Chapter 103

Chapter 103

Scientific Management Technique (1)

1859.

Birmingham, Britain.

Birmingham that was merely a quiet local small town in the past rose as the British Empire’s second largest city after the Industrial Revolution.

In the point of being a railway hub in the middle of the territory 21st century Koreans might recall Daejeon the headquarters of the Sacred Heart Knights, but Birmingham’s location cannot even be compared to Daejeon.

Birmingham was a railway hub and at the same time connected to water transport through canals, coal and iron producing areas near the city, and high-level engineer manpower and financial infrastructure were solid. The place James Watt invented the steam engine is precisely this Birmingham so words all done.

Moreover Birmingham had high fame as Britain’s largest firearm production city from the Napoleonic Wars period, and in Birmingham’s famous spot Gun Quarter all sorts of firearms were produced and sold all over the world. Firearm companies registered in this city alone exceeded 500.

Therefore the newly rising merchant of death Arthur Lee coming to have interest in Birmingham was a very natural procedure.

“Said will establish a factory in Birmingham, really an excellent choice!”

Thomas Rickett who invented a rice polishing machine that polishes rice grains prettily but ended up making weapons that polish humans prettily bewitched by Arthur’s sweet words.

Originally hometown also near Birmingham and he who came up to Birmingham and made a living, so Arthur saying will establish a factory in Birmingham somehow excited is a natural thing.

Arthur spent money and cleared the site and raised factory buildings.

But the design inside the factory was different from others.

“Will install conveyor belts, design so not people carrying materials and equipment back and forth but parts delivered in front of people.”

“Said will install that expensive rubber just that turning round and round?”

“A thing worth doing.”

Arthur is not an expert in factory work.

But a future person who completed 21st century higher education.

Even a prepared talent who occasionally watched alternate history novels.

Such an excellent talent well knows how much division of labor explosively increases productivity, how important an assembly line using conveyor belts is, how much great difference the uniformity of parts causes, how great a thing the importance of securing precise machine tools is.

“Now ready to operate the factory!”

“Let’s see once... this is all prepared?”

“Th, that is but perhaps some inconvenient point.”

“Like this won’t do. Will touch one by one.”

Gaunt face.

Body covered in coal powder and dust.

Cloth bundle that cannot even guess whether clothes or rags.

And terrible despair that does not disappear at all.

Right.

19th century.

An era that mercilessly squeezed even own people like squeezing colonies.

“Will completely renovate all.”

Arthur became the heart of Cortes watching the Aztec heart extraction tour in real time.

Even a factory operated by a 21st century future person could not run extracting poor people’s hearts.

***

“Will raise wages to double.”

“Representative, perhaps crazy?”

“I am extremely normal.”

Rickett whose money is not his own desperately tried to stop but I forced through.

“Why trying to give alms to them so?”

“Not alms.”

I pointed at the conveyor belt.

“If continuing to work there will go crazy?”

“A bit... reaction was not very good.”

“We must secure as many skilled workers as possible. Unskilled workers have little value. To make skilled workers not quit and continue working like machines there must give a lot of money.”

“Understood.”

To say in advance, my ultimate goal is going out to the political board and eating prime minister.

So the title of vicious boss only harms.

Rather must attach titles like advanced, win-win, person of character, boss is crazy to receive even a bit more votes.

And recalling 21st century person’s experience, sometimes giving other things rather than giving a lot of money is more effective.

“Please issue separate work clothes to all employees working in our factory. Ones that don’t get dirty much and clean.”

“Understood.”

“The inside of the factory must be as clean as possible. Dirty environment does not match my taste.”

“Yes.”

“Will prepare two evaluation criteria. First is defect rate, next is productivity. After dividing employees into several teams and organizing, will pay incentives to teams that achieve low defect rate while exceeding productivity.”

Ah, don’t know this either? This is carrot and stick. You British people don’t know well...

Rickett who had to do a lot of things never heard in life became tearful, but I decided to just ignore. So I give a lot of money. Must pile inventory full from now to be able to collect money madly later.

“Ah. And saw in London before, there was an insurance company called Prudential. Doing an amazing business where if paying just 1 penny a week can join industrial accident insurance, so that our employees can join that insurance in bulk-”

“Kyaaaak!! Save me!!”

No. If collapsing with just this much what. Still full of otherworld items to introduce.

“And also, conclude agreements with shops near the factory.”

“If agreement what kind of, agreement?”

“There are places like bathhouses or pubs or whatever. Saying give discounts if our factory employees go.”

“Then not loss?”

