Wasteland Development Diary

【Airship】Airship manufacturing is much faster than older gliders.

Following standard size and material requirements, the airbags can be sewn and processed. Using rubber coating to fix the silk is much easier and more stable than manual weaving.

The same goes for the gondola.

The tail, auxiliary equipment, and other components all have various parameter standards that can be followed during production.

The Shuanghe, Locomotive City, and Yinshang Company manufacturing bases quickly adjusted their airship production lines, added purchase lists for various raw materials, and used data manuals provided by the programming department to guide operations.

This significantly reduced the labor required for assembly and testing for Wasteland Company.

Manufacturing Minister Yuan Tong was initially somewhat worried.

"Chairman, you said this new process is good, but sending the silk to external manufacturing bases for rubber coating and airbag fixation... won't the silk leak out?"

Zhou Yi smiled and asked, "Do you think our partners don't know how to make silk now?"

"Of course they know. They can get it by dismantling a glider."

The artificial eye minister said.

"Yuan Tong, I know what you mean."

Zhou Yi said, "It's the same old saying. We need to change our thinking and not cling to one thing, hoping to rely on it forever."

"Silk is the core of the glider system, no problem. But the reason why various parties cooperate with us, willing to become our manufacturers and buyers, is not only because of this technology but also because our new technology development is constantly progressing."

"Taking gliders as an example, we have developed manned gliders, and now we have large airships, and we can make them cheap enough."

"The key to our partners' close cooperation with us is their expectations for the future."

"We bring them positive expectations, making them believe that new airships will appear in the future. And that's indeed the case; our Electric Cat system is basically complete, isn't it?"

"Innovation and affordability are our core competitiveness."

Yuan Tong's artificial eyes lit up as he listened.

He pondered for a while: "I've remembered what you said. I'm just thinking that over 80% of the company's employees are in the manufacturing department. If these manufacturing processes are handed over to external parties... what should our workers do?"

"The Soot Dam is a long-term natural resource, but its profit margin is far less than that of new products. I'm really envious of the development of the neighboring electricity department."

"Now I feel that our manufacturing workers are a bit behind the company's development. Most workers have low levels of education and insufficient technical experience, making it difficult for them to keep up with new things, and they can't produce high-standard, high-precision devices. I'm afraid that the soot industry will fluctuate in the future, leading to a decline in workers' income. To be honest, I'm very worried about this now."

Zhou Yi's heart stirred.

This former pirate leader is thinking about the future of the company's ordinary workers. He's finally acting like a minister.

"I've studied the technological development of the old humans."

Zhou Yi said slowly, "Early old humans used horses and donkeys as transportation, creating the profession of coachmen. Later, cars were invented, and some of these coachmen became car drivers, while others were forced to change careers, and of course, some became unemployed."

"Whether a person chooses to change and adapt or stay on the original track is up to them. What we can do is provide a relatively more diverse environment."

Yuan Tong seemed to understand, and he nodded.

Zhou Yi asked again, "How are Xiao Xing and A Mian doing in your department?"

Yuan Tong revealed a smile: "They are both lively and cheerful good kids. I sent them to each section to record and communicate with the workers about the specific difficulties they face in their work. Everyone likes them very much. But these two kids have some whimsical ideas."

"They asked me why there isn't a clothing factory here. The company has many employees and is very rich. Emerald City and Wasteland Company are very famous outside. In Huayi, famous flower girls can sell for high prices just based on the clothes they wear. The same piece of clothing can sell for 100 light seeds on Xiao Tao, but only 100,000 mushrooms on other flower girls."

Yuan Tong wiped his forehead and said, "They think that relying on the company's reputation, we can completely sell clothes and other things. But we focus on affordability, how can we make such expensive clothes?"

Zhou Yi was stunned, then thought, "This is actually doable."

"Ah?"

Yuan Tong looked surprised: "Chairman, are you serious?"

Zhou Yi said sternly, "Clothing, food, housing, and transportation are basic needs for most people. Our previous clothing relied heavily on the old human inventory in the Dead Sea. We lose one every time we use one, so we have to learn to make our own."

"Aren't the employees' uniforms made by your department? We can just open a clothing factory to design and manufacture clothing. Aren't you trying to find a way out for the workers? Here it is."

Yuan Tong scratched his head: "This is an industry the company hasn't touched before."

Zhou Yi said seriously, "Don't underestimate the clothing industry. For the company, this is actually expanding publicity to the outside world. It's the same as the Sand Sea Company painting luxury gliders gold and flying them around."

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

"Every time the company launches a new product, we launch a matching piece of clothing. Like the 【Airship】 airship, our short sleeves should have airship patterns or text logos. The Electric Cat series is the same."

The more Zhou Yi spoke, the more he felt this idea was really good.

In this wasteland environment without television or radio, clothes are walking billboards, self-propelled publicity signs. It's beneficial to enhance the company's visibility and recognition in the outside world.

"There's one more thing."

Zhou Yi's thinking further diverged: "Clothes, shoes, hats, blankets, and the like can all be made. The focus is on showcasing our company's brand and our various products, but we must also pay attention to comfort."

