Struggle in the Steam Age

After finishing the ceremony of putting the two steam sailboats back into use, Lawrence did not leave the port, but stood there waiting for something. Soon, a very burly figure walked over from the direction of the city.

"Good afternoon, Orchid." The big guy walking towards Lawrence was the tauren shaman Orchid Iron Hoof. Looking at the whole piece of freshly baked rice bread filled with salted fish and some vegetables in her hand, one can tell that she rushed here before lunch.

"Good afternoon." Lanhua said to Lawrence after swallowing the food in her mouth. "I am very glad to see that you are willing to accept the invitation of our tribal elders to visit my hometown. Will the two of us go there in a while?"

"Of course not." Lawrence shook his head. "Nora will go there with the two of us in a while. I can't check the situation in your hometown alone, so I need to ask Nora to go there together. If she flies in the air, she can give you a detailed look at your hometown. Have a relatively comprehensive understanding of the situation and draw a relatively comprehensive map by the way. In addition to Nora, there is also a small mission of five or six professionals responsible for comprehensive negotiations with you."

"You humans always complicate one thing, but at least in terms of redrawing the map, I admit that we tauren are inferior to you humans." Lanhua thought for a while after hearing Lawrence's words.

"After all, the surrounding situation in our tribes is all passed down by word of mouth among us tauren, and no one even thinks of drawing a map. After hearing what you say now, I hope You professionals can change us for the better in every way."

"It will definitely." Lawrence patted Orchid's fluffy forearm and said, "In our group, there are experts in agriculture who are good at animal husbandry, and there is also an expert who can treat both people and animals. Doctors to see patients. There are even professional settlement planners. I believe they can bring you enough help."

Soon, a small green figure flew over from a distance and stopped in front of Lawrence. Then Nora flew in front of Lawrence full of vitality and said, "Sister Safiel asked me to inform you, so you can go to the tauren to investigate without worry, and leave the matter here to her." gone."

"It's really troublesome for her." Lawrence knew that Safir was the kind of character who couldn't calm down. Although everything the women's college taught her allowed her to handle the current situation with ease, she didn't like to do these things. For her, staying at the desk to deal with a lot of documents is almost like killing him. Compared with this, she is more willing to stand at the forefront of the pioneering team with her sword and fight a bloody way out.

But since she has chosen to be Lawrence's fiancée, she will naturally take on the obligations that should be borne by the hostess of a noble family. So even if you don't like Safiel, you will suppress your nature to deal with those files that you think are completely boring.

Lawrence felt very lucky to have such a childhood sweetheart fiancée. After all, when he left the territory, someone must be here to calm people down, and his father was not so suitable in many places because he was a priest. So only Safir can take on this important task.

Not to mention that in addition to importing and producing the materials needed for the construction of the island, the materials that the astral plane can provide are also an important part of the material supply chain. On the other hand, the construction of the astral plane also required Lawrence to constantly send in a lot of things from the outside to speed up the process.

Fortunately, now that the entire island is under busy construction, Lawrence can take this opportunity to hide all the accounts of the communication between the main plane and the astral plane in only Lawrence, Safir and Nora. Individuals can see the general ledger of the entire island building.

Also because of this reason, the three people who can see the general ledger can only leave the port area for a short period of time at most three or four days at the same time, and if Lawrence plans to leave here for a week, one person must be left at the port to handle these material problem. This time, because Nora had to accompany her, Safir could only stay at the port.

A few minutes later, the team preparing to go to the Tauren tribe also appeared on the pier. Then everyone boarded a river cargo ship moored at the pier.

This boat was used to transport tauren who entered the island and wanted to come out to work to enter the urban area and bring those things from the urban area back to the island. However, because the trade volume between the two parties is relatively small, this boat takes an average of one week. Only run once. Today, the boat just happened to be free to send Lawrence and the others into the island.

Because the vegetation on both sides of the river is well maintained, the river water is not very turbid. Among them, all the water conservancy facilities supporting the river on the side of the plain have been repaired. You can see that the water flows along the repaired ditches to some reservoirs, and then flows out of those reservoirs to irrigate along the irrigation canals. land on the plains.

Standing on the boat, you can see the rice in those paddy fields growing vigorously. Workers in some farm factories are busy tending these crops in the rice fields.

In addition, Lawrence could also see some capybara farms that were also built by the water. Unlike pigs, cattle and sheep, this rodent is a semi-aquatic herbivore, so even domesticated species must need a pool when breeding.

However, because they are relatively cheap to raise, they are also very adaptable to the local hot and humid climate. So Lawrence still raises this animal as an important source of meat for the island in the future. For example, this time the tauren tribe brought more than 200 kilograms of capybara jerky as a gift.

It's a pity because this kind of animal can only give birth once every eight months, and it can only grow up after a year. So this time the capybara jerky was exchanged from the surrounding islands through trade. But if there are no accidents, next year the first batch of capybara meat from the island will go on the market smoothly.

There are some red and white colored wooden balls floating there on the river, and the place where each wooden ball is located represents a shoal. This is a buoy set for future navigation in the river. Because of the shortage of manpower and the lack of urgent demand for inland waterway shipping, only a short section of the river's estuary has been explored.

Apart from the occasional contact with the tauren tribe on the current river, there are only a few farms along the river that rely on small wooden boats to transport people or things over short distances, but those small boats traveling along the shallow bank do not need these markers.

Not to mention that due to the development of marine fisheries, the prices of various seafood on the island are very low. Everyone is often willing to spend a little money to buy processed sea fish directly from the pier instead of spending a lot of time and energy fishing from the river. So basically you can't see any fishing boats on the river. Only some children fished by the river with their own fishing rods after studying and working.

With the rhythmic roar of the steam engine on board, the small inland steamboat that Lawrence and the others took slowly left the plain where Niujiao Bay was located. The artificial signs on both sides of the river bank also slowly disappeared, gradually giving way to nature.

At this time, they could see that both sides of the bank had turned into a lush tropical rainforest, and the sounds of some animals came from the jungle, but because of the dense vegetation, they couldn't see what was making the sound at all.

Because both sides of the river have always been the same green jungle, Lawrence returned to the cabin after looking at the deck for a while. He now needs to recharge his batteries for the meeting in the near future.