Chapter 163 The Pirates Cried After Hearing This

"Isn't it the silver coin of Wano Country?"

Quinn asked. His fat butt was uncomfortable because he had been sitting for a long time, and he squirmed as he spoke.

"Silver coins? Although this is a kind of precious metal, it is not a common currency on the sea. It is only circulated within the country of Wano. It is not something of clear value to us, right?"

Lu Li said, "As far as I know, we have not robbed Wano's silver coins, but we have taken a lot of gold."

"It's food!"

At this time, Jhin, who had been silently muttering, spoke, his eyes shining brightly.

Lu Li glanced at Jin with approval and nodded, "Yes, the only thing we paid to Wano in kind was food. This was something the Beast Pirates obtained through trade. In other words, Bailey It is equivalent to this country’s foreign exchange. We use foreign exchange to conduct foreign trade, exchange for the food that is in short supply in the country, and transport the food into the country, and the citizens purchase it with their own currency.”

He came to a conclusion, "So to put it simply, what we directly export is food, and the wages we pay to workers are also food."

He wrote the words 'Foreign Exchange', 'Food', 'National Currency' and 'Salary' on the blackboard and drew arrows to connect them to each other, which made the cadres of the Beast Pirates start to feel dizzy.

Jhin and Maria, who had better brains, could barely understand, while Kaido kept a straight face and pretended that he understood everything.

"And a country's foreign exchange reserves are very important. We are not just exporting unilaterally, and the products produced by domestic factories are converted into more foreign exchange through foreign export trade. This is what we, Beasts and Pirates The reason for the group’s gradual growth.”

Lu Li wrote as he spoke, and then circled the word 'cost', "So, is the cost we paid really a lot? Mr. Jhin, what is the approximate price of overseas food?"

Jin is often in charge of external procurement, so after a little thought, he came up with the average price of rice in the past few years, "It's about 300 beli per kilogram of rice."

Lu Li nodded, "Based on the current food prices in Wano, seven silver coins can buy about 30 kilograms of rice. In other words, the real salary cost of a new factory worker is about 9,000 beli per month."

"It's quite high."

Drought Jack said, he just used his simple brain to do some calculations, and felt that the monthly salary of more than 100,000 workers could buy his head?

"Is it high? It seems that Mr. Jack does not understand the profits of our factory."

Lu Li said with a smile, "According to my statistics, taking a weapons factory as an example, the average value of goods produced by each grassroots worker per month in foreign trade is about 900,000 beli! This is a hundred times higher. gap!"

"so much!?"

Kaido said in surprise that no one had ever analyzed the profit ratio with him before. He just felt that he was quite profitable.

Lu Li nodded, "So the economic costs we paid are just a drop in the bucket compared to the actual profits. Therefore, we don't have to worry about the workers' wages affecting our income. We just need to make them live a good life and be full of life." I hope I can come to work in the factory full of energy every day.”

He continued to explain: "It is impossible for the people of Wano to know the profit ratio. Even if they know, they have no idea about Bailey. People can only see what is in front of them, for example, it can make them eat Food to eat, things that can make their lives better, but as for Bailey, they don’t go abroad, so they only have waste paper.”

Kaido understood now and was very excited, "So, we should operate according to the new factory model, and continue to turn the foreign exchange you mentioned into food, then turn the food into weapons, and finally turn it into me Money? Convert at a hundred times speed?”

"That's pretty much what it means. The Governor just needs to understand that we don't have to treat workers like slaves. If we make them live a good life, we can still earn a lot, it can last for a long time, and the cost is lower."

Lu Lixin said that it was not easy for Kaido's mind to understand it to this extent, and he did not explain too much about the complicated connotations.

"Although I understand most of what Mr. Lu said, and I intuitively feel the benefits of our industrial chain, but in terms of cost, will it really be much lower? Don't the craftsmen in our new factory need training?"

Jin frowned and thought, he couldn't figure out the key point.

His words also made other cadres react. Yes, slaves need training, don't workers also need it? Isn't this a cost? There are also higher wages. Even if the food is cheap and the income ratio is high, it still means more wages.

"Mr. Jhin has fallen into a misunderstanding."

Lu Li explained with a smile, "I just explained the profit ratio to everyone, just to let you understand that compared to the benefits we get, the wages given to workers are nothing. Even if the wages are doubled again, we can still make a lot of money." The real high cost of huge profits is actually time, the time of technicians and the time that factory equipment is occupied. "

Jhin now understood a little bit, "Because the profit of the factory is a hundred times, so the time wasted in training is equivalent to being magnified a hundred times?"

After understanding it, he still had doubts, "But in this case, can't we avoid training craftsmen for free?"

However, to everyone's surprise, Lu Li shook his head, "Who said I want to train craftsmen for free?"

Looking at everyone's puzzled looks, Lu Li explained: "The advantage of free workers is that they want to work, rather than us forcing them to work, so the cost of education should naturally be borne by themselves. They should build a technical college and train workers for a fee. That’s it.”

