased compared to before. Also, with the existence of Ulquiorra, its whereabouts may soon be known to the public, especially Ars may later send Ulqiorra to come to the Kingdom of Alabasta to pick up King Cobra and others to come to this kingdom"

"That's right" Ars nodded.

"That plan to use the appearance of others at the time of the destruction of Uranus could be used to deceive the World Government. With the emergence of Ulquiorra, which was a few days later. The personnel of our empire, especially in the combat division section, will be more and more known to the World Government side. With the number of personnel, we have, especially in the intelligence section where they appear in the Red Line area. Later the World Government side will come to know that it is true that at this time around them there are spies from our side. That way, the World Government will certainly be more afraid to make moves to our kingdom such as wanting to carry out a sudden attack plan or whatever it is. Because in their minds at the time, either they were currently or they were currently being watched by our spies" Shiina explained.

"I see" Eina nodded, "This is indeed a good plan"

"This plan is indeed very good" Rin nodded, looking at Ars, "This plan can be implemented because Ars has built his momentum from the beginning. If Ars hadn't built momentum from the start by suggesting to the World Government that our kingdom was a strong one with spies around them. It will be difficult to make this plan work successfully"

"That's what it's like" Ars nodded and looked in Hashirama's direction back, "What about the department area that belongs to you? It's been built successfully?"

"Already" Hashirama nodded, "The building that will be used as a residence, a training ground, and the main office that will be used temporarily. Everything is currently completed. Only left to furnish the whole thing with furniture and install it" Hashirama paused for a moment and continued, "Oh, yes. Bathrooms too, we lack that."

"Regarding the bathroom, I will take care of the matter tomorrow," Ars said then his gaze looked at Kaguya, "Prepare funds for the purchase of 25 units of home furniture and also the purchase of furniture for the office used by her at the moment"

"At this time?" Kaguya asked, holding up her forehead, "Will the funds be used tomorrow?"

"Sure" Ars nodded and turned his attention to Hashirama, "You can buy home furniture with furniture for your temporary office in the Kingdom of Prodance at a time when Rin takes care of his employee recruitment issues. Later Lowa will come with you there, you can be accompanied by him to buy all the things you need"

"I understand" Hashirama nodded vigorously.

"I think I'm going to work overtime tonight" Kaguya muttered with a sigh as her gaze looked at Hashirama, "Give me the details of the funds you need."

"Is it still using the previous fund details?" Hashirama asked in confusion, "We will buy it elsewhere. Surely the price for the purchased goods will be different in price, right?"

"You two don't need to reply to the matter too detailed," Ars said flatly, "Kaguya, prepare a fund of 30 million berries to Hashirama. The 25 million berries will later be used for the purchase of residential furniture for 25 units while the remaining 5 million will be used by him for the purchase of furniture for the temporary Intelligence Department office that will be used by him at this time. I think the 1 million funds for each residence are quite enough, right?"

"That's very enough," Kojiro said, "Even too much in my opinion"

Kojiro's gaze stared at Hashirama, "The building where your army currently lives. How is the design? Following the current design of the workers' residential buildings?"

"Sure" Hashirama nodded.

"Ars, if that's the case. the funds of 25 million berries are too much for the purchase of 25 units of furniture" Kaguya said, "At least the allocation of funds for 1 unit of 500 thousand berries is enough especially in just the next few days. They will get a place to live that will later be promised to them."

"I think so too" Ars nodded and looked at Kaguya, "Well, if so. You set for the allocation of funds of 1 unit of 500 thousand with the existence of 25 units which means 7.5 million berry funds that you need to prepare. Meanwhile, the additional purchase of furniture for the temporary intelligence department office is 5 million berries. Prepare a fund of 12.5 million berries to be used by Hashirama tomorrow"

"I understand" Kaguya nodded.

