Chapter 126
2021-01-06
Chapter 126 The great family businessIgor saw oneself's family business a long way away.
No way, the flow operation itself requires a certain space and distance span, and relying on the Blackwater Rush to provide hydraulic power limits the orientation and shape of the production line distribution, which in turn affects the location and appearance of the factory. The factory building is a five-sixty-meter long, 30-40 meters wide, and 7-8 meters high cuboid. From a distance, it looks like a huge vertical waterway of slab bricks running across the Blackwater Rush. Covering an area of several thousand square meters, it may be unremarkable in the industrial area of modern society, but here - in the wilderness outside King's Landing, even in the eyes of Igor, who has guarded Wall, it is eye-catching and eye-catching. Eye-catching, not to mention those natives of this world who have not seen much of the world.
Nina told Igor that when the businessman who invested in the second factory saw the "spectacular" outside several hundred meters, he immediately announced that he would definitely join the game. Now that I think about it, this kind of decisiveness is not without reason - hearing is false, seeing is believing, no matter how hype about the Night's Watch industry by oneself and Tyrion, it is not as good as bringing people over to see with their own eyes. Factory buildings and industrial parks are convincing.
Apart from a workshop that has been put into production and another under construction, there are also many smaller elongated buildings around it, which are about living areas... The specific structure cannot be seen from this distance. The crowd had to move on.
As I approached, Igor made a new discovery. The entire Night's Watch Industrial Park was surrounded by a circle of wooden fences as high as one person. The fences extended slightly to the end of the field of vision. God knows how much land Tyrion has circled. The gap is the entrance and exit, and like schools and companies in modern society, there are doors and big signs... and security rooms. The half-person-high "Night's Watch Industry" has a large row of characters, which can be seen from a long distance.
There is a row of people at the gate, about a dozen people, standing on the side of the road and looking towards King's Landing. Although he can't see his face clearly, the silhouette of one of the dwarfs is quite conspicuous, most likely. That's Tyrion. Jaqen arrived about tens of minutes earlier than Igor, and I don't know how long the line of people waited?
This really makes Igor a little flattered, he and Tyrion are a partnership, they have aristocratic status, and they are very interested in the Night's Watch industry. The contribution of oneself is only above oneself...but in public, it always gives oneself face. There is such a god teammate who not only controls the tiger but also makes you head, taking you acting cool and flying you, who knows the sour and refreshing taste.
After kicking the horse a little, the four quickly approached the gate.
"Igor, it's been a lot of work to go out with King Robert!"
"I didn't do anything, I just played for two months! In the end, I got a big credit by accident." In return, Igor also said modestly: "It's you Tyrion, but I can't even recognize this place!"
Igor dismounted and walked towards oneself's god teammate. The height difference prevented them from hugging each other. , the two had no choice but to give a strong slap and shake hands tightly.
"Attention, this is Igor West, the Legendary who has traveled the world, the Chief Logistics Officer of Night's Watch Legion, the highest manager of the Night's Watch industry, and the Big Brother who is present including me. Boss and top leader!" Tyrion turned around and shouted to the rest of the people who were also waiting at the gate: "Don't run into people next time you don't know them!"
"Welcome, Lord Igor!" Suddenly, the first managers of the Night's Watch industry greeted Igor with loud but uneven voices.
"Hello everyone." Igor smiled and waved his hands. When he visited the paper workshop last time, he had been immersed in the pleasure of being a leader. This time, oneself is really a big leader: "For some reason, I, the founder who should lead everyone to fight together, have not heard from me for two months in a row. Fortunately, there are experts who have the means and wisdom like Tyrion. Of course, everyone's hard work and hard work management also contributed No, please allow me to say thank you!"
"Should be!"
"Igor is very kind."
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"Okay, let's skip the meaningless part, we are still expanding, and it's not time for us to happily tout each other's money." Tyrion interrupted everyone's politeness: "This is the first The Chief-In-Charge of the workshop, Lei Zhe."
It's a workshop director! Igor nodded towards him, remembering what he looked like.
"This is the boss of the construction team working with Night's Watch, Enoch."
The general contractor of the engineering team? Igor also noted his face and name.
"It's the first time I received this kind of big job, and I've been recruiting people, but it's still not enough." The general contractor pretended to complain, but the smile couldn't be concealed at all. In the extremely slow era, people in construction-related industries—masonry, carpenter, and bricklayer, etc., spent most of the year at home in a daze and waited for work. Like today, the work is non-stop, and it is good to count the money until the hand is soft. time, but never even heard of it.
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Tyrion continued to introduce Igor. After a while, these dozen people knew each other with Igor. It was a bit difficult to remember them all. ... In addition, he noticed that most of these people did not have a surname, and even if they had, they were small families that oneself had never heard of.
This is very good, it can effectively prevent the penetration and influence of those Great Family on the Night's Watch industry, and ensure its pure commerciality.
