Struggle in the Steam Age

"Only some of those factories are producing cheese now, Ms. Coburg." After seeing Safir pointing to the factories in the distance, the factory manager looked at the place where she pointed in the distance and said.

"Although the cheese produced by the dairy factory is very popular now, it is obviously not enough to rely on cheese alone. After all, this area in the northern part of the Great Lakes region is an important pastoral area in the entire northern part of the Federation. There are too many cheese manufacturers , so naturally we need to produce some special products.”

After speaking, the factory manager took Lawrence and Safiel along the road and walked forward.

On the way, Lawrence found that the whole area had recently been hardened with gravel, and that tree holes had been dug and a few saplings had been planted on the sidewalk. Obviously, a lot of the investment that I asked myself before was invested in the construction of this type of infrastructure.

"Actually, these infrastructure constructions didn't cost too much money." Watching Lawrence stop from time to time to study the surrounding situation, the factory manager immediately introduced the situation of the area to Lawrence.

"You know that when we recruited those workers, many of them were with their families. Later, considering the work of their families, we hired those women and children at a relatively low price and asked them to help plant trees and build roads."

"Sounds really good." Lawrence nodded. Although this situation was an obvious profiteering behavior in the previous life, it is a standard charity behavior in the present.

At least compared with other positions of the same type, the companies under Lawrence's current level of basic protection and wage payment for workers can be said to be among the best.

Along the road, several people approached a large factory building. At this time, a strong sweet scent entered their nostrils.

And on a meter rail beside them, several workers drove over from a distant warehouse with a cart full of sacks, and then entered an annex building next to the factory building.

"The factory building here is the factory building used to make condensed milk." The factory manager pointed to this series of buildings and said, "At that time, when His Excellency asked us to industrialize the production of condensed milk, we were a little confused, because we usually drink coffee. There’s this sweet, condensed dairy product.”

"However, after investigation, we realized that these condensed milks were produced by servants of noble families or some small workshops on the market. There was no industrialized production of condensed milk. So we set up a factory here for production These are delicious."

When the factory manager introduced, some finished products were being transported out of the processing plant by those artificial rail cars. At this time, Safir discovered something interesting.

For example, there are mainly two kinds of goods produced in the factory, one of which is packed in flat round metal cans, and it seems that it is ready to be sold directly. The other part is packed in huge round tanks and ready to be shipped to a factory farther away.

"What does that factory building over there do?" Seeing those large round jars being transported to another factory building in the distance, Safiel asked curiously. "I think those factories seem to be some old factories, but they seem to have been remodeled recently. It seems that they should be producing some new products."

"Yes, Ms. Coburg, this is indeed producing new products." After nodding to Safir, the factory manager said, "This is a completely new product that has never appeared before."

"As for the condensed milk we produce in this plant, apart from being sold directly, a lot of it is sent into that plant as raw material to produce this brand new food: toffee."

"This is the original factory for making yogurt, but it was later used by us to make toffee, a new product." After walking to the edge of the slightly old small factory, the factory manager introduced Lawrence and the others.

And Lawrence also discovered that these factories were completely different in style from the ones he had just seen. It seems that here and just now should be two factory areas, but after they all belonged to their own command, these responsible people broke through the walls of the two factory areas and connected the two factory areas into one.

"I heard that toffee is selling well, is it true?" Lawrence asked the factory manager.

Although according to his previous life experience, selling candy in this era should be a very good new industry. And those recent data also show that the sales of toffee are good. But he still has some uneasiness in his heart.

"The toffee is really selling well, especially since there are no similar industrial products on the market." The factory manager pointed to the packed boxes not far away.

"Especially for some emerging middle class, they don't have enough manpower and time to make homemade candies, but their wealth makes them demand for such things. Before, they could only go to some shops or workshops to buy these things, And now they have a new option."

Obviously, after having the new cheese, condensed milk and toffee three products. The dairy plant as a whole is in a thriving situation.

That's why Lawrence and the others saw some factory buildings being built on the vacant land not far away, because everyone thinks that the only problem with this factory now is that the output is too small, and the goods produced are far from meeting the needs of the market. Naturally, workers are recruited for this purpose as well.

"Yes, this is an important development direction of our company in the future." After finally returning to the office, Lawrence gave simple instructions.

"There is no need for our industry to compete with the group of top similar products, because our historical accumulation is here, and there is definitely no way to compete with the group of elf brands with a history of thousands of years or dwarf brands with a history of hundreds of years. And I have to admit that the tastes of our current cheese, condensed milk and toffee cannot be recognized by those high society."

"That's the case." The factory manager nodded along with several senior employees in the factory. "We have also tasted high-end products imported from elves and dwarves before, and some high-end products produced by humans. To be honest, our products are not far inferior to elves' products, and even compared to those high-end products produced by humans. There is also a noticeable difference in taste.”

"But on the other hand, we can't be as bottomless and messy as the small workshops run by wicked businessmen." Lawrence stared at the group of managers in the factory seriously and said.

"I remember buying a cheap piece of cheese when I was in college and I had diarrhea for a whole week because of that cheese. I didn't find a dead fly in the cheese until I ate the last part."

"Of course, of course we won't." After hearing what Lawrence said, the factory manager and several senior administrators who were formerly from the retainer family of Earl Sauer's mansion immediately stood at attention and made an extremely serious promise. To, "This factory represents the glory of the August family, so we will definitely not do things that damage the glory."

"It's good that you are aware of this." After seeing everyone's attitude, Lawrence immediately realized what the aristocratic status that he didn't pay much attention to represented in this era, so he immediately revised the next sentence and said.

"Because of the glory of the nobility, we can't just make money when we run these businesses. What's more important is to take some social responsibilities into account while making money, so as to show the noble soul we have."

In this era and background, to say to the retainers of these families that the content of serving the people is purely playing the piano with the cow.

However, because they are retainers, Lawrence felt that he could make the operation of the entire enterprise more in line with his own values ​​by declaring the honor of the family.