The cadres all opened their mouths, and Quinn even complained directly: "You want those people to pay to learn how to work for us!?"

He thought to himself, who among us is the cruel pirate? Weren't you a traveler before? How could you think of such a vicious thing?

I want to work in a factory and study at my own expense so that I can become excellent and then apply for jobs?

"No? I believe there will be many people who are willing to pay to learn, especially those adults who are already working in factories. He is willing to pay for his children to learn because he knows that there is a future in this job."

Lu Li said, in fact, there were serious flaws in his words, but these people were simple-minded pirates who didn't think deeply.

The transformation process he is currently arranging for Wano is the one that capitalists are good at. Although it is quite fucked, it can really stimulate people's motivation.

Comparing the education of workers and slaves, to put it simply, workers need to pay for themselves, while slaves just need to wait for the slave owners to pay. Moreover, learning is not about carrying sandbags. You can see it when you are lazy when carrying sandbags. If slaves don’t study, they are just watching. Not coming out.

Workers are different. Workers will spontaneously complete their own training. Capital only needs to pay low wages. Moreover, workers have another advantage for slaves. You can't choose which slave you have. After all, you can buy it back. Can't retreat.

But if you don’t like the workers after you buy them back, you only need to pay a low cost to fire them. So in fact, the cost of workers is much lower than that of slaves...or it’s just a nice way of saying that workers are just slaves of capital.

Of course, with Lu Li's IQ, he couldn't think of a better way. He felt that it was an improvement to be able to feed these people and not work in harsh and difficult conditions.

As for the flaw in his words, of course it is the differences in the world. Normally, independent training of workers can indeed save the boss a lot of costs.

But the Country of Peace is completely dominated by Kaido. No matter what training method is used, Kaido has paid the cost. You need a venue to open an academy, equipment to teach workers, and money to hire old craftsmen. It's all costs.

However, compared with their traditional hard-core on-the-job training methods in enterprises (factories), setting up a technical school for pre-job training will make the cost slightly lower. As for the money paid by the workers themselves, it is also a drop in the bucket in terms of final benefits.

Lu Li said this just to make Kaido and others feel that they had "earned money". After all, they subconsciously felt that the other party was training at their own expense, so they would feel very happy.

In fact, Lu Li made this proposal to pave the way for the subsequent promotion of academy education in Wano.

If the factory as a whole goes well, then a seed will be planted in Kaido's mind, which is to open a school and let the people pay for their own studies. This thing itself is profitable.

"Mr. Lu... Sometimes I really wonder if you are a traveler after all. Aren't you a ghost slayer? How do you know so much about country management?"

Jin was shocked after hearing Lu Li's plan. At the same time, he also doubted what was going on with Lu Li. At first, he thought Lu Li was a brainless and reckless man.

After all, most of the people who have assassinated Kaido over the years are idiots like this.

"Well... I just visited a lot of countries. The East China Sea is peaceful and many countries are developing well. I saw more and took note of it."

Lu Li replied with some embarrassment, thinking that it was a good thing he was in the pirate world, otherwise his behavior would be really inconsistent with his identity.

"Hahaha, no matter what, it is a good thing if the factory's income can increase. Let's continue arranging the start of the new factory!"

Kaiduo waved his hand. He couldn't understand complicated things, but he roughly understood them. He was about to make a move. Lu Li did a good job!

"Then... where is the old factory?"

Maria asked hesitantly.

"Change everything for me and follow Lu Li's plan!"

Kaido agreed.

"Governor, there is no hurry."

Lu Li suggested, "Can you arrange this for me? Making big changes rashly will cause turmoil and may affect production."

Kaido was in a good mood at the moment and didn't ask any more questions, "Okay, I'll leave it to you."

Lu Li felt relieved when he heard what Kaido said. His real purpose was to disrupt and redistribute the personnel in the original factory. After all, there were many experienced people in the old factory, and paired with new people, the old could lead the new.

In this way, the newly built factory can operate normally. The output may not be good in the short term, but it will gradually improve after a year and a half.

Such an arrangement can also allow those old craftsmen who live like slaves to get their due status. Because of their skilled craftsmanship, they can obtain middle-level or even upper-level status as soon as they join the job. I believe that such earth-shaking changes will be enough for them. I have a good impression of the managers of this country again.

Next, as long as a group of masters are recruited to build a technical college and new workers are recruited from Wano Country, the scale of the factory can be slowly expanded.

"Governor, I am here today not just to explain to you the changes in the model of the old and new factories."

Seeing that the new factory model was recognized, Lu Li brought up the main topic of his visit today, "I want to talk about the artificial devil fruit factory."

"Is something wrong?"

Kaido now trusts Lu Li very much and is no longer afraid of him touching his core factory.

"After my statistical investigation, I found that the profits of the artificial devil fruit factory are not high. I would like to discuss it with everyone to see whether we should reduce production or even stop this business."

Lu Li revealed the ultimate purpose of his trip.

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Asking for monthly tickets at the end of the month (*^▽^*)