The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

The word "productivity" has been around for a long time in this world.

It started out with the concept of how much land crops were produced, and then expanded to include livestock, minerals, and handicraft output.

Many years ago, Charles and Diana came to a point of view when they studied this issue: under the pastoral economy, a farm can basically be self-sufficient in food, clothing, housing, and transportation, except for the limited and essential commodities such as salt and iron. In addition, the farm has almost no commodity trade with the outside world. Therefore, the landlord only cares about the amount of products in his territory, not how these products come from. For them, the productivity of the territory is the number of products.

Landlords are only concerned about what products are on their territory and how much they have. Except for necessities such as salt and iron, the purchase of other commodities depends on what the passing merchants bring.

For the vast majority of small landlords who are indifferent to the world, the output of the territory is enough for their own use and enough to exchange for necessary commodities.

In addition, there has been no qualitative improvement in the level of commodities for hundreds of years. Furniture and jewelry can be used for hundreds of years without any problem, so they do not have much desire to consume.

Against this background, the landowners have no incentive to increase productivity.

But this is not static. With the development of the city in the past century, the living conditions in the city are far more comfortable than those in the farms and castles. Therefore, some small nobles began to run to the lord's towns, and the big nobles went to live in the capital.

Diligent nobles are like migratory birds, and they will return to their territories to collect taxes during the harvest season.

The lazy nobles live in the city all year round, and the affairs of the territory are handed over to the broker, the broker and the butler.

At this time, the standard of "productivity" began to gradually move closer to money.

At the same time, commerce developed along with the city.

In this context, the "capital productivity" proposed in The Wealth of Nations by Alice Magathloyd is regarded as a model by the business aristocrats and merchants.

Under the guidance of this idea, "property" is no longer limited to land harvests, and begins to expand to currency, and then "fiefdom" is no longer limited to land, and everything that can bring currency - such as factories, chambers of commerce - can also become Packaged things.

The most obvious is the emergence of "share knights" who hold shares in factories in the Bischberg kingdom.

The lord of the "share knight" conferred not the land, but the shares of the lord's factory, but there was no shortage of noble privileges.

So much so that those traditional nobles regarded the "share knights" as thugs who tarnished the honor of the nobles.

And the adventurers unique to this world, they are considered security costs in the eyes of the master.

Professor Erbach is not clear about the development of economics and is not very sensitive to changes in the status of business and industry.

He only understands that in "productivity", there is still no place for mental work.

Among the three young people in the teahouse, Michelle, a girl in her early twenties, was more cheerful.

She asked Professor Erbach: "Sir, what do you think productivity is, and how do you evaluate productivity?"

Professor Erbach replied: "Productivity is the ability to produce products, and the more products are produced, the greater the productivity."

Charles went back to the counter and ordered five cups of tea, one for each person.

After thanking Charles, Michel said to Professor Erbach: "We have a difference in the definition of productivity. You think productivity is the embodiment of the final product, and we think productivity is the power to produce a product."

“Take the fertilizer plant here, you think productivity is how much urea is produced, we think productivity is the power to transform water, air and charcoal in nature into the urea we need.”

Louis next to him also continued: "You think productivity is the result, we think productivity is the process."

After listening to Professor Erbach, he nodded silently, and then said: "Your insights are very unique, and I am refreshed."

"Is productivity the power of the production process?"

"Then, we old pedants can also play a role in the production process, and it can be regarded as a part of productivity."

"Charles, what do you think?"

Someone named Yi nodded in agreement and said, "Everyone is right."

Then the guy stopped talking.

Seeing that this guy didn't speak, the old principal thought he was not good at it, so he didn't embarrass him... that's why.

"You, look, listen, and think more while you're young." Professor Erbach taught him a lesson, "Don't think that you have a few dollars to inflate yourself, and look down on the wisdom of others."

"My teacher Luc Ang met a tailor in his early years. The tailor was knowledgeable and quick in thinking. After a debate, the teacher was deeply impressed by him, and he stayed at his house and did not come to him to study."

"Don't think that this theoretical knowledge is useless, it can guide you in the direction of progress."

Charles listened and pondered, and the old principal thought he had heard it, and nodded with satisfaction.

If the old headmaster knew that he was thinking about whether the tailor was Mordred's ancestor, he would probably have taken an axe and chopped this thing.

The three young people looked at the old and the young with a smile, as if they were passing the time.

Professor Erbach tapped his head and said, "Tell me what you think, it's not ashamed to say something wrong."

Charles rubbed his head with a bitter face, thought for a moment and said: "Productivity consists of labor tools, labor objects and laborers. Just now, the principal asked whether scholars are considered productive forces. Obviously, scholars participate in production activities with their own wisdom. They are also laborers, so they are also part of the productivity.”

After listening to Professor Erbach and thinking, the three components that make up the productivity sound reasonable, and they just include important factors in the production process.

Take the fertilizer factory next to it as an example. The labor tools are the equipment in the factory, the labor objects are the raw materials, and the laborers include Kushkin. These three closely related parts produce raw materials from nature into fertilizers that people need.

"So..." Professor Erbach said slowly, "Productivity is the ability to turn raw materials into products."

Charles was a little surprised, didn't expect the old principal to think of this so quickly.

He said: "It is true~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In a broad sense, productivity is the power of intelligent species to transform natural objects into products suitable for their own needs in the production process."

"It's not just about producing fertilizer, it's also productivity that cooks in the kitchen turn ingredients into dishes."

Professor Erbach nodded thoughtfully, as if he had thought of something, he took out a notebook from his pocket and scribbled a few pages.

Next, he asked about the use of the fertilizer produced here on the farm of the three young men.

Anyway, everyone is passing the time, and this fertilizer is not a secret, so we chatted quickly.

One noon passed like this, and at 2:30 in the afternoon, the report bell rang from the factory.

The three buyers said goodbye to the old gentleman, and they were going to the factory for purchasing.

After Professor Erbach said goodbye to them, he sat there quietly, his eyes deepened, and he seemed to be thinking about a problem.

Charles didn't dare to come out, for fear of disturbing the old principal's thinking.