The storm is indeed coming towards the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, what this storm brought was not trouble, but countless ordinary people inside and outside Bangta City who wanted to make a fortune overnight.
After the product launch, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's support plan for small chambers of commerce was widely publicized by several newspapers in the city. In addition, the city government also publicly posted relevant notices in the municipal square, so it only took a few days to complete the project. Everyone in Bangta City knows it.
After learning that a few ordinary farmers in Irish Village could actually earn hundreds of gold coins a month by participating in this plan, ordinary people in and around Bonta City became crazy almost instantly.
Overnight, countless chambers of commerce with strange names popped up in Bangta City, and these small chambers of commerce that popped up all of a sudden asked the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to join the small chamber of commerce support plan.
In just three days, more than a thousand chambers of commerce have applied to join the program.
Although most of them are new chambers of commerce that have hurriedly applied for registration in the past few days, there are also some small chambers of commerce that have long existed in Bangta City.
Faced with such a huge number of applications, the several city lord affairs officers who were sent by Earl Satsuma to assist the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in implementing this plan were as tired as dogs during this period. They were busy from morning to night every day, and they spent all their time sleeping. Not even more than five hours.
Fortunately, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had already formulated a fairly detailed review standard before launching this plan. Any small chamber of commerce that did not meet the standards would not accept the application, which saved them a lot of trouble.
The most basic one is that small chambers of commerce that apply to join the small chamber of commerce support program must have the most basic proof of funds.
And the lower limit of this fund. The price was temporarily set at two hundred gold coins.
Just this one. Then half of the more than a thousand applicants were eliminated.
Plus various other standards. In the end, only more than 200 companies were qualified to participate in the small chamber of commerce support program through review.
However, in front of more than 200 small chambers of commerce, they learned that even if they participated in the small chamber of commerce support plan, they would not be able to directly produce complete magic machines such as magic fans, magic rice cookers, magic bread machines, etc., but could only choose to produce these After acquiring some accessories for the magic machine, more than half of the small chambers of commerce immediately chose to withdraw.
In the end, only eighty-seven small chambers of commerce were left that insisted on participating in the small chamber of commerce support program.
"Xu Yi, before you said that you would hand over the screws to Freeman for production, I don't think that's okay. After all, screws are not too important. But now you tell me that you plan to eventually hand over these parts to These small businesses will produce... Hey, do you plan to dismantle our household magic machinery production workshop?"
As Xu Yi's prestige within the Chamber of Commerce gradually increased, Heinze was the only one in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce who would accuse Xu Yi so unceremoniously to his face.
Today was not the day that he regularly returned to Bangta City every month, but when he saw the follow-up report on the small chamber of commerce support plan in the Kalma Daily, he couldn't help but run back immediately.
If not for anything else, just to question Xu Yi face to face.
"Who said I wanted the household magic machinery production workshop to disintegrate?" Xu Yi glanced at him inexplicably. "I said you came back here specifically for this reason?"
Heinze pointed at the representatives of the eighty-seven small chambers of commerce who were visiting the household magic machinery production workshop under the leadership of Ancato. He said angrily: "Isn't it? The job of this workshop now is to produce those parts and then assemble them. Now you have to hand over the production of these parts to those small chambers of commerce that I have never heard of. Then you have to What does this workshop do? Is it just assembling those parts every day?”
"Wait... Heinze, I find your logic is very problematic." Xu Yi frowned. "Even if I hand over the processing of parts to those small chambers of commerce, why does it mean that this workshop has nothing to do?"
"Nonsense! These things are originally done by the workers in our home magic machinery production workshop. If you give them to others, of course our workers will have nothing to do!" Heinze said angrily.
"Who said... Oh, I understand." Xu Yi patted his head, stretched out his hand to block Heinze's shoulder, laughed and said, "I blame me for not making it clear to you. Um... How should I put it? Let me tell you clearly first. Well, even if these eighty-seven small chambers of commerce are allowed to join the ranks of producing and processing parts, it will not affect the work of our chamber of commerce at all. I am sure of this, so you don’t have to worry. "
Although Heinze was angry, he knew that Xu Yi would never joke with him in this situation. He couldn't help but asked in confusion: "What is going on? Please explain clearly."
"That's it. You see, first of all, you were the main person in charge of this workshop before. I think you should know very well that in fact, there has always been a bottleneck in the production capacity of the household magic machinery production workshop. And the reason for this bottleneck is that we The speed of self-produced and processed parts can never keep up with the speed of assembly, right?" Xu Yi asked.
Heinze thought for a while and nodded: "That's right. But before I left, I had already adjusted the proportion of workers' types of work and tried to keep it as consistent as possible. Could it be that after I left, Ankato changed it again? Pass?"
