"Can we really meet His Majesty with such a small amount of things? I feel so embarrassed! " A round-faced young man in his thirties said with a flushed face. He was carrying a bag of fruits in his hand and looked very uncomfortable.
"Do you think we can take out something so precious that His Majesty will be amazed by it?" a middle-aged man in his forties asked in a calm tone.
"Definitely not." The round-faced young man in his thirties made a firm judgment.
"Then just carry the bags of fruits and don't let people think of anything unexpected," the middle-aged man said.
"Yes!" The young man nodded. "Don't ask for merit, just don't make mistakes. I understand."
The middle-aged man was rendered speechless by these 'penetrating' words. He didn't understand why this group of people in the computer industry were so stupid. They were obviously good people, and they didn't necessarily have evil intentions, but what they showed was the most immature part of them.
"Come here." A guard came out to greet them. The two walked over nervously.
After a round of inspection, they entered the reception room empty-handed. They saw His Majesty Vézé, whose hair was almost completely white, sitting in the main seat.
The two hurried to greet him. Vézé asked them to sit down and asked with a smile, "How is Mayor Luo?"
"Mayor Luo is fine, but he's very busy. He asked us to bring him a greeting letter. The letter is with the receptionist, "the middle-aged man answered. He couldn't help but look at Vézé as he spoke. The emperor of the Min dynasty was old, but his hair was still thick. He was neither fat nor thin, and looked very muscular.
Vézé felt nostalgic. The current mayor of Shanghai, Luo Zhonghua, was Luo Dagang's son. Among the old brothers who chose to follow Vézé, he was the first to die of illness. The old brothers took good care of the little boy. Luo Dagang showed a very stable style during the panic buying. He was down-to-earth and showed the leadership ability of the government. Many people thought highly of him.
"Your Majesty, the Computer Research Center wants to develop better machines, but we don't have the budget. Now that the two-track system has been canceled, we have to start all kinds of R&D projects. Our project was not approved. Mayor Luo can't do anything about it, but he said that if we develop our own products and sell them, he won't care. But we really don't want to betray anything. Can you point me in the right direction? "The young man in his thirties hurriedly said.
The middle-aged comrade was very unhappy. It was not easy for His Majesty to say something nostalgic. It was very inappropriate to interrupt the old man's nostalgia. However, to his surprise, His Majesty Vézé smiled in a nostalgic manner, "You should develop a cashier counter with a calculator."
"Huh?" Both of them were stunned. They had never heard of such a thing.
In the next half an hour, the middle-aged man listened to His Majesty Vézé and the person in charge of the computing unit exclaiming about things he couldn't understand. With a humble expression on his face, the middle-aged man sighed inwardly at the rapid development of technology. At the same time, his impression of His Majesty Vézé had changed greatly. It was normal for young people to stand at the forefront of technology, but it was surprising that His Majesty Vézé stood at the forefront of technology and acted as a guide. Among all the old men that the middle-aged man had met, 100% of them were backward. The only difference was that they could not be seen through.
Half an hour later, the young man who showed considerable ability in pure technology continued to be confused. He couldn't understand Vézé's business model of 'serving the users'. Fortunately, Vézé did not force the young man to do anything beyond his abilities. He said to the middle-aged man, "Your Mayor Luo said that you can help with the sales. There's such a thing, right? "
"Yes, Mayor Luo said that," the middle-aged man quickly replied.
"Tell the people in the mall that this calculator can increase the efficiency of the supermarket and reduce the error rate. Even if there are 5% more customers, the money they earn can easily cover the cost of the calculator, "Vézé said with a smile.
Both of them talked for another half an hour. It was the young man's turn to be confused. The middle-aged man was very surprised by Vézé's business model of the future, especially the barcode based on 'photoelectric reaction' and the 'calculator' settlement system. As a cadre of the Party, he had heard of the 'database-based' social management system.
During the interruption of the conversation, the middle-aged man could not help but look at the young technologist. He did not expect His Majesty Vézé to have such a deep expectation for the application of computers. How could such an ignorant guy represent such a powerful high-tech future? You really can't judge a book by its cover.
After the discussion, the young man went out. The middle-aged man talked about his responsibility. "Your Majesty, Mayor Luo thinks that the economic development of Shanghai has reached the limit. He hopes you can give him some advice."
"What limit? It's just a bottleneck," Vézé said with a smile.
The middle-aged man felt uneasy. His Majesty Vézé's words sounded a little dissatisfied.
