This was the end of the threat of union organization within MacDonald Steel France, and the factory has since succeeded in pushing the average wages of workers down to the European average, which is in fact even lower than the European average given the increase in labor intensity due to the heavy use of "Dynambol".

Relying on de facto lower wages, and cheaper steel products, although slightly lower in quality than British and German steel, Macdonald Steel France began to gain ground in Europe. By the end of 1871, MacDonald Steel France had accounted for nearly half of the French market. The bridges, railways, and ships being built in France are all made of cheap steel from MacDonald Steel France.

Of course, in some special areas, better quality steel should still be used. For example, when building ships for the North Sea to Iceland and then to Canada, it is best not to use cheap steel from MacDonald Steel France, because although MacDonald is the world's leading technology in removing sulfur and phosphorus impurities, but reducing impurities also requires a cost, if you insist on removing those impurities in the iron ore with many impurities to the level of steel made from high-quality iron ore, it is not impossible, but in doing so, the cost of steel obtained in the end will be much higher than directly using high-quality iron ore. Therefore, the steel smelted from McDonald Steel with inferior iron ore can only be said to have better impurity content than other manufacturers smelted with the same iron ore, but its inherent high sulfur and phosphorus content still exists.

This means that the steel can still become brittle in cold conditions. If something collides or something, Ken will easily break. A big reason why the original historical "Titanic" sank as soon as it hit was because the steel it used contained too much phosphorus and became brittle in the cold seawater.

In general, MacDonald Steel France is still very disciplined, and when it sells these steels to shipbuilders, it informs them of this type of steel. But how much French shipbuilders listened to it, and whether they were used only to make ships that run in the warm waters of the south, God knows. In general, you have to trust the conscience and discipline of the capitalists.

……

Just after New Year's Day in 1872, a heavy snowfall covered the entire New England region. The snow fell all day, and the whole of New York was covered in a thick layer of snow. The next morning, the sky cleared, and the duck castle covered with a thick layer of snow made it look more and more like a fairy tale world.

Children are always happiest when it snows, and now there are three children in Duckburg, the little lady Dena, and Donald, the number one henchman, and Greystone, the second heel. Now little Gladstone can run all over the place, but he is not very good at speaking, and can only shout a few simple words, and among these words, the best he masters, the most standard, and barely able to become a sentence, is probably "sister waiting for baby".

But like most of the time, the little ones always prefer to play with older children, but the older ones don't necessarily want to play with their little brothers who are obviously stupid. This was also true in Scrooge's house. It's just that Dena and Donald have been educated by their parents, or coercion and temptation, and they have to play with their little brother, so they have to bring this little follower. However, they soon discovered that this little attendant was actually very useful, for example, many times, some things that they could not do themselves, and doing them would make the mother raise her eyebrows and criticize "too not like a lady" or "too not like a cultured gentleman". But in many cases now, with a little encouragement and a little Gladstone, many things will be fine. Aunt Dorothea might say, "These boys are too skinny." But Uncle Scrooge would almost immediately reply, "Well, let them play while they are still in school." Otherwise, when it's time to go to school...... "so everyone can have fun."

After this snowfall, the three little ones ran to the open space in the garden to build snowmen and have a snowball fight. Dena and Donald are rolling a large snowball - this is the snowman's body, and little Greystone is pushing a small snowball like his brothers and sisters - this is the snowman's head.

The three little guys, with the help of the servants, quickly built the snowman. But at this time, Dena looked at the snowman she had piled up, but she was a little dissatisfied.

"It's still too small." Dena looked at her work with a critical eye and finally said this.

"I heard from my mother that when she was a child, she built a big snowman as tall as two adults." Donald also said on the side. In fact, many parents will brag to their children, and children tend to believe it.

"Baby, baby, big, big." Little Greystone also shouted. He wasn't very good at speaking yet, but he could already understand what others were saying, and he had some desire to express himself.

