Struggle in the Steam Age

"In terms of maintaining the honor of the family, everyone is actually doing a good job now, not to mention the salary and benefits we provide to the workers. This can already be reflected in the products alone."

After a simple beating, Lawrence felt that he should encourage everyone. After all, after his overt and indirect inspections, he found that the whole factory was indeed running well. Whether it is the ideological guidance of the development of the entire factory or the industrial operation, there are no major problems.

"For example, the products we are producing now fill in the gaps and enable those who could not afford to enjoy this type of food to enjoy these safe, nutritious and delicious foods. I hope that everyone can maintain this in the future and provide the whole society with More and better food." Lawrence encouraged everyone.

"Understood, we will insist on doing this in the future." The managers in front of Lawrence promised in unison.

For these managers, they didn't understand Lawrence's business plan at the beginning, because it was not quite the same as the current management methods in various factories.

But after following the method explained by Lawrence for a while, they also realized the advantages of Lawrence's business plan.

On the one hand, these new products proposed by Lawrence were aimed at entirely new markets, basically without competitors during this time.

Therefore, while these new products accurately met a part of the demand, they also made huge profits for Lawrence and the others. For example, in addition to the initial investment, the profits during this period and the expected good prospects are enough for those banks to issue them a lot of low-interest loans.

With these low-interest loans, the entire factory soon entered a period of rapid development.

On the other hand, when the entire factory entered a period of rapid development, the management of these factories also realized the benefits of giving those workers better treatment according to Lawrence's request.

When they needed to recruit new workers, they found that many skilled workers came from various places to apply.

You know, the most important thing for a factory is the workers besides the machines. In the case of similar machines, the production efficiency between novice and skilled workers can be said to be very different.

After Lawrence asked the factory to increase the benefits to the workers, the workers had more time to receive those free vocational education.

At the same time, because of these benefits, those trained hands basically stayed in the factory. In this way, Lawrence's factory naturally became one of the factories with the highest production efficiency in this area.

After operating the factory according to Lawrence's order, these managers found that although the expenditure was indeed higher at the beginning, after the factory was put into normal operation, those additional expenditures were quickly made up by the additional profits generated by the increase in production efficiency. . At the same time, it has also gained a reputation far exceeding other factories.

For these retainers belonging to Earl Sauer, although making money is a very important thing, the glory of the nobility is more important to them than making money.

Therefore, the managers of these dairy factories immediately assured Lawrence when he asked him that the operation of the entire factory would continue in accordance with the original practice.

"I really didn't expect a factory to bring benefits to those who are related to the factory besides making money." After inspecting the dairy factory and moving to the next stop, Safiel expressed emotion to Lawrence.

"You know, I have been to Britton, a country where the industrial revolution broke out in the west of the mainland, to study before. But there, I saw that the workers lived poorly. Even hard work can only barely feed the family .”

"This is about distribution." After hearing Safir's question here, Lawrence decided to tell his fiancée about this matter. In any case, the two will live together for a long time afterwards. So it is an inevitable choice to talk to each other at this time.

"Wealth is very important, but for us, there are many things that are more important than wealth, such as reputation and social contribution."

"Those factory owners are an obvious counterexample. They obviously only have money in their eyes. If the churches have not been staring at them and forced them to formulate minimum wage policies and labor protection measures, I believe that the wages they pay workers may be At best, the workers will not starve to death."

"But we must never do this. At least in my opinion, if we want to make more money, we should adopt methods such as updating technology and training workers to improve labor efficiency. Robbery. That's evil and unhonourable—"

Safir was born in a commoner family like Lawrence, and his previous life experience was also very simple. Therefore, she was able to understand what Lawrence said very well, and she would not be filled with ignorance like some people who can say why they don't eat cake without bread.

"Your Excellency Lawrence, Miss Coburg, what you said is very good." Just as they got off the bus at the gate of the next stop, Bach, who was driving for them, put his right hand on his chest and bowed, and then there was a kind of worship in his eyes. Said the color.

"Several generations of Earl Sauer have been saying this and doing the same. According to them, the Sauer family should strive for every bit of their own interests, but don't reach out to take even a little bit of their own interests, no matter how many. "

"That's right, especially the latter is difficult for ordinary people to do." Lawrence said when he got off the carriage. "It is not difficult for everyone to fight for their own interests, but it is too difficult for everyone to curb their inner greed and not take those interests that do not belong to them. Should be aware of that."

"Of course, Your Excellency, of course it should be." After hearing what Lawrence said, Bach bowed to him again, and then guided him into the canning factory.

Compared with the past, the canning factory has not changed much, but after Lawrence brought more cheap tropical spices and adjusted his attitude towards workers, the production efficiency and profit margin of this factory are the same as those under the management of the warlords in the past. Compared with the next one, it has improved a lot.

This situation is also caused by many reasons, the core of which is that the quality of the staff of the group of warlords is really appalling.

Because the conditions in this area are better than those small islands in the Sea of ​​Stars anyway. Therefore, warlords often give management positions as rewards to some of their followers who have meritorious service.

Compared with the personnel selected by Lawrence who had management experience, the personnel sent by the warlord had at most only had experience in managing those serfs or even slave plantations.

Obviously, the methods of oppressing serfs that were used on a small island in the Sea of ​​Stars are not allowed to be used here at all.

Not to mention that the subordinates of those warlords did not have many good people in the true sense. They were basically a group of guys who would never give up if they had a chance to make a fortune.

As a result, these factories have basically not made any money since they were run by the warlords. It just fattened up those batch after batch of managers.

And this is why Lawrence was able to quickly turn the meat canning factory into a profit without updating the factory machinery.

In this era, many factories can really make a lot of money as long as they can start operations smoothly. Unfortunately, too many people don't know how to run a factory.

"It seems that it is not too difficult to make money by operating a factory these days." After visiting the canning factory, Safiel came to such a conclusion, and at the same time, new doubts arose in his heart.

"But why did you sell all the wool mills and leather processing factories in the batch of factories you acquired?"