chapter 23
“Upgrade to lifetime A/S!? How much do you need?”
“The more the better. Of course, I plan to pay it off as soon as possible. I don’t know if you know, but my company’s sales have already exceeded tens of billions of won per month…”
Just when I was about to appeal to borrow as much as possible, Kim Han-ul cut me off and said.
“I will lend you 20 billion for my personal expenses. You don’t have to save money anyway to upgrade your equipment like everyone else, just because the money keeps piling up. The interest has been paid.”
I thought it wouldn’t exceed 10 billion at most, from a few billion at most, but 20 billion with an interest-free loan?
Good?
Then, if you combine the money you have accumulated so far with 23 billion won including loans to Kim Han-ul and the money you have accumulated from selling the sage, and take out a bank loan, you will probably be able to buy at least one factory of the size I thought.
But no matter how much it is, my conscience is stabbed a little.
“Still, interest must be paid. 2 percent.”
“Uh huh. That’s because it’s okay.”
“Take it. That’s why I feel comfortable.”
After arguing for a while like that, I and Kim Han-ul finally decided on 1 percent.
“Thanks to Representative Han, I think I will be able to fight in peace in the future. We wish you well in the future.”
“I wish you well.”
“I’ll call the secretary right away and send the money.”
But then, team leader Yoon looked at his cell phone and said.
“We have an unstable gate.”
“what?”
“It’s Class D, and the arrival of the emergency response team will end without any problems…”
But suddenly Kim Han-ul raised his fist and said.
“An unstable gate! Citizens will be anxious. I go myself!”
“yes? Normally, I wouldn’t go even if I was told to go, so why didn’t I have to go…”
Kim Han-ul smiled brightly and said.
“Why why!! You should show off your clothes to your daughter!!”
– Whoa!!
In the news, a gigantic Kim Han-ul, dressed in full-body bone armor, smashes monsters jumping out of an unstable gate as if catching flies.
After a while, the anchor came out and said.
-I heard that Kim Han-ul, the guild leader, went to the Unstable Gate wearing bone armor that covered his whole body unlike usual… Expert Kim Han-seok. What do you think?
-Probably not the representative work of Han Ji-hyeok of Seron…
“It’s fast.”
Kim Han-ul, who ran to the unstable gate, shows himself confidently as if showing off his new clothes to everyone and smashes the monster.
And as if to live up to Kim Han-ul’s expectations, the media is focusing on making various speculations related to new clothes.
“It’s enough if we are satisfied with each other. Kim Han-ul is good because he got a good armor, and I am good because I got money. And above all.”
All right. All right.
I said while looking at the skeleton doing something floating in the air.
“Because I can get battle data, it’s better.”
At that time, the screen again shows Kim Han-ul fighting live.
However, a skeleton floating in the air doing exactly the same movement as Kim Han-ul in the screen.
Naturally, this skeleton was connected to the armor Kim Han-ul was wearing, and it was a skeleton for data storage that imitated and memorized Kim Han-ul’s movements.
A skeleton created by completely replicating Kim Han-ul’s body shape by stealing some of the money and materials he received from Kim Han-ul under the pretext of making armor.
In the future, this skeleton will absorb all of Kim Han-ul’s battle data and become the basis for my macros.
“hmm. But can’t this be applied to programmers?”
You don’t control it with a console, you control it by wearing it yourself.
I thought about it to consider the possibility, but soon smiled and said.
“I think it will be less efficient.”
The programmers employed by Seron are all masters of control and creativity who have stood out in the game, not those who specialize in using their bodies.
In other words, they are more accustomed to watching and manipulating through the console than using their body directly.
Of course, if you adapt to it, you should do well, but the system controlled by the console has already been fully established, and suddenly applying this will only cause confusion.
“…By the way, it cost billions just to make that.”
This gigantic skeleton armor was also a kind of experiment.
It’s good to say that it’s an armor, but it’s practically a wearable skeleton, so you can set a scale for how much money you have to spend to make a usable undead.
And the results of the experiment were quite disappointing.
That armor, no matter how good it was, was at the level of the large siege skeletons I used to bring with me in the hundreds.
Of course, since it’s a special object, it has considerable combat power, but if it costs more than billions to make one… well, there’s nothing to say about the rest.
