A Craftsman Courting Death

As members of a great family, the Yu Family paid close attention to monopolizing knowledge.

Only by monopolizing knowledge could a family better consolidate its position and gain more opportunities for advancement than others.

The Yu Family was not alone in doing this. Take them as an example: they had many blind spots and misconceptions when it came to knowledge, because even more powerful forces had withheld relevant knowledge from them.

When the Yu Family invited craftsmen over, they did not mind letting them learn a few things. However, they could only learn practical techniques. As for the most fundamental principles and theories, they need not even think about it.

Take selling motorcycles, for example.

Black Continent people wanted to buy motorcycles? Sure, sure. As long as they had money, they could buy as many as they wanted. If they had no money, mines and the like would do as well. They could even be helped to arrange mortgage loans.

Bought a motorcycle but had nowhere to repair it? That was not a problem. Several after-sales service centers could be opened locally, and local repairmen could be trained.

What? They wanted motorcycle production localized too? That was no problem either. As long as they were willing to cut taxes, an assembly plant could be considered. It could boost the local economy and raise employment rates.

But at that point, conditions came into play. Tax cuts were only one of them. The assembly plant workers had to undergo assessment and could only start work after passing—strictly speaking, such a requirement favored the capital side in terms of labor relations.

If things were already like this for an assembly plant, then if the locals further proposed domestic production of parts, the capital side would not deserve the name if it did not