"Then the other thing I want to discuss" Ars's gaze turned towards the whole thing, "Last afternoon, Jouichirou gave me a proposal to open a restaurant outside our kingdom. The purpose of opening this restaurant is to introduce the foods that will later be sold by our kingdom and also attract interest from the people to come to our kingdom. This proposal has already been approved by me"

"Restaurant opening?" Gin asked, holding up his forehead, "Where are we going to do the opening of the restaurant?"

"There are plans for three places," Ars said, "The Kingdom of Prodance, Saboundy Island, and also the Island where Whitebeard's territory is"

"The island where Whitebeard's fiefdom is?" Ikumi asked, "Why should we open a restaurant there?"

"This is Whitebeard's request" Jouichirou suddenly said, "The idea of this proposal itself came from Garp"

"Garp? You mean Vice Admiral Garp?" Shiina asked with surprise.

"How did you meet Garp, Jouichirou?" Rin asked puzzledly.

"We met on the island where we competed before, Garp came there because he wanted to taste my dishes and also partied with me"

"Huh? Does Garp join the party with you guys? What's serious? He's a Navy more specifically he's a Navy Hero, how could he possibly do such a thing?" Isshiki asked puzzledly.

"The brain circuit possessed by Garp is a bit strange," Jouichirou said, "He doesn't care about his identity problems. He even made an excuse as the Grandfather of Ace to be able to participate in the party"

"This is..."

"Old man is really..." Rin muttered strangely.

"The idea of this proposal came from, Garp. He asked to be able to open a restaurant outside our kingdom so that he could taste the dishes that our kingdom had every day. After Garp, Shirohige then supported this proposal and asked us to also open a restaurant in their area. As long as we build a restaurant or the idea of opening a restaurant outside our kingdom, Whitebeard will gladly help to build a restaurant on their territory for use by our kingdom"

"Regarding the proposal for opening this restaurant" Kaguya suddenly said, "I think we should also consider opening this restaurant in our kingdom. In the next few days, we will pick up the families of the workers, which makes the population in our kingdom will increase compared to before. We have to make the workers who have already got home to be able to become independent. At this time, also the special storage buildings for food ingredients in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Animal Husbandry have been completed several times. We have been able to start buying a large number of food ingredients from the Ryugu Kingdom to store there and then the foodstuffs will be sold to our citizens."

"I agree with this idea" Nakamura nodded, "We have to make them independent and not always depend on us. Also, with the arrival of the families of the workers, the workload we have will increase, It is enough for now. The workload we currently have is quite high, especially later there will be recruitment for Hashirama's troops and also plans to recruit new construction workers. If you add the families of the workers who may number more than hundreds, we will be the ones who will have a hard time"

"The opening of this restaurant can also be an access for workers who only live alone and cannot cook," Shiina said, "With the existence of restaurants in our kingdom, of course, they can get access to food from there without the need to cook anymore"

"Compared to buying groceries from the Ryugu Kingdom," Rin said, "Isn't it better to let the citizens of the Ryugu Empire who come here and then open a shop to do business? My department will be ready to operate which is where it will also be able to run soon. With the advent of our royal visas, later people from outside our kingdom have begun to be able to open businesses in our kingdom"

"I think it's better for us to make purchases of groceries from the Ryugu Kingdom for the time being than to let the citizens from outside our kingdom open a business in our kingdom," Eina said, "At present, the place or building where they open the business does not yet exist. The business to sell food ingredients, especially for fish and others requires a place that is used as a base. At the very least, we have to build a place for them to open a business then we can give them the cases to open a business in our kingdom. If it is not done like that, the fear is, they will build buildings that are not by the provisions, and that will have an impact in the future."

"I agree with these words from Eina" Megumi nodded, "Food ingredients, especially for fish and also foodstuffs in the form of meat, need a place. We can't let them sell in inappropriate places such as being close to the Population Department office or some places that are visited by a wide variety of other people. Preferably, we need to manage in advance the issue of the place and also other things. For now, we use the alternative of purchasing food ingredients from the Ryugu Kingdom, and then later the food ingredients are stored by us in storage warehouses and later sold to residents through the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Animal Husbandry."

