[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill":3,"chapter-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-87":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arms Tycoon: Starting by Conning a $10 Billion Order",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2077466,3287,"Chapter 87","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-87",87,"\u003Cp>Unfortunately, while the System's hiring function is excellent, its price is simply too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Zhao commands an annual salary of two million, Yang Chen three million, and even Xing Ming and the others earn eight hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, for such talent, this expenditure is more than worth the value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it is impossible for him to use System-hired personnel for the entire company, numbering in the hundreds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a cost would absolutely be an astronomical figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, if Lin Yi provides these hired personnel with compensation lower than the System's suggested hiring price,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then, according to the System, their loyalty cannot be guaranteed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, as the company expands, Lin Yi must raise these individuals' wages every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To summarize in one sentence:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Provide sufficient compensation, and you gain absolute loyalty; provide inadequate compensation, and they will overthrow even their own father.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the benefit is that these people will never ask you for company stock options, shares, or the like in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It can be guaranteed that in the company's future, even if it does not go public, they will harbor no complaints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Lin, with the addition of these two production lines, the factory space here at the Entrepreneurship Center will soon be insufficient!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Chen said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding this, Lin Yi also understood; the factory at the Entrepreneurship Center had now become a bottleneck restricting the development of Fengyi Technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The initial 960-square-meter factory seemed quite large, but when used for lithium battery production lines,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it could accommodate at most four lines; any more than that was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the somewhat cramped factory, Lin Yi knew it was time to change locations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems I must go beg District Chief Deng for some benefits!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, accompanied by Yang Chen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he approached one of the production line operators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other party's job was to load the mixed positive and negative electrodes into the battery casing, insert a separator in between, and thereby form the core cell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although lithium battery production lines are not like some strong-acid battery lines where metal components contained in the batteries, such as manganese, zinc, mercury, and lead,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would cause harm to human health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, Fengyi Technology strictly mandated that attention must still be paid to potential dust contamination and other latent health risks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, numerous protective measures were adopted, such as wearing masks, gloves, and work uniforms, to reduce the risk of occupational exposure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Lin Yi approach, that operator immediately froze for a moment, then, while continuing to assemble cells, greeted him respectfully:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Lin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Fengyi Technology adopted a piece-rate system, workers earned money based on the number of qualified products produced, on top of their base salary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, most employees were willing to work overtime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, if not for the factory's mandatory restrictions, these people would even be willing to work a \"997\" schedule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wages the factory provided workers were simply attractive enough;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a base salary of over 5,000, with piece-rate pay calculated separately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just last month, most employees across the entire factory earned around 13,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might not seem like much, but for assembly line workers with no technical skills,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this was already considered a quite high wage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least in Pengcheng, even if they worked themselves to death in 2015, it would be impossible to obtain such wage treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm!\" Lin Yi nodded, then asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you moved into the apartment the company rented for you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The operator nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To resolve these workers' worries, Lin Yi had temporarily rented houses for all of them in a nearby residential compound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occupancy was free; each apartment generally housed four people, with two per room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This counted as quite excellent treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you satisfied with the meals?\" Lin Yi asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The company had recently opened a small canteen for its employees,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>serving food as soon as mealtime arrived each day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All employees of Fengyi Technology, including the cleaning ladies, received canteen subsidies and could enjoy three free meals daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The food in the canteen is impeccable!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The operator continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Lin, I am absolutely not flattering you; I have worked in quite a few factories,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but only Fengyi Technology treats us like human beings. There is no mandatory overtime,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the rest is good, the food is good; I truly hope our Fengyi Technology gets better and better, and that you make a fortune!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe, I appreciate your kind words!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he asked several others, their answers were roughly the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Fengyi Technology had made these ordinary workers feel valued and warm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a child who came out of the mountains, Lin Yi\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had always opposed many sweatshops that treated workers as less than human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mandatory overtime, terrible living conditions, poor food,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and additionally, some factories would conduct body searches, surveillance, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These workers, who lacked education, were already living extremely difficult lives,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the factory capitalists exploited them to the utmost, skinning them alive and draining their blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>996, 997.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Fengyi Technology, shifts started at 8 AM, lasted eight hours, and operated on a three-shift rotation system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was absolutely no forcing workers to work overtime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, many workers still chose to work overtime voluntarily under the piece-rate bonus system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response, to meet production targets, Lin Yi could only compensate these workers with better accommodation and meals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, the results were very good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many employees felt a strong sense of belonging to the company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The company truly treated them as human beings rather than tools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi hoped these people would stay at Fengyi Technology forever, becoming true Fengyi people,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and build their own corporate culture and pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: For this new book, I beg for flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lin Yi conducted a thorough inspection of the company and received quite favorable feedback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then proceeded to the laboratory of Dr. Zhao and Dr. Wen's team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing him arrive, Dr. Zhao immediately picked up a cylindrical battery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lin Zong, this is our 18650 battery....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this blue-packaged cylindrical cell,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi understood that this would be the company's flagship product for the next phase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A power battery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 18650 is the progenitor of lithium-ion batteries; Japan's Sony Corporation originally established this standard model to reduce costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the designation, '18' indicates a diameter of 18mm, '65' indicates a length of 65mm, and '0' denotes a cylindrical battery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over time, this naming convention became the universal consensus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such batteries are generally suitable for various digital products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, chargers, digital cameras, opera players, massage guns, face-slimming devices, POS terminals, and portable lighting equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They support rechargeable cycles and incorporate a protection board to safeguard the battery during charging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, compared to market offerings with capacity ranges between 800mAh and 2600mAh,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fengyi Technology's \"Super Power\" 18650 initial range achieves 4000mAh to 13000mAh.\u003C\u002Fp>",1142,"2026-06-16T04:12:22.327Z","2026-06-16T04:35:02.051Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","1f0dd3dac4b54567ae275aa69f32920d4f5f489d858e79446e362e8c14341bd2","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-88","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-86",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]