Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence and the others used the iron pot in the kitchen to make tea. Considering the need to boil a large pot of tea at one time this time, and after yesterday's investigation, it was found that everyone prefers milk tea with a stronger taste. So this time he simply boiled water in one pot, and boiled a pot of milk just squeezed out this morning in another pot.

Of course, milk is naturally cold when drinking tea. However, since fresh milk is a very good petri dish, Lawrence thought it would be better to heat and sterilize the milk first. Otherwise, if black tea and milk tea are shown in public for the first time, it would be bad if everyone drank them and had diarrhea.

Fortunately, the three of them are all extraordinary, so they can easily complete the work of moving those huge containers filled with liquid. After working for a long time, the milk tea for more than 100 people was finally brewed. At this time, everyone had finished their breakfast, and the milk tea could be served as dessert or drink after the meal.

"Hey, what's this?" Looking at someone behind him offering cups of brown liquid, all the people who ate there before, whether they were humans or tauren, showed curious expressions when they saw something new. "It smells like a rich aroma of milk, and also has a special taste."

"This is a new drink we developed together with the tauren people. It is a new type of tea." Nora flew in from outside the room at this time and said, "Today is the first time that this kind of tea has been invited to taste on a large scale. If it tastes good it will become an important specialty of New Shaw, and an important link between us and the tauren."

"So, I hope you can put forward some more objective views on this tea." Lawrence also walked in from the house with the tauren shaman at this time, and said at the same time, "Because only like this, we can Being able to further tweak the taste of these teas makes them a bestseller."

After listening to Lawrence's words, everyone present took a serious look at the light brown liquid in the cup in their hands, and tasted it seriously one by one. But after taking the first sip, most of the tauren and humans present showed a satisfied expression.

Obviously, this kind of drink that combines the aroma of milk and tea is more in line with everyone's aesthetics. At least after tasting it, most people agree that this new drink at least meets the taste preferences of most intelligent races. But there are also some people who put forward some opinions of their own on the issue of taste.

For example, many tauren think that the taste of this tea is not strong enough. Although it tastes good, it is still far from the best state they expected. According to them, it would be more perfect if the bitterness of the tea leaves was stronger, but the taste of the current tea leaves is still a bit weak for them.

"Ah, this is indeed our problem." Lawrence nodded after listening to the opinions of the tauren people. After all, the taste of this thing is adjusted according to the taste of humans. For the tauren people who eat and drink more than humans Speaking of which, this thing is indeed a bit weak.

For example, these days, when Lawrence and the tauren of their mission are eating here. In order to avoid the situation where the tauren put too much salt on the first day, all humans had to bite the bullet and eat hard. So simply use a small pot to cook for several of them individually.

Although it is said that the tauren will not consume too much of this thing, it reminds Lawrence that humans are not the only intelligent creatures in this world, so they have to launch different types of tea according to different markets. For example, the tea sold to the dwarves may need to be as strong as the tea sold to the tauren, but if sold to the elves, it should be further fermented to reduce the bitterness in the tea.

The next step is the specific negotiation on the joint company, because the negotiators on both sides have all received instructions before the negotiation that this negotiation should be based on fairness as the most basic and most important principle. Therefore, everyone did not fight with each other in order to obtain as many percentages of shares as in ordinary negotiations. You come and go. Instead, they sat together and began to estimate how much resources both parties could contribute in this enterprise.

In this kind of exchange, both parties first come up with a self-evaluation, and then exchange those information to evaluate each other. In the process, they found that due to the different environments of the two parties, the valuations of many things were completely different, and there was even a big gap.

Therefore, in this case, both parties need to spend a lot of time and energy on a unified valuation of some of their respective things, fortunately because both parties have had some contact with each other before. Also know a lot about each other. Therefore, in the subsequent valuation, an agreement can be reached through simple negotiations.

By noon the next day, the general framework for the establishment of the joint company between Lawrence and the tauren and the general framework for subsequent cooperation had been slowly established during the discussion. Then a written document with more specific content was formed and sent to Lawrence.

According to the content shown in this document, after previous calculations and discussions, Lawrence will own 83% of the shares of this joint company, and the tauren tribes distributed in this hilly area will be established as a whole in the to-be-established The new company owns 17 percent of the shares.

as required by the agreement. After the agreement is signed, the two parties will start the project seven days after the agreement is signed. As humans, they need to build various tea processing facilities and make preparations for publicity, and make various software and hardware preparations for subsequent shipments.

For example, the short-term plan is to deliver necessary tools and weapons to the tauren tribe, and prepare a batch of steam ships that can sail in the inland river. The long-term plan is to build a narrow-gauge railway (the narrow-gauge in this world is equivalent to the standard track in Lawrence's previous world) to connect the tauren tribal area and New Shaw Island, so that the two sides can be completely connected.

The tauren's short-term goal is to expand the actual control area outward after obtaining the weapons prepared by Lawrence and the others and completing the training, so as to ensure the safety of important raw material production areas, and at the same time expand the road leading to the river by one Fan, to ensure that the goods can be transported smoothly afterwards.

The long-term plan is to expand and spread civilization around the hilly area based on complete control, and then further expand the tea plantation area to prepare for future development.

Since successfully making black tea, Lawrence has determined the path for the future development of this island. In view of the fact that the biggest problem on this island is the lack of sufficient mineral resources, other industries cannot be developed except farming. So after discovering this special product that can be grown from the ground, he immediately decided to make tea as the flagship product of the island.

As for the cultivation of food crops, he will not give up, let alone how important food security is to this isolated island overseas. Just being able to influence the surrounding neighbors to some extent after becoming a food base is enough for Lawrence to choose to expand the production of these foods.

Not to mention that these teas need hilly areas, which are different from the plains needed to grow food. Therefore, the two can develop together.

"I can't wait to go back to Port Nova Sauer now." Lawrence said to Nora after signing the cooperation document, "After all, it has been almost a week since it came out, even if I can contact you by radio, some It’s not easy for people to deal with things outside.”