Genshin Impact: A Red Teyvat Life Starting from Zero

"Modify our ships?"

"Yes, we need to add some mechanical devices to connect the cables."

Jiang Ming's idea was to connect the submarine cable and then use telegraph communication directly, and perhaps in the future, even connect directly to the international Internet.

His original plan was to wait until their own ship was built before boarding, but now the need for communication with the outside world has obviously increased, and relying on Beidou to make a trip once every two months is a bit slow.

It's just unknown whether the thunderstorms created by General Thunder will affect the transmission of electrical signals in the cables.

"I need to confirm first, are there any sea monsters in the waters between Liyue and Haiqi Island that are highly sensitive to metal materials or would actively attack them?"

After all, this is Teyvat, the environment is different. Who knows, maybe Godzilla lives in the sea here. I need to find out more first.

"There shouldn't be... right?"

Beidou and Chongzuo exchanged a glance.

"Anyway, we've stopped and anchored in many places over the years without any problems, but I'm not sure about yours being electrified."

"That's fine. Let's try it first. If it doesn't work, we'll just lose some metal materials."

Jiang Ming finalized the matter.

"As a reward for this, all purchases made by Southern Cross on Haiqi Island will be discounted by 2%."

"No, you've taken two of my boats and you're only offering a 2% discount?"

"That's quite a lot. Why don't you take a look at what you've purchased this time? It's all precision machinery and high-end industrial products. I doubt your fleet can even fit them all. None of these things are cheap."

"Hey, speaking of ships, I just remembered, you build ships so fast, when will the ships you promised to sell us arrive?"

Beidou suddenly remembered the docks she had seen at the port.

Besides a small number of workers, there are also a large number of clockwork mechanisms... or, as the locals on Haigi Island call them, robots are doing the work.

Yesterday, accompanied by Xin Hai, she went to visit and learn about the shipbuilding technology. She found that most of the people there only knew the name of the technology and were completely ignorant of the specific operations.

"Why do we need to know so much? The researchers have already entered the construction program into the robot. We just need to know the name and then select a program for the robot according to the engineer's instructions."

This makes it difficult to evaluate BeiDou.

This was vastly different from her understanding of workers.

In her memory, shipbuilding workers had to know where and how much force to use to tighten which screw, where and what kind of nail to use, and they also had to be able to operate various auxiliary equipment.

At the same time, a large number of people are needed to work together to process the timber used for shipbuilding, and specialized workers are needed to transport these materials.

Those experienced and skilled workers can spot the problem at a glance and fix it perfectly with a single blow.

These are shipbuilding workers in Liyue Harbor.

And now, the shipbuilders on Haigi Island...

Although the work is largely the same, with the addition of tasks such as "welding," very few workers here need to do the work themselves.

They were more like robot operators.

After receiving orders from the on-site engineer or dispatcher, I would open the robot's control panel, connect the cable, operate the bulky terminal for a while, and then sit aside and wait for the robot to finish its task.

Each shipbuilder is responsible for controlling three robots.

"Our current level of intelligence and information technology is still relatively backward. Otherwise, with an ideal control system, a worker should be able to easily control at least 5 to 8 robots to perform complex activities. If combined with a similar level of intelligent program as Fontaine, it is not impossible for one person to control more than 20 robots. However, I believe that we will be able to make a breakthrough soon."

At that time, Xin Hai's explanation left Bei Dou with incredibly mixed feelings.

You call this backward?

A sad barrier has already formed between us.

Even Fontaine doesn't use a large number of robots for production in such an aggressive way.

The price of a clockwork mechanism is not cheap enough to replace human labor, and its maintenance cost is much higher than that of a human. Moreover, the control and precision of a clockwork mechanism are not as good as those of a human.

You've solved all these problems, and you still call yourselves backward?

In any case, by using pre-programmed robots to carry out production activities, Haizhi Island is equivalent to directly mass-producing skilled workers in various industries. These robots can work day and night, and when maintenance is needed, a new one is brought up, while the old ones are maintained in a centralized manner.

The workers, or more precisely, the robot operators, work in three shifts, with the machines running non-stop even when the workers are resting.

Training a robot operator only takes a few days to familiarize themselves with industry terminology, which is much easier than training a skilled shipbuilder.

Their most radical step was to authorize the robots to perform self-maintenance and write relevant programs, allowing the robots to repair each other with only human authorization, without the need for manual maintenance, although self-production is still prohibited and no relevant programs have been written in.

This greatly relieved Haiji Island of the problem of "no one available" in terms of both quantity and quality of production capacity. As a result, the construction of various facilities, including ships, was carried out at a rapid pace.

"Have you not considered what people will do after robots replace them? What if there's mass unemployment..."

"Captain Beidou, is there a possibility?" Xin Hai looked at Beidou with a strange expression. "Is it because we lack manpower that we decided to use robots on a large scale?"

