Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 44:

The so-called assembly process is to divide the production process of a thing into several steps, and then a number of workers who are only responsible for a single step take turns to complete all the work.

To give a practical example, to make a stool, you need to make wooden boards and wooden slats, then make the wooden boards into the stool surface, and make the wooden slats into the stool legs and rails, and finally assemble them.

If a carpenter is to do it, he needs to find a suitable tree first, then cut down the tree and make it into wood, then process the wood into planks and slats, and then give the stool little by little do it. In this way, a carpenter can of course only make one stool at the same time, and it takes a lot of time and energy. If you need to make a lot of stools, either wait patiently or find more carpenters.

However, if you use the flow method, those who chop the tree only need to chop the tree, those who handle the wood only need to process the wood, those who make planks and slats, those who make stool surfaces, stool legs and rails, and those who are responsible for the final assembly are all different people. They only need to concentrate on part of their work and don't need to know too much. In this case, as long as it is a handy person who can complete the work with a little training, there is no need to work for this little thing to be a professional skilled worker-a carpenter.

Moreover, because each group of workers only needs to be responsible for their own part of the content, their skills will improve quickly, and it will not take long for them to make stools that are no worse than those made by carpenters.

Because they only know the same thing all the time, their wages will naturally not be as expensive as a professional carpenter. So even if the production efficiency is slightly lower, the total cost can be reduced a lot.

Not only that, as the workers become more proficient, production efficiency will also increase. In the end, their overall production efficiency can surpass most carpenters, providing greater profits for the owner of the workshop.

The most important thing is that the number of carpenters is limited, and it is impossible to train too many. It takes at least five years to train a skilled carpenter. This is just to make stools. The thing is a little more complicated, and it may even take up to ten years.

In contrast, it takes a few months to train a batch of skilled workers for streamlining operations at most.

This means that the workshop can have a high output, enough to open up the supply and occupy the market.

In this world, most of the handicrafts are in short supply, so the price is often a little high-for example, a stool, in some remote places where carpenters are in short supply, its price may even be equivalent to that of a prosperous place Four or five times.

In fact, in those remote and poor places, people directly use wooden stakes as stools.

Although the stake may be made into three or four stools, its price is often less than one-tenth of the price of a stool.

An example can illustrate the problem very well-since the Northwestern Republic used the flow process to produce armor and weapons, the Void City has become the world’s largest trading place for armor and weapons, and it is even moving towards the “world’s The “largest arms supplier” is advancing steadily in this direction.

All of this is only because of an inconspicuous technology.

Sui Xiong did not keep secrets in particular, but the armor and weapon workshops of the Northwest Republic paid great attention to secrecy and never leaked technology.

The Goddess of Wealth did not steal their technology, but he told some big businessmen who believed in himself the idea of ​​"flow process".

Those merchants naturally did not dare to grab business with Void City-probably the goddess of wealth also warned them at the time, but there are so many things that can be produced in the world. They do not produce armors and weapons, but they do not prevent them from producing such things as wood. , Decorations, all kinds of furniture and daily necessities.

Anyway, as long as you can make money, what is produced, is there a big difference?

Just like gold coins...

It’s just that the goddess of wealth did not expect that this thief who rubbed the ball would cause such a huge trouble to herself.

This caught him a bit by surprise, and it made him distressed and unthinkable.

For the past ten years or so, the businessmen have been tolerant and concession. They watched the money they could not make, and felt painful in their hearts.

Now, they finally stopped being patient.

Not only that, in the Gold Coin Federation, the aristocratic faction and the merchant faction are inherently contradictory. This contradiction has been buried almost since the establishment of the country. It has been accumulated and fermented over the years. It is almost like a barrel of gunpowder. Going to Mars may "boom" at any time and blow everyone apart.

The source of the contradiction comes from "how to spend after making money".

Some people want to be safe, so they choose to buy land and population, and manage territories; other people want to be aggressive, so they choose to expand their business and grow their business bigger and bigger.

In the beginning, these two kinds of people were in peace, but over time, the former slowly developed into a nobleman who controlled each territory, and the latter slowly developed into a nobleman who controlled all trade routes. The big businessmen, so the contradiction gradually came-businessmen profited by selling things, and the nobles found that the wealth gained by their own business was far less than the business income ~ IndoMTL.com ~ and demanded to collect taxes from it.

That was the first major conflict between the aristocratic faction of the gold coin federation and the merchant faction. At that time, it almost became a civil war. In the end, under the mediation of the goddess of wealth, the two sides sat down and negotiated. After almost two years of difficult negotiations, they worked out a tax standard that each other could barely accept.

In the future, the lords hope to consolidate their rule, do not allow the presence of powers that threaten their rule in the territory, and the merchants must be able to protect their property wherever they go, and even do not want to threaten themselves The power of property exists.

This is the second major conflict of the Gold Coin Federation. As a result, the merchants naturally gave in. In the end, most of the major commercial banks chose to build their headquarters outside the city, which added a lot of expenses and risks.

The so-called repeating and not repeating, this time the merchants are not willing to give in anymore. They yelled "We have made concessions twice" and demanded that the noble lords also make concessions.

But the noble lords have long been accustomed to businessmen's concessions, how could they be willing to make concessions?

Of course, behind this is the promotion of the Church of the Noble Gods. The Church of the Noble Gods declares that the noble lords should rule their own territories. Apart from their allegiance to the superior lords, they have no need to give in to other secular forces, let alone. Allow those big business organizations that seem to have extraterritorial powers to exist.

This statement is obviously inconsistent with the doctrine of the goddess of wealth, and was scorned by the merchants. However, many nobles did not believe this on the surface, but secretly they often praised this theory. Lobbyists sent by the Church of the Noble Gods are always able to eat and drink in their mansion and receive hospitality from the guests.

"Perhaps..." The Goddess of Wealth was silent for a long time, and finally said sullenly, "I got it wrong from the beginning. A pure merchant country simply cannot exist..."