Chapter 105

Chapter 105

Scientific Management Technique (3)

The start of <​Lee Gears Company>, abbreviation LG Company was extremely smooth.

If asking why LG again answering there is a very profound meaning here is common sense.

Well... if not advertising everywhere that I fell out with Gladstone, once something with G entering would help bewitching investors and consumers?

Anyway Lee Gears Company was stamping bicycles very vigorously. Literally endlessly.

“This sells that well?”

“Hey! Come here and disassemble this a bit! We will make this too!”

“This much quickly follow and make.”

As soon as our bicycle hit Kakashis appeared in large numbers in an instant.

Patent? Can block them just by filing several patents? Useless. In the romantic era 19th century humans living only today are full. If a human resolves to do whether ignoring patents or bypassing methods are endless.

But the problem is next.

“These bastards how much losing and selling?!”

“No matter how hard matching their unit price is hard?”

“Cut all England bastards and instead bring smelly Irish bastards. Those have cheaper body price.”

“Still hard.”

“Once just try!”

This is precisely the power of scientific management, these barbaric Anglo-Saxon bastards.

We wielding high wages and high efficiency like twin swords of both hands could set very cheap prices while at the same time achieving a decent level of defect rate.

Nevertheless the British people of will ultimately did it. Don’t know what on earth did but anyway some companies ultimately made bicycles worthy of price competition with us.

“How many kinds of bicycles on the market now?”

“Dozens? Hundreds? Just pouring out countless!”

“Let’s disassemble all one by one.”

Once mobilize the lawyer corps, and release bribes and summon the lawmakers. Guys weaker than the backing I can bring out can all be swept in one stand summon. Patent law is originally an area attack used when the strong crushes the weak.

Next disassembling the bicycles released on the market could largely divide into two categories.

1. Bicycles cheaper instead of quality lower than our bicycles.

2. More luxurious but more expensive than our bicycles.

Scholar Arthur Lee who knows the Way better than anyone has no hobby of sucking the common people’s pocket money.

“Leave the former. Anyway will not beat us.”

“Will. Ultimately break down more than our bicycles or whatever.”

“If just continuously producing decent quality bicycles turning the factory like now can naturally win in the low-price market.”

“The expensive product group with large profits remaining-”

“Well of course must attach royal warranty.”

Time to do brand marketing familiar to the point of taken for granted by 21st century modern people.

What reason I diligently presented bicycles and automobiles to the royal family. All to acquire the right to sell the royal name, royal warranty.

But if doing all bicycles I handle all royal whatever the value of that title might fall? So here separate the premium brand. Like Toyota separated Lexus.

“From now on the highest grade line bicycles will sell attaching the trademark of <​Excelsior> not <​Lee Gears Company>. Royal warranty also applies only to the latter.”

“But our line is only one?”

“Must distinguish. Quality management must also be thorough.”

“More than now?”

In 19th century people’s view even the ordinary <​Lee Gears> bicycle production line is already turning at obsessive level.

But in 21st century people’s view still a mess.

“Place those recognized for excellent ability in each production line on the <​Excelsior> line. Of course set wages more generously and treat the other receptions also the best.”

“Understood.”

“Those with poor work attitude. Those who are often late, or frequent unauthorized absences, or soaked in alcohol unable to properly do work will not even attach feet to our factory of course the Excelsior production line. Me giving expensive wages is not to drink alcohol.”

“Yes? Then how many will remain in the factory?”

“If wanting to receive weekly pay several times will quit alcohol!”

In heart want to make a gym inside the factory too, but no way these crazy Anglo-Saxon bastards will use gyms or whatever. Guarantee from the factory manager taking the lead will snatch all equipment somewhere and change to whiskey.

Whether caught my killing intent, our executives and employees full of the dream of strong country bicycle world quickly turned the topic.

“Now bicycle fashion is spreading all around.”

“Already fussing from places like Germany or France whether can import our bicycles.”

“That is very good news.”

Whether must increase production lines or not squabbling occurred, but I became interested in a bit different place.

“Everyone envies people with bicycles?”

“Yes.”

“Targeting our executives and employees, please make able to buy bicycles at cheap discount price one every 3 years.”

Future automobile companies did this.

Let own company employees buy cars at employee discount price, they ride as private cars themselves but also buy and immediately sell as used and take the profit as bonus feel.

If so employees will somehow buy bicycles and sell or give to their children, and subtly inducing 3 years full attendance so big gain for me too?

After the decision on the bicycle line ended had to interview Rickett whose eyes half turned.

“Prince Albert highly praised the automobile I made! Really, really? Truly?!”

“Yes. Lived only being deceived?”

Steam automobiles are definitely losers of the era.

But now when the internal combustion engine itself has not been invented, if saying a vehicle that rolls with its own power of course must equip steam engines.

Steam automobiles have many inconvenient points in various ways.

The point of having to fill water and fuel full is actually not that big a problem. Taking a long time to start is also not a serious problem as thought. Anyway people who will play with automobiles in this period all have subordinates who do such chores.

