I, transformed into a vampire girl, sparked the Industrial Revolution.

Chapter 198 The Industrial Revolution: Soft Drinks and Sugar

Alice stood inside Dela Leah 1, holding a can of Coke in her hand.

With the conclusion of the Second Visionary Alliance Conference, the path forward is becoming increasingly clear, and for at least the next fifteen years, she will focus on the present.

In her hand was a bottle of Coca-Cola, a soft drink whose company was established in the middle of the unification war and quickly became popular throughout Amelia.

For this soda, Alice's National Food and Chemical Group, under the Chemical Industry Department, specially designed and manufactured soda water bottling machines and built supporting upstream raw material production plants, including soda production plants and water purification plants.

In the north, imported sugarcane and sugar beets have become the main raw materials for industrialized sugar production. The Northern Sugar Refinery, built on the outskirts of Port Hilla, laid the foundation for large-scale, modern sugary beverages using industrialized sugar production methods.

Before the industrialization of Amelanxi, sugar was a strategic resource everywhere. Since ancient times, the southern regions of the demon realm have been more developed and populous, largely due to their higher sugar production. The reason why people further south were able to accumulate wealth was because they had access to even more sugar cane.

A large part of the early commercial wars fought by Amelansi in the New Atlantis Islands were for sugar. This high-energy, slightly yellow crystal was the earliest recognition of sweetness by the demons and Western humans.

It can be said that for the old humans, the pursuit of sweetness was engraved in their DNA, and the new humans, who were born from the old humans, are naturally no exception.

Driven by the allure of sweetness, tens of thousands of immigrants crossed oceans to the unfamiliar and dangerous New World. Sugarcane plantations stretched as far south as Xinxiang. To expand the sugarcane plantations, the colonists hired large numbers of people and weapons from the mainland and launched bloody raids on the native inhabitants in the jungles and plains of the New World.

Just as Alice was looking at the Coke bottle in her hand, in the center of the New World, a Britannian elven colonist raised his rifle, aimed at the head of a fellow elven New World native, and threatened him to give up resistance and enter the plantation to work.

Meanwhile, in Xinxiang Port, the first New Continent Stock Exchange opened, and its first listed company was a local plantation company whose main business was sugarcane.

Sugar, as a strategic national resource in Iran, has always been prioritized for supply to the domestic market. It is the commodity that Iran imports the most and is also an important raw material used in industrial manufacturing.

Among them, the most renowned and widely anticipated product made from cane sugar is Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola was originally created to satisfy Alice's cravings, but after the Coca-Cola Company was founded, its Coca-Cola products achieved immediate success in the first year they were available in stores across the country.

The success of a product is inevitably accompanied by the success of its complementary products. After Coca-Cola became popular in the north, many people found that it tasted better chilled. Naturally, the early ice-making industry sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

As the demand for refrigeration surged, a senior student at the Magic Academy of Northern Jiaotong University named Carter Fassley drew inspiration from ice magic. She first created a box with a simple insulation layer, then inscribed the firing runes of ice magic, and finally, following the content taught in the latest "Magic Circuit Design" textbook, she used magical wires to create a complete circuit. In the end, a magical refrigerator was freshly made.

Soon, Carter Fassley patented her product design and, with the help of the National Invention Fund, established Haier Refrigeration Appliances Co., Ltd.

The emergence of the magic refrigerator quickly solved the problem of chilling, and now, refrigerators based on various principles have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

The problems of raw materials and refrigeration have been solved, but there is still one problem that has not been solved—sealing.

Alice and her research team had solved the technology of making glass bottles long before the War of Unification, but until Alice touched the bottle of cola in her hand, all finished beverages were still sealed with corks and wires.

This sealing method is undoubtedly unstable and difficult to use. In today's socialized production environment, the heavy workload provides the working class with a way to quickly get a drink, otherwise they would not have enough time to buy and drink beverages.

Moreover, cola is a type of soft drink; if the seal is not secure, it will deflate and eventually become just ordinary sweet water.

It wasn't until the launch of the second national industrial development plan that a solution was found—a crown-shaped bottle cap.

This thin bottle cap with 23 teeth was also created quickly thanks to Alice's intervention. The technology she had accumulated in developing the crown-shaped stamped bottle cap led to another improvement in stamping technology. The crown metal stamped bottle cap was used for the first time on Coca-Cola soda, and with the addition of chilling technology, it made this soda the undisputed king of sodas.

Today, drinking Coca-Cola has become firmly associated with the "American lifestyle," and people are enthusiastically pursuing this new fashion. According to the Bureau of Planning, as of today, October 2, 658, the Coca-Cola Company has sold more than 10 million bottles of soft drinks.

In the Lasvia region, whether it was the Lasvia State that inherited the Lasvia Empire, the Donavia State, or any other small state, the common equivalent was no longer the original Lasvia currency, the Lasswel. The Amerlansi invasion and secession were not limited to military action, but also involved comprehensive economic colonization.

Here, in addition to the Amerlane dollar, Coca-Cola is often used as a general equivalent, and even as wages for Amerlane workers employed locally.

This amber-colored beverage is advertised as a "miracle cure for colds and minor illnesses" and is often available for sale in pharmacies.

Donetsk is the best proof of the invasion of Amerlane beverages. Here, the largest Coca-Cola distributor in the Las Vegas region is located, and Coca-Cola advertisements are everywhere on the streets.

Furthermore, the coal industry, the economic lifeline of its capital city Donbas, is now controlled by Coca-Cola.

In the local area, Coca-Cola is synonymous with Amelansi, and many people refer to the moment they drink their first Coke as "Amelansi time."

But Alice was unaware of all this. She had just woken up from her nap, her nightgown haphazardly draped over her shoulders, and picked up the bottle opener beside her, prying open the red bottle cap.

With a hiss, bubbles appeared, she paused for a moment, then tilted her head back and drank the ice-cold cola.

The taste of the cola is exactly the same as I remember.