It took only 20 days for the factory to be completed, and the qualified products were made on the eighth day of trial operation.

Today, the factory has long been able to operate stably, and Chris chose to cut the ribbon today to make the factory officially operational, just because the weather is good today, there is no wind outside, and the temperature is only minus 27 degrees.

Judging by the records in the past, this may be the best day after deep winter...

The crowd dispersed, and each family was given at least one can and a bag of sugar~

The production method of these two things is actually not difficult, especially white sugar, which only requires three steps~

The sugarcane juice is squeezed, the juice is filtered and purified, and after cleaning, it is heated to crystallize, and the sugar is ready~

These materials are all urged out by the moon elves, only the top part of the soil is taken, and there is no need to clean and remove the soil at all, put them on the board car, and pull them to the factory next door for direct processing~

The existing equipment is not enough to make better sugar, but the content of these products is now enough for people to enjoy! Wait for the technology to improve one step further, and then you can refine white sugar!

As for canned peaches, in order to save trouble, Ted just took out the seeds, and didn't even remove the skin, because the current machinery is not so smart, there is no way to peel it, and if it is to peel it, it can only be cut off by workers with knives in their hands, but that practice will greatly reduce the output and slow down the efficiency.

Besides, it's not like peaches with skin can't be eaten...

Regarding the selling price, Chris has long had an idea, which coincides with Ted.

A 2L can of canned peaches is sold to people elsewhere for at least one silver coin, while locals only need 15 copper coins... According to the latest calculations, a can costs 10 to 12 copper coins, which can be reduced to 11 coins after stable operation and improved efficiency.

A bag of sugar, the local price is 20 copper coins, the external price is 2 silver coins, the cost is about 15 copper coins, if the scale increases, this cost will be reduced to half...

As for seizing the market... There is no need to consider this, even if other workers in the empire can make the same product by hand, the cost will be several times that of the northern product.

These two things can be regarded as the first step of Ted to promote industrialization~ Moreover, Ted did not forcibly improve efficiency on the premise of squeezing employees!

In his opinion, those who do this should at least be hung on the city wall and spurned by everyone!

In order to keep the factory running, Ted installed all the hydroelectric generators in his inventory in a nearby river to keep the factory running.

Thanks to God, the river does not freeze, as it is always recorded that the large river near Valentine will only freeze when the outside temperature drops below minus 45 degrees.

As for the specific reason, it is noted that there are several hot springs near the river, and the underground water of the hot springs flows into the river so that the temperature of the river does not become too low and freezes.

As long as there is no once-in-a-millennium ice period, the river will not be frozen.

Of course, this was only Ted's expectation, and according to records, ice ages typically occurred between 900 and 1100 years.

Now, 920 years have passed since the last glacial period, suggesting that the super-cold snap could come tomorrow or more than a hundred years later.

However, Ted didn't care about that, he had enough charcoal to survive the ice period, the only problem was that the temperature of the ice period would freeze the river, and his hydroelectric generator would not work...

My own motorcycle was dismantled, and it could be made into a simple generator to boil hot water for the normal life of the citizens, but there was no way to use large electricity in factories and workshops.

For now, I can only hope in God, at least don't have a convulsion this year...

As for the sales channel, Ted is still thinking about it, and he doesn't know which chamber of commerce to choose to cooperate with.

At the same time, there is exciting news from Thomas's side!

When Ted arrives at the workshop the next day, he finds that a truck for hauling goods has been built!

Although... When the truck soars above 80 miles, there is a probability that it will disintegrate freely or explode, but if you control the throttle, there will be no major problems!

If this thing is added to the transportation and mixed horse fleet, it can greatly improve the efficiency of coal mine transportation!

Starting next spring, coal will be harvested, and a few factories will be built outside the city, and everyone will have jobs and be well paid!

Now, the only problem is diesel...

Thomas made the first diesel-engine truck, and then there would be a second and a third!

And you can't buy diesel in the system all the time... That's stupid, and it's costly! I don't have so many Star Coins to waste on this, and Ted still has to save some for the future...

Airplanes, cannons and other things have to be bought for John and Thomas to dismantle and then build them freely.

After thinking about it, Ted picked up the book "Energy"...

It's not easy to refine oil, but if you're lucky, you'll be able to produce light crude oil from the fields you're exploring.

Like Sha, a big dog, the crude oil produced by their family's oil field can be poured into the engine as fuel after a little processing.

