Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 401 Emerald City Garment Factory
[Steamship] Airships can be built much faster than the old gliders.

According to the standard size and material requirements, the airbag can be sewn and processed. The rubber coating is used to fix the flying thread, which is much easier and more stable than hand weaving.

The same goes for the pod.

The tail wing, auxiliary equipment, etc. have various parameter standards and can be manufactured according to the standards.

Shuanghe, Motorcycle City and Yinshang Company, which serve as manufacturing bases, quickly adjusted the airship production line and added purchase lists for various raw materials. There were data manuals provided by the programming department, and all they had to do was follow the instructions.

For Wasteland, this significantly reduces the labor required for assembly and testing.

Manufacturing Minister Yuan Tong was originally a little worried.

"Chairman, you said that our new process is good, but if we send the flying silk to an external manufacturing base and have them use rubber to coat and fix the airbag... the flying silk will leak out..."

Zhou Yi smiled and asked back: "Then do you think that our current partners don't know how to make flying silk?"

"Of course we know. We can get it by dismantling a glider."

Minister Yiyan said so.

"Yuan Tong, I know what you mean."

Zhou Yi said, "It's the same thing. We need to change our mindset and stop thinking about holding on to one thing and relying on it until the end of time."

"The flying silk is the core of the glider system, there is no problem with that. But all parties cooperate with us and are willing to become our manufacturers and buyers, not only because of this technology, but also because our new technology development is ongoing."

"Take gliders, for example. We have developed manned gliders, and now we have large airships, and we can make them cheaply enough."

“The key to our partners’ close cooperation is their expectations for the future.”

"We have brought them positive expectations, making them believe that new airships will appear in the future. This is indeed the case. Isn't our electric cat system basically complete?"

"Innovation and high quality at low prices are our core competitiveness."

When Yuan Tong heard this, his artificial eye lit up slightly.

He pondered for a while and said, "I remember what you said. I was just thinking that more than 80% of the company's employees are in the manufacturing department. If these manufacturing processes are handed over to outsiders...what should our workers do?"

"Although the Guangxu Dam is a long-running natural mineral deposit, the profit is far less than that of new products. I am really envious of the development of the Ministry of Electric Power next door."

"Now I feel that our manufacturing workers can't keep up with the development of the company. Most of the workers have low education and insufficient technical experience. It is difficult for them to keep up with new things, and they can't make high-standard and high-precision equipment. I am afraid that the soot industry will be turbulent in the future, resulting in a decrease in the workers' income. Well, to be honest, I am very worried about this now."

Zhou Yi's heart moved.

This former pirate leader is thinking about the future of ordinary workers in the company. He finally looks like a minister.

"I have studied the technological development of the old humans."

Zhou Yi said slowly: "In the early days, humans used horses and donkeys as a means of transportation, and the profession of horsemen came into being. Later, when cars were invented, some of these horsemen became car drivers, while others were forced to change their careers, and of course some people became unemployed."

"Everyone has to choose what to do, whether to change and adapt, or stay on the original track. What we can do is to provide an environment with relatively more choices."

Yuan Tong seemed to have come to his senses as well, and he nodded.

Zhou Yi asked again: "How are Xiao Xing and Amian doing over there?"

Yuan Tong smiled and said, "They are both lively and cheerful children. I sent them to each section to record and communicate with the workers about the specific difficulties they encounter in their work. Everyone likes them very much. However, these two children have some sudden ideas."

"They asked me why there are no garment factories here. The company has a lot of employees and is very rich. Emerald City and Wasteland Company are very famous outside. In Huayi, famous flower girls can sell for a high price just by the clothes they wear. The same dress that Xiaotao wears can be sold for 100 light seeds, but if it is replaced by other flower girls, it can only be sold for 10 mushrooms."

Yuan Tong wiped his forehead with his hand and said, "They think that they can sell clothes and other things by relying on the company's reputation. But we sell high-quality and low-priced products, so how can we sell such expensive clothes?"

Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard this, then he thought: "This can really be done."

"what?"

Yuan Tong was shocked: "Chairman, are you serious?"

Zhou Yi said seriously, "Food, clothing, shelter and transportation are the basic needs of most people. Previously, our clothes relied heavily on the old human inventory from the Dead Sea. As each piece is used, there is one less piece. We have to learn to make our own clothes."

"Aren't the uniforms for the employees made by your department? It just so happens that you opened a garment factory that specializes in designing and manufacturing clothes. Aren't you still looking for a way out for the workers? Here comes the way out."

Yuan Tong scratched his head: "This is an industry that the company has never been involved in before."

Zhou Yi said seriously: "Don't underestimate the clothing industry. For the company, this is actually to expand the company's external publicity. It's the same as painting the public luxury glider in gold and flying around in the sand sea."

"Of course, the clothes have to be cheap so that ordinary people can afford them. Our style has always been close to the people."

"Every time the company launches a new product, we launch a matching piece of clothing. For example, for the [Steamship] airship, our short-sleeved shirts must have airship patterns or text logos. The same is true for the Electric Cat series."

The more Zhou Yi talked about it, the more he thought this was a good idea.

In this wasteland environment without television broadcasting, clothes are mobile billboards and self-propelled billboards, which are beneficial to enhance the company's visibility and recognition in the outside world.

"There is still one."

Zhou Yi's thinking diverged further: "Clothes, shoes, hats, blankets and the like are all fine. We will make them all. The key is to showcase our company's brand and our various products, but we must also focus on comfort."

"Xiao Tao is very good at designing and making clothes, and she also knows how to sell clothes. You can ask her more about this."

