Chapter 629: Ways to Improve Productivity
"Then do you have any good ideas for developing Qin?" Guiguzi asked.
Huang Shi also looked at Qin An curiously. To be honest, the current Great Qin was much better than the original Seven Kingdoms.
But even with the Qin State like this, Huang Shi and others still wanted to make them better.
Qin An thought for a while and said: "Teacher, actually I have told my father-in-law about this before, to develop agriculture, commerce, culture, industry and other industries.
To develop a country, productivity comes first. So no matter how poor you are, you have to spend money to support productivity.
There are several ways to improve productivity: First, optimize the production process and improve efficiency. Simply put, it is to specify the pipeline.
I know that Daqin uses an assembly line method to make bows and arrows very quickly.
And I also mentioned the assembly line. Everyone has seen the assembly line, so I won’t say much about the assembly line. "
Guiguzi said: "Qin An, can you tell me briefly."
In fact, Guiguzi and Huangshi didn't know about the assembly line.
Qin An also remembered it, and immediately showed an apologetic smile and said: "Teacher, I am very sorry. I forgot that it is your first time here with Mr. Huang Shi.
Let me briefly talk about the assembly line. In fact, the assembly line is to divide an item into many processes. Each process only needs one person to complete it, and finally the item is made.
Just think of it as an arrow. Arrows usually consist of three parts: arrowhead, arrow shaft and fletching.
So we can make the sizes and divide the people making the arrows into three batches. The first batch makes arrow shafts, the second batch makes fletchings, and the third batch makes arrowheads.
The three groups of people can each do their own thing, and there is no need to worry about whether the other two groups of people can do a good job.
As soon as the first batch of arrows are produced and usable, the arrow assembly line will be officially formed.
Because just making one thing, practice makes perfect, and the original hundred arrows a day can be turned into hundreds a day, and the efficiency has increased several times. "
"What a great assembly line." Guiguzi said, "Not only has the efficiency of the workers improved, but the most important thing is that each person only does one thing and never does the second thing.
Therefore, the secret of the workshop can be protected, because everyone except the owner can only do one thing, and he only knows one process. "
"That's right." Qin An said. He didn't expect Guiguzi to see the essence right away.
Although assembly lines can increase productivity, they can also protect business secrets. The purpose of the businessman who invented the assembly line was to protect business secrets.
It's just that the other party didn't expect that it could actually improve productivity, so the assembly line became completely popular.
Qin An continued: "If the goal is clear, waste will occur at any time, so after the goal is clear, waste can be reduced.
Reducing waste means increasing productivity, just like gambling, if you don’t gamble, you win.
The third is to improve techniques and improve production efficiency. To put it bluntly, it is to create better tools to replace existing tools.
Fourth, assign work to others, like a can of fruit. "
Qin An took a bottle of canned fruit from the cabinet in the private room and said, "Look, this canned fruit is composed of three parts: fruit, glass bottle and lid.
Can we give the mason jars and lids to someone else to make, as long as we have the fruit.
There are even smart people who only have technology and buy three things: glass bottles, lids and fruits. "
"Why is this?" Huang Shi asked.
Qin An smiled and said: "Mr. Huang Shi, the workshop is for business. A glass bottle is only worth a few dollars. Even if the glass workshop provides glass bottles for canned fruits, will the rest be wasted?
Unless you go to attract customers. "
"Then go get customers." Gan Mao said.
Qin An shook his head and said: "Lao Gan, don't forget, they only make canned fruits. If others come to you to buy glass bottles, then
The other party also makes canned fruits.
In this way, both parties are competitors. As competitors, how can they buy each other's things?
So they would rather make their own glass bottles like you, or buy them from others, and will never buy yours. "
Unless, your glass workshop not only makes glass bottles, but also makes other things. But in this case, you will have to send more manpower, and the labor will have to be doubled.
You may be able to afford to lose money at the beginning, but you will definitely not be able to lose money over time. In addition to glass bottles, there are also bottle caps, sugar for making canned fruits, etc.
So this is an unreasonable arrangement.
The most reasonable arrangement is to divide the work. If you want to make canned fruits, just make canned fruits. Let others produce the glass bottles, lids, and rock sugar. You must not participate yourself. "
"Then we can only make canned fruits for the rest of our lives?" Gan Mao asked.
Qin An shook his head and said: "Of course not. But this is about a new thing, the enterprise."
"Enterprise?" Everyone read it involuntarily.
Qin An nodded and said: "To put it simply, an enterprise is an organization that unites one or several workshops, called an enterprise, but an enterprise is not an ordinary small workshop.
An enterprise must have at least a thousand workers and an annual income of at least tens of millions to be called an enterprise.
As for the canned fruit I just mentioned, once the canned fruit becomes big and you feel that the profit has reached its peak, then you will start to do other things.
And these other products can also be dietary products, such as dried meat, dried fruits, canned meat, etc.
It can also be industries such as cement, real estate, and steel.
When all these businesses are integrated, it becomes an enterprise.
After you combine all your businesses and turn them into one enterprise, you can go public and list them on a securities company.
You don’t need to understand this for the time being, and it’s useless to understand it. You can’t build a stock market even if you’re spread out across the country. "
"stock market?"
Everyone heard a new term again.
Gan Mao asked curiously again: "Sir, please talk about the stock market. Even if you can't do it, at least you can understand it."
Qin An sighed and said, "But I don't know much about the stock market. But I can use a simple stock market to explain the meaning of this stock market."
"I would like to hear the details." Gan Mao said.
Everyone also looked at Qin An expectantly.
Qin An thought for a while and said: "There was once a businessman who bought a lot of soybeans. He bought all the soybeans in the whole city, but he couldn't sell them for a while.
So he thought of a way to tell others that the emperor liked to eat soybeans. .
Suddenly, soybeans became a popular food, and all the people began to buy soybeans frantically.
But the soybeans were in the hands of the businessman, so the businessman sold the soybeans at a good price. "
