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Naturally, the Lawrence Knight came for the "Powerful Pill" that could create the miracle of Zào. However, after he explained his intentions, Scrooge shrugged his shoulders at him, spread his hands and said, "My friend, I'm sorry, I can't agree to your request, whether it's licensing production or patent shares." ”

"Why?" Lawrence asked, "If you have something wrong with my conditions, or if you have anything new to build, we can talk about it." ”

"Ah, my friend, you misunderstood." "Personally, of course, I'm willing to continue our cooperation. But, well, maybe you were in a hurry and didn't notice today's news. Scrooge said as he picked up a newspaper from the coffee table and handed it to Lawrence.

Lawrence took the newspaper, glanced at it suspiciously, and saw a line of black letters on the headline: "The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to restrict the export of key technologies related to national security."

"Mr. Lawrence, you know, my business is big and I make more money, so naturally some people look at me unpleasantly. So, well, somebody came up with something like that. Scrooge put on a helpless look, "Although it's just the House of Representatives, the Senate hasn't considered it yet, so this thing hasn't become a bill yet, but at this time, it's still not appropriate for us to talk about this matter, and if someone knows about it, they will label me a traitor." Of course, I'm trying to get to the Senate. If the Senate vetoes this bill, we will have no problem continuing to work together on this issue. ”

This situation was obviously not expected by Lawrence, and who knows how the US Congress could suddenly jump out of this madness.

"If your parliament were to continue to do so detrimental to the freedom of business, the United Kingdom would not do nothing." Lawrence thought for a moment and said.

"I also want you to put a little bit of pressure on the kids in Congress to let them know that it's immoral to interfere with the freedom to do business." Scrooge replied.

"If we can't talk about co-production for the time being," Lawrence said, "then we want to be able to get sales agency rights in Europe." ”

Listening to Lawrence's words, Scrooge unconsciously sneered in his heart. "Powerful pills" have now become a strategic material, and the benefits of being able to monopolize the sales of such things are of course very huge. If this is indeed achieved, the British can even use it to influence the situation in Europe at will. But because of this, such conditions cannot be agreed to in any case. Otherwise, Scrooge would be making wedding clothes for others.

"Mr. Lawrence, you should understand that such a condition cannot be accepted. There are both economic and political reasons for this. And I also don't like this kind of practice that undermines the normal principles of free trade. Therefore, it is impossible for me to agree to conditions such as to whom the commodity should not be sold, but only to whom. However, considering that we have been working together very happily, I can give His Royal Highness some discounts on the price. Of course, this is not without a price. ”

Lawrence had pretty much figured it out now: Scrooge felt that he already had enough power of his own, and he didn't want to share his interests with others any longer. Lawrence knew that Scrooge was now one of the most important patrons of the Republican Party, and in the North, the Republican Party had largely inherited the legacy of the previous Whig Party, whether in the House of Representatives, which determines the number of seats by the number of seats, or in the Senate, which is determined by the number of states, the Republican Party, and the pro-Republican forces have already controlled the majority of seats (of course, this also made President Buchanan lame early). Under such circumstances, if Scrooge was unwilling, how could the House of Representatives pass such a bill? This bill may have been instructed by Scrooge himself to be made by others, in order to use the power of the US government to reject them and monopolize the profits that "Mighty Pill" can bring.

However, the more he understood this, the more dismayed Lawrence became, and if it were in other countries, the British Empire could use its own economic and military power to force the other side into submission. But with the United States, it's not so easy. At a time when the situation in Europe is uncertain, it is completely impossible to send troops to threaten the United States. As for economic sanctions, well, the US president may be worried, but the sub-Republicans in the US Congress are desperate to trade with the British. Because they are trying to take advantage of this opportunity to raise American tariffs, so that the manufactured goods of Europe, especially the British, can be driven out of the American market and make room for the industries of the North.

After thinking about this, Lawrence Knight felt extremely frustrated. Since he doesn't have a trump card in his hand that can make his opponent submit, he can only stop and listen to his opponent's opinion first.

