Struggle in the Steam Age

The busyness of the book charm lasted only a few minutes before stopping, because the thing Lawrence wanted to draw was not very complicated, and there were only 21 parts including all the parts.

"Very good, I'll go to the factory and try to make this thing tomorrow." Looking at the blueprint in front of him, Lawrence nodded in satisfaction. "With the strength of that group of workers and the equipment of the factory, it shouldn't be difficult to make this thing."

"Is it this thing? I think it should be fine." Early the next morning, Lawrence took Safir straight to Jimmy's house where he went yesterday. Unexpectedly, when they walked to the door of Jimmy's house, they found that Jimmy was standing at the door in overalls, saying goodbye to his wife and a pair of children.

"Father, I wish you all the best today." The little girl who looked only five or six years old stepped forward and kissed Jimmy on the cheek, and then said to him with a smile on her face.

"Daddy's work today will definitely go well." Jimmy stroked his daughter's hair and said. "I'll bring you some pickled herring when I get back."

The father and daughter seemed very warm when they were talking, but the other boy who looked to be ten years old and the middle-aged woman who should be Mrs. Jimmy who were also standing at the door had some worries on their faces.

"Good morning, Mr. Jimmy." At this time, Lawrence stepped forward to say hello, and then he asked. "Excuse me, where are you going now—"

"Oh, Mr. August, and Miss Coburg, good morning!" Seeing Lawrence and the others approaching, Jimmy immediately took off his felt hat and bowed to them. "I'm going to take care of the machines. If those machines are not maintained, they will be like rheumatic joints when you need to use them again."

"Well done, and what you did is valuable." Lawrence said with a smile, "Now go and gather the workers, we have work to do."

"That's just wonderful." A big smile appeared on Jimmy's face. "I'm going to call those guys over now, just give me 15 minutes."

Said that Jimmy ran down the muddy road at a trot, and after he ran far away, Jimmy's daughter looked up at Lawrence and they asked, "You are my father's boss, my father should not be Lost your job, right?"

"Of course not." Safiel squatted down and gently touched the girl's curly brown hair and said seriously. "I believe that since Lawrence decided to start work today, he must have found some way to keep the factory running."

"That's great." The little girl had a bright smile on her face, and then she turned her head and said to her relieved mother and brother. "Daddy won't lose his job this time, and we won't be kicked out of the house."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Lawrence suddenly felt that everything he was doing now was very valuable. A smile was involuntarily put on his face.

In no time, Jimmy had assembled the workers. Then these workers surrounded Lawrence and the two of them and walked towards the factory. Everyone looked hopeful.

"What we are going to do today is this thing." After entering the factory, several boiler workers and mechanics began to check the drive shafts, pulleys and machines in the factory. Then go to the power room next to the factory and start the steam engine. The others took their places and stood at their workstations.

"This is what we're going to make today." Lawrence put the drawings on the drawing rack. "Can you see if this thing can be made?"

"No problem." Jimmy and two other senior technicians approached the drawings and said after careful study. "In the whole picture, only the thin copper tube with the spring and the flint is a bit difficult, and I don't know where to get the flint. Other things are very fast to make. If everything goes well, eat at noon Things can be made while eating."

"You don't need to worry about the flint and steel, I'll take care of it." Although there is no flint and steel in the world of Lawrence's previous life, which is mainly composed of cerium and mixed with various rare earth metals, there are many magical substitutes.

Just when the workers were busy making molds and processing metal. Lawrence started making flint and steel in the factory director's office.

For him, flint and steel was very simple to make. With the help of Safir, Lawrence took out a ruby ​​the size of a peanut and contained fire elements, smashed it into powder with magic, and then fused it into a piece with several other things. Among steel ingots about the size of red bricks.

Soon, a steel ingot with a faint red light appeared in front of the two of them. Then Lawrence asked the outside workers to feed a small wire drawing machine to draw the steel ingots into steel wires, while Seyfeld quickly used a knife infused with magic power to cut the steel wires into flints smaller than grains of rice.

By noon, the first batch of parts had been made. All the workers who didn't have jobs at hand didn't bother to eat the lunch brought by their relatives, but all huddled on the edge of a workbench and looked at the thing in Lawrence's hand.

With a ding, the small metal box that could fit in the palm of an adult man was thrown away by Lawrence, and then he wiped the ignition wheel with his hand, and a cluster of flames burst out.

"What a beautiful lighter." All the workers who saw this scene exclaimed. They have worked in machining positions for a long time and they still have some ability to identify this kind of mechanical products. They could naturally see that the lighter in Lawrence's hands was better than all the non-extraordinary firelighting items on the market.

"But does anyone really buy this thing?" Suddenly there was a slightly hesitant question among the workers. Just as Jimmy was about to refute, Lawrence raised his right hand to stop him, and then jumped onto the chair and said to everyone. .

"This is something designed by a member of the Federal Science Association." Lawrence encouraged everyone. For him who owned a Zippo lighter in his previous life, it is not too difficult to reproduce this classic product in this world. At the same time, he also believes that this thing can definitely sell well.

The reputation of the members of the Federal Science Association is still very loud among ordinary people, so everyone's morale was boosted after showing their identities. After a simple breakfast, everyone immediately started working in full swing.

There are not many materials left before, but it can be said to be more than enough to produce lighters. According to estimates, the existing materials can produce at least 2,000 lighters.

"The problem now is, how do we sell these things." Looking at the busy people in front of him, Sai Feier asked in a low voice. "You can't find those small stalls and hawkers to sell on the street."

"That must not work. If this is the case, these lighters cannot be sold at a good price. In the process of selling lighters, we can not only sell a lighter itself, but also a culture and an attitude towards life. Let others think of our The lighter subconsciously felt that it was a high-end product, a status symbol." Lawrence began to fool Sefiel with the content about marketing that he had read in his previous life.

Of course, this cannot be regarded as pure deception. In the process of contacting some rich people before, Lawrence discovered that most of the rich people in the White Eagle Federation want to flaunt their nobility after they have money, but they don't have the background of nobility. So these people often show off their wealth and status by buying and buying.

To put it bluntly, this group of rich people did this purely because they wanted to use their wealth to raise their status. But the effect is not good, what these upstarts do looks more like a group of rude nouveau riche in the eyes of the old nobles.

And Lawrence, who has experienced the Internet era in another world, naturally knows how to get what these people need, so his current plan is to package this lighter as a status symbol and sell it to those local rich people.