The so-called assembly line operation 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 operations. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a practical example, to make a stool, you need to first make planks and sticks, then make the planks into the top, make the sticks into the legs and bars, and finally assemble them.

If you ask a carpenter to do it, he needs to find the right tree, then cut down the tree and make it into wood, then process the wood into planks and sticks, and then make the stool bit by bit. In this way, of course, a carpenter can only make one stool at a time, and it takes a lot of time and energy. If you need to make a lot of stools, either be patient or find more carpenters.

However, if you use the assembly line method, the person who cuts the tree only cuts the tree, the person who processes the wood only needs to process the wood, the person who makes the planks and sticks, the person who makes the bench tops, legs and rails, and finally the person who is responsible for assembling it are all different people. They just need to concentrate on a part of their work, and they don't need to know much. In this way, as long as the person with a little training can complete the work, there is no need to labor a skilled worker, a carpenter, for this little thing.

Moreover, since each group of workers is only responsible for their own part, their skills will improve very quickly, and it will not be long before they make a stool no worse than that made by a carpenter.

Because they have always understood only one thing, the wages are naturally not as expensive as those of professional carpenters. So even if the production efficiency is a little lower, the total cost can be reduced a lot.

Not only that, but as workers become more skilled, productivity increases. In the end, their overall productivity surpassed that of most carpenters, providing greater profits for the workshop owner.

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, and this is just to make stools and the like, and if you want to make something more complicated, it may even take ten years.

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

This means that the workshop can have a high production capacity that is open enough to supply and occupy the market.

In this world, most handicrafts are in short supply, so the price is often a little inflated – for example, a stool, in some remote places where carpenters are in short supply, it can even cost four or five times as much as in a prosperous place.

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

Although the stake may be able to make three or four stools, it is often less than a tenth of the price of the stool.

One example is illustrative - since the Northwest Republic used the assembly line method to produce armor and weapons, Void City has become the world's largest trading place for armor and weapons, and is even steadily moving towards the direction of "the world's largest arms supplier".

All of this is because of a mere inconspicuous technology.

Sui Xiong did not keep it particularly secret, but the armor and weapon workshops of the Northwest Republic paid great attention to secrecy and never leaked their technology.

The goddess of fortune did not steal their technology, but she did tell some big businessmen who believed in themselves about the idea of "assembly line operation".

Naturally, those merchants did not dare to compete with the Void City - probably the goddess of wealth had warned them at the time, but there were so many things that could be produced in the world that they did not produce armor and weapons, but it did not prevent them from producing such things as woodware, ornaments, all kinds of furniture and daily necessities.

Anyway, as long as you can make money, what you produce, is it a big difference?

It would be nice if the gold coins were the same......

It's just that the goddess of wealth never thought that this thief who rubbed the edge of the ball would actually bring herself such a huge trouble.

This caught him off guard, and made him even more distressed and unthinkable.

In the past ten years, businessmen have been tolerating and giving in, and they have been seeing that the money they can make cannot be earned, and their hearts are painful and entangled.

Now, at last, they have stopped suffering.

Not only that, in the Gold Coin Federation, there is a contradiction between the aristocratic faction and the merchant faction, and this contradiction has been buried almost since the establishment of the country, and it has been accumulating and fermenting for many years, almost like a barrel of gunpowder, as long as it is stained with sparks, it may "boom" at any time and blow everyone to pieces.

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

Some people want to be safe, so they choose to buy land and people, and manage their territory, while others want to forge ahead, so they choose to expand their business and make it bigger and bigger.

At first, these two kinds of people were untroubled, but as time went on, the former slowly developed into a nobleman who controlled the territory, and the latter slowly developed into a big merchant who controlled the trade routes, so the contradiction gradually came - the merchant made a profit by selling things, while the nobles found that the wealth obtained by their business was far less than that obtained by the merchant, so they demanded taxes from it.

It was the first major conflict between the aristocratic faction and the merchant faction of the Gold Federation, and it almost reached the point of civil war. Eventually, under the mediation of the goddess of wealth, the two sides sat down to negotiate, and after almost two years of difficult negotiations, they worked out a tax standard that was reluctantly acceptable to both sides.

From then on, the lords wanted to consolidate their rule and not allow any forces in their territories to threaten their rule, while merchants wanted to be able to protect their property wherever they went, and even did not want to have forces that could threaten their property.

This was the second major conflict of the Gold Coin Federation, and the result was naturally that the merchants gave in, and in the end, most of the major trading houses chose to establish their headquarters outside the city, which increased a lot of expenses and risks.

The so-called repeated repeated and repeated cannot be repeated, and this time the businessmen will no longer give in. They shouted, "We've backed down twice," and demanded that the noble lords give in.

But the noble lords had long been accustomed to merchant concessions, how could they be willing to give in?

Of course, there is also the promotion of the Church of the Noble God, which claims that the noble lords should rule their own territory, and they have no need to make concessions to other secular forces other than to be loyal to the higher lords, let alone allow the existence of large merchant organizations that seem to have extraterritoriality.

This statement was clearly inconsistent with the teachings of the goddess of wealth, and was ridiculed by the merchants. But many aristocrats don't believe this on the surface, but secretly they often praise and applaud this statement. The lobbyists sent by the Church of the Noble God were always able to eat and drink well in their mansions and be entertained by the guests.

"Perhaps......" The Goddess of Wealth was silent for a long time, and finally said a little listlessly, "I was mistaken from the beginning, a simple merchant country could not exist at all......" (To be continued. )