Mage Joan

"Forget it, Father Luca! Isn't it just a few lumps of candy? Are you so yelling and crazy!"

"Tea and sugar were originally provided to passengers for free. What does it matter if you take one more and one less?"

"Old Luca, you are less arrogant! You are just a little conductor, and you are not the boss of the railway company. People just took a few more pieces of sugar. You don't need to pay for it, so why bother!"

The workers of the brown-haired boy couldn't see it, and quarreled around old Luca.

"You foolish fellows, don't you understand? This carriage is under my control. If the sugar in the car is consumed too quickly, I can't explain it to my boss!"

Old Luca stamped his feet with anger.

"In the past, the tea and sugar cubes in the car were all unlimited supply. This year, the rules were suddenly changed. Each person can only take a piece of sugar. If this continues, maybe even tea will be charged next year!" Someone nearby complained bitterly. .

"Yeah, how did the railway company become so stingy!" Someone among the onlookers helped.

"Nonsense! It's not all to blame for your insatiable bastards!"

Old Luca was not angry.

"Yes! No one was in charge of putting sugar in the past, but because no one was in charge before, our railway company suffered a lot when the settlement was settled at the end of the year. Brothers, we lost a lot!"

"Good guys, the sugar cube alone costs a thousand gold talers every year! You guys are really...not the sugar you bought by yourself, don't you feel distressed if you eat it!"

"That's the sugar for tea, it's not for you to eat as a meal!"

Old man Luca was getting more and more angry, jumping and complaining.

"I'm not afraid to offend people. To tell you the truth, the passengers who buy their own tickets are more decent. Few of them take advantage of this kind of small advantage. You workers are the least embarrassed. You don't need to spend a copper plate, and the tickets are all The factory is reimbursed, and the car also provides free tea and sugar cubes. It doesn't matter if you add a few more sugars occasionally, but it can't hold some people from taking advantage of it. You can put eight sugars into a small cup of tea at any time!"

"Eight lumps of candy, my goodness! You are not afraid of sudden death! You have been doing this kind of wicked activities of ‘sweeping wool’ for years, will your conscience really not hurt?!"

The workers were scolded by old Luca pointing their noses, ashamed, and fell silent for a while.

Old Luca had a temper and eased. Seeing that the brown-haired boy was full of tears, it was really pitiful, Yu Xin sighed unbearably, and warned him not to take an example, so he let him go.

Qiao An walked to the samovar, poured two cups of steaming black tea, returned to his seat, handed a cup of tea to the opposite Roland, and at the same time performed the "communication technique."

"Your Majesty, you must have heard the dispute that took place at the samovar just now. I don't know how you think about it?"

Roland took a sip of tea and smiled bitterly.

"Excuse me, let you, a foreign friend, read a joke, but then again, I am not surprised that this happened."

"Dr. Vinda, the railway companies in our country are all state-owned enterprises, and they undertake heavy public welfare responsibilities. In order to facilitate people's travel, train fares are set very low, and convenient services such as tea and water are provided free of charge on the train."

"Such public welfare is necessary to increase the public's satisfaction with the government." Qiao An commented.

"However, public welfare is not changed out of thin air. Every welfare needs to pay the corresponding cost. As far as cheap tickets, free tea and sugar cubes are concerned, this cost will be borne by the state-owned railway company, so our railway company The greater the passenger traffic volume, the more money you will lose, and you can only make up for the cost of the freight business and barely maintain a balance of payments."

"In the fourth quarter of last year, the growth rate of railway freight volume was not as good as expected, but the cost exceeded the budget. Judging from the situation at the beginning of this year, the performance may not improve. If you look at it, you will lose money. The railway company has to Plan carefully, even a small piece of sugar cubes."

Having said this, Roland sighed, a touch of sadness appeared between his brows.

If the railway company is sold to private individuals for operation, can the government unload this burden?

Such an idea flashed in Qiao An's mind, but after another thought, he realized that privatization is not necessarily a "panacea".

In order to protect the profits of private railway companies, it is a common method to increase ticket prices. As for the convenience services on the train, let alone free sugar cubes, maybe even tea will have to be bought at extra money.

Introducing a number of private railway companies to force companies to provide high-quality and low-cost services through market competition seems to be a feasible way?

However, this is just an ideal situation on paper, "a spherical chicken in a vacuum".

After in-depth thinking, Qiao An found that due to the particularity of the railway industry, it is difficult to achieve the survival of the fittest through market competition. Therefore, the negative externalities caused are even more immeasurable. Considering the public response, it is not so much tossing. , It might as well maintain the status quo for the time being.

Jingshijimin does not belong to Qiao'an's area of ​​expertise, nor can he think of a way to get the best of both worlds, so he simply doesn't think deeply about it. Let His Majesty the Emperor and his ministers bother to think about such issues.

The workers who had had a dispute with the conductor just now were sitting diagonally across from Qiao An. At the moment, the older workers were comforting the brown-haired boy who had been "executed in public" and was hit hard.

Qiao An silently listened to their chat and found that the older workers generally believed that the business of the factory in the past two years was obviously not as good as the prospects, and even their income was not as good as expected.

"Last year, the production tasks in our workshop were completed on schedule. It was all blamed on the incompetence of the sales guys. The cars were built and couldn't be sold. We didn't even get the year-end bonus."

"What kind of bonus are you talking about? It's not bad to get the salary!"

"I heard that starting from the second quarter of this year, the production plan will be cut."

"If the car can't be sold, shouldn't the production be reduced..."

"I heard from the elder sister of the personnel department that we will no longer recruit workers this quarter. If we continue like this, we might have to lay off employees in the second half of the year.

"Damn! I panic when I think about my job loss, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my job!"

"Bachelor, you panic, but I have a wife and children to support. What if I lose my job..."

"It's a big deal to go back to my hometown and farm in a rural commune. Although the income is not high, at least I can't be hungry. It is more secure than working in a factory."

"That said, young people are used to seeing the colorful world in the city, who else is willing to go back to the countryside to work in agriculture?"

"Seriously, the current situation is not as good as the time when we fought the Yashan Empire two years ago. At that time, our factory's business was very hot. The army's orders were piled up, and we could not finish working overtime every month. I really miss the big bonus!"

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