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nAnfter 8 minutes of waiting, the customer representative came back with another account book in his hands.

nThe representative opened the book and read the first 2 pages, which gave a detailed description of those who could access the Industry's account book.

nThe book stated that only overseer Tim, chief accountant Angelo or chief auditor Todd, could withdraw funds from the Industry's account.

nActually... the representative had to make sure that at least 2 out of those 3 people, were represent before any withdrawal could be made.

nSo if Tim had come alone to withdraw money from the account, the representative would have refused to withdraw the funds for him without any of the other 2 parties present.

nAnd in the case for adding funds into the industry's account, only 1 person was needed for that transaction to be done.

nSince they were adding money today, just Tim alone would have sufficed for this transaction.... but they had all decided to come so as to get used to this banking system.

nIn the future, they knew that this 'bank' as his majesty had called it, would also cater to their personal needs.

nHence they all thought that it would be better to understand how this 'account thing' worked now than later.

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"May I see your Identity Cards please?

" The representative asked.

nTim, Angelo and Todd, brought out their I.Ds and gave it to the representative.... who quickly cross checked if their names, place of birth and date of birth that was written down on the bank book was the same as those on their I.Ds.

nActually, this method greatly pleased Tim a lot.

nOver the past few months, Tim had been having trouble managing the industry's finances.

nIf not of his Majesty's help, he probably wouldn't have known what to do.

nCoins were heavy and tiring to count.. and with a large industry like the construction Industry, several hundreds of coins were profited and used on a weekly basis.

nCoins were very hard to handle.. last night, Tim, Angelo, Todd and some industry supervisors... had spent over 6 hours counting several bags of coins about 4 times.

nThe first time they counted the money... when they were almost done, someone accidentally shook the table, and all the coins scattered all over the floor.

nThat was the first time that Tim felt like crying.

nDo you know how much effort it took to gather all those coins back?

nThey had lost some copper coins and sikver coins somewhere within that room.. and no matter how they checked, they couldn't find them.

nDo you know how long it would take to count every single coin over and over again?

nSigh... It was too frustrating.

nThey also had to separate the silver coins from copper coins.. and so on.... Tim had never felt helpless like he did last night.

nPlus for now, everything was fine.. but Tim knew that in the long run, it wouldn't be safe for them to keep all their coins within the industry.

nHonestly, he sort of felt relieved that they could dump all this work with the bank.

nAfter confirming their identities, the representative gave back their I.Ds, and led them towards their vault.

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"Here we are... Vault 004

" the representative said while singling out the door key from the pile of keys in his hands.

nEach workplace, had its own storage room where their money would be kept safe and locked at all times.

nLandon called these rooms vaults.

nThe doors were made of iron....and within each vault, were several massive lockers that were placed around the walls... as well as a table with 6 chairs at the center of the vault.

nOnce they got in, they pushed their carts of money in, and took several seats around the table.

nOf course before the representative could write on the account books, he

/she needed to count the money in the presence of Tim, Angelo and Todd.

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nAnd since it was too much for one person to do, the representative called for backup and began counting the money meticulously.

nIf Landon had seen this scene, he would have definitely felt that it was too similar to that of Disney's Scrooge Duck... where he was counting his coins within his vault.

nOnce all the coins were counted, the representative took both account books and wrote;

n•Date: October 12th, 1024

n•Amount added: 1,350,000 Copper coins (135 gold coins)

n•Transaction done by: Tim Mayers, Angelo Wambly and Todd Grayham.

n•Customer service Representative: Jacob Burns.

n•Everyone's signatures

n•And a Bank ink stamp

nAfter everyone had signed on both account books, The representative took one account book... while Tim and the other two left with the other one.

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n5 P.M

nTime for the bank to close up for the day.

nWhile everyone left the bank... Landon stepped in, to have his meeting with the new Bank managers, chief accountant and chief auditor of the bank.

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"Your majesty... our only main issue is counting those coins.

nMost industries and even the hospital, bring over millions of copper coins for us to count at once.

nThis could take several hours which would greatly waste the customer's time.

nSo I think that we need to hire more people to count the money.

" Said Bank Manager Dionne.

nOver this past week, Dionne had been learning and practicing accounting daily.

nDue to his job at the bank, he was able to understand more concepts about accounting and banking... even though he just started taking lessons with his majesty.

nYes!!!... he made a ton of mistakes at work.... but luckily, his majesty was always there daily to sort out any issues that they had.

nBut their greatest issue was the matter with counting the coins.

nHe was really hoping that his majesty would think of another way for them.

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"That's true your majesty... but I'm also afraid of bank space.

nIf we don't expand the building, I'm afraid that by the end of next year, all the lockers in the vaults would be overflowing with money.

nAnd by that time we would have to place the money on the floors and make hills and mountains of coins in all rooms.

" Chief Accountant Fiddler said.

nInstantly, the image of Disney's Scrooge Duck came into Landon's mind.

nWas it really not possible to swim in money? Well he might just have to find out.

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"Hmmm.. I will higher more people next month, as well as make new money which would be lighter to carry, and easier to count and store.

nAs for space...in the future, we would make a bigger and better building.

" Landon replied while stroking his chin.

nEveryone was shocked.

nNew money? Baymard was going to make it's own money?

nWhat kind of money would it be?

nIn all their years as slaves, they had never seen any form of money other than copper, gold and silver coins.

nAll empires within the Pyno continent used the same coins, so they really couldn't picture how Baymard's money would be.

nLandon decided that in this matter, rather than explaining it to them, it was better to show them.

nHe knew of the matter with the coins, that was why he had made the bank workers only cater to the industries and other workplaces.

nFirstly, the workers were still at their learning phase, and needed to take in fewer clients so as not to overload themselves.

nSecondly, it wasn't easy counting all those coins daily.. hence they wouldn't have the time to focus on the citizens.

nSo for now, the bank could only work for the military, industries, hospital, school and other workplaces.

nBut come February, they would begin catering for the citizens as well.

nAnd by that time, the workers would have gotten enough experience, the bank's new building would have been constructed... and paper money would have already been used throughout Baymard.

nFor now, what he needed them to do was to focus on learning all about the banking system.

nWithin this time frame, they were allowed to make as many mistakes as they could... Since they had few clients, and their work would always be checked by Landon at the end of each day.

nBut come February, mistakes couldn't be afforded when dealing with a large group of clients.

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nAs for the future bank's building, Landon wanted it to be massive.

nIn fact, Landon would prefer the lobby to be extremely large like a 5 star hotel lobby.

nIn this way, several customers could be attended to at once.

nOf course the building would be at least 4 stories high.. and have several vaults, offices and chambers within it.

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"Your majesty, all the account books for today had been brought over

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"Alright... let's begin.

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