Chapter 161 Confused Cadres

Onigashima, a meeting of the Beast Pirates leaders.

Kaido sat in the main seat. After reading the report in his hand, he threw it on the table for other cadres to circulate.

Most of the cadres of the Beast Pirates are as uneducated as Kaido, and they probably only glance at the key points, but even if they can't understand the whole and only look at the key points, they can realize the problems.

Every cadre who read the report had surprise and confusion on their faces, wondering why things turned out like this.

"Where is Lu Li? I want him to explain this to me."

Kaido said that the results reflected in the report were contrary to their years of experience in running factories, and even more contrary to their intuition as pirates.

"Mr. Lu set out to sea from the port this morning and should be almost at Ghost Island now."

Yan Liangjin said that during this period, he was the cadre who watched the changes in Wano Country from the closest distance, and he was also the person who had the most contact with Lu Li.

From the initial indifference to the current change of address, you can see the obvious change in his attitude towards Lu Li.

Precisely because this important poster boy in the Beast Pirates had a friendly attitude towards Lu Li, even if the other cadres had not had much contact with Lu Li, they would not be able to look down on this friend of Yamato.

"It's quite a coincidence. It's just right. Let him come directly."

Kaido didn't think much about it, he just thought it was good that Lu Li would show up when he needed him.

Not long after, Lu Li was taken to the conference room. When he saw that the conference room was full of people, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect that everyone was in a meeting at this moment.

This was also the first time he saw the cadres of the Beasts Pirates gathered together. They were all big and small, and they looked really strange. If they all used their fruit abilities, it would be a gorgeous zoo.

It has now been a month and a half since he and Yamato took over the country of Wano, and the operation of three new pilot factories has been in progress for two weeks. He came to Onigashima specifically this time because he wanted to talk to Kaido about new projects.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he saw all the cadres turning their heads and staring at him with big and small eyes.

"You came just in time, tell me what's going on?"

Kaido pointed to the report on the table and said, "You kid, you can't make a false report, right?"

Lu Li saw the report on the table and suddenly realized what the cadres were sitting here discussing.

This report was sent to Onigashima the night before. Even though Kaido told him to let Yamato do it, he only let Kaido know about it before acquiescing to certain major matters, such as factory work. Construction and pilot reforms, so he also had to understand the relevant results to let Kaido know.

"How could it be that the Governor expressed doubts about the contents of the report?"

Lu Li said with a smile. After spending more than a month in the Beast Pirates, he probably understood the atmosphere here.

Kaido is very indulgent when facing strong or valuable people, and there is no serious upper-lower class relationship between cadres, so he is talking more and more casually now.

"Your report stated that the output of the new factory in the past two weeks was 30% higher than the output of the old factory compared with the same period last year. Isn't this a fraud?"

Kaido asked seriously.

"There's nothing wrong with this. If I want to make the governor happy, I might as well just triple it."

Lu Li stepped forward and picked up the report, knowing that most of the details and explanations contained in it would not be read by Kaido, and it would be up to him to speak in the end.

Oh, the report was not actually written by him, but was written by his Tuokan family after statistics. After reading it, he felt that it was relatively neat and consistent with the facts, so he gave it directly to Kaido.

The officials present were a little impatient after hearing Lu Li's words. Drought Jack said, "Boy, don't be so arrogant. You need to know what you are talking about. This is a 30% increase in production. As far as I know, those workers are all newcomers."

Lu Li nodded, "Yes, it is precisely because the new talents have less output. According to my original estimate, the production capacity must reach 50% of the old factory to be considered qualified."

As soon as these words came out, the cadres present were dumbfounded, while Kaido's eyes shone brightly, "Lu Li, tell me, what on earth is going on?"

Among the crowd, only Maria and Jhin’s eyes flickered, as if they were thinking about the key.

"It's a simple truth."

Lu Li explained with a smile, "First of all, everyone has misunderstood. The workers I selected are all elites. Although they have not worked in the old factory, they are all excellent craftsmen. Let's not talk about the artificial devil fruit factory. Both the weapons factory and the sea floor stone processing factory, they can come directly to the job and do their job well. "

He pointed to a column on the report and said, "Actually, the weapons factory and the seastone processing factory have reached my expectations. Compared with the original factory output, the output is 50% higher. The artificial devil fruit factory's production capacity is poor, but It’s just like before, the 30% increase in production capacity noted later is the statistics of total production capacity.”

Lu Li's words once again shocked many cadres. Kaido grabbed the report from Lu Li's hand and looked at the numbers in the columns carefully again, with a look of surprise on his face.

"Mr. Lu, why did you say that the production capacity of the Devil Fruit factory is poor?"

Black Maria asked, "Is there something that went against your plan, so you couldn't be promoted?"

