Struggle in the Steam Age

"Only part of those factories are now producing cheese, Miss Coburg." After watching Safir point to the factories in the distance, the director said after looking at the place where her fingers were in the distance.

"Although the cheese produced by dairy factories is very popular nowadays, it is obviously not enough to rely on cheese alone. After all, this area in the northern Great Lakes region is an important pastoral area in the northern part of the Union. There are too many cheese manufacturers. So we naturally need to produce some special products."

After finishing talking, the director led Lawrence and Syphile along the road.

On the way, Lawrence found that the whole had just been re-hardened with gravel. At the same time, many tree holes had been dug on the sidewalk on the side of the road and several saplings had been planted. Obviously, a lot of the investment I asked myself before was invested in the construction of this type of infrastructure.

"In fact, these infrastructure constructions didn't cost too much money." Seeing Lawrence stopping from time to time to study the surrounding situation, the director immediately introduced Lawrence to the situation in this area.

"You know that when we recruited those workers, many workers dragged their families, but after considering the work of their family members, we hired the women and children at a relatively low price to help them plant trees and build roads."

"It sounds good." Lawrence nodded. Although this situation was an obvious profiteer behavior in the previous life, it is now a standard charity behavior.

At least compared with other similar positions, the companies now under Lawrence are among the best in terms of basic protection of workers and wages.

Several people along the road approached a large factory. At this time, a strong sweet scent spread into their nasal cavity.

On a meter track beside them, several workers drove over from a warehouse in the distance with a cart loaded with sacks, and then entered an outbuilding next to the factory.

"The factory here is the factory used to make condensed milk." The director said, pointing to the series of buildings. "At that time, the Lord Lord asked us to industrialize the production of condensed milk. We didn't understand it because we usually drink coffee. They will add this kind of sweet refined milk products."

"However, after investigating, we realized that these condensed milk were produced by servants of some noble families or by some small workshops on the market. There was no industrially produced condensed milk. So we set up a factory here for production. These are delicious."

When the factory director introduced, some manufactured products were being transported out of the processing plant through those artificial rail cars. At this time, Syfiel discovered some interesting things.

For example, there are two main types of goods produced in the factory, one of which is packed in oblate metal cans, which appears to be ready to be sold directly. The other part is packed in a huge circular tank and is ready to be transported to a factory further afield.

"What is that factory building over there?" Saifei asked curiously, watching those large round jars being transported to another factory in the distance. "I think those factories seem to be old factories, but they seem to have been remodeled recently. It looks like they should be producing some kind of new products."

"Yes, Miss Coburg, this is indeed producing a new product." After nodding to Safir, the factory manager said, "This is a completely new product that has never appeared before."

"In addition to some of the condensed milk we produced in this plant is sold directly, many of them are used as raw materials to be transported into that plant to produce this brand new food: toffee."

"This is the factory where yogurt was originally made, but it was later used by us to make toffee, a new product." After walking to the side of the slightly old factory, the director introduced Lawrence and the others.

Lawrence also discovered that these factories were completely different in style from the ones he had just seen. It seems that there should be two factories here and just now, it's just that these people in charge have broken through the walls of the two factories and integrated the two factories after they all belonged to them.

"I heard that toffee sells well, is it true?" Lawrence asked the factory manager.

Although according to his previous life experience, selling candy in this era should be a very good new industry. The recent data also show that toffee sales are good. But he still had some anxiety in his heart.

"Toffee sells really well, especially since there are no similar industrial products on the market." The director said, pointing to a packed box not far away.

"Especially for some emerging middle class, they don't have enough manpower and time to make candies, but their wealth makes them have a demand for this kind of things. Before they could only go to some shops or workshops to buy these things. And now they have a new choice."

Obviously, after having the new cheese, condensed milk and toffee three products. The dairy factory as a whole is in a prosperous situation.

This is why Lawrence and the others saw that some factories were being built on open spaces not far away, because everyone believed that the only problem with this factory was that the output was too small and the goods produced were far from being able to meet the needs of the market. Naturally, recruiting workers is also for this purpose.

"Yes, this is the important development direction of our company in the future." After finally returning to the office, Lawrence simply instructed.

"Our industry does not have to compete with that group of top products of the same kind, because our historical accumulation lies here, there is definitely no way to compete with that group of elven brands with thousands of years of history or dwarf brands with a history of hundreds of years. And I have to admit that the tastes of our current cheese, condensed milk and toffee cannot be recognized by the upper class."

"That's the situation." The director nodded with several senior employees in the factory. "We have tasted high-end goods imported from the elves and dwarves before, and also tasted some high-end goods produced by humans. To be honest, our products are not as good as elves, and even those high-end humans. There are also obvious differences in taste."

"But on the other hand, we can't be like those small workshops run by unscrupulous businessmen without a bottom line, all kinds of mess." Lawrence stared at the managers in the group of factories seriously and said.

"I still remember that I bought a cheap piece of cheese when I was in college~www.ltnovel.com~ because of that piece of cheese, I had a stomachache for a whole week. It was not until the last part that I found one in the cheese. Dead flies."

"Of course, we certainly won't." After hearing what Lawrence said, the factory manager and several senior administrators who were from the retainer family of Sauer's House immediately stood at attention and made an extremely serious expression guarantee. To, "This factory represents the glory of the August family, so we will definitely not do things that damage the glory."

"It's good for you to realize this." After seeing everyone's attitude, Lawrence immediately realized what the aristocratic status that he usually didn't pay much attention to represents in this era, so he immediately modified the following words and said.

"Because of the glory of the nobility, when we run these businesses, we can't just make money. What's more important is that we must also take into account some social responsibilities while making money to show the noble soul we have."

With this era and background, the content of serving the people to the retainers of these families is purely playing the piano.

However, because they are retainers, Lawrence feels that by declaring family honor, the entire business can be operated more in line with his own values.