Struggle in the Steam Age

Obviously, Bach had already made a lot of preparations before Lawrence and the others moved here. At least after the goblin phantoms released by Lawrence carefully inspected the entire room, they found that all kinds of daily necessities in the room were ready.

Even the kitchen has enough fresh food to feed two people for three days. Soon, the phantoms of the goblins quickly got busy and began to tidy up the entire villa.

Lawrence and Safiel stayed in the study upstairs, looking at the materials in the boxes that Bach gave them.

Different from the group of managers on the bright side, as the son of the housekeeper Reina, Bach was secretly sent here as the core personnel and a small team of the earldom in order to obtain the property more objectively. Overall situation.

"It seems that our farms are developing well." After reading that part of the report on agriculture, Safir whispered to Lawrence.

"The total number of farms given to us this time is more than 80,000 hectares, and many of them are high-quality farms along rivers or irrigation canals that can be irrigated."

"However, these farms have a long fallow period. After all, there are not so many mountains in the surrounding areas to block the wind, so the ground temperature is not high all year round, let alone there will be a long period of winter. .”

After taking out records about the surrounding environment from a pile of documents, Lawrence shook his head and said. "This is far inferior to our New Sauer Island. At least those farmlands on New Sauer Island can produce three crops a year if they are well taken care of."

"And those farms are not only a little far away from the Great Lakes, but also separated by several mountains. Therefore, the average temperature in winter is even three or four degrees lower than here, and in summer it is five or six degrees higher.

In addition, although those farms can get irrigation, because the rivers are small rivers with insufficient flow, the irrigation effect is not very good. "

"Well, the information on my side also shows this." Safiel flipped through the pile of documents in front of him, took out a few and said to them.

"According to these documents, only 1/3 of these farms have been used for the development of planting in history, and the main crops are barley, rye and potatoes, and only a few places that ensure sufficient water supply are only winter wheat."

"However, I see that since taking over more than a month ago, the planting varieties have been modified in the new year, and the land that was previously used to grow barley, rye and potatoes is used to grow corn and a small amount of hops."

"Yes, this is the new development direction for these farms after I discussed with some priests of the Agricultural Church. After all, it is different from the original situation where these farms belonged to multiple soil beetle warlords. Now all these squares belong to us Yes, so it is natural to have an overall plan." Lawrence nodded and said.

"For example, I have provided some information about green storage to the Church of Agriculture before. Compared with the south, the cold north actually needs this kind of information more. It is a pity that the speed of dissemination of various knowledge is too slow now. So much so that now this side does not know this very meaningful technology in the breeding industry.”

"It is naturally impossible for me to give up this kind of technology, so I chose the corn that is most suitable for green storage as the plant for planting. Besides, there is such a big market in this area, it is really too wasteful to use that land to grow potatoes So, in addition to maintaining the original animal husbandry, I plan to develop a beer brewing industry here."

"Beer brewing industry, is there a market for this thing?" Safir raised his head from the pile of documents and asked after hearing this.

"If I remember correctly, the beer can only be kept for about a month without the use of super strength. Do you think we can find enough market around here?"

"Ha, the Great Lakes region is one of the largest industrial areas in the Federation, and the consumption of beer is measured in hundreds of tons. How could there be no market." After hearing Safir's question, Lawrence said with a smile.

"And I did a special survey before, and found that there are only two very ordinary beer breweries in this area occupying less than 1/5 of the market, and the remaining 4/5 are basically brewed privately by each bar. That's all."

"Among these private brews, some can be said to be very top-notch. For example, the moonlight beer brewed by the elves in the Crescent Bar in the city center is definitely the top grade.

However, this kind of very good quality moonshine wine is only a small part, and most of it is some bad water that is not much different from horse urine. "

"So the brewery I'm building now is aimed at local ordinary people. Although the quality is definitely not as good as the special beer made by the elves or dwarves, compared to some low-quality moonshine, I think our beer Just enough to capture the mid-range beer market in the entire Great Lakes region."

"For this matter, I specifically discussed with Ou Ren, and hired three professional dwarf brewers from their volcano family as technical consultants for my brewery."

Lawrence said as he took out a bottle of beer in a green glass bottle from the cabinet next to him, filled two and two glasses, and then took out a glass to Safir and said.

"Try it, this should be the first batch of trial-produced products. I just heard a few people sent over say that this wine is not bad, but I haven't drunk this."

"I think——this wine is okay." After looking at the transparent glass filled with amber liquid, Safiel first picked up the glass and took a sip to taste it, then took another big sip and said comments.

"Although I haven't had much beer, I think a beer like this with some herbal aroma should be a good beer."

In this world, beer and spirits are drinks that can be said to be exclusive to men on the human side, and women basically don't drink them.

For women, the alcoholic beverages they drink are often all kinds of sweet rice wine or fruit wine. Therefore, Safiel just secretly drank some of his father's beer out of curiosity when he was a child. .

However, as an extraordinary person, it is not difficult to simply identify certain alcoholic beverages. Even if Saifeier's extraordinary level is not high, and he hasn't drunk beer a few times before. But her final evaluation of this beer was actually similar to the evaluation of several dwarves that Lawrence had found before.

Of course, when the group of dwarves commented, they also claimed that the beer that Lawrence brewed this time was too weak.

However, considering the heavy taste of the dwarves, the beer that is just right for them may be the kind of high-alcohol craft beer for ordinary people. While it's not ruled out that some people will like those stronger beers, then the audience will be much smaller than Lawrence's previous plan.

"Those people here are contacting several bars for experimental sales these days, but there is not much statistical information coming in for the time being." Lawrence also said, taking a sip of the beer in his glass.

"However, according to the results of our previous experiments with workers in several food processing factories, the results are very good. At least after drinking these wines, 70% of them are willing to pay for two or three times a week to enjoy their mouths if they know the price."

"Then your new industry is really good." Safiel said as he put the glass of beer in his hand on the table. "But what about those old industries? I saw in the previous table that we spent a lot of money on factory upgrades, saying it was to update products."

"To be precise, it's not updating products, but preparing to launch some new products." Lawrence also put the wine glass on the table and said, "It's like the beef cannery doesn't need to launch new products, because the products there are already very good. , just find a way to find cheap tropical spices for them."

"After all, canned food itself is a new product, and the supply is in short supply. So we don't need to change the industry in a short period of time."