“There is a long way to go. But, well… you can’t be full on the first drink. Let’s work hard to raise money.”
Then an alarm sounds on my cell phone.
I checked the alarm sound and said with a smile.
“23 billion deposit.”
He told the secretary to order it, but he ordered the deposit while going to the unstable gate.
I was surprised when they said they would lend me 20 billion won, but now I haven’t even written a contract, so do you deposit the money first?
Of course, I have no intention of taking money away just because I didn’t write a contract, but I’ve only seen it a few times now, so I handed over all the materials worth billions of won without a doubt and lent an additional 20 billion won in a lump sum without a contract.
Should I say that this distribution is large or what should I say?
I recognized it when I was blindly taking off the armor, but once it is inserted, it is a manly style that rushes forward.
I personally like it.
“good.”
Anyway, I knew there was a long way to go, but that’s something that can be solved by making a lot of money.
I said with a smirk.
“The money seems to have come in, shall we gradually grow in size?”
“Whoa.”
Rocco representative Andrew sighed and said.
“I don’t have enough money.”
To be precise, it’s not that it’s not worth the money.
The profits earned from shoes produced by other factories are mediocre compared to those produced by Seron.
Due to the nature of shoes, where nearly half of the production cost is labor cost, the unit cost of delivery to Seron, who uses free skeletons, was overwhelming.
In particular, as Seron stopped acquiring a new shoe factory recently and its production capacity reached a saturation point, the disappointment was bound to increase.
Then the executive said with a smile.
“Still, thanks to the CEO’s decision, we have 15 satisfaction guarantees for the highest priority contractor, so the situation is good.”
Until then, Seron had been attracting new contracts by sending proposals to all kinds of makers to utilize the overflowing surplus labor force, but when production reached its limit, new contracts were no longer signed.
It was a daunting situation just to digest the volume of the company that had previously contracted.
Fortunately, Rocco was the first to sign a contract with any other company, and the quantity guaranteed was quite generous, but that was it.
“Then what do you do? The factory is in full operation and we are not receiving additional supplies.”
Seron is fully operational enough to refuse a contract with a new client.
Naturally, existing customers were also blocked from placing additional orders.
Andrew shook his head and said.
“I never thought the amount of guaranteed goods would be so disappointing.”
Originally, the default was for the production company to secure as much as possible and the manufacturer to give as little as possible.
It was because the guaranteed quantity was just the minimum sales standard given by the maker to the production company.
However, the meaning of the guaranteed quantity in Seron has completely changed.
“Not 150,000, but 300,000. No, we should have contracted as much as we could.”
The minimum right to use the limited amount of Seron.
That was the meaning of guaranteed supplies in Seron.
Rocco, who signed a contract for 150,000 pairs, can only produce 150,000 units at Seron per month.
why?
because of insufficient production.
That’s why the reality faced by other manufacturers, including Rocco, is that you can only order as much as the guaranteed quantity specified in the contract.
Andrew said with a regretful expression.
“I should have admitted it sooner.”
I regret that if I had recognized Seron from the beginning as a partner that maximizes Rocco’s profits, rather than a simple subcontractor, and had sufficiently set the guaranteed quantity, I would not have had to share Seron’s saturated production capacity with other clients. .
said Andrew, looking at the papers.
“Selling the same shoes, the difference in net profit is double. Twice.”
Usually, the percentage of net profit that manufacturers set for one shoe is 10 percent.
However, the shoes produced by Seron exclude labor costs, increasing the ratio by nearly 20%.
In addition, when dealing with an existing production company, you have to go through an annoying tug-of-war even with a simple model change, but how nice it is that Seron has none of that.
In particular, in the case of models that have been made at least once before in Seron, the level that can be applied immediately as requested.
It’s like an automatic machine that automatically makes shoes just by adding raw materials.
Therefore, there was no company as perfect as Seron in dealing with urgent situations.
However, the available production volume has completely stagnated, and now it can only be coordinated within the previously contracted 150,000 won.
The only solution was for Seron to increase production by adding a large amount of skeletons and accept additional orders.
“Can Seron increase production further?”
At Andrew’s words, the executive shook his head and said.
“Recently, a representative started a boarding skeleton business. They are sold for hundreds of millions of won each. In other words, the number of skeletons you can create may have reached its limit. Maybe you can dismantle the worker skeleton you already made and make a skeleton for boarding.”
