In the far north of the country on the outskirts of the small town of Cleyra one man owns several Farms, and a Butchery in which he presently grows his own Herbs and Beets to raise Pigs to sell as Dried Meat.

Due to changes in the market however he has recently noted that his sales are steadily falling, and he's having to reduce his prices almost daily to sell his stock. Exporting his Dried Meat would mean he would need to hire several new workers and purchase a number of high quality carts.

Rather then take such a drastic, and expensive action he instead decides to simply change his variety of production and decides instead of Pigs to raise Deer, and sell Venison instead.

Venison is an expensive meat due to the cost of raising Deer, however if he can make even the same as he did before with Dried Meat it would be better for him in the long run.

In order to start changing his business however he must first train his current employees in the Butchery on how to identify the best parts of a Deer to cut into Venison.

Tutoring is expensive, however with Deer he cannot afford to many mistakes. He sends a letter to another town several miles away to another farmer who raises Deer to ask for them to train his workers.

The farmer responds with an offer of 1,200 ¢τ per employee, and an additional 3,000 ¢τ to cover his travel expenses. He also offers to train his Cattle Farmers on how to effectively raise the Deer at a cost of 900 ¢τ per employee.

Now our farm owner has 20 employees working in the Butchery, and 18 on the Cattle Farm. All of these would need to be trained up in order for him to successfully change his business.

Now he can't afford this straight away, so would need to sell his remaining stock of Pigs and Dried Meat to not only cover enough to train his employees, but enough to continue paying their wages until the training was complete.

In the storehouse he has 200 Pieces of Dried Meat ready to sell, and and 30 Pigs over at the Cattle Farm. Assuming he can earn 170 ¢τ each for the Dried Meat, and 120 ¢τ each on the Pigs, and that he pays his employees a wage of 160 ¢τ a week for working on the Cattle Farm, and 200 ¢τ a week for working in the Butchery ..

Question: How much more income would he need to pay the other farmer to come teach his employees?

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