"It's okay if the profit is low. We need to build the garment factory quickly and cooperate with the airship for external publicity!"

Yuan Tong also understood the strategic intention of the propaganda. He nodded repeatedly: "I understand, Chairman. This is a step in our five-year plan to go global. I will take action right away!"

He left in a hurry.

……

Under the operation of Recursive City, the supporting equipment needed by the garment factory, including cutting tables, sewing machines, buttonhole machines, button sewing machines, ironing machines, plate making machines, etc., were successively disassembled and airlifted in by airship. In just half a month, the Emerald City Garment Factory officially began operation.

Yuan Tong also serves as the factory director.

Xiaotao became the chief designer of the garment factory.

Xiao Xing and Amian were assigned to the garment factory, where they were responsible for clothing design and production.

Some of the clothing makers are tailors recruited from outside, and some are workers selected from within the manufacturing department.

The first piece of clothing produced in the factory was a light brown linen short-sleeved shirt.

Because it was summer, it was designed to be loose. There was an airship printed on the chest of the short-sleeved shirt, with the Chinese characters "Steamship" written on it.

Xiao Tao looked at Zhou Yi with satisfaction: "Chairman, this suits you very well!"

Zhou Yi looked at the Chinese characters on his chest: "Most people can't understand this ancient Chinese, right?"

"Just don't understand."

Xiao Tao said confidently: "Sometimes, to attract people, you need to have elements that are incomprehensible. Using characters from the Age of Gods is more powerful than modern characters."

"Plus, our clothes are super cheap, priced at 99 mushrooms. If you buy a handmade linen dress outside, it will cost 100 mushrooms."

"It's just that the profit is a little less. After deducting the expenses of raw materials, processing and transportation, I can only make 10 mushrooms per piece, so the profit is 10%."

"But it's great to be able to have nice, cheap new clothes for everyone!"

As soon as this linen sweater was launched, it was sold out crazily among employees.

Yuan Tong had to stipulate that each person was limited to purchasing only one item at the moment and was not allowed to buy more.

Fortunately, the garment factory had sufficient production capacity. After several rounds of replenishment, the first batch of clothes produced by the company was finally sent to various places outside via airship.

Relying on its price advantage and the reputation of the Wasteland Company behind it, airship linen shirts are popular everywhere.

……

Just when Zhou Yi was paying attention to the garment factory, Hong Shun found him.

"Zhou, there are already four electric drivers in the company."

"Except for Walker, who was the first one, there are 703, Da Vinci and me. We all followed the relevant operating procedures, adjusted to the standard potential constant, and connected to the electric cat."

"After testing for a while, we found that connecting to the electric modem would bring an additional effect."

"The proportion of positive feedback stimulated by our breathing program has increased significantly, from 0.04% in the past to 0.55%. Of course, this data may not be accurate, because our four current samples are too small, and are calculated based on 10000 near-death cycles."

"But after being recorded by an external observation device, it can indeed be reflected in the data. Staying connected to the cat will bring more variables. The cat variables can stimulate us with high intensity when we are near death, thereby stimulating more positive feedback electrical signals."

"Through the electric cat, we all entered the overload state [inspiration burst] multiple times, and the duration was increased from the previous 0.31 seconds to a maximum of 1.27 seconds."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay, okay!"

The drone continued, "The above is the latest progress of the electric driver. 703 is busy with the stone exfoliation reactor, so I will be the one to give the centralized report."

"Next is about the Ministry of Foreign Trade."

Hong Xun said: "I suggest that we start selling and transferring electric cats to the outside world."

Zhou Yi's smile faded and he shook his head: "We don't have enough electric cats right now. We're not at the stage of selling them to the public yet."

"not like this."

Hong Jian said: "What we need are qualified working electric cats. Whether it is the Thunderbolt Group or the Shining Group, they must undergo rigorous training and screening. Only after being confirmed by the Ministry of Electricity that they can finally complete the work, can they leave the cat house and go out to work."

"But the overall yield rate is only about 10% so far, and many more electric cats fail to meet the working standards. However, these electric cats have not been eliminated, and their number is still increasing."

"I went to the Ministry of Electricity to check and observe that there are as many as 511 electric cats, of which at least 160 are considered completely incapable of working. In the end, they had no choice but to be released - in fact, humanely destroyed, because electric cats cannot survive in the wild. It can be said that most of these electric cats are incapable of working."

Zhou Yi frowned when he heard this.

He knew that the yield rate of electric cats was low, but he didn't expect that there were so many unqualified electric cats in stock.

"Keeping these electric cats will continue to consume a lot of electricity, which is a huge expense."

"So I suggest that these substandard electric modems be resold to the outside world."

Kestrel said: "This can significantly reduce our energy consumption, avoid their death, and also generate some income."

Zhou Yi's brows relaxed: "That's a good idea. How do you price it?"

"I have discussed this with the Ministry of Electricity. Electric cats are Class B energy life forms and are well-known in the Spark Plains. It is not excessive to price one cat at 5000 light seeds. Depending on the degree of domestication of the electric cat itself, the price can range from 5000 to 3 light seeds. Because of the company's reputation, the outside world will also quickly absorb this batch of electric cats."

The drone said grimly: "By selling off this batch of non-working electric cats, we can at least get back 255 million light seeds."

“I think electric cats will be the main growth point of the company’s economy in the next stage.”

255 million light seeds.

Zhou Yi's breathing suddenly became rapid.

"Sell! Sell!"

(End of this chapter)