Claude Lee, the director of the metal smelter under the United Machinery Group, was a little surprised that he could become the director of a 500-person factory, after all, not so long ago, he was just an ordinary old accountant facing unemployment in the factory.

Not long ago, the metal smelter where he worked was still the private property of Congressman Lloyd, this metal smelter has been built for 30 years, and it has been brilliant, it is the largest metal smelter in the eastern region of the entire Kingdom of England, with thousands of employees, and nearly half of the steel used in the fleet of the Kingdom of Ingge's dominant sea comes from this factory, and Lloyd's re-election in the parliamentary seat has something to do with this factory.

It's just that as the Academies of Sciences around the world have successively developed new forging furnaces and new metal formulas, the old smelting tools have begun to fail to keep up with the times and have been phased out, and the old smelters that use these smelting tools have either closed their doors or purchased new forging furnaces to complete mechanical upgrades.

Either option is not a good choice for the employees of the smelter, because both options mean that the employees will be fired, the difference is only that most of them will be fired, and one will be laid off completely.

However, for the middle and senior management of the factory, it is natural to hope that the factory will complete the upgrade of new equipment, because in that case, even if the factory wants to fire people, they will not be fired.

But in the end, things went in the worst direction, Lloyd had built some networks in Congress and the government through his status as a member of Congress over the years, and the smelter was no longer of much help to him, and because of the aging equipment, it became a burden, so he decided to close the factory without much thought, and then demolish the factory and convert the factory land into a shared apartment, which was rented to the French refugees who fled from the Vilen continent.

After the decision was made, Lloyd began to dismiss the employees in the factory, and Claude Lee's name was on the list of the first employees to be fired, and he was also the first middle and senior to be fired.

The reason why Claude Lee became the first person to be fired is mainly because he is too honest and upright, and he does not fit in with any middle and senior management in the factory, if he does not have very good accounting skills, maybe he would have been swept away.

Now that the factory is going to be closed, there is no need for accounting, after all, there is such an honest and honest accountant in charge of the accounts, how can the middle and senior management of those factories get enough oil and water from the severance pay of employees.

However, what is unexpected is that before the first batch of employees who were fired completed the resignation procedures, a new notice came, Lloyd sold the entire factory and land, and the new owner of the factory will not close the factory, but will upgrade the equipment and expand the scale, which means that no current employees will be fired, and it is more likely to recruit workers.

This news undoubtedly made all the people in the factory happy, after all, no one wants to be unemployed, especially when there is a large influx of Francose refugees, these refugees are willing to exchange lower wages for a job, and the vast majority of these refugees are Miria, those have very professional qualities that make the merchants and factories in the city more willing to hire these people, because of the problem of work, there are many conflicts between the locals of England and the refugees of France.

It is precisely because of the disaster of unemployment that the people in the factory are extremely grateful to the new owner of the factory, and are ready to show their enthusiasm and respect when the other party comes to inspect the factory.

However, it was disappointing that the new owner of the plant did not come the next day, but sent his butler to announce a series of decisions to reorganize the factory, and the most surprising of these decisions was the appointment of Claude Lee, the former accountant, as the director of the plant, in addition to merging the entire smelter into a group of companies.

Everyone at the smelter wondered why Claude Lee was able to gain the trust of the new owner of the plant and become the director of the plant, but Claude Lee himself knew why he had been entrusted with the task, because he knew the steward of the new owner.

In fact, when he was appointed as the factory director, Claude Lee was also extremely surprised, and his accident was not only because of the change of his identity and position, but also because of the change of the identity of the housekeeper.

He still remembered the last time he saw this man, who was picking up scraps and begging on the side of the street, no different from the refugee beggars in the city, or even worse, and then he didn't see this person for a long time, and he thought that this person was dead.

So he never thought that the down-and-out old man would appear in front of him with such a completely different appearance now, and if it weren't for the words of thanks that the old man said after seeing him, he might not be sure of his guess.

In fact, in his heart, he didn't think that the things he had done were worthy of such a reward, because the old man's begging and picking up scrap area happened to be near his home, and he could see this old man every time he commuted to work.

Out of sympathy, he also took away the leftover food in the factory canteen every time he went to work and gave it to this person, but he didn't expect that the leftover food would eventually be exchanged for the current position, which made him in a trance all day long, feeling whether he was living in a dream.

However, despite the appointment of the new director of the factory, and the fact that the old man showed extraordinary support, Claude Lee was still a little nervous in his heart, because he knew very well how capable he was, and it was not too much of a problem to let him take care of the accounts, but it was a little too much to let him manage the whole factory.

To this end, he specially found the old housekeeper Sanjes, explained his situation, and expressed the hope that the old housekeeper could re-elect a competent factory director.

However, the old housekeeper did not agree to his request, but took him to the real owner of the factory, and took the initiative to express to the owner of the factory that he hoped to be his teacher while taking care of the apartment, teaching him how to manage a factory, which was also the first time he saw the appearance of the owner of the factory.

Originally, Claude Lee knew about those rich people, and it was impossible for the old housekeeper to agree to his request, but what was a little surprising was that the owner of the factory actually agreed.

After that, according to the old housekeeper's arrangement, he took two hours a day to receive the training of the old housekeeper, and also asked the old housekeeper for help for some problems encountered when he was managing the factory, and obtained the guidance of the old housekeeper.

Under the guidance of the old housekeeper, Claude Lee fired the factory to remove the moth, re-established a more effective and fair reward system, and hired some new workers from the refugees and locals respectively, secretly promoted competition with each other, and improved the efficiency of the factory, and with the implementation of a series of measures, he also quickly changed from a middle-aged accountant to a smelter director.