"Xiao Tao is very good at designing and making clothes and knows how to sell them. Ask her more about this."

"It doesn't matter if the profit is low, we need to build the clothing factory quickly and cooperate with the airship for external promotion!"

Yuan Tong also understood the publicity strategic intention, and he nodded repeatedly: "I understand, Chairman. This is a step in our five-year plan to go global. I'll get right on it!"

He left in a hurry.

...

Under the operation of Recursive City, the supporting equipment needed for the clothing factory, including cutting beds, sewing machines, buttonholing machines, button attaching machines, ironing machines, pattern making machines, etc., were successively disassembled and airlifted by airship.

In just half a month, the Emerald City Clothing Factory officially began operations.

Yuan Tong served as the factory director.

Xiao Tao became the chief designer of the clothing factory.

Xiao Xing and A Mian were sent to the clothing factory to specialize in clothing design and production.

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

The first piece of clothing produced in the factory was a light brown ramie short sleeve.

Because it was summer, it was designed to be relatively loose. A picture of an airship was printed on the chest of the short-sleeved shirt, with the Chinese characters 【汽轮】 written on it.

Xiao Tao looked at Zhou Yi with satisfaction: "Chairman, this looks very good on you!"

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

"That's the point if they can't understand."

Xiao Tao said with confidence: "Sometimes to attract people, you need elements that they can't understand. Using the characters from the Age of Gods has more presence than contemporary characters."

"Plus, our clothes are super cheap, priced at 99 mushrooms. Buying a handmade linen shirt outside also costs 100 mushrooms."

"It's just that the profit is a bit small. After deducting raw materials, processing, transportation, and other expenses, we can only earn 10 mushrooms per piece, with a profit of 10%."

"But it's great to let everyone wear nice and cheap new clothes!"

Once this linen shirt was launched, it was frantically bought up internally by the employees.

Yuan Tong had to stipulate that each person was currently limited to buying one piece and could not buy more.

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

Relying on its price advantage and the reputation of Wasteland Company, the airship linen shirt was very popular everywhere.

...

Just as Zhou Yi was paying attention to the clothing factory, Red Falcon found him.

"Zhou, there are currently four cyber operators in the company."

"Besides Walker, the earliest one, there's also 703, Da Vinci, and me. We have all adjusted to the standard electrical potential constant according to the relevant operating procedures and connected to the Electric Cat."

"After our testing for this period, we found an additional effect from connecting to the Electric Cat."

"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 current sample of four is too small, it is calculated based on 10,000 near-death cycles."

"But after recording by external observation devices, it can indeed be reflected from the data. Maintaining the state of connection with the Electric Cat will bring more variables. The Electric Cat variables can provide high-intensity stimulation to us during near-death, thereby stimulating more positive feedback electrical signals."

"Through the Electric Cat, we have all entered a state of overload 【Inspiration Burst】 multiple times, and the duration has also increased from 0.31 seconds previously to a maximum of 1.27 seconds."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed when he heard this: "Good, good!"

The drone continued: "The above is the latest progress of the cyber operators. 703 is busy with the Stone Molt reactor, so I am giving a centralized report."

"Below is about the Foreign Trade Department."

Red Falcon said: "I suggest starting to sell and transfer the Electric Cat externally."

Zhou Yi's smile faded, and he shook his head: "We don't have nearly enough Electric Cats yet. It's not time to sell them externally."

"It's not like that."

Red Falcon said: "What we need are qualified working Electric Cats. Whether it's the Thunderbolt Team or the Flash Spirit Team, they must undergo rigorous training and screening, and only after the Electricity Department confirms that they can finally complete the work can they leave the Cat House and go to work."

"But the overall success rate is only about 10% so far, and more Electric Cats have not reached the work standards. But this part of the Electric Cats has not been eliminated, and the number is still increasing."

"I went to the Electricity Department to inquire and observe. The number of this part of the Electric Cats is as high as 511, of which at least 160 are considered completely unable to do the job, and in the end, we can only choose to let them leave - which is actually humane destruction because Electric Cats cannot survive in the natural outside world. It can be said that most of these Electric Cats are unworkable."

Zhou Yi frowned as he listened.

He knew that the Electric Cat's success rate was low, but he didn't expect that so many unqualified Electric Cats had accumulated.

"Raising this part of the Electric Cats will continue to consume a lot of electricity, which is a huge expense."

"So I suggest transferring this part of the unqualified Electric Cats to the outside world for sale."

Red Falcon said: "This will greatly reduce our energy consumption expenditure, avoid their death, and also obtain a revenue."

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

"I discussed it with the Electricity Department. The Electric Cat is a B-level energy state life and is a little famous in the Spark Plain. A price of 5,000 light seeds is not excessive, ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 light seeds depending on the degree of domestication of the Electric Cat itself. Because of the company's reputation, the outside world will quickly digest this batch of Electric Cats."

The drone said coldly: "By transferring this batch of non-working Electric Cats, we can recoup at least 2.55 million light seeds."

"I believe that the Electric Cat will be the main growth point of the company's economy in the next stage."

2.55 million light seeds.

Zhou Yi's breathing became rapid for a while.

"Sell! Sell them!"