Cthulhu Gonfalon

The so-called flow operation is to divide the production process of one thing into several steps, and then the flow of labor by a number of workers who are only responsible for the individual steps, and finally complete all the work.

To give a practical example, to make a stool, you need to make wooden boards and wooden strips, then make the wooden boards into stools, make the wooden strips into stool legs and crossbars, and finally assemble them.

If you want a carpenter to do it, he needs to find the right tree, then cut down the tree, make it into wood, then process the wood into wooden boards and wooden strips, and then make the stools one by one. In this way, a carpenter can only make a stool at the same time, and it takes a lot of time and energy. If you need to do a lot of stools, either wait patiently or find some carpenters.

However, if you use the flow-through method, you only need to cut trees when you cut trees, and you only need to deal with wood, make wood and wood strips, make stools, bench legs and rails, and finally assemble them. . They don't need to know too much if they concentrate on one part of their work. In this case, as long as it is a clever person, you can complete the work with a little training, you don't have to work for a professional worker - carpenter for this little thing.

Moreover, because each group of workers only needs to be responsible for their own part of the content, their skills will improve quickly, and it will not take long for them to make stools that are no worse than carpenters.

Because they always know the same, the money is not as expensive as a professional carpenter. 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 will increase. In the end, their overall productivity is more than that of most carpenters, providing greater profit to the workshop owners.

The most important thing is that the number of carpenters is limited, and it is impossible to cultivate too much. It takes at least five years to train a skilled carpenter. This is just a stool, if you have to do something complicated. One point may even take ten years.

In contrast, skilled workers who train a batch of waterworks can do it for up to a few months.

This means that the workshop can have a high output, enough to open the supply and occupy the market.

In this world, most handicrafts are in short supply, so the price is often a bit high – for example, a stool, in some remote places where carpenters are scarce, its price may even be four or five times that of a bustling place. .

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

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

There is an example that is very illustrative – since the Northwest Republic used the flow-of-pipe method to produce armor and weapons, the current Void City has become the world’s largest armored arms trading venue, and is even moving towards “the world’s largest arms. The supplier is moving steadily in this direction.

All of this is only because of an inconspicuous technology in the district.

Xiong Xiong is not particularly secretive, but the Armed Forces and Weapons Workshop of the Northwestern Republic pays great attention to confidentiality and never leaks technology.

The goddess of wealth did not steal their technology, but He told the "flow-through" method to some big businessmen who believe in themselves.

Those merchants naturally did not dare to rush with the Nether City - probably the goddess of wealth also warned them at the time, but the world can produce more things, they do not produce armor and weapons, but do not prevent them from producing such things as wood, decorations , a variety of furniture and daily necessities.

Anyway, as long as you can make money and produce anything, is there a big difference?

Just like a gold coin...

It’s just that the goddess of wealth didn’t think that the thief’s behavior of smashing the ball actually brought such a huge trouble to himself.

This made him somewhat unprepared, and made him more annoyed and unthinkable.

In the past ten years, merchants have been tolerating and have been making concessions. They are blindly obsessed with the money they can earn.

Now, they are finally no longer patient.

Not only that, in the gold coin federation, there is a contradiction between the aristocratic faction and the merchants. This contradiction has been buried almost since the establishment of the country. It has been accumulating and fermenting for many years, almost as a barrel of gunpowder, as long as it is stained with Mars. At any time, it is possible to "bang" and blow everyone down.

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

Some people want to be safe, so they choose to buy land and population, and operate territories; others want to be aggressive, so they choose to expand their business and make their business bigger and bigger.

At first, these two kinds of people were safe and sound, but over time, the former slowly developed into aristocrats who mastered one territory, and the latter gradually developed into a big businessman who holds a business path. Then the contradictions gradually came – merchants profited by selling things, and the aristocrats found that the wealth they acquired was far less than the merchants’ trade income, and they demanded tax collection.

It was the first major conflict between the federal aristocracy and the merchants of the gold coin, and it almost made it to 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 drafted a tax collection standard that they could barely accept.

Later, the lords hope to consolidate their rule and not allow the presence of forces on the territory that threaten their rule. Merchants can protect their property wherever they are, and even do not want to have the power to threaten their property. presence.

This is the second major conflict of the gold coin federation. As a result, it is naturally a businessman's concession. In the end, most major commercial banks choose to establish their own headquarters outside the city, which increases the expenses and risks.

The so-called again and again can not be repeated again and again, this time the merchants are no longer willing to give in. They yelled "We have already given in two trips" and asked the nobility lords to give in again.

But the aristocratic lords have long been accustomed to merchant concessions, how can they be willing to give in?

Of course, there is also the promotion of the aristocratic church behind it. The aristocratic church claims that the aristocratic lords should rule their own territory. In addition to the loyalty to the superior lords, there is no need to give in to other secular forces, and there is no need to allow those solitudes. A large merchant organization with extraterritorial jurisdiction exists.

This statement is obviously inconsistent with the teachings of the goddess of wealth, and was scorned by the merchants. However, many aristocrats do not believe this on the surface, but in the dark they often praise this set of praises. The lobbyists sent by the aristocratic churches can always eat and drink in their homes and receive hospitality.

"Perhaps..." The goddess of wealth has been silent for a long time, and finally some sloppily said, "I have made a mistake from the beginning. A simple merchant country cannot exist anymore..."