Light Shines upon Azeroth
Chapter 190

The problem with gnomes

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After finishing the matter of Chromie, Aaron continued to be busy with the matter of Ya-Mei Trading Company.

After recruiting enough manpower, Aaron discovered that none of the dwarf craftsmen seemed to be very interested in this brand new trading company. In the past few days, only one or two dwarf craftsmen came to take a look at Ya-Mei Trading Company's situation.

According to Aaron's idea, these dwarf craftsmen need to be responsible for transforming Aaron's idea into actual samples, and then hand over the specific designs to the dwarf apprentices for production and manufacturing.

However, the manpower currently available to Aaron is somewhat insufficient. According to these dwarf craftsmen, if you want to manufacture a mechanical product with specific requirements, not only does it require a moment of inspiration, but it also requires repeated attempts before it can be manufactured.

Aaron has not given dwarf craftsmen the opportunity to conduct experiments. It turns out that these dwarf craftsmen are very casual when conducting prototype experiments.

When they started making machines, most of the time they were in a taken-for-granted situation. The dwarf craftsmen's thoughts were basically: I think this is feasible, so I'll do it.

However, Aaron can basically tell what the machine produced under such circumstances will look like without even looking at it - most of the time it fails. Only in rare cases can the dwarf craftsmen catch their intuition and burst out with a little inspiration, and can they create a usable product.

Of course, although he was very dissatisfied with the working mode of the dwarfs, Aaron could not change the thinking of these dwarf craftsmen. He could only let these dwarf craftsmen conduct their own research. All he could do was to stand by and watch to see if these craftsmen were working seriously.

Unfortunately, when the dwarf craftsmen who were recruited by Aaron to develop new machines under his orders were conducting research, no one came up with such inspiration, so Aaron's first flagship product of Ya-Mei Trading Company as envisioned by Aaron has not yet been produced.

Although he knew that there was no point in being anxious, Aaron always felt a little uncomfortable. If he had to wait until these dwarf craftsmen successfully made the samples and then handed them over to the dwarf apprentices to make them, then I don't know how long it would be.

But Aaron couldn't do anything directly. After all, he was not a professional in research and development. Although he also learned some dwarf engineering things from these dwarf craftsmen, the reality was not like in the game. You only need to have enough raw materials to quickly increase your proficiency. Aaron had been busy for a day without making much progress, so these tasks still had to be done by the dwarf craftsmen he recruited.

"But..." Aaron and Vereesa said, "I can't just let these guys take my salary and do nothing, right? I always have to find something for them to do."

"So is this why you ordered them to do such a thing?" Vereesa said, pointing to the busy dwarfs.

The interior of Ya-Mei Trading Company is very lively at the moment. Each of these dwarf apprentices will be assigned the simplest operating table. This is also one of the products of Gnomeregan. Every dwarf will use such a workbench after he starts to contact engineering.

For example, the dwarf apprentices under Aaron have basically upgraded their operating consoles to more advanced ones, but most of the operating consoles they use are at their own homes or where they study engineering. Since Aaron has recruited them, it is necessary to provide them with operating consoles for use.

In order to save money, Aaron chose the simplest operating platform. Although these dwarf apprentices were a little dissatisfied with this, they still tolerated it under the generous conditions given by Aaron. However, they were very confused by the work Aaron asked them to do.

Although these dwarf apprentices are still apprentices in name, in fact they already have the ability to make machinery independently. Since they are allowed to find jobs by Gearshaft University, it means that they have been recognized as having the corresponding qualifications.

However, Aaron asked them to start from the simplest parts casting. The condition given by Aaron was that they must make gears with a difference of millimeter.

For dwarf craftsmen, building simple devices such as gears is already a basic job. After all, although inside Gnomeregan, they can easily purchase various required parts for replacement, but once they leave Gnomeregan, they will need to manually repair the machines they carry. By that time, they will not be able to carry many parts with them, which requires them to have the ability to produce several basic parts to repair machines.

And on the other hand, the parts produced by gnomes are not completely universal due to their own hand habits and other issues. Sometimes, the same type of parts produced by one gnome cannot be used by another gnome at all.

At the moment, Aaron requires them to make the corresponding parts with little error, which means they can be used interchangeably.

This is also one of the purposes of Aaron, to promote the standardization of dwarf production machinery products.

Aaron originally wanted to wait until the company's business was officially established and on the right track before pushing these dwarf craftsmen to carry out transformation in this area.

However, now Aaron's company has not been able to officially start operations, and Aaron does not want these dwarf apprentices to receive his salary for free, so he wants to standardize their production habits from now on, cultivate their standardization concepts from now on, and let them understand the benefits of standardization.

However, the gnomes actually don't understand this very much. The training and knowledge they usually receive is leading them to independently manufacture a complete mechanical product. It is not impossible to manufacture these simple parts, but this is not their main job content.

After just one day's work, these dwarf apprentices were already dissatisfied with the tasks assigned to them by Aaron. If Aaron hadn't given them really generous rewards, these dwarfs would have gone on strike long ago.

Faced with this situation, Aaron was naturally prepared. He knew very well that it would be very troublesome to implement so-called standardization among the dwarfs without a foundation.

These dwarfs may not be able to accept the concept of Aaron for a while. Aaron can only let them learn and understand it slowly. After all, his goal is to continue to promote Azeroth to the entire Azeroth. In this case, standardization is an essential step.

Only by promoting standardization can gnome machines be spread throughout the world, instead of being popular only among the gnomes and a few other races who are willing to learn engineering.

In order to achieve this goal, Aaron began to think about how to make these dwarf apprentices understand the benefits of standardization. After thinking hard for a night, he decided to teach these dwarf apprentices a good lesson.

So when the dwarf apprentices recruited by Aaron returned to Ya-Mei Trading Company the next morning, they found that their tasks today had been changed. They were no longer producing simple parts with little technical content. Instead, they each received a completely different part production task. Although they did not fully understand the purpose of Aaron, these dwarfs were very happy that their work content had finally changed, and they went to manufacture separately.

While watching these dwarfs going about giving birth with incomprehensible eyes, Aaron showed a satisfied smile on his face, and was ready to give a performance to these dwarfs after they finished giving birth.

"So what is this?" Vereesa randomly picked up a drawing from Aaron's side and looked at the contents on the drawing in confusion and asked.

Aaron showed a mysterious smile, shook his head, and said, "You will find out later, these dwarf apprentices seem to be quite efficient."

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