Struggle in the Steam Age

For the launch of the third health product, Lawrence obviously had some hesitation before. Because compared with the first two medicines, the effect of the third medicine is not as reliable as the first two.

In at least some anonymous, double-blind tests, only about half of the people claimed that the drugs had a noticeable effect on them.

If one considers that this kind of medicine is aimed at something unspeakable, those who claim that the medicine is useful to them may not be telling the truth. Therefore, according to Lawrence's judgment, this drug can at most work for 1/4~1/3 of the people.

After getting this data sheet, Lawrence even planned to give up the sale of the three health products. Because he believes that when these health products are first launched on the island, selling a health product that is not so effective may affect the overall reputation.

But after discussion, Lawrence was finally persuaded by the staff on those islands, and he finally adopted everyone's suggestion and approved the sale of the third health care product.

The reason why everyone supports the sale of this drug is also very simple, because everyone except Lawrence believes that the effect of this drug is indeed very good, at least almost an order of magnitude better than those similar items on the market.

As for the reason why it is better than those similar drugs on the market, it is also very simple, because the Ratman has indeed accumulated a lot of research in this area, so he does have some specialties in the production of this drug.

And besides that, even from the purely placebo point of view, there are some special advantages of the potion for several people.

As for why this is so, it is easy to explain. To give the simplest example, the rat people are one of the most fertile races among the civilized races themselves, so the medicine made with their technology is very effective even if it just sounds It worked up the confidence of some users.

"Did you buy a lot of fish oil this time?" Seeing the barrels of iron barrels with a strong fishy smell being transported to the ship, the baron who followed all the way from Xingchenhai asked a little puzzled .

"But if I remember correctly, your island of New Sauer is the largest seafood production area in our area, and there should be a lot of fish oil production. Even I think you bought fish oil for lighting. So why run away Come here to order fish oil?"

"Because I plan to make some health products—" Lawrence naturally didn't need to hide his plan at this time.

On the one hand, this kind of mass production of health care products requires a series of industrial bases, which are basically impossible to produce at the level of other places.

On the other hand, agreements between nobles are much more effective than agreements between ordinary merchants. As long as they have been negotiated before, those people will not regret it even if they know that Lawrence can make a lot of money through these fish oils.

"So that's the case!" After hearing Lawrence's summary of what he was going to do next, both the baron and the Viscount Surrey showed a clear expression.

Because only in this way can it explain why Lawrence spent money to buy a batch of similar products here when there are a lot of similar products in his hometown.

After all, in this world, things about nourishment also contain a lot of metaphysical ingredients. Some of these metaphysical elements do belong to the extraordinary part of this world, but most of them are just speculations of ordinary people.

But even so, a large number of people will still believe in these metaphysics, which makes the selection process of many potions confusing.

At least Lawrence had seen similar situations in the pharmacy more than once when he was studying in Eagle Fort. For example, a certain medicinal wine for treating jaundice was specifically marked to be soaked with gold coins from Briton.

According to the pharmacy at that time, after drinking this wine soaked in golden yellow gold, the unhealthy yellow color on the body will disappear, and the disease can be cured. The Briton was chosen because it was the closest in color to the body.

Under such circumstances, Lawrence's choice of transporting fish oil all the way from the north without using the seafood produced in his hometown is naturally easy to accept.

Although the main reason why Lawrence chose the fish here is that the fish living in the cold zone contain higher and better active ingredients, but he also believes that there will definitely be many outrageous legends about this matter.

"I'm curious about a question." Just after everyone finished joking about it, the baron who came from Xingchenhai asked while looking at the barrels of fish oil being transported onto the ship.

"So much fish oil means that there should be a certain level of local fishery, so why don't people use fishery to solve the famine problem?"

"I know this, because the fish in this area are not very suitable for eating." Before the Viscount Surrey had time to explain, Lawrence said based on what he found in his previous investigation.

"Maybe because of the cold climate, the fish that are special around this area are fatty fish, but unfortunately, the fat on those fish is difficult for people to eat."

When Lawrence tested these fish oils before, he accidentally discovered that the fat in these fish in this area has one thing in common with the oily fish in his previous life, that is, eating too much can easily lead to severe diarrhea.

The only good thing is that if you only take it in a small amount, for example, if you only drink one or two grams at a time with a small spoon, there will basically be no problems, but it can achieve the effect of strengthening your body.

But in this way, the edible parts of these fish appear to be a little less. If we also consider the fact that the local population is sparsely populated and the low temperature makes it impossible to produce salt by itself, all salt can only be imported.

I know that although there is a fishing industry on this island, there are really not many ways for those seafood to be stored and eaten on a large scale. It also cannot make up for the food gap on the island.

"Yes, this is indeed a big problem." Viscount Surrey nodded, and then pointed to the fishing boat parked on the other side of the port. "Beyond that, the low level of fisheries we have overall here is a deadly problem."

Hearing this, Lawrence immediately turned his head to look at the point where Viscount Surrey pointed. As a result, he saw five or six boats with fishing nets hanging on the side of the dock away from the loading and unloading cargo ships.

However, unlike Lawrence's large, medium and small fishing boats of different grades that form a system of fishing cooperatives, the displacement of each boat here will not exceed 150 tons.

"These boats look a bit small." The representative baron expressed his feelings at once. As a nobleman in the Sea of ​​Stars, he is quite familiar with the level of fishing boats.

"But we can only afford this kind of fishing boat here." Viscount Surrey shook his head helplessly and said, "And compared to other lords on the island, my fishing fleet can be regarded as the largest on the island. It’s also the best equipped team.”

In the next ten minutes, through Viscount Surrey's narration, Lawrence and the others finally figured out what was wrong with the fishery here.

Compared with the calm sea area around Xingchen Sea, the sea conditions around Green Island are very complicated. Fog, drift ice, huge waves, etc. can be said to emerge in endlessly.

Therefore, if you want to develop any marine industry here, the price and cost you need to pay are far greater than the cost of developing the same industry in the Xingchenhai area.

However, due to the shortage of manpower in the local area, all kinds of items for building and repairing ships can only be solved by importing a series of problems, which makes it impossible to develop a large-scale fishing industry at all.

Even worse, due to the rough sea conditions on the surrounding ocean. It is difficult for these small-tonnage vessels to travel too far from the coastline to start fishing operations, so they can only maintain some small-scale offshore fisheries in the offshore.

Although sea lords with harbors like the Viscount Surrey will also try to develop the fishing industry in the ocean, but various restrictions make it impossible for them to develop this industry.