The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Claude Li is the director of the metal smelting factory under the United Machinery Group. He also feels a little incredible that he can become the director of a large factory with 500 employees. After all, not long ago, he was just a member of the factory who was facing unemployment. Just plain old accountant.

Not long ago, the metal smelting plant he worked in was still a private property of Congressman Lloyd. This metal smelting plant had been built for 30 years, and it had once had glory. It was the largest metal smelting plant in the eastern part of the Kingdom of England. The factory has thousands of employees. Nearly half of the steel used in the fleet that dominates the oceans of the Kingdom of England comes from this factory. Lloyd's re-election as a member of Congress also has something to do with this factory.

However, as the academies of sciences around the world in Vinylon successively developed new forging furnaces and new metal formulas, the old smelting tools began to fail to keep up with the times and were gradually eliminated. The old smelters using these smelting tools were either Close the doors, or buy a new forging furnace to complete the mechanical upgrade.

For the employees of the smelter, neither option is a good choice, because both options mean that some employees will be dismissed. The difference is that one only dismisses most of them, and the other dismisses all of them.

However, for the middle and high-level managers of the factory, they naturally hope that the factory will complete the upgrade of new equipment, because in that case, even if the factory wants to fire people, it will not fire them.

But in the end, things turned in the worst direction. Lloyd has established some relationships in Congress and the government through his membership in Congress over the years. The smelter is no longer helping him much, and Because of the aging of the equipment, it became a burden instead, so he decided without much consideration to close the factory, then demolish the factory, and transform the land of the factory into a shared apartment, which is specially rented to those who escaped from the Vinylon Continent. This French refugee.

After making the decision, Lloyd began to dismiss the employees in the factory, and Claude Lee's name was on the list of the first batch of dismissed employees, and he was also the first mid-level executive to be dismissed.

The reason why Claude Lee would be the first one to be dismissed was mainly because he was too honest and upright, and he didn't fit in well with any middle and high-level people in the factory. If he didn't have very good accounting skills, he said Maybe he would have been kicked out already.

Now that the factory is going to be closed, there is no need for an accountant. After all, there is such an honest and honest accountant in charge of the accounts. How can the middle and senior management of those factories get enough money from the employee severance pay?

However, what is unexpected is that before the first batch of dismissed employees have completed the resignation procedures, there is a new notice. Lloyd has sold the entire factory and land. The new owner of the factory will not The factory will be closed, but the equipment will be upgraded, and the scale will be expanded, which means that no current employees will be dismissed, and more likely to recruit outsiders.

This news undoubtedly made everyone in the factory happy. After all, no one wants to lose their jobs, especially when there is a large influx of refugees from France. These refugees are willing to exchange lower wages for a job, and most of these refugees They are all from Miria, and they all have very professional qualities, which makes the merchants and factories in the city more willing to hire these people. Because of work problems, there are often conflicts between English natives and French refugees.

It is precisely because of getting rid of the disaster of unemployment that the people in the factory are extremely grateful to the new owner of the factory, and are ready to show their enthusiasm and respect when the other party comes to inspect the factory.

However, what is disappointing is that the new owner of the factory did not come the next day, but sent his butler, and announced a series of decisions on the internal reorganization of the factory. The factory was merged into a group company, and the former accountant Claude Lee was appointed as the factory director.

Everyone in the smelter was curious about why Claude Lee was able to gain the trust of the new owner of the factory and became the factory director with real power, but Claude Lee himself knew why he was entrusted with important tasks, because he Meet the housekeeper of the new owner of the factory.

In fact, Claude Lee was also very surprised when he was appointed as the factory manager, and his surprise was not only because of the change of his status and position, but more because of the change of the status of the housekeeper.

He still remembers the last time he saw this person, this person was picking up trash and begging on the street, no different from those refugees and beggars in the city, or even worse, he didn't see this person for a long time afterwards, he still Thought the man was dead.

So he never expected that the downcast old man would appear in front of him with such a completely different appearance now. If it wasn't for the words of thanks that the old man said after seeing him, he might not be sure about his guess .

In fact, in his heart, he didn't think that the things he did were worth the rewards he was doing now. Because the old man's begging and trash picking area happened to be near his home, he could see this old man every time he went to and from get off work.

Out of sympathy, every time he commutes to and from work, he also takes away the leftovers and unsoiled food from the canteen in the factory and gives them to this person, but he never thought that those leftovers would end up in exchange for the present Such a position made him feel in a trance all day when he was appointed, wondering if he was living in a dream.

However, although he was appointed as the new factory director, and the old man also showed extraordinary support, Claude Lee was still a little uneasy, because he knew very well how capable he was, and it would be a pity to let him take care of the accounts. There is no big problem, but it is a bit beyond his ability to let him manage the whole factory.

For this reason, he specifically found the old housekeeper Sanjies, explained his situation, and expressed the hope that the old housekeeper could re-elect a competent factory director.

However, the old housekeeper did not agree to his request. Instead, he took him to the real owner of the factory, and expressed to the owner of the factory that he hoped to be his teacher while taking care of the apartment, teaching him how to manage a factory. It was the first time I saw the face of the owner of the factory.

Originally, based on Claude Lee's understanding of those rich people, it was impossible for the old butler to agree to the request, but what was a little unexpected was that the owner of the factory agreed.

After that, according to the arrangement of the old housekeeper, he set aside two hours a day to receive the training from the old housekeeper, and also asked the old housekeeper for help with some problems he encountered while managing the factory, and obtained the advice of the old housekeeper.