The biggest problem is the steam engine itself is tricky. Hard to handle if not a skilled mechanic, and in the worst case the boiler might explode bang.

Nevertheless I instructed to place a department developing automobiles inside the company and continuously research and develop. Probably a money-eating hippo for a few years, severely a few tens of years.

“Compared to bicycles currently steam automobiles have value only about the entertainment of high people with money. But someday if an improved version of the steam engine, or a new engine that surpasses the steam engine itself comes out automobiles also have sufficient room to be widely distributed to everyone like bicycles.”

“I also think so.”

“In the case of automobile manufacturing once rather than laying production lines including conveyor belts... will proceed in the form of making small quantities one by one. Seems even if laying cannot recover the principal.”

“Will repay the representative’s trust! Manse!! Manse!!!”

Promote friendship with high people with steam automobiles.

Create large-scale profits with high-low mixed bicycle sales.

Steam buses... sell really modestly. Just this if automobile orders don’t come in and the automobile department is idle make one or two. Fine dumping the remaining to India or Joseon?

I, we created a new consumption market called <​personal mobility means>.

The middle class and common people who obtained bicycles will have the radius of life lived until now suddenly widen, and will roam freely to the suburbs mountains fields relying on one bicycle. Even commuting by bicycle so can nest in much cheaper and better quality houses than before.

- Not planning to claim changed history with this?

Don’t hope. Anyway this is just advancing the change of the original history a bit.

Once began presenting the concept of bicycles and automobiles to rave reviews, now the time to harvest what invested ahead came.

- Harvest?

Ah, don’t 19th century barbarians know?

This is ‘tire’. If wrapping the wheels with rubber can enjoy comfort beyond imagination...

The moment the value of rubber skyrockets.

The value of the Southeast Asian rubber tree plantations planted instigating the East India Company family last time also vertically skyrockets.

Now somewhat stacked the basic foundation to change the world.

Finally standing on the start line.

***

1859.

The world was rolling in its own way.

In America a New York state lawmaker shot and killed the current prosecutor who cheated with his wife but was released innocent.

Charles Dickens began serializing <​A Tale of Two Cities>.

The French Empire that had been invading Vietnam from last year employed Chosen sepoys who gained brilliant fame in India. The Chosen army also began accepting new recruits opening the door even to Japanese people.

In Qing a terrifying political struggle began once more over the succession structure. Prince Gong who seemed would drop even birds was gradually narrowing his footing.

In Italy a war that would later be named <​Second Italian War of Independence> occurred.

The Austrian Empire that had much land and influence in northern Italy.

The Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont that rose as the center of Italian unification against this.

Napoleon III of France who wanted to screw Austria, but already at war in Vietnam, and did not particularly want unified Italy but was scared of Italian assassins.

As these three countries collided head-on the gunfire of war echoed on European land once more a few years after the Crimean War.

“Our British Empire in this war strict neutrality-”

“Hey!!”

“Make the dog barking sound not come out!!”

And the place that always plots conspiracies whenever something happens in Europe, the British Empire parliament also burned once more.

“From when did our British Empire that goes around propagating the beauty of freedom to the whole world fear the absolutist country Austria?”

“The Conservative Party are treacherous guys different front and back. My goodness. Look at those guys a bit! Guys who shouted valuing the Anglican Church so, trying to ignore the evil Catholic country Austria oppressing Italians!”

“Napoleon III is trying to make Italy his puppet. If he swallows even Italy where will the next ambition head! Precisely us! He who occupied Italy and gave birth to the Roman Empire will definitely invade Britain!!”

“We all are those indebted to the great glory of the Roman Empire. Britons! Let’s add our noble hearts to Italians struggling against foreign powers!”

Originally the Greek-Roman spoon was the best spoon in Europe.

People called Britain’s great writers opinion leaders etc. as soon as opening the mouth entered Roman worship and shouted ‘if a cultured person with taste let’s cheer for Italy!’, and the Conservative Party was instantly framed as rotten guys supporting absolutists.

And anti-Conservative Party lawmakers finally united into one.

“We solemnly swear before the banner of free trade and liberalism. Resolve to establish a party for the rights of all United Kingdom citizens, against the Conservative Party trying to turn the homeland’s clock backwards!”

“Waaaaaaa!!”

The birth of the Liberal Party.

Finally excluding a very few independent lawmakers, British political circles entered the two-party system of Conservative Party and Liberal Party.

These Liberal Party declared cabinet no-confidence at the same time as founding, and the Conservative Party cabinet of Derby and Disraeli shattered with a bang in an instant like a house made of sugar.

Palmerston chased out in 1 year returned as prime minister in 1 year again.

There was nowhere one who could block Palmerston who became prime minister as the leader of the majority ruling party in decades.

It was the turn for the British Empire’s imperialism to spread to the whole world once more.

“Representative Lee.”

“Yes, Prime Minister.”

“Perhaps... no thought of making infant bicycles?”

Of course bicycles were a serious problem even for him.

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