Be a matchmaker in an otome game

Chapter 343 Establishing a Glasses Factory

After listening to Olivia's report, Viscount Cliff leaned back in his chair with no emotion on his face and looked directly at Olivia: "What's your opinion?"

Olivia didn't expect Viscount Cliff to ask her, so she was stunned for a moment before replying: "I don't think it's necessary."

"Why not?" Viscount Cliff asked.

"The manor is used to study military equipment. I think it's better to let them continue to study these without being distracted."

"Then take a look at this again." Viscount Cliff took out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Olivia.

Olivia took it, scanned it quickly, and then handed it back to Viscount Cliff.

It was a request from nobles from several surrounding territories to buy glasses, and the style requirements were also noted on it.

The sale of the glasses was personally negotiated by Viscount Cliff. Olivia only knew about such a thing, but Olivia still knew the specific transaction price, which was at least ten times higher than the cost.

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"And this." Viscount Cliff handed Olivia another piece of information, which was last year's Cliff City income and expenditure report.

The income and expenditure of Cliff City have always maintained an extremely dangerous balance. Viscount Cliff has managed it well, and the life of the common people in her territory is not too difficult. In terms of taxation alone, all nobles in the human race have

Among them, the ranking is not low, but the expenditure on Viscount Cliff's side is also very huge. After all, he has to support the army, and the research funds on the manor cannot be cut off. There are also various other expenses. Viscount Cliff and

Her family members have to be careful about their expenses every year.

"The managers at the manor have expressed to me many times that making glasses is a waste of their research time. I believe you have also received such reports," Viscount Cliff said in a deep voice, "How do you think we should deal with it?

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Olivia frowned and asked: "How many orders do we have on hand now?"

"Nearly fifty."

"It's not that much."

"That's because I declared that I would no longer accept orders, that's all. If I hadn't said that, the orders might have increased several times."

Olivia involuntarily pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose. The glasses she now wore were no longer those with heavy wooden frames, but were made of metal frames, which added a lot of bookishness to her.

"Such a large number of orders is a considerable amount of revenue for Cliff City."

Because the income will be considerable, this business cannot be given up, but making glasses takes up a lot of time of the researchers who originally developed the glasses. They are not willing to keep making glasses, after all, they have other research projects.

"Go tell Felicia that after the glasses issue is resolved, I will consider whether to help her study papermaking technology."

Felissa was a little surprised when she received the reply: "Your Excellency, the Viscount, agrees?"

"The first step is to resolve the glasses issue," Olivia reminded Felissa.

"But what does this have to do with me?" Felissa felt that she was innocent when she suddenly got an extra job without doing anything. "Shouldn't you be responsible for things related to the manor?"

"Yes, that's true." Olivia shrugged, "Mother just asked me to tell you, that's all."

But Felissa is still counting on Viscount Cliff to assign people to study papermaking for her. Education is necessary to popularize paper, and...she does have some ideas in her mind.

Felissa, who was completely controlled, sighed: "Do you want to hear my opinion?"

A smile appeared on Olivia's face: "Sure enough, mother is right, as long as I ask you, you will definitely gain something."

Felissa smiled bitterly. Even though she had lived two lifetimes, in front of an experienced elder like Viscount Cliff, she was still as simple as a piece of white paper and could be seen through easily.

"I think you have mixed the responsibilities of researchers and production personnel. The production of glasses can be completely handed over to other people, freeing up researchers."

The R&D department and the manufacturing department are completely different things. It is certainly wrong to blindly place two responsibilities on one person.

"Leave it to others?" Olivia frowned, "Isn't this spreading the technology out? What if they don't continue to do it and are poached by others?"

Felissa said: "Break down the production process, and each person is only responsible for one link. In this way, even if he knows what he wants to do, he doesn't know what others want to do. The most important thing is to formulate a good system."

"What a good idea!" Olivia thought for a moment, and after she figured it out, she clapped her hands suddenly, "Dismantle the process so that it can be produced on a large scale without worrying about the technology being stolen."

But in this case, we need to recruit people in Cliff City. At least we need to establish a workshop first, and then we need to train people. There are a lot of things to do.

Felissa couldn't help but remind aloud: "Also, researchers can find ways to find lighter materials. The current glasses are still too heavy."

After all, she had seen and used lighter glasses, but now, wearing these glasses, she only felt pain on the bridge of her nose.

"But over there at the manor..."

"I know that the research on the manor is for the military, but this is not something that cannot be changed. It is not that military and civilian research and development cannot be carried out at the same time."

Olivia pondered for a while, then nodded: "You are right, my thinking is narrow-minded."

Felissa smiled. She could make these suggestions because her soul came from another world. She stood on the shoulders of giants and saw the world. Although the two worlds are not exactly the same, many things are connected.

So she knew where the wheel of history would roll in the end, and she was just the first to act.

Now that she had spoken this time, she racked her brains to think about it and continued to make suggestions, trying her best to mention all aspects: "The manor's research reserve personnel must also be increased. There will be many industries that we want to develop in the future.

, the current manpower is still somewhat insufficient."

This is indeed a problem. Felissa does not know, but Olivia knows that there are still a few people in the manor who like her father from the bottom of their hearts. Most of them only regard research as a job, or are they regarded as a job?

Viscount Cliff sent him there forcibly. Those who were named by Viscount Cliff to go to the manor were all thinking that they were being sent to the frontier.

It wasn't until the development of the Goddess' Kiss that many people realized that they could actually make such a lethal weapon.

But Olivia knew that without a sincere love for research, it would be difficult to propose any feasible research project.

"What suggestions do you have?" Olivia asked humbly.

"This is why I always want civilians to receive education. If there are more people with knowledge, there will naturally be a few who want to do scientific research. Isn't this our purpose? Let civilians have power, and science and technology will follow suit.

A power equal to that of magic."

Felicia's words were sonorous and powerful, and Olivia felt equally excited when she heard them. She held her chest and tried to calm down her emotions: "What you said may make sense, but... that is not something that should be considered now, at least it is far away.

It’s not that far away.”

(End of chapter)