Struggle in the Steam Age

Just in these few minutes, several other attendants of the visiting group also approached. They also discovered a large number of places where everyone can complement each other through personal observation in the tauren tribe. And all this will also provide enough information for the establishment of the new Sauer Island common economic circle in the future.

According to these people's observations, the two sides actually have a lot of places that can be used for cooperation. Rather than today's simple labor export and a small amount of timber business. To give the simplest example, with the ability of these tauren to domesticate livestock, it is completely possible to domesticate farm cattle and sell them to Lawrence and the others.

Unlike beef cattle, farm cattle require a certain amount of training before they can be put into use. It's not as imagined that just finding a cow at random and using a set of tools can pull a plow or a cart. On the other hand, this also shows that farm cattle are standard high-value-added products, and the Tauren tribe's export of this kind of thing is much more profitable than the export of beef alone.

Just as the ratmen can command some rats, the tauren have a special knowledge of cattle. Therefore, it is much simpler and more advantageous than human beings in domestication. And neither the tauren nor the ratmen are shy about using cows or mice to work for themselves, and even eat some of them that are suitable for consumption.

For example, a group of ratmen who previously raised riding rats came to the island recently and brought more than 30 pairs of large jerboa species to the ratman gathering area. According to Fatina, with the support of this group of breeders, Joining means that the island now has the most basic ability to train ratman cavalry.

A jerboa is a mouse about the size of a foal, with extremely powerful hind legs that allow it to hop long distances like a kangaroo. It can also climb mountains and ridges, and pass through places where a large number of human cavalry cannot pass. The only drawback is that due to the size, it is relatively disadvantaged in close combat. At the same time, the cost of breeding mounts is very high, and it is difficult for clusters to appear.

However, due to their powerful mobility and night vision capabilities, as well as gunpowder weapons, which partially compensated for their lack of hand-to-hand combat capabilities, the Ratman cavalry made great achievements as the top scout cavalry in the civilization expedition to the New World. For example, Lawrence saw the sculpture of the Skaven Cavalry on the Second Civilization Expedition Monument in Eagle Fort.

Unfortunately, populations of this giant jerboa are very unstable. Even the best breeding mice can only produce two litters a year, with an average of four to five pups per litter. But among them, only one jerboa with powerful hind legs that can be used as a mount for cavalry can only be bred for every 20 cubs, and the other 1/10 of the total number can be used as pack rats for the rat people in the cave. The rest can only be used as a source of food to feed fat and eat meat.

Like the tauren, some ratmen also came to work in human farms. It's just that they are mainly concentrated in capybara farms. After all, capybaras are rodents, close relatives to mice. So these rat people can also use their racial expertise to better breed these animals.

When Lawrence considered how these non-human intelligent creatures on the island could integrate into the entire economic circle of the island, the sky gradually darkened. Soon, a grand bonfire party began. At the invitation of the tauren, he and the members of the mission sat on a stone platform with straw mats, and sat with the tribal leaders and shamans.

In addition to the current members of this tribe, the chiefs or shamans of several tauren tribes who are very close to here also rushed over in the afternoon. They also participated in this bonfire party.

However, it is different from the customs of Zhendan or Xinzhou Republic. The banquet here is where everyone happily eats, sings or dances together. No issues will be discussed at the banquet. So Lawrence and the others soon joined the joyful crowd as the Romans did.

Fortunately, Lawrence was exposed to many songs belonging to the working people, whether he lived in a small church in the country as a child or in that small bar when he was studying, and the simple, straightforward but full of emotion songs are just right for this kind of occasion. So in this bonfire party, he just happened to be able to use these songs.

The tauren here will use the stamens of a kind of tree to brew a kind of wine with great stamina. They once brought two barrels of wine and sold them for a good price in the tavern in New Sauer Harbor. It's a pity that Lawrence has always been a habit of not drinking in his two lifetimes, so he can't taste these legendary wines.

To show their hospitality, the tauren would often raise their glasses to toast. Fortunately, the principle that spellcasters basically do not drink alcoholic beverages is also common in other intelligent races, so it is not considered impolite for Lawrence not to drink. Several tauren girls served him and several shamans a kind of purple juice in a small wooden barrel.

This juice tastes sour and sweet, and the taste is quite good. And it just happens to be able to relieve the greasy feeling of eating barbecue. According to the tauren next to him, this juice is made from a variety of local wild fruits, and it is absolutely impeccable in terms of taste. The only disadvantage is that the output is too small, only enough to drink by yourself.

After this joyous bonfire party, everyone got up a bit late the next day. Fortunately, the quality of the wine yesterday was good, so when everyone woke up, they wouldn't have a headache from a hangover.

Lawrence got up earlier than the others because he didn't drink alcohol. As soon as he woke up from the bed in the morning, he saw Nora sitting there studying the tea leaves he had brought before, and the tea leaves that were sorted on the small table in front of her There are more than a dozen piles of processed tea leaves.

"Did you not sleep last night?" Lawrence asked with concern looking at the little doll who was working. "You really don't have to be in such a hurry, anyway, this thing is not in a hurry to get it done in two days."

"It's okay, my lord brother." The little puppet looked very energetic now, and it didn't feel tired after working all night without sleep. "I'm different from you flesh and blood creatures. Even if I don't sleep all the time, it's fine. Sleeping usually is just because of habit."

"Then why do you sleep every day?" Lawrence felt a little strange when he heard Nora say this, because since the birth of the little doll, he basically went to bed on time every day for eight hours, and occasionally slept in. Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I would rub my eyes and greet him cutely. Therefore, Lawrence has never realized that this little puppet is different from humans in many ways.

"To bring me closer to a normal life! My idiot brother." At this time, the little puppet put down the things in its hands and floated in front of Lawrence. "I saw a book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" from your pile of memories I received when I was born, and that book gave me a lot of inspiration."

"But you are not a robot, and you definitely have your own soul. There is no need to question that." Lawrence looked at the doll with a depressed face and said, "This world is different from my previous world. For example, the soul Not something unique to creatures of flesh and blood, which can be conclusively proven through magic."

"You're right, but I was a bit confused when I was just born, so I subconsciously imitated your lifestyle. Then after I figured it out, sleeping became a habit." Nora used her beautiful He looked at Lawrence with strange eyes and said. "But I will give up sleeping when I encounter something interesting."

"Interesting thing, what's that?" Lawrence only remembered what he wanted to ask just now. He looked at the pile of tea leaves that seemed to have been processed and turned black behind Nora and asked. "Have you achieved any success in your research on these tea leaves?"

"Yes." Nora raised her head high, with an expression of praising me. "After my experiments last night, I finally came up with some results."