If you encounter heavy crude oil... Ted had no choice but to leave it aside, and wait until he had the ability to talk about it, after all, crude oil could not only refine gasoline and diesel, but also natural gas, asphalt and some other substances, and he could not fully use them for the time being, and it would be a trouble to collect them...

Right now! Ted can only hope that there is a light oil field in his territory, preferably ~ within five hundred meters of depth, after all, beyond this distance, his own detector will not be able to detect it...

However, just as he clicked on the store to check on the necessary equipment, his mind changed again! When I opened the crude oil collection equipment, my face was smashed...

Ted ignored the difficulty of mining and only thought of the difficulty of refining...

I didn't study energy, and I was too lacking in this knowledge, so I hit a wall one after another, and my ideas had to be changed because of the facts.

Mining requires a drill bit, this drill bit is not made in a few days, you can indeed drive the people to use a chisel to make a deep well, but that kind of behavior is to add human life! It's the opposite of what you originally wanted!

And then there's the construction of a factory, a factory that can refine oil, like a small city, with a complete production line and not a single drop of crude oil wasted.

It's not easy to build a small city of 10 square kilometers dedicated to oil refining!

Their own ideas are also just ideas, there is no theoretical basis, they are just bragging.

"Ahh

...

As the saying goes, there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up, thinking of this, Ted gave up decisively!

Even if you have advanced knowledge in your hands, development has to be gradual! I have only been developing for more than two months now, and there is no need to directly complete the 300-year process of human beings in one year.

Now that coal mines have been discovered, let's use coal first, and when it develops for ten or twenty years and has a certain industrial base, it is not too late to consider the issue of oil!

And the engine that Thomas built... You can continue to renovate at your leisure, at least at high speeds, don't explode...

"If you don't think about crude oil. That plan has to be changed... You can only build railways and use steam locomotives to pull goods..."

If you have a plan, act now! Ted is going to ask Chris to write a new copy of the city's future plan!

At the same time, it is also necessary to gather the students and re-formulate the direction of learning! So as to meet the needs of urban development.

...

In the evening, Chris arrives at Ted's office with a plan and suggestions from the students.

After signing some of the necessary paperwork, Chris opened the proposal he had put together.

"My lord, I have some suggestions, I hope you can listen to them..."

"Just show it to me!"

Ted took the notebook and watched it one by one...

Similar to his own conjecture, after some research with materials science students and geology students, Thomas's suggestion was to shift the focus of research and development to steam trains, because of the existing capabilities, unless you meet a Kanda like the Baku oil field, there is oil fifty meters down, other than that, there is no fun in extracting crude oil...

Also, about the previous bragging, saying that the steam engine was useless and so on, it was just to cheer everyone up, and they hoped that Ted didn't have to take it to heart...

Of course, Ted will not reprimand the enthusiastic teenagers, as long as they understand this, they will stop bragging~

After all, at that time, I also despised these seemingly backward technologies, which caused a situation where the eye was high and the hand was low...

It's not too late to find out, at least Ted has taken the lead in making changes and leading everyone to figure it out together.

If we continue to develop according to the previous plan, then all the actions that follow will be useless and will not help development at all, but will only slow down the process of industrialization and waste materials.

"Chris, remember, I accepted Thomas's suggestion, let him and his team shift their focus to steam locomotives and steel rails, and before that, discuss with William to build a steel mill outside the city, and by the way, train enough employees! This winter, we have to choose people in advance! ”

Ted is not an immortal and makes mistakes, but the next time he makes a decision, he won't be as careless as before.

"No problem, my lord!"

The next proposal is made by students who have been learning theoretical knowledge in medicine and biology, and I hope that Ted can provide a basic laboratory for everyone to learn!

This... Ted frowned, not knowing what to do, because the biological laboratory, and the experimental facilities that go with it, are the most expensive of all scientific laboratories! Prices start at 2,000 Star Coins, which is 20 times more than the chemistry lab!

There are now 2 tasks to earn Star Coins, that is, to improve the city's sanitation and take in refugees, and the rest of the rewards, which have nothing to do with Star Coins.

Improving urban sanitation... But there is no place to improve in my own territory...

The village outside was abandoned by itself, all the villagers joined the city, and all the useful materials in the village were demolished.

Because in Ted's opinion, there is no need to stay in those places at all, and the northern border is not suitable for growing crops, so it is better to demolish the village, transport the materials back to the city, give the vacant houses in the city to the new citizens to live in, and help them find a new job by the way~

As for hosting refugees... In these years, where are the refugees to be accepted?