"The point is that there isn't enough snow. The snowball is too small. Donald said.

"You can't push more." Dena said disapprovingly, and suddenly her big eyes narrowed, as if she had thought of some kind of ghost idea.

"Why don't we go outside and push snowballs, there's a lot of snow there, and it's a slope, so it's easy to push. I dare say that by the time we rolled a big snowball all the way to the bottom, it must have been the size of a house. Dena said suddenly.

"Okay, let's push a snowball bigger than the house!" Heel Bug No. 1 responds first.

"Baby, baby, go." No. 2 also expressed support.

"Aunt Anna, let's go outside and snowball, okay?" To carry out the plan, it is also necessary to get the consent of Anna, who is in charge of their caretake.

"Dena, Donald, let's have fun here. Because there is no snow on the mountain road outside. Anna said.

"But Aunt Anna, how is this possible?" Donald asked, raising a flushed little face.

"Isn't it snowing on the mountain roads?" Dena also said.

"Of course there will be snow on the mountain roads, but there are workers who will clear the snow." Anna explained.

"Then let's go see the workers clearing the snow." Donald said as he reached out and grabbed Anna's skirt and shook it.

Anna thought for a moment and said, "Well, let's call your Uncle Brutus and go out together." ”

……

Brutus, with a few bodyguards, standing beside the three children and Anna, appeared on the mountain road outside Duck Castle. On the mountain road, a group of thinly clothed workers are clearing the snow from the mountain road with shovels and brooms, and the black asphalt has been exposed where the snow has been shoveled. There are also workers who carry bags of salt and sprinkle them on the pavement.

"What are they spreading?" Dena asked.

"It's salt, which is used to melt snow. Otherwise, if there is snow and ice on the mountain road, it will be very slippery, and it will be dangerous for the carriage to enter and exit. Anna patiently explained to them.

"Isn't it cold when they wear so little? Why don't they put on down jackets? Without the barrier of the walls of Duck Castle, the mountain wind blew directly, and Donald felt a little cold, so he asked.

"Of course it's cold. But they don't have down jackets. Anna's voice was a little erratic.

"Why don't they buy it?" The child was curious, and Donald continued to get to the bottom of it.

"Of course, it's because I don't have the money to buy it." Dena interjected suddenly.

"And where does the money come from?" Donald then asked.

"It was taken out of my mother's purse." Dena said.

"Aunt Anne, you say." Apparently, Donald was not satisfied with Dena's answer.

"Money is earned through work. They're just working right now. Anne replied.

"Then why don't they have the money to buy a down jacket?" Donald was still confused.

……

The snow also spread to Ohio, but the snow was noticeably lighter, with only a thin layer on the roof, not even enough to whiten the ground. And in some places, even the roofs are not dyed white. For example, the roof of the University of Cleveland's room on Lake Erie is still red. Because the heat emitted by the machine running in it directly melts the snowflakes that fall down.

"Tell us about these engines." Scrooge asked an engineer-looking man. Rockefeller followed him.

"Yes, Mr. MacDonald. Please come with me. The man replied. Then the man walked with Scrooge and Rockefeller to a machine and introduced them:

"Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Rockefeller, this is the most stable of our machines at the moment. It's a four-stroke petrol engine with six cylinders with a four-liter volume, and according to our tests, it produces a full twenty horsepower when it's running. It is also small enough to fit on a carriage. Then let that carriage run as fast as a train, even faster than a train. The engineer was boasting to Scrooge about the epoch-making machine.

"Twenty horsepower for such a small thing? How stable is it running? Rockefeller asked. A twenty-horsepower gasoline engine is a joke in later generations. In the era before Scrooge crossed over, an engine with a displacement of up to 4.0 had only 20 horsepower, it would definitely be laughed to death. But in this day and age, that's already a big, scary number.

"On average for 40 hours on the engine bench, there were a few glitches, but overall they were all easy to solve. In general, it is much easier to serve than horses. The engineer replied.