Chapter 44 The Potential of Small Chambers of Commerce

The storm is indeed coming towards the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

However, this storm did not bring trouble, but countless ordinary people inside and outside Bangta City who wanted to make a fortune overnight.

After the product launch conference, the support plan of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for small chambers of commerce was hyped by several newspapers in the city. In addition, the City Lord's Mansion also posted relevant notices on the municipal square, so it only took a few days. It is well known in Bangta City.

Knowing that a few ordinary farmers in the Irish village could actually earn hundreds of gold coins a month by participating in this plan, the ordinary people inside and outside Bangta City became crazy almost instantly.

Overnight, countless chambers of commerce with strange names popped up in Bangta City, and then these small chambers of commerce that suddenly appeared one after another proposed to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to join the Small Chamber of Commerce support plan.

In just three days, more than a thousand chambers of commerce have applied to join the program.

Although most of them are new chambers of commerce that have hurriedly applied for registration in the past few days, there are also some small chambers of commerce that have long existed in Bangta City.

In the face of such a large number of applications, the officials of the City Lord's Mansion who were sent by the Earl of Summer to assist the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in implementing this plan were more tired than dogs. Not even five hours.

Fortunately, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has already formulated a fairly detailed review standard before launching this plan. Any small chamber of commerce that does not meet the standards will not accept applications, which saves them a lot of work.

One of the most basic is that a small chamber of commerce that applies to join the small chamber of commerce support program must have the most basic proof of funds.

And the lower limit of this funding. It was temporarily set as two hundred gold coins by Xu.

Just this one. The more than 1,000 applicants were directly brushed down by half.

plus other criteria. There are only more than 200 people who have finally passed the review and obtained the qualification to participate in the small chamber of commerce support plan.

However, when more than 200 small chambers of commerce learned that even if they participated in the small chamber of commerce support plan, it was impossible to directly produce complete magical machines such as magic fans, magic rice cookers, magic bread machines, etc., but they could only choose to produce these Immediately after part of the accessories of the magic machinery, more than half of the small business associations chose to quit.

In the end, there were only 87 small chambers of commerce left who insisted on participating in the Small Chamber of Commerce Support Program.

"Xu Yi, you said before that you would hand over the screws to Freeman and the others for production. I don't think it's a big deal. After all, screws are not too important. But now you tell me that you plan to give these parts to the finalists. These small chambers of commerce produce... Hey, are you planning to dismantle our home magic machinery production workshop?"

As Xu Yi's prestige in the Chamber of Commerce gradually increased, in the current Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Heinze was the only one who would accuse Xu Yi face to face so unceremoniously.

Today was not the day when he regularly returned to Bangta City every month, but when he saw the follow-up report on the support plan of the Small Chamber of Commerce in the "Kalma Daily", he couldn't help but run back immediately.

Not for anything else, but to question Xu Yi face to face.

"Who said I wanted to disintegrate the household magic machinery production workshop?" Xu Yi glanced at him inexplicably. "I said you came back today, just for this?"

Heinze pointed to the representatives of the 87 small chambers of commerce who were visiting the production workshop of household magic machinery under the leadership of Ankato. He said angrily: "Isn't it? The work of this workshop is to produce those parts and then assemble them. Now you have to hand over the production of these parts to those small chambers of commerce that I have never heard of. What does this workshop do? Is it just simple assembly of those parts every day?"

"Wait... Heinze, I find your logic is very problematic." Xu Yi frowned. "Even if I hand over the work of processing parts to those small chambers of commerce, why does it mean that this workshop has nothing to do?"

"Nonsense! These things were originally done by the workers in our home magic machinery production workshop. If you give it to others, of course our workers will have nothing to do!" Heinze said angrily.

"Who said... oh, I understand." Xu Yi patted his head, reached out to stop Heinze's shoulder, and laughed: "I'm sorry I didn't explain it to you clearly. Um... how do I say it, I'll tell you clearly first. Hello, even if these 87 small chambers of commerce join the ranks of producing and processing parts, it will not affect the work of our chamber of commerce itself, I am sure of this, so you don't have to worry."

Although Heinze was angry in his heart, he knew that Xu Yi would never joke with him under such circumstances, so he couldn't help but wonder, "What's going on? You can clarify."

"It's like this. Look, first of all, you were the main person in charge of this workshop before. I think you should be very clear that in fact, there has always been a bottleneck in the production capacity of the household magic machinery production workshop. The reason for this bottleneck is that we The speed of producing and processing parts by yourself will never catch up with the speed of assembly, right?" Xu Yi asked.

Heinze thought for a while, then nodded: "That's right. But before I left, I adjusted the proportion of workers' types of work, and tried to keep it consistent. Could it be that after I left, Ankato made some random changes. Pass?"