Lu Li shook his head, "That's not the case. From the beginning, I didn't expect the output of the artificial devil fruit factory to be high. The reason I just said is that these are newcomers. Although they were carefully selected by me, they belong to and There are people with craftsmanship in the country, but their skills are not bad for weapon processing. There are too many new technical fields in the artificial devil fruit factory that they do not understand. It is difficult for people without systematic training to be efficient. 's working there.”

"According to this, if we separate the craftsmen from the old Devil Fruit factory to lead the craftsmen from the new factory and train them, wouldn't their output be higher?"

Maria thought about it, thinking that maybe under the new factory mode, even an artificial Devil Fruit factory could be expected.

"That's the truth."

Lu Li said and changed his tone, "However, I don't recommend doing this. I will explain the reasons later."

"Lu Li, according to this, the production capacity of the new factory is indeed very high, but why is this?"

Kaido asked impatiently. He wanted to know what the secret was and whether it could be copied to his old factory.

If you ignore the Devil Fruit Factory, the output of popular products under his industry has increased by a full 50%. If you expand the scale, how much money can you make? He gets excited just thinking about it.

"It's a very simple reason. Because they are now free workers, they work proactively with self-awareness. They want to do a good job from the bottom of their hearts, which is certainly better than being forced to work."

Lu Li explained, "A person's working status has a great impact on work efficiency."

After Kaido thought for a while, he felt that he didn't quite understand what Lu Li said. He asked a superficial question, "But we didn't force the people in the old factory to work. They were paid."

Lu Li glanced around the cadres and found that they all had expressions similar to Kaido's, so he explained helplessly: "In a sense, what the Governor did before is the same as what I am doing now. Yes, people are forced to work by something.”

Seeing everyone's confusion, he continued: "But the models of the two factories are completely different. The workers in the old factory were treated poorly. The wages they received were only enough to feed themselves. They also worked under terrifying high pressure and were easily beaten. The supervisor beats and scolds, which is actually a slave life. "

"Why is he a slave? We have a salary and can keep him fed. Isn't that good enough?"

Maria frowned slightly, she had formulated the previous factory management plan.

"No wonder……"

Lu Li complained in a low voice that Maria was the queen of sex and liked to be a slave, so even though she was paid wages, she still made the factory very distorted.

"What did you say!?"

Maria was a little unhappy and felt that she had been seriously underestimated.

"I mean, Miss Maria, you have fallen into a misunderstanding, that is, you think that the wages we pay to workers are enough for them to eat."

Lu Li held out a finger, "If he was alone, he would indeed be able to eat enough. But in fact, many adult workers have families. After they buy food with money and distribute it to their families, he cannot eat it himself. Full."

Under Maria's surprised expression, he continued: "Once a person doesn't have enough to eat, he has no strength. Long-term hunger can also make people depressed and negative. How can he work efficiently in this case? Once he is in a daze, the supervisor You will think that he is lazy, whip and insult him, and when the workers are injured, he will be even weaker and hate the Beast Pirates. In this case, it would be good not to cause trouble, and you still expect him to be able to produce efficiently. Is that a vicious cycle?

Lu Li's voice was low, "Of course, this vicious cycle will not last long. In this state for a long time, people's lifespan will not be long. I don't know if there is any statistics, but I estimate that craftsmen can survive more than ten years in the factory. Not much."

Lu Li's words straightforwardly explained the shortcomings of the vicious cycle of the old factory, and many cadres understood it.

After thinking about it, they were surprised to find that what Lu Li said was right!

"Mr. Lu, I know very well what slaves are like."

At this time, Jhin spoke, "If you want to say that the people in the factory were slaves, I think it's not much different, but why do you want to say that free workers are better than slaves?"

Jhin and Kaido are both people who have seen the darkness and cruelty of the world. Jhin himself was used as a slave and was used as a test subject to undergo many inhuman experiments.

In his opinion, slaves are the private property of slave owners, and they can do whatever they are told. Slave owners do not need to pay slaves, they only need to give them food.

Although Kaido paid wages to the people in the factory, Jhin felt that it was not bad, because in essence he still gave them a barely full meal, and the actual daily use was based on the same plan for managing slaves.

This is a management method based on their own experience. After all, they have seen how slave owners manage. The overseer can drive the slaves to work by waving a whip without any additional cost or follow-up. Slaves talk about human rights.

So even though Jhin hated slave owners, he also admitted that this was a way to drive labor cheaply.

Lu Li smiled when he heard Jhin ask this question, "This is counter-intuitive. Doesn't everyone think that the economic cost of using slaves is very low?"

The members of the Beast Pirates present all nodded, with 'Isn't this a matter of course' written all over their faces?

"But in fact, the economic cost of using slaves is not low. You are all great pirates who have traveled all over the world. You must have been to many countries. Some countries are feudal monarchies, and some countries are slave countries. So, have you found that the economy of slave countries is often not as strong as that of feudal countries?"

Lu Li did not say it absolutely, because he was familiar with the world history that there had been powerful slave countries, but the composition of that country was more complicated, and it eventually collapsed because of slavery.