Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence and the others used the iron pot in the kitchen to make tea. Considering that they need to make a big pot of tea at once, and after investigating yesterday, they found that everyone prefers milk tea with a heavier taste. So this time he simply used one pot to boil the water, and another pot to boil the milk that was just squeezed out this morning.

Of course, milk is naturally cold when drinking tea. However, since fresh milk is a very good bacterial culture dish, Lawrence thinks it is better to heat and sterilize the milk first. Otherwise, black tea and milk tea will be publicly displayed for the first time, and it will be bad for everyone to drink diarrhea.

Fortunately, all three of them are extraordinary, so they can easily complete those huge containers filled with liquids. After busying for a long time, more than 100 people's milk tea was finally made. It was at this time that everyone had finished breakfast. After the milk tea was served, it could be used as a dessert or drink after a meal.

"Hey, what is this?" Seeing someone from behind delivered a cup of brown liquid, the people who ate there before, whether it was a human or a tauren, showed a curious expression of seeing something new. "It smells like a mellow scent of milk and a special taste."

"This is a new drink developed by us and the tauren people. It is a new type of tea." Nora flew in from outside the room at this time and said, "Today is the first large-scale invitation to taste this tea. If it tastes good, this thing will become an important specialty of Neusauer Island, and it will also become an important link between us and the Tauren."

"So, I hope you can put forward some more objective views on this tea." Lawrence also walked in from the house with the tauren shaman at this time, and said, "Because we are only in this way. The taste of these teas can be further adjusted so that these teas can become popular products."

After listening to Lawrence's words, everyone present seriously looked at the light brown liquid in the cup in their hands, and then tasted it one by one with serious faces. However, after taking the first sip, most of the tauren and humans present showed a satisfied expression.

Obviously, this kind of drink that combines the fragrance of milk and tea is more in line with everyone's aesthetics. At least after tasting, most people think that this new drink at least meets the tastes of most intelligent races. But there are also some individuals who have put forward their own opinions on the issue of taste.

For example, many tauren people think that the flavor of this tea is not strong enough. Although it tastes good, it still has a certain gap from the best state that they expected. According to them, if the bitter taste of the tea is stronger, it will be more perfect, and the taste of the tea is still weaker for them now.

"Ah, this is indeed our problem." Lawrence nodded after listening to the opinions of the tauren people. After all, the taste of this thing is adjusted according to human tastes. For tauren people whose tastes are heavier than humans. In terms of this, this thing is indeed a bit weak.

For example, the Tauren of Lawrence and his delegation was eating here these days. In order to avoid the first day, the tauren put too much salt, so that all human beings bite the bullet and eat hard. So simply use a small pot to cook for a few of them individually.

Although the tauren does not consume too much of this thing, it reminds Lawrence that there is not only one kind of intelligent creatures in the world, so they have to launch different varieties of tea according to different markets. For example, the tea sold to the dwarves may need to be as strong as the tauren tea, but if it is sold to the elves, it should be further fermented to reduce the bitterness in the tea.

The next step is the specific negotiation about the joint company, because the negotiators of both sides have all received instructions before the negotiation that this negotiation should be based on fairness and the most important principle. Therefore, everyone is not talking about getting as many shares as possible in ordinary negotiations. Instead, they sat together and began to estimate how much resources the two parties could contribute in this enterprise.

In this kind of communication, both parties first come up with a self-evaluation, and then exchange the information for each other's evaluation. In the process, they found that because of the different environments of the two parties, the valuations of many things on the two sides were completely different, and there was even a big gap.

Therefore, in this case, both parties need to spend a lot of time and energy on the unified valuation of part of their respective things. Fortunately, both parties have had some contact with each other before. Also know a lot about the other party. Therefore, the subsequent valuation can be reached through simple negotiations.

By noon the next day, the articles of incorporation of the joint company between Lawrence and Tauren and the general framework for subsequent cooperation had been slowly established in the discussion. Then a more specific written document was formed and sent to Lawrence.

According to the content shown in this document, after previous calculations and discussions, Lawrence will own 83% of the joint company, and the tauren tribes distributed in this hilly area will be established as a whole. The new company owns 17% of the shares.

In accordance with the requirements of the agreement. After the agreement is signed, both parties will start the project seven days after the agreement is signed. As humans, they need to build various tea processing facilities and prepare for publicity, and make various hardware and software preparations for subsequent shipments.

For example, the short-term plan is to deliver necessary tools and weapons to the Tauren tribe and prepare a batch of steam ships that can navigate inland rivers. The long-term plan is to build a narrow gauge railway (the narrow gauge in this world is equivalent to the standard track in Lawrence's last world) to connect the Tauren tribal area and New Sauer Island, so that the two sides will be thoroughly connected.

The Tauren’s short-term goal is to expand the actual control area after obtaining the weapons prepared by Lawrence and completing the training, to ensure the safety of important raw material production areas, and to expand the road leading to the river. To ensure that goods can be transported smoothly in the future ~www.ltnovel.com~, the long-term plan is to expand and spread civilization around the hilly area, and then further expand the tea planting area for future development Be prepared.

Since the successful production of black tea, Lawrence has determined the path for the future development of this island. In view of the island's biggest problem is the lack of sufficient mineral resources, other industries can not be developed except for farming. So after discovering this special product that can be grown from the ground, he immediately determined that tea would be the main product of the island.

As for the cultivation of food crops, he will not give up, let alone how important food security is to this isolated island. The fact that after becoming a food base can influence the neighbors around to some extent is enough for Lawrence to choose to expand the production of these foods.

Not to mention that these teas need hilly areas, which are not the same as the plains needed to grow food. Therefore, the two can develop together.

"I can't wait to return to the Port of New Sauer now." Lawrence said to Nora after completing the signing of the cooperation document. "After all, it has been almost a week since it came out, even if it can be contacted by radio, but some It’s still not easy for people to handle things outside."