Thousands of sparks

Chapter 176 Scab
Central Teco bought the gear factory not just to train workers who accept or even believe in the Dusand doctrine.In fact, training workers is certainly part of the reason.But the more fundamental reason is the absolute dominance of the gear factory in the entire Aolin heavy mining machinery field.

In the eyes of Mr. Marquis, the greatest significance of the Russel Gear Factory is to provide a relatively stable job for his own people.This can greatly reduce the crime rate in the territory, and provide some low-end but long-term consumers for the businesses in the territory.

For this purpose, Mr. Marquis's management of the gear factory is actually very loose.Although the management and technical level of the factory are relatively average, fortunately, Mr. Marquis himself has no profit requirements for the factory - as long as the factory can earn enough to pay the workers' wages and can operate on its own.

Due to the very loose mode of operation, the workers of Russel Gear Works are actually doing quite well.At least compared with their peers, they only have to deal with the constant "breeding" of management - the factory director is putting all his relatives into management positions in the factory, and is also trying to control the purchasing and sales departments.

Getting the profits of the factory to pay the fat wages of these utterly useless people...is a very challenging thing to do.

The acquisition and involvement of Olin Development Bank has added even more...challenges to an already very shaky outlook for the future of the plant.

At least in the eyes of the workers at the Russel Gear Factory, life is bound to get worse.

But no one expected that this "difficult" future came from the old factory manager who had managed the factory for more than 20 years.

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The old factory manager was once the best worker in the factory.This is the tradition of the gear factory - only those who work the hardest have the qualifications to be the factory manager.

Every five years, a secret ballot will be held in the gear factory. The financial personnel sent by the Marquis will oversee the votes, and all the workers in the factory will vote to elect a new factory manager.Of course, no one expects to be able to become the director of the factory in one step through this kind of secret ballot - everyone knows that this kind of secret ballot itself is just a formality.It was the unsmiling financial officer with a monocle and white beard who really decided who the new factory manager would be.

And Yuri Osipovich Zegerbaum, who was not the old factory director at that time, successfully became the "top" leader of the entire gear factory.

Mr. Financial Officer will choose Yuri as the factory director, on the one hand because this young man is really serious about his work, and on the other hand, because of his educational background.Yes, Yuri is an extremely rare worker with a university degree in the Russel Gear Factory, a factory where "if you are not illiterate, you must be a high-level intellectual".

Yuri was permanently disabled due to a fall when he was a baby.He still walks with a limp until now.But his parents, as workers at the Russel Gear Factory, had the foresight to send Yuri to receive an education.From elementary school all the way to university - no matter how great the financial difficulties in the middle, they will always put their son's education as the top priority.

Old Siopov always said this to Yuri, "You must keep reading, we are all just ordinary people. Getting an education is the first step to break away from ordinary people and truly become a decent person."

With the expectation of the whole family, especially the entrustment of his father, Yuri ran around the corridor of the school all day long with a limp leg.Under the bullying of those merchants and noble children, Yuri developed a will and tolerance far beyond ordinary people.He understood that he had to persevere in order to fulfill his father's entrustment.

However, after graduating from university, Yuri found that he would never be able to become a decent person of another class by virtue of his status as a college student as his father hoped.Olin's various departments, countless institutions and even private companies have been filled with students of more respectable status and family.Although Yuri majored in mechanical design and processing with the widest range of employment in the entire empire, he still couldn't find a job that was enough to fulfill his father's expectations.

After learning of this situation, the extremely disappointed old Siopov had something wrong with his life.When he was going to work, he fell into a large hydraulic machine due to sudden dizziness.By the time the workers around stopped the machine in a hurry, the old Siopov's body had been completely integrated with a giant helical gear with a diameter of three joules.

Yuri did not take back his father's body in the end.The helical gear was sent to a mine in Olin that day to replace a damaged part on a large screening machine.

His father died, but his father also left Yuri a job.The "recruitment" in the gear factory is like this. Only after the father retires or dies, the son can replace this "place" to work.

In order to support his mother, but also to become a "decent person" in his father's mind.Yuri not only became an excellent worker, but also began to contribute articles to various newspapers in Olin under the pseudonym "Martov".Although highly educated, he was still a far cry from those who make a living with a pen.He couldn't write fiction, so he tried to write social commentary or other more serious political commentary.

But... In the first few years, Yuri's submission was never accepted, not even heard back.

