Struggle in the Steam Age

As a person who had seen countless shows in his previous life, Lawrence naturally knew how to do certain things. To give the simplest example, the original purpose of their trip this time was to relax, but when they advertised to the outside world, they advertised that this was an overall inspection of the territory.

Of course, this statement is not a lie. Because Lawrence and the others did plan to take a good look at the territory. After the big construction a while ago, Lawrence and Safiel also hoped to see with their own eyes what the achievements after the construction were, instead of just learning about these things from the side through the pile of documents.

According to the plan, they will first check the grain storage warehouse located in the northern part of the port of Nova Sauer. After the inspection, they will board a boat from the small pier attached to the warehouse and go up the river to the hilly area where the tauren tribe is located. Finally, return to the Niujiaowan territory along the land passage that has just been opened, and visit the settlements inside the mountain where the people now live.

It was early in the morning when Lawrence and the others set off. Apart from Lawrence and Safiel, the entire team only had Nora. Because they feel that everyone is very busy at this time, and there is really no need to work so many people to make a scene. Not to mention that from a security point of view, Nora can already be regarded as the top fighting force on the island. It is actually much safer to go out with her than to go out with hundreds of guards.

Most importantly, Lawrence and the others are not the kind of traditional hereditary nobles. Their previous life made them very comfortable with this kind of travel, and they can completely handle various situations along the way. There is no need to bring hundreds of servants with you like some nobles go out.

And according to the family tradition, Earl Sauer's family has never been the kind of person who likes to show off. Even if the old earls went out before, they would only bring people equivalent to 1/10 of many noble entourages. So when Lawrence announced that he was going to set off with Veneto and Nora, the retainers didn't express any objection, they just informed the various regions of their going to inspect and let them prepare for the reception.

When riding a horse through the streets of the city in the early morning, Lawrence and the others found that even though the sun had not yet risen, there were still many people on the street who had begun to hurry through the streets under the illumination of street lamps, preparing to Go to their respective jobs and start working. At the same time, the food stalls on the roadside have also started to operate at this time.

With the development of the island's economy, the original collective canteen has become unable to meet the needs of some people. In addition, the supply of food has gradually become normalized with the development of agriculture on the island. Therefore, in addition to the public canteens of various enterprises and collective farms, various catering businesses have also begun to appear.

Lawrence naturally welcomed such development, because the emergence of these small commercial economies represented that the island's economic level was in a state of development. And he has always believed that for the development of the island's economy, it is enough for him to grasp the core industries, and there is no need to cover everything.

"Why don't those gas lamps or biogas lamps be used on the island?" Nora suddenly became interested in the street lamps on both sides of the road, but she flew back to ask Lawrence after she flew over the street lamps and looked around. "I feel that the fish oil lamps used now are not as bright as those lamps, and the taste is not very good."

"But this is the only option we have now." Lawrence explained after noticing that Safir also showed a puzzled expression. Unlike most of the surrounding islands, after solving the basic survival problems, he quickly put the construction of public facilities in an important position, because he believes that these public facilities are conducive to the establishment of order, rather than waiting for the town to develop naturally to a certain extent. In order to establish order, it is better to establish rules from the beginning.

Under the guidance of this idea, he established a series of public service systems such as the most basic medical care, public security, and public water sources in the first stage of entering the island. For example, building hospitals, planning cisterns and corresponding wells in multiple areas of the city, and using those immigrants who have experience as military police as the backbone to build a police force.

The construction of street lights is also one of the first batch of basic public service projects, because in Lawrence's memory, if there is lighting at night, the overall security will be significantly improved. At the beginning, he originally planned to use the most fashionable gas lamps or similar methane lamps for lighting, but later found that the island is short of everything, at least these fuels have more important functions than lighting, such as for baking Dried fish floss or used to boil water.

The situation with regard to drinking water sanitation has been one of the most critical issues on the island, as a large number of diseases are transmitted through unsanitary drinking water. So since landing on the island, Lawrence and the others have made it mandatory that all drinking water must be boiled and sterilized, and drinking raw water is absolutely not allowed.

Also because of such problems, there are only a small number of biogas lamps and gas lamps distributed in factories and farms on the island. Fortunately, with the step-by-step upgrading of the fishing industry on the island, a large amount of inedible fish oil, a by-product of this industry, can finally provide enough fuel for those street lamps.

And because there are professional sanitation and cleaning personnel in the urban area, the streets are also very clean, without the dirty feeling that is common in those colonies. And the cleaning work for the city, like the boiling water, also constitutes part of the island's epidemic prevention work. After listening to Lawrence's explanation, Nora nodded. Then several people rode along the clean and tidy street to a small stone mountain in the north of the city, and rode over in unison.

This stone mountain is located on the bank of the river in the city, about two or three hundred meters away from the river. At the beginning, Lawrence and the others planned to build some navigation facilities on this mountain. But after inviting a group of ratmen to come over for exploration, they discovered that this hill was actually an extinct volcano, with a large number of cavities inside and magma passages connecting these cavities.

I found that this place is very strong, and it is very close to the river, which is convenient for transportation. At the same time, because it is not by the river and the mountain is hard basalt, the interior is very dry. Lawrence and the others decided to slightly modify the interior of the hill and build it into a grain storage warehouse. After all, such a permanent grain warehouse that can be obtained with only a small amount of engineering is far better than the temporary warehouse that was originally planned to be built with wooden boards.

And the first stop of this trip is here, except that this is the mouth of the river to facilitate boating. The most important point is to use this behavior to show everyone on the island that they attach importance to food issues. Because they had been notified in advance, Lawrence and the others came here to verify their identities and were quickly welcomed in.

After a simple inspection, Lawrence and the others can confirm that the food stored here is very safe. And because the grain harvested in the first season was relatively small, only a small part of the granary was occupied by those grains. And more parts are all empty.

"Someone once suggested to use these vacant spaces, for example, to rent them out, but this plan was rejected by us." A rat-man superhuman who accompanied Lawrence and the others said. Considering that an important enemy of the granary is the rat, and the guards of the granary need to be on duty in the cave for a long time. So Lawrence specially invited the ratmen to strengthen the defense of the granary. The person who is talking to Lawrence about this matter is a Ratman official who is resident inside the granary.

"Good job." Lawrence nodded in satisfaction. After all, places like grain warehouses are really important, so it is very important to reduce the entry of idlers from all angles.