Chapter 629: Ways to Increase Productivity

"Then do you have any good ideas for the development of the Qin State?" Guiguzi asked.

Huang Shi also looked at Qin An curiously, for the current Great Qin, to be honest, it was much better than the original Seven Kingdoms.

But even in such a Qin State, Huang Shi and the others still wanted to make them better.

Qin An thought for a moment and said, "Teacher, in fact, I have told my father-in-law about this before, developing agriculture, commerce, culture, industry and other industries.

In developing a country, productivity comes first. Therefore, no matter how poor you are, you have to come up with money to support productivity.

There are several ways to improve productivity: First, optimize the production process and improve efficiency. To put it simply, it is to specify the pipeline.

I know that Daqin's production of bows and arrows is made in an assembly line way, and the speed of making them is quite fast.

And I've also mentioned the assembly line, and you've seen the assembly line, so I won't talk much about the assembly line."

Guiguzi said, "Qin An, can you briefly talk about it?"

In fact, in the field, Guiguzi and Huangshi didn't know the assembly line.

Qin An also remembered, and immediately showed an apologetic smile, and said, "Teacher, I'm very sorry, I forgot that you and Mr. Huang Shi are both here for the first time.

Let me briefly talk about the assembly line, in fact, the assembly line is to divide an item into many processes, each process only needs one person to complete, and finally the item is made.

Think of it as an arrow. An arrow usually consists of three parts: an arrowhead, a shaft, and a feather.

So we can make the dimensions and divide the people who make the arrows into three batches. The first batch made arrow shafts, the second batch made arrow feathers, and the third batch made arrowheads.

The three groups of people can do their own thing, and they don't have to care whether the other two groups can do a good job.

As long as the first batch of arrows is made and can be used, the arrow assembly line is officially formed.

Because just one thing is made, practice makes perfect, and what was originally a hundred arrows a day can become hundreds a day, and the efficiency has increased several times."

"It's an assembly line." Guiguzi said, "Not only has the efficiency of the workers improved, but the most important thing is that everyone only does one thing, and does not do the second thing at all.

Therefore, the secret of the workshop can be guarded, because everyone except the master will only do one thing, and he only knows one process."

"Sort of." Qin An said, he didn't expect Guiguzi to see the essence at once.

Although the assembly line can improve productivity, it can also protect the secrets of the business. The purpose of the businessman who invented the assembly line was to protect trade secrets.

It's just that the other party didn't expect that it could improve productivity, so the assembly line was completely popular.

Qin An continued, "The goal is clear, no matter what time it is, there will be waste, so after the goal is clear, you can reduce waste.

Less waste is more productivity, just like gambling, not gambling is winning.

The third is to improve the method, improve the production efficiency, to put it bluntly, to make better tools to replace the existing tools.

Fourth, delegate work to others, like a can of fruit."

Qin An took a bottle of canned fruit from the cabinet in the private room and said, "You see, this canned fruit is composed of three parts: fruit, glass bottle and lid.

Can we give the glass bottle and lid to someone else to make, we just need to have the fruit.

There are even smart people who only have the technology, the glass bottle, the lid and the fruit are all bought by others."

"Why is that?" Huangshi asked.

Qin An said with a smile: "Mr. Huangshi, the workshop is set up for business, and a glass bottle is only worth a few dollars, even if the glass workshop provides a glass bottle for canned fruits, will the rest be wasted?"

Unless you're going to pull customers."

"Then let's go get customers." Gan Mao said.

Qin An shook his head and said, "Lao Gan, don't forget, they only make canned fruits, if other people come to you to buy glass bottles, that

The other party also makes canned fruit.

In this way, both parties are competitors, and as competitors, how can they buy each other's things.

So they'd rather make their own glass bottles like you do, or buy them from other people, and they won't buy yours."

Unless, unless, in your glass workshop, you have to make not only glass bottles, but also others, but then you have to send more people, and then the wages will have to be doubled.

You may be able to afford it at first, but you will definitely not be able to afford it after a long time, and in addition to glass bottles, there are bottle caps, and sugar for canned fruit, and so on.

So it's an unreasonable arrangement.

The most reasonable arrangement is to divide the work and make canned fruits, and let other people produce glass bottles, lids, and rock sugar, and don't participate in it."

"Then we're only going to make canned fruit for the rest of our lives?" Gan Mao asked.

Qin An shook his head and said, "Of course not. But that's something new, business."

"Corporate?" Everyone involuntarily read it again.

Qin An nodded and said, "To put it simply, an enterprise is an organization or several workshops united called an enterprise, but an enterprise is not an ordinary small workshop.

The enterprise has at least 1,000 workers, and the annual income is at least tens of millions to be called an enterprise.

The canned fruit that I just mentioned, once the canned fruit is bigger, you feel that the profit has reached the peak, then start to do something else.

And this can be the same dietary products, such as jerky, dried fruit, canned meat, etc.

It can also be cement, real estate, steel and other industries.

If you put all these businesses together, then it's a business.

After you put all your businesses together and turn them into one business, you can go public and then list them on a securities company.

You don't need to understand this for the time being, and it's useless to understand, you can't get a stock market out of ten miles and eight towns."

"The stock market?"

The crowd heard a new term.

Gan Mao asked curiously again, "Sir, just talk about the stock market, even if you can't do it, at least you can understand it."

Qin An sighed and said, "But I don't know anything about the stock market. But I can explain the meaning of this stock market with a simple stock market."

"I want to hear about it." Gan Mao said.

Everyone also looked at Qin An with expectant eyes.

Qin An thought for a moment and said, "There was once a merchant who bought a lot of soybeans, and he couldn't find out that he had bought all the soybeans in the entire city, but he couldn't sell them for a while.

So he came up with a way to tell the others, saying that the emperor liked to eat soybeans.

Suddenly, soybeans became a sought-after food, and all the people began to rush to buy soybeans like crazy.

But the soybeans were in the hands of the merchant, and the merchant sold them for a good price."