After the introduction, Tyrion waved his hand: "Okay, let's go, take our Big Boss to visit our industrial park!"
In the vast area enclosed by the fence, a large area The undulating and overgrown land has been leveled, and the roads that have been put into use are given priority to paving with stones to ensure firmness. Walking along the gravel road, there is no mud on my feet... Igor can see the signs indicating the direction of the road, and the drainage ditches dug on both sides. These ditches are connected to the Blackwater Rush. Even if it rains heavily, the industrial park will not change. Chengze country.
In the huge first workshop, hundreds of workers are constantly busy, shouting, shouting and commanding. It has been through more than a dozen processes, until the pulp is fished out at the end of the production line, and then sent to another cart to be dried... Obviously there is not much machinery, but forcibly by these passionate workers "in a frenzy" "a feeling of.
It actually takes several days from plant tissue to finally become paper, but relying on the advanced system of flowing water production, at the end of each production line, every minute there are huge pieces that have not been dried and cut. The base paper flows out.
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The resource controller hires employees with free status and conducts large-scale production for the needs of the market... At this level, it is really a bit like the budding of capitalism. But Igor knows that this is just an illusion of prosperity limited to the small scope of Night's Watch Industrial Park: In the paper mill, the management and planning level has indeed reached the world's leading level, but in addition to the material feeding and crushing, the water power is borrowed. , the rest of the steps are still basically dependent on people... And in the vast world outside the circle of wooden fences surrounding the industrial park, Westeros and even the entire Ice and Fire World are still backward and ignorant.
In this world with erratic climate change, if winter comes and lasts for a long time, it can still easily freeze this boom to death in the bud: slow development - and then devastating blow ——struggling on whilst at death's door through the cold winter——once again usher in a summer that can provide society with a slow recovery, and I don’t know how long it will last... It is in this hopeless cycle that people in the world of ice and fire will They have had to live with each other, have low expectations for the future, and do not have a strong will to develop and construct a society. They are still backward looking for thousands of years.
(Only in one Long Summer can the society develop rapidly to the point where it can cope with the cold winter calmly and not let the severe cold destroy business and scientific and technological achievements, can we get out of this damn "cycle of backwardness".)
Of course, this is still an issue that only the highest ruling class needs to consider, and Igor hasn't touched that stage yet. Winter has come, but there is still a short buffer period of a few years from the temperature drop, the entry of autumn and the official arrival of winter. What Igor has to do now is to seize the moment and ensure that oneself can survive safely and decently.
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According to the rules, leaders come to visit and always have to say something, but capital is really the best way to attract talents. Under the planning and improvement of Tyrion's gathering of smart people, papermaking The production mode of the factory has been at the forefront of the current era...everyone has their own speciality, a navigator who thinks about how to attract business and how to control the great ship of the Night's Watch industry, and now he can no longer provide details. 's guidance.
In this case, stop talking nonsense. No matter what era, laymen lead experts and superiors blindly command according to their personal thoughts, which will cause waste of grassroots manpower and emotional dissatisfaction.
Igor spoke highly of the workers' mental state and the smooth coordination and cooperation with each other, and then motioned to the next place. This is still the case in the cutting and printing workshop. The entire group went out of the workshop without stopping and came to those scattered small building areas that were seen before.
He guessed right, these elongated buildings are the living quarters for employees. The staff dormitories are straw mats in the wood house, and the cafeteria is just a few cauldrons and countless rudimentary chairs... Although I knew in my heart that the accommodation conditions were no worse than most ordinary farmers in the world, Igor couldn't bear it. I want to sigh: Even a guy like Tyrion who is a good guy no matter how he looks at it, once he becomes a capitalist, his exploitative nature is still exposed.
"The dormitory should not leak air or water, this is the bottom line; when the funds are enough, try to provide wooden beds, no need to be good, at least ensure that it is off the ground, insect-proof and moisture-proof; Wait until the conditions are met, and then assign a medical office." Igor said to Chief-In-Charge, who managed the logistics, and looked towards the leader of the personnel department: "You can't eat a big pot of rice between employees, and the salary must be divided into high and low. Excellent workers, skilled workers are paid more, and those with multiple skills must keep their minds, this is the most valuable resource!"
"Hurry up and write it down!" Tyrion sang along again.
"Okay, I've seen most of the places, generally... no, it's just a good job, keep it up!" Igor encouraged everyone, "Next, take me to see The training and work of the security team.”
Outsiders only thought that oneself recruited so many people to protect the factory area, but only Igor oneself, plus Tyrion at most, knew that what he wanted was a career army.
To make money, you can do whatever your subordinates do, standing, sitting, lying down, or even running... Just make sure that oneself has enough money when it is used, Igor doesn't care how it comes, but only "Night's" Watch Logistics and Security", he wants to personally watch it take shape and grow, so that it develops exactly as oneself thinks!
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(end of this chapter)