"The more factories, the better." After hearing what Saifei said, Lawrence immediately shook his finger and said.
"I know that most of the factories in this area are light industrial factories, mainly serving the farms and ranches in the area, and since we have a large number of farms and ranches, we should indeed build some factories so that we can support these agricultural and animal husbandry industries.
Products undergo deep processing to increase added value.”
"But when choosing these factories, you don't have to choose every factory, but you should pay attention to it." Lawrence said, pointing to the group of porters who were busy carrying materials in and out at the entrance of the cannery.
"For example, I gave up the wool textile industry and leather processing industry, and focused all my energy on the food processing industry."
"Although I also know that the industries I gave up can indeed make people earn a lot of income, but considering that one core industry is better than ten ordinary industries, I finally decided to focus on the food processing industry.
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"That does make sense." After hearing what Lawrence said, Saifei thought for a few seconds and showed an expression of approval.
"At least I tend to choose some 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 Seifer's praise, Lawrence quickly introduced his own arrangements for the industry.
"So I sold all the textile and leather factories as soon as I got the properties. Then I used the money to acquire the land between the food factories given to me and buy some new ones.
Machines have basically connected those factories together."
What Lawrence didn't say was that because of the experience accumulated in his previous life, he still had some insights into the food processing industry, which could be improved to make those factories more competitive.
But he didn't know anything about the professional knowledge in textiles. Under such circumstances, he would naturally choose industries that he was sure of, rather than taking risks with his own industry.
After riding the carriage along a newly paved gravel road by the river for five or six minutes, Lawrence and the others arrived outside a brand new factory area.
The reason why it is said to be a brand-new factory area is that, in addition to several factories in the center of this area that appear to be still in operation, there are also a large number of workers leveling the land and transporting 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 our factories." Bach said a little embarrassedly after arriving at the gate that was only hastily surrounded by wooden fences.
"Because this factory was built from scratch and does not have a certain foundation like other factories, the overall construction progress is quite behind."
"For example, there is actually only one set of beer brewing equipment in the currently built factories, so the output can only be supplied to some cooperative bars for sale. According to our judgment, if we want to sell it on a large scale, we will need to wait three months or two.
It can only be done after the first phase of the project is completed.”
"Can we only sell some bulk wine now?" Lawrence asked Bach in front of him after seeing that the vehicles coming to pick up goods at the factory gate were all horse-drawn carriages with copper cans on the back.
"If I read it correctly, those vehicles should be the ones used by bars in the city to pull goods."
"That's right." Bach said with a pity as he looked at the carriages with the names of various bars written on the cans.
"At least our beer is a pretty good variety for mid-to-high-end consumers, and the market has always been in short supply. Unfortunately, because the production is too small, we can only take care of those bars for the time being."
"But 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 grassland that several engineers were exploring.
"For example, these industrial engineers specially invited from Huguang City are now exploring the location of the future packaging workshop. In the future, we will sell beer in glass bottles throughout the Great Lakes region."
After hearing Bach's proud words, Lawrence nodded. He had previously entrusted the Volcano family to help design a mechanized beer filling machine.
If there are no accidents, the group of dwarves should be able to deliver this machine after the completion of the third phase of the brewery project.
The visit to the beer factory was very fast, because the entire factory is only a semi-finished building and has not been completely completed.
After visiting the factory, Lawrence and the others ate some of the lunch they had prepared in the morning on the carriage, and then headed straight to the agricultural and animal husbandry areas in the north to inspect those farms.
Unlike the factories here, as a traditional aristocratic family with land management as its tradition, Earl Sauer's family has countless people who are good at land management.
Especially because their family used to be located in the relatively rugged north of the Holy Visby Empire, and the climate and environment there had many similarities to this one. Therefore, the choice of managers to go to this area at that time was much better than choosing managers for the factory.
Much simpler.
For this reason, Lawrence did not have too much control over the operation of the farm. He just asked the managers here to adapt to local conditions and simply optimize it based on some experience of New Saul Island.
Perhaps because in addition to the management staff, there are also several extraordinary beings from the Agricultural Church sent to New Saul Island, so the overall situation of both the farm and the ranch is very good.
Especially after the introduction of systematic disinfection technology, the survival rate of those livestock was obviously much higher than before.
"Now the survival rate of our lambs and calves has far exceeded the past level. To be precise, it has been close to twice that of the past." After entering the largest ranch to inspect, the director of the ranch said.
"After all, infection is not just for humans, but 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."
"This is especially true when livestock are being bred, so after the introduction of a series of disinfection technologies, at least the mortality rate of calves and lambs is now much smaller than in the past."
Having said this, the ranch director showed a heartfelt smile. "And in this way, we will soon be able to fill the originally empty pasture with these livestock."
Like the previous factories, these pastures and farms were badly ruined by the managers sent by the warlords before Lawrence and the others took over.
At least the number of livestock on hand is less than 1/5 of the ledger. For this reason, the White Eagle Federation also gave Lawrence and the others an extra pasture to compensate for the error in the previous figures.
After dispatching manpower to New Saul Island, the entire area was reorganized. Fortunately, because the managers made money at the time by leasing these pastures and pastures to others, they were lying in Sword Bay City.
It collects rent. Therefore, the infrastructure construction in the entire area is better than that of those factories.
For Lawrence and others, this was not a bad thing, because the managers sent by the warlords did not want the warlords to find out that they were making money. Therefore, they specifically hired local gangs when they chose to rent out these farms and ranches.
As a result, Lawrence and the others did not have to deal with the rent issues when they took over. Instead, they got a group of skilled farm workers hired by the gang.
It can be said that these workers have no problem with their skills, but they were frightened 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 wage system, they finally came back one after another to maintain the operation of these farms and ranches.