Chapter 475: Market Visit (Part-1)

Once the group finished inspecting the apartment complex, they soon returned to the carriage and made their way to the center of the city.

And while on the way, Pasha Farzah asked a few more tidbits about the houses, particularly, "So what's the cost of these buildings?"

And Alexander would admit these houses were not cheap.

Each apartment needed 250 tons of cement which cost Alexander 75 ropals a ton.

Around 1500 tons of bricks were needed which was 60 ropals a ton.

Each of the workers working there demanded 300 ropals a month, double that of a peasant's as they were much more skilled.

And then there were aggregates such as sand, gravel, and water, and furnishing such as doors and windows.

Taking all this into consideration, it came to around 200 to 250 thousand ropals per housing.

This was certainly not cheap.

And worse still it was an amount Alexander was never likely going to be able to recoup.