Struggle in the Steam Age

"Because of the manufacture of this new weapon and the supporting ammunition, I have completely spent all the working capital I spent on upgrading, and I owe a lot of money to my fellow dwarves." Speaking of this, Ou Ren looked very frustrated. "The order I'm taking now is to make sure that after the completion, the money from selling the factory can afford the severance pay and pay back the money owed to the fellow villagers."

Extraordinary people often operate various businesses in order to obtain more resources to help them advance on the path of extraordinary. Especially for extraordinary people with non-combat professions like Ou Ren, the resources obtained from operating businesses are even indispensable to him. So it's understandable that he seemed so frustrated.

I still have a good impression of this dwarf Lawrence who can still think about the workers at this time. After all, the reason why he wanted to run the factory that was about to go bankrupt a while ago was not only to obtain new sources of income for himself, but also for another important reason. I just hope to help those workers and make the world a better place.

"So is there any way to save this factory now?" Before Lawrence had time to ask, Safiel asked the question he wanted to ask for him. "I mean get the factory out of this dangerous situation and let it run normally."

"First of all, we need a sum of money to run the factory. Of course, this is not a big problem. After all, with my family and my own face, it will not be too difficult to borrow this money." After hearing Safir ask this question , it may be because these recent events have troubled him too much, or it may be that after going through so many things tonight, he is particularly vulnerable when facing his savior. Eugene directly told Lawrence and the others about his predicament.

"The core problem is that my factory really doesn't have any distinctive products." Ou Ren looked very frustrated, "My factory is not large in scale. From the beginning, it can only produce some common products, but now it is only in the Produce some ammunition and some vulnerable parts for artillery and firearms. And these businesses are about to be lost because the price-performance ratio is not high enough.”

"That means you lack a competitive product right now." After hearing what Ouren said, Lawrence succinctly summed up the biggest problem of this factory, because there is no such thing in the general Canter language, so Lawrence punched the player with his fist abruptly. The word plus the product makes a word.

"You're right, the flagship product." Ou Ren immediately felt the taste of this new word, and at the same time, there was excitement in his eyes. "A great product that impresses with the swiftness of a boxer's punch."

But soon the light in his eyes faded: "Yes, this is very important. But the design and production of a good product is not so easy, such as my previous failed product."

"In fact, your idea is right. I think this is indeed a very good direction." Lawrence patted Eugene on the shoulder and said, because Eugene's ideas were verified by facts in the history of Lawrence's previous life. A correct thought.

Not to mention that in this world, extraordinary people use various magic and extraordinary abilities to cooperate with infantry to achieve very good results on many battlefields. It proved that this idea is also very feasible in this world full of supernatural power.

One of the most important reasons why Ou Ren designed such weapons before is that the overall number of Transcendents is still scarce, and it is impossible to strengthen them into every infantry unit. Therefore, he hopes to use replicable and mass-produced weapons. Machinery to replace those superhumans who cannot be produced industrially. It's just that his problems with cost control made his idea a complete failure.

"But what's the use of having a direction?" Eugene raised his head and looked at Lawrence, "I also seriously thought about how to reduce the cost when making this cannon, but no matter how I design it, there is no way to reduce the cost by more than 10%."

"That's because you complicate simple things." Lawrence shook his head helplessly, because in his impression, there was a very simple weapon in the world in his previous life that could solve this kind of problem.

"Did I complicate things?" Ou Ren's small beetle-like eyes hidden in his beard showed strong doubts. Dwarves and gnomes are very good at designing and manufacturing machinery, but it has to be said that they are sometimes too stubborn to complicate simple problems in order to achieve a certain goal.

"Actually, this problem can be solved in a very simple way." Lawrence nodded again to confirm. "I'm a military enthusiast, and in my free time I've envisioned a lot of weapons, some of which have gone into a more in-depth design. At these prices, I believe there's one weapon that should do what we want. "

After speaking, he summoned the book charm from the pocket of space, then took out a pen and paper and began to draw. As more and more traces appeared on the blueprint on the ground, the dwarves Eugene and Safiel were attracted to it.

"Isn't this a bit too simple?" Saifeier looked at the drawing first when the pattern was about to take shape, and then looked at the machine in front of him and said with a little doubt. Although she didn't know much about machines, she could clearly see that the thing drawn on Lawrence's diagram and the machine in front of her were completely two extremes.

"No, how can you describe this thing in simple terms? This is a genius design!" Ou Ren retorted immediately, and then showed a constipated look. "Why didn't I think in this direction at the time?"

At this point, Eugene turned around and grabbed Lawrence's arm and asked, "Can you sell me this design, as long as I can pay the price, I am willing to pay."

While speaking, Ou Ren simply took out his interspatial bag from his waist and insisted on stuffing it into Lawrence's hand. "This is the only wealth I have left, and I will give it all to you now. Of course, I know this is definitely not enough. Tell me what price you think is suitable. I will find someone to borrow money now."

"Don't be so excited." Lawrence was taken aback by Eugene's reaction, but he quickly reacted and held the dwarf who seemed a little too excited together with Safiel. "Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's build this thing first. But you know I'm not a professional, so I can only make a shape."

"It's nothing important." At this time, Shumei had just finished drawing the entire drawing, and Ou Ren said when he bent down to pick up the drawing from the ground. "For me, the idea is the most important thing. As for the specific data, I guarantee that it will only take a few hours to calculate. If everything goes well, I should be able to take out the first sample gun when I have breakfast tomorrow morning."

Then he handed Lawrence the key to the guest room and asked him and Safiel to take a rest. And his own took the blueprint and trotted towards the factory building.

"Is that why you handed over the drawings to him?" Safir asked a little puzzled. "It's the first time we meet, do you trust him so much?"

"Don't worry." Lawrence said, looking at the back of the dwarf trotting away. "At least the vast majority of dwarves are guys who keep their promises. Especially in the machinery and blacksmithing they are good at. They can't do things that plagiarize other people's achievements in this area."

"Besides, I've heard of this person." Lawrence slightly lowered his head to look at Safiel, and just happened to meet her gaze. "I mean, Cog once introduced me to this dwarf. His comment about Eugene was that Eugene is definitely an honest and good man, but his luck is not very good."

"If you can guarantee this, then fine." Safir shyly looked away from Lawrence. "I'm just... I'm just worried that your hard work won't get what it deserves."