Struggle in the Steam Age

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

"I know that most of the factories in this area are light industrial factories, mainly for the farms and ranches in this area, and since we have a large number of farms and ranches, we should indeed build some factories so as to be able to control these farms and pastures. Products are further processed to increase added value."

"However, when choosing these factories, you don't have to choose every factory, but you should pay attention to it." Lawrence pointed to the group of porters at the gate of the cannery who were busy moving supplies into and out of the factory.

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

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

"It does make sense." After hearing what Lawrence said, Safiel thought for a few seconds and showed an expression of approval.

"At least I tend to choose certain well-known brands when buying various items, and according to my observation, those brands that sell well are often more expensive than similar products."

"And my choice of industry is also based on this principle." After hearing Safir's approval, Lawrence quickly introduced his own industry arrangements.

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

What Lawrence didn't say was that because of the experience accumulated in his previous life, he still has some experience in those food processing industries, and can make those factories more competitive through improvements.

But he didn't know anything about the professional knowledge of textiles. Under such circumstances, he would naturally choose those industries that he was sure of instead of taking risks with his own industries.

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

The reason why it is called a brand-new factory area is that apart from the few factory buildings in the center of the area that seem to be still in operation, there are also a large number of workers who are leveling the land and moving building materials.

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

"The brewery is the factory with the lowest construction progress among all our factories." After arriving at the gate that was only hastily surrounded by wooden fences, Bach said a little embarrassed.

"Because this factory was built from scratch, it does not have a certain foundation like other factories. So the overall progress of the construction is quite a bit worse."

"For example, there is actually only one set of beer brewing equipment in the factories that have been built now, so the output is at most supplied to some cooperative bars for sale. According to our judgment, it may take three months or two to sell on a large scale. It can only be done after the completion of the project.”

"Can we only sell some loose wine now?" Lawrence asked Bach in front after seeing that the vehicles that came to pick up the goods at the gate of the factory were all carriages with copper round pots in the back.

"If I'm not mistaken, those vehicles should be the ones used by bars in the city to pull goods."

"That's right." Looking at the carriages with the names of various bars written on the jars, Bach said with some regret.

"At least our beer is a pretty good variety for mid-to-high-end consumers, and the market has been in short supply. It's a pity that we can only take care of those bars for the time being because of too little production."

"However, with the completion of the second, third and fourth phases of the project, we will eventually sell these beers to the entire Great Lakes region." Speaking of this, Bach pointed to a piece of wild grass explored by several engineers.

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

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 send this set of machines after the completion of the third phase of the brewery.

The speed of visiting the beer factory is very fast, because the whole factory is only a semi-finished product and has not been completely built.

After visiting the factory, Lawrence and the others probably ate some bento prepared in the morning together in the carriage, and then went straight to the farming and pastoral areas in the north to inspect those farms.

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

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

Also because of this reason, Lawrence didn't care too much about the operation of the farm. He just asked the managers here to adapt to local conditions, and a simple optimization based on some experience from New Sauer Island was enough.

It may be that in addition to the management personnel, there are several extraordinary people from the Church of Agriculture on New Sauer Island, so the overall situation of both the farm and the ranch is very good.

Especially after the introduction of systematic disinfection techniques, the survival rate of those livestock was significantly higher than before.

"Now the survival rate of our lambs and calves has far exceeded the previous level, to be precise, it is close to twice that of the past." After entering the largest pasture for inspection, the factory manager of the pasture said.

"After all, infection isn't just for humans, it's also for livestock. Even because of different levels of care, the death rate of livestock due to various infections in the past was much higher than that of humans."

"Especially when those livestock are breeding, so after the introduction of a series of disinfection techniques. At least the calf and lamb mortality is now much lower than in the past."

Having said that, the ranch chief had a heartfelt smile on his face. "And this way, we'll be able to fill up the previously empty pastures with these animals very quickly."

Like those factories before, these pastures and farms were ruined by the managers sent by the warlords before Lawrence and the others took over.

At least the number of those animals on hand is less than 1/5 of the ledger. Also for this reason, the White Eagle Federation also specially gave Lawrence and the others an extra ranch to compensate for the previous numerical error.

After the dispatch of manpower from New Sauer Island, the entire area has been rearranged. Fortunately, because those managers made money at that time by renting out these pastures and pastures to others, they lay down and collected rents in Baojianwan City. Therefore, the infrastructure construction of the entire area is better than those factories.

For Lawrence and the others, this is not a bad thing, because the managers sent by the group of warlords do not want the warlords to find themselves making money. So when choosing to rent out these farms and ranches, we specifically found local gangsters.

As a result, Lawrence and the others didn't have to deal with those rent issues when they took over. Instead, they got a group of skilled farm workers hired by the gang.

These workers can be said to have no problems in terms of skills, but they were frightened a lot when they were recruited before. Therefore, many people ran away when they heard that they were going to be replaced.

Fortunately, after confirming Lawrence's good welfare and salary system, they finally came back one after another to maintain the operation of these farms and ranches.