"That's not true, Ankato's work has been done well, you don't have to worry. But you have to think about it this way, although you did adjust the proportion of work types to improve the overall efficiency, but this approach is really just a compromise, isn't it? Is it?" Xu Yi asked again.

"Then what do you think? You said it yourself, the speed of workers processing and producing parts can't keep up with the speed of assembly. We can't recruit more workers to be responsible for processing and producing parts? We don't have such a large venue now, unless ..." Heinze was suddenly stunned, thought for a moment, and looked at Xu Yi in amazement. "Hey, do you want these small chambers of commerce to replace the workers and venues we need to hire?"

Xu Yi nodded with a smile on his face: "Yes, you finally figured it out."

Heinze looked at the representatives of the small chambers of commerce in the distance, his thoughts turned around, and after a while. But he frowned again.

"That's not right. Although we let them produce and process the parts, it can save us a lot of manpower and space. But since these parts are processed and produced by them, if we purchase from them, we will definitely make them money. Yes. As a result, won't our own profits be reduced?"

Xu Yi smiled: "Heinze, let me ask you a question. Before we produced a No. 3 screw ourselves, what was the cost?"

Heinze was startled and glared at Xu Yi: "How do I know this, you should ask that guy Sebas."

"I asked. So I know. Let me tell you, for a No. 3 screw, the cost of our own production, according to Sebas' estimate, is about twenty-five copper coins to thirty copper coins." Xu Yidao.

"Not quite right? The No. 3 screw is so small, and only a small amount of pig iron is used. How could it cost twenty-five copper coins or even thirty copper coins?" Heinze wondered.

"Pig iron is only the material cost, but if we calculate the actual cost, we also need to include the labor cost, as well as the cost caused by the loss of the magic tooth rolling machine. All other factors are considered, and the final estimate is so much." Xu also explained.

"Well... well. Even if it's all that much, but you suddenly asked this, does it have anything to do with my question just now?" Heinze asked again.

"Of course there is. Now you know, it costs about twenty-five coppers and thirty coppers to produce a size 3 screw ourselves, but do you know how much it costs us to buy a size 3 screw from the United Irish Chamber of Commerce? "Xu Yi asked back.

"I haven't really paid attention to this. But I think they also want to make money, so a No. 3 screw should...will sell for about thirty-five copper coins. If there are more, you will definitely not agree."

Xu Yi smiled slightly and shook his head: "You are wrong. We are now purchasing a No. 3 screw from the United Irish Chamber of Commerce for only twenty-three copper coins."

"It's impossible!" Heinze immediately retorted in surprise. "Don't they make money?"

"No, on the contrary, they can still make money. According to my estimation, they sell for twenty-three copper coins for a No. 3 screw, and they can earn about five copper coins." Xu Yidao.

"How is that possible!" Heinze was simply shocked this time. "It would cost us twenty-five copper coins or even thirty copper coins to produce a No. 3 screw by ourselves. Why can't they even use twenty copper coins? Are they better than me?"

Seeing Heinze's excited expression, Xu Yi knew that this must have hurt Heinze's self-esteem as the former director of the home magic machinery production workshop, so he patted his shoulder and said, "It's none of your business. Because the employee benefits of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are relatively good, the investment in labor costs is relatively high. And the United Irish Chamber of Commerce, they are the bosses of the chamber of commerce and employees at the same time, so the labor cost can be ignored for them, so naturally It can keep the overall cost much lower than ours.”

"What about the quality of the screws they made? If it's not as good as what we made ourselves, I still oppose you doing it." Heinze was still unconvinced.

"It's a pity that the quality of the screws they made is even a little bit better than our own..." Xu Yi helplessly spread out his hands.

"Ah? No? Why is that?" Heinze's face was full of disbelief.

"It's very simple, because they are professional." Xu Yi shrugged, with a hint of relief in his expression. "I just sold them a few magic tooth rolling machines and some related equipment, and taught them the craft of producing screws, but I didn't expect them to keep pondering and improving themselves during this period of time. The screws are already pretty good in overall quality. Even better than me...well, it's pretty good anyway and definitely meets the requirements of our chamber of commerce."

Heinze stared blankly at the representatives of the small chambers of commerce who were working on the magic tooth rolling machine for the remaining two days in the workshop. He muttered a few words, and suddenly asked Xu Yi: "I can understand now. Why do you hand over the processing of parts to these small chambers of commerce, but Xu Yi, don't you worry, these small chambers of commerce will grow up one day, and then rob all the business of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "If they can really do this, I definitely welcome them with both hands up."

Seeing the sincere smile on Xu Yi's face, Heinze patted his head in pain.

"I forgot, you are a madman at all!" (To be continued. . . )