Obviously, Bach had made a lot of preparations before Lawrence and the others moved in here. At least after the goblin ghosts released by Lawrence carefully inspected the entire room, they found that all kinds of daily necessities in the room were ready.
Even the kitchen was prepared with fresh food that could feed two people for three days. Soon, the goblin ghosts quickly became busy and began to tidy up the entire villa.
Lawrence and Saphire stayed in the study room upstairs, looking at the materials in the boxes Bach gave them.
Different from the group of managers who are exposed on the surface, as the son of the housekeeper Reina, the core staff of the earldom of Bach and a small team were secretly dispatched here in order to obtain this industry more objectively.
overall situation.
"It seems that our farms are developing well." After reading that part of the report on agriculture, Seifer whispered to Lawrence.
"The farms given to us this time total 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, the surrounding areas do not have so many mountains to block the wind, so the ground temperature is not high all year round, not to mention that there will be a long harvest period in 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 Saul Island. At least the farmland on New Saul Island only needs to be taken care of.
If it’s good, it can be harvested three times a year.”
"And those farms are not only far away from the Great Lakes region, 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 receive irrigation, because the rivers are small rivers with insufficient flow, the irrigation effect is not very good."
"Well, the information I have here also shows this." Saphire 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 were historically used for planting, and the crops grown were mainly barley, rye and potatoes, and only winter wheat was grown in a few places with sufficient water sources."
"However, I see that since I took over more than a month ago, I have modified the planting varieties in the new year, and used the land previously used to grow barley, rye and potatoes to grow corn and a small amount of hops."
"Yes, this is the new development direction for these farms that I have discussed with some priests of the Agricultural Church. After all, it is different from the original situation where these farms belonged to multiple local warlords. Now all these squares belong to us.
, so naturally we need to have an overall plan." Lawrence nodded and said.
"For example, I have previously provided some information about blueberry to the Agricultural Church. Compared to the south, the cold north actually needs this kind of information more. Unfortunately, the speed of dissemination of various knowledge is really too slow now.
So much so that people here don’t even know about this very meaningful technology in the breeding industry.”
"Of course I couldn't give up this technology, so I chose corn, which is most suitable for green storage, as the plant for planting. In addition, there is such a big market in this area, and it would be too wasteful to use that land to grow potatoes.
So in addition to maintaining the original livestock industry, I plan to develop the beer brewing industry here."
"Beer brewing industry, is there a market for this thing?" After hearing this, Saifer raised his head from the pile of documents and asked.
"If I remember correctly, the beer can only be stored for about a month without the use of supernatural power. Do you think we can find enough markets in the surrounding area?"
"Ha, the Great Lakes region is one of the largest industrial areas in the Federation, consuming hundreds of tons of beer. How could there be no market for it?" Lawrence said with a smile after hearing Seifer's question.
"And I did a special survey before and found that there are only two very average beer breweries in the area occupying less than 1/5 of the market, and the remaining 4/5 are basically brewed privately by various bars.
That’s all.”
"Some of these private brews can be said to be very top-notch. For example, the moonshine beer brewed by the elves in the Crescent Bar in the city center is definitely the best of the best.
However, this kind of very good quality moonshine is only a small part, and most of it is sour water that is not much different from horse urine."
"So the brewery I am building now is aimed at ordinary local people. Although the quality is definitely not as good as the special beer made by the elves or dwarves, compared to some inferior moonshine brews, I think our wine
Just enough to capture the entire mid-range beer market in the Great Lakes region."
"For this matter, I specially discussed this matter with Eugene 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 glasses, took one out and gave it to Saifei.
"Try it, this should be the first batch of trial production products. I have only heard from a few people who were sent here that this wine is not bad, but I have never tasted it."
"I think - this wine is okay." After picking up the transparent glass filled with amber liquid and looking at it, Seifer first picked up the glass, took a sip and tasted it, then took another big sip and made a
commented.
"Although I haven't drank much beer, I think a beer like this that can taste some herbal aroma should be a good beer."
In this world, among humans, beer and spirits are drinks that can be said to be reserved only for men, and women basically do not drink them.
For women, the alcoholic beverages they drink are often various rice wines or fruit wines with sweetness. Therefore, Saifei only secretly drank some of his father's beer out of curiosity when he was a child.
However, as a transcendent, it is not difficult to simply identify certain alcoholic beverages. Even though Saphiel's transcendent level is not high, and she has not drank beer several times before, she finally gave this beer a
The evaluation was actually similar to the evaluation of several dwarves Lawrence had found before.
Of course, the group of dwarves also claimed that the beer Lawrence brewed this time was too weak.
However, considering the heavy taste of dwarves, the beer that is just right for them may be the kind of high-alcohol craft beer for ordinary people. Although it is not ruled out that some people will like those beers with heavier taste, but in that case
The audience will be much smaller than Lawrence planned before.
"The people here are contacting several bars to conduct trial sales these days, but there is not much statistical information coming through for the time being." Lawrence also took a sip of the beer in the cup in his hand and said.
"However, according to our previous experiments with workers in several food processing plants, the results are very good. At least after drinking these wines, 70% of them are willing to spend money to buy two or three times a week to satisfy their cravings if they know the price."
"Then your new industry is indeed good." Saifei put the glass of beer in his hand on the table and said. "But what about those old industries? I saw in the previous table that we spent a lot here before.
The expenses are used for upgrading the factory and updating the products.”
"To be precise, we are not updating products, but preparing to launch some new products." Lawrence also put the wine glass on the table and said, "For example, the beef cannery does not need to launch new products, because the products there are already very good.
, just need to find a way to find cheap tropical spices for them.”
"After all, canned food itself is a new product, and demand currently exceeds supply. So we don't need to change this industry in a short period of time."