Struggle in the Steam Age

"The more factories, the better." Lawrence immediately shook his finger and said after hearing what Seifer said.

"I know that most of the factories in this area are light industry factories, mainly for the farms and pastures in the region. And since we have a large number of farms and pastures, we should indeed build some factories to be able to treat these farms and pastures. Deep processing of products increases added value."

"But when choosing these factories, it's not all factories that have to be selected, but something should be emphasized." Lawrence pointed to the group of porters who were busy carrying materials in and out of the canning factory.

"For example, I gave up the wool textile industry and leather processing industry, and concentrated all my energy on the food processing industry."

"Although I also know that the industries that I gave up can indeed make people earn a lot of income, but considering that a core industry is better than ten ordinary industries, I finally decided to focus on the food processing industry. ."

"It makes sense to say that." After hearing what Lawrence said, Syfiel showed an expression of approval after thinking for a few seconds.

"At least I tend to choose some well-known brands when buying various items. According to my observation, those brands that sell well tend to be more expensive than similar products."

"And my choice of industry is also based on this principle." After listening to Seifer's praise, Lawrence quickly introduced his own industrial arrangements.

"So I sold all the textile factories and leather factories as soon as I got these properties. Then I used that money to buy the land between the food factories that I gave me and bought some new ones. The machines basically connect those factories together."

One thing Lawrence didn't say is that because of the accumulated experience in the past life, he still has some experience in the food processing industry, and he can make those factories more competitive through improvements.

But he is not clear at all about the professional knowledge of textiles. Under such circumstances, he will naturally choose those industries that he is sure of, instead of taking risks with his own industries.

After riding a carriage along a newly paved gravel road by a river for five or six minutes, Lawrence and the others came to the outside of a brand new factory.

The reason why it is a brand new factory area is because in addition to the several factories in the center of this area, which seem to be still in operation, there are also a large number of workers leveling the land and moving building materials.

It seems to be building more new factories to expand production, or in other words-normal production.

"The brewery is the factory with the lowest construction progress among our factories." Bach said with a little embarrassment when he came to the gate that was simply surrounded by a wooden fence.

"Because this factory was built from scratch, and it doesn't have a certain foundation like other factories. So the overall construction progress is far behind."

"For example, there is actually only one set of beer brewing equipment in the plants built now, so the output is at most for some cooperative bars for sale. According to our judgment, it is estimated that it will take three months to sell on a large scale Only after the completion of the project."

"Now we can only sell some loose wine?" Lawrence asked Bach in front of him after seeing that the vehicles coming to the factory to pick up the goods were some carriages with copper round tins in the back.

"If I'm not mistaken, those vehicles should be the ones from downtown bars to pull goods."

"Yes." Looking at the carriages with the names of the bars written on the jars, Bach said with a pity.

"At least our beer is a pretty good variety for mid-to-high-end consumers. The market has always been in short supply. Unfortunately, because the output is too small, we can only take care of those bars for the time being."

"However, with the completion of the second, third and fourth phases, we will eventually sell these beers to the entire Great Lakes region." Speaking of this, Bach pointed to a wasteland where several engineers were exploring.

"For example, these industrial engineers specially invited from Huguang City are now exploring the location of the future packaging workshop. In the future, we will sell beer in glass bottles throughout the Great Lakes."

After hearing Bach's proud words, Lawrence nodded. He had previously commissioned the Volcano family to help design a mechanized beer filling machine.

If there are no accidents, the group of dwarves should be able to deliver this machine after the completion of the third phase of the brewery.

The visit to the beer factory is very fast, because the entire factory is only a semi-finished product and has not been completely completed.

After visiting the factory, Lawrence and the others probably ate a little lunch prepared in the morning on the carriage together, and then went straight to the farming and pastoral areas in the north to check the farms.

Unlike the factories here, as a traditional aristocratic family that has traditionally managed land, the Earl of Sauer has countless people who are good at managing land.

Especially because their family used to be located in the rugged north of the Holy Visby Empire, and the climate there has many similarities with this side. So it was easier to choose managers to go to this area than to choose managers for the factory.

For this reason, Lawrence did not care too much about the farm's management, but only asked the managers here to adapt to local conditions and simply optimize them based on some experience in New Sauer Island.

Probably because in addition to the management staff, several extraordinary people from the agricultural church were sent on the island of New Sauer, so the overall situation of both the farm and the ranch was very good.

Especially after the introduction of systemic disinfection technology, the survival rate of those livestock is obviously much higher than before.

"Now the survival rate of our lambs and calves has far exceeded the previous level, and to be precise, it has been close to twice the past." After the inspection of the largest ranch, the farm manager said.

"After all, infections are not only for humans, but also for those livestock. Even because of the different levels of care, the mortality rate of livestock due to various infections in the past was much higher than that of humans."

"This is especially true when those livestock are breeding, so after introducing a series of disinfection technologies. At least the mortality rate of calves and lambs is now much smaller than in the past."

Speaking of this, the ranch chief showed a heartfelt smile on his face. "And in this way, we will soon be able to fill the previously empty pasture with these animals."

Like the previous factories, these pastures and farms were ruined by the administrators sent by the warlords before Lawrence took over.

At least the number of animals in the inventory is less than one-fifth of the account book ~www.ltnovel.com~. For this reason, the White Eagle Federation also specially gave Lawrence and the others a pasture to compensate for the previous numerical errors.

After the dispatch of personnel on Neuschauer Island, the entire area was reorganized. Fortunately, because the managers used to make money by renting out these pastures and pastures to others, they lie down in Baojian Bay City to collect rent. Therefore, the infrastructure construction of the whole area is better than those of factories.

For Lawrence and the others, this is not a bad thing, because the managers sent by the warlords do not want to be found out by the warlords. So when I chose to rent out these farms and pastures, I specifically looked for local gangsters.

As a result, Lawrence and the others didn't have to deal with the rent problems when they received it. Instead, they got a group of skilled farm workers from the gang.

These workers can be said to have no problems with their skills, but they were frightened a lot when they were recruited. So many people just ran away when they heard about the change.

Fortunately, after confirming the good welfare and wage system of Lawrence and the others, they finally came back one after another to maintain these farms and ranches.