Since the number of skeletons produced is limited, it is speculated that he has turned to other businesses with relatively high returns.
It was a very plausible guess.
“Even if I regret it, is it already too late…?”
But then.
An executive burst into the representative office and said with an excited expression.
“CEO!!”
“Is there a problem?”
“They say they are opening a new large-scale factory in Seron! The production is said to be more than double that of all existing factories combined!!”
Andrew said, mouth wide open.
“two. double?!”
“yes! It seems that the contract of the existing factory will be left as it is, and the new factory will move through a separate contract. Now, it seems that Seron is trying to find out about a new contract with a new factory.
Andrew shouted, jumping up from his seat.
“How much is the total of other factory guarantees?”
“All the factories put together are about 130 people.”
The amount of shoes Rocco needs per month is about 200 Satisfaction, and 130 Satisfaction of them are tied up in a contract.
The remaining 70 people were adjusting the quantity by placing orders in each factory individually depending on the situation, but since the new factory of Seron appeared, it meant nothing.
“Then, offer 700,000 guarantees to Seron!”
In other words, other factories produce only the guaranteed quantity specified in the contract and push all the rest to the public.
It was truly the largest guaranteed volume ever since the founding of Loco.
“We need to push as much of our stuff as possible before the factory gets saturated!”
Even before the new factory becomes saturated and additional orders are blocked, it is necessary to secure the production capacity of Seron as much as possible by securing the necessary quantity in advance as a contractually guaranteed quantity, and at the same time fill the gaps in which other makers will squeeze in.
That is the shortcut for Rocco to grow and the most efficient way to stand out from competitors.
As Andrew desperately felt the vacancy due to the production saturation of Seron, there was no reason to hesitate.
“I’m telling you to send a Rocco Korea employee right away to proceed with the contract! 70 thousand people. No, if you can afford it, you can grab more, so hurry up before the other side hits!!”
A large factory bought with the money he earned from selling his horse and the money he borrowed from Kim Han-ul, plus a bank loan.
The skeletons I placed here, which are several times larger than all the existing factories combined, were made for emergency use and additional ones, as well as some of the skeletons placed in the existing factories, totaling 2,000.
In just a few days, a new plant was created that could double the existing production capacity.
Let’s build a factory like that and strike out new contracts that have been blocked to customers…
“main. Orders pour in!”
Orders pour in as if a clogged water channel has been opened.
Among them, it was the sports brand makers that placed the most orders.
Sports brand makers were unable to place additional orders as their factories became saturated just as they tried to increase orders gradually while only handing out urgent quantities to us.
Those makers are now making up their minds to say that a large new factory has entered the market.
“Loco offered 70 satisfaction as a guaranteed quantity!”
At Deokbae Kim’s words, I said with a surprised expression.
“Suddenly 700,000?”
Rocco needs 200 Satisfaction per month, so let’s guarantee 1/3 of them?
Deokbae Kim said with an excited expression.
“At this level, almost all other factories are given only the guaranteed quantity and entrusted to us for the rest!”
In a word, it was said that they had swindled us all the quantity without violating the contract.
I said with a smirk.
“These kids are finally coming to their senses.”
Look at what you’re doing.
In the first place, there is no cheap labor force in the world that can replace skeletons.
“Contract.”
“All right! ah. And also in Paro…”
So many contract offers.
“Accept everything. All.”
It’s only 2,000 now, but I bought a factory on a large site with the intention of increasing it in the first place.
“Should I make a thousand in advance and release it right now?”
Then, Deokbae Kim said with a surprised expression.
“Are you talking about more here?”
I’ve been doing this for close to 30 years, so what?
“But if it’s really possible, I’m against it.”
“the opposite?”
“The reason why manufacturers and orderers are pouring in each other is because they don’t know when our new factory will be saturated again. We want to preoccupy our production in advance. If you didn’t preoccupy it, you might not be able to place additional orders like last time. However, if we signal that we are relaxed here, we may lead the makers to misjudge. ah. You can do it slowly.”
oh!
Could it be?
Deokbae Kim said with a smile.
“Then, wouldn’t it be better to keep the production volume a little tight so that we can continue pouring out the quantity like now? Just like a home shopping show that sells out is imminent, it makes customers anxious.”