As Scrooge and Terry, who was in charge of cost reconciliation, walked around the factory floor, the workers were busy at work - the company was doing so well that the machines were running 24 hours a day. Most of the employees who had been dismissed by Stru had returned to the factory, and the factory had recruited some additional workers. Sometimes, when some workers looked up from their work and saw Scrooge walking by, they would smile and greet him.

"Mr. Scrooge, how are you?"

"Ah, Mr. Cole, how are you?" Scrooge would respond with the same smile, and he could even call each worker by name. Of course, Scrooge wouldn't say that he memorized the list for a long time. The reason he did this was to imitate His Majesty Napoleon, who could name most of the soldiers in the Old Guard.

The workers greeted each other and sat down to continue their work, while Scrooge and Terry discussed something as they walked.

"Mr. Scrooge, are you planning to recruit again?" Terry said to Scrooge, "In fact, the problem with our production speed is not a lack of manpower, you know, our machines are running 24 hours except for the necessary maintenance time, even with more workers, there will not be a higher production speed."

"Of course, I know that." Scrooge said, "But our workers are working twelve hours a day, and it's too tiring. So I'm going to bring in another class of workers so they only have to work eight hours a day."

"So ......" Terry was silent for a moment, "Are you going to cut their wages, sir? Now they work 12 hours a day, if it is reduced to 8 hours, they have to take a third of the wages. I think more workers are willing to work 12 hours."

"Oh, Mr. Terry, you misunderstand. I'm not going to cut their wages we're getting enough profit now. The workers should be allowed to share a little bit, after all, they are also a member of the company. And, you know, the economy is not good right now, and a lot of people don't have food to eat. We have to try to feed more people, and that's our responsibility to society." Scrooge put on a motherly face.

"Mr. Scrooge, you are really ...... please let me salute you." The contact time with Scrooge is not too long, and Terry, who does not know much about him yet, is leisurely touched. To be honest, Mr. Scrooge and the former Mr. Stroe can be completely different, Mr. Strooge will not take the workers' working hours to heart, in his still boss, workers working 16 hours a day is also the norm. And he had money, in addition to selling more machines, is for his enjoyment, he bought himself a private carriage, the best business at the time, he also gave himself the plan to buy a yacht, because, because he felt that owning a yacht is only rich.

And Mr. Scrooge, is not only good at inventing and creating, but also good at business - look at the race he planned, what an excellent advertisement it is, and more importantly, Mr. Scrooge is a pious and kind gentleman, he will prepare drinking water and towels for the workers at work, will spend time to teach the worker's safety knowledge, will equip the workers with all kinds of labor protection. He would equip the workers with all kinds of labor protection materials and pay them higher wages than those outside. In a bad economic situation, many companies have lowered workers' wages and even dismissed many of them, and even some companies that are doing very well will take advantage of the situation to lower workers' wages and extend their working hours, as Mr. Stroh did. Mr. Scrooge will not do so, now the company business is good, and even the workers can also share more earnings ...... Mr. Scrooge is a good man ah.

In all fairness, compared to the era of some "every pore is dripping with blood and dirty things" compared to moguls, Scrooge is now clean simply like an angel, but Scrooge himself knows that he did not do so because of social responsibility. But Scrooge himself knows that he is not doing this because of any social responsibility or anything. Rather, it is because of several reasons.

First, in this era of industrial production, the manual component was still very large, which made the workers' working conditions have a very obvious impact on the quality of the product. Especially for rear-loading bolt-action rifles like the Macdonald 1857, the requirements for production accuracy were much higher than those for front-loading rifles. And Scrooge has not yet had time to get the big killer assembly line out, and in the short term also does not intend to immediately move this thing out - although the assembly line is very important to improve production speed, and to ensure stable product quality, the current demand is not on the assembly line time, and the assembly line this thing is not how to do patent protection The company's products are not only for the production but also for the production of the products.

The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. Now, the reputation of Macdonald's rifles has just been established, if there is any quality error at this time, the loss will be big.

At the same time, a good reputation can also serve as a shield in case of some incidents. The previous owner of the factory, Stroh, had little or no ability to fight back after being accused and attacked, an important reason being his last reputation. When Scrooge was a student in his older days, he heard this joke. It is said that in a school, one day the teacher in class, saw Wang Moumou fell asleep again, so angry, criticized him: "How do you know how to sleep all day and night, as soon as you read a book, sleep? Look at people Li Moumou ......" and then the teacher looked back and found Li Moumou was buried in the book asleep. So the teacher said again: "Look, people who sleep are reading books."

When I first heard this joke, Scrooge just took it as a mockery of teachers' unfairness, but now think about it, this kind of thing is quite normal. If you are a teacher and there is a student who is late for absences for three days, then any reason he gives about why he is absent from class will certainly be regarded as an excuse by you. Even if this time he has any good reasons. On the contrary, a student who is always serious about his studies and rarely late for absences will occasionally be late, even if he has not yet explained, you will explain to him that there must be a legitimate reason. In the words of the Duke of History, that is, "it is because of the self-establishment of the vegetation".

If the previous owner of the factory, Stru, had a good reputation, it would have been much more difficult for someone to slander him and attack him than it is now. So, when one's foundation is not very solid, it is sometimes necessary to brush up on one's reputation.

"When you wait for the news of the recruitment to appear in the newspaper, make sure to mention that it is our social responsibility to fulfill. Better yet, get a shooter to write a long, long 'on corporate social responsibility and publish it with your name on it, then it will be perfect."

After going around the factory twice and greeting almost all the workers, he went back to his office. They called Hege, who is in charge of sales.

"Have you got the sales figures for this month? Bring it to me."

......

The company's sales figures have been updated. Joyce had just returned to her hometown in Mississippi. When he got off the train with a big bag, he saw Doyle, the butler, waiting there with two black slaves and a horse. Joyce and Doyle greeted each other, and the two black slaves came up and took the bag from him.

"Master Joyce, I'm glad you're finally back." Doyle brought a tall red horse over to him, "Master and Lady and Miss Alice have been expecting you back."

"Are they all right?" Joyce took the cord and rolled onto the horse.

"All right, my lord, my lady, and Miss Alice." Doyle also got on his horse. The two men rode slowly toward the manor, while the two negroes, carrying Doyle's bag, trotted behind them.

Joyce's homestead was called "Doolin", which was said to be named in honor of their ancestors' home in Ireland. When he went to Europe, Joyce went to Doolin, Ireland, to see the place, but there was no resemblance to his grandfather's description.

As Joyce rode on, he approached the white-painted gates of the Doolin homestead, when an old negro from afar shouted, "Master Joyce, it's Master Joyce back!" Then he turned his head and shouted to the nigger who was napping by the door, "Fool! Open the door, Master Joyce is back."

He entered the manor house by a wide galloping road lined with tall linden trees. At the end of the drive was the family's dark red, two-story house. At that moment, a window on the second floor had opened and a man was waving a handkerchief frantically at him. Joyce smiled, it was his sister Alice.

Joyce dismounted in front of the steps and handed over the rope to a slave, who, with his head bowed, led the horse to the stables without a word. At this time the door of the house also opened, Alice carried the skirt and rushed out of the house.

"Brother, brother!" Alice flew over like a little bird, reached out, and took Joyce's arm. "I was worried you wouldn't be able to make it to the Turner's ball. Now it's good ...... By the way, is Europe fun? Also, what's that Doolin like over there? Lillith is also going to attend the Turner's ball, what do you think I'll wear to beat Lillith?"