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The members of the Schneider family standing behind Eugène finally couldn't help it, like angry vampires crawling out of the coffin of a deep castle, trying to break the literati in front of them into pieces. Before Eugène could speak, Ahlers, who held the position of manager of the production department, stood up directly and said angrily, "How do we Schneider family want you to be managed by an outsider?" Get out of here before we have a seizure! ”

"Shut up, don't be unreasonable."

Standing in front of him Eugène was like an angry bull, even if he was fifty or sixty years old, his temper had not changed compared to before, Alas was stunned, he didn't expect his uncle to show such angry emotions, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to take a step back, hide behind the crowd, and look at the uninvited guest with a resentful look. I can't wait to eat each other alive.

Eugène scolded the younger generation behind him, fearing that they had violated Napoleon's taboo, and he had already inquired about Garion's glorious deeds from Fulder's mouth, unless the Schneider family had the aura of the protagonist, and offended Garion even if he didn't die, he had to peel off a layer of skin.

Garion remained smiling, and he was much more indifferent than the members of the Schneider family who stood on the opposite side, because he was in an absolute advantage, and no matter what the Schneider family did, he could not shake his position. On the contrary, as long as I attach myself to Napoleon III and say a few words, I am afraid that the Schneider family's arms orders in the second half of this year will disappear.

One of the main reasons why Gary chose to visit Eugène at this time was that the Chasepo rifle had already passed the test of the French Rifle Test Commission, and would begin large-scale production, and on August 30 next year, the Chasepo rifle would be approved for the French army, and in the same year Chasepo was awarded the Legion of Honor and a reward of 30,000 francs.

Large orders are endless wealth for the Schneider family.

It's a pity that smokeless gunpowder will not be available for another 20 years, otherwise Garion would have liked to replace the French's Lebel rifle with Mauser or Mosin Nagant. However, now Chasepo had enough advantages, and what he needed was to increase the pitiful caliber of Napoleon's cannons.

After all, caliber is justice, and finishing only exists within range.

"I know that the Schneider family has now received a large-scale order, but Your Excellency Eugène, if I say that there is a way to make your current factory operation several times more efficient and save costs, if you think that the plan I provide is not worth it, then I will immediately turn around and leave, absolutely without mentioning a word."

"Okay, then you can say it."

Garion's gaze swept over the unconvinced crowd in front of him, and asked casually, "Now Schneider's production weapons are all produced and installed by manual workers, right?" ”

"Yes, so what?"

"The Schneider family has trained a bunch of skilled workers to be responsible for the manufacture and installation of firearms, but have you ever thought about the problem, don't you think it's ridiculous to use this kind of manual production when you can produce weapons more quickly?"

A faster way to produce?

Eugène's originally arrogant heart gradually calmed down, how to increase production capacity and reduce costs was indeed a problem that had plagued him for a long time, but he didn't quite believe that the man in front of him could give a definite answer to this question.

"It's easier to let one person produce a part of a firearm than to let one person produce a whole firearm, and in the end we only need to assemble the rifle at a much faster speed than a worker's meticulous crafting, this is assembly line production, understand? Schneider family fools, otherwise how many skilled workers can you train to toss? ”

As early as 1769, the Englishman Josiah Wedgwood opened the Etruscan ceramic factory, which implemented a fine division of labor in the field, which can be regarded as the originator of assembly line production, but it was only in the era of Henry Ford, that is, the founder of Ford Motors, that the assembly line process developed and expanded.

Garion only gave Eugène a wake-up call, but it was like a slap in the face. His expression grew solemn, and what Garian had said made him finally realize what the problem was.

"You know what?"

Ahlers, who was a head shorter than Garion, rushed out and sneered, "Do you know how many workers it will cost us to do this, and how many workers we will employ?" You, a layman, don't understand anything at all, and if you go according to what you say now, the labor costs we spend will be higher than before. ”

"Shut up."

Eugène angrily interrupted his nephew's rambling, and after thinking for a moment, he finally apologized to Garion, "Please forgive my nephew's rudeness, and I think that Garion's advice is very effective, we were just thinking about blindly training skilled workers, but we didn't expect that we could improve efficiency in this way. ”

"Uncle ......"

"I told shut up."

Eugène smacked his cane on the ground, and the Schneider family members behind him were suddenly silent. Although I was a little unwilling in my heart, I was helpless.

After all, seniority and seniority are over there, and no one dares to look directly into Eren's eyes.

Garion admired his good-natured attitude, but today he was not here to propose friendship with the Schneider family, he had come to the town of Le Quiso with ambition and secrecy.

Chasebo was powerful enough to beat the Prussians, and there was no need to improve it, the only thing that Garion cared about was Krupp's cannon, and the French would feel the horror of crowd tactics and the despair of artillery fire in the Franco-Prussian War.

And Napoleon III would lose all of Paris in despair.

"Oh, Mr. Eugène, shall we now come to the question of artillery?"

Garian supported the elderly Eugène, and the two walked in the direction of the factory with a smile and a smile, during which Galian said a word, which made Eugène's expression suddenly become serious.

Garion whispered, "The Tuileries wants to eliminate a number of outdated bronze cannons in recent years and forge large-caliber steel cannons. If Schneider can design a qualified sample, I think"

"Large-caliber steel cannon?"

Eugène said hesitantly, "But no one has been able to ...... yet."

"Who says no one can make it?"

Garion immediately retorted and moved out of Eugène's old rival, stimulating Eugène's self-esteem.

"The Krupp factory has been designed now, otherwise why did I come to Schneider in a hurry, you are the hope of the entire French nation!"

"What? Krupp has already made it? ”

Eugène's face suddenly changed in shock, and his face turned red from anger.

"Damn Krupp!"