"That's not true. Ancato has done a great job, so you don't have to worry. But you have to think about it this way. Although you have indeed adjusted the proportion of work types, which has improved the overall efficiency, this approach is actually just a compromise, isn't it? "?" Xu Yi asked again.
"Then what do you think? You said it yourself, the workers can't process and produce parts as fast as they can assemble them. We can't recruit an extra group of workers to be responsible for processing and producing parts? We don't have such a big space now, unless ..." Heinze suddenly froze, thought for a moment, and looked at Xu Yi in surprise. "Hey, do you want these small chambers of commerce to replace the workers and venues we need to hire?"
Xu Yi nodded with a smile: "Yes, you finally figured it out."
Heinze looked at the representatives of small chambers of commerce in the distance, and his mind wandered for a while. But he frowned again.
"This is still wrong. Although letting them produce and process parts can save us a lot of manpower and space. But since these parts are processed and produced by them, if we purchase them from them, we will definitely make them make money. Yes. If this happens, won’t our own profits be reduced?”
Xu Yi chuckled: "Heinze, let me ask you a question. We used to produce a No. 3 screw ourselves. How much did it cost?"
Heinze was startled and glared at Xu Yi: "How do I know this? You should ask that guy Sebas."
"I asked. So I know. Let me tell you, the cost of producing a No. 3 screw by ourselves, according to Sebastian's estimation, is about twenty-five to thirty copper coins." Xu Yidao.
"That's not right? Screw No. 3 is so small and uses very little pig iron. How could it cost twenty-five copper coins or even thirty copper coins?" Heinze wondered.
"Pig iron is only the material cost, but to calculate the actual cost, we also need to include the labor cost, as well as the cost of the loss of the magic tooth grinding machine. After taking into account various other factors, the final estimate is this much." Xu Yi explained.
"Hmm... Okay. Even if there are so many, but if you suddenly ask this, does it have anything to do with the question I just asked?" Heinze asked again.
"Of course. Now you know, it costs about twenty-five copper coins and thirty copper coins for us to produce a No. 3 screw ourselves, but do you know how much it costs for us to purchase a No. 3 screw from the United Irish Chamber of Commerce? "Xu Yi asked back.
"I really haven't noticed this. But I guess they also want to make money, so a No. 3 screw should... be sold for about thirty-five copper coins. If it is more, you guys will definitely not agree."
Xu Yi smiled slightly and shook his head: "You are wrong. We are now purchasing a No. 3 screw from the United Irish Chamber of Commerce, which only costs twenty-three copper coins."
"That's impossible!" Heinze retorted immediately in surprise. "Aren't they making money?"
"No, on the contrary, they can still make money. According to my estimate, they sell a No. 3 screw for twenty-three copper coins, and can earn about five copper coins." Xu Yidao.
"How is that possible!" Heinze was simply shocked this time. "It costs twenty-five copper coins or even thirty copper coins to produce a No. 3 screw ourselves. Why can't they even use twenty copper coins? Are they better than me?"
Seeing Heinze's excited expression, Xu Yi knew that this must have bruised Heinze's self-esteem as the former director of the household magic machinery production workshop, so he patted his shoulder and said: "This is none of your business. It's Because the employee benefits of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are relatively good, the investment in labor costs is relatively high. As for the United Irish Chamber of Commerce, they are the bosses of the chamber of commerce and are also employees, so the labor costs can be ignored for them, so naturally. This can keep the overall cost much lower than ours.”
"What about the quality of the screws they make? If they are not as good as what we make ourselves, I still object to you doing this." Heinze said still unconvinced.
"It's a pity that the quality of the screws they make is even slightly better than what we make ourselves..." Xu Yi spread his hands helplessly.
"Ah? No? Why is this?" Heinze's face was full of disbelief.
"It's simple, because they are professional." Xu Yi shrugged, with a hint of relief in his expression. "I just sold them a few magic tooth grinding machines and some related equipment, and taught them the process of producing screws, but I didn't expect that they kept thinking about improvements during this period, and now they are producing The overall quality of the screws is quite good, even better than mine... well, in short, it is very good and definitely meets the requirements of our chamber of commerce.”
Heinze stared blankly at the representatives of the small chamber of commerce in the distance who happened to be working on the magic teeth grinding machine that had only two days remaining in the visiting workshop. He muttered a few words and suddenly asked Xu Yi: "I can understand now. Why do you leave parts processing to these small chambers of commerce, but Xu Yi, aren’t you worried that these small chambers of commerce will one day grow up and take away all the business of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?”
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "If they can really do this, I will definitely welcome them with both hands."
Seeing the sincere smile on Xu Yi's face, Heinze slapped his head in pain.
"I forgot, you are a lunatic!" (To be continued...)