During this time, various rumors circulated among the workers in the factory, the most numerous of which were speculation about what kind of new owner of the factory was, in addition to how Claude Lee became the factory manager.

After a period of inquiry, the workers in the smelter already had a certain understanding of the financial resources of the new owner of the plant, because they knew that the smelter where they worked was not the first factory to be acquired, and that there were a total of five large and small factories in the entire factory area that were acquired by this person and merged into a new company called the United Machinery Group.

In terms of size and number of workers alone, the boss of this United Machinery Group has become the largest factory owner in the whole port of Set, and more importantly, these factories that were about to close down have regained their improvement after restructuring and equipment upgrades, especially in the recent past, some new products assigned to produce have become bestsellers on the market, and the orders of various factories have increased as a result, and there have been signs of prosperity. Even the most sluggish person can see that if this continues to develop benignly, the United Machinery Group will inevitably become the largest machinery and metal manufacturer in Port Sette and even in the entire Kingdom of England.

In a large number of rumors about the owner of the factory, everyone is most concerned about the appearance and age of the owner, because the boss of the United Machinery Group has never appeared in any of the subordinate factories, and the management of the factory is supervised and operated by some professional managers led by the old housekeeper, and the factory management is all entrusted to the newly appointed director of the factory.

It is precisely for this reason that the vast majority of the people in the factory do not know anything about the new owner of the factory, but it does not prevent them from conjecturing about this person, and almost the vast majority of people guess that the owner of the factory should be an old nobleman with a territory, because only such a nobleman can come up with a large sum of money to buy some factories that are about to go bankrupt, without worrying about the failure of investment.

However, Claude Lee, who had been to the apartment and met the new owner of the factory, knew very well that the new owner of the factory was not an old nobleman at all, but a young man, and it was not clear whether he was a nobleman or not, and when he saw that person, he felt that the person's temperament was very complicated, like a scholar, like a warrior, and also a bit like those seafarers on the dock who often ventured outside, except that he did not look like a nobleman, nor like a businessman.

Although Claude Lee had met the new owner of the factory, he did not show it, he did not know why his young boss wanted to hide his identity, but he knew very well what he should do, at least until the boss took the initiative to reveal his identity, he must not reveal a word.

Originally, Claude Lee felt that he needed to hide the secret about his boss's appearance for a long time before he could tell it, but what he didn't talk about was that such an opportunity came soon, and without him opening his mouth, the people in the factory already knew that their boss was a young man.

On this day, Claude Lee cleaned up his office as usual, and then began to inspect the workshop and check the raw materials.

It's just that as soon as he walked out of the office, a factory doorman hurried over and told him that the old housekeeper was here, and there was a young man who came with the old housekeeper, and judging from the old housekeeper's attitude, this young man seemed to be his master, that is, the owner of the factory.

When Claude heard that there was a young man beside the old butler, he immediately thought of his mysterious boss, so he asked the doorman to take him there at first opportunity.

The factory guard did not take Claude to the parking lot next to the entrance of the factory, but took Claude directly to the first smelting furnace workshop.

The first smelting furnace is a new smelting furnace after the reorganization of the factory, the main body of the furnace is the latest smelting furnace directly used in the Kingdom of Mares, but the internal structure of this furnace is not the original furnace, when it was assembled, the old housekeeper came here with a drawing, responsible for supervising the transformation of the furnace, and transformed the inside of the furnace into another look.

At that time, the workers in charge of assembly did not know the reason for such a transformation, and they also thought that this transformation would damage the furnace, but under the strict instructions of the old housekeeper, they had to follow the drawings to transform separately, so when the furnace transformation was completed and the first pilot fire began, they were gloating in their hearts, thinking that the stove would definitely not ignite the fire, and even if it was lit, the temperature of the furnace could not meet the requirements.

What everyone didn't expect was that the renovated furnace ignited very smoothly, and the temperature inside the furnace also exceeded the maximum temperature when the furnace was originally designed in a short period of time, until it was nearly doubled before it stabilized.

The time it takes to reach this temperature is several times faster than any other furnace on the market, and there is no need for a furnace to maintain the temperature stability, and the most terrible thing is that the fuel consumption is only half of the original melting furnace.

Claude knew very well what kind of sensation this stove would cause if it was spread out, so the first thing he thought of at that time was to hide the news, because this kind of sensational effect would not bring any benefit to the factory, but would make the kingdom's high-level covet this furnace and use some illegal means to take away this furnace.

However, it is clear that the old housekeeper sees this kind of problem farther than him, and thinks about it earlier, before the renovation of the furnace, he signed a confidentiality agreement with all the technicians and workers involved in the transformation, once the matter about the furnace is revealed, then everyone will be punished by the agreement, and the punishment cost is high, but it is just beyond the psychological bottom line of the participants.

At the same time, after the old housekeeper also tested the effect of the furnace, he immediately signed a long-term contract with the royal family for the long-term supply of high-grade steel at a low price, tying the factory and the royal family together, and completely solving this worry.

Among the factories under the United Machinery Group, the smelter was able to turn a profit in a short period of time and become the largest profitable factory in the group, largely relying on this unrivaled transformation of the smelting furnace.

So when he learned that the old housekeeper and the young man went directly to the first smelting furnace workshop after entering the factory, Claude wondered if he was going to renovate the smelting furnace again, and if so, how effective would the new smelting furnace be?