Alright people. I've used the fell arts of math to refine my proposal from earlier today to expand our business ventures.
The basic idea is to use Tyroshi emigration to snatch up a lot of skilled artisans and to resettle them in SD. As I've mentioned, the main industries to be set up is the manufacturing of clothes (focus on regular clothes, with luxury clothes as a smaller part of the operation) and jewelry. At the same time, we formalize a company around Everfire Dale to leverage the Smelter into economic advantages. As a side project, I also want to increase our salt-mining operation in Saltcliff and outfit them with masterwork tools to boost efficiency while we are at it.
This also makes it necessary to build additional housing for the immigrants and expand our food production to keep a small net-positive in SD. In total, this means settling 1,500 people in Everfire Dale, 3,000 people in SD itself and 600 people in Saltcliff. This is obviously a major undertaking, but has long term beneficial effects on the economic development of our capital (and our bottom-line).
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Project
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Ironworks
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Jewelry
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Clothing
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Salt Mine
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Total
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Farmers
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500
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500
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500
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200
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1700
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Workers
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1000
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1000
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1000
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400
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3400
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Needed Materails
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9750 t
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8750 t
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10917 t
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2700 t
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32117 t
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Construction Time (man-months)
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487.5
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437.5
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545.83
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135
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1605.83
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Lyre Hours
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16.93
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15.19
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18.95
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4.69
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55.76
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Material Cost
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19,500.00 IM
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17,500.00 IM
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21,833.33 IM
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5,400.00 IM
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64,233.33 IM
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Worker Cost
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487.50 IM
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437.50 IM
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545.83 IM
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135.00 IM
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1,605.83 IM
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Seed Money
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9,720.00 IM
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53,348.80 IM
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17,336.00 IM
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500.00 IM
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80,904.80 IM
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Total Setup Cost
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29,707.50 IM
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72,208.80 IM
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39,715.17 IM
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6,035.00 IM
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147,666.47 IM
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Running Cost
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9,720.00 IM
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53,348.80 IM
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17,336.00 IM
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500.00 IM
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80,904.80 IM
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Income
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15,120.00 IM
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57,600.00 IM
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20,736.00 IM
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2,400.00 IM
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95,856.00 IM
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Profit
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5,400.00 IM
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4,251.20 IM
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3,400.00 IM
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1,900.00 IM
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14,951.20 IM
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Margin
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35.71%
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7.38%
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16.40%
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79.17%
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15.60%
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Amortisation (months)
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5.50
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16.99
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11.68
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3.18
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9.88
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Due to the commitments in Tyrosh, Viserys has not really the time to set all this up himself, however, we have the rare super-power of delegation. We can thus both get this done and do something nice for someone who we always have struggled to make a fitting gift. Tyene.
She is obviously knowledgeable about the finer things in life, as evident by her raiding the Archons palaces tailor at the earliest opportunity, thus I would offer her a 10% share in the clothing manufactory and the jewelry manufactory as a reward for long service and for setting the things up. The Ironworks and the salt mine expansion can be mostly organized by the Everfire Dale forgemaster and Harlan the Fat in Saltcliff respectively. Tyene would just coordinate with them and rubber-stamp the expanses in our name.
However, if she happens to manage to scrounge up half the setup cost for the clothiers and jewelers (a stately sum of 56,000 IM), I would offer her a full 50% share. I'm pretty certain she could pull this off, especially if she ask Oberyn or Doran nicely. This way, we can reward her finally in a way that has nothing to do with being a bastard and while the Westerosi will still have their hang-ups over commerce, she is at least no longer a pennyless bastard in their eyes and they won't object too loudly about her money grubbing ways within our earshot.
In the daily grind, she wouldn't need to involve herself at all. We set up a holding between this and the RSH proper that will see to the day to day affairs of the business. She can involve herself at any point if she wishes or she just shows up to take her share of the profits.
The foundry and the salt mine remain to 100% in Viserys property for now. Unless we want to set Richard an ultimatum with this. He either comes up with something beyond his ancestral lands that he wants or he gets a 10% share of the foundry and has to attent board-meetings.
Thoughts everyone?
@DragonParadox, approval? I can lay out the math behind everything in more detail if you want.
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