Yuri, who worked hard with a limp, gradually began to give up on himself after working for five years.He began to go to brothels and various places of entertainment, and drinking and theft became channels for him to relieve his inner pressure.But what is unexpected is that after being drunk once, Yuri wrote a pungent "Prostitution Ranking List" which was actually accepted by the newspaper.

After waking up, looking at the acceptance letter and the one-pound note attached to the letter, Yuri felt that a piece of glass in his brain suddenly shattered into countless pieces.

How can there be any decent people in the empire?They are just idiots with a superior status and rich family property.If the glamorous coat of society is removed, there is nothing noble in the souls of these respectable people-they are even dirtier than those cripples who drink and steal and frequent whorehouses.

After this layer of glass was shattered, the whole world looked different in Yuri's eyes.He missed work for three days, quickly drew up a plan at home, and took it to the finance officer with the monocle on the fourth day.

Yuri expressed his thoughts very sincerely, he wanted to turn the entire gear factory into something that could provide him with huge wealth and a decent identity.And Mr. Financial Officer and his family can get half of all his income - Mr. Financial Officer and his family can make a large number of their own people become the logistics, financial or sales personnel of the gear factory.The salary of these people will be the highest in the whole factory, and they can also have a very high reimbursement amount.

In exchange, Mr. Treasurer needs to marry his widowed daughter to Yuri.

This plan soon won the strong support of Mr. Treasurer, and in a regular vote a year later, Yuri became the youngest factory director in the history of Russel Gear Factory.

For 20 years, Yuri and his father-in-law have raked in huge fortunes from the gear factory.The wages of the workers have not increased in ten years, and the profits reported by the gear factory are declining every year-the reason given by the financial officer is that in order to further seize the market, they have lowered the sales price of their products.

In reality, all the products were sold to a sales company run by Yuri's brother-in-law.Subsequently, these products were sold to other mining enterprises with a price increase of [-]%.

Although the price has increased by [-]%, because the Russel Gear Factory does not need to hand over any profits to Mr. Marquis, and because the quality of the products in the factory is really good...the products of the Russel Gear Factory are still completely unrivaled in the market situation.

In order to prevent Mr. Marquis from having any thoughts because of the market share of Russel Gear Factory, Mr. Financial Officer swiped a pen and lowered the market share of Russel Gear Factory from 74% to 39%.

Anyway, Mr. Marquis never cared about the gear factory.

This outrageous method brought Yuri and his father-in-law unimaginable huge benefits.To put it bluntly, the wealth that this "family" possessed through various means is enough to build another Russel gear factory.

Instead, their good days ended yesterday.Yesterday afternoon, the financial officer, who was already on the verge of walking, notified his son-in-law of such a shocking news-the Russel Gear Factory had been sold by Mr. Marquis to a newly-started bank. As for which one, Mr. Treasurer is not sure.Mr. Marquis just said that the other party should send its own financial officer and manager to hand over within a month or two.

Yuri quickly made a decision, before he was replaced, he must make another fortune as soon as possible.

He doesn't care about those workers who work hard every day but only get a meager salary.Even if they used to be elders who watched them grow up, even if they reached out to themselves in the most difficult time during their studies.

Nothing in this world can be relied on, only money is the most reliable thing.

Today, Yuri announced a decision to all the workers—until the new owner makes specific arrangements for the factory, all wages will be suspended.Their salaries will all be pooled together and deposited in the Olin Development Bank, and their salaries will enjoy "interest" in the bank until the owner makes specific arrangements.

After the specific arrangement is made, this part of the salary will be paid back in full, with interest attached.

And although Yuri himself said so, he never thought of putting it into practice. The wages of more than 3000 workers can reach almost [-] gold pounds.Although the money is not much, there is also meat in the seam of the cow's hoof.Yuri is also planning to sell other inventories and raw materials for a fortune - it is best to revise the supply contract while he is still the factory manager.

The raw material supplier is not his own, and he can rely on the size advantage of the gear factory to ask the other party to advance the supply.In this way, the purchase price of raw materials for the next cycle can be deducted, and then these incoming raw materials can be sold at a low price, so as to make another profit.

And if the product is sold by one's own people, then the liquidated damages for terminating the contract can be increased by tens of thousands of pounds-in short, there are actually many places where a factory can squeeze out money in a short period of time.Even if these methods would cause serious losses to Russel Gear Factory in the future, Yuri didn't care - getting the money into his own hands was the most important thing.

(End of this chapter)