Under the guidance of the old housekeeper, Claude Lee fired and cleared the moths in the factory, re-established a more effective and fair reward mechanism, and hired some new workers from refugees and locals, Secretly promote competition with each other and enhance the work efficiency of the factory. With the implementation of a series of measures, he also quickly changed from a middle-aged accountant to a director of a smelter.

During this period of time, various rumors circulated among the workers in the factory. Among them, apart from how Claude Lee became the factory manager, the most rumors were more speculations about the new owner of the factory. What kind of person is he.

After a period of inquiring, the workers in the smelter already had a certain understanding of the financial resources of the new owner of the factory, because they knew that the smelter they were in was not the first factory to be acquired. The large and small factories were bought by this person and integrated into a new company called United Machinery Group.

In terms of scale and number of workers alone, the owner of the United Machinery Group has become the largest factory owner in the entire Port of Scitech, and more importantly, these factories that were about to close down, after reorganization and equipment upgrades, are all There has been improvement again, especially recently some new products assigned by the higher-ups have become best-sellers in the market. As a result, the orders of various factories have increased, and signs of prosperity have gradually appeared. No matter how slow-witted people are, they can see that with such continued healthy development, the United Machinery Group will inevitably become the largest machinery and metal manufacturer in Dorset Port and even the entire Kingdom of England.

Among the many rumors about the owner of the factory, everyone is most concerned about the appearance and age of the owner of the factory, because the boss of the United Machinery Group has never appeared in any of the subordinate factories, and the management of the factory is led by the old housekeeper Some professional managers are responsible for supervision and operation, and all factory management is entrusted to the newly appointed factory director of the factory.

It is precisely for this reason that the vast majority of people in the factory know nothing about the new owner of the factory, but it does not prevent them from guessing about this person, and almost most people guess that the owner of the factory should be a landed old man. Aristocrats, because only such aristocrats can spend a large sum of money to buy some factories that are about to go bankrupt, without worrying about the failure of investment at all.

However, Claude Lee, who had been to the apartment and met the new owner of the factory, knew very well that the new owner of the factory was not an old nobleman at all, but a young man. At the time, I felt that the temperament of that person was very complicated, he looked like a scholar, he looked like a soldier, and he also looked a little like those sailors on the pier who often took risks, except that he didn't look like an aristocrat, nor like a businessman.

Although Claude Lee had seen the new owner of the factory, he didn't show it. He didn't know why his young boss wanted to hide his identity, but he knew exactly what he should do, at least when the boss revealed his identity on his own initiative. Before, he absolutely could not reveal a word to the outside world.

Originally, Claude Lee felt that he would have to hide the secret about the boss's appearance for a long time before he could reveal it, but what kept him from talking about it was that such an opportunity would come soon, and he didn't need to speak. It is already known that their boss is a young man.

On this day, Claude Lee cleaned up the office as usual, and then began to inspect the workshop and inspect the raw materials.

But just as he walked out of the office, a factory guard hurried over and told him that the old butler was coming, and there was a young man who came with the old butler, and judging from the attitude of the old butler, this young man seemed to be his The master, that is, the boss of the factory.

When Claude heard that there was a young man next to the old butler, he immediately thought of his mysterious boss, so he asked the guard to take him there immediately.

The factory guard did not take Claude to the parking lot next to the factory gate, but took Claude directly to the first smelting furnace workshop.

The first smelting furnace is a new smelting furnace upgraded after the reorganization of the factory. The main body of the furnace is the latest smelting furnace of Marris Kingdom, but the internal structure of this furnace is not the original furnace. When assembling, the old butler He came here specially with a copy of the blueprint, responsible for supervising the transformation of the furnace, and transformed the inside of the furnace into another appearance.

At that time, the workers who were responsible for the assembly did not know the reason for this modification, and they all thought that this modification would damage the stove, but under the strict instructions of the old housekeeper, they had to modify it separately according to the drawings, so when the furnace modification was completed, they started When they tried to light the fire for the first time, they were all gloating in their hearts, thinking that the stove must not ignite, and even if it did, the temperature of the stove would not be able to reach the required temperature.

But what everyone didn't expect was that the modified stove ignited very smoothly, and the temperature inside the stove also exceeded the maximum temperature when the stove was originally designed in a short period of time until it was nearly After about doubling the temperature, it stabilized.

The time it takes to reach this temperature is several times faster than any other stoves on the market, and there is no need for a heating process, and the temperature stability is much higher. The most terrifying thing is The fuel consumption is actually only half of the original smelting furnace.

Claude knew very well what kind of sensation the effect of this stove would cause if it was spread out, so his first thought was to hide the news, because this sensational effect would not bring any benefits to the factory, but would make the kingdom's top management Coveting this stove, using some illegal means to take away this stove.

However, it is obvious that the old housekeeper has seen this kind of problem farther than him, and thought earlier. Before transforming the stove, he signed a non-disclosure agreement with all the technicians and workers involved in the transformation. If anyone reveals it, then everyone will be punished by the agreement, and the punishment costs vary, but they all just exceed the psychological bottom line of the participants.

At the same time, after the old housekeeper tested the efficacy of the furnace, he immediately signed a long-term contract with the royal family to supply special steel at low prices, binding the factory and the royal family together, and completely solved this worry.

Among the factories under the United Machinery Group, the smelter was able to turn losses into profits in a short period of time and become the group's largest profitable factory, largely due to the transformation of the smelting furnace with unrivaled efficiency.

So when he learned that the old housekeeper and the young man went directly to the workshop of the first smelting furnace after entering the factory, Claude wondered if the smelting furnace should be rebuilt again. To what extent?