"And Mr. MacDonald, what kind of conditions do you have?" Lawrence asked.

"Mr. Lawrence, we need to buy a lot of raw materials, saltpeter, opium, and many other things. Especially saltpeter and opium. If His Royal Highness is able to provide us with saltpeter and opium at a lower price than the market price, we will naturally be able to provide His Royal Highness with medicines at a better price. In this way, both of us can benefit. What do you think of this deal? ”

Scrooge needed a lot of saltpeter, which was not unexpected by the British. Just as many people in the United States have seen the possibility of a civil war, the British have also noticed this, and many people are waiting for this war to break out so that they can make some money. So Lawrence also understood, and Scrooge must have known this, so he wanted to hoard a batch of saltpeter in advance to make money. As for opium, because of the previous cooperation, the British already knew that one of the raw materials for the preparation of heroin, the miracle drug that cures all diseases, is opium. They were rejoicing that the opium they had grown in India had a new use, and they certainly would not object to the idea that the Americans would also increase their imports. As long as these manufactured goods are not sold in British possessions.

So, after some haggling, Lawrence and Scrooge finally reached a preliminary intention to buy "Mighty Pills" and other businesses, and now they are waiting for the final approval from the Prince's side.

After sending off the big customer, Scrooge looked through the company's orders, and now the production capacity of McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company had begun to become a bottleneck. Expanding production is imperative, but the construction of new factories will take time and will not be urgent. Perhaps, it's time to move out the big killer of assembly line production.

So, after spending the night in detail, Scrooge carefully studied the current production process, and Scrooge separated these disability processes into more than a dozen independent steps that were connected to each other, and then found the engineers in charge of production and began to discuss how to improve the production process.

The way of assembly line production is a revolution compared to the previous production method. This is not only because under this mode of production, the workers do not need to move, do not need to carry out overly complicated operations, so that the efficiency of production becomes higher, but also that in the game between the capitalists and the workers, its emergence makes the advantages of the capitalists more obvious. First of all, in this mode of production, the difficulty of training workers is reduced, and a worker will no longer need to be responsible for so many things, and naturally he will not need to master so many skills, which makes it easier for capitalists to find workers who are competent enough for the job, and the status of the original workers with "skills" is relatively reduced. Secondly, in this way, it is easier for capitalists to raise the intensity of labor higher. For example, one of the easiest ways to do this is to speed up the conveyor belt. The amount of work that workers have to complete in the same working hours increases, so the labor intensity is unconsciously increased. Before the advent of this mode of production, although the factory had been using the machine for a long time, the production at this time was still the production of the workers using the machine, even if the machine they used was large, it was still under the control of the workers. And after adopting this assembly line production method, the workers are no longer human beings, at least when they are working. He was alienated into a part of the monster machine of the assembly line. Now, it is no longer the machine that is manipulating the machine to produce, but the machine itself is manipulating the workers' production, which is the real big machine production!

However, the more monotonous and unchanging the repetitive operation, the more likely it is to get tired. And once the workers are exhausted, their efficiency will drop rapidly, and all kinds of mistakes will continue to occur. Therefore, in the history of the original time and space, Ford, which was the first to use assembly line production, took the lead in giving workers an eight-hour working day, and this is not because of the conscience of the capitalists that some people claim, it is hard to imagine, like Henry? Ford, an anti-union man who openly claims that workers don't need brains at all, really has such a virgin conscience. In fact, the real reason is that not many people can maintain without making mistakes after more than eight hours of high-intensity labor on the assembly line. However, the characteristics of the pipeline make an error in any link interfere with other links. Therefore, when the workers are allowed to work longer, it is no longer as efficient to make money as it is to simply recruit another batch of workers.

However, Scrooge has a way to break through this time limit, because he has the all-powerful "strong pill" in his hands, but Scrooge does not intend to make the labor hours longer, and it is too obvious to do so. He only planned to give the workers some "strong pills" first, and then let the assembly line turn a little faster.