My Italian: Chapter 161 Adapt to local conditions

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As the largest city in Sicily, Palermo is home to more than 200,000 inhabitants.

Since it is the capital, Palermo is also the political and economic center of Sicily, and the island's decent enterprises are basically placed here.

Sicily's well-known factories in Italy, such as Bonique Bicycle Factory and Shilton Winery, are all located in Palermo. Of course, a thermal power plant can be added at present.

The Palermo thermal power plant with an installed capacity of 90KW is the source of Palermo's western landscape. Because a large part of the electricity generated here is used by the municipal government for lighting.

Yes, because the Palermo factory had doubts about the use of electricity, it made Palermo the first city in Italy to use electric lighting.

Dim gas street lamps were replaced and replaced with lamps capable of lighting with electricity. Not to mention, since the use of electric lights, the night view of Palermo has become much more beautiful, and the bright lights illuminate farther, so that citizens like to go out and walk more.

And visionary businessmen saw an opportunity, and they asked the city government to turn on the lights for them, too, in order to attract more potential customers who came out to hang out. And they are also willing to pay out of their own pockets to give the municipal government the installation fee, as well as the electricity bill.

It was originally used as an industrial electricity for civilian use. Fortunately, the voltages of the two are not differentiated, so there is no need to add a transformer. I don't know if this is lucky or unfortunate.

It's not that all electricity in Palermo is used for civilian use, but there are still several companies trying to change the power from steam engines to motor drives.

Among them, Bonic Bicycle Factory, a major electricity consumer in Palermo, has the most experience in the use of electricity.

Jon Bernick, the boss of the Bonick Straight Car Factory, sat in the boss chair, holding a cigar in his hand, listening to his subordinate's report.

"Boss, according to our observations this month, with electricity as the power source, our factory overhead has been reduced by 8%. I think it is very beneficial for our factory to switch to electricity, which can reduce our costs."

Listening to the subordinate's report, Bonick smiled slightly. "I know that."

He was convinced that electricity was superior to steam engines, otherwise he would not have made his factory the first in Palermo to abandon steam engines and switch to electricity.

However, electricity is more cost-effective. He just listens to it now. He still has a plan to implement. "So how did the workers react to the overtime plan we prepared?"

In the face of Bonick's question, the subordinate immediately answered. "At present, workers are generally very willing to accept your overtime offer. After all, if you only work two hours a day, you can get 10 lire per month. This is a gift for them."

Hearing the subordinate's words, Bonick spoke immediately. "In this case, starting from next week, the factory needs to work for 12 hours, and if anyone is unwilling, let him go home."

"Boss, what should the government do if you do this?"

Facing the subordinate's question, Bonick smiled. "The Governor Antonio has left, and the people he promoted have also lost their backers. I have already learned about the new Governor Cabrera. He is a more traditional official, so we don't have to worry about it."

Well, after Antonio went to serve as governor of East Africa, the good Sicilian environment he created began to be destroyed. At that time, considering the interests of the people of Sicily, Antonio took it into consideration very much. He issued a decree requiring factory employees not to allow them to work more than ten hours. Its original intention is to allow workers to have their own rest time, and at a deeper level, to allow factories to hire more people.

Although many times, such local ordinances are bullshit. But it was rare to meet a serious governor, so after dealing with a few uninitiated factory owners, the others could only obediently obey the decree. As for relocating factories or something, it costs too much. Moreover, the ten-hour work system has basically been implemented in the Apennine Peninsula, and the same effect has been relocated to the past.

Besides, moving to a new place requires opening up new contacts, which also requires an expense. So factory owners in Sicily have no choice.

But now, with the ascension of Governor Antonio, the factory owners felt that they had made less money before, and they began to move again.

Of course, the shrewd boss of Bernick doesn't just want to add two hours to work, he has a complete plan. The first is to let the workers adapt to the 12-hour working time, and then announced that because the factory has too many orders, they need to be divided into two shifts, using the human to stop the machine to continuously produce their own brand of bicycles.

Then, at a lower cost price, it will compete with other brands of bicycles to achieve its goal of occupying the domestic bicycle market.

Maybe some people say, this is nothing, in later generations this is not very common, it is everywhere.

But hereafter is hereafter, and now is now. When the power is not used by the factory on a large scale, the factory should not think of using such a method.

That's because of the lighting problem. Even if the workers can accept it, the lighting needed at night is also a big problem. Use gas lamps or candles, which are too easy to cause fires, but not bright enough to keep workers at work.

And Bonick was the first to see how much electricity can improve the efficiency of a factory. In a factory with electricity supply, it is inherently better than other factories. In that case, why not start using it first, while others still have an advantage. When there is no reaction, reduce the cost first, and then beat other brands of bicycles to the ground with the advantage of low cost.

You must know that at this time, the production of bicycles requires the production of every component of the bicycle, not the parts that can be purchased in future generations, but only need to be assembled.

Of course, Bernick just had a vision, but he didn't know how capable his 24-hour factory was. Otherwise, such a factory would not be called a sweatshop in later generations.

But whether he can see it or not, it means that the use of electricity has taken root in Italy. With the use of electricity, the Italian industry will be able to sell goods to other countries at a lower cost in the future.

Of course, this is just the result of Italy taking a step ahead in the use of electricity, and other countries will follow suit when they see the use of electricity in Italy in the future. Whether the Italian government can take advantage of this empty window period to upgrade factories depends on whether they have foresight.

Of course, the Italian National Grid Corporation, which is the power supplier, already has its own plan for this. The new thermal power plant expansion plan has just been approved. The reason is that some of the power plants built in northern cities are overwhelmed and need to expand the scale of power generation to meet the power consumption of the factories.

For this reason, famous cities such as Milan, Turin, Venice, Genoa have suspended urban lighting plans because they need to give priority to supplying factories. Of course, some of these factory owners have the same idea as Bonick, but let Bonick, who has unique conditions, take the lead.

Carlo planted the seeds of the use of electricity, and finally saw the results of industrial development, although it was the result of making workers more tired.

But industrialization requires someone to pay. At present, Italian farmers and workers need to pay temporarily in order to make Italian industry develop greatly.

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