"And then what? What happens when there are more people?"

"Captain Beidou, what sets Haiqi Island apart from any other power or country is that, in order to achieve rapid development and better overall coordination, public ownership occupies an absolutely dominant position, and it is managed uniformly by the Coral Palace."

Xin Hai looked at Beidou with a profound expression.

Beidou stood frozen in place, captivated by Xin Hai's gaze and words.

Without needing much explanation, she understood the logic.

Public ownership is easy to understand; everyone has it. (From the perspective of BeiDou)

Although the Coral Palace manages the production materials and tools and directs the people due to the division of labor, ultimately, ownership still belongs to everyone.

The products that everyone produces using everyone's materials and through everyone's machines belong to everyone and should be shared by everyone.

Two key aspects are: Will Coral Palace, acting as a proxy for management, take advantage of this to seize control of the business and become a monopolistic chamber of commerce or company?

The second issue is how to allocate the funds appropriately.

The former leads to another issue: the current Coral Palace is actually led by the ICP, which is headed by Xin Hai and Jiang Ming.

The ICP has made it very clear from the beginning that it does not represent the interests of any special group or minority; it only represents the majority.

Even a slogan has to be put into practice, at least to save face. This is almost the bottom line for a normal organization. Not to mention, they are actually doing this now, which is far more than just a slogan.

In this way...

Chapter 139 Hundredfold Profit

"How do you ensure that the allocation is done properly?"

"At present, the demand on Haizhi Island is not high. Most people are only looking to get rid of hunger, which we can meet well. We can also predict further demand and make preparations in advance. As for the future, we are still discussing it. However, we have not prohibited the operation of other economies and allow them to function as a supplement, even though they are completely outmatched at the moment and have no fertile ground for survival."

Xin Hai did not hide this from Bei Dou.

They don't have a detailed and correct response plan, but they have a backup plan that allows civilian forces to actively mediate, which is something they have prepared for.

When they are truly unable to meet people's growing needs for various reasons, without them having to say anything, someone will naturally discover the business opportunity, enter the market, and fill their gap.

All they need to do is not object.

Both Xin Hai and Jiang Ming have a very pragmatic attitude.

It doesn't matter if it's a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches mice, it's a good cat.

A good civilization is one that can maximize productivity and increase their strength as quickly as possible!

After all, productivity is the foundation of everything, the most basic thing.

As for the specifics of how to proceed and what new problems might arise, we'll only know and be able to devise solutions when the time comes.

Human imagination is always limited.

With highly automated production, and possibly even fully automated economic operations in the near future, it's certain that private ownership can't control this. However, the specifics are a blind spot for Jiang Ming, a transmigrator, so he can only take it one step at a time.

It's outrageous. He's only been here for less than a year, and he's only been officially active for less than half a year, yet things have already developed beyond his previous understanding.

Teyvat is truly a magical (physical) world.

"If the merchants of Liyue knew all this, they would want to tear you to pieces."

Beidou muttered to himself.

As for her, well... she's not a pure businesswoman. Being a businesswoman is just for fun, so it doesn't matter to her.

She understands now.

Umijima Island is indeed playing with something very new, and Ningguang is right.

However, with her limited knowledge, she couldn't tell whether this was good or bad.

Judging from the rapid development of Haigi Island and the living conditions of the people living there, it may not be good, but it certainly can't be bad.

In any case, let Ningguang make the final decision.

She couldn't imagine what problems would arise if Liyue Harbor used these robots on a large scale.

As his thoughts gradually drifted back to reality, Beidou saw Jiang Ming in front of him, who was also deep in thought.

"Hmm... Designing warships is quite complicated. We don't really want to use the ironclad warship design from the Fontaine Navy's White Fleet, so we'll have to wait. However, ordinary merchant ships aren't a big problem. As long as we have enough resources, we can produce one batch per month at the fastest. Do you want to buy some?"

"So fast?!"

Beidou was taken aback by the speed at which the ship was being built.

"That's not fast."

Jiang Ming simply waved his hand, saying, "This is nothing."

Back then, the US could build a light aircraft carrier every seven days, that's for sure; that's how their industrial machinery was running at full capacity.

What they're doing now has a bit of the "Liberty Wheel" feel to it—cheap, usable, and easy to build, although due to various limitations, the construction speed is still far behind.

"How about it? How about we replace the ships in our fleet with ours? Compared to your wooden sailing ships or manned boats, the carrying capacity will be much greater, and the steam turbine power system will make them much faster."

How much can it hold?

"The full load displacement is 1.2 tons, and the design target is to carry 4000 tons, with a maximum of just over 7500 tons."

"How many???"

Jiang Ming rubbed his ears, which were a little sore from the loud noise of Beidou, and repeated the numbers: "Twelve thousand, four thousand, seven thousand five, the unit is tons."