Helping with Adventurer Party Management - Chapter 17

I understand that custom-made adventurer shoes are useful. However, the manufacturing costs are high. Novice adventurers, who are poor, can’t afford them. That’s the issue Sarah pointed out.

However, there are ways to keep manufacturing costs low.

“Is that so?”

“Yeah.”

In this world, shoes are completely custom-made. You order them from a shoemaker, they carve the wooden last, and adjust them if they hurt your feet. However, these shoes lack distinctions between left and right, and they have no arch support or heels. There are no eyelets for laces, and no concept of insoles.

Compared to my shoes, which are a reproduction of modern shoes, they are severely lacking in components. It would take at least ten years to train specialized shoemakers. Therefore, I plan to create shoe molds and separately order standardized parts from several leatherworkers. As for assembly, I’ll allocate specialized shoemakers.

These shoemakers need to be monopolized. Ordering parts and assembly—this is what we call an ‘assembly line’ in the original world. It increases productivity while protecting manufacturing secrets. And if produced in quantity, it can be done cheaply. That’s the greatness of an ‘assembly line’.

I wonder if I have enough assets and means to arrange something like that easily. After a simple cost calculation, if we can sell 100 pairs a year, we can expect to reduce the shoe’s unit price to one large copper coin. Negotiating with the Shoemaker’s Guild will be tricky, but if we make it exclusively for adventurers, we know how many will be needed. We just need to sign the contract before they realize the abnormality of the shoes.

Sarah was wide-eyed as she listened to this plan and explanation.

“Who are you really? A shoemaker? A merchant? But you’re a swordsman, right? An adventurer.”

Even back in the original world when I was consulting, people often asked me, “What kind of business are you really in?” I faintly smiled as I recalled that after a long time. From experience, being asked that meant the business was going well.

This business venture looks promising.