"If you use the idea so, our department needs additional worker recruits," Ikumi said seriously, "Our department currently has only 10 workers and all of them are currently only focused on caring for cows and others. If there is an increase in tasks at this time, we can't handle this task because of the lack of workers in our department" Ikumi paused and continued, "In addition, we also need a place to do meat cutting and other. The place is very much needed by us in arranging the issue of selling meat sizes and others."

"I guess for the issue of the meat slaughter place, the place is not necessary yet," Shiina said calmly, "Ars earlier in the Octagon meeting had given some ideas related to the sale of meat which used size of 100 grams for each price. I think that at this time, the citizens of the Prodance Kingdom, the Ryugu Kingdom, and the Amazon Lily Kingdom who work as meat sellers must have used this method to sell the meat they have. If we placed a meat order to these kingdoms by having them do the packaging for every gram of meat, I think that's what they can already do at this time."

"Still, though. Nevertheless. I have a desire for my department to get additional workers if indeed this activity is carried out" Ikumi said, "Although our department will only sell and will not process the meat. Of course, with the number of employees we currently have, our department is not enough to lay off this additional task."

"That's right" Yoshino, "Right now, every one of our employees already has a pretty heavy task. If they are added tasks such as making sales of the meat, their workload will increase compared to before."

"Ars" Isshiki suddenly called out, "I think you can consider sending Ikumi or Yoshino tomorrow together with Rin to do worker recruitment"

"There is no need to recruit too quickly like tomorrow" The completely silent Kaijin suddenly said, "The recruitment for employees of the Animal Husbandry Department can be done at the time of the recruitment that will later be carried out on Water Seven Island which coincides with the recruitment of hashirama's troops and the recruitment of our department. At this time, the activity can still be carried out before the families of those workers come to our kingdom."

Ars nodded, "The recruitment for the Department of Animal Husbandry can be carried out later in conjunction with the recruitment for the Intelligence Department and the Construction Department to be carried out on Water Seven Island." Ars paused and stared at Ikumi and Yoshino, "How many employees do you two want to recruit to be able to fulfill the task?"

"15 people?" Yoshino asked quietly, staring at Ikumi.

"25 people," Ikumi said sternly: "At least 25 new employees for my department. They will later be tasked with monitoring the food ingredients in the warehouse, assisting in arranging documents in the office, and also helping to sell all these materials to the residents."

Ikumi paused and continued, "Besides, too, Ars. If this activity is to be carried out. Our department must have an office to be able to operate."

"We are also," Eina said, "Because this activity concerns the matter of our department. Our department should also be built an office immediately. Regarding employee issues, we don't need additional employees yet. Our employees are still in sufficient numbers for the addition of this task"

"Regarding the matter of office construction, don't worry" Ars's gaze turned to Myrd, "The Office of the Population Department, it can be solved tomorrow, right?"

"The estimate is so" Myrd nodded, "At least in the afternoon. The office is ready to install furniture and supplies."

"Later, after the office of the Population Department is completed, you transfer the work of your workers to build the office of the Department of Animal Husbandry and the office of the Department of Agriculture. Each team will handle one office"

"I understand" Myrd nodded, "What about the design problem of the office?"

"I'll take care of the design of the office," Ars said as his gaze turned towards Eina and Ikumi, "You two after this meeting is over, come to my room inside the royal palace. I have prepared the design for the office of the two of you a long time ago. You can judge whether you want to use it or not. If not, we will change the design according to your wishes"

"Let me come along?" Nezuko asked excitedly, "I also want to see that design for the first time"

"Sure" Ars nodded and the look in his eyes looked at Isshiki and Megumi, "You two too if you want to come along. You guys can come along. This matter also concerns your department. You certainly have to know the design of the office you have"

"We understand" Isshiki and Megumi nodded.