“Instead our employees will go only those places if possible.”

Things like ‘meals are three cups of black tea’ are declined. Joseon guys must work with rice power. So shut up and introduce company meals.

And introduce the most important break time too. These crazy guys have no concept of break time? Common sense resting in the middle would have higher efficiency? Huh?

Listing like this seems only did things smearing money into the sewer.

“Come, now let’s make new products.”

Surely hope no one was thinking Gatling factory until now.

From the beginning what did Rickett want to make and decide to be with me.

“Our goal is simple. Make everything that rolls with wheels!”

“Waaaa!!”

Once start from bicycles.

***

Steam automobiles are only losers of the era. No hobby of wasting money making such things.

Currently, there are two things worthy of becoming the trend of the era.

First the first is the steam bus also called ‘steam carriage’.

- Bus? That?

Anyway if carrying dozens of people around that is a bus then taxi?

Quite ambiguous to make 2-seater or 4-seater private cars equipping steam engines, but if a bus dozens of people board a bit different story.

Carriage overturn accidents are one of the common accidents known occasionally even just opening the <​Times> newspaper.

But steam buses rolled well even on shitty roads not good for carriages to go. Said because using much larger and thicker wheels than carriages, I have no confidence in engineering knowledge so once regard as so.

Faster than carriages, safer than carriages, not shitting dung all day like horses, not biting passing pedestrians, and much cheaper maintenance this steam bus.

But why haven’t 21st century Koreans heard much about steam buses?

Simple.

“Abolish corrupt buses!”

“Steam carriages are not carriages!!”

“Obvious will mess up the roads more than carriages just looking!! Stop operation!!”

Coachmen and carriage owners trembling in fear their rice bowls might burst held rat fire play excitedly in the parliament.

Britain used private toll roads from early and saw decent fun installing social infrastructure, and even though steam bus companies proved through experiments <​steam buses give less damage to roads than carriages> raised the toll of steam buses more expensive than carriages. Anyone seeing was prank.

But since the warrior of justice Arthur Lee appeared these corrupt cannot be left alive. Obvious that after pranking like that the terrifying <​Red Flag Act> finally comes out.

While Britain hesitates like that those evil Germans become automobile advanced countries, and automobile advanced country Germany becomes tank advanced country and the great disaster of crossing the Dover Strait riding Tigers will occur is an obvious fact.

Once I had no thought of jumping into the steam bus operation business on a large scale immediately.

Have thought of manufacturing and supplying steam buses, but that is to the end to grow the ability to research develop - manufacture internal combustion engine automobiles later.

The part I am paying attention to is rather bicycles.

With this primitive-conveyor belt that creaks hard turning with steam engines absolutely cannot run a large bus manufacturing line. If putting such heavy things obvious a disaster will occur whether the steam engine explodes or dies.

But what about bicycles?

No matter how shabby the engine, not a mess enough not to handle a bicycle production line.

And no matter how I am a thick-headed with zero science knowledge know about the basic concept of bicycles.

“My goodness! Is the representative a genius?!”

“Just a bit smart.”

“But that, the part said how to do technically-”

“That now you must research.”

“...”

Why looking with those eyes. Think double salary is a form?

If stepping on the pedal advances forward.

But not attaching the pedal to the front wheel, attach between the wheels.

Connect the pedal and rear wheel with an iron chain. Just the sister-in-law... no, ‘former’ sister-in-law’s company made chains? Good.

Make turning curves much easier through steering of the front wheel. Attach brakes to the handle, and if tightly squeezing the brakes with both hands the wheels no longer roll. Also attach a bell that can be lightly rung with the thumb.

Not making the frame shaped like a horse’s back, make a diamond-shaped frame and put a saddle a person sits on top.

Extremely simple knowledge anyone who has experience riding a bicycle knows.

But this knowledge is the culmination of human progress that has repeated research and development for dozens hundreds of years.

With just the idea I lightly threw, the technicians eating my salary had the ability to catch up with this progress in an instant.

Development was completed in an instant.

I applied for a patent, and as soon as the examination ended headed to London holding the prototype product.

“This is the product our company will newly handle this time.”

“What is this? Truly amazingly shaped!”

After presenting the prototype at the club where our shareholders are, immediately gifts one each to lawmakers and noble masters too.

And the bicycle made putting the most heart and soul presented to the palace.

I anxiously waited for the result in the hotel room.

“Is it Representative Arthur Lee?”

“Yes.”

“Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert wish to see you.”

Burst.

How can a 19th century person endure a bicycle?

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Author’s note

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