"Mountains are heavy and rivers are heavy, but there's a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. I've had this kind of experience many times, so I'll just move forward. " Vézé did not really criticize him. He just said calmly, "Shanghai has once carried out production organization optimization. The Taylor system maximizes the efficiency of every link. If everyone really works hard in this aspect, you'll find that no matter how much potential you dig out, there's no way to maximize the efficiency. "
The middle-aged man felt a burst of heat rushing out of his chest. It was a special reaction when the core problem was pointed out. He sighed softly to relieve the emotion. He thought it was embarrassing to show too much emotion in front of His Majesty. After calming down, the middle-aged man said cautiously, "Yes, Your Majesty. We've found that it's good to use the best workers and adopt the most efficient process. But it won't last long. But since we've seen the optimal process, it's always disappointing to adopt the inefficient method. "
Vézé replied, "There are many ways to judge the so-called optimization. Generally speaking, the efficiency in terms of cost or the efficiency in terms of the ratio of input to output are the two most common. My personal opinion is that everyone probably doesn't have any special feeling about the quantity of labor supply. "
If it was the person in charge of the sweatshop, he would probably understand immediately. For this official in 1909, it was really 'inexplicable'. But in the next hour, Vézé explained to the official the organizational characteristics and organizational principles of the 'sweatshop', a labor-intensive industry.
When the middle-aged man finally found that he needed to wipe the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief, he suddenly realized that his back was already drenched in sweat. Shanghai was an industrial city that the Military Governor Vaize ordered to focus on building, and its strength could be counted on one hand in the entire Min dynasty. The person sent by the mayor to ask for His Majesty Vézé's opinion was a real talent. Therefore, the middle-aged man knew very well what His Majesty Vézé was talking about, and he also understood the great power of labor-intensive industries. It was a great power that could change the existing production organization model.
"I don't have the right to say anything about the specific adjustments and arrangements. But since you've come to ask me, I'll recommend this to you. After all, there are two ways to increase industrial production, increase working hours, or increase working efficiency. If you want to use the latter, you need to reduce the difficulty of work. Shipbuilding and many other heavy industries require a lot of investment in technology and capital, but not light industries. That's about it. "Vézé talked about two things, and he felt that this was enough. If the discussion went any further, Vézé would have to personally guide the work. It was not suitable for Vézé to show his face in public.
The middle-aged man heard Vézé's intention to end the conversation, and he hurriedly asked the most important question he could think of. "So how do you want Shanghai to advertise and let them join?"
Vézé showed a trace of a sneer. "Why use the locals? Isn't it better to recruit from Jiangsu or even the surrounding provinces? This kind of assembly line work may not be suitable for many people, and many people will be eliminated. I think it's also a good thing to provide some opportunities for employees to leave after earning money. "
After the people from Shanghai left, Vézé quickly calmed down. In the past, Vézé always kept a lot of things in his heart, and if he didn't see a result, he couldn't end it. Now Vézé didn't think so. He had completed the work he had to do, and things would develop according to everyone's choice.
After this matter was dealt with, the report from Hungary was sent to the party chairman Vézé. The Hungarian government finally decided to use food exports as the basis of trade, so they were particularly grateful for the help of the Restoration Party. As a competitive export product, the 'cheap, storage-resistant meat', because of the 'appropriate supply of potassium salt' and 'processing in the mountains' provided by the Min dynasty, both the quality of the meat and the quality of the processed meat were greatly improved.
The Austrian Empire's own agriculture was a mess, and because Austria and the Czech Republic could export large amounts of coal to Hungary and Slovakia, they had enough funds to import cheap meat. They also did so. As for Germany, with a population of 65 million, 60% of them lived in cities. Even if they adopted agricultural protectionist policies, even if they were hostile to the socialist countries, Germany finally gave up the high import taxes on Hungarian ham, bacon, bacon, and sausages. In the spring and summer, Germany even abolished the import taxes on the white striped pigs transported by frozen train from Hungary.
The Germans might be old-fashioned, but they were not stupid at all. If the addition of 45% import taxes still couldn't make German meat cheaper than Hungarian meat, many policies had to be abandoned. What's more, the Austrian Empire, with a population of 30 million, put on an attitude of "I'm not human" when it came to meat imports.
Vézé believed that if Hungary, from the day of actual independence, didn't carry out pragmatic and flexible diplomacy around the development of productivity on the basis of stabilizing the country's national ownership of land. Instead, they used their emotions to launch an uncompromising opposition to the surrounding feudal or capitalist countries. Now Hungary could probably only rely on being a thug for the Min dynasty.
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